I AM DELETING THIS FIC
Hello, readers!
I am pleased to announce that I will be deleting The Anatomy of Love fanfic off of Fanfiction! To clarify, I am deleting the fanfic ONLY off of this website. This means you will still be able to read on AO3 which was always the preferable option anyway. There are several reasons why I have decided to delete this fanfic from here.
1) There have been a few bad apples on AO3 spamming me with harassing comments (no, it's the opposite of con crit). For more context, please check out my Chapter 22 Author's note on AO3 explaining the situation in-depth. Suffice to say though, I had to reconfigure the comment settings there so that only "registered users" (readers with AO3 accounts) would be the only ones able to comment. This bars the trolls and haters from abusing their anonymity privilege to harass writers like me any further (or else they get BLOCKED if they continue to try). Unfortunately, this means a few of these rotten apples have hopped on over to this site to harass me here since FFN does not allow writers to disable Guests from reviewing.
One example of one of these Haters who have so much spite in their life that they waste their time and energy to harass me here is none other than our pitiful Guest, SQUASHA! She whines that I delete her ""reviews"" because she acknowledges how bitchy and pointless they are. She also whines that the pacing between Kakashi and Sakura is slow and vexatious and complains that I say I am excited to write real sexual content for our lovebirds but that I always just tease it. Now, yes, I have since deleted that review from SQUASHA (again) because it is indeed bitchy, pointless, and serves only to complain (again) rather than constructively criticize. But also because I believe poor SQUASHA is very confused and possibly forgot that I explicitly mentioned in bold words at the very start of the fic that The Anatomy of Love is a slow-build longfic. It is also highly possible that readers like SQUASHA are completely new to fanfiction and do not understand what is a slowburn and what it consists of. So essentially, SQUASHA complains that this slowburn fic is being… well, a slowburn. Which is exactly what it is and exactly what she knew from the start what it was (assuming she took the time to read my A/N at the very start of chapter 1). So with trolls like her lurking here now (actually, FFN has always been a cesspool for trolls due to lack of moderation), it's one reason I am deleting this fic here.
2) Another reason I'm deleting this fic is because for some ridiculous reason, FFN has decided to screw over both readers and writers with the changes in their Email Opt-in system. From now on, readers and writers automatically are opted OUT of email notifications. In fact, you should take a look at your account settings right now because the change has already been made for you. FFN has changed it so that you have to manually opt IN to receive email notifications and then from now on you have to re-do that again every 6 months. Or else after 6 months it resets your settings to opt OUT of notifications. As someone who barely touches FFN and barely looks at my inbox, this isn't very appealing for me.
3) FFN does not allow links or images. The Anatomy of Love is full of bonus content in which I like to link reference images for Sakura's outfits, fanart that readers had made or commissioned, and deleted scenes that I link at the end. This is one reason why I have always encouraged readers to read this fic on AO3 instead so that they have access to all that bonus content. Here, on FFN, I can't do that. I have to jump through so many hurdles just to hint at where readers should go for the bonus content. It makes posting a chapter here very tedious work for me.
4) I barely touch FFN - and it's a huge reason as to why I never reply to any of your guys' Reviews (sorry about that, btw!). FFN was the first site I used to post fanfiction when I was a pre-pubescent teen. I've since graduated to AO3 years ago though and I find that site so much easier to navigate and curate my space. So deleting this fic from this site is actually very beneficial for me in many ways.
So with all my reasons listed, I want to emphasize that I will be deleting this fic at the end of December. That should give anyone here ample time to see this note and bounce over to AO3.
Again, I barely touch FFN so if you have any questions or concerns, you are more than welcome to hit me up on my socials - Tumblr or Twitter - listed below. It may take me a while to respond there since I'm just not big on social media in general, but you will at least get a reply from me there compared to here.
Otherwise, see you on AO3! My AO3 username is "TCOOKIES777" !
And please do not mourn - I promise this is actually really great news for us all and we're going to have so much more fun on AO3!
- Banana007 / TCOOKIES777
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