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I wish that ao3 had an option to filter warnings (and tbh certain authors) out like I will never ever want to read it and just seeing it puts me off so much that often I end up closing my browser because that content upsets me so much lmao

There is a way to do this but I can’t recall how to do it. it’s something you type into the box for “other filters” or something, I don’t remember. who knows?? It’s not a great option, and I don’t know if you can sort out authors that way, but it’s better than nothing if someone can reblog this with how to do it!

Alrighty friends! It takes some specificity, but you can do this. Let me show you how!

So I started with going to the Sherlock (TV) section of Ao3. On the right we find this lovely section! ((I know I’m going over things you already probably know, but I figure this post may go to new Ao3 users, so bear with me.))

Underneath this, I chose sort by Kudos, because that’s a quick way to find most popular fics, for the sake of this demonstration. 

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With those filters on, we end up with this being our first two results: 

As you can see, we have Nature and Nurture by earlgreytea68, and The Internet Is Not Just For Porn by cyerus. So what if I am utterly sick of seeing earlgreytea68 on my list? Let’s pretend I’ve read all their fics, or that I just don’t like her, or whatever. I want this author out. I go to this section on the right: 

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In “Search within results” I type earlgreytea68 into the bar, with a minus sign in front. This gives me the following page, upon hitting the sort and filter button:

There goes earlgreytea68! But now I’ve decided that Crack is just not my thing, I’m sick of that, too, for heaven’s sake, I want something reasonable in my gay slash fanfiction about detectives that solve crimes about glowing dogs and irish megalomaniacs. Heaven forbid this get ridiculous.

Well, then I add this to my search:

Which gets rid of everything with that tag. My results are now:

Performance in a Leading Role is now my first result!

You can do this as many times as you want; the biggest problem I have is trying to filter out multi-worded tags. For example, “Secret Relationship” is hard to filter. Better to go with authors you dislike or with words like “DubCon”. 

I hope this helps! Also remember that googling site:archiveofourown.org and then adding search terms will mean google searches Ao3 for you, and sometimes that works far better. 

Good luck!

An excellent in-depth guide! Thank you!!

omg changed my whole ao3 rarepair game

An excellent guide to filtering on AO3!

You can filter out phrases by enclosing them in quotes. For example, if ABO and Hydra Trash Party are not your things, try:

-“alpha/beta/omega dynamics” -”hydra trash party”

I have more advice!

Say, you’re in your random fandom- I went with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, since I’ve been reading Iron Man stuff recently. Tony Stark is awesome.

But anyway, you’re on the page, and you see that there are 174,774 works! That is way too many for a casual afternoon’s browsing.

And you see that the first one is Peter Parker/Tony Stark and that is not your jam. It doesn’t work for you, or it squicks you, whatever. Wouldn’t life be easier if you could browse without seeing that pairing (or whatever pairing you don’t like)? You can!

First, click on that pairing tag(You may want to open this in another tab, actually.):

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and it’ll take you to the page for that pairing tag. Click this button:

and then look at the address bar! The actual page is unimportant. Copy the numbers located here:

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and go back to the original search page! Down on the side, in the same place you can get rid of other tags, type -relationship_ids:”the number you just copied”

Then hit ‘sort and filter’ annnd… magic!

The fics with that pairing are gone! You can also do multiple pairings, get rid of any tags you don’t like, and sort it by date or length or kudos, or whatever.

Enjoy.

I’d just like to add that these sorts of search modifiers ALSO WORK IN GOOGLE AND MOST RESEARCH DATABASES. The more you know.

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Holy crap this is amazing

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27snowflakes

Omg #lifechanged

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Attention Everyone !

Listen to the kitty, please don’t scroll I’ll make it quick.

Okay so I really don’t want to annoy you guys and I normally don’t do that but I’m having an issue here. I’ve been on Tumblr for a few years now, and the platform was almost perfect to post my art: I got publicity, and people were eager to enjoy my work, but…there’s decline lately, because people have stopped reblogging.

I think it came to every artist’s attention, and there’s a significant impact. I am struggling to make my Patreon work, and struggling on Tumblr too because it seems like no one is interested in anything (except memes, but I can’t blame you, my sense of humor is broken too.). Anyway, be it paranoia or bad luck, but when I put links on my art, they get less notes. Obviously I do make fanart and comics because I enjoy it enormously, but also because I like to contribute to fandoms and make people happy; so, supporting artists is a freaking neat idea!

Unfortunately, I’m not getting the exposure I want here and that’s a bigggg problem. It’s frustrating too. I am still staying here (Until this website dies, but I think that God himself cannot annihilate this place.) but! I am linking my Patreon and especially my new Twitter account (which is still under construction) but where I’ll post my public art, so click there if you’re interested ! 💖 💖 💖

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I’m giving you a bit of background since I’m at it. I’ve been studying english for 5 years and after getting my degree, I said to myself “Hey, english is cool but art is cooler. I should give it a try”  my dear mother said “no” and I was like “How about i do it anyway” because that’s the kind of responsible person I am.

And this is how I enrolled myself in a very expensive preparatory Art school, that I’m fully paying. Because, yeah, my very traditional Albanian parents were not really thrilled by this decision at all (Uh.) Long story short, I’m not asking for a Paypal transaction or a gofundme page, but juuuust a tiny bit of support, so I can get pocket money from time to time would be glorious. S u p p o r t A r t i s t s. Because they spend 4, 5 to 6 hours per drawings for your fandoms, and they’re getting paid in p e a n u t s. I apologize in advance if I seem arrogant or too forward, but things need to be said. It is hell.

So, please reblog 💖 Thanks for reading ! 💖

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This makes me -extremely- uncomfortable

I like how literally every other cat in the room is absolutely fine while this weird fucker is just YURRGLURRGLRRRYRRRRRing it up like a madman.

Why is he so upset. Who did this to him.

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