I'm Curious To Know The Ratio Of Writers To Readers On Ao3 So Here's A Poll. When I Say Writer, I Mean

i'm curious to know the ratio of writers to readers on ao3 so here's a poll. when i say writer, i mean people who have published works on ao3, doesn't matter if it's once, or if it was ages ago, or if it's a regular occurrence. when i say reader, i mean people who have never published a work on ao3. the reader vote still counts if you don't have an account on ao3. if you're a writer who is also an active reader, please still click on the "writer" option!

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Type of fans when they have ships

The Beginner: Wait… you mean I can pair anyone with anybody??? you mean it’s okay if I don’t root for the official couple?? I can ship this guy with that guy even if they’re in different shows and still find content of it from the internet?? OH MY GO—

The Analyst: As proven from episode 26 Season 7 and from the novels I’ve read and analysed for the past 8 days they are clearly in love with each other! Look at the symbolisms portrayed by the show! This elephant right here?? Depicts that they are clearly not acknowledging the obvious sexual tension they have for each other!! PLUS LOOK AT THE INTERVIEWS!!

The Multishipper: Hi so I ship this guy with that guy and this girl will be their girlfriend too oohhh wait I want to have this dude too in the bunch oh oh oh hey I’m shipping these too!!

The strict shipper: This is the only ship that are meant for each other! They are not meant to be shipped with other people but I’ll respect the other fans if that’s their preference.

The strict bottom/top fan: So A is a top and B is a bottom and I will make sure that all of the smutty fics I make/read or fan arts I see/ draw are in that order.

The verse fan: I don’t care who is fucking who I’m happy either way.

Their ship became canon but the other died: WE WANTED THIS BUT NOT AT THAT COST!

The 5 stages of grief fan:

Denial: This can’t be happening! No I do not accept this! I do not acknowledge that this happened! A joke! A prank is what this scene is!

Anger: It’s the writer’s fault that this is what happened! Those producers did not understand the meaning of what they did! They should have known the amount of backlash at them would be that hard!

Bargaining: Perhaps they can still change it?? Maybe there’s a secret episode that they’re not showing yet! How about we make a petition to the creators to change the ending?? I heard from the other fa–

Depression: my life is a mess right now because of what happened. I think I need time and space to process my thoughts. *sobs at the corner holding their ship’s photo while looking for fix it fics and fan arts*

Acceptance: After taking a lot of time healing my emotional wounds… I’m now okay with what happened. Now let’s go read some happy fics, watch some happy AMV’s and fan arts!!

The “they’re doing something for the shipbase content” fans: hahaha wait I really want to make a fic/fan art/AMV so I’m going to spend the whole 24 hours - 1 week making them. Oh I hope they’ll like it! Wait no they’ll hate this-No! They’ll like it I’m sure! *uploads it on the internet* *5 minutes later*. No views/kudos/like/comment yep I knew it they hate it what was I thinking I–*1 view/kudos/like/ comment* Omg!! Somebody actually liked my work!! I’m so happy!!

The one who can’t make fanfics/fan-arts/Amv’s fan: I know I can’t make shit for the life of me but hell I’ll make sure to give love to every content about my ships! Also I’ll make shitposts/memes about my ships!

Their ship actually became canon fans: Wow.. To be honest I never thought we could actually make it this far. Huh. So who want’s to go and party? And by party I mean rant and squeal and make contents for our official ship?

The rival shippers: So that guy and that guy hate each other? Interesting. Ooh they’re looking at each other with hatred and competitiveness? Sexual tension. They’re forced to be with each other against their will?? Ship it. Look they’re learning to accept and cooperate with each other?? That’s love bitch.

The murder shippers: We completely acknowledge the fact that they are messed up in the head and that their love for each other is toxic and their co dependecy is downright concerning but since this is fiction and we are aware of what is real and acceptable from abuse and toxicity we will still ship this for reasons of our own but mainly because of the way they interacted with each other that if viewed, removing the norms and manners accepted in society, can actually be deemed as romantic. Here have some cookies and cupcakes and also have some intricate fanfics and fan arts!

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