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Author: Hiii Im going to be testing if the ao3 writers curse is real, and what better way to do than using the scientific method. I’m working on an actual fic right now but it’s taking way too long and I’ve been itching to test out if this superstition is real. Plus I don’t really have the time for writing a whole entire fic and uploading it consistently. Anyways because I’m using the scientific method I need to come up with a hypothesis, independent and dependent variable outline my mistakes and record my data. I’ve written lab reports before so hopefully this’ll be easy.
Hypothesis:
The ao3 writers curse is an elaborate psychological effect and has no real substance to it.
Elobaration: I think that the ao3 writers curse started as a joke because of writers coincidentally having horrible experiences happening to them, is now causing people to believe there is truth to it. I belive that it is actually just a psychological effect. I’m not a psychology student so I’m no sure what effect it would fall under but my money is on the Mandela effect if I’m wrong please don’t quote me on that I am broke.
Now I have to define the curse. Any personal problems that result from my own stupidity (like failing my mock exams) will not be categorized as the result of the curse. What I have gathered is that the curse is mostly insane stuff that happened to the author. The curse is usually a result of the actions of others and effects how consistently the author updates a fic. Say for example the author randomly got hit by a car and couldn’t upload for a while I would call that an example of the ao3 curse.
My independent variable would be me updating this “fic” consistently, and trying my best to finish my actual first fic.
My dependent variable would be any sudden bad things that happen to me after uploading causing me to be unable to upload consistently.
Now there are many flaws that can happen that could mess up my experiment it’s important I record any possible flaws so that should include:
- not updating consistently
- not writing quality work
- Previous problems that could snowball into bigger ones
The only reason I’m not including previous problems is because there is no way for me to prove that they are because of me writing on ao3. And it’ll be hard to prove that any new problem that does arise is because of ao3 but I’m willing to accept the challenge.
let me outline negative events that have happened or are happening in my life and you guys can decide what I write about:
- major character death
- racism
- Moving away
- Non existent love life
- Shitty teachers/ bad grades
- Shitty parent
- Money problems
- Extended family problems
For me to continue conducting this experiment I need to write a fic but I am a bit too inpatient for that. So the next best thing would be updating this, essentially I’ll be treating this fic as my diary.
Also while in the middle of writing this a middle aged balding, piss smelling, degenerate man tried following me home. I don’t think I’ll classify this as part of the curse but instead a warning.