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For anyone who might be writing fic in order to raise money/donations for a cause, please remember not to mention that anywhere on AO3. It is against the Terms of Service to charge money for fic, even if that money is not going to you, personally. Please don’t mention commissions or donations or fundraising or patreon or kofi etc etc in a fic or on your profile. ❤
I will boost this signal, mostly for myself because my brain is apparently a fucking colander and I can’t remember shit sometimes; and also add, if you’re the one who commissioned a fic, don’t mention that on ao3 either. Not even in your bookmarks! I forget other people can see my notes there. Please don’t get your writing friends in trouble, like I almost did a couple of times :(
Just say ‘i asked for this pairing/trope/continuation/whatever’ Don’t say ‘i commissioned this’.
i’ve had “if you enjoy my writing, click here” with a link to my kofi in all of my end notes for a couple years and nothing’s happened, so maybe try that
Nope. You’re still breaking their TOS by having a site like ko-fi directly linked, and if anyone finds that out or someone reports you, you can lose your entire account. They have to enforce these rules in order to protect us from copyright laws. It’s why for decades individual fandom creators used to put “I do not own this work or profit from it” at the start of every fic/chapter.
What you can do, is say “follow me on tumblr” and promote your ko-fi on your tumblr. But I’ve seen people do the link to their ko-fi/patreon without explicitly mentioning them and still losing their accounts or getting hit by warnings cause someone reported them. (The one person I knew who outright lost their account just kept doing it repeatedly despite multiple warnings, like a doofus, so that was on them.)
(I think there may be exceptions for certain charity drives, but I don’t think ko-fi and patreon are protected by that)
Hi! Former AO3 Abuse team member here! It’s been a bit, so I’ll admit that my knowledge may be slightly out of date. But generally speaking you cannot:
Link Directly to:
Kofi
Patreon
Amazon
Your private book site where you sell your writing
Any other fundraising site such as gofundme etc
If you link and are reported your work is in danger of being deleted, but you will be given a warning and time to fix any issues.
You also cannot mention that a work was directly commissioned with $$, hide the rest of your work/novel/chapter/ or in any way paywall the remainder of your work. Things like “support my writing here!!” are usually no go.
General phrasings like trade, requested, asked for, etc are OK.
Joy is correct in saying linking to your tumblr which advertises your kofi or fundraiser is ok.
If you are reported, the AO3 team will do their best to let you know EXACTLY what works and what phrasing is not allowed. They do issue a blanket “responsible for the rest of your works” statement so be thorough.
AO3 WILL NOT DELETE YOUR WORK, BAN YOU, OR IN ANY WAY REMOVE ITEMS WITHOUT WARNING. IF YOUR WORK IS DELETED YOU WILL RECEIVE AN EMAIL CONTAINING THE DELETED WORK. KEEP YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS CURRENT. NEVER USE A STUDENT EMAIL ACCOUNT.
Thank you for that 💖
I did not know this and I think it’s very important others as informed as well.
Curious question: what of a kofi link in your profile, unrelated to a specific work?
You cannot directly link to a source of income anywhere on Ao3. Not on fics, and not in your profile. It doesn’t matter which specific fandoms you write for or if you are using Ao3 to host original work. The only way the site can protect itself, and its users from litigation is to follow current copyright law, which forbids earning money from fanworks.
You also cannot link to something like a linktree that contains direct links to a means of generating income, e.g., ko-fi, patreon, PayPal, Amazon, cash app, Gumroad etc
The safest thing to do, both for yourself and the longevity of the site is to link to your blog, which in turn may link to your ko-fi. Make separate posts reminding people that if they like your art/writing, your ko-fi exists. Just be smart about it.
As I tell people who ask me about creating fanworks of my OG work absolutely 100% do the thing. Just don’t let me, the copyright holder, see a link to ko-fi or patreon associated with it because I am then legally obligated to file a takedown. And no one wants that.
Ao3 doesn’t want it either. The site was created for fans by fans to stop the constant shutdowns of forums and fan spaces when host servers got sent take-down notices for hosting fanwork, resulting in years of work and community being destroyed, sometimes overnight. Ao3 and their legal team have irrevocably changed the legal landscape of fandom, but they can only sustain that change by operating within the legal loopholes of transformative works being created for zero profit.

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I think another problem with the mindset of kudos/comments on AO3 is part of the “stalking” culture on instagram. If you like a picture that is months old on instagram, its “insta-stalking” because you had to scroll through that person’s profile in order to find those months-old pictures. That is NOT how AO3 works. It’s not cringe or embarrassing to find a fic that was posted in 2012 and like it. It is there to read.
