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[marionedde]

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[alvivaarts]

AO3 is Removing 'All Media Types' without Public Input or Announcement. What Can We Do?

What's Happening?

For those who don't yet know: AO3 and the Tag Wranglers have begun to slowly remove the 'All Media Types' tag for older fandoms. Aka, removing the 'umbrella' tag for many franchises, and forcing franchises to be split by media, or to be shoved under one umbrella that does not accurately reflect the types of fics or source medias they come from. This has been slowly occurring with no official announcement, under the pretense that things will be 'easier' to manage, or that some users claimed that the 'All Media Types' tag was confusing. This has begun in secrecy, without genuine input from the userbase, and without any public announcement. (As of 9/5/2024 9:30 AM PST) Many of us are pretty confident in AO3 staff's decisions, but the fact that this decision is not only incredibly impactful, but made without public input, has deeply violated the condition of the site as an archive... an archive of OUR own.

Current seen issues and active risks:

Removal of 'All Media Types' automatically makes fics from different sources in the same franchise a 'crossover', forcing users to consider non-crossover fics 'crossovers'. So, any fanfic that spans or implements elements from multiple pieces of media in a franchise are now considered a 'crossover', despite being from the same franchise and not a crossover.

Removal of 'All Media Types' forces users to manually search for the fics and ships they want one by one through each fandom tag in a related franchise. (Imagine looking through all the separate DC or MARVEL movies one by one).

The 'include crossovers' and 'exclude crossovers' filters are now useless, and removing genuine crossovers (crossovers between franchises) must be done manually through the filter system, which can take upwards of half an hour, if not longer, with the amount of one-off genuine crossovers that exist.

Slightly smaller franchises are being shoved under the umbrella of a single, super popular fandom. (See, Sherlock Holmes. All Sherlock Holmes media has been relegated to the tag 'Sherlock TV', which confuses users, as the tag now includes not only BBC Sherlock, which is the umbrella tag, but any works based off of Arthur Conan Doyle's original works, the 2009 Sherlock Holmes films, and the 16+ Sherlock Holmes adaptations and international TV shows... none of which are BBC Sherlock.)

Anime and manga fandoms (especially smaller ones) are being automatically split by media type, without regard to the fact that many anime and manga adaptations are very similar, and/or authors tend to often implement elements from both anime and manga.

As far as we are aware, no one is going to be correcting any improper sorting resulting from this.

Accounts that are no longer active/accessible, memorial accounts, and orphaned fics and no longer be corrected by their original authors and are at risk of being misplaced into incorrect fandom tags. Unfortunately, no one can fix this but the tag wranglers, who were supposedly removing 'All Media Types' in the first place to prevent MORE work. Counter intuitive, isn't it?

Already, fandoms are being improperly split, others being improperly merged, and still more being far more confusingly sorted. This deeply damages AO3's integrity as an ARCHIVE.

What Can I Do?

As soon as it's back up again, make sure to stop by the Contact Support page! There, you're able to let them know exactly how you feel about this, and what fandoms your fear will be impacted by these changes. Many already have been.

In the meantime, make sure to contact AO3 on Twitter (or X): ao3org (AO3's general twitter page), ao3_wranglers (AO3's tag wrangler page), and OTW_news (the parent host of AO3).

There is also tumblr: ao3org (AO3's tumblr page) and transformativeworks (OTW's tumblr page).

And finally, the Organization for Transformative Works contact page.

If you are aware of any additional medias, please add them below to ensure that AO3 thoroughly understands the negative impact of this decision, especially the violation of trust resulting from making such a massive choice without impact. Be sure to share this information elsewhere, repost, share the links, and make a stink. Furthermore, if you are able, letting AO3 know that you are no longer comfortable financially supporting them in the future.

Be sure to also repost and list any fandoms you have personally noticed have been impacted by this change!

Already Impacted Fandoms:

MARVEL, MCU, Marvel Comics, Avengers, and related tags

Any Sherlock Holmes based Media

A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon)

World of Warcraft

Assassin's Creed

Monogatari

BanG Dream!

Jujutsu Kaisen

Disney (all media, now: Disney Theatrical Animated Universe)

DC and DC Comics

AND MANY, MANY MORE!

