#pro ao3

[elhopper1sm]

If you wanna protect AO3 or character ai. Or Wattpad. Or Tumblr. Or discord. Or even the right for undocumented people and minors to use the fucking Internet reblog this I swear to God. Reblog this and reblog as many KOSA posts as you can go on their website and contact your Representatives. Do it. Do it. Do it.

#stop kosa #kosa #kids online safety act #internet freedom #pro ao3 #ao3 #lgbtq #free speech #anti censorship

[clairelutra]

hey so uhhhhh just a heads up: ao3 may or may not be in deep legal trouble. specifically for mistreatment of volunteers and lax compliance with certain laws, afaict.

i highly recommend you back up any stories you have and any favorite stories/authors you'd miss.

here's how i'm doing it:

download calibre. it's an open source ebook reader. link here.

it has a plugin called fanficfare. download that here.

open calibre and go to the dropdown next to "Settings", and then select "Get plugins to enhance calibre"

Find and install FanFicFare (sort by title and scroll down to F to find it easier)

go to the dropdown menu next to the fanficfare icon in the top bar and select "Get story URLs from Web Page"

when prompted for a URL, you can post any URL that displays a list of stories, e.g. "https://archiveofourown.org/users/[username]/bookmarks?page=7" or "https://archiveofourown.org/series/[number]" or "https://archiveofourown.org/users/[username]/pseuds/[username]/works"

click "Yes", then wait for it to gather the metadata and download the stories (you can give it another URL to grab stories from once it's done with gathering the metadata if you want)

it will give you a little popup in the lower right corner once it's done, telling you how many it was able to download (usually all of them) and how many it didn't.

if it misses one or two, you can click to see the details and find out which one didn't get downloaded, and go back to the page you got it from and download those yourself if you want.

tell it to update your library.

voila! all the stories on that page are now backed up on your computer.

notes: it will skip any fics that are locked to archive users only (the ones with a blue padlock next to the author's name in the listing), and you'll have to go back and grab those yourself. if your whole account is under archive lock, i highly recommend unlocking it for the duration of the time it takes to grab and download them (a few minutes to a few hours, depending on whether you have <20 or multiple hundreds like i do lol) before locking them again.

back up everything you love!! back up everything you moderately like!! back up anything you wouldn't like to lose!! even if the ao3 mess pans out to nothing, it's always good to have a "just in case".

EDIT: check replies and reblog comments for further information on the legal trouble they may or may not be in. if anything happens, it will likely be in the scale of months or years. i still recommend backing everything up, but it might not be as dire as this makes it sound.

#ao3 #pro ao3 #writing #fanfiction #backing up fanfic #calibre #fanficfare #the ao3 mess //

[sparkling-pink-lemonade]

Saw a post of an anti saying that they are leaving AO3, as they are too uncomfortable to post their fics there now. The reason? They found out one of their long time readers was a proshipper, despite their fics having proship dni. And how "that includes silent readers too, I don't want you all looking at my content."

My brother in christ, you are posting on the fiction freedom site. The proshipping site. Dnis aren't god damn restraining orders. They are one tool in helping you display your boundaries. It's still on you to enforce your boundaries. You post something publicly, you forfeit your ability to regulate who can view your work. If you're obsessive enough, you can regulate who actually interacts with your work by stalking each person in the kudos list, comments, or bookmarks and then blocking snyone you don't like, but you do not get a say on who may silently read your posts. Not unless you private your work and only show it to specific people.

And if you don’t want proshippers to interact, get off the profic site.

#proship #profic #tw antiship #anti mention #antis being antis #anti harassment #anti censorship #ship discourse #purity culture #pro ao3 #rant

[enigma-the-mysterious]

Dear God, I visited fanfiction.net after god knows how long because the author of a fic I was interested in told me that they are updating it faster on ff.net

First of all, I had to wait here for like five minutes

But then it gets worse...

That's a small, tiny paragraph broken with TWO huge-ass ads!

Noooooooo!!!

This is a fucking nightmare!

#archive of our own #ao3 donation drive #ao3 #original post #not incorrect quotes #the musketeers #bbc musketeers #fanfiction #fanfiction.net #ffnet #ao3 discourse #fanfic #pro ao3

[the-bar-sinister]

"but they might have broken the law!!"

And?

Are you forgetting the "do crime" in "be gay, do crime" again today?

👉 "failed to fully comply with the law" does not mean "did something harmful or evil".

👉 "fully complied with the law" does not mean "acted with compassion, justice, or mercy."

