Jul 12, 2025
So Ao3 is obviously a novelist right? To Tumblr’s poet, artist, scientist. And Tumblr is the housewife who stays behind and looks after things while Ao3 goes and fights “in the war.” And comes back direly injured and apologizing about it like “oh I’m sorry I took so long on account of this!” “Oh what a mess I’ve made on our floors,” that kind of thing. And then Tumblr nurses them back to health, right? And have just. A load of nonsensical inside jokes that none of the other websites (except Pinterest sometimes) understand. We’re all on the same page about this characterization right? This was always their relationship.