#fluffao3

[deadendtracks]

The entire reason people need/want podcast apps or rss readers is because content was scattered all over the place. like instead of visiting 493 different blogs every day, you could go to Google Reader. 

This is literally going to a single website, one run by a non-profit organization, and profiting off of the content. it’s not providing a service that the original site doesn’t already provide! you can access AO3 on your phone, you can download fic to your ereader, it’s extremely mobile friendly already. 

Literally the only thing these apps do is provide a profit stream to their creators by exploiting content provided to a third party website for free, based on the infrastructure created and defended by a single nonprofit organization over the last ten years and the work of countless volunteers and authors/creators with the understanding that content would only be used by AO3 because it had built and established trust within the community providing content.

Fuck these self-serving rationalizations. They’re wrong and they know they’re wrong. They just know we have little recourse to stop them.

[hjbender]

Thank you, KT! This is good news and good to know in general. The Woodsign apps have all been removed, too. Looks like the reporting and emails are working (good for us).

I’ve never had a problem using AO3’s website on my phone or iPad, either. It’s damn near perfect as it is. Why anyone would go through the trouble and unnecessary expense of using an app is just beyond me.

This is the reply received from AO3  zanymystery on twitter: https://twitter.com/zanymystery/status/1228993050346577922 reposted here with their permission to signal boost this.

Tl;dr: What the apps FictionPocket and FluffAO3 are doing, while ethically dubious, is not something AO3 can action against. However, as the apps are profiting (through ad revenue and subscription models) from creator content to which they do not own the copyright, creators can issue a DMCA takedown notice for their work.

FluffAO3′s email address:  violetsp8@gmail.com

Fanfic Pocket  Email Address:  info.catapps@gmail.com Woodsign Apss Email Address:  bojan@woodsign.hr

DMCA Sample:

My name is INSERT NAME. Your app INSERT APP NAME is infringing on at least one copyright owned by myself.

Not-for-profit fanworks are being displayed on your app without my permission and are being used to generate revenue. The original fanworks, to which I own the exclusive copyrights, can be found at:

PROVIDE WEBSITE URL

This letter is official notification under Section 512© of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (”DMCA”), and I seek the removal of the aforementioned infringing material from your app.

I am providing this notice in good faith and with the reasonable belief that rights I own are being infringed. Under penalty of perjury I certify that the information contained in the notification is both true and accurate, and I have the authority to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright(s) involved.

Should you wish to discuss this with me please contact me directly.

Thank you.

YOUR NAME

YOUR CONTACT DETAILS

YOUR EMAIL

No reply within 48 hours?

Report the app on Google Play and the Apple Store:

https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/appstorenotices/#?lang=en

https://support.google.com/legal/troubleshooter/1114905

If your works are on AO3, they will also be on these apps, making the app creators money. They are not copied or disseminated, but mirrored, meaning their app reads AO3, reskins it, puts in ads and then offers special features for subscribers/members. 

These are not small apps. I can’t get figures for fluff ao3, but fiction pocket has more than 100,000 downloads on google play. If only 1% of those people subscribed for one month (current cost is 99 cents) the app creator has made themselves $1000 off of essentially taking your work and putting in in their app skin, and that’s not including any ad revenue. 

[Signal Boost If You Can]

[larryfanfiction]

Homegrown by casuallyhl @casuallyhl

Length: 51k

“It wasn’t an easy decision, if I’m honest,” Harry admits, shoulders sagging in on himself. “Moving is really difficult. My whole life was in Manchester. But Manchester didn’t want me. Leeds did.”

“Well, Leeds is happy to have you,” Louis says, giving Harry a kind smile.

Harry brightens a bit at that, undeniably pleased. “Yeah?”

“Yeah,” Louis replies, expression soft and lips curved.

Or, a gardening AU where Harry is new to town and the newest volunteer at the local gardening club, Louis is the attractive grandson of one of the members, and the nosy volunteers hatch a plan to get them together.

Ao3, Chaptered, Completed

[larryfanfiction]

If Some Miracle Could Win (Your Love For Me) by eli_ssabeth 

Length: 1.3k 

“Nervous, love?” Louis murmured. 

“Me?” Harry laughed. “I’m not the one up for a Grammy, Lou.” 

“Maybe not,” Louis agreed. “But your fiancé is.” 

Harry felt his face split into a wide grin at the word. It wasn’t new, but he loved hearing any acknowledgement of the wedding the two of them were planning for the summer. “You’re very right. My fiancé is up for a Grammy. But I’m not nervous. I know he’s gonna win it.” 

“Careful, now. You’re gonna give him a big head.”

 Harry giggled. “Can’t get any bigger.” 

OR 
A self-indulgent coming-out fic that is the result of Rule #1 of The Group Chat

Ao3, one-shot

[larryfanfiction]

Happiness Comes in on Tiptoe by scagnetism

Length: 9k

There is a supermodel standing at Louis’ door. He suddenly feels extremely insecure about his unwashed hair and clothes that have seen better days. He’s sure his mouth has fallen open, but there is a supermodel standing on his doorstep.

Or, the AU where Louis is new to the neighborhood and Harry is the angel living next door.

Ao3, One-Shot

[larryfanfiction]

Sun-Dappled by QuickedWeen

Length: 4k

When he lifted the lid of the box, he saw a small note. Underneath the note was a gleaming and golden Snitch.

Confused, he opened the note.

“ Two gifts. One from each of the most important days of my life .”

Not helpful, Lou, Harry thought with a scoff.

Harry rolled the Snitch over between his fingers. It was heavy, solid, like the ones they used for official school matches. He was grateful, of course, but he remained in the dark as to why this was his birthday gift.