Don't fall back on legalism when you're evaluating the goodness or badness of a person, idea, or organization.

#archive of our own #pro ao3 #fandom wank #😼🔪 #philosophy #otw

[thekarleffect]

#mine #proship #proshipping #proshipper #ao3 #pro ao3

[condomatsu]

I wish AO3 was populated only by freaks. Like, I know I complain often about that fic where the protagonists go up into a whale vagina to breath air after a failed boat trip I've read, but I would rather read and rereread that same fic every day and other like that every single day of my life, in public, with everyone knowing, than having fucking pro-censorship, anti-LGBT+, puritans, "non-freaks" etc attack AO3 and its volunteers.

Leave good things alone, please. That's a space for the "freaks" you're complaining about, stfu and go to Wattpad or FF.net, that's the space that was made for you. Don't like it? Make another one yourself, stop being a pussy and ruining things for everybody.

#ao3 #proship #profiction #pro ao3 #anti censorship #fanfiction

[skiplo-wave]

Same old discourse. But once again ao3 is an archive site aka public library for fanfics. Ao3 at this point is one of few sites that allows nsfw content and zero ads to appease corporate overlords. And keeps everyone not getting sued by creators of IPs aka your fav ships or characters

Folks can do whatever with their money. They can donate 2k for archive site and other places as they see fit. In fact it’s not your business to know how or what people put their money towards.

You mad someone donated money to ao3 over [ current event topic that needs aid ] you might as well get made at people commission 1k for fursuit or other any goods/services

It’s so tiresome. These folks piss and complain about ao3 hosting stuff they dislike and STILL post and consume content on their own.

#ao3 #archive of our own #pro ao3

[ichange-tomorrow]

#restrictive ed #tw ed in the tags #ed diet #tw ed relapse #tw #anna miaa #only pr0 for myself #pro a4a #pro ao3 #ana trigger #ed meme #ed memes #ana #tw ana thoughts #ana rules #ana y mia #not pr0 just for myself #ednos #ed

[fandomeldersintheirthirties]

Antis: Liking things from nastybad creators is supporting them and you're an evil person if you even breathe in a direction of nastybad creator's work

Also antis: AO3 is super nastybad site run by evil nastybad people. Anyway read my fics here - *lik to AO3 profile*

#just anti things #proship #pro ao3 #ao3 #archive of our own

[elhopper1sm]

Stop KOSA. KOSA just got passed through the House and More organizations even Twitter and Snapchat. Social media companies it aims to delete are coming out in support of it. This content creator has been covering KOSA for a long time. If you remember when AO3 was down how everyone freaked out. KOSA could take AO3 off the Internet. Could remove queer content online. The ACLU opposes it. It's unconstitutional call your Senators. Call your Representatives. Call everyone you can in power and tell them to oppose this bill. Sign petitions follow the link in that creators bio. Go to bad Internet Bills dot com and get call script or fax script for it. Contact the ACLU about suing states that support KOSA. We can still fight. End KOSA protect online safety!

#stop kosa #kosa #kids online safety act #free speech #lgbtq #pro ao3 #ao3feed #anti censorship #internet freedom #aclu

[myfandomrealitea]

The day that you understand that fanfiction has no literary/value difference to published literature and writing is the day you will understand exactly why readers and authors need a symbiotic relationship in fanfiction media just as much as the published author and their reader.

Right now, you have unlimited access to free literature.

I don't think a lot of you fully grasp the actual, true meaning of that. You are accessing literally as much content as you want, that you have had to do absolutely nothing for, for free. And often on a single website that you are also accessing for free, and don't need a hundred and one different kinds of log-ins or passwords or paid subscriptions to access.

If I want to read a specific type of story, I don't have to spend gas money to go to the bookstore that might not have the story I want, or funnel money into a blood corporation like Amazon to access it. I don't even have to pay someone for the time and effort and skill it took for them to write it.

I can go to my search bar. I can type in 'AO3' and I can access 141 variants of the same story for free and all in less time than it takes for my morning coffee to brew.

I am accessing content that cost these authors literal hours of their lives. Their time, their skills, their research, all for free, and I have to do absolutely nothing in return for it.

We take this kind of freedom and resource for granted, and even more so the people who actually enable us to have it in the first place.

Writers who talk about wanting engagement aren't being greedy, needy or selfish. They're not writing just for the 'clout' or whatever kind of half-cocked accusation you want to make. They're asking because engagement is what fuels more content. More community fulfilment. More productivity.

