It's Morbin Time.

Lizzie Bordening the shit out of this thing.

[wiigiwaamcore]

“The original orgies and bizarre sex were perfectly sufficient” I am always saying this

[wiigiwaamcore]

Oh this is also extremely me

[xenomaoism]

I fucking hate egg discourse, people are all "respect other peoples genders" until theres someone gender nonconforming or even just someone not actively thinking all the time about how to best conform to societal expectations just minding their own business and suddenly the most "woke" people you know will just start misgendering them, assuming they are the only ones who can truly know someone elses "true" gender, instead of like... the person they're talking about.

I genuinely think that it would be a step in the right direction if we were to start to only talk about eggs in retrospect, to only label our own past selves as eggs, because that's how they actually work: They can only be identified in retrospect, after cracking.

[commiegoth]

The estate of Screaming Mad George announced today that he passed earlier this year in February. Screaming Mad George was an artist known for his surrealistic special effects work in music videos and films like A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 and 4, Society, Bride of Re-Animator, The Guyver, and Freaked. You can find the full statement from his estate here.

[amillionmagpies]

Btw, that idea that privilege makes you morally evil and suffering makes you morally good is just repackaged versions of the Christian concepts of the evils of luxury and the holiness of martyrdom. Hope this helps!

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

I don't think people who come from wattpad after the purge and now want ao3 to have its own official app understand that one of the main reasons behind the recent wattpad purge that drove them to ao3 was due to pressure from appstore demanding wattpad to be more strict and follow appstore's policy. wattpad complied in order for its app to be able to remain on appstore. thus the wattpad purge.

ao3 doesn't have an app because for it to have an app, appstore will have to approve it first. and if, hypothetically, ao3 needs appstore to approve it, it will also have to abide by appstore's pro-censorship stance and start banning dark and taboo fics, which is against its own core principle of being completely against censorship.

ao3 doesn't need an app. it works more than fine without an app. the reason ao3 can allow dark and taboo fics, the reason it can allow the most disgusting and shockingly vile fics, and be completely against censorship is because it doesn't need appstore's approval. it stands on its own as a non-profit organization with functioning site and a team of lawyers protecting its platform, its users, and every single fanwork on its platform.

everybody say thank you ao3

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

[oldcoyote]

if you ever doubt that your ao3 comments matter or mean something: i have been struggling with my writing for 6 months straight, crying myself to sleep afraid that i will never be able to write again, that the thing i love most in the world has left me, that my writing is just gone

this morning i got this comment:

and after i stopped blubbering over it, i picked up my writing notebook, and re-read all my fic research, and opened up my document again for the first time in weeks without being afraid of it

you have no idea how much writers treasure every single comment we get. you have no idea how big an impact you can have. sometimes, just sometimes, your one "insignificant" comment changes everything

[badwolfkaily]

This.

[strongwomenunited]

I don’t know about others but the only reason I put both is so that whichever someone clicks on, they will find my fic. So if there is supposed to be rules, I guarantee you that no writer knows these ones. We can barely get people to comment, you think we’re going to specifically choose & or / ? Hell no.

[beatrice-otter]

I’ve been in fandom for twenty years, and “/” means romance and “&” means no romance was literally one of the first things I learned. It dates back to Star Trek fanfiction of the 70s. I’m boggled by the fact that anyone who’s been reading fic on AO3 for more than like five minutes wouldn’t know that, and I’m curious as to what fanfic community you come out of.

I don’t think that tagging with both is actually going to get your fic in front of more readers. People looking for romance often exclude the “&” tag if there are too many gen fics tagged with both. People looking for gen often exclude the “/” tag if there are too many fics with both. So rather than putting your fic in front of twice the people, you are in fact more likely to get your target audience ignoring your fic because it has a tag they don’t want.

Also, by overtagging you are more likely to annoy potential readers away from your fic than entice them. A fic tagged both & and / better have both romance and a ton of platonic interaction between the two characters, like a slow burn romance friends-to-lovers arc. If it isn’t, I’m going to be very unhappy because the author lied to me with the tags to try and trick me into reading a fic with deceptive advertising.

