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Fun perk of tumblr: everytime ao3 goes down and you're like, "is that just my internet or is something wrong?" You can immediately go to the ao3 tag on tumblr to see other people screaming in agony
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not to be controversial bc I know this is likeā¦not in line with shifting opinions on fanfic comment culture but if thereās a glaring typo in my work I will NOT be offended by pointing it out. if ao3 fucks up the formattingā¦I will also not be offended by having this pointed outā¦
ālooking forward to the next updateā and āI hope you update soon!ā are different vibes than a demand, and should be read in good faith because a reader is finding their way to tell you how much they love it. I will not be mad at this.
āI donāt usually like this ship but this fic made me feel somethingā is also incredibly high praise. Iām not going to get mad at this.
even āI love this fic but Iām curious about why you made [x] choiceā is just another way a reader is engaging in and putting thought into your work.
I just feel like a lot of authors take any comment thatās not perfectly articulated glowing praise in the exact manner theyāre hoping to receive it in bad faith.
fic engagement has been dropping across the board over the last several years, and yes itās frustrating but it isnāt as though I canāt see how it happens. comment anxiety can be a real thing. the last thing anyone wants to do is offend an author they love, and that means sometimes people default to silence.
idk where Iām going with this I guess aside from saying unless a comment is outright attacking me Iām never going to get mad at it, and I think a lot of authors should feel the same way. ESPECIALLY TYPOS PLZ GOD POINT OUT MY TYPOS.
#ao3#archive of our own#fanfiction#tbh even if I got a comment that said āI hate you Iām going to kill your familyā on chapter 75 it still means they read 75 chapters firstā¦.#it just makes me sad to see so many writers shouting into the void#and also see ppl complain openly about the specific types of comments they receive#posting screenshots on Reddit like āshould I be mad at thisā CALM DOWN#sigh
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Yāall want Taylor Swift to be gay so bad but you wonāt even write femslash about her
#I was curious so I looked it up 1038 fics on ao3 tagged Taylor Swift and f/f#like Iām not necessarily encouraging people to go out and write rpf#but itās wild that arguably the biggest musical artist right now who has a huge community speculating about her sexuality has so little fic#like this isnāt a good or bad thing I just think itās interesting#idk Iām not actually a swiftie like that#like I listen to her music and keep up generally with what sheās doing but Iām not really in the fandom#so there might be something Iām missing
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It was affection.
#oh they got me#they got me bad#doomed yaoi and I go hand in hand are we even surprised#arcane you are the greatest thing humanity has ever created#I just really wanted to draw jayvik and I kinda went a little overboard with this#I haven't drawn something this detailed since the good omens angels illustration#so you get an idea for how bad this brainrot is#anyways#you will find me on ao3#jayvik I love you#please don't die#jayvik#jayvik fanart#jayce talis#viktor arcane#jayce arcane#arcane fanart#arcane s2#arcane spoilers#arcane art#my fanart#digital art#my art
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i like the log and the pool
#nonstop thoughts about them#my ipad is charging so traditional poolverine !!#i refresh ao3 every day and see the amount of fics for them go up#and i smile#deadpool and wolverine#deadpool 3#deadpool#wolverine#wade wilson#logan howlett#poolverine#art#my art#traditional art
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The "I just pretended I belong here and no one has noticed so far that I'm not supposed to be here" fics are hysterical to me. If someone pretended to be my cousin and showed up in my house they would absolutely get my inattentive ass.
