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"Why can't the freaks on AO3 just go and make a site for all the gross stuff and leave AO3 alone."

Because AO3 is that site. Because AO3 was that site long before you decided AO3 was better than the sites you bullied us off of before, and I can promise you if someone somehow comes up with a fanfic site you like better specifically for the 'gross stuff' you'll try to bully us off that too so you can benefit from it.

AO3's specific core purpose is to preserve fanfiction, yes, but it was also instigated as a host site for the fanfiction that kept getting yeeted off other platforms like Wattpad. Its designed to preserve all fanfiction, not just the fanfiction you, personally, think is 'allowed' to be written.

AO3 is the site for all the gross stuff the freaks make. We've been there just as long as you. We've been funding it just as long as you have. AO3 has specifically said you have a place here. The timeline was literally:

Wattpad/FF.net/LiveJournal purge fanfics > AO3 is born > The people who's fics got purged moved over to AO3 > AO3 gains popularity as the best functioning site > The people who pushed for the fics to be purged off Wattpad move to AO3 > The same people try to push for AO3 to purge fics.

AO3's source coding is open-access. You go make a polished, strict, rigid site where nothing 'icky' is allowed. You go make a site where you can control what is hosted. We already have our space.

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Your sixth most recent emoji is how your guardian angel feels about you

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This is what Rasputin would've wanted.

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Blessed yule

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imagine, a non-acidic gelatinous cube. its ooze is like that oxygenated fluid mice can breathe. organisms inside it bob peacefully, harmlessly, inhaling oxygen-rich slime. the cube, in turn, absorbs respiratory byproducts that nourish it. it adjusts its atmosphere to soothe and pacify occupants and intuitively ejects unwilling ones. found in dungeons inhospitable to other life, like passages filled with poison gas, it seeks out adventurers to ferry across those areas, offering a mutually beneficial exchange of sustenance.

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Zombie setting where the undead are drawn towards unhygienic scents, so survivors constantly bathe to avoid being eaten.

Zombies are docile when adorned with flowers.

Settlements overgrown with herbs and flora.

Barely any banditry; everyone is focused on farming and gathering.

Different human factions and towns named after flowers like Lilies, Orchids, Roses, etc.

Instead of immediately killing an infected survivor, they’re given special funeral rites - the zombie is covered with flowers to keep them calm, and  allowed to walk out from the settlement to join the hordes.

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this is genuinely the funniest fucking thing. how do you even BEGIN to come back from this

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Epic Cosplay of “Horizon Zero Dawn”

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in 7 years its going to be the 20s again so we can bring back swing music and the aesthetics of that era but keep modern values who’s with me

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The problem with helmets in Dragon Age….

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Lil drawings of ghosts based on some synonyms for ‘ghost’ & what vibes I get from each one.

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“No that’s an oil tank I’m not interested” 😂