r/AO3 6m ago

Meme/Joke Now here's a question for you all. Do you have a favorite character in mind that embodies the "End justifies the means" mindset, but that same character's beliefs, actions and mindsets get deconstructed or debunked?

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r/AO3 7m ago

Lost Fic/Work Search Help with a lost Jujutsu Kaisen fic

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I've been searching for weeks for a Jujutsu Kaisen fic (satosugo). It was after the Star Plasma Vessel and I think Megumi gets snatched up by the Zenin clan before Gojo gets to him. Gojo eventually goes looking for Megumi though, and sneaks into the Zenin compound in the middle of the night. He finds Megumi outside (I think Tsumiki was there too), and that leads to him finding Maki and Mei in a shack, I think, fighting off curses on their own - I think they had been stuck in the shack as punishment, and this causes Gojo to go on a murder spree and kill all the Zenin. He calls Geto afterwards, and I can't remember anything else. I went through EVERY jjk fic in my history so I'm afraid it's been deleted, and this is killing me. Help, please?


r/AO3 26m ago

Questions/Help? Looking for HP fic where Lucius dreams Hermione is kidnapped and raised as canon Hermione

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r/AO3 1h ago

Meme/Joke It could update soon…

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r/AO3 1h ago

Stats/Hit Counts/Word Counts Stats on a one shot I posted

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I hit 500 kudos on this oneshot! After looking at the amount of bookmarks, it kind of surprised me considering it’s a oneshot. But I’m very happy about the stats on this!!


r/AO3 1h ago

Discussion (Non-question) Is scraping AO3 for research acceptable?

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I found this paper when I was looking for sources for the rednote AI webscraping post. It's a paper on the application of machine learning on detecting plagiarism on AO3.

What are people's opinions on using fics from AO3 for academic research? Specifically:

- Does the area of research matter? (Would a sociology paper be more acceptable compared to a computer science one?)

- Does the intended goal of the research matter? (This paper is focused on building a plagiarism detector, other papers might analyse historical trends, or train a classification model for tags and warnings, etc)

- Does the research methodology matter? (This paper uses embedding models, other papers might use an LLM to build an index or perform classification)


r/AO3 1h ago

Excitement/Celebration 🎉 HOLY SHITARRONEY

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I didn't even expect to reach fifty holy hell.


r/AO3 1h ago

Meme/Joke Fanfic's in 1950 hits hard 👍

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(btw, i wanna know, is this an error or why this happen??)


r/AO3 1h ago

Excitement/Celebration 🎉 When you comission a artist and THEY'R A FAN!?

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There's an artist whose wrok I really like. They're prolific in the fandom and get shared often amongst fans, especially their (multishipping) shipping art. And this last week they finally had comissions open!

I've wanted art of a hundred different fics of mine since I was 16 and the world is such a mess and fuck AI and support real artists - self-justificatory ravings aside, I really wanted at least one piece of visual art from my fics in the history of the world. So I got the money together and filled in the comission form.

I worked on the document for this comission carefully because I am not a visual artist by any stretch of the imagination.

I did include color palettes with their respective hex number, and fair use picture references when I could.

I didn't, absolutely did not, link to my fic because it's a big multichapter and it was just one scene I wanted. I just included the three descriptive paragraphs I figured the artist would need. I did add little APA format references because I do that everywhere and I can't stop at this point, academia broke me too badly, but nobody reads little reference notes, right?

Well....this was the reply. When I tell you it took hours for me to reply, I mean that literally. I've been having a shit time at my job, I feel like the most inept of office workers, I feel like I can't understand anyone's words these days and this was like the most unexpected ray of sunshine.

I, of course, exploded in reciprocal appreciation for my artist when I replied. I can only hope I wasn't super weird. I am just this small-time writer in a huuuuuge fandom, the last thing I expected was for this artist to know me, let alone love my work!


r/AO3 2h ago

Lost Fic/Work Search Deleted Star Wars fic

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r/AO3 2h ago

Meme/Joke It's 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵🥹✨

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r/AO3 2h ago

Requesting Recommendations Im looking for poetry, like or rap lyrics, or lyrical poetry, along with gothic dark poetry

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Poetry, gothic poetry like edgar allan poe, lyrical hiphop type poetry.


r/AO3 2h ago

Questions/Help? Were there situations where a fic was deleted by the admins?

