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hello! my name is SIRIUS. ^w^ you can also call me KIIBO*! my pronouns are they/he/she/it, as well as a long list of neopronouns. *or any other kin name of mine that you know of. :3

#KI.👾#kin blog #kinblr #f/o #fictional other #yumeship #yumejoshi #yumeshipping #yumeblr #self shipping #selfship #selfshipping community #objectum #techum #objectosexuality #robosexuality #robot lover

ao3commentoftheday

you're not turning your fandom hobby into a job are you? giving yourself deadlines and quotas that you have to meet? focusing on the numbers instead of your enjoyment of the act of creation?

ao3commentoftheday

you're not taking your love of something and using it as a tool to hurt yourself are you? loving it so hard that you forget to take care of yourself? telling yourself that people only care about you because of what you make and that they'll stop if you take a break? pushing yourself to work instead of rest so that the thing that used to give you joy and energy is now also burning you out, like everything else?

androdragynous

"what's the worst thing you can do as an artist" is not "shade with black" or "not use references" or whatever the worst thing you can do as an artist is hate yourself. and that includes the person you used to be

androdragynous

"look at how bad my old art is" "this was so cringe" "it's embarrassing to look at this" what are you gaining here? belatedly being your own bully? is it more acceptable to hate a kid if it's the kid you used to be? shut the fuck up. be kind to yourself or don't say anything at all. people are really not laughing with you when you mock yourself and if they are maybe consider hanging out with nicer people. imo.

androdragynous

this also goes for having your personal blog tags be like "nobody cares (name)" or "shut up (name)" or whatever. why are you being mean to yourself. its not preventing other people from being mean to you just because you get the first shot in it just means you get shot twice. how is that better. how is any of that better

noodles-07

the symbiotic relationship between tumblr and AO3 should be studied in a lab

noodles-07

hey you. tumblr user. do you have an AO3 account

yes

no

Voting ended onMay 25, 2025

sovietpostcards

Yuri Gagarin, the hobbyist photographer, at home with his wife.

ghostedmarshmallow

Yuri Gagarin being identified only as an amateur photographer and not literally the first human in space has me on the floor

o-craven-canto

This is a good reminder that there is a lot of texture and complexity to people; every human contains lots of aspects that would be completely unrelated if not for the fact that the same person experiences them. It’s easy to forget this, and compress the people you meet into a caricature; even celebrities usually end up being famous for one thing alone. But even something as glorious as the first space travel by a living human does not fully encompass a life.

This, too, is Yuri.

viorel-lette

»┼)"Open your heart for my arrow!"♡➝

paintaya

pavlova rkgk >_<

smol-smol-baby

💘

foggity

Is it a headmate? Is it a fragment? Is it a facet? Is it a persona? Am I subconsciously masking? Am I subconsciously/involuntarily otherlinking/copinglinking? Is it a kinshift? Is it a ’flicker? Is it age regression? Is it a mood? Is it impulsivity? Is it an intrusive thought that I’m reacting to? Is it genderfluidity? Is it pronoun/namefluidity?

Who knows! Who cares! I don’t need to stress about this, it doesn’t matter! It’s a mode that the “I” is in, the way I feel in that moment! And I will make a pluralkit/tupperbox for it so I can express myself and decide the rest later! Or never! These labels are a construct! Personhood itself is a construct! I don’t need to box myselves! I can just live!

danganronpa-textposts

stupid comment i saw on youtube about white day 😭

thanks for the submission!

#KI.👾#ki.digital love #kiiruma

danganronpa-textposts

hope this hasn’t been done before… kiibo and miu are talking about each other btw

thanks for the submission!

#i never reblogged these oops #KI.👾#ki.digital love #kiiruma

chromatographic

Dear Fandom readers - an etiquette fail

AO3 is not goodreads. It is not the NYT bestseller list.

You paid no money to read these stories. They are, in fact, a labor of love, done on the off time in the off hours of people who are writing for the joy of writing and the joy of the story.

Your ratings are not appreciated. Not by other readers, who don't know you from adam. Not by fandom-savvy passerby.

