#SquidgeWorld Archive

[116t98]

ao3 doesn’t make money outside of donations (which I urge to stop contributing to, if you haven’t already), so fic writers, it’s up to you guys if you want to keep publishing your work there; continuing to use the site won’t really do anything to positively affect the site or the volunteers who work on it, nor will choosing to remove your fics have any negative impact

This applies to fic readers too; there are many alternatives to ao3 that have content available for you to enjoy (such as Tumblr, Fanfiction.net, and Wattpad), but since your engagement doesn’t profit the site in any way, whether you choose to move on from ao3 or not is up to you

As a reader, I gravitated to ao3 bc its site (and fic) layout and filter system are much easier for me to understand and navigate than other sites. If you’re most comfortable using the ao3 site to read and/or share your fics, but don’t feel comfortable using it anymore, then the best alternative for you would be SquidgeWorld Archive; it’s basically ao3, with an identical layout (albeit slightly more yellow) and filter system to boot

This site has less content and activity than ao3, so feel free to share the link with other authors!

[squidgiepdx]

Fandom Volunteers Needed!

Squidge.org is in need of a few people to volunteer. We currently need an archivist, people for an official Abuse committee, and a treasurer. If you are interested, please read the details in the link and you can reply via instructions on that post.

Link: https://www.squidge.org/blog/archives/215

[miaqc1]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Mortal Kombat - All Media Types, Mortal Kombat [Video Games 1992-2020], Mortal Kombat [Video Games 2023-] Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Ashrah & Ashrah [Mortal Kombat] Characters: Ashrah [Mortal Kombat] Additional Tags: Commissioned Art, Pixel Art, Art, Digital Artwork, Artwork – Freeform, Artwork - Freeform, Embedded Images, Full Color, Rare Fandoms, POV Third Person Limited, Word count: 0 - 100, White [Color], Cross-Posted from AO3, Autistic Author, Fanart, Embedded Fanart, Pixels, Betaed - No, not a fic, Illustrations, Colors, Brown Hair, Black Eyes Summary:

Ashrah from Mortal Kombat Deception and Mortal Kombat 1 in 8-bit pixels. Images commissioned from @zulfauzif on fiverr.

⚠️ Do not contact me for c0mmissi0ns. I'll block you. Also if you follow me and I see your account is only about c0mmissi0ns posts with price + looking for clients, I'll also block you. ⚠️

[sharpestasp]

Hey all. I'm going to bat here for SquidgeWorld Archive, because I want a return to MULTIPLE archives.

The goal is JUST $1,000. Admin says that will cover operating costs for 6 months. If you can, give a couple bucks. If you can't, give us a reblog?

[qpr-prompts]

Will there be any more prompts?

hi hello!!! this blog has been suuuper dead. mod tragedy is super busy, and i think qce might've just lost interest in tumblr altogether, but im still around!! (also, im engaged to my qpp now??? queerplatonic MARRIAGE is REAL guys)

unfortunately i dont think im all that good at coming up with prompts on my own :( i started this blog because i really want to see more qprs written about and drawn in fandom! ill try my best to come up with some ideas if there's still interest in filling this niche! in the meantime, the inbox is always open for you to send prompts of your own!!

now, this part is slightly unrelated but since this blog has been dead, i want to say it somewhere! i know a while back there was a movement to start (tagging QPRs on AO3) with the tilde (~), but AO3 support didn't go for implementing the idea on their own? if i recall correctly, they told everyone to just do it themselves and added the idea to a waitlist. which... means we'll probably never see it, given AO3's track record :(

but since then, ive come across a different archive project that's just like AO3 called squidgeworld archive (SqWA)! they've (officially implemented the tilde as a relationship marker, as well as given QPRs their own relationship category)! its been super refreshing to be able to correctly tag and post fanfictions on there as QPR and have it be recognized, so that's where ive mostly been posting my own works. the tag wranglers on SqWA are also super quick to canonize tags and make them available for everyone to use, so it's very easy to trailblaze a fandom on there, and squidge is extremely responsive to their users so it feels a lot nicer than AO3 :)

~ Mod Comedy

[shivasdarknight]

IM THE FIRST WOLYSAYLE ON SQUIDGEWORLD

[mvrual]

My AU Souyo fic Chapter 7 is up!

Yu and Yosuke went to have some talk with Miharu (Yosuke’s Godmother in the story) and some questions they had in mind has been answered.

Been awhile since I last post a new chapter bcs how busy I was this past few months. Since I’m almost done for this semester, I might start writing again.

[squidgeorg]

So I made a sideblog from my regular blog (@SquidgiePDX) specifically for Squidge.org stuff - webhosting, SquidgeWorld Archive, Squidge Images, Jinjurly podfic archive, and others.

[sl-walker]

As one of the two people who managed to get otw-archive running on the open internet who is not OTW, I'd like you -- the public, the number of people recently saying 'make your own using their software' -- to sit down and try it.

While I strongly appreciate that message, being a firm believer in independent archives and a decentralized fandom umbrella, I can guarantee the people typing that as a 'gotcha' to the antis -- who are reprehensible at the best of times -- are not one of the people who got otw-archive running on a server with actual humans using it because there are only two of us. And again, I'm one of them. @squidgiepdx is the other.

There are only two of us because it's a viciously badly optimized disaster of software involving so many running processes in so many different languages that it took me fifty hours of work just to get it marginally functional and many more dedicated hours since then maintaining it. It constantly runs at 95% RAM usage on our server. I have a beautiful single-fandom archive for the effort, but by god, I am so, so tired of people who know jack shit of what they're talking about pretending like it's as easy as unzipping a package and making it run.

