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It is like 1am and I am stressing myself yet again so I may as well scream into the endless void that is my wattpad convo board.
Now I've been writing fanfic for a solid 4 years now formally and I gotta say I'm always gonna love Wattpad. The format is sleek. Easy formatting for us writers and just sooooo convenient and simple. It's familiar.
However, I haven't really explained why I haven't moved to Ao3 fully despite saying I'd do it multiple times. I have a few reasons;
1.) Ao3 readers and writers purposely look down on Wattpad authors simply because they view our works as "lower quality". Everything from grammar to formatting, they just straight up hate us.
2.) Importing from Wattpad to Ao3 is a FUSS and I mean it. At this point I'm considering throwing all my shit into one document and posting it all as 1 chapter on there because who has the time to separate by chapter. I don't have the patience and I hate that god for saken websites format.
3.) I'm most familiar with wattpad and it has practically been home since middle school. I mean I practically grew up with this site as my fanfic culture. This site was my introduction to fandom spaces and despite the bad times I've loved every moment here.
4.) . . . I really just hate to start over.
I know my days on Wattpad are numbered since my works could be pulled at any moment. I know that I could lose everything if I don't move quickly, but I am so tired of fandom spaces at the moment that I don't care. All Ao3 has done so far is proven to be annoying as all hell, but i don't want to lose everything I've worked for. I mean this page is my literal child, but I digress.
The main reason I won't move is because this place is just to familiar. Even if my shit gets nuked from the internet.
I guess I'll just accept that.