About a week ago, a fanfic writer I follow on here had another of his stories taken down suddenly after it had been up for a long time, and as a result had moved over to AO3 along with his other stories. Out of fear of The Mothman of Hell being taken down, I was considering looking into AO3 as well and move my fanfic over to there.
Initially, I thought of crossposting my fanfic onto both here and AO3, after learning how AO3 and the culture works, and having people from both sites see it. But then I thought crossposting would be pointless. After all, if Wattpad took the fanfic writer’s stories down after a long period of time, and without warning (as he didn’t say they warned him), then whose to say they won’t take down The Mothman of Hell one day? That I could wake up, log onto Wattpad, and see my story was taken down while I was asleep? I don’t know if they give me an email saying it’s taken down or what, and if they’d even explain. Maybe my story is okay as of now, but whose to say any later chapters would bring it down? After all, I do write smut, and the recent chapter of The Mothman of Hell has a big chapters including a long smut scene.
Because of this, I’m going to end my writing career on Wattpad and continue it on AO3. What that means is The Mothman of Hell will be discontinued on Wattpad and will be continued on AO3 after getting all the chapters on there. I’ll keep the story on here until I have all the chapters of my story onto Ao3 (not sure if the St. Patty’s Day special will be included), but after I may take it down or keep it up.