SquidgeWorld took so fucking much work. Walter did that. Ad Astra took so fucking much work. I did that. And we are both willing to help other people do that! We are both incredibly happy to offer our time and expertise to anyone else who wants to help us become more than TWO PEOPLE OUT OF SEVERAL BILLION to make that software run for archives that don't belong to OTW.

But stop pretending it's easy. That casual dismissal diminishes the amount of time, effort, frustration, tears and dedication that Walter and I gave to make our archives happen. I can't stand antis either, but boy, the amount of entitlement in fandom isn't gonna get better by ignoring how hard it is to make and build and maintain communities, especially in this world where you can't even get people go type 'Extra kudos' into a fucking comment box.

[incoherent-orca]

if anyone is lookin for an alternative to ao3 because,,, apparently they prioritize the feelings of zionist volunteers 🥴

you might wanna try squidgeworld.org

thinking of migrating there. the layout is supposed to be the same as ao3

EDIT so I've signed up and its literally the same interface as ao3, just with a better default color scheme lmaoo

can now confirm they their TOS clearly prohibits AI scraping + they have a policy to ban commenters that harass creators (even on anon)

[marxism-leninism-meowism]

can i ask you why i should assume squidgeworld or whoever's running squidgeworld is any better than ao3? because i can't really find any info on who's running squidgeworld, so it seems to me it's just a case of lack of info allowing you (or anyone) to assume no one affiliated with that site is problematic in anyway.

as many issues as i have with ao3 there is a level of transparency there that i don't see at squidgeworld. can you direct me to info on who runs it / how it's run? who's doing site maintenance, who's monitoring the site, who's making decisions on if a fic gets pulled or a user banned, etc?

and if you don't think that once it gets big enough it's going to be dealing with some of the same issues ao3 is dealing with, you're fooling yourself

i'm going to assume you're genuinely asking and not just a troll, but genuinely speaking, the fact that squidge.org has an explicit anti-racism policy is more than the OTW has.

We do also know exactly who is running the site: a nonprofit called Squidge.org—"Squidge.org INC is a US 501c3 non-profit organization"—founded by Walter Hopgood (aka Squidgie). You can even volunteer for them.

There really isn't a guarantee that they won't ever have the same problems that AO3 has. But as of right now? We know they're doing leagues better. They aren't running off a toxic work environment that has had issues with racism for years, as far as we can tell, and seem to actually be making actual change to their websites to benefit users (see: recent QPR relationship update).

Hell, one day there might be volunteers for Squidge coming out about their experiences in that org, and I'm not denying that. But considering the benefits of decentralizing our fanfiction posting, moving away from the AO3 and its thoroughly documented racism, zionism, suspicious money handling, and glacial movement as an org—I'm happy to make the switch for the time being.

[squidgiepdx]

Squidge.org, the site that brings SquidgeWorld Archive, free image hosting for fandom, podfic streaming & hosting, mailing lists, and personal homepages, is holding a Give Back To Squidge fundraiser! We've been around for 29 years, and are now an official nonprofit, so we can be around for many more!

But we need your help. It only costs a couple thousand dollars a year for all that we provide. Click here to read about our fundraiser, or you can donate via our fundraising website here or give via PayPal at this link.

[miaqc1]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Neon Genesis Evangelion, Rebuild of Evangelion | Evangelion: New Theatrical Edition Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Ayanami Rei & Ayanami Rei Characters: Ayanami Rei Additional Tags: Digital Artwork, Art, Fanart, Embedded Fanart, Embedded Images, Artwork – Freeform, Pixel Art, Commissioned Art, Manga & Anime, Full Color, Gen Work, drawing, Female Characters, POV First Person, Wordcount: 0-100 Summary:

Rei Ayanami in pixel art. Drawing I ordered on fiverr by roxas_1.

[the-bar-sinister]

Hi there!

I wanted to ask something about ao3

I wanted to post some fanarts and drawings in general, however, i've heard that it's needed a hosting site to host the images there apparently

So, if you could, can you tell me an advice or provide a site to host the images there?

Your very best bet is to pay for your own hosting (buy a website and storage space of your own) and upload your art to that. We pay under $100 a year for a domain and personal hosting.

However, your second best bet is https://images.squidge.org/ which is a fannish image hosting site that is a sister site to https://squidgeworld.org/ a fanfiction archive alternative to AO3. @squidgiepdx runs it!

Once you upload an image to squidge you should be able to link it anywhere, including to AO3!

[abcwordsurge]

hey hey hey fandom, you beautiful nerds, it's comment day!! I'll be commenting on a ton of fics and I hope you'll join me :D

[shivasdarknight]

Anyways, I'm done transferring all of my fics (that I have full ownership over*) to SquidgeWorld Archive! 🫶

I'm not hopping off of AO3 just yet, though; by not renewing my donations and membership status (which I only got to participate in Board Elections anyways, wouldn't have done it otherwise), I become a drain on resources for them in the same sense as the action people took against Discord for NFT/AI chatbot bullshit. But also it's just good to have a backup anyways.

Regardless, fuck OTW and AO3 for prioritizing zionists' fragile egos over shit as simple as "From the river to the sea" - I hope they rot in hell! 🫶 Don't give them your money - they have a stupidly large surplus, anyways - and they also began a donation campaign while Gaza was being bombed, so (OP and final reblog are the relevant posts here). Do with that what you will.

*Two of my fics are exquisite corpse fics. The exquisite corpse writing itself wasn't coordinated by me, so I don't feel right crossposting w/o permission (especially if none of the people on them are even on SWA). So yeah, that's why it's 18 and not 20.