#personal post archive

[arcenciel-par-une-larme]

Trying to argue with Zutarians is like trying to debate eschatology with a customer service bot.

[iamanartichoke]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but as a creator -

I am fine with "the audience" -

downloading my fics

printing my fics

copy/pasting or screenshotting my fics

sharing your saved copy of my fics with anyone else who might want them in the unlikely but never impossible case that my fics are no longer available on ao3

making a book of my fic(s) and running your fingers across the pages while lovingly whispering my precioussss

doing these things with anything I create for fandom, such as meta, headcanons, au nonsense like 'texts from the brodinsons,' etc

I am not fine with "the audience"

doing any of the above with the purpose/intent of plagiarizing my work or passing it off as their own in any capacity

feeding my work into ai for any reason whatsoever

Save the fandom things. Preserve the fandom things. Respect the fandom things.

Enjoy the fandom things.

[my-heart-of-heart]

So normal about Jon being like I don’t remember what you looked like but the man who let you die is going to suffer for what he did to you. If only Sasha coulda seen that.

So normal about Jon being like you died hating me and wanting me dead but I’m still gonna make sure this man knows I’m ending him in your name. Sure wish Tim coulda seen that.

So normal about the fact that everyone believed Jon was losing his humanity but no one got to see the ways his love and compassion for the people he lost or who hurt him drove him to that final moment.

So normal about the fact that even after everything Jonah’s done to Jon, the only person he never thinks to get justice for is himself.

[syrren]

“The artist becomes the canvas!” - TMAGP 002: Making Adjustments

[cirrus-grey]

I'm loving all the IT people going "No, no, Colin's behavior is perfectly normal."

It's like the opposite of all the archivists yelling at Jon

[appalachianapologies]

There are many new friends on the archive, and many are young and have only known social media, which is why I wanted to say something!

Ao3 does not have an algorithm! It isn't a social media site, it's an archive.

Posting fics on Tumblr isn't the same as posting fics on Ao3

Ao3 is like a giant virtual bookshelf, and everyone is able to add their own stories to the bookshelf, all stored with different tags and different fandoms. Works are automatically sorted by newest to oldest, but filters, looking at bookmarks, and using the search function can change that.

Certain works are not pushed to the top like social media posts. More kudos and reads don't push a single work to more viewers by some algorithm. Unless otherwise filtered, works will be at the top of the page based on how recent it was posted.

Smaller fandoms get less views, less kudos, less bookmarks, and larger fandoms get more simply because of the number of people inside the fandom.

Ao3 is a giant virtual bookshelf- there is no algorithm, and there is no man behind the shelf pushing certain books forward.

Happy reading, and if you'd like to have more people notice a fic, why not share it with them! Send a dm to a fandom friend and it might turn into one of their favorite fics!

[clown-owo]

I think that if Miles Edgeworth were to ever have a Tumblr blog it would be entirely Steel Samurai based with a carefully organized tagging system. He posts lengthy formally worded analysis about Steel Samurai and nothing else. He doesn't check his notes. He does check his asks, because they're kind of like emails. He has anon asks and dms turned off. Someone sends an ask about his interests outside of Steel Samurai and he immediately blocks them. He doesn't have pronouns or a name to be called by in his bio. The only hint about Edgeworth's personal life is that when he refers to the death of Jack Hammer or the conviction of Matt Engarde he only refers to Phoenix as "that man".

Maya definitely has a tumblr and it has a canon Pink Princess url. She actually hoarded a bunch of Pink Princess urls long before the character was officially announced because she knew she needed to have them. Her tumblr header is "the real pink princess ask sal manella". Her pinned post has these

[ID: Two blinkie banners. The first has a lesbian flag background and says "Pink Princess is canonically gay." The second is light pink and says "PinkSteel shippers dni". End ID] (thank you @princess-of-purple-prose)

Maya follows him and sends Edgeworth asks periodically. He thinks she's a wonderful conversationalist. He has no idea of her identity. Maya is fully aware he's Edgeworth.