And not, in fact, by the author. Who again: Wrote this for fun. In their spare time - around work, around family and friend commitments. Around the rest of their lives. Fandom clout almost never "pays off" in any monetary gains, in any form of physical or financial security.

So please stop "rating" us on something we do for joy.

Today, a fellow fanauthor shared this with me. It was not on any story of my own, but they understandably needed a moment to go "wtf" and process it all. With their permission, I now share this with you.

You won't find this comment on AO3 anymore, by the by.

I have... a lot of issues with this. First of all being something that would be a C-grade in any US school system is not a "Good Rating" for most folks, but many of my issues would be the same even in this commenter had rated this a 10/10.

It boils down to this:

Why are you grading us on something we all are here to do solely for fun and personal enjoyment? Why does it have to be good?

Why can't it just be a labor of love and of joy to be good enough for you, dear commenter?

Do I, as a fanauthor, want to write well? Sure! I do want to write good stories. But I didn't ask random readers to grade me on them. Not in bookmarks that I can easily check, and certainly not in my comments section. And I never will want them to. Every author I've talked to agrees. Is there someone out there who might want this? Sure. Most likely, even! The human experience and desires are broad and varied. But in my experience, if they do exist in Fandom, they're the vast minority. So please:

Don't.

faeriekit

This is a very often a no-payment gift economy! If you make yourself condescending down to the people writing free works for you, you may find that there's suddenly no more writing for you to read! 👀

branwyn-says

I know the culture of fandom has changed to the point that I am not up on what The Youth are doing and haven't been for awhile. That said. I am just a person who likes the same TV show as you. Talk to me like a person, not like a service provider.

chicofeels

@chromatographic I recall how someone on tumblr read one of my fanfics - they were not a friend or anything - and proceeded to write a whole essay review about it, tackling things they didn't like, fustigating the way I write, and ended the review by giving me a low rating of 5.5/10 for all their followers to see. They even went to include how they threw their phone away due to a certain scene they did not like, o.o' Someone had shared the post with me and asked me how I felt about the peep's post. I was honestly surprised with the post. I didn't take it too personally since the peep's post came off super passive aggressive due to possible personal issues and many peeps loved my fanfic. But yah, no, I wouldn't like anyone else to see their fanfics rated like that, especially out in public 'cause it can definitely impact other people's decision to give the fanfic a short or not. Heck, no one gives out ratings to fanart so why do fanfics gotta get a grade? And it was one of my fanfics that I started up after many years of not writing due to life stuff. So, of course it's not gonna be close to perfection - and that's not the point of fanfics... The last time I checked, the review is still up under their account, hahaha. Though, I haven't said anything to them directly about it, but yeah, still surprised the peep hasn't realized how wrong it is

Anyway, yeah, peeps, please don't go grading peep's work, especially don't publish those ratings. It's honestly not cool o.o. It can definitely discourage people from continuing their work. I was fortunate enough to have peeps who have shown great support and encouragment for my work which helped with my confidence to continue

mettasing

too many ppl who haven't done anything creative in their lives (or, worse, did in their perfect little bubbles) are feeling their oats, deeming their opinion important enough to release it into the wild, doing so in such contemptuous manner. you can discuss "that terrible fic" in private with your friends if you have any, if you're so inclined. i say it seriously – a reader should be grateful they have this carefully crafted work free to read instead of investing their time and brainpower into researching, thinking and writing it themselves, not disparaging and mean like some miserable karen in fast-food restaurant. they really think they can get away with being ruthless and cut-throat under the guise of anonymity and go into some power trip, calling anyone who dares to point on their antisocial antics cowards or wimps, especially when it's the author. you can tell this person doesn't respect the service workers – and, moreover, sees people around them as service workers for their lives, not someone equal.

