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Just want to write a fic but I have fic I have to write (card fics) and fic I have to finish (MTH fics from like YEARS ago, sob).

But I want to just

Have Steve be in this relationship with Tony and he's slowly figuring this out as best he can, and it goes from 'okay, well, I guess I'm supposed to leave after sex? All of Tony's partners tend to... Leave quickly? Is that a thing? I guess it's a thing, okay, I'm hip, I'm with it, how do you do, fellow kids? what does that even mean, why does Clint say that to me all the time?'

To 'well I fell asleep and Tony doesn't seem upset about that and he didn't have Pepper show up in the morning to escort me out, so I guess this is okay? I'm going to assume it's okay until Pepper shows up to tell me my clothes are in a dry cleaning bag and if that happens I really cannot cry on her, I like Pepper, that's not fair to her, I should ask her if she going to the Met opening next week."

To 'Okay, so staying over is great and Tony keeps calling me an octopus, but he's laughing when he says it so I think it's okay that I just kinda... End up on his side of the bed? At some point? When I'm sleeping? His hair smells nice. I can't ever say that, I sound like a goddamn bumpkin, 'hi, Mr. Industrialist, anyone ever tell you your hair smells real nice?' What is wrong with me."

To 'How do you get to be the little spoon?'

and then he just gets stuck there. Like. Stuck. Because he does not have the vocabulary or the self-confidence to ASK something like that, people don't just ASK for something like that, that's ridiculous, who just has sex and then goes, 'That was great and also I'd like to be the little spoon tonight, you want some water? I'm going to the kitchen, I can grab a bottle?'

Who says that? Certainly not Steve 'I never met a conversation I couldn't avoid by throwing myself out a window' Rogers.

And he's just left to try to figure out how to navigate this when all of his friends are idiots, emotionally constipated or yell 'how do you do, fellow kids?' after him when he's trying to figure out current fashion trends (yes, thank you, Clint, you are the least helpful).

I just want to write Steve Rogers attempting to fumble his way through this nonsense without Jarvis having to 'subtly' change all the ads on his phone to relationship help pages without him noticing.

Jarvis is really really close to starting a relationship self-help page.

...

Great, now I want to write a fic where Jarvis writes a self-help column, too.

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Meanwhile, on Team Tony:

Rhodey: Hey, how's things going with Steve?

Tony: (reaches into drawer, retrieves bottle of whiskey, dumps a dangerous amount of whiskey into his coffee)

Rhodey: ...

Tony: (downs half the cup in one gulp) I have no fucking idea.

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💚❤️ [FANFIC] - Strings

Title: Strings Author: rinnwrites (AO3) / @rinnwrites Pairing: Harry Potter/Severus Snape Prompt: #2022-17 Harry is determined to stop Severus from delivering the part-prophesy to Voldemort. He travels back in time and sets about distracting Severus from telling his Lord in whatever way he must. Rating: Mature Word Count: 5,780 Warnings/Tags: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Time Travel, Getting Together, Mildly Dubious Consent Summary:

After his death at the hands of Voldemort, Harry is given a choice: go “on” and leave his friends to save themselves, return to the moment he died and continue the fight, or venture into the past with a chance to change everything. Harry thinks that last one sounds too good to be true, but to be fair, so does dying and getting to choose what happens next.

💚❤️ Read on AO3 💚❤️

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2022 Snarry AUctoberfest Masterlist

Without further ado, the masterlist for the House of Snarry's 2022 Snarry AUctoberfest! Thanks to all the participants, Tumblr followers, Discord members, Snarry enthusiasts, and then some! You guys were amazing and we can't wait to be back next year!

ART

💚❤️ [Fanart] Dress Down || T Artist: sherrasama (AO3) / @sherrasama Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Tumblr Post: Link AO3: Link

Snape in lingerie, that is all, goodnight.

💚❤️ [Fanart] Like Waves of the Sea || G Artist: gracegraylove (AO3) Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Tumblr Post: Link AO3: Link

Nobleman Harry wishes to spend more time with Captain Snape.

💚❤️ [Fanart] separated by canvas and paint || G Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Artist: acydpop (AO3) / @acydpop Tumblr Post: Link AO3: Link

Harry and Severus slowly come to an understanding and fall for each other. The only problem is Severus is a portrait.

