#Archive of Our Own

[abbielauren2024]

Reblog if you’re grateful for your commenters <3

[bebx]

[ao3org]

We've temporarily blocked embedded images from appearing in AO3 comments, in order to address issues with bots leaving spam comments containing images.

Posted: 23:05 UTC 28 April, 2025

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

fanfic writing culture isn’t “oh dang! I wanted to write about this prompt with this character but someone else already wrote it, so now I can’t”.

fanfic writing culture is always “two cakes is better than one. the more the merrier. there can ever be enough fics of this character with this prompt!”

[hotpinkrathian]

AO3 Was scraped for generative AI

Perhaps this is already common knowledge on this app, but I have yet to see anything about it in my feed. If you are unaware, an AI tech company called HuggingFace recently had a user by the name of nyuuzyou scrape our beloved AO3.

This scrape included over 63 MILLION fanfics written by the hard working, passionate, and incredible people of every fandom. The scrape was conducted with the intent of using the data to generate AI fanfiction and fiction. If you have a fanfic on AO3 that has an ID between 1-63 200 000, and is publicly accessible (not restricted to registered users), then your work was scraped and used in the process.

AO3 admins are currently searching for solutions and some kind of retributions. Until then, make sure to limit your works to registered users and show the real writers that you value their time and contribution to fandom.

More about it here

[jenning-fcb]

time for the game.... is it my internet or is ao3 down??

[zirconpetals]

How to lock your fanfiction on ao3 in bulk

First go to your Profile

Scroll down until you see the "Edit my works" button

After clicking it you'll end up in the "Edit Multiple Works" section

Choose the works you want to lock. You can pick all of them or just the specific ones. Then click the "Edit" button.

Scroll down until the "Privacy" section. "Visibility" would have "Only show to registered users" option. This is what you need to choose to lock the fics.

You can change other stuff if you want, like maybe add comment moderation.

Click "Update All Works" to save.

There you go!

[flamboyantly-understated]

maybe this is just me idk

[themurdochmemesteries]

"i'm tired of seeing-" use your filters.

"but there was an icky ship-!" use your filters.

"i don't like that tag-" use your filters.

don't like what you're seeing? use. your. filters.

[coppernine9]

My beloved...

the holy grail types of fanfic

[bebx]

[ao3org]

We are aware of an issue that is resulting in 500 errors when attempting to create an AO3 account. We're aware of the cause and are working to fix it as we speak. More updates soon! Refer to our status page for more information. Posted: 22:45 UTC 30 April, 2025

[animentality]

[hopefulwonderlandrunaway]

So true.

One massive, legitimate way to improve as a writer or artist or in any creative endeavor really, is to become absolutely obsessed with something and to allow yourself to be weird about it. Genuinely mean this btw.

[just-french-me-up]

'ao3 needs a like and dislike button'

what you need, my algorithm-rotten minded friend, is a grip