#ao3 woes

[trashartgalleries]

Why do people not like bottom male reader content bro!!!!!

WHY DO YOU PEOPLE WANT TO TOP ALL THE TIME?!?!?!?!?!?

WHY WON'T YOU ALLOW ME TO HAVE A PENIS; I ALREADY HAVE A VAGINA?!!?!??

I TIRE OF FILLING THE VOID!!!! 😭

[caesariawritesstuff]

How it feels seeing someone Kudos that one chapter of a fanfic I uploaded two years ago and never continued writing

[otoshigo]

I’ve been getting a weird uptick in hateful anon comments on AO3 lately and I’m wondering if I should just turn anon comments off or turn on moderation for comments.

Problem is moderating all comments anonymous or not seems like an annoyance for everyone, especially registered users. But I also don’t want to stifle anon commenters if they’re feeling shy about registering.

Ugh, what to do…

I’ll admit part of this is spurred by an anon commenter leaving a creepy-tastic comment on a registered user’s comment. Ugh, so gross.

I wish AO3 had a feature where ONLY the anon comments get moderated.

[mx-myth]

I have a theory that the more time you spend on ao3, the less you can tag your own works

[beesintreezz]

too many ideas to write about not enough motivation to do so

[tinkertoysdamn]

Man, I was so excited about seeing a comment on one of my little viewed GotG/We Built This City 'Verse fics and it was spam.

That damn Marvel spambot found me.

[timdrake-yumm]

When you’re trying to find a fic you remember reading ages ago but for the life of you none of the tags and things you’ve searched have come up with it and you can’t remember what it’s called to just search the title

[djarins-cyare]

Just when I finished chapter 39 of be-all and endor and was going to read the last chapter, ao3 went down 😭😭

Love the fic btw, and how much research you do❤️

Oh noooooo, disaster! 😭 I’m feeling the outage effects, too – it’s 4:30am, and I can’t sleep because I haven’t had my bedtime Din!fic fix 💀

I’m glad you enjoyed the first 39 chapters anyway, and hopefully AO3 will be back up soon so you can find out how it all ends! 🤞🏻💖

[haley-harrison]

bitches will see a novel-length WIP that got abandoned 12 years ago, ask "is anybody gonna finish writing this?", and not wait for an answer.

it's me. I'm bitches

[trashartgalleries]

... am I really about to fill the void on ao3 again? 🙃

[caesariawritesstuff]

I really wish Ao3 had an option for like, non-numbered chapters. Like for prologues, epilogues, and interludes. Because I have an idea for an interlude between Arc 1 and 2 of C&M but unfortunately I cannot make one 😑

[i-will-write]

first time writing fanfiction of a character : uughh i hope this is all canon accurate... it cant be canon innacurate at all or the enitire fandom will throw rocks at me...

10057th time writing the character: heres them working at a mcdonalds

[nondelphic]

sometimes the best writing advice is "just let it be bad." revolutionary. terrifying. but it works.

[cranberry-queen]

Tips from a Beta Reading Writer

This one's for the scenes with multiple characters, and you're not sure how to keep everyone involved.

Writing group scenes is chaos. Someone’s talking, someone’s interrupting, someone’s zoning out thinking about breadsticks. And if you’re not careful, half your cast fades into the background like NPCs in a video game. I used to struggle with this so much—my characters would just exist in the scene without actually affecting it. But here’s what I've learned and have started implementing:

✨ Give everyone a job in the scene ✨

Not their literal job—like, not everyone needs to be solving a crime or casting spells. I mean: Why are they in this moment? What’s their role in the conversation?

My favourite examples are:

The Driver: Moves the convo forward. They have an agenda, they’re pushing the action.

The Instigator: Pokes the bear. Asks the messy questions. Stirring the pot like a chef on a mission.

The Voice of Reason: "Guys, maybe we don’t commit arson today?"

The Distracted One: Completely in their own world. Tuning out, doodling on a napkin, thinking about their ex.

The Observer: Not saying much, but noticing everything. (Quiet characters still have presence!)

The Wild Card: Who knows what they’ll do? Certainly not them. Probably about to make things worse.

If a character has no function, they’ll disappear. Give them something—even if it’s just a side comment, a reaction, or stealing fries off someone’s plate. Keep them interesting, and your readers will stay interested too.

[tinkertoysdamn]

Spambots ruin everything

[the-golden-comet]

Please stick to ONE TASK, brain!!

🧠: No. :)