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Love's Violent Delights by Dexterous_Sinistrous

Cupid with the Flaming Arrow (1530) by Hans Baldung

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Made of Gold by Dexterous_Sinistrous

Geometric maze-like patterns in brown, blue, green, and yellow on black ground (late 19th century) by Anonymous

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The Wrong Hale by Dexterous_Sinistrous

Still Life with Geraniums, Dahlias, Glacé Gloves and Jewels by Anonymous

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Worth the Wait by Dexterous_Sinistrous

New Boy in School pl7 (1963) by Joan Balfour Payne

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Wild Things by Miss_Lv

Plate 6; Bertoldo hidden in a furnace (1705–1715) by Giuseppe Maria Crespi

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As someone who has had to deal with being accused of using AI, I appreciate your point of view on the subject. If AO3 is supposed to be for everyone, then it can't become a venue for AI witch hunts. Some people are just ass at writing! We don't need chatGPT to write badly; we can do a shit job at word choice and punctuation all on our own. And that's beautiful.

yeah the thing that several people are pretty obstinately refusing to engage with on that post is that the best way to filter AI generated fic out of their feeds is to have AI generated fic clearly labeled as such, which does require it to be permissible on the site. otherwise it's a guessing game between who used AI and whose writing style any given AO3 user finds suspect, and that's a losing game for everyone.

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things I wish I’d known when I started writing fic on ao3

use & for friendships, colleagues, familial relationships and use / for romantic or sexual relationships (or encounters)

not everyone reads fic. Lots of people use screen readers, and screen readers can’t see what’s on images. use descriptive text to help them out.

lots of people download fic to read on other devices, not all downloads capture images too.

there’s a big difference between No Archive Warnings Apply (NAWA) and Author Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings (CNTW). NAWA means that there’s nothing in the fic that needs to be warned for using the official Archive Warning system. CNTW means there might be something that requires a warning and the author is either avoiding giving out spoilers or they are unsure how to interpret their plot point with respect to the official Warnings. (in both cases, additional tags are where it’s at - you can explain yourself there) 

the reason why the number of bookmarks in the fic is different from the number of bookmarks on your stats page is because your stats page number includes bookmarks that are hidden

there’s a preference setting where you can receive emails with your own comments/replies.

there’s a site skin that hides stats so you don’t have to see them

writing in rich text format makes my life easier

knowing html allows me to do fun things in the comments section like comment/reply with reaction gifs

knowing html also allows me to do interesting formatting in my fics that I can’t do with rich text alone

those little blue bubbles with the question marks in them will answer my questions a lot of the time - and also teach me something new

the FAQ is linked under the word About in the header

if you write your fic in the draft window, you might end up losing it so make sure you copy the text before you hit Post, just in case

they aren’t kidding when they say drafts are deleted after 30 days

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a feel like the new generation of fanfic readers NEED to understand that clicking on a fic (interaction) does nothing. ao3 has no algorithm. your private discord discussions of fic do not reach the authors. if you do not actively engage with writers they will stop posting. this isn’t social media this is community.

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Thrall by Miss_Lv

Winged creature with rooster’s head embracing a ball (after 1900) by Hans Thoma

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Taken by Miss_Lv

Nymph Abducted by a Faun (1861) by Alexandre Cabanel

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Sharing Is Caring by Miss_Lv

Eve (1930) by Georges Valmier

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Primogeniture by Miss_Lv

Birth of the Wolves (1913) by Franz Marc

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Perversion by Miss_Lv

Apples (1869) by Robert Spear Dunning

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Offering by Miss_Lv

Stag Resting, Colorado Springs by Richard La Barre Goodwin

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there is a bunch of reasons why I would highly recommend getting a Ao3 account ; truly the main one being having access to all of the archive as oppose to only some of it - but in case that is not convincing enough maybe look at this costume skin

memorizingthedigitsofpi made 🤩

it works for both mobile and desktop. i first applied to my desktop and when i went to mobile and it was not showing so what i did was re do step number 9 on my phone.

