#archive of our own

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[frownyalfred]

ao3 author’s notes I find in the wild part ??/???

[questions-about-blorbos]

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[navysealt4t]

im curious bc i've seen lots of varying opinions on this

feel free to explain why in the tags! also, reblogs increase the reach of the poll and make it so the post doesn't die lol so reblogging if u vote would be nice :)

[jasontoddiefor]

Are you aware these AO3 features exist and do you use them?

Inbox: Inbox where you get all your comments/replies to your comments

Bookmarks (Public): Bookmarking fanfic publically so that people can browse my profile and see what I read

Bookmarks (Private): Private list of Bookmarks

Bookmark (Rec): Putting Rec on a Bookmark of a fanfiction you especially enjoy

History: Looking at your reading history

Mark for Later: Putting fanfics on your Mark for Later list

Subscription (fanfic): Subscribing to a fanfiction so you get updates about new chapters

Subscription (author): Subscribing to an author so you get updates about every new fanfic/update

Site Skin: Using Site Skins to change how AO3 looks

Put in the tags

which ones do you use and why

which ones you don't use and why

which ones you just straight up didn't know existed until reading about them here

reblog for wider audience

[animentality]

hot take.

but a fanfic writer who writes sloppy Goku x Vegeta smut on archive of our own is still doing more for the fandom and for society than any fucking incel ass dude bro who spends all their time arguing with other dude bros about fucking power scaling.

it's hilarious to me, this idea that "fangirls" ruin a fandom.

fangirls make fandoms, you stupid fucks. they make communities and connections and yeah they can be toxic but it's still nowhere near the level of circle jerk that cishet fanboys get to.

all cishet mega fanboys know how to do is glaze characters they've attached themselves to, and not in the way fangirls do, where they actually try and understand a character, no matter how misguided, but in the way where this MC is literally perfect and impossible to beat and amazing (I'm projecting onto him and I have the emotional depth of a puddle in Arizona at the height of summer, so he must have no depth either).

that's my take.

[purpleandgreen13]

STARDEW VALLEY INKTOBER 2024

Good lord, is it that time of year again? :D Since 2021, Grapefruit Sky SDV server has been creating an Inktober list. Beginnng with the wonderful @buttonso's list back in 2021 and designed by @hannahstumble the event has become a regular in our calendar. This year, we've teamed up with Stardew Valley Fanfic Writers for our prompts along with a couple of other servers.

The great thing about this carefully curated (by me!) list is that it is absolutely 1.6 friendly, but also, SPOILER FREE BABY! So if you haven't played 1.6 yet, this list is perfectly safe to use! :) Please feel free to share far and wide, there is also a dedicated Collection page on AO3 if you want to add your fic there :) AO3 Collection (be patient with me, I've never done this before, but if you need help signing up let me know here :) ) Don't forget, Inktober is not just for writers, it's for everyone! You can do anything you want and you don't have to do it all! Okay, enough of me, here's the list, I'll post it a couple more times until Inktober starts, but have fun! And feel free to share - everywhere! <3

[ao3-shenanigans]

Please help dear ao3 god what shall we do in our time of need in which our great and glorious site is henceforth down in the dumps?? Whatever shall we read??

Haha we worship a sometimes fickle mistress! I’d recommend in storing up in times of plenty before the drought. Try opening fics in their entirety compared to chapter-by-chapter or download some favorites! (Or continue writing that ao3xreader wartime romance you all seem to have open)

[curiositysavesthecat]

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[grimalkinmessor]

I am once again asking you

to pLEASE

JUST

ORPHAN

YOUR FICS

😭😭😭

[kacchanot-fucking-deal-with-this]

I love it when Bakugou bristles when anyone other than Deku calls him Kacchan and Deku feels a pang of jealousy and sadness that someone else gets to say it and mistakenly thinks the name is what upset Kacchan and not the person saying it

[frownyalfred]

“This fic would be better if—” babe this isn’t your high school English class and my fic isn’t assigned reading. it’s something a stranger wrote on the internet without an explicit request for constructive criticism or suggestions for improvement. you are not grading my smut fic on a rubric (I hope).

if you cannot consume writing without needing to criticize it, that’s a you problem. stop leaving me these kinds of comments — and if you DO: for god’s sake, please make sure you’re actually objectively correct about the criticism you’re leaving.

[ellesthots]

logging on to tumblr/ao3 to read more pristine works of art that belong in the louvre

[comfybirdie]

Looking for a fic, pls help

So I'm looking for a fic that I can't find for the life of me, no matter what tags I try. I'd greatly appreciate it if someone could help me find it. It was on AO3.

The story was that Tim had a mental breakdown so Bruce takes him away from everything and gets him doctors to help. Tim doesn't care for the doctors, he only refers to them as A, B and C. He also basically hallucinates through the entire fic. It's just Bruce, Tim and the doctors living in a house Bruce rents out for Tim's recovery, none of the other batfam members are there.

I've been looking for it for a while now, because I forgot to bookmark it 😭

[kraken17]

Chapter 6! Things get a bit angsty and then... interesting 👀

Mosaic art from @invertcolor 's fanart from Kooky Spooky!