So, the AO3 team are apparently unmitigated assholes
Added 2023-10-30 06:02:09 +0000 UTCSo, I just got a notice an hour or so ago that all my works AND my profile on AO3 have been hidden by their policy team. This, I might add, DESPITE the fact that I'd already complied with their demand to remove all mentions of Patreon from my works on AO3 (which was a nonsense demand in the first place, given how many of their most popular authors regularly do so). None of my fics mentioned this Patreon directly any longer. Nowhere was there a direct link. I literally just switched it to telling people to look up the name of my Page on Google.
They hid my works anyway. Including Mass Effect: Final Error, which isn't available on fanfiction.net for smut-level reasons. I am unbelievably pissed enough that I sent a very colorfully worded reply that is probably about 70% likely to get me outright banned. At this point, though, since I'd already complied with their demands, I'm angry enough at their bullshit to not care. My fics are still available on my Fanction.net account, except for Final Error. Which is currently not only available here (the master files are downloadable from the pinned post).
I don't suppose anyone knows other places (aside from Wattpad. That place is horrible), that you can post fanfiction on without complete assholes smiting you like they were some sort of anti-fun evil gods?
*sigh* I was going to work on the next My Hero Automata tonight, too. But this has sort of brutally murdered my will to write anything.
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For now, Final Error is up on Wattpad. I'm intending to also put it up on at least scribblehub when I have time (probably not until next month). I'll have to look and see if Questionable Questing is a good option as well. Thanks :-).
Novus Peregrine
2023-12-17 22:45:10 +0000 UTCThere is also questionablequesting as an option, though the interface isn't as clean as scribblehub or ao3.
Healerbob
2023-12-17 11:08:35 +0000 UTCI should also mention they have a designated spot for your patreon account and ko-fi or whatever other donation site you want to use.
Strange
2023-10-31 01:48:59 +0000 UTCGood to know, thanks. If I don't get a response from Ao3 (or they ban me for adding a wish for their policy team to fall groin first into a cactus patch to my profile), I'll look into it...
Novus Peregrine
2023-10-31 01:40:23 +0000 UTCSmut is always appreciated though, so final error should be okay popularly wise
Strange
2023-10-30 13:04:41 +0000 UTCYou *can* post on scribblehub, but it's kinda the opposite of AO3 where original fics are prioritized more.
Strange
2023-10-30 13:03:57 +0000 UTC
