sonneillonv:

cosmicconundrum:

uniwolfwerecorn:

loveysounds:

Hey I know this is a really selfish request. I know I have no right to dictate what you do. I know that we as readers don’t have any right to demand anything from you writers. If you plan on deleting your AO3 account and don’t mind your stories being up for public consumption, but you don’t want your name associated with it can you please Orphan your fanfic? There is an option on AO3 where you can orphan your Fic and it won’t be associated with you or your account. Again feel free to ignore this and continue on with your life. I honestly have only well wishes for you, and if writing Fics isn’t something your interested anymore than cool dude! We’ll miss you. Sorry for this entirely selfish request, and I hope you give orphaning your Fic a thought.

Seconded.

It’s a horrible disappointment to see people delete their fic - it always feels like a palpable loss, every time I go looking for a recommended story and find out the links is broken and the author has left fandom “for good”. It’s okay for you to move on, it really is, but if you don’t mind, let your stories live on. 

Orphaning work, on the other hand, give people the opportunity to keep loving your work, even if you don’t like it anymore. 

Please please please don’t delete your fanfiction! Whenever a fanfic is deleted and an author leaves, somewhere a group of eager readers are sobbing their eyes out. They love you and miss you and don’t want to see another beautiful thing lost to the spans of time.

If you do delete your account, please orphan all of your works first! Orphaning detaches the work from your account but keeps it alive even if you delete your account, so that people may still be able to enjoy it and appreciate your hard effort.

A whole lot of fanfics I really loved have been deleted.  My favorites log is full of broken links.  It’s really awful.  I learned early on to copy and back up fanfiction, which I know I really shouldn’t, but I can not count on it always being there.