otro corazón

i wanna thank whatever thing possessed jeff davis back in 2017 and made him come up with the idea of giving us theo and liam as a duo because they literally carried s6 on their backs

life was simpler when loki just wanted that stupid blue cube

Ao3 is actually massively culturally important and very very good at being what it is. I’m so serious when I say that ao3 needs to be protected as the anti censorship, by fans for fans, nonprofit, volunteer run, expertly designed archival site that it is. You don’t have to read or like fanfiction to understand that on principle, ao3 is a site that should be defended.

ah yes my favourite trope

we were robbed of arthur getting to know merlin once again but for real this time

kasuka when his brother beats people up: mm this behavior is not acceptable and shouldn’t be endorsed

kasuka when his girlfriend kills people: some crimes can be forgiven… and covered up

Shrek (2001) // Glass Onion (2022)

Glass Onion + Text posts

The Avengers (2012) dir. Joss Whedon

It’s missing Theo Raeken hours

CHRIS EVANS ˗ˏˋ PEOPLE’s 2022 Sexiest Man Alive

Chris Evans Is PEOPLE’s 2022 Sexiest Man Alive

There are many new friends on the archive, and many are young and have only known social media, which is why I wanted to say something!

Ao3 does not have an algorithm! It isn't a social media site, it's an archive.

Posting fics on Tumblr isn't the same as posting fics on Ao3

Ao3 is like a giant virtual bookshelf, and everyone is able to add their own stories to the bookshelf, all stored with different tags and different fandoms. Works are automatically sorted by newest to oldest, but filters, looking at bookmarks, and using the search function can change that.

Certain works are not pushed to the top like social media posts. More kudos and reads don't push a single work to more viewers by some algorithm. Unless otherwise filtered, works will be at the top of the page based on how recent it was posted.

Smaller fandoms get less views, less kudos, less bookmarks, and larger fandoms get more simply because of the number of people inside the fandom.

Ao3 is a giant virtual bookshelf- there is no algorithm, and there is no man behind the shelf pushing certain books forward.

Happy reading, and if you'd like to have more people notice a fic, why not share it with them! Send a dm to a fandom friend and it might turn into one of their favorite fics!

And why is there no algorithm? It's not just because AO3 is a virtual bookshelf for you to browse, a cornucopia for fans of all sorts, not a form of SoMe.

One of the most important reasons is the principle "if you're not paying to use a product (website/app/SoMe etc.) you are the product". Algorithms are used to detect what you are most likely to pay for outside of the "free" product you're using, and that information is what the providers of that "free" product are making money from. They're not used to benevolently provide you with specific content you enjoy, that's a side effect of making you a better product.

AO3 is literally free to use. Information about you is not sold to third parties. The responsibility to curate your experience on AO3, and to market what you place there yourself, is entirely on you. AO3 gets by on voluntary donations and a lot of the work is done by unpaid volunteers. The goal of AO3 is not and has never been to make money.

Happy filtering - because the only algorithms needed on AO3 are the ones you create for yourself, in your own brain, and apply to searches there.

And also, happy reccing - because that's a way of trying to bring more attention to fanworks you enjoy, regardless of algorithm essential factors like their achieved popularity and mainstream appeal.

did you do it