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Something Remarkable Happened…
Disney classics, AO3, and the beginning of my fanfiction era…
I recently got invited to Archive of Our Own (AO3). It’s interesting how it happened on the same day I started taking an interest in the life and works of the monumental writing icon, Virginia Woolf. I sent the email to them four days ago, and finally got a positive reply. I am over-the-moon-happy!
Don’t get me wrong, but I'm never the type who will put something utterly oblivious or fake and try to be someone I'm not. While I’m aware that Medium is a completely different writing platform, AO3 allows me to revisit things like childhood dreams.
While someone might ask why reading about Virginia Woolf would get someone interested in AO3, it's just that I took a liking to her. While I never actually met the iconic writer of yesteryears, with contemporaries such as James Joyce and Katherine Mansfield, she was just different.
To tell the truth, The Beauty and the Beast story is an ageless classic that has been published around the world in the form of innumerable children's book titles. I loved Belle, Lumiere, Cogsworth, and all the brilliant Disney characters prancing about on the screen when I was a teenager.
While I initially wanted to write about Virginia Woolf on the Archive of Our Own…
