Actually, this is good. People who’s like “I use ao3 every day but I’d NEVER donate” and “authors SHOULD—” or “I don’t read WIPs and I don’t comment or leave kudos”, etc etc etc, can use this time from reflection
Anyway, thank you ao3 volunteers, you are awesome
We estimate that service restoration for #AO3 will take around 2 weeks but it could be up to 4 weeks. We are hopeful that we will be able to bring the site back up in a degraded state sooner. Refer to our status page for updates: otwstatus.org/
AO3 IS RUN BY VOLUNTEERS
they do not get paid for any of this. be kind, patient, and respectful to the volunteers who work hard to keep ao3 running, fight against censorship, and protect writers, fanfics, and people’s rights/freedom to write whatever they want, however they want
therapy will never work on me because therapists refuse to give me actually philosophically captivating reasons for why i shouldn't kill myself other than "well it could get better one day" and "people will miss you"
most fanfics with frequent grammatical errors that one might describe as “can barely string a sentence together” are written by young teenagers/preteens and/or beginner english speakers so i actually don’t think they should be bullied for the lack of polish in their fics
everybody wants to “critique” (they mean review but do not know the difference) but none of them offers to beta. nobody offers to actually put in work as a critique partner. they don’t want to form relationships and community. they want to humiliate you for a quick dopamine fix