Louis and his best friend Harry are in their seventh year at Hogwarts, facing down their future together. Louis has been in love with his best friend for as long as he can remember, and he begins to feel a sense of urgency as the second semester begins. Finally he hatches a plan to tell Harry about his feelings on Harry's birthday.

Ao3, One-shot

[larryfanfiction]

The Edge of the Stars by casuallyhl

Length: 16k

Louis laughed. “You think you can convince some random guy to want to go out with me?”

“Oh baby,” Jay chuckled. “I can convince all of the UK to want to go out with you.”

Or, a Meet the Parents AU where Harry is the man of Louis’ dreams, and it’s up to Jay to convince him to date her son.

Ao3, One-Shot

[larryfanfiction]

The Bigger Man by checkthemargins

Length: 8k

There's a bare-arsed mouth-breather in his bed. The duvet is on the floor, the sheets wrapped around one long leg. He's pale and he's got a mop of curly hair and he's hung like a horse, or gorilla, or elephant, or some mammoth animal. He's on his front and his legs are spread a bit. His big balls are actually so hypnotic that Louis ends up standing right at the edge of the bed, head tilted and staring, before he remembers that there's a stranger in his bed. He drops his rucksack and walks across the room to collect his life-size toy light saber. It's double ended and red, because he's a Sith lord. He extends one end and, from a safe distance, prods the sleeping stranger in the arse.

When Louis's summer holiday in Ireland is cut short due to an unexpected request from the biological father he's never met, he returns to London only to discover that his flatmate, Zayn, has rented out his room to a curly-haired mouth-breather called Harry Styles.

Ao3, One-shot

[larryfanfiction]

Adore You by isthatyoularry

Length: 66k

“We invited our new acquaintances from uptown. You’ve simply got to meet their oldest son!” said his mother with a flourish, and suddenly it became abundantly clear as to why his parents had so adamantly demanded he join them in Deansville for the entirety of the summer.

Against his wishes, Harry spends the holidays at his family’s summer estate, and is reluctantly pulled into a courtship he didn’t ask for. Harry doesn’t want to get married, but Louis does. They don’t fit, but then again they really, really do.

Vaguely set in the 1920’s. Headpieces, jazz, fashionable canes, and flapper dresses, and that.

Ao3, Chaptered, Completed

[larryfanfiction]

I'll be flicking stones at your window, I'll be waiting outside 'til you're ready to go by rockdatbody

Length: 5k

" Each human being has a soulmate somewhere on earth. And before you meet them, colours don't exist. When you first see your soulmate, colours just appear to you and it's like a signal that you find your real partner, do you understand? "

Soulmates AU where you can't see colours until you meet your soulmate.

Harry never thought he would find his while performing on stage in front of thousands of people but hey, things happen.

Ao3, Oneshot

[larryfanfiction]

you strike a match by togetherwecouldbealright

Length: 5k

I can’t remember the other 21 letters of the alphabet. All I know is U R A QT.

Louis stares at the note taped to the door of his dorm for a few seconds, uncomprehending. Either he’s seeing things or there’s actually a tiny piece of paper, addressed To: Louis with a terrible pick-up line on it.

OR the one where Louis receives a note from his secret admirer for every letter of the alphabet.

Ao3, one-shot

[larryfanfiction]

All the small things by kitundercover

Length: 20k

Louis stares. “You’re five inches tall.” He says finally.

“I am about that.” The tiny man agrees.

“You’ve been making strange noises and scaring the shit out of me.”

“I’m sorry.” The tiny man winces.

“You’ve been breaking my things.”

“Not on purpose.”

That voice is disconcertingly deep, and Louis keeps wanting to look up and find the fully grown person that it must surely be coming from. He takes a deep breath and moves onto the next impossible point.

“You’ve been riding my rabbit.” He says.

AU. Harry is five inches tall and can't remember how he got that way, but maybe with Louis' help they can work it out.

Ao3, Oneshot, Must Read

[larryfanfiction]

by tomlinsuhhn

When recently divorced, thirty-five year-old, overworked tax accountant Louis Tomlinson gets sent on a two-week vacation to Aruba by his best friend, he automatically assumes it's going to be two weeks of panicking about all of the work he's missing and staying holed up in his room. But then, right on his first night in Aruba, he meets Harry Styles, the cheeky, crass, and charming waiter and up-and-coming musician. Who happens to only be eighteen years old.

Nonetheless, a whirlwind romance kicks up between Louis and Harry, and Louis finds himself falling for the boy in a way he hadn't thought he could fall again after his divorce. But as Louis' two weeks in Aruba come to a close and Harry finds himself standing on the cusp of the fame he's always craved, Louis has to make the decision of whether or not he's going to stay with Harry, or leave him behind in Aruba, and it turns out to be the toughest decision Louis ever has to make.

Ao3, Oneshot, Mature, Must-Read

[larryfanfiction]

by aclosetlarryshipper

A non-Marcel Prom AU that ended up having more backstory than I originally planned. Niall and Liam are school president and vice president. Harry has one teacher who is a Dinosaur and one who wants to get in his pants. He just wants to date Louis.

Ao3, Oneshot, Must-Read

[larryfanfiction]

By felloffmypinkcloud

Harry’s been in a long distance relationship with Louis for so long now, he just wants his love.

Ao3, One Shot

[larryfanfiction]

By starseas

AU. “we should get married,” louis says, and this time, neither of them say no.

Part 2 of Glitter/Gold series

Oneshot, Ao3, Mature, Must Read