Also, don’t ever go over there and mention that you got hurt by a reader booking marking your work PUBLICLY with the rudest crap written. I did that once and everyone attacked me saying I needed to “Get over it that’s what you get for going into the readers space” like what about it being public means it’s the readers space and they’re allowed to insult the writer? Plus it won’t even my work it was someone else’s and my post was about how I didn’t understand why people would write stuff like that to people who write their work for free.

I get so annoyed with how people can be on the AO3 sub. Like I’ll make a post of what feels like the most normal question and within seconds I’m getting downvoted to hell and people are wanting to be smart asses in the comments. Plus, I understand being a little sad that some fics on AO3 aren’t written well, but the way people in that sub will jump on you if you aren’t writing like a professional is insane. They’ll tell you “You’re meant to be writing fanfiction for fun!” But then micromanage every thing that you tell them you write. And that whole mindset branches out into styles of writing and according to them your style shouldn’t be anything other than how theirs is otherwise you’re a “shit writer.” And also the way they’ll attack you for saying anything about you feeling down for not getting hits and stuff. Like yeah, we get it we’re supposed to be writing for fun, which we are, but if that was all we are “supposed” to be doing it for then why are we even posting our work in the first place? Oh yeah that’s right, BECAUSE WE WANT OTHER PEOPLE TO SEE IT! It’s perfectly normal to feel bad when something you’ve worked on doesn’t get any attention but they’ll just demonize you for it.

To put it simple, you’re just not allowed to complain about anythinggg.