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Me writing at age 15: what IF the story was about people KIDNAPPING teenagers and CRUELLY EXPERIMENTING on them and I had a NINE YEAR OLD accidentally KILL A MAN with unharnessed DEADLY PSYCHIC ENERGY

Me writing at age 25: what if a vampire was just a really good dad to his loving family and my characters had a whole conversation with a faerie about human music genres

I’ve been seeing just. The wildest takes about AO3 this donation cycle and I’m at my limit. I just saw a post claiming that AO3 isn’t a real archive, that it’s a scam, because there’s no quality control like a real, legitimate archive would have, that they just let in any old trash. And that this makes AO3 not worthy of anyone’s money or respect.

And you know what? It’s true! AO3 does let in any old trash! People can just post whatever the hell they want. And you know what? An ad-free, free-to-use website where people writing fanfiction, in their free time for no money, can upload their work with no hassle or exclusive vetting process, that also happens to be a highly popular and well-known fanfic repository for every fandom under the sun? WITH a robust and well-curated tagging system, too? That’s the dream. I’m glad they let anyone upload whatever weird trash they want. GOOD.

Libraries--legit brick and mortar libraries around the world are in awe of AO3's curation. AO3 is lightning in a bottle and these turds want to burn it to the ground because they won't read a freakin tag block? Because they choose to consume material that "makes them uncomfy" when the contents of that material are laid out in big step away anyone with the good sense god gave a bedbug to assess and move on from?

Listen up kiddos, a lack of self control on your part does not constituent a crisis of morality on mine.

Figure out how the fuck to not look at things that upset you and get on with your life.

I'd add that, as with any archive, AO3 can and does remove things that are not within its mandate to host. Those include: commercial promotion, non-transformative works (someone's economics homework, the entire text of The Great Gatsby, plagiarized fics), spam, ephemeral content (e.g. fic finding posts, update plans, reaction posts), and illegal-in-the-US content. The rest of it?As long as it's a fanwork, our mission is to preserve. It doesn't matter if you think it's unimportant, doesn't have artistic merit, is offensive or in poor taste or badly written. As an actual professional archivist for about as long as I've been an AO3 volunteer, that's the "quality control" that we engage in.

speaking to what @lemonsharks said, I am an actual librarian who works in an actual library that I am inside of right now, and yes, I am in awe of ao3 (and really any online archive with a mandate to host content in perpetuity).

some people need to hear that a librarian approves of the trashy stuff, too, so here you go. you porn is LIBRARIAN APPROVED. even the shitty stuff that's really poorly written.

You, a fool: Xiao come home,,,

Me, an intellectual: He’s always been here,,,

started thinking abt chaeya as a joke and now i’m emotionally attached :((( send help i didn’t want this to happen

bonus under the cut! i didn’t know how to format it w/ the rest of the art

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if you couldn’t tell before im a sucker for the agreste-dupain-cheng family 

also this is based off of this tweet

idk why so many of you seem to be convinced Kaeya is a top, but I can assure you that you are incorrect

my carry looking at me after I got KO’d like

Practicing a signature.

“don’t you ever use our name again. you are not my brother, and you were never his son.”

Childe stan

Albedo stan

Kaeya/Beidou stan

Zhongli stan

(Please don’t come for me)

Scaramouche stan

Diluc stan

when you get so flustered you unlock new combat abilities

I forgot to post it here, but Xiao came home three times. Maybe he feels happy with his party.

ah, the handsome mr. kaeya

Have you ever come back from self imposed exile just to find out that your former best friend underwent a complete bimbofication

Have you ever come back from self imposed exile just to find out that your former best friend underwent a complete bimbofication

Kaeya has been sipping that Dum Bitch Juice

Kid selves is vise versa XD

tall boys

bonus:

hehe i never post my art but i was proud of this (click for better quality)

I cleaned up that last kaeya drawing bc I can