💚❤️ [Fanart] Tailormade || G Artist: sherrasama (AO3) / @sherrasama Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Tumblr Post: Link AO3: Link

Instead of meeting Draco Malfoy at Madam Malkins in the summer before first year, Harry meets a kid named Severus Snape.

FIC + ART

💚❤️ [Fanfic + Fanart] Nightshirts || M || 1.4k Author: emeraldlove (AO3) / @givereadersahug Artist: soltituss (AO3) Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Tumblr Post: Link AO3: Link

Ever since Harry saw Severus in his long, grey nightshirt back when he was at Hogwarts, he longed to curl up inside the garment, to feel the lasting warmth of Severus’s body and to smell the enduring scent of Severus’s skin.

FIC

💚❤️ [Fanfic] Books ain’t no good… || M || 22.1k Author: Im_just_visiting (AO3) Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Tumblr Post: Link AO3: Link

An unsuccessful date led to Harry accidentally bumping into Snape in a hidden London alley many years after the war. Now that it is clear that Snape was on Harry’s side all along, their relationship can begin again. However, Snape is still battling his own demons, but this time his enemy is himself.

💚❤️ [Fanfic] The Boy || E || 2.4k Author: themoonandstars1989 (AO3) Archive Warning: Rape/Non-Con, Underage Tumblr Post: Link AO3: Link

The boy had grown beautiful — alabaster skin and dark red lips. Snow White personified, waiting for a prince’s kiss to wake him up. Or was it Sleeping Beauty? Severus paid no mind to his mum’s ramblings. He did not waste his childhood on fairy tales and wishes. Maybe he should have.

💚❤️ [Fanfic] A Brand New Life || E || 10.8k Author: PinaNaponi (AO3) Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Tumblr Post: Link AO3: Link

In which Harry goes home with a perfect stranger, and gets not only his mind blown. And then, because he is Harry Potter after all, things get a little complicated.

💚❤️ [Fanfic] The corner shop of Diagon and Horizontal Alley || T || 7.2k Author: AlyceoftheTogas (AO3) Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Tumblr Post: Link AO3: Link

Two new owners take over the shop at the corner of Diagon and Horizontal Alley. Severus is sent to report on it.

💚❤️ [Fanfic] Curatio || T || 12.6k Author: SerenaEW (AO3) Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Tumblr Post: Link AO3: Link

curatio, onis, f noun 1. healing/curing 2. object of care 3. treatment, surgical operation, medical care At the foot of the Whomping Willow, there lay an injured kingfisher.

💚❤️ [Fanfic] Dearly Departed || T || 45.6k Author: Somn (AO3) / @somnwritessometimes Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Tumblr Post: Link AO3: Link

Narcissa Malfoy asked Severus Snape to help her son fulfill his duty to the Dark Lord. Severus Snape refused. Prompt 2022-19: Dumbledore decides the best way Snape can protect Harry isn’t as his teacher. It’s to de-age him and enroll him in Hogwarts alongside Harry. “How do you do, fellow kids?”

💚❤️ [Fanfic] A Doe and Her Stag || G || 945 Author: emeraldlove (AO3) / @givereadersahug Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Tumblr Post: Link AO3: Link

The doe lowered her head — a sign of trust and complete fidelity. The stag nibbled her ears, rubbing alongside her neck, before urging her up. They galloped around, running circles around the clapping children and toddlers.

💚❤️ [Fanfic] Found || E || 16.8k Author: avioleta (AO3) Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Tumblr Post: Link AO3: Link

The night of the Battle of Hogwarts, Severus Snape disappears and is presumed dead. One day, however, Harry Potter finds him in Italy and…stays.

💚❤️ [Fanfic] Fuck, Marry, Kill || M || 13.2k Author: titC (AO3) / @titconao3 Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Tumblr Post: Link AO3: Link

After the war, Harry Potter and Severus Snape, er, fuck sometimes. You know, it just happens; it’s one of these things. They’re not in a relationship, right? They’re not like that. …Until they are, but only one of them can see it.

💚❤️ [Fanfic] Harry’s Bookshop for Stray Cats and Snape Naps || G || 1.4k Author: Coconutice22 (AO3) / @coconutice22 Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Tumblr Post: Link AO3: Link

Harry owns a bookshop. Severus likes to nap. Sometimes they even nap together.

