BethLeeHam

🧡💛🤍🩵💙 20 She/Her "Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

no, you cannot report the most disgusting and shockingly vile fanfic on ao3. ao3 will not do anything about the fic, because ao3 explicitly allows it to exist on their platform.

being completely and utterly against censorship is the main core principle of ao3.

ao3 was created specifically to host and give a platform to fics that were banned on other platforms.

therefore the most disgusting and shockingly vile fanfic you find is the exact reason why ao3 was created in the first place.

here’s the list of things you need to know about ao3 if you’re new to the platform

[scorpiaok]

A friendly PSA for everyone migrating from Wattpad to AO3!

Commenting Etiquette

No Unsolicited Concrit: Authors post fanworks for free as a hobby. Unless an author explicitly asks for constructive criticism in their notes, keep comments positive and critique-free.

Don't Like, Don't Read (DLDR): If a story, relationship, or trope bothers you, hit the back button. Leaving negative comments over subjective preferences breaks core fandom norms.

Phrase Update Requests Politely: Demanding "Update soon!" can feel transactional. Pair your excitement with appreciation for the current chapter (e.g., "Loved this chapter, can't wait to see where the story goes!").

Short Comments & Emojis Are Welcomed: You don't need to write an essay! Leaving a kudos or a single heart emoji in the comment section is a totally valid and appreciated form of comment.

Tagging & Relationships

Accurate Warning Tags: Always select the appropriate Major Archive Warnings or explicitly mark "Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings."

Distinguish / vs &: Use / strictly for romantic or sexual pairings (Character A/Character B). Use & exclusively for platonic or familial relationships (Character A & Character B).

Site Rules & Features

No Monetization: AO3 is a non-profit archive run entirely on donations. Selling physical copies anywhere on your profile or story text violates TOS and risks account suspension.

Public vs. Private Bookmarks: Bookmarks are public by default, and authors can see everything written in them. If you use bookmarks for personal ratings, critical notes, or reading progress, remember to check the Private box.

AND DON´T USE AI.

[bebx]

[writingdose]

a million times this. “I don’t like these xyz fics” then don’t read them. THEY ARE NOT FOR YOU!!!!!!! no one forces you to read anything you don’t want to read. no one forces you to consume art you don’t enjoy. it’s so easy to click that mute or block button. instead of insulting fanfics or fan art for not fitting your personal liking, either choose something that does fit your personal liking, or write the fic you want to read yourself / draw the art you want to consume yourself.

fanfic writers and fan artists create as THEIR hobbies. they create for themselves and their own enjoyment. they don’t create for strangers’ approval

[001x456]

fanfic writers and fan artists are carrying fandoms. they are the backbone of fandoms.

thank you fanfic writers and fan artists

[bisexual-horror-fan]

[gjdraws]

I'm sure I've left some people out because I slapped this together in 15 minutes but it's a whole lot more, imo artists and writers are nothing without these other guys (gn)

It's an ecosystem guys, we need all of it

[gjdraws]

[nn-ee-zz]

The first depiction of Mary and Jesus

[ctrl-shift-alt-9]

Aerospace Engineer Looks at SM-13 for the First Time

So, I'm friends with someone who makes airplanes for a living. They wish to remain anon. I tossed them some SM-13 renders to see if they could make anything of it (for wiki purposes), and got this in response...

The only thing left they had to say:

[prokopetz]

One of my favourite bits of media history trivia is that back in the Elizabethan period, people used to publish unauthorised copies of plays by sending someone who was good with shorthand to discretely write down all of the play's dialogue while they watched it, then reconstructing the play by combining those notes with audience interviews to recover the stage directions; in some cases, these unauthorised copies are the only record of a given play that survives to the present day. It's one of my favourites for two reasons:

It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and

Imagine being the 1603 equivalent of the guy with the cell phone camera in the movie theatre, furtively scribbling down notes in a little book and hoping Shakespeare himself doesn't catch you.

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Thou wouldst not downloadeth a car

[memory--box]

to anyone who missed it:

blorbo - a favourite character

glup shitto - star wars names are fucking nonesense

eeby deeby - youre going to hell

plinko horse - a horse that was stuck in a plinko board

scrimblo bimblo - super smash bro fans can be very angry when characters aren't in a game

[feyariel]

Me, so I can view the original meme:

[thetum-blrdictionary-deactivated]

bonus:

[memory--box]

People keep tagging this as educational and I don't know what to do or think about that.

[thescaredfluid]

Glossary of Terms

[dovewithscales]

I don’t know if I should be amused or distressed by the realization that someday this post will probably be useful to linguists.

[heptadecagon-studios]

Hi, linguist here. It is

[adamonstro]

Im so sorry Damian I cant believe that bitch (👈me before reading comics with Damian) used to dislike you

[friendly-asteroid]

Who wants to see my cat totally brave and not at all scared at the vet

[friendly-asteroid]

Excellent. Here she is, being super brave:

[totallyuniquelily]

[plagueislost]

happy birthday tim!

[pluubyy]

human sickness very leaky very disgust

[wiltkingart]

from the bottom of my heart: just because something makes you uncomfortable doesn't mean it shouldn't be allowed to exist

[ischleepzzz]

"But what about <thing that literally kills people>?"

[firedragon1321]

This was on a non rebloggable post so I'm setting it free.

[papayafromtv]

Jason lying to Damian for fun in the league because he’s never had a little brother before and he doesn’t know what else to do.

Jason: you know your name wasn’t always Damian.

Damian: ?

Jason: yeah up until you were four you were called Melissa.

Damian: shut up. no i wasn’t.

Jason, deadly serious: no, genuinely. you see, when you were born you looked so much like your mom that you looked like a girl, so we all thought you were female.

Damian, indignant: i don’t look female!

Jason: it’s ok- there’s nothing wrong with it, we loved you regardless.

Damian: i am a BOY.

Jason: yeah, but obviously when you’re a baby everything’s really tiny, so we couldn’t see your dick and we thought you might be a girl. so we named you Melissa. wasn’t until you were four that it grew enough that we noticed the mistake and changed you to Damian.

Damian, distraught: THAT’S NOT TRUE.

Jason: you responded to Melissa until you were four- sometimes i say Melissa out of habit and you don’t even notice.

Damian: what- no you don’t!

Jason, gaslighting: yeah, you just don’t notice. you just hear your name and don’t pay any more attention.

Damian, stomping his foot: YOU’RE LYING.

Jason: go ask your mom if you don’t believe me, i don’t know what to tell you.

*two hours later, Talia comes into Jason’s room with a sobbing Damian on her hip, crying into her shoulder*

Talia, exasperated to hell and back: Jason. you weren’t even here when Damian was an infant.

Jason, grinning widely: yeah i know.

[tae-shimura-is-my-wife]

One of my various favorite things about ichiruki is how casual their relationship is, independant of the circumstances Ichigo and Rukia will always be in tune and they always know what to say to one another same if they spent months or years apart.

[thealogie]

I need to process it because I literally JUST saw it but I think a couple of the things that made the odyssey kind of not land for me emotionally are that Nolan as always just can’t write women that well and Odysseus didn’t have interiority. I liked Penelope but her beat at the end of the day was “I want Odysseus” and that would still work if, on the flip side, Odysseus was equally yearning so their stories were equally about each other. Does he yearn for Penelope? Does he love Eurylochus? Does it hurt when his men say they want to cast him off, do they repair that betrayal when he chooses to save them from Cersei anyway? Idk we breeze past these emotional beats. He’s always doing some shit because he thinks it’s the right thing to do. Greek heroes should be pathetic yearners