#{ maybe i should archive? }

[thebarrows]

put them in a room together and no one will come out alive (●'◡'●)

[swordsmans]

today on ao3 tips, here's a quick follow up to this post about the ao3 "mark for later"/TBR/save for later function! ive seen some stuff going around lately lamenting that there's no easy way to filter out "character x reader" or "character x OC" fics from search results, but there absolutely is!

very quick and simple fix, just add "-reader" and/or "-original*" to the "search within results" bar (not "other tags to exclude", which might be where the confusion is coming from). it looks like this:

here is what it looks like with both filtered out:

the "*" after original is an indicator for the filters to catch the "original female--", "original male--", and "original character" tags, which is why is should be included! as a caveat, this also removes anything that has the word "original" in the summary or tags, so do be aware of that. (meaning this will also grab anything that has original characters tagged even if they AREN'T in a pairing, plus anything that uses the word "original" in the normal sense)

also, || designates "OR" for the filter search, so it is optional (and can be replaced with just a simple space) but i like to include it to be extra sure. i have checked and both results work.

anyway, happy reading, everyone!

[justenjsdoodles]

Jon and Martin phone charms anyone?

[erdariel]

Maybe it's just me, but one reason I love getting comments on Ao3 that point out details of the fic that the commenter liked, is that for a moment it lets me see the fic through their eyes

Like, I have a pretty big self-criticism problem, like usually within 24 hours of posting a thing, be it a drawing or a fic or whatever, I start finding more flaws than good sides in it and feeling that actually it's a pile of shit, utterly pointless and bad and thoroughly unlikable. I know this is my issue, and something I need to work on, btw, but I just. struggle ever seeing the good sides of my own work. Even work that was an idea I truly deeply liked and wanted to see done! Even things I enjoyed working on!

But when someone leaves a comment that's like "oooh I like how [x] and I love [y] detail!!" it kind of. Let's me for a moment see past my own issues. It lets me look at the work, and the details pointed out, and go "you know what? yeah, that thing there is very good". Sometimes, on a good day, it might even give me enough time to actually re-read my own fic and enjoy it

So, readers: if you read a fic, and there's a detail you like - no matter how big or small, whether a minute detail of the description of someone's clothing, or something about the way the story is structured, or literally anything! - let the author know! If there's any detail that stood out to you in a way you liked, and you feel at all inclined to leave a comment, then please, let the author know the detail that caught your eye! It can brighten up their day so, so much!

[musicalcompanions]

Goodnight to nobody

[melandrops]

sorry i'm going to have to call you back i just remembered jon "i refuse to become another goddamn mystery" sims' status is currently unknown presumed dead

[theotherpacman]

can I get a uhhhhhh jon goes back in time after the tma finale, still has all his avatar powers, kills jonah, and this ends up supernaturally forcing him to be the head of the institute?

everyone is baffled. jon sims, that asshole from research, gets promoted to head of the archival department out of nowhere even though he is NOT qualified and then, just a few short months later, gets promoted to head of the INSTITUTE??? and elias goes MISSING???? they're not saying jon threatened/murdered elias and took his job but they are,,, all sort of thinking it

tim is furious. sasha is concerned about the whole situation. martin is worried about jon.

jon meanwhile has to figure out how to keep the institute running (so his employees, bound to the watcher, don't fucking die) when the place is 95% funded by avatars who were in elias's pocket and see jon as either a threat or unworthy of their time

[thebendsbyradiohead]

wait. i just got hit by a horrific realization

what if claudia's death was sanitized by armand for louis' benefit & it actually happened how it did in the books & emilia's decapitation in the first episode is supposed to be a parallel to it since louis specifically says that back then he walked away without helping leaving humans to sort out their issues & claudia's death is supposed to be his ultimate severance from his humanity

[statementlives]

thinking about secrets. about sarcasm. about gertrude "there's a network of secret tunnels under the archive that contain my deepest secrets" robinson and alice "i was born here and i'll die here and the universe communicates through me" dyer.

[feather-bone]

Have you made any art of orcas? I can't seem to find any with Tumblr's broken tag search, so I figured I'd ask in case you haven't. Thank you, and I love all your art! It always puts a smile on my face when I see it. c: ❤️

I have! I was a couple years ago, I also can't find the original post. Broken website lol ;w; So here's a re-upload of The Whale because I am quite fond of this guy !!

[ID: a digital illustration of an orca facing to the right on a simple ocean background. Sunlight is filtering in from above, and there are small fish surrounding it. End.]

[transrevolutions]

all four of the original archives gang have/develop objectively horrible self-preservation skills. jon and martin's relationship works because their self-destructive tendencies actually sort of cancel each other out. tim and sasha, on the other hand, do NOT cancel each other out and they actually just end up enabling each other. and post.

[arrimorr]

Finished relistening to S2 of Archive 81 and the concept of podcast creators giving their main characters their own names is actually so fascinating to me. I mean, in what headspace do you need to be to create a guy who shares your name and voice, and then have him suffer being cut open and merged with a tape recorder. Then you proceed and give this guy who shares your name and voice an mpreg arc. This guy has a shared child with a living eldritch museum that cannot be now. I just don't think everyone would do something like that you know???

[hunieday]

yuki stop interrupting the photoshoot 💢

[trans-jon-rights]

Hey I know the common representation of monster-y post apocalypse Jon is him having lots of extra eyes but. Consider.

After the sky splits open, Jon doesn't have physical eyes anymore. He doesn't needs them. His Eyes are the Watcher's, and they See all from where they stand at the top of the Panopticon.

[twinkle-art]

their solidarity leaves a lot to be desired

[st7arlight]

a theory has been proposed and i must know the answer

also: ace counts ace subtypes (ie: demi, gray)- ace is an umbrella term

also also: go ahead and vote in favor of bi if ur pan or otherwise are into more than one gender. semantics are unimportant

also also also: put in the tags what you identify as, im getting curious