such people are completely ignorant of the context of the social situation they squeezed themselves into, yet it's everyone else but them who are in the wrong. their behaviour would be punishable outside of the internet for example, because you absolutely cannot bring this passive-agressive, condescending, demeaning manner of speech and completely consumerist understanding of, in this situation, fandom culture into a civil discussion in a place of growth for the creators and not face the consequences. yet they do and it's somehow normal, because nowadays we only live to eat, experience easy pleasures and doing anything to be seen as well-adjusted, non-outlier, "normal" human beings.

eggy-tea

AO3 filters are incredible. The show ended over a decade ago but you're only getting around to watching it now, and you want to avoid spoilers for later seasons? No worries; you can filter out anything posted/updated after a given air date. Don't want to see crossovers? Guess what -- you don't have to. Three clicks is all it takes to make them go away. ONLY want crossovers? They've got that option, too. In a hurry and only have a few minutes to read? Filter out everything over whatever word count you consider to be "too long." Absolutely can't stand this one character/trope/relationship? Exclude, exclude, exclude. And all they ask in return is that you tag your stuff properly. Incredible.

ao3commentoftheday

If you haven't seen the filters before, you might be finding fics via searching. Search is great (and you can get *really* specific with it), but it doesn't have the quick filter menu.

Tap on a tag you're interested in reading (just at the top of a fic, for example). That will bring you to a results page that shows every fic that uses that tag. To get rid of the ones you don't want, look right above the works list to the buttons and tap on Filters. (if you're on a computer, the filters will already be there, on the right hand side of your screen).

Once you've found the filter menu, it's like the OP said. There are a *lot* of options for you to choose from. You can tap on any of them to open up a sub menu with specifics.

For relationship/character/trope tags, AO3 will automatically show you the top ten most-tagged ones within the tag you're already looking at. If the one you want to exclude isn't in that list, you can type it into the "Other tags to exclude" box and AO3 will give you a dropdown to pick from. You can add a theoretically unlimited number of tags to your exclude list, but I think it's possible to have a list that breaks things eventually. I've never personally hit it? But I bet someone out there has.

You can also Include things you want to guarantee are tagged, but be careful with that filter. Include filters stack on top of each other, so if you Include 3 different tags, you'll only get fics that have all three of them tagged. You won't get ones that have*any* of them tagged. For more info on how to do an "any of these tags" filter, see this post over here.

ao3commentoftheday

A useful thing to know about AO3 tags is that they're wrangled by humans. A human being will read your tag, understand what it means*, and then connect that tag in the backend system to other tags that mean the same thing (if there are any)

that's why, for example, the tags

not beta read

no beta

no beta we die like men

no beta we die like mne

no beta we die like [insert character who dies in canon]

unbetad

unbeta'd

unbeta-d

un-beta'd

and a million more versions are all searchable and filterable if you just tag one of them. A Tag Wrangler (the job title of a human volunteer who manages AO3 tags) has made sure that AO3 understands that those are all synonyms, so AO3 treats them that way.

When you're tagging your fic, or searching for a fic, or filtering a tag to find or remove works from the list you do not have to use every possible version of a tag. You just need to pick one - unless using more is a stylistic choice you're making, in which case have at it.

*or research what it means - which is why wranglers really appreciate it if you put (OC) behind the name of your original characters so that they don't have to scour every source they can find to see if it's a named background character in canon.

ao3commentoftheday

Let’s Talk Tumblr-Style Tags

I’ve received multiple questions about “tumblr-style” or “rambling” tags. Let’s talk about those for a minute!

How do you deal with “chatty” tags?

The same way we deal with any other tag! Honestly, the main problem with “chatty” tags is the way they tend to roll several topics into one tag. Any given tag can only be synned (attached) to one “canonical” tag. So if you mention that Harry Potter is both red-haired AND a Ravenclaw in your tag, I can’t attach it to both Red-Haired Harry Potter and Ravenclaw Harry Potter, so it gets attached to neither. I don’t care how long or weird your tags are, as long as they only talk about one topic! I deal with them just fine.

When people talk in the tags as they might in Tumblr tagging, does that make your job more difficult?

