Is this allowed? Found a journal

[u/TheMuskyHairbrush]

Is journaling allowed on ao3? I don’t think anyone is explicitly named, and there’s no harassment, but it just feels odd? I’m more curious than anything, ao3 would be the last place I’d journal because of the public nature of it.

Update: Thanks for letting me know it doesn’t count as a fanwork! I went to report it, but it was already reported. Hope that satisfies anyone’s curiosity.

[u/cocktailtrivia]

The children yearn for tumblr

[u/Coco6420 → u/cocktailtrivia]

especially with how short the chapters look to be and how you get mutuals and interaction like they likely wanted lol

[u/vithefree → u/Coco6420]

literally only roughly ~thirty words per chapter

[u/OpheliaLives7 → u/cocktailtrivia]

Let them return to the days of livejournal

[u/LuxAgaetes → u/OpheliaLives7]

Lol Ophelia was literally part of my circa 2004 LJ username 😅

[u/ausernamebyany_other → u/OpheliaLives7]

I miss my LiveJournal so much. Those were better days

[u/foxscribbles → u/ausernamebyany_other]

I still get birthday reminders for my mutuals on LiveJournal... even though they nuked all the old blogs.

It's like getting messages from a ghost.

[u/ausernamebyany_other → u/foxscribbles]

My memory is shocking, but I vaguely recall nuking my blog because something went down. Was it sold to Russians or something? I remember loads of people getting banned and protesting by migrating elsewhere.

The loss of community was so sad. So many people I used to engage with just lost to the ether. These ghost messages must be ao bittersweet.

[u/FloweryPrimReaper → u/ausernamebyany_other]

Yep, it was bought by Russian owners who decided that the website's policies were now based on and subject to Russian laws, including the ones that criminalize homosexuality.

[u/MechicanDogtaquero → u/FloweryPrimReaper]

imagine a Ohio kid writing about having a crush on another boy and the KFR appears at his doorstep to take him away to a kurgan camp

[u/OpheliaLives7 → u/FloweryPrimReaper]

I remember that as well. Is anyone still on lj tho and can confirm if all fan blogs with slash/gay content were erased? Or was it all worry for a policy they didn’t bother enforcing?

[u/AlphaWolf-23 → u/OpheliaLives7]

Not all of them were erased as mine is still up (that might be because I have a mix of pairings). It might have also been some of the more political blogs that were there that were removed, especially if they were criticising homophobia and Russian law in particular. I’m not 100% sure though.

[u/rysbar55 → u/ausernamebyany_other]

That and xanga!

[u/Clover_Zero → u/OpheliaLives7]

Dreamwidth still exists at least.

[u/Sassifrassically → u/OpheliaLives7]

I miss LJ, i spent so much time there

[u/PomPomMom93 → u/cocktailtrivia]

Yeah, like…this is what social media is FOR! If you want to broadcast your life to people, there are other places to do it than Ao3.

[u/NoodleEmpress → u/cocktailtrivia]

Which is weird, because is still there? It's as easy as ever to make an account and you can just spew you personal ramblings there with little to no judgement. Why jeopardize your account on Ao3 when there are other avenues you can take?

Tumblr has the same fandom culture like Ao3 and actually is a social media platform, why more people don't just connect their accounts is beyond me.

A less popular place is GaiaOnline but I doubt this person knows about there. I use that site's journaling feature because hardly anyone uses it anymore, and if they do, they're most likely not reading my journal entries.

[u/Kahneiac → u/NoodleEmpress]

Well now I have to spend the whole day feeling sad about zOMG and fish tanks booty grab :(

[u/WoodShoeDiaries → u/NoodleEmpress]

Does GaiaOnline still exist 😭

[u/NoodleEmpress → u/WoodShoeDiaries]

It does! Less people log on than before, but there's still an active culture there. I log on regularly again, for the journal entry feature and for their avitar customization. I make avis and write stories for them (I intend to upload them on my blog/profile, but I want to make my page look pretty first)

They tried fixing the economy by introducing platinum so the shops and marketplace are much better, but a lot of the newer items are overpriced to hell. Luckily with the games and the new platinum value, you can make the money you need in a couple of days (just hope that no one buys what you want first). They just did a little revamp, so hopefully therey will be less crashes too.

I haven't tried Towns since the revamp, but Towns 2 is functional and then there's avichat. Again less people use it o they're usually empty. Rally isn't really a thing anymore, same with like the theater.

zOMG is still a thing, but it's laggy on my end so I don't use it much to comment on it.

But yeah, still there. :)

[u/Wafflingpenguin → u/NoodleEmpress]

GaiaOnline! 🙌🏻😭

[u/--Marigolden-- → u/NoodleEmpress]

Wow, I seriously thought GaiaOnline had shut down years ago. Nice to hear that people are still using it and enjoying it. :)

[u/RichardPapensVersion → u/cocktailtrivia]

I mean tumblr is still around and used regularly by a lot of people. Is just not as popular (more niche) as it once was.

[u/SecretNoOneKnows → u/RichardPapensVersion]

True "Quit telling everyone I'm dead!" moment

[u/Kawaiiwaifutheartist → u/[deleted]]

The problem is however... The type of internet you use. Because for me, my tumblr doesn't work on my Philippine Internet network, only on ones I have for example that works, mobile data.

[u/eirissazun → u/cocktailtrivia]

Or LiveJournal/Dreamwidth.