#ao3 is not-for-profit

[sentanixiv]

Yeah. And the real treasures are the random fics you find along the way.

Those ones you never would've thought you'd like. But you tried and now? You can't get enough.

“Ao3 needs an algorithm” no it doesn’t, part of the ao3 experience is scrolling through pages of cursed content looking for the one fic you want to read until you get distracted by a summary so cursed that it completely derails your entire search

[mywitchcultblr]

This is what happened when a fanfic site is profit driven. Wattpad sucks 😞

The email/DM from Wattpad is so condescending. Imagine pressuring writers to update and work while they are doing it for free and fun. Also, the discovery? Algorithm? Of Wattpad looks like a stressful popularity contest 😑

[muffinlance]

Oh so the clown ads are over? Too late Tumblr I already cancelled ad free uninstalled your app and discovered the power of ublock in mobile FireFox. AND tags are editable in the web version?

There's no going back

[cryingatships]

The moment ao3 comes back I'm gonna smooch its forehead and download every single one of my 1800+ bookmarks

[sanyu-thewitch05]

I certainly didn’t see this being on my 2023 bingo card.

Edit: Ya’ll this meme above isn’t accurate anymore since other messages from the group came out. I made this meme when the first initial message came out.

The meme down below is more correct as to what’s probably happening with Ao3. Also wanted to say that despite the name of group, the people behind it are probably Russians.

Edit: July 11th, So Ao3 is back! Though the donation link is being attacked now. There’s also a second account on Twitter trying to impersonate Ao3.

[marauders-brain-rot]

Was just on TikTok shop and saw this and I’m literally so in shock. I know this isn’t a new phenomenon but for them to have a whole TikTok shop for this and to be selling them at such a high price and for people to have actually bought them?? This is why people take their fics down, this shit is literally illegal and on top of that it’s just wrong. Here is your reminder that fanfics are FREE and if you want a bound copy so badly, learn how to bind yourself

[the-real-list-of-ominous-threats]

I hope your favourite fanfic never updates for months and the author comes back to say they're discontinuing the work

If this happened with Meridian's Dominoes or the Guidesverse, I think I would cry

[kraken17]

Reading laylajeffany's and boojangs' posts I couldn't help but be surprised, because my only knowledge of the whole "kudos bot/AO3 web crawler" mess was that it had been around for three years at least but was a relatively harmless nuisance.

But searching for info on what is happening to them and other authors, I find that for the last year or so there has been another bot and that it is being deliberately targeted at specific fandoms and authors to inflate and unbalance their Kudos counts and make them targets for harassment campaigns using accusations of self-promotion or other bullshit.

Apparently the theory is that it could be related to content scrappers trying to steal fanfics for their own purposes (?). What is the logic behind doing something that forces authors to make their content private and lock their stories, I don't understand. Alternatively, there are people who are just plain assholes and mean-spirited like that, who probably just want to cause harm/stress.

[spacebeyonce]

people on twitter are truly smoking dick and doing the most VEHEMENTLY standing TEN TOES DOWN in the belief that the ao3 volunteers shouldn’t be getting paid because the ao3/otw is non-profit. like we get it y’all don’t know how non profits work. once again, y’all need to read the revolution will not be funded: beyond the non-profit industrial complex

[oxenfreeao3]

This is your semi-regular reminder that fanfic is mainstream.

And I don’t mean, “oh, we talk about Ao3 more openly now.” I mean fanfic is paid for and distributed by major publishing houses.

Like, what do people think books like “The Song of Achilles” even are?

I will holler about this until I’m dead:

The delineation between “cringe” and “not cringe” hinges entirely upon copyright law.

You can publish New York Times Bestselling Fanfic so long as your source material is old enough.

[sweeneydino]

Random Fanfic and AU Ideas I'm writing down now so I don't forget it. Some of these are old.

Angst and Blood Warning, btw.

If anyone wants to write it, please feel free to take it. I'm running out of reading material, and I'm having withdrawal.

Never listen to Kikuo while drawing man, really makes you make some depressing shit 💀

A Blanket For Your Troubles:

Leon didn't make it out of the prison dimension.

His soul, in the image of him as a tot, remains unable to rest and haunts a strange world similar to his own where he meets four older mutants like him who try to help him move on.

He either remains dead and goes back to his ancestors or somehow is able to reunite with his family.

Depends on how much you want to hurt.

To prove yourself:

Three sets of the unique family end up trapped in the Rottmnt universe, where they must raise the Rottmnt crew with a recently mutated Splinter.