💚❤️ [Fanfic] “He’s not my boyfriend.” || T || 1k Author: emeraldlove (AO3) / @givereadersahug Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Tumblr Post: Link AO3: Link

Many assumed that Severus was the cold one, that he was the one without feelings as he killed time and time again, thinking that he was never satisfied with the amount of blood spilled. His curt responses and his cruel words left others feeling inadequate and simple-minded. Always the one with the scowl on his lips and displeasure in his eyes. Severus was the most romantic man on Earth, at any time and beyond. This Harry knew. Based on the speech from the film.

💚❤️ [Fanfic] Homecoming || T || 514 Author: SerenaEW (AO3) Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Tumblr Post: Link AO3: Link

He had no choice, inevitably Pulled back to the warmest place Even (ex-)Dementors are.

💚❤️ [Fanfic] In Dreams I Am With You || E || 2.1k Author: MelindaGhost (AO3) / @anti-bright-places Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Tumblr Post: Link AO3: Link

For the prompt: As Harrys talents at Legilimency grow, he finds himself able to invade dreams. Severus tries to put Harry off by thinking dirty thoughts. Jokes on him: Harry’s into it.

💚❤️ [Fanfic] In The Lake, There Lies A Person || T || 7.3k Author: whythehellnothavefun (AO3) Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings Tumblr Post: Link AO3: Link

“If you listen carefully enough, the past whispers to you”. Albus Dumbledore, Fantastic Beasts: Secrets of Dumbledore.

💚❤️ [Fanfic] I paint flowers so they will not die || E || 11k Author: WeAreTheLuckyOnes (AO3) / @peujeune Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Tumblr Post: Link AO3: Link

The first thing Harry’s mind can come up with is that the colour is perfect. It’s this dark olive green that sits stark against the pale colour of Severus’s flesh. When he’d gone to the store his head had been turned by something deep red, but now he’s so glad he chose the green. Harry hires a model to sit for a painting and finds much more than a subject in Severus.

💚❤️ [Fanfic] Midnight Pact || G || 1.9k Author: pruinose (AO3) / @thanavium Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Tumblr Post: Link AO3: Link

Severus Snape, as a general rule, did not cohabitate with animals.

💚❤️ [Fanfic] Nothing Quite Prepares You for When They Don’t Come Back || E || 3.7k Author: BraveLittleNippa (AO3) / @bravelittlenippa Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Tumblr Post: Link AO3: Link

Who else could Severus blame but himself? After all, the whole thing was his own stupid system. Granted, his system had always worked before and guarded his poor heart against unnecessary pain in the long run. At least- It had always worked up until Harry James Potter happened.

— Or:

Severus Snape protects his heart with a harmless little lie. It saved him from complete and utter destruction three times already. It’s only natural that he tries to fall into the same habit with Harry Potter - except… he’s Harry Potter. And everything Severus has ever known about love is shaken by the young football player so much so, that he’s ready to be something he never was before: honest.

Written for the Snarry AUctoberfest 2022, prompt by silver_drip. Title from Ruin by The Amazing Devil. Rated E for mentions of smut.

💚❤️ [Fanfic] On the Origins of Dementors || G || 2.6k Author: DarkTony (AO3) / @tilltherearewords Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Tumblr Post: Link AO3: Link

Amidst the pages of tomes that now remain unread, there a story, a fable, a legend goes of a man made of misery…

💚❤️ [Fanfic] Outlook Good || T || 15.4k Author: Klari (AO3) Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Tumblr Post: Link AO3: Link

Harry finds a muggle artifact in the castle and clings to it a bit too tightly. It helps him save Snape, find a way out, and live a generally happy life—but can he ever be really happy when he’s hiding from his own mind? There might be something wonderful to gain if he can only give up the crutch he’s come to depend on too much.

💚❤️ [Fanfic] The Prince and the Bezoar || G || 500 Author: emeraldlove (AO3) / @givereadersahug Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Tumblr Post: Link AO3: Link

“I need to do what?” asked Severus, lips curling in disgust. “Pass the Sleeping Beauty test,” said Harry, who was enjoying the spectacle a bit too much if you ask for Severus’s opinion.

