This Blog Is Unrepentantly Pro- AO3!
Apr. 12th, 2019 02:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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bewarethewolfarmy:
arlessiar:
theactualcluegirl:
This blogger remembers when we didn’t have AO3.
This blogger remembers when we had to put disclaimers at the head of our fics and pray that someone didn’t take it into their heads to sue us for what we created.
This blogger remembers brilliant artists and writers getting decades of work obliterated on LJ because someone who wanted to tell people what they were allowed to create went running to someone who wanted a profit, and told them the artists and writers had been naughty.
This blogger remembers just how hard the creators of AO3 worked to build the thing we all seem to take for granted now.
This blogger watched friends dive into the creation process so heartily and determinedly that they all but disappeared from the writing/gaming/artistic side of their fandom for YEARS while they worked to make the archive happen.
This blogger remembers the sense of giddy wonder that there would possibly be LAWYERS involved, willing to defend our right to create these works, and not leave us hanging at the mercy of corporate legal teams.
This blogger is aware that she reads between twenty to fifty books’ worth of material every year on AO3, and is never REQUIRED to pay a penny for the privilege of getting access.
This blogger is aware that she will not ever see advertisements on AO3, and that her personal data and reading preferences won’t be sold to advertisers in order to raise the money that AO3 needs to pay for the services they provide.
This blogger is aware that AO3 is, and has always been, a labor of love; by fans, for fans, and not for profiting off fans – and this is what makes it unique in the whole of the media universe.
This blogger has NEVER taken AO3 for granted, and has ALWAYS been damned glad to have access to it. Even in years when this blogger didn’t have the means to support it financially.
All of the above, and:
This blogger remembers the Anne Rice fandom drama.
This blogger remembers Fanfiction.net deleting fanfics because they had been coerced into deleting the nc-17 category.
This blogger is thankful for AO3 and the people who run that website and put a lot of work into it.
(This blogger remembers Fanlib and remembers personal sites
This blogger was around during the disclaimer times (even has fanfics with them) and did research on fanfiction for two separate papers (one on how fanfiction and roleplaying has been found to help people to better not only their writing skills but also assist ESL students to become comfortable using English; one on how fanfiction is still heavily stigmatized and the legality of it as well as the fact that published authors both cannot indulge in their fandom’s fanfiction and also many look down upon it) for university
This blogger will always support AO3 until the day she dies, even when she becomes a published writer herself. Because AO3 is precious and protects us so I’m always willing to protect it)
bewarethewolfarmy:
arlessiar:
theactualcluegirl:
This blogger remembers when we didn’t have AO3.
This blogger remembers when we had to put disclaimers at the head of our fics and pray that someone didn’t take it into their heads to sue us for what we created.
This blogger remembers brilliant artists and writers getting decades of work obliterated on LJ because someone who wanted to tell people what they were allowed to create went running to someone who wanted a profit, and told them the artists and writers had been naughty.
This blogger remembers just how hard the creators of AO3 worked to build the thing we all seem to take for granted now.
This blogger watched friends dive into the creation process so heartily and determinedly that they all but disappeared from the writing/gaming/artistic side of their fandom for YEARS while they worked to make the archive happen.
This blogger remembers the sense of giddy wonder that there would possibly be LAWYERS involved, willing to defend our right to create these works, and not leave us hanging at the mercy of corporate legal teams.
This blogger is aware that she reads between twenty to fifty books’ worth of material every year on AO3, and is never REQUIRED to pay a penny for the privilege of getting access.
This blogger is aware that she will not ever see advertisements on AO3, and that her personal data and reading preferences won’t be sold to advertisers in order to raise the money that AO3 needs to pay for the services they provide.
This blogger is aware that AO3 is, and has always been, a labor of love; by fans, for fans, and not for profiting off fans – and this is what makes it unique in the whole of the media universe.
This blogger has NEVER taken AO3 for granted, and has ALWAYS been damned glad to have access to it. Even in years when this blogger didn’t have the means to support it financially.
All of the above, and:
This blogger remembers the Anne Rice fandom drama.
This blogger remembers Fanfiction.net deleting fanfics because they had been coerced into deleting the nc-17 category.
This blogger is thankful for AO3 and the people who run that website and put a lot of work into it.
(This blogger remembers Fanlib and remembers personal sites
This blogger was around during the disclaimer times (even has fanfics with them) and did research on fanfiction for two separate papers (one on how fanfiction and roleplaying has been found to help people to better not only their writing skills but also assist ESL students to become comfortable using English; one on how fanfiction is still heavily stigmatized and the legality of it as well as the fact that published authors both cannot indulge in their fandom’s fanfiction and also many look down upon it) for university
This blogger will always support AO3 until the day she dies, even when she becomes a published writer herself. Because AO3 is precious and protects us so I’m always willing to protect it)
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Date: 2019-04-12 03:43 pm (UTC)Though I don't remember the Anne Rice stuff (not my fandom, plus I wasn't really aware of panfandom Things back in the day) and I'm aware of Fanlib because I've read about it on Fanlore (another OTW Thing for which I am grateful).
Part of me still feels sketchy about psosting works without a disclaimer on my own fic journal - and I have a boilerplate disclaimer both on my fic journal profile here on DW, and on my AO3 profile. JIC.
There's only one way I think AO3 could be truly improved, and it'd take way more server room: Make it possible to upload art and audio (podfics) directly to AO3, rather than having to host them elsewhere.
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Date: 2019-04-15 11:09 am (UTC)Ha, yes, if Ao3 could only host art and podfics too, nobody would ever have to go anywhere else :)