[weirdozjunkary]

I feel that the Sonic fandom would heal once the majority realizes that the Sonic the Hedgehog brand is for general audiences—and that INCLUDES CHILDREN—literally never surpassing a 10+ age rating (to my knowledge), and doesn’t always need to be difficult to play or be very deep in story.

[flurry-bace]

potentially weird preference, but i love it when fanfictions swear. like dude Sonic the Hedgehog just said "fuck." the TMNT are saying "shit." this character in a piece of kids' media with horrifying subtext just said a bad word. love it.

[mettywiththenotes]

[55cdfc-f7a8b8-ffffff-f7a8b8-55cd]

I fucking love Tails and Sonic's relationship in Sonic Prime. Every single new alternate universe Sonic says "I should find Tails he'll know what's going on :) Tails is the best" and every single new alternate universe Tails has rabies.

[sonicexelle-junkary]

CURSE OF THE HEDGEHOG [MASTERPOST]

(Co-owned with @moderator-monnie )

CW: this au contains blood, body horror, eyecontact, eyestrain, disturbing imagery, and other things that may be upsetting for some audiences.

<This au is not an entire multi part series, but parts will be displayed in chronological order>

Main story- Ugly, Vessel, Hello, Daydreaming, Sleep, Oopsie, Talk,

Shitposts- Flags, StationSquare, Cat?, Please,

Non Comic’s- Beginning, Ritual, Awakening, Perdition, Dawn,

Art- Doodles, Saviour, TrueForm(New), Reference, Zeppy, Monolith,

[mizuribbons]

i was going through my camera roll, specifically the images i had saved from twitter, deleting my danganronpa images and adding a few memes to image albums that i would want to come back to later. i saw this meme with text saying "a society where autism is the norm and neurotypicalness is a minority" and i hadn't seen the image below but i thought "hah! that'd make a great sonic meme!" so i added it to an album to make into one later. moments later, i was adding another image to an album and saw the meme again. and then i realized.

it was already a sonic meme.

what the fuck

[tommyssupercoolblog]

"I don't like enemies to lovers" I say. "not really rivals to lovers either they're just not my thing."

and then the sonic fandom comes in, making me a BITCH ASS LIAR

[123-and-aubergines]

Y'all are nuts, the Knuckles series is an absolute cinematic gem and has everything a sonic movie spin off should

[literallyneurodivergentandaminor]

update to my sonic period cramps post!

since my period started i have played every sonic game i own (unleashed, sa1, sa2, 06, rush, sxsg, frontiers & the gems collection though i rlly only played spinball from that one)

and ive concluded that. the best sonic game against period cramps are sonic frontiers and shadow generations. why? because i can just run around in the open world and gather collectibles. brain off music on just weeeeeeeeeeeeee while im curled up in a blanket.

[weirdozjunkary]

I think it’s neat how the Sonic Team keep drawing Silver with apples. It fits him really well, with or without any symbolism

[akannuoli-aatteet]

Everything I know about Sonic lore is from Drawfee, Naddpod and 8-Bit Bookclub, and I have to say, that is quite a lot.

[callme-aprilroseisha04]

hot take alert: I think shadow should have hazel eyes

I mean his design is still boss, but having more orangey or hazelish eyes just makes them pop a little more.

it’s like if Sonic has blue eyes instead of green. it’s still a really really cool design, but the green just contrast a little more, y’know? (sorry for the bad editing on both of them and especially the shadow one, hopefully someone could show what I mean better)

also, shadows eyes glow orange / are highlighted orange in a lot of drawings of him. I actually thought his eyes were some flavor of hazelish orange for a long time!

yeah, I just think it looks nice and don’t wanna get arrested by the imaginary sonic police that I have my head that I have to draw these losers correctly. anyway, have fun and debate in the gulags below!

[rinomander]

sorry not sorry for putting this in everyone's face, i was messing around with dubbing with a friend last night and ive replayed this thing surely more than a dozen times im making this everyone's problem LMAO

here r the posts i got these from:

[sonicexelle-junkary]

HAZARD AU [MASTERPOST]

CW: this AU contains blood, gore, body horror, and vomiting.

Art— Reference,

Story— Part1, Part2, Part3, Part4, Part5, Part6, Part7, Part8, Part9, Part10, Part11, Part12, Part13, Part14, Part15,