heyy!! I just found your blog and I didn't read a ton of your posts yet but u seem super cool and articulate. i love finding ppl with great analyses! I am curious if you have any narumitsu fic recs you would be able to share? I loveee hurt/comfort. My bad if you already have made a post about this! :D Hope you have a great day !!!!
ahh thank you so much! seriously, this is very flattering.
and actually, let me use this ask to make a proper rec list, because why not… (not going to recommended anything explicit, because idk how appropriate that would be? but read the ratings and tags in case my memory fails me).
8. let nothing you dismay - they are so stupid in this one, if memory doesn’t fail me. more angst with a happy ending rather than h/c, but it’s… close? i think?
9. promises - oh this one is h/c. they go on a walk.
Okay so on the ao3 thing bc I just saw a really stupid fucking take on it all.
1. Ao3 is not being attacked by a Sudanese group. It IS being attacked. But not by the Sudanese. Yes the group CLAIMS to be Sudanese. No they are not Sudanese, and they may not even be the ones attacking the site, they could just want clout and attention. The existence of this “Sudanese hacker” group is likely just a ploy to hide the identity of the real people behind the group bc I guarantee they are not Sudanese.
2. Absolutely wild to blame the attack of ao3 ON AO3 AND ITS SUPPORTERS. Literally no one who likes and supports Ao3 wants Ao3 to go down at any point in time.
3. Fully stupid to use your issues with Ao3 to justify the loss of a massive archive of fanfiction. I dont particularly care what you think of Ao3, I dont care if you dont like it, I dont care if you hate it. I am well aware that Ao3 as a site has issues and could very well be improved upon. That being said, Ao3 is an archive of millions of fanworks. As of May 2023, they reported that the site hosted over 11 million works from over 40 thousand fandoms. Ao3 has got fics that have been backdated to the creation of modern fanfic in the late 1960s. The loss of that would be completely devastating.
I know that this take is coming from people who primarily havent suffered through massive fanfiction archive losses in the past. The censoring of fanfic.net, the loss of livejournal, the takedowns on forums and community sites. All of these resulted in huge losses of fan-created works. Even with the existence of ao3, we still have lost so so much and frankly I dont think anyone should be advocating for us to lose millions more.
I cannot believe ‘archive of our own was hacked by a Russian cyber terrorist group pretending to be Sudanese because of all the smut and lgbt content’ is a real, canon event in 2023
