woke-up-on-derse:

remember when ao3’s servers used to go down occasionally (even though they had less traffic than they do now)? remember the time when people legally HAD to say “i don’t own the intellectual property or characters or [et cetera] featured in this work and am not using this for any commercial reasons” or smth along those lines? remember all those fanfic posting sites with a million ads? remember how many sites stole the rights to your works when it was posted there? if you don’t, shut up about ao3 asking for donations to keep the fucking site running

-sincerely,

someone who has been writing fanfic since 2009