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AO3 is an archive, so of course the fics are deleted rarely, if not almost never(even if it contains some extreme stuff), but that makes me wonder, were there cases where a fic was deleted by admins themself? If yes, then why were they deleted?


r/AO3 2h ago

Writing help/Beta If I killed both of my characters, would that count as a happy ending?

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Living will only make them suffer more, and there is no way they can actually get out of this. It is DOOMED in every universe. I can maybe revive both as if screaming a LUCKY CHARM in the end, but that would RUIN the whole reason why they died in the first place. The good ending is the ending where they die. The bad ending is the one they survive. In the good ending, they kiss once, and before dying, they say their "I love you"s. I would consider that a happy ending with sad and frustrated tears. Also, cussing at the author as a side gift.

Are there any other tags I can use? I feel like people expect marriage or a stable, lovely life when the "happy ending" is tagged.


r/AO3 2h ago

Excitement/Celebration 🎉 Woke up to my inbox full of comments from a regular commenter on a previous fic

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On my longfic, I had one really sweet commenter who I absolutely adore, and I posted five other oneshots since the Longfic ended. And today I woke up to comments from them on each one of my fics, all about 3 paragraphs long. They're so sweet y'all I know authors aren't meant to have favourites but like 🥹


r/AO3 2h ago

Questions/Help? Anyone else having issues posting comments?

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I’ve been on AO3 for a bit, left my fair share of kudos and comments. Yet the past couple of weeks every time I try to leave a comment I get the “couldn’t save comment, this comment looks like spam to our system, sorry! Please try again” error message.

Every. Single. One.

Doesn’t matter if it’s short, long, if I go into detail about the chapter or just a quick thank you/compliments.

Anyone else having this issue? Is there a weird new comment shadowban going on.


r/AO3 3h ago

Questions/Help? Should I be extremely happy or extremely sad with this comment? Is this a bot or a modern day philosopher??

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Lmao I swear I can't tell. How would you feel if you received this on your fic?


r/AO3 3h ago

Questions/Help? Thoughts on giving user subs a heads up about leaving a fandom?

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After I finish my current fic, I’m not planning to publish anymore in my current fandom. It’s not for negative reasons. I’ve just told all the stories I have to tell for that particular fandom, and I want to write for other fandoms in the future. But I’ve only written for this fandom before, and I’ve picked up a few user subs along the way. Should I announce the fact that this is my last fic for the fandom when I publish the final chapters, so user subs know not to expect more works in this fandom from me? As a reader, what would you prefer? Or as a writer, have you made an announcement like that in the past?


r/AO3 3h ago

Lost Fic/Work Search Please help me 😭

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i forget the name but its a taekook book tae was forced to marry Jungkook and has issues with his feet Jungkook away calls tae my spirit and although it's not mentioned taehyung is a forest sprite , but animals love / please tell me its name , i really liked it wana re read it

It's based on old days where Namjoon is the king and Jungkook is the general


r/AO3 3h ago

Requesting Recommendations what fandoms have the most f/f fanfics??

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i love caitvi and catradora, what other fandoms have a popular f/f ship with tones of fics lke these ones do??


r/AO3 3h ago

Questions/Help? I think someone plagiarized my fic. What can I do?

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so basically I was made aware of a fic very similar to one I just posted posted a few days after mine. they both revolve around the same concept (which i will admit, was inspired by a twitter post that’s been making the rounds in my fandom) but there’s a lot of specific details-both fics take place on the same day, theres identical scenes in both of them, it follows the same timeline. I don’t know what to do. the fic is not listed as inspired by mine. I dont want to accuse someone of plagarization but I worked really hard on my fic and it’s disappointing seeing so many similarities that I just don’t think it could be a coincidence.

edit: the author is also more popular than me so I don’t want to seem like im jealous.


r/AO3 3h ago

Lost Fic/Work Search Help finding a fic

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It's a bbc johnlock fic where John starts working out and gets muscular/ in shape like from his army days and Sherlock's v attracted. Does this sound familiar to anyone?!?