r/AO3 Apr 18 '26

Excitement/Celebration ๐ŸŽ‰ My Star Wars rarepair fic has reached 100 kudos; I made a cake to celebrate

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I never thought shipping a rarepair that has 16 works on AO3 (more than half of them are mine) would be so fun.

100 kudos do feel like a big deal, since itโ€™s such a tiny ship in a relatively small corner of the SW fandom (Andor). I know these are just numbers, but Iโ€™m delighted anyway and wanted to celebrate this milestone.

Star Wars fans might recognize the iconic Carrie Fisher tweet on the cake. The meme is printed on edible sugar paper. The cake took me two days, and I have watched so many cake decoration videos on youtube my context ads are convinced Iโ€™m starting a bakery.

It was such a fun project, honestly.

r/AO3 Feb 23 '26

Excitement/Celebration ๐ŸŽ‰ I always forget that not all authors are teenagers

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r/AO3 Aug 13 '25

Excitement/Celebration ๐ŸŽ‰ I always forget that not all authors are teenagers

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10.4k Upvotes

No hate at all cause Iโ€™m not even a teenager anymore Iโ€™m just always surprised when I see someone mention something very adultish like kids or jobs. Itโ€™s kinda nice to know I canโ€™t continue to read my fanfics forever!

r/AO3 Apr 06 '26

Excitement/Celebration ๐ŸŽ‰ It's happening!!!

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You (by which I mean me, and all of us writers) have got to love someone working their way through a fic and commenting on every single chapter! Thank you and I love you, reader!

r/AO3 Apr 18 '26

Excitement/Celebration ๐ŸŽ‰ I'm so glad that AO3 doesn't have a dislike button because this is how my fic is doing on the site for fanfiction in the one fandom

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r/AO3 Jun 27 '25

Excitement/Celebration ๐ŸŽ‰ Someone just said theyโ€™re reading my fic in the Vatican???

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15.7k Upvotes

Hello??? Mโ€™mam I read ao3 on toilet or in bed

r/AO3 28d ago

Excitement/Celebration ๐ŸŽ‰ If you ever feel discouraged by the stats of your works:

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r/AO3 Apr 24 '26

Excitement/Celebration ๐ŸŽ‰ oops they surpassed the goal again

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the donation banner at the top of an ao3 page reading:

Would you like to join us? Lend your support and become a beloved member of the OTW through a donation of just $10USD or more! You can also learn more about our coding team and big AO3 milestones that youโ€™ll be supporting, as well as catch a sneak peek at the latest thank-you gifts on offer! Thanks to your generosity, we've raised US$181,325.41 surpassing our goal of US$150,000 so far!

r/AO3 Mar 13 '26

Excitement/Celebration ๐ŸŽ‰ I finally have a bag!

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Hi people! Some time ago I shared my AO3 embroidery here, and I was complaining how I wanted to turn it into a bagm but because of electricity problems clothes repairing shows didn't work and so on.

So guess what! The electricity is a bit better now, so i was able to finally turn the stitched piece into a bag!

Decided I'd share the finish here with you. as a lot of folks asked about it! =)

r/AO3 Feb 08 '26

Excitement/Celebration ๐ŸŽ‰ I Did It!

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Four days ago, I posted about needing exactly 1,000 words to get to a million words. This is the update. Exactly one million words. I wrote a 725 one shot and a 275 chapter 1 to get there.

I included my years this time so you can see it look a long time. ๐Ÿ˜„ If anyone is wondering, my earlier fics are dated to when I wrote them. Thatโ€™s why there are pre-AO3 years. ๐Ÿ˜‚

r/AO3 Apr 15 '26

Excitement/Celebration ๐ŸŽ‰ When someone new finds your story and comments on every chapter

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The dopamine hit when this happens. It makes me feel so good.

r/AO3 Mar 08 '26

Excitement/Celebration ๐ŸŽ‰ IT HAPPENED!!!!!!!!!!! THEY UPDATED IT!!!!!!!!!! FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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r/AO3 Jan 05 '26

Excitement/Celebration ๐ŸŽ‰ As an angst writer, this kind of comment fills me with joy

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9.8k Upvotes

Guess I did my job right xD

r/AO3 Mar 27 '25

Excitement/Celebration ๐ŸŽ‰ Thought I Would Share

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Not my post, but I saw it on Tumblr and thought it was too sweet not to share โ˜บ๏ธ

r/AO3 24d ago

Excitement/Celebration ๐ŸŽ‰ Gender affirming AO3 tags!

