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butteredtoads Ā· 3 months ago
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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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bardofavon Ā· 8 months ago
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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 thereā€™s 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€¦
ā€˜looking forward to the next updateā€™ and ā€˜I 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.
ā€˜I donā€™t usually like this ship but this fic made me feel somethingā€™ is also incredibly high praise. Iā€™m not going to get mad at this.
even ā€˜I love this fic but Iā€™m 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 thatā€™s not perfectly articulated glowing praise in the exact manner theyā€™re hoping to receive it in bad faith.
fic engagement has been dropping across the board over the last several years, and yes itā€™s frustrating but it isnā€™t as though I canā€™t 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 Iā€™m going with this I guess aside from saying unless a comment is outright attacking me Iā€™m 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.
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frankierotwinkdeath Ā· 5 months ago
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Yā€™all want Taylor Swift to be gay so bad but you wonā€™t even write femslash about her
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hansoeii Ā· 7 days ago
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It was affection.
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mountainshroom Ā· 4 months ago
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i like the log and the pool
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faeriekit Ā· 7 months ago
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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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kkshowtunes Ā· 1 year ago
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google citing ao3 as a source is so unhinged
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brawlite Ā· 5 months ago
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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
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sunshine-zenith Ā· 4 months ago
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seagiri Ā· 8 months ago
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very sleep deprived doodles of whateverā€™s going on inside my brain
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flowercrowngods Ā· 1 year ago
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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.
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thief-of-eggs Ā· 5 days ago
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everyone heading to tumblr as soon as they get the ā€œerror 503ā€ message from ao3
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indestinatus Ā· 3 months ago
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ao3 in the last couple of days
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givemeureyes Ā· 1 year ago
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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.
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gingiekittycat Ā· 10 months ago
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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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fonulyn Ā· 1 year ago
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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.
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