[fleursdesmorts]

every year people get angry when ao3 requests donations but honestly in a world where almost all spaces online are slowly being eaten by corporations which censor the content on those sites, having a fan-run fan-sponsored place where people can create gay art without fear is great

[endlesslytired]

[silence-burns]

PSA FOR ALL AO3 USERS:

Yes, comments like these are made by the bots. Yes, it is a plague. No, it's not worth replying to them, although it'll feel satisfying.

Please flag them as spam. Let the AO3 mods do what they have to.

Also, AO3 allows the writers to change the settings of their works, so that only people with accounts will be able to comment and/or view the fic. Use it as you wish. Yes, you can mass-change this setting in all (or the chosen) of your fics easily.

[arcenciel-par-une-larme]

I totally love how some people are ever so eager to pull up their past abuse as a shield from criticism in order to mock, jeer, and harass (incl. even death threats) others in the present, but especially so because it is supposedly our sacred duty to check their detailed bio before daring to contradict them, but who cares about how anybody else has been abused and how much! Apparently, nobody else deserves to be a victim but they!

Because f**k everyone else's recovery, amirite?

[ghosty-bat-enthusiast]

Jarchivist s3 design lol.

I’ve actually seen a lot of ppl drawing s3 Jon recently but oh well, I never claimed to be original. I really want to draw my takes on the whole archive crew + Georgie but my brain has been fixated on this guy for like a year now and it stops me from drawing literally anything else lmao (rip to my ocs, I miss them dearly).

[ID: A page of Magnus Archives fanart of Jon Sims, titled "Jarchivist S3" and appended with a doodle of a cat plus the caption "I headcanon him as being super normal about cats." Jon is a thin brown man with chin-length hair.

•The left shows a full-body of Jon, shown wearing a What the Ghost hoodie with a long red skirt and brown loafers labeled as "boring ppl shoes." The hoodie has an arrow pointing out the full design of the WTG hoodie, which features a cat ghost and is captioned "epic logo." Jon has bandages around his neck and right hand, and he's holding a tape recorder with a suspicious expression.

•The right shows a more cartoony full-body of him wearing a bright pink hoodie with purple cats along the bottom. His eyes are comically big and round, and he's labeled "About to meet unspeakable horrors" and "The narrative's favorite guy."

•The bottom left shows Jon from the chest-up, wearing a jack-o-lantern long-sleeved shirt and looking pensive as the Admiral sits on his arm. End ID]

[the-magpie-archives]

People will really say "Jonathan Sims is a good guy!" or "Jonathan Sims is a bad person!" as if a prominent message of his character arc wasn't that no matter who you are, what you do, or how you behave your actions can cause harm or good without intention, and baselessly assigning morals to people who aren't deliberately causing harm is pointless because our view of them is more about how they affect us than how they actually are.

For better or worse, everyone is just a person. We're all both not at fault and entirely to blame.

[birt-art]

"Statement of Gerard Keay, deceased" 📼💀

[abscondminded]

Hello to spy vs spy fandom

(edit: put the higher quality pics of the comic under the cut)

[aroaceleovaldez]

reminder/tip, particularly for newer pjo fans: do not crosstag!

for those who don't know, crosstagging is tagging irrelevant tags on a post, usually popular tags to try and get more views on the post.

Tumblr doesn't work the same way instagram or tiktok or twitter does. Crosstagging is considered spam, and your blog will be flagged if you do this.

particularly in pjo fandom, crosstagging includes tagging characters that don't actually appear in the post, tagging books or series unrelated to the post (like tagging "TSATS" on a post not specifically about TSATS, or tagging HoO on a post about first series specifically, etc.), tagging "pjo fanfic" or "pjo headcanon" or similar on a post that, obviously, isn't that, and/or tagging irrelevant ships. More recently, this also includes tagging the show (PJO TV, etc) on posts that are completely irrelevant to the show.

This mostly only applies for original posts - Tags you put on reblogs only apply to your own blog's organizational system, and has no bearing on the original post itself. But it's really annoying to the original poster if you spam tags, because it will appear in their notifs. It's pointless to spam tags in reblogs for these reasons regardless, so it's best not to.

just remember: crosstagging is not allowed on tumblr, doesn't work that way here anyways, and is just generally rude. so don't do it.