Archive of Our Own ^beta

Notes:

EDIT 6/25/23: hey, guys. some stuff happened with ao3, and i'm honestly sick to my stomach at the thought of continuing to host my fic here, so i'm going to be replacing most of it.

if you want to know why, you can read through the whole thing with receipts here. for me, this was the comment thread that made me decide it was time to leave.

tl;dr (and hooo boy there's a lot of it), it came out that the policy and abuse committee were given basically no support for dealing with csem (the literal 'assaulted a child' kind, not the 'underage ships' kind), and were denied when they asked for industry standard tools. twice, the volunteers were attacked with threats and csem, and the otw's followup amounted to a few pieces of generic advice and amatuer mutual support. they accused the volunteer stuck with dealing with the csem (without tools or support from the heads of ao3) of committing the attacks, and as of typing, still haven't issued her an apology for it. they haven't been keeping up with lawfully reporting csem.

i knew that ao3 was a mess, but their staunch refusal to protect or help their volunteers and their willingness to throw someone who was doing a shitton of horrific work for them under the bus is beyond the pale.

so i'm leaving -- for now, at least. if i hear the heads have stepped down, the policy and abuse committee has been given proper support, and/or azarias gets an apology and all her therapist's bills paid for, i'll come back and put my fics back.

thank you for these 8 years, guys. <3 it was a magical experience, and i wish you all the best.

If you want to read the fic i've removed, you can find it here. otherwise: enjoy the drabble(s) i came up with so the fic posting won't be taken down.

(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)