💚❤️ [Fanfic] A Roll in the Hay || E || 7.4k Author: MelindaGhost (AO3) / @anti-bright-places Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Tumblr Post: Link AO3: Link

The year is 1941 and King Severus I fancies his stable boy, Harry. “Tell me why you remain a bachelor, Potter.”

💚❤️ [Fanfic] Strings || M || 5.7k Author: rinnwrites (AO3) / @rinnwrites Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Tumblr Post: Link AO3: Link

💚❤️ [Fanfic] Unexpected Shelter || T || 3.6k Author: Goddess47 (AO3) / @goddess47 Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Tumblr Post: Link AO3: Link

Harry was tired of being chased by an entitled Ginny Weasley. One day, he takes refuge from her in a Potions shop.

💚❤️ [Fanfic] When Dreams Come True || E || 10.1k Author: maraudersaffair (AO3) / @maraudersaffair Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Tumblr Post: Link AO3: Link

Harry is a world famous Quidditch star and Severus is his biggest fan (in secret). He is also desperate for Harry to dominate him.

💚❤️ [Fanfic] Wulf The Wolf || T || 9k Author: Fikaa (AO3) / @fika-drw Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Tumblr Post: Link AO3: Link

Prompt: [2020-13] Snape’s bitten in the Shrieking Shack and became a werewolf. Sickened by what happened to him and by the reactions of those who should have protected and cared about him, he embraces his internal wolf and runs away inside the Forbidden Forest. Harry meets the wolf in his first year, when he is in the forest. They meet multiple times in Harry’s stay at Hogwarts. The wolf is badly injured in the final Battle while he was trying to protect Harry. To help with his injuries, the wolf retreats and Snape returns to his human form.

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lumosinlove

Vaincre

Details and full fic on Ao3

April Part Two

Oh, this is gonna be a big one, isn’t it, Lee?

Sure is. We’ve got—well, I’ll say a complete top line. Black and O’Hara tearing it up as usual, but we’ll be missing sorely someone who’ll be across the ice this time, eh?

Keep reading

faalthien

Pin for the lovely @rinnwrites for their Persephone!Scarlet Witch prompt during the 2020 Marvel Trumps Hate event! I love Persephone so much, I was so happy that I got to work on this. (I was like oh sure let's make pins then forgot that I did not just changed my varnish but I don't really paint white...anything, and white does not behave like the rest, so. It was an Adventure. Don't use the same three colors in all your artwork, kids, it's not healthy.)

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2020 Fic Rec List - Drarry

I did a few fic rec lists throughout the year, and thought I’d do one last one with all my faves that were posted in 2020! If you’re interested, check out my other 2020 rec lists for Wolfstar (Sirius x Remus) and Snowbaz (Simon Snow x Baz Pitch).

Listed in no particular order, here are eight fics I adored this year. If you see a trend, I do too – Wandmaker!Harry is a golden trope.

The Wand That Chose Two Wizards by saltwatergarden | 116k, T

Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts to finish off his seventh year, but finds that it’s very different than the Hogwarts he once knew. Draco Malfoy wants nothing less than to go back to Hogwarts, but for his mother, he does it anyway.

Life goes not backward by @shealwaysreads | T, 8.8k

Harry still isn’t used to gifts, but this one is different.

Last Offices by @tackytigerfic | M, 6.7k

It didn’t seem fair that Malfoy was dead, and Harry was supposed to just keep on living without him. He had lost enough people to know that he probably would keep on going—his stubborn heart was still beating, after all, even though it felt like it was going to break. But first, he had to get through the laying out of the dead—those old Pureblood funeral rites—even if every time he touched Malfoy’s too-cold body, he was reminded of how things used to be, and how things might have been.

Keep reading

mystrana

Thanks to @marveltrumpshate and @rinnwrites , I am now the proud owner of the coolest facemask on the planet!!! Had to use an appropriate amount of black eyeliner, of course! ^_~

triggerlil

Very Drarry Summer Vibes Fic

Everything Old is New Again

Author: @rinnwrites / rinnwrites

Pairings: Draco/Harry

Word Count: 10.7k

Rating: Explicit

Content: College/University, Magical Theory, Fluff, Smut, Beach Day, Enemies to Lovers, Class Partners, Getting Together

Summary:

A year after the war, Draco leaves England with a simple plan: Find a place where no one knows him, get his potions mastery, start a new life. He didn’t count on an obviously exhausted and shockingly studious Harry Potter showing up in his very first class.

