lovely anon · 12d
you didn’t sound cold at all, and i get what you mean!! i guess i am drawing too much on my own experience as a writer, where unless i am 100% sure i’m ok with it being online forever, i would simply keep it in my docs (which do with i think like 30-40%? of everything i write, even if it is complete). maybe it’s also because i knew that there are people regularly downloading and archiving the whole of Ao3 (even if it’s not as easily accessible) before i ever started posting fic. and while i would never intentionally share fics an author has deleted, it does become hard sometimes if i share my whole library of favorites with someone…regardless – thank you for answering! i will try to be more mindfull
i think it's a mix of drawing "too much" from your own experience and having a lot of faith in what the future holds! writing fanficiton has a strong root in reality, be it because it's rpf or because you're writing about preexisting work of fictions. if i had written fics about something linked to someone who was found to be an abuser or something like that, orphaning my fics would Not be enough
and also, the "outrage" some writers express at sharing deleted fics isn't about wanting to get rid of all traces of the deleted works from the internet, it's just about not wanting to encourage the willing seek of deleted works, if that makes sense! no one would be mad at you for having a deleted fic in your recs, it wouldn't even make sense. in fact, i don't think anyone would be mad at you as an individual for talking about or enjoying deleted fics. it's not about that, it's about the entitlement to constantly have access to a writer's work, even if that writer showed they didn't want to share it anymore. it's about the attitude! as long as you're respectful, you're good
and sorry, i completely forgot to reply!