A lot of writers write for themselves, but they also write because its something they want to share with other people. Its a contribution to a shared interest. Its longevity to the enjoyment you experience within that space. Its a continuity of a limited source.

So many people sneer at fanfiction authors who offer commissions and it genuinely makes me want to rattle them all like a marble in a bean can.

Because you pay for books. Because someone took the time to write it. You don't sneer at the rows and rows of books in stores. You don't demean the authors who spent literal hours, sometimes even decades of their lives writing them.

People who write fanfiction are still authors.

Fanfiction is still literature.

Fanfiction's existence depends entirely on the authors.

Appreciate what you have. Understand the value in what you are being given.

Basic gratitude and respect is by far the absolutely minimum you should be giving in exchange for quite literally all the free literature you could ever want, on demand.

#myfandomrealitea #sephiroth speaks #fandom #ao3 #fanfiction #fanfic #fics #authors #writing #literature #fanfiction discourse #ao3 fanfiction #pro ao3

[greensaplinggrace]

this is so fucking ridiculous btw. "ao3 stans be like: banning 'bad' content is a slippery slope of censorship because then lgbt stuff will eventually be censored as well and they're the same thing!" like noooo. people who are familiar with how prejudice operates within a society and is given power within a system of government that thrives on systematic oppression are saying that placing limits on one's freedom of expression at any level gives those in power the ability to decide what concepts should be criminalized and how speech should be restricted as a result.

for those who are familiar with history, it is very easy to see how these concepts and identities that are considered "taboo" by many could in fact be censored as well. this isn't fucking rocket science. not every bigot knows what they're thinking is bad and they just do it anyways for funsies! most of them think lgbt people and other marginalized communities are just as bad as the taboo subjects you're mentioning - and that they deserve to be held under the same umbrella! that's the slippery slope of censorship, and it is a very real threat. read a fucking history book.

people aren't saying they think lgbt stuff and "taboo" subjects are the same thing. they're saying others do, and that you are handing your oppressors a very real weapon to turn right back on you when you give them the power to determine who is deserving of such rights. literally stop with the fucking fallacies before you hurt someone. goddamn.

#ao3 #pro ao3 #anti anti #can't believe im actually posting in these tags lord have mercy #how do you even argue with someone who appears to misunderstand at a fundamental level the realities of prejudice and persecution

[mafuenalover]

I find it funny when people cry about sexualizing fictional minors as if fandoms don’t constantly romanticize them by shipping them.

If those were real kids, drawing or obsessing over the idea of them kissing wouldn’t be okay. Obviously.

Two of my friends now who aren’t in fandom spaces have brought up how they thought it was weird that I shipped children. It took some explaining.

At the end of the day fiction is fiction, the characters aren’t real. Treat them however you like.

#anti harassment #profic #shipcourse #pro fiction #anti censorship #pro ao3 #genuinely it’s baffling to me how people don’t understand this #pro ship #proship

[the-bar-sinister]

♦️ Your fiction is worthwhile.

♦️ Your fiction is art.

♦️ Your fiction has artistic merit and value.

♦️ Your fiction is important.

♠️ Even if people call your writing worthless.

♠️ Even if people call your writing disgusting.

♠️ Even if people try to devalue you as an artist.

❤️ Even if your writing is self indulgent.

❤️ Even if your writing is a genre people dismiss.

❤️ Even if your writing is about sex or romance.

❤️ Even if your writing is violent, dark or taboo.

❤️ Even if your writing is fanfiction.

♣️ All fiction is art. All art is worthwhile.

♣️ You do not have to justify your fiction writing to anyone.

♣️ Your fiction is art and it has artistic value.

#creative affirmations #writeblr #writblr #on writing #creative work #fanfiction #fan fiction #fanfic #positivity #writing #writing advice #fiction #fandom #archive of our own #whump #romance writing #ao3 #pro ao3

[cosmileech]

I find it funny that some fanfic writers try to stop proshippers from reading their stuff. Like A, that’s not something you can like. Control? At all? And B, why are you policing what people read on the “stop policing reading” website likeeeee read the room a lil

We've said it before and we'll say it again, ao3 is a proship website whether you want it to be or not. You will literally get banned if you tag your works with proship DNI because its a space made FOR US. That's like going into a library and getting mad theres books there.

Antis always complain about ao3 and say that proshippers need to " make their own spaces " like dude, your in that space. You might as well walk into a gay bar and get mad if other dudes hit on you.

#proship #proshipping #pro fiction #ship discourse #anti anti #proship discourse #ao3 #pro ao3 #ao3 discourse #fuck antis