However, the differences between them prove to cause a rift in a certain young slider who's growing self-hatred comes to head in one final encounter.

Where he must prove himself.

Cruel Joke:

When you're on your death bed, you expect to be met with those you've loved who were lost along the way, greeting you with open arms.

What you don't expect is to awaken with four baby versions of you and your siblings, crawling all over you, and an image of your father that is vastly different than from what you can remember.

The universes final "Fuck you", to the last ninja turtle standing.

Party Crasher:

A fun, annual universal gathering of your favorite TMNT versions is rudely intruded by one incredibly injured and very feral, red-eared slider that gives one of them a cast and the other a minor concussion.

With their party ruined, the collection of turtles, and their companions, must begrudgingly help this strange turtle rediscover their identity and heal fast to discover just what the absolute hell caused so much damage to something so young.

Also, they like apples.

Not my brothers:

The smallest holds them together. So when the youngest dies in their arms, they lose their glue.

The blue one becomes protective and clingy. He assumes the worst and uses his blade to fix it.

Purple keeps track and imprisons to keep safe. He's not afraid to use his tech for certain situations.

Big red keeps them from straying far, no matter what must be done to do so.

Michelangelo must treat these versions of his brothers like monsters that'll kill him at a moments notice because thats exactly what they've become.

Idk that's just what I remember. I don't like it.

Blood in the Streets:

Leon gets a strange yokai disease that makes him crave flesh. He has to hide the problem while his brothers help a newly arrived vampire hunter hunt down beasts. Unfortunately, he is quite attractive.

Lmao vampire love story lol Leosagi.

Better than twilight

I don't fucking know I'm sleep deprived💀L

If there are any fics like these things, I'd love to see them. I need more book pages while I procrastinate.

Why am I so lazy

Just posting shiz

[getfuckedblr]

if you’re buying bound fanfiction, it’s malicious. no one is entitled to owning a bound copy of their favorite fic.

the list of authors pulling their work from ao3 is only getting larger by the day. and it is a direct result of buying bound fanfics. buying bound fanfiction opens up authors, who did not consent to the selling of their works, and are not seeing any of the profit, to being sued.

there are so many free resources available to learn how to bind, there is an actual option on ao3 itself to download a fic as a pdf, there are free typeset drives and blogs dedicated to learning about bookbinding, so many warnings all over ao3 and fics themselves about how we’re toeing the line on copyright laws. how fucking despicable to see that line and just jump right over it.

capitalism assumes that everything we do has to have profit, has to create money, create monetary gain. you can just enjoy things. you really can. you can get into bookbinding and simply enjoy having the books. you can gift your books to people who will appreciate them. you don’t have to make a profit on things you didn’t even write.

if you’ve gone all the way to learning how to bind books, you can’t play dumb and pretend you don’t know the legalities of selling fanworks. i hope you’re happy with what you’ve created.

[retellingthehobbit]

Dang, I almost forgot Ao3 bans any mention of monetizing your work (for obvious sensible and understandable reasons)-- Patreon will never be mentioned there, haha! XD Thanks to the people who reminded me before I went too far. In any case, you can follow me on Patreon for art tutorials, general art stuff, Les Mis stuff, and early Hobbit Comic pages :). But I will not bring it up on A03. I will be as silent as the grave.

[the-ghost-of-jason-todd]

just saw a post claiming ao3 is run by zionists with no links, facts, articles, or anything else to support said claim

i'm having a really bad brain fog year and i feel like search engines are getting worse and worse so does anyone know where the fuck this came from and if there's anything to it

like links to anything substantial are preferable but if you can give me an idea of what the fuck to look up that would also work

[nothing-but-glitter-and-lashes]

so i received this comment on my fic this morning

i replied angrily because ive gotten SO MANY comments on this fic asking when it’s going to be updated

it’s not like it’s one of those fics that hasn’t been updated in like 7 years or whatever

it’s been exactly 4 months since i updated the fic, and ive made it clear on several other comments that i have fallen out of love with the fandom. i still love the music of Hamilton i just have another hyperfixation right now

it has occurred to me that since it’s a guest account it could be a fake

but im just so mad. im 14. i shouldn’t have to deal with this. im taking exams in a few days time. writing fanfic used to help relieve stress but getting comments like this just sucks all the fun out of it

[monarchsthoughtsonmedia]

Genuinely confused how Sincerely Theirs, a for-profit fanfiction writing company on TikTok, exists. I hope to god it gets shut down because fanfiction should never ever be monetized.