#anyway if you really hate ao3 ur best off unfollowing/blocking me

[thedeafprophet]

The worst thing about all this ao3 stuff to me is that I genuinely do have criticism and issues with the site, especially around racism in fandom, which is extremely important to address, and the websites issues in properly dealing with harassment, among other things. 

But it is a non profit organization run entirely by volunteers that operates based off of american law. There are no ads on the websites and it is solely funded by donations, and running a website with that many pages with that much content is *expensive*, especially if they want to implement more features in the future. It is a website set to archive fanwork, not just a social media site. And it is possible to critique parts of the webpage without jumping immediately to it being a spawn of satan and everyone supporting it is evil and terrible. Thats just inane.

Not all situations are entirely black and white and it is possible to have nuance and reasonability with these kinds of things.