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“What if I write it and it’s bad-”

WHAT IF YOU WRITE IT AND ITS GOOD? WHAT IF YOU WRITE IT AND ITS EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANTED? WHAT THEN????

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With more and more Ao3 authors restricting their works to the archive (due to AI scraping), they're going to be losing guest interaction. And probably generally feeling down because. You know. AI is stealing their hard work.

So! Now is a great time to stop by your favorite authors/stories and drop them some comments! They really appreciate it!

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WARNING do NOT start reading books and comics or watching movies or looking at art!!! you will start wanting to create art yourself. or god forbid. writing.

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saying ao3 needs to censor certain content is like saying a museum can't have still life art that includes strawberries because you don't like them.

these are not real strawberries. you do not have to, and in fact cannot, eat them. no one with a strawberry allergy will be harmed by looking at them. no migrant workers were exploited in the picking of these strawberries. there were no questionable farming practices or negative environmental impacts from growing or transporting them.

because - and i cannot stress this enough - they are not real strawberries.

if you don't like strawberries, you don't have to look at the paintings. in fact, you can get a map of the museum that lists what works are in what rooms and just. not go in there. if you see one by mistake, you can look away. just keep walking. there's plenty of other stuff to see.

yes, real strawberries can cause real quantifiable harm to real people.

but again. these are not real strawberries.

you may have whatever feelings you like about strawberries, and so can i. you can draw and write about whatever fruit floats your boat, and so can i, even if that happens to be strawberries. and we can hang our art side by side in the same gallery, provided you understand that my strawberries are not about you (and your kumquats are, shocker, not about me) and that - and this is true - neither are real.

and when the fascists break down the doors and grab all the strawberry paintings and heap them in the street and set them on fire, please know that they are coming for your kumquats next.

so if you want a place where you can show off your beautiful kumquat art safely, you're gonna have to tolerate having some strawberries in the next room.

and that's okay. because the strawberries aren't real.

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dissertation supervisor: so you’ll have 3 months to write your dissertation, which may seem like a long time, but I want to impress upon you that these will be the most important 15,000 words you’ve written in your life”

lmao. “most important words you’ve written in your life” someone obviously doesn’t know about the 1,510,266 words I’ve published on ao3 about my blorbos 🙄🤪

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Going into this bio exam knowing brown eyes are dominant, blue eyes are submissive, and that punettes are square. Wish me luck!

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still not over that robber calling matt oliver twist

even hes like "a blind irish orphan lawyer with a catholic martyr complex? isnt that a bit much?"

and he doesnt even know about the "magic ninja vigilante and also a slut" part. matthew murdock: character of all time

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matt murdock successfully fucks his way out of an emotional conversation yet again

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YOU!! YES, YOU!! GO WRITE THAT FANFIC YOU THINK NOBODY BUT YOU WILL READ!!

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my dad likes to call the stretches of time where you’re not creating “dreaming periods” and says that they’re meant to allow you to absorb all of the beauty, life, and inspiration from the things around you so that when you’re able to create again, you will have fanned your spark back into a flame. sometimes its hard to see those moments as anything but stagnation, but he always says that they’re natural and healthy and needed—things that should be embraced rather than feared.

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guys can we pretty please bring irondad back i’ve recently fallen very deep into the ao3 and tumblr archives and it’s so lonely here

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writing is hard but coming up with a cunty title and catchy summary will slay even god's strongest soldier

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Joy Sullivan, from "(Luck I)", Instructions for Traveling West

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All these episodes are proving to me is that I’m more mentally unwell about Matthew Murdock that I realized

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still not over that robber calling matt oliver twist

even hes like "a blind irish orphan lawyer with a catholic martyr complex? isnt that a bit much?"

and he doesnt even know about the "magic ninja vigilante and also a slut" part. matthew murdock: character of all time

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@oh-tobeafrog thank you for inspiring me with this galaxy brain take on my two favorite marvel heroes :)

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