minzapinza:

They really put more Shanks lore in a 45 second movie trailer than in the entirety of 25 years of the manga, huh

dduane:

wangxianficrecs:

batinaburnouse:

wangxianficrecs:

mondengel:

In light of this sad post, I just want to FYI anyone that might be anxious about it:

I will never delete any of my fics for any reason.

1 - I take the Archive part of AO3 very seriously.  I’ll edit and update, but not delete because in my mind it’s been archived once it’s posted.

2 - I’ve seen too many fics/authors I loved disappear, never to be seen again.  If I posted it, then someone who loved it might have found it and someday get the intense urge to read again like I do for those fics, and I want them to be able to find it.

3 - What better way to get back at someone heckling you than to just stone-cold ignore their mean-spirited demands?  To leave a fic up that infuriates the person bothering me so much for existing on AO3 at all?  Even if it was really bad, I would just walk away.  Make it written by Anonymous.  Abandon it on the site.  Comments can be turned off.  Notifications can be turned off.  An entirely new account can be made to start over with. 

The fic can be orphaned.  

For any author who is being bothered into deleting their fics/account, please at least consider orphaning your work instead of deleting it wholesale.  Orphaning is a wonderful, innovative feature of AO3 put there specifically to thread the needle for people in exactly your situation.  To bridge the gap of those who no longer want to be associated with a fic, and those who loved what you wrote and want to be able to revisit it.

An Untamed fic I really loved got the author a lot of harassment and they contemplated deleting it while they were still posting chapters because of the awful comments a handful of people were leaving with each update, but instead orphaned it after finishing.  I have reread that fic at least five times since then.  I don’t remember the author’s name anymore, just as they certainly wanted, but I still enjoy that fic and I know I’ll come back to it again and I’m so grateful that I can.

No amount of hate erases how much someone else genuinely loved what you wrote. 

And there is ALWAYS someone to love it.  Even if it’s just one person.  Even when things are hard and the horrible people are very loud, try not to forget that they are there too.

Don’t make the hateful one the most important one.

The fic can be orphaned.

This is so important, and I wish more authors used this option. (Thank you, @mondengel, for your reassurance!)

I honestly understand wanting to withdraw your fic: from harassment or just the vague embarrassment that something you wrote 5 years ago doesn’t really reflect you as a person or a writer anymore.

But.… there is ALWAYS someone to love it.  Unless you are withdrawing the work to publish it as an original piece, I will always encourage an author to simply orphan the work. Your name vanishes. You get no comments/notifications. It is entirely separated from you. And then… the fandom community remains enriched with something many of them love.

I truly understand the urge to strike back, especially if you’ve been hurt or harassed. And the only weapon an author has is taking their piece away from the fandom. But. That hurts so many innocents, too.

In this fandom, we have many AO3 fics hidden behind collection/mystery walls, and I live in hope that the author is just taking some time to cool down (and allow the harassers to target someone else) before putting them back up for the rest of us to enjoy.

Be kind to your authors.

And maybe they’ll be kind right back to you!

And if you want to maintain control of the work you can (temporarily or permanently) add it to an anonymous collection (instructions for how to do that here). Your name will be removed from it and it will no longer show up on your author page but you will still receive comment notifications and if you go to your statistics page you will be able to see it. You can still edit the work this way and choose to orphan it later if you so desire.

Another option is to create a second account and shift works you don’t want associated with you there and then turn off all notifications from that account (which can be done from the preferences page). You may already have invitations (check the ‘invitations’ tab on your AO3 dashboard) or you can request one to be sent to you here (there is a waiting list, but you should get one within a week). Then once you have a second account set up, go to the preferences pages on both accounts and click the ‘Allow others to invite me to be a co-creator’ button. Then edit the work and add in the new account as a co-author, save the change, then edit again and remove your original account author and save it again. Ta-da! You’re main account is no longer listed as the author to the fic!

Oooh, this is very useful, thank you @batinaburnouse.

This.

I can’t say for sure how many times I’ve gone down my bookmarks and hit the advisory “This work has been deleted.” …and just felt my insides seize for the loss of something that had been very much enjoyed.

If you’re having difficulties, please consider orphaning instead of deletion.

onenicebugperday:

alltheatoms:

revretch:

mycomancy:

I’m not sure what they are, but they look like they’re having a good time. And who am I to bar them from a good time?

#bugs#(general catch-all tag)#gonna hazard a guess at baby harvestmen…? harvestchilds.#but yeah whatever they are rock and roll dudes

I was guessing some kind of mite, but on closer inspection the long legs are the second pair and not the first, so you might be right!! Very hard to find images of baby harvestmen to compare to though :(

@onenicebugperday

MANY nice bugs c:

I was wondering if you have some insight into what these are. either way I hope you enjoy

They look like baby harvestmen to me as well!