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Hey fyi
I'm more or less retiring this blog, it'll stay up but you're best just finding me on main @dumbass-claudia (or my other sides) there where I'll start reblogging this kind of stuff again there :)
Feel free to reblog etc but no pressure
happy birthday to these fuckers
Alec: is literally the thirstiest fucking mf on the planet. Rips his bf’s clothes apart when they started dating, fucked him while he was literally turning into a demon, had sex in a church.
Magnus:
it’s so sad to see long running sci-fi franchises like star trek and star wars collapsing under the weight of their own nostalgia
i don’t care if the hero of your new series is related to a legacy character! that shouldn’t be why i care about them either! imo it’s a major symptom of the commodification of art, where studios are terrified to branch out from a tried and true formula and do something new because art isn’t about telling stories or evoking feelings it’s about making money. like yeah having spock or obiwan kenobi there gets people’s butts in the seats but are you actually telling a new story or just using that pre-existing emotional connection to get the audience to care about your story instead of putting in the effort to build a new one?
One thing that, in retrospect, I really admired about TNG is that they went out of their way to have as few references to The Original Series as possible until quite late in its run, to the point that it frustrated much of the audience. Like, even though they have McCoy in the first episode, it's a cameo and they even don't call him by name. It takes almost three seasons for *anyone* from TOS to appear in a plot relevant way, and even then it's just Sarek rather than any of the main characters.
But pretty much all of the new series lean heavily into canon. "Discovery" needed to make Michael Burnham Spock's adoptive sister, even though it was mostly detrimental to her ability to stand as her own character in the first season; "Picard" is...well...about Picard; "Lower Decks" throws in continuity references even when they're kind of nonsensical; "Prodigy" is about a bunch of alien teenagers on the far side of the Galaxy who have even heard if the Federation, but they need a hologram of Janeway just to draw it the legacy views; and I worry that "Strange New Worlds" is going to suffer from increasing TOS-creep as it goes forward. Don't get me wrong, I actually like all of the shows; but it would be really nice if there was one that was just, like...the next *next* generation, featuring an all-new ship and a new crew and only tenuous connections to existing continuity.
A few of these are probably referring to the date posting bug thing, but AAAAAAAAAAAH!
I beg of all the younger folks on Ao3 to understand two things:
There is no algorithm on that site.
Unlearn the attention-hungry bullshit that social media has taught you.
Do not repost the same work multiple times on AO3, or change the date/time to put you back at the top of the list, to boost your stats. Do not post new chapters of a chaptered work as individual stories. These things are extremely rude and people who are angry at you will not want to read your stories.
DO REBLOG everything on tumblr because that is the only way this site functions. On tumblr, YOU are choosing what your followers see. They see what you reblog. They don’t see what you like. There’s also no algorithm robot AI whatever seeing what you like and showing you related comment. NOTHING HAPPENS to likes that affects what content ANYONE on this website sees.
DO SHARE stories you like on AO3 with others, perhaps by sharing them with your Tumblr followers. AO3 has features specifically for this purpose. Fic recs are a wonderful way for fanfiction to get more attention, because, as we’ve discussed, there is no algorithm on AO3. AO3 is the opposite of TikTok.
[ID: the first nine images from the first post are screenshots of, presumably, tags, summaries, or author’s notes from archive of our own. from top to bottom, they say,
(1) First work, not a fanfiction- Hope this gets thrusted into the AO3 algorithm and someone finds it, lol-
(2) I have no idea how the AO3 algorithm works at all (or just AO3 in general) but it’s quite likely no one’s gonna see this… Unless you have! And if you’re reading this right now, thank you so much for reading the little short story I put together!!
(3) If you wanna see more of this, be sure to give a kudos and subscribe and all that stuff cause damn rhe ao3 algorithm or whatever its spelled is so weird about new fics??
(4) EDIT: yes I’m reposting because the ao3 algorithm at 1am does no favors
(5) Going to be writing one shots to get better at writing and learning the AO3 algorithm! I’m happy to say that this is one of my favorite works to date (granted, I only have one other work) and it holds a special place in my heart!
(6) i spent a week writing this fic please be nice to me ao3 algorithm,
(7) btw: this is a repost of a fic i posted earlier today, I believe there’s something wrong with the tagging/ao3 algorithm so I’d like to test it out with the same fic.
