AO<3
I use the AO3 so often, and so easily. I really want to thank everyone who works on it, and who's ever worked on it. Every single one of you has made my daily life better in concrete ways.
I mean, only tonight, I'm getting ready for a trip out of town. And what do I do, in among the packing hassle? Toss a couple of good long stories onto my phone! Click, done. In my pocket, ready to while away the flights without needing to be online.
And then as I work on my Yuletide asks/offers for this year, I get curious about how I phrased my signup for last year's Yuletide. I didn't keep a copy anywhere on my laptop! Argh! Wait--just check the AO3. Why, there it is, linked from my dashboard! Neat and clear and easy to find (plus with a header graphic I enjoy).
These things happen to me a lot, bringing joy and pleasure into my life. I remember how it was, to buy a few zines at cons or to mail order them and wait (and hold them so people on the plane can't see the covers *g*); or to photocopy circuit stories and stuff a bundle of them into my carryon; or to track down and save html files of stories from all over the web, one by one. I have so many more options these days, and that sort of change doesn't just happen. It's crafted by human minds and human hands, actual people spending their actual time and ingenuity and effort. I'm grateful to the people who built, build, code, maintain, wrangle, and otherwise care for and manage the Archive Of Our Own.
Thank you.
I mean, only tonight, I'm getting ready for a trip out of town. And what do I do, in among the packing hassle? Toss a couple of good long stories onto my phone! Click, done. In my pocket, ready to while away the flights without needing to be online.
And then as I work on my Yuletide asks/offers for this year, I get curious about how I phrased my signup for last year's Yuletide. I didn't keep a copy anywhere on my laptop! Argh! Wait--just check the AO3. Why, there it is, linked from my dashboard! Neat and clear and easy to find (plus with a header graphic I enjoy).
These things happen to me a lot, bringing joy and pleasure into my life. I remember how it was, to buy a few zines at cons or to mail order them and wait (and hold them so people on the plane can't see the covers *g*); or to photocopy circuit stories and stuff a bundle of them into my carryon; or to track down and save html files of stories from all over the web, one by one. I have so many more options these days, and that sort of change doesn't just happen. It's crafted by human minds and human hands, actual people spending their actual time and ingenuity and effort. I'm grateful to the people who built, build, code, maintain, wrangle, and otherwise care for and manage the Archive Of Our Own.
Thank you.