#also inb4 'oh why didn't you just give us the links to these instead of trashing ao3??" because it's effective at generating attention

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Ao3 may be important to fandom history but it goes over its donation requirement (50k every few months) in SPADES (They just finished donations and made over 250k). Ao3 defends its hosting of unchecked glorified racism, pedophilia, and incest. it's also unfinished and its filter system is broken and amasses hundreds of thousands of dollars that it is most definitely not using all of.

So here's a small list of suggestions of who you could be donating to instead. Ao3 bootlickers and people who reblog just to spite donate to a03 will be blocked.

The internet archive which is fighting a losing battle against greedy corporations who want to control the internet even more than they already are

Help out WGA strikers (This Link can tell you where you can donate): If you care about the people who actually make the shows you write fanfic about, or about the screenwriting industry at all, please help out. This is a fight against screwing over writers financially and the fight against AI replacing them.

The Quileute tribe (you know, the one in Twilight) needs to move to higher ground and is still seeking donations

Buying anything from the Ioway Bee Farm helps support a Native American tribe in need AND gets you high quality and sustainable products made from bees.

RIP medical debt is a charity that buys up people's medical debt on the cheap and forgives it. 1$ donated can erase 100$ of debt. Genuinely life changing

Literally other people on tumblr! There are so many gofundme's and people who are genuinely sick or homeless and need help and money. And most of the time they aren't scams! And sometimes you can get art or fic requests as well! But just do a good deed

I hesitate saying Wikipedia because although it is 10x more useful than a03 The site has way more funds than it needs so donate cautiously.

And because I am fortunate enough to do so, i'm putting my money where my mouth is. I don't expect praise for doing so. It's the bare minimum.

#anti a03 #fandom #fandom wank #of course i can't compile everything but i'll do what i can #also inb4 'oh why didn't you just give us the links to these instead of trashing ao3??" because it's effective at generating attention #and it's unfortunately how things get around on this site #you gotta play the game to win the prizes #if even one person shrugs off donating to a03 and donates to one of these causes instead then my job is done