*Finds fic about trope/subject I like e.g. trans characters, BDSM, disability* :D
*The fic reads like a preachy instruction manual about the Most Correct Way To Do Things mixed with the most therapised speech you can imagine* D:
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Game of Thrones Daily
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Misplaced Lens Cap

Origami Around
Keni
Sweet Seals For You, Always
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda

Kiana Khansmith
Not today Justin
TVSTRANGERTHINGS
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⣠Chile in a Photography âŁ
Jules of Nature
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her

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*Finds fic about trope/subject I like e.g. trans characters, BDSM, disability* :D
*The fic reads like a preachy instruction manual about the Most Correct Way To Do Things mixed with the most therapised speech you can imagine* D:
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Yeah sure, writing and drawing nsfw stuff with children characters doesn't mean you hurt children, but it does make you that person who finds depictions of children sexually attractive
I'd still trust you with my life doctor tbh
...this is my new favourite chart
I have great news about the hair thing
The findings can help explain the physics behind phenomena like volcanic lightning

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there is no single argument against including trans women in sports that doesn't boil down to "women aren't supposed to be good at this" and it's fucking insane to me that every woman in the world isn't up in arms about the way this issue has laid institutional misogyny bare to the bone
then again it has also revealed how many misogynistic cis women believe in their own exceptionalism to the point they feel they benefit from "women aren't supposed to be good at this" and will use every tool in the white imperial torture kit to ensure the acceptable categories of 'woman' and 'good' remain shallow and narrow enough for them to force themselves into a position of supremacy.
I don't disagree with the observation that a lot of folks in tabletop roleplaying spaces don't believe that game design is real (i.e., in the sense that they believe any GM should be able to achieve any experience of play using any system and refuse to recognise that rules are opinionated about what sort of games they want to produce), but I feel like putting that at the forefront is confusing the symptom for the disease. A lot of folks in tabletop roleplaying spaces don't believe game design is real because they don't believe that games are real.
I've talked in the past about how Hasbro's efforts to deceptively market Dungeons & Dragons as universal entry-level game have fostered a culture of play in which any appearance that D&D isn't a universal entry-level game is regarded as evidence that you have a "bad GM", and how, in order to avoid being a "bad GM", it's necessary to treat it as a normal part of the GM's responsibilities to constantly monitor the outputs of the rules and quickly paper over any gaps between the game the rules want to produce and the game the group wants to be play, like a cartoon train conductor frantically constructing the very tracks along which the train they're conducting is riding.
The trouble is that most players aren't stupid, and readily see through the act. They (correctly!) observe that the particulars of the rules don't actually seem to matter all that much, because most of the desired experience of play is the product of the GM's constant interventions, rather than the product of interpreting the outputs of the rules â but instead of identifying this as a problem, they conclude (again, quite reasonably, as they've probably never seen it done differently) that this is what tabletop roleplaying is. The GM merely pretends to be moderating a game; in truth, they're a pantomime-leader whose job is to maintain the illusion that we're playing a game with rules, when in fact what we're really doing is guided improv theatre.
And of course there's nothing wrong with guided improv theatre â it's a fine pastime, and one I've enjoyed myself on many occasions. However, it does put folks who really do want to play a game in a bind, because now there's this insurmountable communication barrier. You can say "I want to play a game, and these are the rules of that game", and receive what seems to be enthusiastic agreement with that premise; however, a significant portion of the people expressing that agreement think they're participating in a bit of kayfabe, like very dedicated professional wrestlers who stay in character even outside the ring.
Critically, nobody is necessarily acting in bad faith in this equation. The folks who don't bother to learn the rules because they think games aren't real mostly aren't fucking with you on purpose; they honestly thought they were yes-anding your improv prompt by pretending to care about the mechanics of play, and when they discover that you really do expect them to do all that fiddly dice math, from their perspective it genuinely looks like you were the one misleading them. It's just a fucked up culture of play garbling all the signals in both directions.
(Note that, while I've identified Hasbro's deceptive marketing as the ultimately source of this culture of play, indie RPGs are hardly innocent of perpetuating it. You only need cast a critical eye on the "Rule Zero" sections of many popular indie games to notice that many of their authors are all in on the idea that games aren't real!)
like US settlers did basically the same thing, they would often leave official jurisdictions and then require state protection from natives, bringing the jurisdiction to them, and thus expanding the frontier of unclaimed land which could be feasibly claimed. a lot of US settlers were expressly breaking the law!
Me, tears streaming down my face, sobbing, as I stare at the stars: itâs just so beautiful
The medieval peasant I went back in time to give a bag of Doritos to, concerned: what terrible and powerful sorcerers they must have in your age, to be able to veil the vault of heaven itself from view, as you say
Me, sniffling: I didnât realize, I canât, itâs so much, I, I⌠are the chips good, at least?
Medieval peasant, trying to make me feel better: theyâre⌠magical, strange traveler

