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"Why can't the freaks on AO3 just go and make a site for all the gross stuff and leave AO3 alone."
Because AO3 is that site. Because AO3 was that site long before you decided AO3 was better than the sites you bullied us off of before, and I can promise you if someone somehow comes up with a fanfic site you like better specifically for the 'gross stuff' you'll try to bully us off that too so you can benefit from it.
AO3's specific core purpose is to preserve fanfiction, yes, but it was also instigated as a host site for the fanfiction that kept getting yeeted off other platforms like Wattpad. Its designed to preserve all fanfiction, not just the fanfiction you, personally, think is 'allowed' to be written.
AO3 is the site for all the gross stuff the freaks make. We've been there just as long as you. We've been funding it just as long as you have. AO3 has specifically said you have a place here. The timeline was literally:
Wattpad/FF.net/LiveJournal purge fanfics > AO3 is born > The people who's fics got purged moved over to AO3 > AO3 gains popularity as the best functioning site > The people who pushed for the fics to be purged off Wattpad move to AO3 > The same people try to push for AO3 to purge fics.
AO3's source coding is open-access. You go make a polished, strict, rigid site where nothing 'icky' is allowed. You go make a site where you can control what is hosted. We already have our space.
Slight Spoilers for most recent chapter
BkDks before the last chapter: IzuOchas always make about their ship, and never worry about Ochako and the fact she is going through her trauma!
BkDks with 429, where Bakugou has only one panel with Izuku and only asks one question about his quirk and not about Izuku himself:
OH MY GOD THIS IS THE BEST LOVE STORY! THIS IS PEAK! TOTAL ENDGAME SHIP RIGHT HERE!
They also laugh at the fact that Bakugou only focused on finding out about Izuku’s quirk and completely ignore Ochako, as if it comes across as a Chad move and DOESN’T paint him as a selfish, uncaring asshole.
I am not going to miss a huge chunk of this fandom.
okay this but also RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN TWO "OPPOSITE GENDER" PEOPLE ARE NOT FUCKING STRAIGHT IF ONE OR BOTH OF THEM ARE BI IT'S NOT A FUCKING LIGHTSWITCH OKAY
It's not like *flips switch* I'm dating a dude so I'm straight *flips switch* dating a woman, so now I'm gay Also, the level of fuckin ERASURE I get when people see my AFAB enby ass with my cis husband and daughter and go "look at that good family of straights" Like HOW FUCKING DARE YOU I am BI and also NOT A FUCKING WOMAN My husband is ALSO BI And my daughter is PRESUMED QUEER UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY
if you say any queer identity is not part of the lgbtq+ community, including but not limited to people with neopronouns, bi people who just happen to be in a straight relationship, and anyone on the ace or aro spectrum, i curse you with the gayest tapeworm you've ever seen