"9. On the site skin page, tap on the button labelled Use. You will now have this skin every time you're logged in on any device."

i tap [stop using] and then after the page loaded i tap [use] and voila! it was showing on my phone too.

this has elevated my Ao3 experience so much ✨

i still read on my prefer reading app because the dark OLED background and big ass lettering still feels kinder to my eyes but using the websites is extra fun now.

How I Manage my personal AO3 e-library Archive

Download everything I want/hope to read in EPUB format. I try to anyways... if I notice I got too many tabs open on my browser, time to download If multi-chapter remember first to press 'Entire Work' and then 'Download'

2. I use Book Story (Android App) to manage the mess that is my downloads folder - this app is a great book database manager AND scroll reader with Big letters as well - The app has this fantastic feature that allows me put the books into 'Reading' 'Already Read' 'Planing' 'Dropped' categories; I move the books around and it helps me keep a visual tab on them - , plus if you like scroll reading this one is fantastic at that as well.

Periodically I update the BACKUP of the folder(s) were the copies of books live. KEEP A BACKUP OF YOUR BACKUP , if you mess around and don't got no backup is really painful and irreversible.

On my computer I then make a copy of my messy ass downloads folder from my phone into my computer. While looking at the visual information the app provides me I delete books that I 'Dropped' and I move 'Already Read' books into my computer E-Library Data Base (I use Calibre) that's my main book hub where I will quickly notice what books need covers and I take my time working to finding an image I like for the book , so I can recognize them books by just looking at the covers I am terrible at remembering book titles

If you are curious this is what Calibre looks like - this is just AO3

3. To read EPUB books I use Libera FD Is frankly the best reader I have tried because I prefer page turning. If you like scroll reading Book Story is much better option for scroll reading.

Libera FD can customize pretty much EVERYTHING and is very very feature rich ( it can be overwhelming) HUMONGOUS FONT SIZE , you can download any font you want to use, replace words if I want to , it has OLED dark mode for reading at 3 am, you can configure it so it reads to you (using TTS) , several reading modes including auto scroll and speed reading mode, and so much more; the dev(s) are still updating and adding functions to it is kind of amazing I am probably not using it to its full potential You can sort books by 'Genre' which is how the app recognize the tags from the website.

Here some visuals of Libera FD (I wrote in the ALT of pics, click on it)

Book Story is a neat app , less overwhelming and the UI is a lot more intuitive. It looks like this for me , you can configure the essentials to your preference. Is a fairly new app be patient with it (sometimes just give two minutes to cook) , it is still being updated. The dev is very active if you got suggestion or present bugs.

4. How to provide enrichment to glorious magnificent authors , that share their passion with us for free. When you open any ao3 .epub on either of these apps the links are underlined. I tap on the link it leads back to the original posted website page at the beginning of every book you get from A03.

Tap the link, keep it open in your browser and star reading.

Open a note taking app.

I usually take notes about my silly musings as I read, copy quotes and whatever else I want to leave in the comment section of the chapter I am on. Cut and paste and that's it. I load the next chapter in the website and then continue reading the next chapter on the reading app (I comment on all the chapters if I have something to comment, sometime I don't have anything to say so I don't . Figure it makes authors happy and i find it very fun. Sometimes they answer back it feels nice) remember to leave kudos and comments specially if you are rereading.

I use Quillpad (android app) the most important feature of any note taking app you choose, in this case in particular, is that it saves your notes automatically (I used some apps that didn't it was devastating losing all my notes like that. I though that as long as I didn't close the app it was fine turns out not - some you have to manually save - and sometimes it would timeout and gone , all my notes gone. With Quillpad I haven't lost notes)

I haven't taken the time to figure out if Librera has a feature for annotation that could be useful for commentary note taking

I think that's all I can think of sharing on this topic. I am open to questions and adding things to this post with visual aid and whatever I can do to help , do let me know.

Keeping a copy of books safe and easy to find KEEP BACKUPS OF YOUR BACKUPS

-Updated Nov. 11 , 2024.

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Sötnos by Miss_Lv

Scholar of Natural Sciences (1875-1880) by Carl Spitzweg

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Of Hounds and Horses by Miss_Lv

The Wild Horse, or Frightened Horse Leaving the Water (1828) by Eugène Delacroix