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âNotâ Filtering on AO3
AO3 savior is a godsend, and those various scripts to hide everything with too many fandoms listed are helpful, but some searches end up with 19/20 fics per page blocked, and you still have a million pages to sort through. While AO3 doesnât have ânotâ filtering built in, there is a workaround that you can use in the âSearch within resultsâ box.
-filter_ids:IDNUMBER
(Where IDNUMBER is the number of the tag as seen in its RSS feed.)
Now, thereâs an easier way to find that number. Check out this bookmarklet by flamebyrd.
But itâs time consuming to look them up, so here are a few Iâve done:
Keep reading
omg though, what are the scripts to hide everything with too many fandoms listed??
ao3 crossover savior
There are lots of scripts that do various things to AO3.
What âArchive of Our Ownâ Refers to
I just saw a bunch of âStop shoving your feminism in my faceâ type comments on that other post. So Iâm going to be pedantic and point out, yet again, where the name came from.
Astolatâs post proposing an archive was titled âAn Archive of Oneâs Ownâ. This is a reference to A Room of Oneâs Own by Virginia Woolf, which is described on Wikipedia as:
âAn important feminist text, the essay is noted in its argument for both a literal and figurative space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by men.â
Astolat called for name suggestions for the archive. Nobody ever came up with anything more popular than the original reference, and the slightly modified âArchive of Our Ownâ stuck.
AO3 welcomes people of all genders, but the very name itself is a reference to feminist thought and female writers. This should beâbut isnâtâobvious to many fans today.
Whoops. Just deleted my post. Go me.
I wanted to pop this out because I think itâs an interesting cultural point. Many die-hard AO3 fans probably donât even think about this because they never use search.
How do âallâ fic archives work? Obviously, you go to the fandom listing, which is probably by media type, click on your fandom, and add whatever kind of metadata filtering the site allows. Thatâs how it always works, right? Right?
Or at least thatâs what you think if youâre from the Before Times.
On AO3, you donât even have to start from the fandom tag. You can start from any tag and filter from there.
My guess is that a lot of people, like me, start typing in AO3â˛s URL and click on whatever autocompletes. In my case, The Rightish Reasons in BTS fandom. From there, they click on tags in the header to take them where they want to go, assuming their autocomplete wasnât their favorite tag in the first place.
Hereâs my front page, for example:
Once at the tag, youâve got the SIDEBAR, which is the real reason nobody likes search.
The default sort is by date updated, but you can pick others:
If you want to add ~engagement~ back into your searching, you can sort by kudos/comments/bookmarks/hits, but itâs not the default.
Lots of people leave it in date order and just exclude or include tags to get results down to a reasonable number of pages.
This sidebar and the paginated view of everything that you get by starting from a tag beats AO3â˛s work search page and every other fic archiveâs search by leagues.
As for the âbest matchâ thing, itâs something like closest text string match. It doesnât look at engagement. It doesnât have any parameters that the site admins tinker with to try to influence user behavior. But people in the replies werenât even thinking about it because they literally never look at that page.
What do you think about the fact that the archive wonât remove RPF about minors. I donât think itâs as bad as theyâre saying it is but I donât really know how to discuss it
Ahahahahahahahaha!
Thatâs what I think.
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Let me be clear about two things here: First, anti-RPF discourse is very old. I thought we finished fighting that battle in like 2001 when a combination of Popslash and LotRiPS weakened the resolve of the biggest haters. So new people can re-fight it all they want, but they should not expect OTW to listen to their uninformed n00b opinions.
Second, when we wrote the TOS, we were explicit that:
âUnless it violates some other policy, we will not remove Content for offensiveness, no matter how awful, repugnant, or badly spelled we may personally find that Content to be.â
And that:
âYou understand that using the Archive may expose you to material that is offensive, triggering, erroneous, sexually explicit, indecent, blasphemous, objectionable, grammatically incorrect, or badly spelled.â
Many n00bs seem to have understood this as protecting gay fiction from homophobes. That is certainly one effect that it has. We were also protecting RPF from RPF haters--and believe me, there were plenty who showed up on the original post that proposed AO3.
The test case I brought up at the time was the epic quantity of Gillian Anderson rape/snuff porn on Usenet in the 90s that sounded like it was written by misogynist straight men.
That is the level of content that AO3 was always designed to protect.
Nothing has gone wrong. This is what AO3 is.
If people are too uncomfortable with that to use the site, thatâs fine: You can go to to Wattpad or Fanfiction.net, found your own site, check out one of the dozens of smaller archives, make a private discord with your buddies where you share google doc fic, yadda yadda. There are infinite options in the modern day.
AO3 was designed to be the archive where the things banned everywhere else go. Of course it has underage RPF.
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If the concern is âBoo hoo, this will lead to real life child abuseâ, all I can say is that AO3â˛s rules were not written to accommodate fake science any more than they were written to accommodate fake law. Most of the anti-AO3 sentiment going around right now grossly misrepresents what we know of human sexuality, the relationship between fiction and reality, US law, and even the actual nature of the fic everyoneâs being a drama queen about.
If it actually were ~child rape~ fic, I would still defend it because that is part of AO3â˛s mission. In reality, like 99% of the time people have dramatics over a âliteral childâ, this person is a 16-year-old in the UK.
He is neither a child nor is he a minor in his own country. He has a semi-popular RPF fandom with a few thousand works, out of which 20 use the ânonconâ archive warning.
This is a tempest in a teapot created by people who want to destroy all RPF, destroy AO3â˛s protections of nasty content in general, or see âpedophilesâ where there are none. The last 57 times didnât work, so theyâre desperately hoping fandom will be shocked enough by the words âchild rapeâ to react this time.
The people who give money and time to OTW already know what the rules allow. This wank has happened at least once a year for the entire decade plus of AO3â˛s existence. Nothing here is new.
Learn to live with underage RPF or find another archive.

