#ao3 commentary

[brownwomanisland]

AO3 Harry Potter Fanfic Ramble

It's funny the way Harry Potter writers will demonize J.K. Rowling and then write a heartfelt scene about the ills of domestic violence and have a character get their revenge. It makes me really wonder if they've ever bothered to humanize her the way they do for Draco and Bellatrix. And we're not even talking about the people who are writing racist porn under the muggle slur.

Kinda just makes me go "hmm".

Someone said that they hate how she demonized girly girls and goes on to describe the character as wanting to be a mom and what not but not without the character debasing herself as simple and silly and wanting to be loved. Yes, because "unfeminine" women don't want that. People tell on themselves all the time lol. And the girly girl wears makeup also of course. How do you say JK Rowling demonizes girly girls and then write a character that sounds like ... that?

I'm not full of enough words to describe what I'm thinking but I'm sure y'all can see the irony in what I'm talking about. I see it often even though I like reading the fanfics. JK Rowling is bad and you're putting incest into a story that had none. You're writing rape porn of her characters. I don't mind Alternate Universe stuff but there's a lot of exclude on my tags when I'm trying to find a story.

And I'm not mentioning any author or story bc 1. I'm not trying to single anyone out and 2. It's so widespread and prevalent. "Obligatory fuck JK Rowling as I play in her sandbox". Okay ? You must have 9 that because you did not eat one bit lol.

[viiisenyas]

I BEG YOUR PARDON?!

yyyeeeeeeeeeeahhhh

it's a wild ride

[subukunojess]

Me with Fanfiction Today

Me: I don't care about popularity when it comes to my writing. I'm glad with every kudos and comment I get. I'm just going to write freely and enjoy myself. 8D

Also Me, with equations running through my mind: I know that some fanfiction gets popular with the trends and some of my work isn't up to par with others, but how is my most popular fic so far about SKITTLE RABBITS AND A DETECTIVE DOG?!

[sevendeadlyvices]

Thank You for 777 Hits

Had to take a screenshot just in case I miss it, but my fanfic has reached 83 kudos and 777 hits on Archive of Our Own! Thank you so much!

I doodle the vice’s heads as well as how my Blissed Max looks like at the first chapter. Again I would like to thank everyone who is liking what I do so far. I appreciate it so much.

[melanoradrood]

But like AO3 has the perfect system. You can tag anything you deem necessary, use tags to EXCLUDE things you don't wanna see, filter stuff based on warnings... and the most important thing is that people are generally pretty good with tagging the ~icky stuff. I remember when I finally got the invite in like ten years ago, I could not believe how good it was. We had to go through forum non-searchable forum threads to find fics... These kids don't know how good they have it *shakes grandma fist*

DUUUUUDE. My love for AO3 knows no bounds.

Now, I will say, it used to not be a thing, for Excludes to exist, BUT!

I could legit find a fic, and be like, hmmm, do I wanna read this? And then look through the tags and find DEAD DOVE DO NOT EAT. And then I, the intelligent reader that I am, could think to myself...

Hmmm. That doesn’t sound like the fluff I want to read today.

AND THEN MOVE ON.

Like, all these people that complain about AO3 just letting anything exist, like, it all still existed back in the day... you just had random works that would get deleted, though.

THE FACT THAT MY IMMORTAL LIVED IS THE ONLY SIGN YOU NEED THAT FANDOM FUCKERY WAS FUCKERY

You used to have to like... read a fic. Get fifteen chapters in, before you discovered - oh shit this is not for me.

NOW YOU JUST READ THE TAGS.

My one complaint would be that I desire secondary tags, however. Like, a background ship tag / background characters. Cause like... I see people that only tag the main pairing and the main characters, and that’s cool that’s great, and then other people are like, WELL, BECAUSE THESE TWO ARE THE PARENTS. AND THE PARENTS ARE MARRIEd. WE MUST TAG THEM. AND THE GRANDPARENTS. AND THE CAT THAT GOT MENTIONED THAT DIED TEN YEARS AGO. AND WE BETTER TAG This HisTORICAL FIGURE.

like no stop. You’re now overdoing it. We need secondary tags to deal with this.

[subukunojess]

I cannot believe that my top two fanfics on Archive of Our Own has g/t and v o r e in them. And people like it.

/hj

[sevendeadlyvices]

Me, creating this AU: Huh… this is the very first original vice for Max that I created and developed. He’s unique, has a deep backstory that will be brought upon in the Season 3 story, and it delves into Max and Sam’s relationship. Everyone’s going to love Pumpkin!

Everyone: We love you, Seine! 💜

Pumpkin: What the f-

[f-it-im-a-fangirl]

If a girl wants to find a good fantasy au with world building she has to put on her waders, filter her tags and dodge the monsterfuckers as best she can when she isn't into that