(8) This was so hard to tag for because I didn’t want to put too many spoilers. There are so many tags I wanted to include but decided against so hopefully, this is still reaching the right people in the ao3 algorithm
(9) Also doremy has totally adopted dream world sumireko don’t @ me. or do. comments are good for the ao3 algorithm.
the last image is a meme of an old woman saying, “There’s no AO3 algorithm and there’s no Tumblr algorithm.” /end ID]
thanks for the ID!
Friends if you search or sort on AO3 you see everything there is in the order you chose
If you don’t change anything about your search you see every. single. work. with that tag in reverse chronological order
There is no algorithm. You choose exactly what you want to see and what you don’t. So does everyone else
Searching for Steve Rogers/Bucky Barns will bring up every stucky fic ever posted. Excluding the character Tony Stark from that search thru the filter bar shows all stucky fics that Tony isn’t tagged in. In our world of algorithms it’s kind of unbelievable that you get what you search for, but it’s true on AO3
Also, AO3 does not index work contents for searches! Searches only work on tags, titles, authors, and metadata. Not even fic summaries are searchable. Keep this in mind when tagging–tag what will help people who are interested find your fic.
AO3 isn’t social media. It isn’t a search engine.* It doesn’t guess what you or others want to see.
AO3 is an archive. Its search system has one goal: to find what you typed in the box. It’s for collecting and preserving, not generating revenue from content or keeping you reading longer and longer.**
Tbh, AO3 is one of the few sites left that asks you what you want and trusts you to know how to ask. Input = output, not input=what we wish you really meant cause it connects to advertising.
If you don’t like what you see, change your search/filter. AO3 will listen.
*technically it is, but it’s not like Google or other browser engines as it doesn’t reorder results for you
**while you may experience being unable to stop reading on AO3, that really on you, babe. AO3 isn’t psyching you into it #correlationnotcausation
Hey fyi
I'm more or less retiring this blog, it'll stay up but you're best just finding me on main @dumbass-claudia (or my other sides) there where I'll start reblogging this kind of stuff again there :)
Hey fyi
I'm more or less retiring this blog, it'll stay up but you're best just finding me on main @dumbass-claudia (or my other sides) there where I'll start reblogging this kind of stuff again there :)
Hey fyi
I'm more or less retiring this blog, it'll stay up but you're best just finding me on main @dumbass-claudia (or my other sides) there where I'll start reblogging this kind of stuff again there :)
Hey fyi
I'm more or less retiring this blog, it'll stay up but you're best just finding me on main @dumbass-claudia (or my other sides) there where I'll start reblogging this kind of stuff again there :)
Now that Ponk has put in her instagram bio that she uses all pronouns, I better see the same energy and support towards her as all of the white gays in this fandom give to Eret. Being a POC on the internet is hard, and being a POC that doesn’t conform to traditional gender norms like single pronouns is probably difficult in a way few of us can understand. I’m so proud of them for coming out and living their truth, and we as a community need to show them our love
Hey fyi
I'm more or less retiring this blog, it'll stay up but you're best just finding me on main @dumbass-claudia (or my other sides) there where I'll start reblogging this kind of stuff again there :)
Hey fyi
I'm more or less retiring this blog, it'll stay up but you're best just finding me on main @dumbass-claudia (or my other sides) there where I'll start reblogging this kind of stuff again there :)
Hey fyi
I'm more or less retiring this blog, it'll stay up but you're best just finding me on main @dumbass-claudia (or my other sides) there where I'll start reblogging this kind of stuff again there :)
Hey fyi
I'm more or less retiring this blog, it'll stay up but you're best just finding me on main @dumbass-claudia (or my other sides) there where I'll start reblogging this kind of stuff again there :)
Hey fyi
I'm more or less retiring this blog, it'll stay up but you're best just finding me on main @dumbass-claudia (or my other sides) there where I'll start reblogging this kind of stuff again there :)
Hey fyi
I'm more or less retiring this blog, it'll stay up but you're best just finding me on main @dumbass-claudia (or my other sides) there where I'll start reblogging this kind of stuff again there :)
Hey fyi
I'm more or less retiring this blog, it'll stay up but you're best just finding me on main @dumbass-claudia (or my other sides) there where I'll start reblogging this kind of stuff again there :)