Read it now on AO3!

🌞 This work is part of Very Drarry Summer Vibes, a Gay Wizard Boys server gift exchange. Please help spread the love by sharing your favourite works and leaving kudos and comments. If you would like to join the GWB, you can do so with this link: here. 🌇

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striving-artist

something I think we all know about fanfic, but don’t talk about because it would hurt writers feelings is that some fics are like fast food. I mean this as a compliment. I don’t always want to sit down for a six course meal that will be a flavor experience. Sometimes I just wanna dip some fries in a frosty. Sometimes I want something homecooked and delicious and super niche, but super comforting. Sometimes I want to eat an entire dark chocolate cheesecake in one sitting even though I know Its gonna make me sick. Just. holy crap, y’all. Sometimes I don’t even want fast food, I just want to eat an entire bag of chips. and yeah, I’m ashamed of myself afterwards, but at the time it was exactly what I wanted. So, no, we’re never going to say to our fanfic writers that we consider their writing to be the equivalent of a midnight run to taco bell - and we shouldn’t, feelings would be hurt by that. But writers, please, please, please, remember this. You don’t need to create a six course meal if you don’t want to. You don’t have to make something complex and homemade if you don’t want to. You don’t even have to finish cooking it - because someone will be thrilled that you brought a bowl of cookie dough and a spoon, because they cannot even consider sitting down and having a proper meal right now. It’s okay writers, whatever you decided to make. Someone was happy to have it. You gave them what they needed. You made them happy. You did good.

rinnwrites

I would be honored to have my writing be seen as a midnight run to Taco Bell

sakura-haruka

#the coolest

drarryspecificrecsdaily

2020.09.20

Complete fics posted on AO3 this day

1. The day Draco Malfoy acted normal under a love potion by @drarrysht [T, 3k]

► Prompt: in which Slytherins slip Draco a 24-hour love potion so that he falls in love with Harry Potter. And they’re all laughing watching him drink it and they watch him all day waiting for him to make a fool of himself And he doesn’t act any different.

2. Kiss Me, Potter by AngstyCanadianGleek [G, 1k]

► Draco Malfoy didn’t understand kissing, so he goes out of his way to find out why people like it? And who does he turn to for help? Well, Harry Potter, duh.

3. The Light in Lonely by @rinnwrites [M, 44k]

► 20 years after the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry is happy with his life. His is the longest DADA tenure in decades, he’s head of Gryffindor house, his godson is a successful Hogwarts graduate, and he has a calling: to shape young minds. He’s definitely not lonely. He has everything he needs. But perhaps he’ll find a little more when Scorpius Malfoy lands himself in Gryffindor, and drags his father along for the ride.

4. The Trial by @parkkate [T, 4k]

► In which Harry speaks at Draco’s trial, they have an awkward tea party and a pushy house-elf is Draco’s wingman.

5. want by @drarryangels [T, 1k]

►[…] It’s being here instead of at Draco’s that gave Harry the strange burst of courage to tell Draco what he hasn’t been saying since they started dating five months ago. Which is that he doesn’t like sex.

6. well well well by Grace_28 [G, 1k]

► “Well, well, well… if it isn’t the love of my miserable life?” “Draco, we’ve been married for five years. Can you stop saying that every time I come home late?” Ignoring him, Draco took a sip from his glass.

—

Fest/Exchange

1. Exposure by Anonymous [M, 26k]

► When Seamus uncovers Draco Malfoy’s camboy profile, he, Harry and Ron decide to anonymously book a private show so as to humiliate him later. Fascinated by Draco’s confidence, Harry keeps booking private shows under the disguise… ★ H/D Hurt!Fest 2020 | @hd-hurtfest

2. The Locus of the Fracas by Anonymous [M, 1k]

► Harry is assigned community payback, and it’s all Malfoy’s fault. ★ HP Drizzle Fest 2020 | @hpdrizzle

3. Sweet Nothings by Anonymous [M, 1k]

► What do you do when you lose the one you love? After a raid goes wrong, Draco navigates the waters of his grief and may very well lose himself in the process. ★ H/D Hurt!Fest 2020 | @hd-hurtfest

peachbabypie

Not a vanilla prude

Basically stole this from an amaaaaaaazing Drarry smutty dirty fic and it’s amazing and y’all should all go read it!