When I’m in a fandom and see tagging where some of the tags don’t really apply and are just there to get it in front of more eyes, I’m going to assume one of two things. Either the author is a newb who doesn’t know anything, or the author is purposefully spamming the tags because they don’t care about lying to their potential audience and think that “spray and pray” is an effective tactic. In the first case, their writing probably will not be very good, so why bother reading their fic. In the second case, the fact that I can’t trust the tags to be accurate means I’m not going to read it to see if it’s interesting even if it has a tag I like. Chances are, that tag isn’t actually in the fic anyway, and even if it is, by spam-tagging the author is making the archive harder to use for everybody. Why would I reward bad behavior with attention? No. Far better to mute the author and move on.

[mylordshesacactus]

More to the point--and no, I will never stop harping on this, because we have GOT to stop leaving our strongest points in the drawer--it doesn't matter if you heard of this convention before joining AO3 or not, because it's in AO3's tagging FAQ.

[id: the "How do I tag a romantic or platonic relationship?" section of the tagging FAQ here.]

"But Jo," you may argue, because you're wrong. "There's no way to find that without digging through site FAQ menus, and that's really inaccessible!"

sure

except

that when you go to post a new fic, and you go to put in those relationship tags, you see this

[id: the Relationships field]

and that tooltip, the one THERE TO EXPLAIN HOW THE FIELD WORKS, links to the Relationships segment of the tag FAQ, which explicitly lays this shit out.

I don't care if you don't know fandom history. I don't care if you've never heard a goddamn word about the spirk shippers. I don't care if you've never been exposed to fandom culture in your life. It is, frankly, not fair to expect those things of everyone.

What is entirely fair to expect is that you will READ THE INSTRUCTIONS PRINTED NEXT TO THE FUCKING BOX, actually. Forget fandom conventions. It genuinely doesn't matter whether you agree with or respect fandom conventions. This is a site policy. This is explicitly how tagging on AO3, specifically, works.

[raevenlywrites]

Someone comes to you for ice cream. You tell them your sundae has chocolate and peanut butter when it in fact only has chocolate. Folks who want just chocolate aren't going to order it. Folks who want just peanut butter aren't going to order it. Folks who want peanut butter and chocolate are going to be disappointed there's no peanut butter. Tags are an ingredients list. It's not that hard.

[daughterofscotland]

If you don't understand tagging on AO3 when you've been on there, posting, for more than a couple months, it's a skill issue on your part

[doomhamster]

AO3 DOES NOT HAVE AN ALGORITHM. Okay? You can't game it.

Tagging both / and &, or tagging pairings and characters whom the fic isn't actually ABOUT (hint: the fact C/D are dating in your fic doesn't mean you should tag them if all the action is focused on A/B) is, as mentioned above, just going to piss people off, and it's not going to get you more "exposure".

[animentality]

[captain-price-returns]

[yookay-times]

[gossipgurlingursht]

Hmmmmm....

[shencomix]

Here's everything posted publicly so far of my new comic, The Boy From Venus!

Ngl this is mostly to show off the cute over I made, but also if you missed any of these you get to see them here!

[thatrandombystander]

Maleficent describing taking over Disney Castle as a property venture is hilarious. Why does she know what real estate is

[houseofsannae]

She's the Mistress of All Evil, and that includes land ownership and rent-seeking

[homunculus-argument]

fucking hate it when fruit flies come at your face like "I pray I won't be killed 🥺🥺 for the crime of being small 🥺🥺🥺" like motherfucker if you think I'd hesitate to kill something twice my size if it tried to get into my nostril

[outofcontextdnd]

“You’re going to unionize the ghosts?”

[unforth]

Actually I love voting for the lesser evil. It's less evil. I support that whole heartedly.

[unforth]

Like. Less evil is clearly a better option that more evil. I don't get why this is even a question.

[captain-price-returns]

Diversity of right wing thought on display

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

not to "trying to be chill but can't help noticing how misogyny bleeds through the cracks etc etc" but once you realize that almost none of the cute disney comic relief sidekicks are women you can't unsee it. like that thing only exists to do some slapstick and look cute for plushies. why can't it be a woman. why are ALL of them he/him. it's driving me fucking insane

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

I would like to formally apologize to everyone. I had no idea what consequences my actions would create but I should have been more careful anyway. I should have remembered this is a Genie Website and I should have clarified that when I want more female nonhuman comedic relief characters, I did not mean I wanted Olaf the Snowman to have an intensely heterosexual love interest in Frozen 3. I will do my best to go through each post with a team of lawyers going forwards to ensure this never happens again.