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AO3 Etiquette
It would seem a whole new kind of AO3 reader/writer is emerging and it is becoming clear not everyone quite understands how the website community works. Here is some basic guidance on how most people expect you to go about using AO3 to keep this a fun community archive that funtions correctly:
- Kudos is for when the story was interesting enough to make you finish reading. If it sucked or was badly written, you probably left. If you finished - you kudos.
- If you liked it, you should comment. It can be long and detailed or a literal keysmash. Writers don't care, we just love comments.
- No critisism unless the author has specifically asked or agreed to hear it. Even constructive critisism is a no-no unless an author note tells you it's okay. Many people write as a fun hobby or a way to cope with, among other things, insecurity. Don't ruin that for them.
- Do not comment to ask the author to write/update something else. It's tacky and off-putting and will probably have the opposite effect than the one you want.
- There is no algorithm, it's an archive. Use the search and filter function to add/remove the pairings/characters/tropes etc. you want to read about and it will find you the fics that fit the bill.
- For this to work, writers must tag and rate stories. This avoids readers finding the wrong things and missing the stuff they want. I don't care how cringy that trope is in your eyes - it gets tagged.
- Character A/Character B means a ROMANTIC or SEXUAL relationship of some kind. Character A&Character B is PLANTONIC, like friendship or family.
- Nothing is banned. This is an implicit rule because banning one thing is a slipperly slope to banning another and another, until nothing is allowed anymore. Do not expect anyone to censor for you. Because of the tags system, you are responsible for your own reading experience.
- People can create new chapters and sequels/fic series any time after they "complete" a story. So it's considered perfectly normal to subscribe, even to a finished story. You can even subscribe to the author instead just to cover your bases.
- Do not repost stories or change the publishing date without an extremely good reason (like a complete top to bottom rewrite). It's an archive, not social media. No one cares what's the most recent, only what fits their tag needs.
- Avoid deleting a story you wrote if you hate it - orphan it so others can still enjoy it, without it being connected to you anymore.
- This is a creative fanfiction archive. No essays on your insights or theories please. There are other places for that.
I KNOW there's plenty more I missed but I'm trying to cover most of the basics that people seem to be struggling with.
I invite anyone to add to this, but please explain, don't berate.
People are so entitled in the comments damn like no you writer don’t have to put up with you being rude they wrote you entertainment for free
To the people in the notes who are insisting that they have the right to leave negative feedback on AO3:
What you’re not understanding is that fandom is not a service, it’s a community. I saw someone compare leaving a comment on AO3 to reviewing a product on Amazon - if you didn’t like the product, you’re going to say so. But fanworks are not products and you didn’t pay money for them. They were shared with you.
Leaving un-asked-for criticism in AO3 comments isn’t like reviewing a product you were disappointed with. It’s like going to a friend’s house when they’ve cooked a meal and telling them all the things that are wrong with the food. Sure, you can do it, but it’s rude as hell and they are probably not going to invite you to dinner again.
("Can you leave crit in comments” has been a debate as long as I’ve been in fandom, but 20 years ago the argument was “I’m helping the writer improve!” and not “I am a consumer with a right to complain.” Fandom has gotten more creepily capitalistic over the decades but jerks are evergreen, I guess.)
further and very very important: you cannot solicit for commissions on Ao3. this is against ToS. you will have your account fucked. you cannot publicly solicit for commissions.
(also: do not criticise gifts that is the tackiest, most ‘this person will never have friends’ behaviour. you wanna be rude about the fic? do it in your discord with your buddies. not in front of the person who wrote it.)
also like. you’re not helping people improve. you’re putting them off writing anything at all. all you’re getting out of it is fewer fics in a fandom you presumably want more fics in
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The Defenestration of a Little Blue Ballsack (circa 2022, Colorized)
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now that’s what i call foreshadowing
Petition to call the Professor who was eaten by the T-Rex, Dino-Baby Professor.
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has this been done?
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I feel like I need to say this, as I've seen some concerning fandom purity bullshit crossing my dash.
This blog is unapologetically pro AO3.
I support them and all they do, may they continue to do it for decades to come.
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your 100th spotify wrapped song is how your 2023 is going to go sorry i don’t make the rules
No body, No crime - Taylor Swift
.......you know what, I don’t mind.
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fanfiction writers are the literal backbone of society
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If your fic involves an OC instead of the reader please, for the love of everything that is holy, don’t tag it “x reader”
This goes for AO3 too.
Especially AO3.
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every time i eat one of these fucking things my soul goes away and i become a mafia boss smoking a fat fucking cigar pondering the next sap on my hit list
I get what you're saying, but my fat ass just inhales them. There's no time for games when it comes to these.
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I finally watched The Sound of Music and like I get it now, I get it.
It’s a beautiful two hour love story of a strict man finally opening his heart again and then a fifty minute public service announcement to hate the nazis. Brilliant.
Reblogging this version cuz those two gifs show the sexiest duality a man can have.
2 things a man should do
- Look at me like he can’t believe I exist
- Hate nazis
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there is something so darkly comical about tumblr potentially outliving twitter
tumblr, which is held together with duct tape and madness, run by three raccoons in blood stained Yahoo! hats and a handful of crabs, its only discernible source of income the sale of shoelaces from an inside joke so inside no one knows the original source anymore and fake blue checkmarks... that website still lives on
truly the cockroach of social media and I love it for that
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and i was never good at tellllling jokes but the pUnchline goes…i’ll get OLDer but your lovers..stay my age from when your brooooklyn broke. my skin and bones, i’m a sOldier who’s returning half. her. weight. and did the twin flaAme bruise paint you blue? JUST BETWEEN US DID THE LOVE AFFAIR MAIM. YOU. TOO?! cause in this cityyss, barren cold, i still remember the FIRST!! FALL OF SNOW !!!! AND HOW IT GLISTENED AS IT FEEEEEEEELL !!!!!!! I remember it, alllll toooooooo well
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Me, in tears, halfway through writing a 300 word essay: I can’t do this anymore
Person on A03 who’s writing for fun:
Inconvenient Truth: these are the same person
Yeah, well, I can’t stretch out that review of 16th century economics by adding a gratuitous hand job.
World Heritage Post
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Things I Need:
1: Attention 2: An Orgasm 3: $10,000,000
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A girl’s natural habitat is in a bed with many blankets and pillows and it’s inhumane to remove her from her natural habitat