The only people we have ever gotten from our writing have been from things long left abandoned; we only hope we don't get anyone from our current project, because we do intend on trying to get it published at some point.
Although, the complicated ethics of this actually do affect how we write fanfiction; to be honest, we have at least one person from every source (not really the right wording, but you know) that we want to write in. We have to get permission for what we can share, and what we can't, and it all ends up being much more personal than just fanfiction even if it's billed that way.
Granted, some of us do actively want to write about things that have happened to us as a form of therapy. As far as anyone on Ao3 is concerned, it's just fiction, and we can have the weight of keeping things to ourselves lifted off our shoulders in a way that feels halfway anonymous.
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Although, the complicated ethics of this actually do affect how we write fanfiction; to be honest, we have at least one person from every source (not really the right wording, but you know) that we want to write in. We have to get permission for what we can share, and what we can't, and it all ends up being much more personal than just fanfiction even if it's billed that way.
Granted, some of us do actively want to write about things that have happened to us as a form of therapy. As far as anyone on Ao3 is concerned, it's just fiction, and we can have the weight of keeping things to ourselves lifted off our shoulders in a way that feels halfway anonymous.
-Hythlodaeus