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the suffering never ends

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My laptop Arson and his younger desktop sister Misdemeanor

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Tell Kallamar I love him

He loves you too ~💖

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WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS

WHO IS USING THIS

AN APP??? THEY HAVE A FUNCTIONING WEBSITE

THE LAST FUNCTIONING WEBSITE

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Reading fic from a fandom you have not consumed the media for is kinda like going to a friend’s family dinner. Like, I vaguely know about you and your association to my friend (the other fandoms) but I love the family drama (fics) here!

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Alice always seems so lonely..

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Deep sea bunnies are FRIENDS 🤲

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AFK Arena 2023 Calendar Art

This was such a beautiful collection of official art. It highlighted not only lovely illustrations of the cast of characters but also highlights the world building by including various in-game language, astrology, flora and fauna.

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Just a little comic.

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Decided to say fuck it to my congestion. Closed myself in the guest bathroom, blocked out all ventilation, turned my massive humidifier on full blast and ran myself the hottest bath i can stand.

This is my enclosure. I live here now. I have recreated the water cycle in a matter of minutes and can finally breathe.

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soul eater is great 50 episodes straight of a bunch of loser 13 year olds acting genuinely brainless while the sickest music you've heard in your life blares at max volume

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A Blacksmith’s Dream

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observations

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Dear Fandom readers - an etiquette fail

AO3 is not goodreads. It is not the NYT bestseller list.

You paid no money to read these stories. They are, in fact, a labor of love, done on the off time in the off hours of people who are writing for the joy of writing and the joy of the story.

Your ratings are not appreciated. Not by other readers, who don't know you from adam. Not by fandom-savvy passerby.

And not, in fact, by the author. Who again: Wrote this for fun. In their spare time - around work, around family and friend commitments. Around the rest of their lives. Fandom clout almost never "pays off" in any monetary gains, in any form of physical or financial security.

So please stop "rating" us on something we do for joy.

Today, a fellow fanauthor shared this with me. It was not on any story of my own, but they understandably needed a moment to go "wtf" and process it all. With their permission, I now share this with you.

You won't find this comment on AO3 anymore, by the by.

I have... a lot of issues with this. First of all being something that would be a C-grade in any US school system is not a "Good Rating" for most folks, but many of my issues would be the same even in this commenter had rated this a 10/10.

It boils down to this:

Why are you grading us on something we all are here to do solely for fun and personal enjoyment? Why does it have to be good?

Why can't it just be a labor of love and of joy to be good enough for you, dear commenter?

Do I, as a fanauthor, want to write well? Sure! I do want to write good stories. But I didn't ask random readers to grade me on them. Not in bookmarks that I can easily check, and certainly not in my comments section. And I never will want them to. Every author I've talked to agrees. Is there someone out there who might want this? Sure. Most likely, even! The human experience and desires are broad and varied. But in my experience, if they do exist in Fandom, they're the vast minority. So please:

Don't.

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hey ao3 can you like give the extra $38k you made from this month’s funds drive to charity