#its like my ao3 history

[im-tempted]

All my worst posts are between me and my delete draft button

[tragically-jane-doe]

Mentally preparing myself to dig through my ao3 history for one specific superbat fic

(by chance any if the homies know it Bruce Wayne gets outed as like a homophobe (he's not he's just insanely deep in the closet) and he has to convince the league that he's not by slowly coming out as bi to everyone I'm pretty sure he comes out to Diana first in way of lasso)

Edit

Sadly I'm pretty sure it has been deleted I've gone thru two months worth of backlog and only had 2 deleted fics and by comparing ao3 history to my google history I'm pretty sure it was called different constellations (I pressed on the link like a dummy and its only showing as 404 error as the name now 😔)

(the other deleted fic was batman's playlist where that damn manwhore seduces superman by listening to wap on repeat during a workout)

On my knees begging ao3 authors to just orphan their works instead of deleting them please babes

[mjj-nostalgia]

bruh I'm out here rereading my fic so I can get back into that world and that headspace so I can continue writing it and I am appalled by the amount of typos I am finding that I somehow had a blind eye to before I posted the chapters to AO3.

I'm out here looking at my work like

"EXCUSE ME???"

I AM SO SORRY IF YOU'VE READ MY FIC AND NOTICED ALL THE MISTAKES, I must of just been so excited to post LOL

At a later date I shall redeem myself and edit the whole gotdamn thing lmao

[asclexe]

the house md fandom would be fixed by more femlash

[gatakat]

HELP ME FIND A FIC, PLEASE

girl for the love of god, tell me my favorite sakusa fic hasnt been deleted off ao3. i believe it was called Bar Hopping?? or something like that??

it was a multichapter w like LOTS of characters x reader. but i only remember sakusa's bc he was the character i was looking for when i found this fic

in sakusa's chapter the Reader was like a kindergarden teacher or somerhing like that, and she met sakusa at a bar, they texted for a while, then went on a date, there was a scene where Reader goes to a concert and Sakusa wants to see her so he meets her outside. and it takes them very long to make the decision to finally sleep together bc sakusa is anxious and Reader is a sweetheart and doesnt want to pressure him so Reader suggests having sex in the shower. it was beautifully written and i think sakusa's anxiety was lovingly portrayed. I LOVED IT BU T I CANT FIND IT ANYMORE

I NEED TO FIND IT, please does anybody know anything about it?????????

[dracolizardlars]

Going through ao3topshipsbracket voting against every single real-person ship regardless of whether I've even heard of their opponent

[vivasity]

I just found my old ao3 account with my reading history untouched..... im gonna lose my goddamn mind there is no way

[ofpd]

do you have a les mis fic rec list 👀

yeah i am somehow able to make one which is insane bc i usually don't even read fic. the only time ive ever read this much fic before was when i was into atla which like. that was a hyperfixation strong enough to get me onto this website. exr has such an effect on me... (and yeah almost all of this is gonna be exr. naturally)

i assume you've read or at least heard of world ain't ready, but i'd be remiss not to mention it! the thing with this fic is that it's the ultimate exception to every preference i tend to have with exr fic—it's a modern au, it ends with them having a good, loving, requited, healthy relationship (and with them being alive), and it's often cheesy in a very fanfic way. and so i was really not expecting to enjoy it nearly as much as i did. like, i really really loved it. it's genuinely quite well-written with compelling characterizations and it really does an amazing job of fulfilling the need i sometimes have for them to just. be happy and alive and loving each other. it's possibly the fic i spend the most time thinking about.

the other long fic that i've been really into (i'd say it's probably my favorite les mis fic i've read) is beautiful & good. it starts off slow, but i promise the buildup is worth it. i really love the way in which their relationship is developed throughout—it always feels realistic, in character, and interesting. and it's just so enjoyable to read (and often very funny!), and there's always something new (or many things) that makes me go insane every chapter. it also is the most interesting fic i've read when it comes to them having sex & their characterizations wrt it. actually, the thing that compelled me to read this fic in the first place was a friend telling me that, at one point in it, enjolras says that penatrative sex isn't egalitarian. i really love when they're so insane....

i've actually read all of that author's les mis fics, and i don't remember there being a single one i disliked. but some favorites include epiphanies (woah crazy another modern au), the pursuit of light (the token non-exr fic on this list woah), in lutetia, and the loves of les amis.

another favorite is, of course, ta bouche de ciel by my bestie lucy @jondrettegirls <3. there are lots of things i love about it (which makes sense, like lucy and i are friends in part bc we have such similar tastes w this kind of thing) but one way in which it stands out is that it's the only fic i can think of that i've read that has examination of the concept of beauty as it relates to both normative cultural ideals and to exr as a prevalent theme.

and some other shorter fics i've really liked include thorns and all (which i found bc i was curiously looking through the exr hanahaki tag. this was the only one in it that i particularly enjoyed and oh my god. parts of it made me so insane), put to the sword (among other things in this fic, i love how weird r is about spirituality! just like me fr), and into the light (which is as close as any fic comes to being My ExR Canon tbh).

hope you enjoy!

