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I know patreon and ko-fi links are banned on AO3 but how will / will the archive be updating at all to accommodate for fandoms like Genshin Impact that allow profiting off of fanficition?

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Why would it change for Genshin Impact? Jane Austen’s work is out of copyright, and you still can’t post your ko-fi links on your Jane Austen fic.

The issue isn’t that profiting off of fic is illegal. That wasn’t always true when AO3 was founded either.

The issue is that AO3 was built to protect a type of fandom that is a gift economy.

If my friend shows up to my dinner party expecting me to let them turn it into a sales pitch for their multilevel marketing garbage, I will be annoyed. They have violated the social contract. They have taken a space I did the lion’s share of the work to build and attempted to monetize it in a gross way. Let them host their own dinner party if they want to do that!

Similarly, those of us who gave years of unpaid labor to build an archive where our style of fandom—a not-for-profit kind—could be safe are not interested in that space being warped into etsy or a dealers’ room at a convention. If other fans have other styles of fandom, that’s fine: they can build other archives for them.

Personally, I find that the introduction of a profit motive turns fic spaces from a place of peers sharing into a place of Audience vs. Content Creators, and I get enough of that hustle culture on every other site, thank you.

AO3’s popularity is likely partly due to how much it isn’t full of desperate shilling and begging. The fact that there’s no incentive to post chapter 1 and paywall the rest is incentive for readers to trust and like AO3.

The legality of Genshin Impact fic is irrelevant. AO3 bans commercial spam because it wants to.

i love you female characters who make selfish choices they know will be bad for everyone. i love you female characters who think they're making the right choice but make things worse. i love you female characters who are making the right choice but noone else understands it.

if someone tells you that your OC or your fave is a Mary Sue, tell them they shouldn’t complain about a character when they can’t even get their name right

The psychiatrist who wrote the criteria for narcissism just made an extremely important point about what’s wrong with diagnosing Trump with mental disorders

Dr. Allen Frances says in speculating about Trump’s mental health, we are doing a disservice to those who do suffer from mental illness. In a series of tweets, he explained why he doesn’t think Trump is a narcissist — and how harmful it can be for us to keep assuming that he is.

ME: EVERYONE SHUT UP, "Mebaeta Tsuyosa", Meiko Mochizuki's image theme is playing!!!

banging my head on the wall BEGGING people on the internet to learn what an Inside Thought is. like you do not need to express every nasty opinion you have, and if you do so publicly, you gotta accept that people are gonna get mad at you for saying shit like "i find gay men repulsive". social media is not your private diary, it is public. there are consequences for saying terrible things, such as thousands of people thinking you're an asshole.

PLEASE learn what an inside thought is. you do not need to share everything that goes through your head. you shouldn't.

White male character: Flies, has super strength, hyper speed, genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist, saves the world.

White male Audience: That's perfect, totally possible and realistic, this is great.

Female character: Talks and Isn't completely useless.

White male Audience: Ugh, what a Mary Sue.

Character of Color: Exists and isn't just background decoration.

White male Audience: Ugh, that's historically inaccurate.

Female Character of Color: Breaths, talk and isn't a maid or a slave.

White male Audience: Ugh, I'm sick of this PC bullshit.

Fat Female Character: Has a personalty and isn't there just to be made fun of.

White male Audience: That's gross, nobody wants to see that, this movie is promoting unhealthy lifestyles.

White male Character: Gets drunks, does drugs, eats unhealthy food...

White male Audience: hahaha yeah let's get wasted.

Character of color: Does something of questionable morals.

White male Audience: This is glorifying thug culture, this is indecent, see stereotypes exist for a reason y'know.

White male Character: Steals, lies, cheats, murders, rapes, breaks the law for no reason, is a total jerk and a criminal with no redeemable qualities.

White male Audience: hahaha awesome, totally me, how nice, he's just misunderstood.

there's a cherry blossom tree in DC that keeps blooming every year even though it shouldn't and the park service keeps thinking it's dead and then it keeps blooming! well they're removing a lot of trees to rehabilitate the area and they've said it's finally time for stumpy to go and they're going to mulch it and use the mulch to enrich all the other trees so it can help everything else keep going. and they're also going to plant spliced little pieces of it all over so that stumpy can live forever and this is genuinely sending me into a spiral

if your bio says proshippers DNI, why in the fuck are you following me