my mom likes fandom stuff, so she's subscribed to my ao3. i'm trying my hand at smut. i wouldn't get in trouble, but i just don't want my mother getting a notification about what my kinks are. do you know of any way to keep subscribers from getting emails about a specific fic? if i were to block her before posting the fic, and then immediately unblock her after posting, would she still be subscribed to me?
Hi! So sorry it took ages for me to respond to this! I have been, as they say, Going Through It™️
Blocking someone on ao3 is a little goofy, in short it only stops the blocked user from commenting but not seeing your works
That doesn’t mean you don’t have options however:
1. You can add your work to an anonymous collection
- you will still have control over the fic but your user name won’t be shown to readers and no subscription emails will be sent; readers will not be able to find it under your user but can still search for it via tags
- I will link a great post that the lovely @ao3commentoftheday wrote explaining how posting to the anon collection works
2. You can create a second account and post your more spicy fics there
- it’s pretty normal to have a second account, although sometimes it can take a while before you can get one as Ao3 has an invite system to control how fast the website grows
- you would have to make a second email for the account
Link to post explaining anon works in more detail:
Ah, I wouldn't recommend creating your own Anonymous collection for your own works. When someone owns a collection, that collection shows up
