cesperanza:

changingthingslikeleaves:

salt-of-the-ao3:

hexane-harpy:

This^^^

AO3 is an excellent website and I encourage everyone who can afford it to donate

Do people remember what AO3 stands for?

Archive of Our Own.  <b>Our Own.</b>  That means we thought of it, designed it, built it, and run it.  And yes, pay for it.  If you can’t or don’t want to contribute, you can still read everything on the site.  If you want a say in how things are run, you can contribute as little as $10, and you can vote in elections.  That amount hasn’t gone up since the archive was created, by the way.

I hate pulling this “young whippersnapper” crap, because I hated when it was done to me, but if you’ve never known fandom without AO3, you have no idea what it was like.  Nothing is free.  Before AO3, either individual authors paid for their websites, or a webmaster did, or you used a free host.  Readers were always at the mercy of whoever was paying.

Now? OTW has tedious things like 401©3 non-profit status, and a board, and bylaws, and financial reports.  So that WE can know where OUR money goes.

Otw,