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my favourite genre of fictional men are those ones who should be cool and badass because of their powers or character designs, but are pathetic instead. never had a good day in their life. an insult from a child could probably make them cry. wet paper bag men. you know the ones
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.
Want to know how to get your work found on Ao3?
Tags. While tags can be fun for meta commentary, their primary purpose is telling your potential audience what’s in the box. It’s your ingredients list, letting people who want what you got find your product (and also warns people who might need to avoid certain ingredients for their own health).
Summary! If tags are your ingredient list, then your summary is the pitch. What makes your barista/superhero/soul mates AU special? Why should readers browsing Ao3 click on your link? Hype your story!
Oh good god it's gotten worse
Okay, so I just saw a tiktok saying "hey, ao3 is not tiktok. Do not censor words, especially in the tags." I stg people are losing brain cells. The tiktoker then proceeded to show an example of the tag they saw which was:
"s..cidal ideation"
I don't know who needs to, once again, hear this, but you are stopping the tagging system, and filtration system from working.
People censor words on platforms like tiktok to stop the algorithm from picking up their video and automatically taking it down or restricting it.
A tagging system works so that other people can easily filter the content they do and don't want to see. So if some had "suicidal ideation" in their filtered tags so that they won't see things containing that subject matter, by censoring the word suicidal, you have now stopped the tagging/filtration system from working and now the individual is going to see content that they had made sure to filter out.
Please stop censoring words and/or phrases. Especially in tags. You are literally stopping the system from working and doing its job. Ao3 (and Tumblr) is not tiktok. The tags are there for a reason. Don't censor them.
There are many new friends on the archive, and many are young and have only known social media, which is why I wanted to say something!
Ao3 does not have an algorithm! It isn't a social media site, it's an archive.
Posting fics on Tumblr isn't the same as posting fics on Ao3
Ao3 is like a giant virtual bookshelf, and everyone is able to add their own stories to the bookshelf, all stored with different tags and different fandoms. Works are automatically sorted by newest to oldest, but filters, looking at bookmarks, and using the search function can change that.
Certain works are not pushed to the top like social media posts. More kudos and reads don't push a single work to more viewers by some algorithm. Unless otherwise filtered, works will be at the top of the page based on how recent it was posted.
Smaller fandoms get less views, less kudos, less bookmarks, and larger fandoms get more simply because of the number of people inside the fandom.
Ao3 is a giant virtual bookshelf- there is no algorithm, and there is no man behind the shelf pushing certain books forward.
Happy reading, and if you'd like to have more people notice a fic, why not share it with them! Send a dm to a fandom friend and it might turn into one of their favorite fics!
Tag with more relevant tropes that have canonical tags and can be filtered.
Title your fics something more distinctive than the same song lyric everyone else uses and remove words like “oneshot” or “[Fic]” that aren’t part of the actual title.
Write much better summaries.
Beyond that, it’s really just about the size of the potential audience for the fandom/ship, how much of a following you have from past fics/fandoms, how much your promote outside of AO3, and luck.
I’ve seen even people who are pro-ao3 say that it should just get advertisers instead of having donation drives, which is. Uncomfortable. The ad-free aspect of ao3 isn’t just about convenience or even about giving fans at least one space where they aren’t bombarded with advertisements, it’s already about protecting ao3 itself.
The thing about hosting ads on your site is that it means your advertisers can influence the content the site hosts, demanding that certain things be removed (or added) and threatening to cut their support if they aren’t listened to. Relying entirely on donations doesn’t just protect users from invasive advertising and marketing, it also ensures that ao3 can continue to exist as an archive that isn’t censored by corporations or banks.
I honestly can’t believe people are so ignorant about how the internet works as to not realize this, but apparently it needed to be said.
It also helps protect A03 as a fanfic archive in specific. No one can accuse them of monetizing things they don’t own when they visibly aren’t doing that.
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No, I didn't forget about those WIPs, time just moves differently for me. For you, it's been years; for me, it's just been a few seconds, maybe a minute
this is your daily reminder to write that fic! who cares if it’s a dying fandom, bring it back to life! who cares if you only have a sentence, you’ll get there don’t give up! who cares if it’s a self indulgent fic, we love to see it! who cares if it’s an overdone trope, you’re making it unique in your writing style! who cares if it takes you a month to write a fic and then you dip, you’re still writing and sharing your work and that’s what matters! who cares if you write for yourself and never post it, you’re still writing and getting your ideas down and that matters just as much as if you posted it! just keep writing, you got this <3
If you're a creative person and you've got something you haven't finished, take a moment and think about whether you actually want to finish it.
Is it something that you're eager to work on again? Something that sparks something inside of you when you think of it?
Or is it something that feels like a dead weight around your neck? Like a homework assignment you're dreading having to do?
It's important to remember that starting something doesn't mean you have to finish it.
If you spend all of your time forcing yourself to finish things that you hate or that you're not interested in anymore, you won't have time and energy left to spend on the things you love.
Appreciate the time you spent with that creation. Enjoy the part of it that you have. But don't feel like you need to get through that one before you can move on to what you really want to do. Just do it.
Be free. Be happy. Be creative. And remember that hobbies aren't homework assignments. They don't need to be finished to be enjoyed.
me rereading my own wips: wow why hasn’t the author finished this
@rainbowrowell reminding us why she’s our queen 👑
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I am posting this here because this is important for people to know. I encourage fan fiction.
I approve this message to the fullest possibility
How dare this fandom not have a fanfiction written about this very specific and complex idea that only I have thought of and never asked anyone to write about.
me? letting an entire fic play out in my head from beginning to end and not writing a single thing down, thus forever sealing it in my brain as a self-indulgent relic that will never see the light of day??
it’s exactly as likely as you think
#must a story be “published” #is it not enough for it to be mentally rehearsed with minor variations while falling asleep (galwednesday)
The best way to fall asleep
You’ve heard of one shots, now get ready for none shots! It’s when you think of an idea for a fic and then don’t write it
I am a(n):
⚪ Male
⚪ Female
🔘 Writer
Looking for
⚪ Boyfriend
⚪ Girlfriend
🔘 An incredibly specific word that I can't remember
*wakes up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat*
WAIT IT’S CALLED A THROW PILLOW
here is a super helpful website for this kinda thing!
the first result isn’t always the one you’re looking for but when you press enter it’ll give you a ton of words related to your query that’ll probably have what you’re wanting, or something better
here’s some examples:
Useful writing tool
Fuuuuuck this is sooooo helpful!
