Lucifer Morningstar, The Mary Sue From Hell

I know a lot of people are going to be migrating to Ao3 from Wattpad soon. It is important to know that Ao3 was made by freaks and for freaks. This means you will never see: censorship, ads, or algorithms. You are responsible for what you see. Anything is allowed as long as it is properly tagged. This is a very basic guide about how to find what you want to see and how to be respectful of the freaks native to this website

Chapter 1: Creating an Account

There is no “create account” button. Instead, you will click this “get invited” button

It may take a few days to get your invitation. Everyone had to get one. But don’t worry, you can still access most of the features as a guest!

Chapter 2: Searching for a Fic

Ao3 will never recommend a fic to you, so you're on your own to find what you want. I have circlex the most important button on the search page

🩷 this is your new best friend. It will open a menu that lets you exclude any warnings, characters, ships, or tags that you do not want to see. You can also include tags, and it will only show you fics that have every tag you included

Chapter 3: The Top of a Fic

❤️this is how you save a fic that you want to reread

🧡this is how you save a fic to read later

💚this will give you notifications when a new chapter is added

💜this is the description. It tells you everything you need to know before going in. This fic is rated “explicit” which means there is at least one open-door sex scene or detailed descriptions of mature subject matter. No warnings apply, so it will not include depictions of SA, CSA, graphic violence, or death. If an author chooses not to use archive warnings, this means that a warning could apply, but the author doesn’t want to spoil the story. There is a difference.

Chapter 4: The Bottom of a Fic

❤️the bookmark button does the same thing it did at the top of the fic

🩷press this button to indicate you read the fic

💛press this button to indicate you liked the fic. You can comment on chapters, but not on individual lines. Even a single heart emoji is greatly appreciated. Do not criticize the fic unless the author explicitly asked for advice or they failed to tag something properly

💜this is the dislike button. It may look different depending on your device/browser. It may be at the top or bottom of the screen, but it will usually look like an arrow pointing to your left

Chapter 5: Downloading the App

yes. wattpad recently updated its rules to be even more pro censorship. a lot of smut fics and taboo fics were removed and are now banned from wattpad's platform (these are all old rules that wattpad uses since day one, but wattpad has just recently made them even harsher/more strict than before), causing a lot of wattpad users to leave wattpad for ao3, an anti censorship site.

I have already made a post explaining why ao3 does not, and cannot, have an app here.

and another post here explaining why ao3 site is not "aesthetically pretty."

ao3 doesn't have an app because for it to have an app, appstore will have to approve it first. and if, hypothetically, ao3 needs appstore to approve it, it will also have to abide by appstore's pro-censorship stance and start banning dark and taboo fics, which is against its own core principle of being completely against censorship.

ao3 doesn't need an app. it works more than fine without an app. the reason ao3 can allow dark and taboo fics, the reason it can allow the most disgusting and shockingly vile fics, and be completely against censorship is because it doesn't need appstore's approval. it stands on its own as a non-profit organization with functioning site and a team of lawyers protecting its platform, its users, and every single fanwork on its platform.

everybody say thank you ao3

🍎📻

Chibi radioApple my beloved.