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Whoops. Just deleted my post. Go me.
I wanted to pop this out because I think itâs an interesting cultural point. Many die-hard AO3 fans probably donât even think about this because they never use search.
How do âallâ fic archives work? Obviously, you go to the fandom listing, which is probably by media type, click on your fandom, and add whatever kind of metadata filtering the site allows. Thatâs how it always works, right? Right?
Or at least thatâs what you think if youâre from the Before Times.
On AO3, you donât even have to start from the fandom tag. You can start from any tag and filter from there.
My guess is that a lot of people, like me, start typing in AO3â˛s URL and click on whatever autocompletes. In my case, The Rightish Reasons in BTS fandom. From there, they click on tags in the header to take them where they want to go, assuming their autocomplete wasnât their favorite tag in the first place.
Hereâs my front page, for example:
Once at the tag, youâve got the SIDEBAR, which is the real reason nobody likes search.
The default sort is by date updated, but you can pick others:
If you want to add ~engagement~ back into your searching, you can sort by kudos/comments/bookmarks/hits, but itâs not the default.
Lots of people leave it in date order and just exclude or include tags to get results down to a reasonable number of pages.
This sidebar and the paginated view of everything that you get by starting from a tag beats AO3â˛s work search page and every other fic archiveâs search by leagues.
As for the âbest matchâ thing, itâs something like closest text string match. It doesnât look at engagement. It doesnât have any parameters that the site admins tinker with to try to influence user behavior. But people in the replies werenât even thinking about it because they literally never look at that page.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Yo, for those who donât know, thereâs a specific FAQ linked to from the Terms of Service that answers a lot of questions about policy shit thatâs not always explained in the regular FAQ.
I find that a lot of AO3 users miss this page, and itâs a useful one.