#anyways I’m broke as dirt so I won’t be donating to Ao3 or any miscellaneous online fundraiser for a person I’ve never even met

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Ugh it’s Ao3 discourse season again.

Anyway your personal misfortune and lack of donations to your gofundme is not the fault of the people donating to ao3. If someone uses a service and wants to keep it running it’s their right to donate money to it if they damn well please.

Just because it’s a non-essential service doesn’t mean it’s morally wrong to donate to it. Are you gonna slap the money out of my hand when I try to tip my fucking barista too, just because they don’t need it as bad as someone else?

People will gripe and groan and paint literally everyone who uses ao3 in this gross light, like they’re all child predators that get off to incest fic, or something disgusting like that, Jesus Christ.

Ao3 has been a massive good in my life, it’s been a fun creative hobby, I’ve met friends on there, I’ve read some life changing writing that I am so grateful I had free and easy access to. As a gay man it’s very very hard for me to find mainstream content that I enjoy, Ao3 and fanfiction in general has always been there to give me an outlet and allowed me to see myself represented in a way that’s hard to find in regular publications.

I get it I really do. I have been evicted, in credit card debit, been unable to afford food, been unable to refill my daily prescriptions because of health insurance costs, etc. But never once did I put the blame for my problems on people who made the decision to not give me money. Unfortunately we live in a society, and the massive systems of injustice that keep so many people in poverty are difficult to even comprehend let alone dismantle, so instead we pick these easy targets and witch hunt anyone who chooses to give $10 to support their goddamn hobby.