i'm going to regret doing this, but it seems like no matter what choice i make, it's the wrong one, so fuck it. i want everyone to know that i'm being harassed, and i've been being harassed for a year or maybe longer, i don't know. i kept getting these sick anons on here until i finally wised up and turned anon off. then this lunatic made an account JUST to send me a dm before immediately deleting said account, so i turned off dms. now they're coming after my ao3, and i've been told by ao3 staff that i can't do anything about it except lock my account or moderate comments or turn off guest comments. i don't want to do any of those because obviously no one in their right minds wants to be associated with the kind of fics i write, so it's better for me to have anon comments turned on, but this is just. getting to be too much. and i know this fuckass creep is going to see this post at some point and send me another shitty comment laughing about it and taunting me.
i've ignored this person for a year and i've deleted everything they send without responding and they just won't back the fuck off, and now they've gotten me into this little corner and i'm just at my wits' fucking end with this. i've never dealt with this level of harassment and i've been in fandom spaces for 18 years. i know that making this post is a stupid idea but i want everyone to know that this is going on. if i do end up having to moderate my ao3 comments in whatever degree, this is my heads' up that it might happen. for now i just want to delete the comments when they come, but they shake me up pretty badly and at some point i'm going to get sick of seeing them in my safest space. so idk. either this loser gets tired of being a shit to me, or i get tired of being shit on. one or the other is going to happen first.