Green Fairies (Closed until rewritten)

by llLittle Sll

Dumbledore needs help, both for what you think, but also for something else. Enter Makarov, an old friend of Dumbledore, who sends some of his children, and some other mages, to help him with said problems. Will everything go as it is excepted to? And what will happen when they have to go back? Will some of them even want to? Rated T, but rating might go up. Don't like, don't read!

9. AN: Big problem For you guys and me

This is a very sombre update.

As many of you have heard of, there is a 'hate' group on here on FFNet at the moment, who are called 'Critics United'.

I have lately noticed a lot of the very popular authors on this site talking about it, with people moving over to other platforms as a way to escape this situation. A reason for this (for what I have heard) is because of the group also hacking profiles.

I don't care about haters. I don't care when people say negative stuff about my stories, because I always look at the positives. But a thing that absolutely terrifies me, is the possibility of getting hacked.

My plan for November was to do Nanowrimo, but with my current mental state, I don't think that will be possible. It will stress me out too much, and with this new situation popping up, I won't be able to relax my mind.

Therefore, I am now in the biggest dilemma ever.

Last New Year's, I got an AO3 account, also known as Archive of our Own. I started reading some stories there, since some stories I followed, couldn't show certain content because of the rating system on this site. It was never my intention to write anything on AO3 since I mainly used this site and Quotev. And as some of you know, I am also using WattPad now.

But because of the arising situation, I am debating on moving everything on here to AO3, and then in a way swap this site with that site. And just the thought of that is devastating to me since I was first introduced to fanfiction on this specific website in 2012. But how can I safely write on this site, knowing that should one in that group take an interest in me, I could get harassed, bullied, threatened and in the end hacked? And the threat part isn't written just to be dramatic. Some of the people who have permanently moved to AO3 have told how they were given death threats from this group.

The point I am trying to get to is that in November, instead of doing Nanowrimo, I might move everything from here to AO3. I haven't decided if I should let everything on here stay. I haven't decided if I should still upload here. And here is why I haven't decided on that yet:

1. While I would hate deleting everything, for the people who don't use the other websites, it is very bothersome to have to update on four different sites, where they each have their own A/N's and polls and stuff. But if I delete them, I am letting the group win. I will be doing what they want me to do, and I hate knowing that.

2. As said before, uploading the same thing on four sites is bothersome. And with everything going on here, I don't know if it is even worth it.

The bottom line of all of this is that it is no longer 'safe' to use this website. At least not like it used to be.

And to the managers of FFNet. Get involved. By not doing anything, or doing things way to slow, you will be losing users to more secure sites like AO3. It is already happening and the end result will be, that this site becomes known for its lacking of security. Because this site is brilliant and easy to use. But even if the site is user-friendly, no one wants to use something, that while it looks good, it is broken on the inside. So get involved and fix this problem before it is too late to fix.

~Little S