Nope! Long tags are no harder to wrangle than short ones. And if you’re not saying anything of substance, that’s easy for me to handle; it’s not really my problem, frankly. You’re much more likely to be bothering readers, who probably don’t want to read a long ramble of tags to figure out what’s in your works. But it doesn’t make wrangling harder!

I’ve seen people complain about Tumblr-style “rambling” in additional tags, but the ranters have never identified themselves as wranglers. Is there a majority opinion about unwrangleable tags among wranglers (omg “wrangle” doesn’t even look like a word anymore)? How do you handle these tags in your work?

Years and years ago I saw a callout culture post telling everyone to stop using the AO3 tags like their tumblr ones, i.e. using them to have rambles and ‘feels’, and that it was causing the site and staff problems. It was written very rudely but has always stuck with me. Stopping short of the obnoxious, does this mess your guys good work up? Is there anything you wish we knew when we’re tagging a new work?

Personally, I still use some slightly chatty tags on my own works! Continuing the Harry Potter examples, I might tag something like “Harry Potter remains a total disaster” because I know that it can easily be synned to “Human Disaster Harry Potter” while making it clear to my readers that this is an ongoing theme. Again, the frustration with chatty tags among wranglers is mainly about the multiple-topic tags. We want to make your works filterable! Tags about how Harry Potter is a human disaster AND bisexual AND an auror can’t be attached to any of those tags, and so are not filterable.

The same thing applies to tags that are broken into two. You probably don’t realize it, but wranglers see tags totally divorced from their context! They show up in columns of text, on our end. So if you tag “#Harry Potter is so very gay #and so is Ron” they’ll show up separate from each other…. then “and so is Ron” will not be attached to “Gay Ron Weasley,” which is a pity for anyone looking for him! Each tag needs to have one concept, which means one full concept. All the facts in one place!

We leave these no-concept or multi-concept tags “unfilterable,” which means it’s in the fandom, but not attached to anything. They’re not hard to handle, but they make us sad, because we’d like to make them filterable and can’t. Of course, if you don’t care if your works are filterable, then carry right on, you poetic and noble land-mermaids.

Chatty tags don’t mess us up. They can be exhausting from the sheer volume sometimes, but that’s okay! I don’t think anyone enjoys wrangling them, but they’re not the end of days for us. I think they’re actually worse from your end as a reader, because it can be hard to sort through a wall of tags to figure out what’s actually useful information, rather than complaining about [being up until 3 am/having writer’s block/hating that one character so so much/etc etc].

What wranglers wish taggers knew about Tumblr-style tags:

Here’s the takeaway: it’s fine to be chatty! All I ask is that you please try to keep each tag to one concept, and be aware of how many tags you’re using. Not just for the wrangler’s sake, but for your reader’s. Consider if the information you’re putting in the tags belongs there, for filtering or informational purposes, or if what you’re saying might not be better suited to an Author’s Note at the beginning of the chapter. And if you wouldn’t put it in your AN… why are you putting it in the tags?

- Guest Mod Pepper

(Ask me a question here! | Disclaimer: I speak only for myself; if you need an official AO3 response on an issue, you should contact Support.)

ao3commentoftheday

A useful thing to know about AO3 tags is that they're wrangled by humans. A human being will read your tag, understand what it means*, and then connect that tag in the backend system to other tags that mean the same thing (if there are any)

that's why, for example, the tags

not beta read

no beta

no beta we die like men

no beta we die like mne

no beta we die like [insert character who dies in canon]

unbetad

unbeta'd

unbeta-d

un-beta'd

and a million more versions are all searchable and filterable if you just tag one of them. A Tag Wrangler (the job title of a human volunteer who manages AO3 tags) has made sure that AO3 understands that those are all synonyms, so AO3 treats them that way.

When you're tagging your fic, or searching for a fic, or filtering a tag to find or remove works from the list you do not have to use every possible version of a tag. You just need to pick one - unless using more is a stylistic choice you're making, in which case have at it.

*or research what it means - which is why wranglers really appreciate it if you put (OC) behind the name of your original characters so that they don't have to scour every source they can find to see if it's a named background character in canon.

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