[grimbaloooveeroon]

Removing the DNI cuz it’s pointless may or may not be updated

[alterhumanity-positivity]

It's okay to not use any label to describe your identity or experiences. If you don't find a label comfortable, you don't have to use it. Being unlabeled doesn't erase your identity and experiences.

[bai-xue]

“You are responsible for the minors in your fandom!!!”

No, I’m fucking not. I’m not your parent. My past-times do not automatically sign me up to act in loco parentis. If you need someone else to monitor your own content consumption online, go get mommy and/or daddy to set up a content blocker on your computer.

[elder-millennial-trash]

Louder for the minors in the back, please.

[mirrorstone]

What I’m responsible for in my fandom:

1. Making a good faith effort to include relevant and informative tags and labels on my creative works.

2. Making a good faith effort to use the “author chose not to warn” rating, a “contains potentially upsetting content” note, cuts or community ratings, or otherwise indicating that there might be untagged, triggering content if I’m not up to or don’t want to tag it.

3. Being a good fandom citizen; not sending death threats or hate, not bullying people, being kind and thoughtful to those I interact with, and leaving alone things that would prompt me to act otherwise.

4. Curating my own experience; not engaging with people or material that I know will be harmful or upsetting to me, disengaging when I realize that something is harmful or upsetting to me, and using tools such as blocklists and tag filters to hide content I don’t want to see.

5. Doing the opposite of whatever the fuck bullshit is going on in tiktok at all times.

[niuniente]

Being a good fandom citizen; not sending death threats or hate, not bullying people, being kind and thoughtful to those I interact with, and leaving alone things that would prompt me to act otherwise.

It is simply JUST that easy. All the fandom shit exists because people choose to behave badly and it’s too often younger ones holding fandom spaces as societal influence & activism spaces instead of a HOBBY SPACES.

[ironyquotes]

We stress too much for a life that can end at any time.

[captainofthetidesbreath]

is that piece of media actually bad, or is it just not following the blueprint you projected onto it? is that work actually not good, or are you just demanding something from it that is absolutely antithetical to its themes, genre, tone, and narrative goal? is that story actually poorly written, or do you just dislike that it is not the specific things you wanted from it that it never set out to be, never was, and never is going to become? is it actually bad, or is it actually well-executed and you just dislike the story it chose to be because it isn't catering to your specific desires and expectations?

[xo-gravekandy]

To any minors on this app, please take a sec to stop scrolling

If an adult is stalking your profile and saying nasty things to try and get you to respond, don't engage with them. Block and report them. Responding and trying to "win" the argument only gives them what they want.

Imagine. A grown adult starting beef with a kid to feel more powerful. See how pathetic that is?

No matter what any adult stranger says about you online, you're loved. Nobody is out to get you, nobody is going to hurt you. If someone threatens you with a dox, you block the person and you report them to tumblr. Do not give them any information because a lot of adults are very good at manipulating minors into giving them more information to use against them.

You have people who care about you. You have people who love you. You are not a bad person, you're growing. It's okay to grow, it's okay to make mistakes. What's not okay, is cyberstalking a kid to feel better about yourself.

If any adults reading this feel called out by this post, you're the problem babe.

You don't owe anybody your tears. Be the bigger person, be happier just for the hell of it. That is the best way to kick a petty bitch in the teeth.

You're loved.

I'm revoking my minors DNI status for this one post. Reblog the shit out of this. Tell someone they're loved today.

[olderthannetfic]

possibly adding "always exclude this warning tag" on ao3 wouldn't be as time-intensive as the blocking features? Since it'd reuse whatever code they've got for the "Show me adult content without checking" preference and just apply up to five filter tags. If they wanted to make it more complex than just the archive warnings it'd get heavy pretty fast though, and I don't know enough about the search function to know how many other things it'd affect bc touching code on big projects is always hell

--

Would that actually be the same code?

But yes, perma-exclude would be nice.

[cr3v]

User Muting will probably be coming sometime in the near future, going by this AO3 volunteer's tweets (EchoEkhi on twitter). No plans for tag blocking according to them.

Till then, I think the skins solution and ao3 savior could work? Link: How to: Block fanfics/tags/users & Hide too-long tag fields by vanetta

[ao3skin]

for the last few months I’ve used this bookmarklet here by reisling: https://archiveofourown.org/works/33825019

it allows me to save all the filters I want and then apply them with a click to any tag page I’m onto. And it works on mobile. Really really recommended.

[bug-swarm]

Permanently Block tags on AO3 - Site Skin

Tutorial on how to do it: https://archiveofourown.org/works/41214669

[ao3skin]

ok so, this is INCREDIBLY COOL and could save a lot of lives.

Ti note: :has() is a new css feature (and weirdly enough, as new as it is, Ao3 allows it in skins!!) and it’s still being implemented across browsers. it works on my safari iphone, I didn’t manage to make it work on chrome (but from what I’m reading it’s available in the beta branch), and I haven’t tried it in other browsers.

but it’s definitely worth a check if it works on your device!

Also everything is very well explained in the tutorial above.

[ao3skin]

update on how it works on various browsers as of august 2022:

Desktop browsers:

it works fine on safari both on mac and on iphone

on chrome it works in the beta pre-release version. They are going to be shipping it in the next version (105, which should go out at the end of the month.) but you can also enable it by going here: chrome://flags/#enable-experimental-web-platform-features and select ‘enabled’ to the Experimental Web Platform features

on edge and opera it is scheduled in the pre-release version. still in development. it will come eventually.

on Firefox you’ll need to go in the advanced config and enable the flag

layout.css.has-selector.enabled

Mobile Browsers:

according to canIuse only safari on iphone has it fully functioning.