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google citing ao3 as a source is so unhinged
#dowak#bi rodrick heffley#ao3#fanfiction#doodlebug says things#banger#super banger#banger banger hall of famer#banger 5k#banger 10k#banger 15k#banger 20k#banger 25k#banger 30k#banger 35k#banger 40k#banger 45k#banger 50k#banger 55k#banger 60k#banger 65k#banger 70k#banger 75k#banger 80k#guys this breached containment#i always wanted a popular post but now i get it iām overwhelmed#also i misspelled a word in it#what is going on ā¼ļøā¼ļøš„š„#jk guys never stop reblogging this#may rodrick heffley bisexualism reign supreme
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god bless the ao3 users with public bookmarks who have the same taste as you and who read/bookmark often. love getting lost in someone's bountiful bookmarks for days, you're rly doing a public service
#ao3#too bad ao3 doesn't have dms or id be sliding into them going LETS BE BESTIES @ these people#brawls talks
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#ao3#fandom#fanfic#polls#the sun shines#broke 100#broke 500#broke 1000#would yāall believe if I told you Iām surprised by how this post is going#not by the top thing being the top thing but the overall response#I thought this would get like twenty notes and like a few lukewarm āofc I prefer xā responses
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very sleep deprived doodles of whateverās going on inside my brain
#my art#senshi#Chilchuck tims#Chilchucks wife#<- we call her whitbelle#whitbelle#chilshi#chilchuck sandwich#dungeon meshi#barely visible text says the following#(pointing at Senshi) ready to ruin things for himself because he wants to help his friend#(pointing at Chil) mcdumbass developed a crush on Senshi and is now afraid of letting him go despite wanting to reconcile with whitbelle#***the name whitbelle came from the fic Reelinā In The Years by werewolf_gimmick on ao3 !!!
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when ao3 is back up i want all of you to leave comments on the fics you were interrupted from reading, the fics you were looking to find, the fics you were thinking about re-reading, and the fics left open in your tabs for months now.
when ao3 is back up, i want you all to show some love to your favourite writers, favourite fics, or even just the 600 word one-shot that brought a smile to your face that tuesday three weeks ago.
when ao3 is back up i want you all to remember that comments and explicitly voiced appreciation are what keep writers going.
#when ao3 is back up i want you to realise that this lack of fics to read is also what will happen if they go uncommented and unappreciated#ao3#and while ao3 is still down go to your tumblr writers and leave them some love too
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everyone heading to tumblr as soon as they get the āerror 503ā message from ao3
#i refresh my page obsessively so i know as SOON as it happens i fear#is this my sign to go write instead?#ao3#archive of our own#ao3 down
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ao3 in the last couple of days
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day 1 without ao3: i have gone through all 5 stages of grief multiple times and have invented a 6th. i will not disclose what the 6th stage of grief is.
#I AM GOING INSANE#what am i supposed to do??#āyou should work on your WIPā NO I CANTTT#ā read actual books on your real bookshelfā NUH UH#ao3#archive of our own#iām tagging ships#malec#destiel#hannigram#jonmartin#tomgreg#kenstewy#imagine all the fics i could be reading rn
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I think one of my favorite things about writing fanfic is that you can just... keep going. Write as many different endings to the story as you want. As many different AUs. You can write the same scene a hundred times and change what happens every time.
It's the most freeing feeling, that I don't have to choose.
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since I've seen it talked about in several places recently:
if you are going to do a whump- or kink- or ANY-tober or other similar challenges please please please don't post them as one fic with 31 chapters unless it actually is one coherent fic. if they're 31 completely separate fics or ficlets then please just make a collection for them or just post them as separate fics. it doesn't matter if they're only 100 words or if you think they're too small or insignificant to post alone, they're not.
and why this?
because if you post all 31 of them in one fic the tagging is absolutely useless. if I look for things to read on ao3 I'm gonna look at the tags, and if the tags include something that's a dealbreaker for me, i won't even click on the fic. I might not even SEE the fic because I've filtered out the nope-tag! so I'm gonna lose out on reading 30 perfectly nice fics because of one fic that my nope-tag applied to.
ao3 is about archiving. it's about clear tagging and being informative. there is nothing informative about it if the tags in the fic apply to random chapters while others have nothing to do with it. it makes so much more sense to have each work as an individual fic with its own individual tags and warnings, so readers can make informed choices.
of course, you do you. I can't police what other people decide to do. but personally, I find it incredibly frustrating to weed through 31 chapters to find the ones I actually want to read. so I don't. I automatically scroll past all works posted like that. and I know some others do, too.
there is absolutely no shame in posting short things on ao3. there is no minimum word count. no one is going to look at you funny if you post a small ficlet on its own, I promise. it's just going to make some readers very happy when they can actually find the things they want to read.
so, please. at least consider the upsides of posting each work as their own fic.
signed, one very frustrated fandom grandma.
#ao3#fanfic#fandom#I'm not trying to dictate what others do#so if you still wanna keep posting#completely unrelated works as chapters of one thing#then go for it#i'm not your mom#but please at least consider the alternative#and how much easier it'll be for people to#both find it and to make informed choices#of what they want to read
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