#AO3

spockvarietyhour mylittleredgirl
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Ao3 will be affected by Imgur link rot

Since imgur is about to delete a bunch of content and art on ao3 is often actually hosted on imgur, now would be a good time to save a copy of your favourite fan art. You can also save ao3 pages to the wayback machine. If it's adult content, you've got to add ?view=adult=true to the end of the url and delete #workskin, otherwise it just saves the proceed to adult content page.

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spockvarietyhour airyairyaucontraire
Anonymous asked:

Your parents have AO3 accounts?????

fanficmemes answered:

I mean probably a lot of them do!!! I simply do Not want to know about their accounts and I don’t want them to know about mine either snsnsnsmmsma

ingenium-genius

my english teacher and i regularly discuss SPN and Harry Potter fanfic. she jokes about it in class and sometimes complains that the school firewall blocks fic sites. she has an account out there and i’m only reassured that my account does have my actual name on it but there is every possibility that she has in fact read one of my shitty fics

naryrising

I don't know how to tell you that many of the people who joined AO3 when it started up 13 years ago were, at that time, already grown-ass adults. If someone was 35 when they started their account 13 years ago, they're now 48. They could easily have kids in their teens or twenties. (I do, for instance. I had a toddler when I joined AO3 in 2009, and now I have a kid almost finishing high school, and am still on AO3.) And 35 is a relatively middle-of-the-road age - some people starting their accounts were definitely older. People don't stop having interests just because they're not teenagers anymore, and adults don't have to move out of spaces they helped to build.

olderthannetfic

Seriously. Lots of the early crowd are well into their 50s or beyond.

my-random-fandoms

I'm a 44 year old woman who's had an ao3 account since 2012

My fifteen year old has had one since last year. I know his user name but I've never read any of his fics. He doesn't know I know. I like to give him that little bit of privacy.

I really really hope he doesn't know my user name. And if he does I hope he's leaving mom's fic alone 😳

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spockvarietyhour thesmilingfish
Comment blocking is coming
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
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We’re pleased to announce that, in the coming days, we’ll be rolling out the first part of our blocking and muting features: the ability to block specific logged-in users from commenting on your works and replying to your comments.

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spockvarietyhour thesmilingfish
temporary-dysphoria

a non-selective plan for the resurgence of fic commissions

majorenglishesquire

Too many children in the comments like ‘I think authors should be able to share ko-fi links :) it’s just nice’ and ‘OP is just a cop.’ Homie, OP is trying to keep AO3 fully functional without interruption. I will report your ass, too, because I value fic artists and our freedom of expression and my audience and our shared history far more than I value the few bux you wanna make on a commission.

It is not hard to link to your Tumblr or Twitter with a vague message like, “If you’re looking for my other works or other ways of supporting me, go here: link.” I have had people buy me coffees after enjoying my fic and asking where to support me. I threw up a link to my Tumblr and people cared enough to follow it. They were fully understanding when I explained in the comments that they could not commission me and I could not link them directly to any donation platform, but they could go to xyz link to read more. And they did! Nobody has to put AO3 directly on the firing line.

Go ahead and commission independently. Just do it anywhere else except on AO3. And then don’t come crying to the community when you, personally, get a C&D from a massive corporation.

AO3 is our bullet shield. Tumblr will pull your shit down. Wattpad won’t fucking protect you. LJ and FF.net already sold our asses for one (1) corn chip. AO3 is trying to protect us, you goddamn lemmings.

If you cannot follow the rules that protect fanspaces, you do not belong in our fanspaces.

The only people who misunderstand this are doing so intentionally and maliciously. Do yourself a favor and block the infants who think this isn’t a big deal.

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spockvarietyhour thesmilingfish
wondersmith-and-sons

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full thread, presented without comment: https://twitter.com/muge_niu/status/1233762832556154880?s=21

As of today, 29 February 2020, AO3 has been blocked by Chinese censors - allegedly (but not confirmed) because the website was reported for RPF of an actor that fans of said actor found it distasteful and harmful. This was one of the last pockets of Chinese internet communities that was truly connected to the social platform of the rest of the world.

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“THREAD: Sad day for Chinese internet users: Ao3, archive of our own, was reportedly blocked on Feb 29, 2020. I can’t begin to describe its
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