And Chrome for Android has it in the pre-release version which should be out soon.

I can’t find infos on firefox for android (but that one allows extensions, so you can use userscripts to hide tags)

Additional stuff to remember

the class selector a[href*=“whatever”] looks at the url of the link. so if you have two words you’ll need to add %20 where the space should be and *s* where the / should be (for ships). so like: a[href*=“Colin%20Bridgerton*s*Penelope%20Featherington”] (the simplest way is to go to the page of the tag you want to block and copy the text)

a “i” at the end will make it non case-sensitive (which helps btw) a[href*=“whatever” i]

tumblr always changes “” in the curly ones. but you’ll need to use the straight ones in css if you want them to work properly

it will search even part of the word. so “tick” will catch “ticket” “ticking” “tickling” “ticks” 

this won’t catch all the syns of the tags unfortunately. if you want a clean exlusion of a particular tag you still should use the filters

[sunfoxfic]

Okay, question: Should I replace letters with accents with something else? I want to filter out "Alya Césaire Bashing," but putting in "/tags/Alya%20Césaire%20Bashing/works" doesn't seem to work. Similarly, the | symbol doesn't seem to be behaving normally when I tried something with it.

(Also, theoretically it should work on Firefox Mobile but when I tried to access the about:config page on Firefox it didn't give me anything. I googled it and it should give me something, and it was very late at night when I tried it so I might have been doing something wrong.)

[electricalice]

yeah, I can confirm that both the | and the accented letters fuck with the css. so this thing won’t work with those kind of tags.

maybe you can do it with the partial “saire%20Bashing” it should take those tags.

[bug-swarm]

It absolutely works with accented characters and pipes. This is why the tutorial said to copy the link and use it, not type it yourself. Accented characters and pipes and other special characters have special encoding for urls. The link for the Alya Césaire Bashing tag is https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Alya%20C%C3%A9saire%20Bashing/works, so that accented e is encoded as %C3%A9. For pipes, it's something like %7C. Seriously, copy the link, don't try to guess how urls encode weird characters. It'll save your a headache

[proshippers-against-censorship]

I think there should be an Internet Safety Lessons So people can curate their own experience on the Internet or better yet, a reading lessons for ignorant people who don’t know how to read and respect people’s boundaries on the internet I’m seriously sick and tired of it all, I swear

Ngl as trash as the school system is, I think a mandatory internet course would be incredibly beneficial to today's society. I see waaaaayyyy too many folks giving both their full name and town away online. Stop doing that.

[raphalorem]

it doesn't matter

[proshippers-against-censorship]

As a csa victim, i will forever hate antis who pull the “we can care about two things at once :/“ card in response to victims saying irl abuse is 10000x more important than lolisho content

You cannot claim to care about victims when you are looking directly at victims & saying “ur abuse is just as harmful to you as hentai is to society”

You have the ability to use whatever time you spend fighting lolisho media to advocate for & protect actual victims, but you aren’t. You are telling people on the internet you think they’re just as bad as rapists because they potentially like hentai

This.

[transpocsuggestion]

what a beautiful day to remember that trans people of color exist and deserve better

[sassystarlightcollection-deacti]

trans people of color exist and deserve better!!!!

[thewolfofthestars]

Hey it’s Black History Month!

TRANS PEOPLE OF COLOR EXIST AND DESERVE BETTER!!!!!!!!!!!!

[the-pen-pot]

This is your semi frequent reminder that there is no official AO3 app

All those are unofficial and available on the Google play store as of August 13th 2025. They mirror AO3's content and insert ads, for which the developer gets paid by page impression (that's every time the ad appears in the fic you're reading) not just clicks.

No money goes to AO3, nor to the fic writer. It goes to the person who did the bare minimum.

Many of these apps have poorly worded or non existent privacy policies, so they may also be mining as much data as possible and selling that on to unknown third parties.

Please, just use the official AO3 site and the browser.

[master-hentaifanfiction-2]

As a guy who does Cyber IT as a living PLEASE USE THE MAIN SITE ON THE BROWSER! Do not use unofficial apps. You are opening yourselves up to a multitude of cyber threats, especially when there is no privacy policy or agreements.

[punk-jaskier]

The site is mobile optimized, and you can download the fics as PDFs or epubs if you need to read offline like on a plane, there is no reason to use a third party app.

[stillnotmollified]

some of you weren’t around for the fan fiction dot net purge of 2002 (when they banned explicit content and mass-deleted thousands of fics) and the livejournal purge of 2007 (when they deleted hundreds of blogs, disproportionately targeting queer & kink content) and it shows

this kind of policing is why ao3 was created

remember, kids, the three laws of fandom are:

- don’t like; don’t read

- your kink is not my kink

- ship and let ship

[rembrandtswife]

your kink is not my kink *but your kink is okay* don't forget that part

[apofiss]

1000 fireflies☘️ ...wallpaper size available c: LINK!

[copepods]

apprentice(s)

[crippy-tangerine]

"erm actually this thing you said you experienced, where doctors treated you wrong, is illegal!!" Do you understand that medical malpractice is a real thing and not just a plot device from House MD. You get that, right. Right??