don’t know who needs to hear this but ao3 is not a social media. it’s an archive. a library. please stop treating it like twitter or tiktok
who is treating it like twitter or tiktok?
people need to include examples with posts that claim these sorts of things honestly because seventy five percent of the reblogged tags are people going 'glad I don't know anyone who does this' 'i hope I never see this' 'how are they using it like socmed?' or 'literally awful, I've never seen this but people need to stop doing it.' and the other twenty five percent are complaining about users posting legitimate fan works that they Just Don't Like being on the archive. Yes, you can include art; Yes, you can include headcanons; Yes, you can include drabbles. You can even (get this) include video if it's a fanwork. It is good etiquette to condense shorter works down into one fic, but that's a spam issue, not an inappropriate content issue. The only legitimate thing I saw was ONE user going 'people should stop creating fics just for a hiatus notice' and that took me a few minutes of scrolling to find. This doesn't exist!!! And if it does, not to a serious enough level where any of us know about it!!!! Include examples or die by my sword




















