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Fedyor: Do you want to play 20 Questions?

Ivan: Sure!

Ivan: Whats your favorite color?

Fedyor, laser fucking focused: Triangle. Do you like men?

i feel like the only time ivan would directly defy orders would be when he's forced to choose either between following orders or risking fedyor's safety

veiled-in-stars

A slightly younger Nina: Hey, Fedyor, can I go out with my friends?

Fedyor: Well, what did Ivan say?

Nina: He said no, but he’s not the boss of you.

Fedyor:

Fedyor: *internally* This is a trap this is a trap this is a trap-

darkling-er

Ivan: I'm not gay, but you're really hot today.

Fedyor:

Fedyor: We're boyfriends, Ivan.

heartrender-husbands

I'm hollering-

smuchshypush

Pretending this quote from Six of Crows is about Fedyor, and he gets super into it, and Ivan watches him for hours, rapt, while everyone else slowly dies inside but can't leave because they're too afraid of what Ivan will do if they leave while his husband is reciting his poems.

miasmicgf

darbydoo22

Ok but can we talk about Fedyor being too shy to introduce himself to Alina so he gently nudges Ivan until Ivan rolls his eyes and, knowing exactly what Fedyor wanted, does it for him?

just-me-hyperfixiating

This masterpiece: *exist*

Me:

faheys-bitch

@netflix where is my fivan spinoff show??? I want it now.

faheys-bitch

#givefivanaspinoff2021

systlin

purge of 2002? of 2012? what ARE those?

Oh, how quickly the past is forgotten.

They are part of the reason A03 is a thing now. Not the whole reason, but part of it.

The Great Purges of 2002 and 2012 are when ff.net got a wild hair up their ass about THINK OF THE CHILDREN and nuked any fic posted on there that was explicit. Thousands upon thousands of nc-17 smutfics were lost.

It’s what led to the creation of alternate hosting sites for smutty fic…AdultFanfiction was the one I went to…but thousands of fics would never be recovered.

systlin

Shit like the Great Purges and the Strikethrough of Livejournal eventually led to fans banding together to create A03, which I would have absolutely KILLED for when I was 15.

persephonebooklover

Back up ao3 was created by fans?

systlin

It’s…right on the main page.

fanfictionanthology

I love this because I will bet you that persefv has read that bit we are all so inundated with hyperbole and advertising that says that the consumer is somehow in charge of whatever product they are shilling that we all just assumed this was another sales tactic.

naryrising

But we’re not even… selling anything… *quiet sobs*

wrangletangle

No ads. No subscriptions. No data selling.

We are the definition of “what it says on the tin.”

elfwreck

Is there any way to spread this info?

THE OTW WAS CREATED BY FANS SO WE’D HAVE AN ARCHIVE THAT WASN’T SUBJECT TO CORPORATE REVIEW.

Nonprofit, so that nobody could ever say, “this isn’t making enough money; it’s getting shut down.” (See: Geocities, Quizilla, Figment, G+.) With lawyers involved and a firm awareness of the legalities of fanfic, so nobody would decide “we’ve gotten a nasty letter from a megacorporation with lawyers, so we’re hiding because we can’t afford to face a lawsuit. (Jedi Hurtaholics, Trevizo’s Millennium site.) With teams, so that an argument between co-mods didn’t result in the destruction of a whole archive. (Gryffindor Tower, Detention.)

AO3 IS OUR SITE.

It is by fans, for fans. Fans do all the coding. All the legal paperwork. All the abuse/tos violation complaints. Fans make all the choices about policies. Fans decide how to run the fundraisers. Fans write the blog posts. All the volunteer staff are fans; all the people who train them are fans. Fans wrangle all the tags.

(And the other OTW projects, too. Fans manage the entries at Fanlore. Fans run the Open Doors project. Fans publish Transformative Works and Cultures.)

EVERYONE WORKING FOR THE OTW LOVES FANDOM. Wants it to survive. Wants it to be awesome for everyone.

(Knows that it can’t be awesome for everyone; some approaches to fandom just clash hard. But they strive to minimize those clashes as much as possible, because they love fandom.)

AO3 is not some company that decided, “we’ll make a site for fanfic and then…” I don’t know what people are thinking is the reason. Money? Data harvesting? Tax shelter? Amusement and pity?

Nope; AO3 was fans saying, “Livejournal sucks; we’re tired of this fucked-up ‘rebuild every three years’ garbage; WE NEED TO OWN THE DAMN SERVERS.”

That’s the “of our own” part of the name. OTW isn’t a “them” running the site “for us.” It’s “us” making places for “us” to share what we love with others of “us.”

dirtydragonthoughts

This this this.

I was there for all of that shit, and AO3 is a godsend. If you enjoy or create fanworks, support AO3, donate if you can, and remember why it’s there in the first place!!