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screaming french snowmen
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The real saw trap is reading an incredibly wrong take about your blorbo and seeing that it’s actually very popular
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Flower girl at the chapel
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Poll for writers and artists
Whether you write fanfic or original works or paint/draw, be it fan art or original work or whatever else - I have to know, because I have a feeling this is going to be very decisive:
Please reblog for sample size!
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teddylacroix requested an AO3 skin that emulated the look of lined notebook paper, and after lots of trial and error, I found a CSS tutorial that I’ve converted to a workskin that lets a user create this look without needing to use any images.
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Reasons To Make An AO3 Account
I've spoken to a few friends who use AO3 exclusively as guests, and they didn't realize how useful having an AO3 account is/what they were missing out on, so here we go!
- You aren't seeing everything on the site if you aren't logged in because some authors lock their fics to only let logged in users see them due to AI scraping and other concerns. As a guest, you don't even see any indication that something is missing from your search results.
- Bookmarks! You can bookmark/favorite works to come back to later, and this bookmarking system includes tagging and sorting if you wish. If you're shy, you can privately bookmark so that no one, author included, sees that you bookmarked a work (the author's private stat page will show the bookmark number go up but nothing else)
- Some authors also only let logged in users comment.
- Leaving kudos is nice and many people leave them as guests, but since the AO3 bot problem, it's now difficult to tell how many guest kudos are Real. Leaving kudos as a logged in user assures that the author actually knows someone liked their work rather than wondering if it's just a bot.
- There's also an AO3 read history- you also have the option to clear it or turn this function off entirely any time.
- AO3 has site skins! You can change your color palette around, I personally use one that gives me less eyestrain than black on white.
- Using AO3 as a guest or logged in user has no financial implications. They don't advertise, they don't get anything out of you signing up for an account or not if this is a concern of yours.
AO3 can sometimes have a long wait for acceptances, but members are given invite codes that we can send out to people to speed up the process! Ask a friend on AO3 for a code and they can probably give you one if you don't want to have to wait
Go forth and enjoy!
Also, don't forget subscriptions!
You can subscribe to a single work, a series, or even everything from an author!
Site skins are incredibly versatile. Not only can they change the appearance of AO3 when you're logged in, they can also be used to save searches, block you from seeing tags/genres/ pretty much anything.
subscriptions are life-saving. become a user today and subscribe to your favourite stories
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Petrichor 🌧💕
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✨ MERCH SPOTLIGHT 💎
Here's a closer look at our 3 sticker sheets, featuring a vast roster of ladies across all of the games!
💜 Classic sheet by @trarioven 💜 Golden sheet by @arsandersar6 💜 Modern sheet by @inf_eli_x 🛒 Stop by our shop for your copy today!
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“There’s only one thing we never wrote down. You know what it was.”
Georgia + Shaun (The Newsflesh Trilogy)
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Looks like it's time for my once-a-decade drawing of Celes from Final Fantasy 6. Hewing very close to Amano's gorgeous concept art
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Alright, to ao3's soon to be arriving Wattpad Refugees, a basic guide to general user culture:
1.) Unlike Wattpads vote system that let's you like each chapter, the ao3 equivalent kudos only allows one per work. Everyone is generally quietly annoyed about this. To engage with each chapter, you're heavily encouraged to comment. Trust me, it makes people's day.
2.) Ao3 has no algorithm. By default it's latest updated work first. You can find things to your taste through searches, filters and tags.
3.) 'No archive warnings apply' and 'user has chosen not to use archive warnings' mean two very different things. No archives warnings means the work is free from any content that could require a warning tag (character death, graphic depictions of violence, non-con, etc). User has chosen not to use archive warnings means it could contain any of the warning content, be it hasn't been explicitly tagged. Treat it like an allergen. No archive warnings apply is allergen free. User has chosen not to use archive warnings, may contain traces or whole chunks of the allergen. If you're likely to have a bad reaction, maybe don't take the risk.
4.) Speaking of warnings, ao3 has very few restrictions on the type of work that's allowed. Whatever your personal thoughts or feelings on that are, thats how the site is. You're likely to run across some dark subject matters and a lot of people are uncomfortable with reading that. You're well within your rights not like these works and have your opinion on whether they should be allowed, but harassing the authors of such works (or any works) is more likely to come back on you than them. Ao3 operates on a strong policy of 'don't like, don't read'. Use the tagging system to your full advantage to only engage with the kind of works you want to see.
We look forward to welcoming you all and seeing the fantastic works you create. Happy writing!
Learned most of this through trial and error about ten years ago when I made my own migration from Wattpad and FFN to AO3, and it would have been nice to have this friendly guide to help ease me into things, so imma just reblog this in the hopes someone who needs it but wouldn't find it otherwise will see it
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Got around to cosplay my love Mipha for Anime Expo, this was so fun to make and glad I got to use my trident again after all these years. (I made it back in 2018!)
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I'm sorry but Christian Mingle paying for ad space on tumblr dot com is one of the funniest demographic mismatches I've ever fucking seen, I'm wheezing