#orphaning

[keriarentikai]

A quick little update to my Fandom Permission Statements post, which asks authors to put a permission statement in their ao3 bio!

It makes sense that podficcers aren't allowed to post works without being given permission onto ao3, but DID YOU KNOW that this counts for Anonymous and orphaned works as well?

So here's my new plea to authors: if you anonymize or orphan your work, and you're okay with it being podficced:

Please put blanket permission for podfic in the author's notes before orphaning or anonymizing!

Thank youuuuuuuuuu

[pannotian]

An underutilised idea or au or whatever is jack drake never dying and tim staying as a member of the batfam but not the wayne family. I really loved the arc of tim quiting because bruce was acting crazy out of line. The possibility of not being able to stay in contact because their relationships foundation was robin and batman. Everything else they bonded over was just a result of that and couldn't have been possible without vigilantism as a common denominator. Even when they start viewing each other as more than partners and start playing into father son rolls you can't escape tim being robin.

Also having bruce feeling like he's spoiling or demantling a happy family/ what he misses most (even though the drakes have very obvious problems) would be interesting inner turmoil. Making tim Bruce's son was very understandable but the what ifs keep me up at night. And in the long run it would make for a great tim retirement comic. Or death comic or whatever...

[terapsina]

My Dear fellow writers. PLEASE THINK ABOUT ORPHANING YOUR AO3 FICS INSTEAD OF DELETING THEM!

If for whatever reason you're thinking about deleting one (or all... or a few) of your stories - whether because you're embarrassed about the quality of an old work; or because someone from your life has found your account and you're afraid that the contents of those stories might somehow negatively affect your peace of mind or even your safety (you never know); or for literally ANY other reason under the sun - please please PLEASE consider pushing the 'orphan' button instead of the 'delete'.

There is nothing more heartbreaking for a reader than seeing this between their bookmarks.

Orphaning a work will have the same effect for you personally. Because orphaning a story removes your name from both the story AND from any replies you might have made in response to someone's comment. NOTHING will link back to you. The only difference is that the readers will still be able to read the fic they enjoyed.

And it's not very complicated to do. Just click to edit your work and then look in the upper right corner.

And once there follow these instructions.

THOUGH BE CERTAIN THAT YOU DO WANT TO COMPLETLY CUT THE LINK BETWEEN YOU AND THE STORY BECAUSE THIS IS PERMANENT. THERE IS NO WAY TO AFTERWARDS EDIT OR DELETE THE STORY.

The full information in detail about exactly what happens when you Orphan a work CAN BE FOUND HERE.

ALSO

On a slightly related note but directed more toward the readers.

Don't be the asshole who creates Collections and then puts them on private. THIS HIDES THE STORY FROM EVERYONE EXCEPT YOU AND THE AUTHOR.

Everyone else sees this:

Collections being private and hidden are meant for things like Secret Santa Fic Exchanges (not what they're actually called but you get the point) where all the fics can get revealed simultaneously.

IF YOU WANT TO SAVE STORIES BUT DON'T WANT ANYONE TO SEE WHAT YOU ARE READING YOU CAN DO THAT. You just Bookmark it and SET IT TO PRIVATE.

Your username will never appear in the lists of people who have bookmarked that story. NOT EVEN FOR THE AUTHOR OF THE STORY.

(the only thing that author will see is that that there are more bookmarks in the their statistics than on the bookmark page of the story)

IN CONCLUSION. Please don't delete your stories without at least considering orphaning them AND don't ask authors to let you add their fics to your collections only to then hide them from all other readers.

[fantom-as]

hello, dear readers, I just orphaned 5 of my works: Ice Blue Eyes, Blood-Soaked Lips (Carmilla x Reader), No Shelter But Me (Darklina), Crave Deadly (Delena), Dragon in the Castle (Dramione) Dragon’s Heartstrings (Dramione). You can still find these works under the pseudonym of orphan_account.

right now, the only long work i’m working on is The Sun, The Moon, The Truth. I’m currently in the middle of writing chapter 37.

take care! <3

[agameofriddless]

i really regret impulsively orphaning all my ao3 works. i wish there was a way to reclaim them😭

[salamanderinspace]

I know there's no way to implement this without compromising privacy and anonymity but I do wish there was a way to unorphan a fic. I have one I set free, years ago, when I was heavily intoxicated, which do think I would like back.

[saltoftheao3]

I want readers to know that an orphaned work doesn't always mean that the author completely vanished. I have orphaned some works that I don't want associated with my account anymore. But I set private bookmarks for them, and sometimes I look if there are new kudos or comments. People have different reaons for orphaning.

ok, that’s good to know!