Linking to your tumblr is fine on AO3 and plenty of people do it; it’s just straight up advertising that’s a violation of their TOS.

ye I got alerted to this… so I changed up the thing into ‘visit me on my tumblr page’ and just linked to the gumroad section of my tumblr page.

but the support mail I sent them with ‘hey the link doesn’t work and I used >this< template, whaddup’ came back with basically ‘we’re sorry your linking doesn’t work, why don’t you use >this< template’ and I looked at the camera like I’m in the office.

I’m frankly too annoyed to follow it up with another mail. I’ll just have to accept that I basically lost a few hours of my life with that shit and just not worry about it anymore lol