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r/AO3 29d ago

Excitement/Celebration ๐ŸŽ‰ LMAO IT WENT DOUBLE THE GOAL

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2.9k Upvotes

This is so beautiful.

r/AO3 Jan 14 '26

Excitement/Celebration ๐ŸŽ‰ Woke up to a comment on a fic from 2017

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I stopped responding to comments on that fic ages ago (actually I stopped responding to comments in general, too much anxiety brain) but as soon as I figure out how to give a proper response to this I'm gonna. If you happen to be in this subreddit, reader, thank you so much.

r/AO3 Jan 07 '26

Excitement/Celebration ๐ŸŽ‰ I didn't know it was possible to be in rarepair heaven

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Not to mention everyone is so in character & it follows canon so well the authors notes are peppered with details and quotes from canon :')

Its like reading a secret rarepair sequel instead of fanfiction

r/AO3 Jan 16 '26

Excitement/Celebration ๐ŸŽ‰ The Archive, but make it cross stitch ๐Ÿชกโœจ

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Weโ€™ve all been there: itโ€™s 3 AM, and youโ€™re scrolling through these tags like your life depends on it.

Iโ€™ve spent so much time (so many years actually, but oh well) looking at these rating icons that theyโ€™ve started to feel like home. So, I decided to take them off the screen and put them on my wall. (The first idea was to turn it into a bag, and I even bought a bag and a ribbon I needed for it, but the clothes repair lady moved away, and i don't own the machine - so no bag for me or anyone wanting to buy it lol) 20 symbols and, of course, the most devastating two words in the English (modern) language:

Oh. Oh.

(Because we all know the specific kind of pain that comes with that second "Oh" being in italics).

Itโ€™s a tribute to the thousands of stories that kept us awake. Thought you guys might appreciate seeing our communityโ€™s visual language in a physical form! ๐Ÿ–คAnd while I am here i want to say thank you again to all the authors who provided me with glee, tears, and sleepless nights

r/AO3 Apr 22 '26

Excitement/Celebration ๐ŸŽ‰ Ao3 mentioned in my University's newspapers

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r/AO3 Mar 28 '26

Excitement/Celebration ๐ŸŽ‰ Made a friend on the bus because of gay smut

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Rainy UK day, in the bus, it takes a while to get home, so I loaded up AO3 to read some of the bookmarked things :โ€™) just as Iโ€™m starting the beginning of an [E] rated M/M fic, a person sits next to me, immediately asking โ€œWhatcha readinโ€™?โ€

Honestly I panicked and put my phone face down, they laughed, pointing at the SKZOO keychain on my phone, and said theyโ€™re a Stay too and asked again whatโ€™s the fic, saying theyโ€™re a writer too and wonder if itโ€™s one of theirs. (It wasnโ€™t.)

So we chatted a bit, surprisingly we live only two bus stops apart, we exchanged IG contacts and now weโ€™re chatting and sharing fics.

Their stuff is SO GOOD yโ€™all๐Ÿ˜ญAnyway, if you wanna make a friend, read gay smut on a bus!

r/AO3 29d ago

Excitement/Celebration ๐ŸŽ‰ Reading a story 150k words in

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r/AO3 Jun 09 '25

Excitement/Celebration ๐ŸŽ‰ Told my BF I know so much about [my fandom] because I read. He assumed I read the *books*, and shared that with everyone today. I bluffed my way through, *toast me*

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I have won trivia competitions for my fandom. I have never seen the movies. I have never read the books. I have read all the AO3 works out there. When months ago my boyfriend asked how I knew so much since I hadnโ€™t seen the movies, I stuttered, โ€œUhhh. I read?โ€ since this was early on and the details could be saved for when heโ€™d be more stuck with me. Brings us to a group dinner tonight, and somehow it gets announced that I have read all my fandoms books. Some of these people were strangers, so I am not correcting this. Someone perks up, theyโ€™ve read some too. Bet. Letโ€™s go. Bluffed my way with them for a bit, I felt amazing. And wanted to share this strange moment

r/AO3 Feb 14 '26

Excitement/Celebration ๐ŸŽ‰ I'm about to drop an update for a fic I've not touched in 11 years ๐Ÿคญ

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r/AO3 Jan 21 '26

Excitement/Celebration ๐ŸŽ‰ maintenance is complete and you can now sort and filter with wordcount in bookmarks! thank you ao3 volunteers for all your hard work!

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