This has been a time coming, but it has been difficult to find the words. I was hoping that removing myself from the situation would help, but as this has bled over into affecting my partner and friends, I will address it.
About three weeks ago, I made the decision to no longer publicly post or make content for a story. The reason for this decision was due to a combination of factors, that I will not openly discuss. The point is - I decided I would not continue the story publicly, and left the fandom.
Over the past three weeks, me, my partner, and our mutual friends have received a bombardment of asks, comments, and notes harassing us about the continuation of the specific story in question, and bleeding into other fandoms that we write for and participate in. The accounts will beg, pester, guit-trip, and trauma dump, praise bomb, among other actions in order to try and coerce us to write what they want us to write. We have received unwanted and unsolicited nsfw asks, asks about requests, headcanons, rp and other things. Many of the accounts have been bot-like, new accounts created not even a full day before sending the asks. We block, and a new one comes back the next day with the same questions, the same asks, the same behavior about us and our works. On average, we are getting one to three asks in a day between us, with more hate comments on our stories posted to ao3. Some of those are bots. Most of them are too targeted and specific, and are probably real people.
I cannot control other people. I cannot make people stop a certain behavior, nor will I 'explain myself', as I do not owe anyone an explanation for decisions I make about my own creative works, collaborative or purely of my own.
I wish to iterate going forward, simply to state it:
-Do not contact me about any works that appear to be either on or stated to be on hiatus. You will be blocked.
-Do not send us nsfw asks, comments, or headcanons. You will be blocked.
-Do not send us unsolicited headcanons, rp ideas, story ideas, or other material. You will be blocked.
-Do not beg, pester, or guilt-trip about works you personally want updated. Neither I nor my partner are a content machine for you. You will be blocked.
-Do not comment about one work on a different work asking about it because you believe it will get our attention. You will be blocked.
-Do not comment things irrelevant to the story being commented on. You will be blocked.
-Do not offer 'creative or organizational assistance' unprompted. You will be blocked.
-Do not white-knight or otherwise 'advocate' for me or my partner. It is not appreciated, nor wanted. Just stop. It is not your place to 'protect' me or my partner, it is only invasive.
These measures sound harsh, but due to the ongoing issues, my partner and I no longer feel safe in the fandom I left, and feel stalked in this space that was supposed to be a place for us to have fun and share our stories and ideas. We have closed our ask boxes and messages. Our comments section in ao3 is registered users only, and moderated.
This is not us trying to be mean. This is the last step we can take to protect ourselves and our mental health.
Thank you for your understanding.