Heavily inspired by the motorcycle scene bc god damn Harry fucking Draco in that stupid hot motorcycle is everything I ever needed.

Man bun-facial hair!Harry is my a e s t h e t i q u e

onemadeofglass

HOLY FUCK this art is so pretty I wanna die, I just can’t deal with the dark atmosphere, Harry’s purposeful face full of dirty intent and Draco’s slutty outfit and perfect arched back 🤤 this is a lovely tribute to one of my favorites “out in the open” smuts ever, 10/10 reccomend this glorious fic.

Have you guys seen this beauty @l0vegl0wsinthedark and @bixgirl1 ? 😍

l0vegl0wsinthedark

Guys, I am not okay, I'm dizzy and overwhelmed AND WHAT THE MOTHERFUCK IS THIS GLORIOUS FEAST FOR THE SENSES 😭💖😭💖😭💖😭💖😭💖😭💖

@peachbabypie HOWWWWWWWWWWWWW?!?!?!?!? *worships you*

ndreamswake

My good friend and dissertation buddy is conducting research on asexuality and fan fiction communities. She looking for dissertation research participants who have experience with fanfiction depicting asexuality. If this sounds like something you think you could contribute to, I highly encourage you to check it out. Reading Jasmine’s work helped introduce me to the world of fanfiction which has been such a fun adventure. It’s also taught me a lot more about asexuality and just how wonderfully diverse human experiences of sexuality, romance and selfhood are. Her research is thoughtful, sensitive, passionate and so very important.

I am very new to tumblr so please re-blog, repost, or whatever you do to spread the word.

olderthannetfic

This is from May 1st, 2020 and had like one note. Let’s get some eyeballs on it, please.

acespnminibang

A survey about ace fanfic!!

hazeldomain

For easy accessibility of link copying, the survey is here:

https://forms.gle/6FunzvkthFeh3pie7

The Ohio State University Consent to Participate in Research Study Title: Representations of Asexuality in Fanfiction Protocol Number: 2019

justsomeantifas

people will be like “fanfiction writers!!! are everything”

and then turn around and say a website that doesnt pay the writers they make their traction and money off of is a saint that would do no wrong.

im just saying. ao3 gets their money

those writers dont. lmao.

so whyre you making it about the writers when they could post pretty much anywhere huh? 😂 and youre only paying a website.

justsomeantifas

u ever consider they do it this way on purpose so the only people making money on their poorly designed website are the owners

👀

prismatic-bell

Have YOU ever considered it’s a volunteer-run website that’s a nonprofit and is incredibly transparent about where its money goes?

Have you ever learned, like, a SINGLE THING about the legality of fanfiction?

Or are you just being an asshole?

ms-demeanor

“poorly designed”

You mean that ultra-lean, fast-loading site with maybe the world’s best data sorting and tagging that is open source so you can set up your own archive if you wanna try to run something that big without ever asking for money or if you wanna try to make it prettier or something?

That is free to host fiction on as well as free to read fiction on and is a site with an incredible amount of traffic that runs exactly zero ads aside from occasional funding drives?

riazendira

As a person with a law degree, can I just tell you how vitally fought and precariously won the ability to even HAVE Ao3 is!? And how a lot of that balance rides on it being a non profit that no one makes money off of? And how very much Ao3 does with how little $$$? (To the point where I mentioned the site traffic to a web developer friend and he honestly couldn't see how the site could even exist because in his world to make it would cost so much and require so much work that it blew his mind that Ao3 even existed with the functionality, traffic, and utter lack of budget compared to what he usually worked with!)

Some days you kids today make your dearest rum aunty wanna beat her head against the wall. I swear to dog.

jabberwockypie

Fanfiction has to be free to survive.

It’s not a matter of “Oh, without that dastardly AO3, fanfic authors would be free to make money off of other people’s intellectual property″ and framing it that way is disingenuous.

