[vvvrvr]

because self-love is a weapon and it’s ok to hype myself a little to the three people still reading this 🫶

Moon 27

It’s Okay To Not Be Okay fanfic • Explicit rating 🔞 • Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings ❗️ • F/M

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

me: I write for myself, not validation

also me after posting a fic *refreshes ao3 every five minutes*

(two things can be true)

[sapphic-luthor]

i’m going to hold your hands when i say this and i am only going to be kind about it once: ai does not belong in fandom spaces, ever. not in writing, not in art, not in video, not at all. it does not matter how bad you want to see your favourite characters kiss, or how much you need a bit of help finishing a chapter, or whatever.

make friends with artists. commission somebody. learn to draw yourself. ask for a beta read. try a writing partnership. fandom spaces are communities, so engage with them! it is about the journey and the fact that we all love something enough to create and build together about that thing.

spending 30 seconds to kill a tree and get an AI to push out some soulless empty piece of “content” is antithetical to the entire point of being engaged with fandom, and if you’ve taken to doing this you should really reconsider if you belong in these spaces with the rest of us.

[eggy-tea]

AO3 filters are incredible. The show ended over a decade ago but you're only getting around to watching it now, and you want to avoid spoilers for later seasons? No worries; you can filter out anything posted/updated after a given air date. Don't want to see crossovers? Guess what -- you don't have to. Three clicks is all it takes to make them go away. ONLY want crossovers? They've got that option, too. In a hurry and only have a few minutes to read? Filter out everything over whatever word count you consider to be "too long." Absolutely can't stand this one character/trope/relationship? Exclude, exclude, exclude. And all they ask in return is that you tag your stuff properly. Incredible.

[ao3commentoftheday]

If you haven't seen the filters before, you might be finding fics via searching. Search is great (and you can get *really* specific with it), but it doesn't have the quick filter menu.

Tap on a tag you're interested in reading (just at the top of a fic, for example). That will bring you to a results page that shows every fic that uses that tag. To get rid of the ones you don't want, look right above the works list to the buttons and tap on Filters. (if you're on a computer, the filters will already be there, on the right hand side of your screen).

Once you've found the filter menu, it's like the OP said. There are a *lot* of options for you to choose from. You can tap on any of them to open up a sub menu with specifics.

For relationship/character/trope tags, AO3 will automatically show you the top ten most-tagged ones within the tag you're already looking at. If the one you want to exclude isn't in that list, you can type it into the "Other tags to exclude" box and AO3 will give you a dropdown to pick from. You can add a theoretically unlimited number of tags to your exclude list, but I think it's possible to have a list that breaks things eventually. I've never personally hit it? But I bet someone out there has.

You can also Include things you want to guarantee are tagged, but be careful with that filter. Include filters stack on top of each other, so if you Include 3 different tags, you'll only get fics that have all three of them tagged. You won't get ones that have*any* of them tagged. For more info on how to do an "any of these tags" filter, see this post over here.

[lobotomydaughter]

ao3 emails are the best emails to receive bc it’s either a comment or kudos on my work, a comment in reply to something i said on someone else’s work, or a new chapter/fic from a writer i’m subscribed to. you can never go wrong with an ao3 email. bless.

[wrecklwj]

“AO3 bookmarks are a reader’s space and a place for them to be honest about the fics they read, which is why authors can’t respond to them and don’t get notified when someone creates a bookmark. If authors don’t want to see a negative bookmark that someone has created of their fic, they shouldn’t click into the bookmarks section.” do you agree with this

Neither writer nor reader, and I agree with this statement

Neither writer nor reader, and I disagree with this statement

Neither writer nor reader, and I feel it’s complicated

I read but don’t write, and I agree with this statement

I read but don’t write, and I disagree with this statement

I read but don’t write, and I feel it’s complicated

I both read and write, and I agree with this statement

I both read and write, and I disagree with this statement

I both read and write, and I feel it’s complicated

Not in fandom/don’t use AO3/bald/results

Voting ended onSep 6, 2024

Context: this is a very common viewpoint on the ao3 subreddit which I very recently stumbled upon, but most people i’m friends with in danmei fandom (twt, discord etc) don’t agree and think negative bookmarks are rude.

[nicnacsnonsense]

Calling something a reader’s space in the context of fanfic feels a little like calling something an eater’s space at a community potluck; what the fuck does that even mean? This is not a situation with a professional chef and a bunch of diners; fanfiction is not a space with a professional author getting paid for their work and a bunch of readers who need separate spaces from them. This is a community of people who have all come together to pitch in and be a part of something because we are all such big fans of potlucks (or whatever). So I don’t care how shitty and dry you think Janice’s chocolate cake is, you don’t say that out loud at the potluck while she’s there with you.

[fanbynature]

“mess with me or mine again and I shall forget you are family”

[heatherbelart]

Endless…

“𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥. 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘳𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘤𝘳𝘶𝘦𝘭.”

When I was 18 years old, one of the first gifts my boyfriend gave me was The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes, and dear reader, I married him.

I’m not claiming the two things are related, but they aren’t entirely unrelated either.

So thrilled to see it brought to life on our screens, and done with such care.

Painted on Procreate in oil paints and charcoal on a waxed canvas. Prints available in my Etsy store.

[werewolf-transgenderism]

yes my favorite type of fanfiction consists of characters getting tenderly cared for and comforted after a lifetime of being forced to suffer alone in silence, no this doesn't say anything about me

[rosedive]

oh :( oh you read a thing? :( you read a thing for free and you didn’t like it? :( that must’ve been so hard for you. :(

should we tell everyone? should I see if oprah is available for an interview?

[cottoncandyofterror]

Thriller Bark but OPLA and a wee bit more homoerotic touching!

[soporificsedatives-deactivated2]

Georges Bataille

[netflix]

The Endless have finally assembled: Introducing Adrian Lester as Destiny, Esmé Creed-Miles as Delirium and Barry Sloane as the Prodigal in the next season of THE SANDMAN. It’s going to be one Hell of a family reunion.

[mermaidgothic]

not now mom i’m wasting my life on a website the entire internet believes to be dead

[borgevino]

[repeating to myself in the mirror] it is fine to write serviceable workaday sentences. not all of them have to be the God-King of Sentences, beautiful in structure, deft in word choice, gilded in metaphor, etc. sometimes a guy has to get from one side of a room to the other.

[neil-gaiman]

Sorry to bother you Mr Gaiman.

What if my story isn’t actually worth telling? I waste enough of my own time to desire to waste anyone else’s.

The only way to find out is to write it.

[neil-gaiman]

How do you appreciate the praise and positivity from people while not letting the hate get to you?

You kind of have to not really let the praise get to you either.