[beesbeesdragons]

I have a new series on ao3! Go check it out!

I spend like a paragraph ranting about clothing. And another about candles. It's a fun time!

[bekkahco]

Orphan your fics. Just orphan them. Don't delete them. Please.

[cakemousse]

hey is anyone else's history not updating on ao3?

[927roses-and-stuff]

my first ever recorded fanfic read on ao3 🫢🫢

kinda wish ffn and/or quotev had this feature lol what was 2011/2012 me reading lol

[icarus-suraki]

I don't like wading into Ao3 debates, but I want to give my professional opinion on Ao3 with regard to archives vs. libraries.

I am a professional librarian (MSLS) and I have worked in both archives and public libraries and a lot of the confusion and concern I see surrounding Ao3 is a fundamental misunderstanding of How Archives Work.

An archive is a collection related to a subject. That subject is often a person but sometimes a field or concept or project. And the purpose of an archive is to keep everything. And I mean everything. I was going to say "short of biohazards" but since I know there's a sealed R. Crumb Devil Gal chocolate bar in the UNC Chapel Hill archives, we really do mean everything.

When a collection of materials--which are usually unique and original and can be photos, manuscripts, letters, recordings (audio and/or visual), notes and notebooks, objects, published books, whatever--on and/or from the subject arrive at the archive, they are examined, preserved for longevity, accessioned and cataloged (added to the archive's records), and added to the archive. You measure collections in linear feet. As in, once it's all preserved and boxed and secure, you note how many feet of shelf space it takes up. And some of y'all on Ao3 have a lot of linear feet to your name (and I'm proud of you).

This is an archive: it is designed to preserve the original materials related to a subject. That is its purpose. Archives are how we have the original scroll manuscript of On the Road, for example, or the Lomax recordings of American folksongs, or Tijuana Bibles, or James Joyce's loveletters to Nora.

Now you, a member of the public, can access some archives. Some are easier to access than others. The one I worked in was open to the public; good luck getting into the British Archives without a good reason.

So now apply this to Ao3--which is an archive both in name and in purpose. It is intended to preserve fan-created content long term. And this means everything, whether you personally like the materials or not. It is a repository for as much as possible.

And the "whether you personally like the materials or not" is important, hence why I mentioned Jim's loveletters and Tijuana Bibles in particular. (RIP Jim, you would have loved pegging.)

If it's made by fans and it exists, we should keep it to document the history and progression of fandom. That is the point. We have lost enough materials related to the subject of fans of media and we don't need to lose any more.

The fact of the matter is that Ao3 is only one facet of the OTW, which preserves other fan-related materials (convention booklets and zines, for example). Somehow Ao3, an archive on the subject of fanfiction, has been divorced from the rest of the project, mostly by way of "purity culture" and panic over "dangerous" fiction.

The fact that you can go through an archive and find interesting information is the other side of archives. No, they shouldn't be like the banker's box of old letters stuffed in my closet. Yes, they should be organized and as accessible as is appropriate for the state of the materials.

It's really, really cool to find stuff in an archive, I'm not even going to lie. I have done it before and I will do it again. And yet there are other items in an archive that I might not want or need or be interested in at all--but they're still there. That's the cataloging and accessioning: to keep up with what's there, to stay "on topic" with collecting, and to be able to find things in that archive. Bless the tag wranglers who are doing the cataloging at Ao3.

The pearl clutching seems to come from 1. the creation of "dangerous" fanworks and 2. public access to those "dangerous" fanworks. These are issues of "purity culture" and opinions on censorship and should not involve Ao3.

Ao3, under the umbrella of the OTW, is a documentation and preservation project first and foremost.

[charlotte-lancer]

Whenever I accidentally click on a fic I know I won't like, I scroll down and leave kudos before backing out so that I don't mess up the hits/kudos ratio for whoever does want to read that type of fic.

Anyway, my friend saw my kudos on a fic for a show she likes but I've never seen, and was so disappointed to find out that I had accidentally clicked on it while trying to get to one if the author's DC fics that at this point I might actually have to try the show.

[caffeiiine]

SIGHS INSANE PEOPLE.

crazy how most of us made friends on here because we were going insane about the same 2 freaks at the same time. like oh you’re up thinking about them too?

[otasnox]

oh my god im gonna explode (POSITIVE) my first follower on this account that isnt a blank blog (so. my second follower) IS LIKE THE AUTHOR OF ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR MGS FICS ON AO3??? HELLO???

LIKE??? HELLO????? hi tumblr user hannahwintour its an honor...