The way copyright law and Fair Use work right now - the way legal precedent stands in the US, at this time - the only thing stopping Disney from swooping in and suing someone for writing Steve/Bucky fanfiction is that nobody is making any money off of it.

Is it fair that it works like that? Possibly not, but that’s not actually the argument at hand! That’s the way that copyright law works right now. And before AO3, anyone who wrote or hosted fanfic online was in danger of randomly getting a C&D one day - and most people don’t have the money or resources to fight that.

It happened. A lot.

And it wasn’t just porn! I know the anti-AO3 people like to frame it that way, but it has also happened to stories without any smut at all, just because the person or company holding the IP felt like it.

lynati

Nobody is making money on the site. Not the people who founded it, not the people who coded it, not the people who wrangle tags for it. Notice that there's not a SINGLE add on the site. Money isn't being made every time someone loads a page or hits the "next" button, unlike many other sites out there. There's no fee to read, let alone a tiered structure to entice you to hand over a higher amount of money per month. If AO3 wanted to make money... well, then it would be shut down because the only reason it *legally* gets to exist is because nobody is profiting from it on any level. But if that wasn't the case and AO3 really wanted to make money, there's so many better ways they could do so than by a completely-option donation request a couple times a year?

I don't know how you could spend any time at all in fandom and not know these things about AO3. Or miss the fact that they show EXACTLY where every dollar that comes in from their fundraisers goes to.

Like, do you even GO here??

bitternest

You could run the AO3 frontend off a couple of shitty Thinkcentres networked together for redundancy and haproxy in front of all of it. The site is extraordinarily light and the biggest challenge is load balancing it.

AO3′s backend is...

Listen. I work for a $600 million a year company serving DNS and domain names to literally everyone who isn’t shopping at GoDaddy. I help run the most successful MVNO in the US. I don’t want to say I wouldn’t even know where to start to build AO3, but I know exactly where I would stop. And that’s at the tags. Everything else, sure, I could build in a week. DBs, backups, a fuck ton of caching, monitoring and alerting. Give me another couple of weeks and I’d build some basic self healing so I dont have to get up in the night when something as big as AO3 breaks.

The fucking moment you tell me you want me to index hundreds of millions of tags, I’m fucking out. We do something similar with domain name recommendations and let me tell you that fucking POS system breaks monthly and it is a goddamn nightmare to fix. You would have to pay me, a single person, what AO3 asks for its entire goddamn operation every year. As far as I know their tech people consist of a sysadmin, a DBA and a few front end folk, all of whom are volunteers.

Which means that $130,000 is all being spent on tech. The fact that that number is below seven figures means they are doing it with all open-source software, zero support contracts and probably hardware that fell off the back of a Supermicro van. And no, they’re not in The Cloud because this shit would cost them an arm and a leg there. I checked. Indexing hundred of millions of tag fuckarightouttahere.

AO3 runs on blood, sweat, tears and some kind of Christmas miracle. So yeah, OP, go cry a fucking river. You’ll only fuel them.

unrememberedskies

I can't believe someone with the username 'zerocapitalism' is up in arms about a website which I just about the biggest 'fuck you' to capitalism ever created. AO3 gains nothing from traffic being driven to their site, in fact it only ups their costs. Everything on AO3 is done for the love of something that can't be commodified, and is proof that hundreds of thousands of people will create amazing content just for the sheer love of something.

I don't write fanfiction for profit, and I know that if I did it would suck all of the joy out of it. Because capitalism kills creativity and turns it into a commodity.

AO3 is one of the few safe havens for creativity and the free expression of marginalised groups. The fact that there is an argument decrying it as a capitalist monstrosity is laughable at best, and dangerously delusional at worst.

In short, AO3 is one of the few good things to come out this godawful era of late capitalism. And I will defend it for as long as it had bad faith detractors like op.

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toptony

Does anybody else get legitimately worried when a fanfic author who was updating regularly just suddenly disappears with no warning? Like, is it a serious case of writers block or are they in a coma? Did they just up and quit? Was it me? Were my reviews not good enough?! Did they die 😳?! Were they kidnapped? Do I need to file a missing persons report? Excuse me officer, there’s been 13 weekly updates and now nothing for months! Find them! What’s their name?! Name!? I don’t know their name but they write 3k+ chapters and I need them safe and back in my life!