LeviathanInTheTides

@leviathaninthetide.bsky.social

Lev || 🖤🩶🤍💜 || Can’t Draw Can Latch Hook || Old || Occasionally NSFW 🔞 || Technically a FE3H multishipper, mostly full of Sylgrid thoughts AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/LeviathanInTheTides

when artists said this in 2022 they were laughing at us, so 🤷‍♀️ (but realtalk, I'm glad more people are waking up to it now)

Bro I'm so sick of pretending this isn't weird.
The internet spent 20 years creating tutorials, open-source projects, blog posts & answers for free.
Al companies turned all of it into products worth billions.
And now the same people who created that knowledge are being told they're replaceable.
We built the library.
Someone else started charging admission.

To be clear: If you have a fic of mine saved please keep it! If you want a fic of mine please ask! Just please don’t reupload it to FFnet or WattPad or SquidgeWorld or whatever without asking. That is plagiarism. I and all authors work extremely hard on our fics. That is so disrespectful.

I am 100% a believer that you should of course write for yourself first and foremost, but it's absolutely batshit to treat writers--fanfic or otherwise--as somehow selfish or vain for wanting or appreciating acknowledgment.

Hey if you're sad about AO3 being down because you love reading fanfiction, tell your favorite authors and your author friends how much you appreciate them. The landscape is real rough for us, and now none of our work will be seen for 2-4 weeks.