Sure, maybe some of us have some old works that aren’t up to our current standards of writing. But I, personally, am never going to look at a kudos email and think “ew omg I can’t believe someone found this fic from 2016 why are they liking it”. In fact, I am entirely going to go “nice! people are still reading some of my older works too, I’m glad they enjoyed it”. It’s an archive, it is meant to be a collection of transformative works, old and new, and you are meant to find them.
In fact, if you find a work that is from five years ago and you really liked it? I bet the author would love a comment even then.
Stories are written to be read.
Show some appreciation.
I love waking up in the morning and seeing that comments have been left on fics I wrote 5, 10, 20(!!!) years ago.
2002 me wrote a fic that made someone in 2020 happy? Fucking brilliant.
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I am begging people who write fic solely on Tumblr to please put your fic on Ao3 or a similar site.
Things Ao3 can do for you that you're doing manually on Tumblr and creating more work for yourself:
Chapters and Collections - Your fic ends up having more than one part? Great! Chapters may be what you're looking for, rather than scattering your story across multiple reblogs or new posts. Do you have multiple stories that are all related? Make a Collection! People can easily find all the stories in the world you've made all together.
Organization - On Ao3, the only thing on your page is your fic, no need to sort through random reblogs of other stuff. Great for readers AND you to find fic quickly! Edit a fic and you'll know everyone will see the edits! Readers can bookmark your fic and read it over and over!
Reader subscriptions - I see SO MANY of you with huge lists at the end of your Tumblr fic where you're tagging people to notify them of a new part. On Ao3, they can just subscribe to the fic. They will get automatically notified that you've put up a new part! Plus, if they REALLY like you, they can subscribe to your account in general so any time you post ANY fic, they'll be notified!
Legibility - Outside of the dashboard, I swear to god some of you don't understand that tiny font on your blog theme is inaccessible. On Ao3, readers can customize their experience so they never have to deal with eyestrain.
Tags and Warnings - This is a huge one. People can easily filter if they want to see your fic or not, and if you tag right, people can FIND your fic more easily.
Quality - YES, your fic is "good enough" to go on Ao3. Ao3 isn't some fancy publishing company, it's a repository for ALL fic. Even yours. Yes, your drabble. Yes, your bullet fic that turned into something more. Yes your twittfic that became really long.
Please. Please post your fic to Ao3. I'm begging you.
•$2000 stimulus: has to go through Congress, not executive order. In progress.
•$50k student loan relief: this one he could do with an order, because Dept of Ed is executive branch. Get on it.
•No kids in cages: has to get through the courts—which Cheeto Mussolini loaded with unqualified fascists; one executive order already stopped by a court in Texas. Working on it.
•$15 minimum wage: has to go through Congress, not executive order. Working on it.
PLEASE. I am BEGGING YOU. Learn how the US government actually works.
It took 4 years of the last shithead in office to fuck things up so dramatically that the world couldn’t ignore it anymore, and 240 years for it to get to the point where 45 even could become the chief executive of this shithole. It will take more than the 5 weeks 1 day (as of this post on 02/25/2021) that Biden has been in office for things to be fixed.
Yesterday I saw people angry at My Socialist Grandpa, Bernie, begging him not to remove the 15$ increase from the COVID bill. This is not his decision: the Senate parliamentarian (a nonpartisan rules lawyer for the senate) said the wage increase is outside the purview of the budget reconciliation. And honestly I was expecting that because they’re uh kind of right unfortunately.
This means 15$ wage is going to have to be its own bill. That’s a massive problem because the GOP and like four moderate Dems don’t want to pass it. And we need something like 60 votes to pass it anyway bc fucking Manchin and Sinema don’t want to kill the filibuster.
Anyone who has a moderate dem senator should blow up their phones. Esp if you got Manchin and Sinema. Tell them to stop being precious and get shit done.
In my grandparents’ time, it was believed that spirits existed everywhere… in trees, rivers, insects, wells, anything… I like the idea that we should all treasure everything because spirits might exist there, and we should treasure everything because there is a kind of life to everything. — Hayao Miyazaki.
scenery in SPIRITED AWAY / 千と千尋の神隠し 2001 | dir. Hayao Miyazaki / 宮崎 駿

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What if we lived in a world where giant cats and dogs roamed the earth?
There’s even more pictures, from the second page of the link:
Never before have I so deeply wanted to live in the world of someone’s artwork. Those pictures with the human just burying their entire upper body in the floof, they speak to me on a spiritual level.
I really respect the guy that just keeps faceplanting all of the softest looking creatures. Same, dude. same.
OH MY GOSH IT’S ADORABLE
giant animal: exists
human: nap time
@propertyofmarvel looka da big kitties!
this is literally just Bitty Undertale universe
oh my god please don’t kill me for mentioning Undertale AU
Did another art commission <3 Edward being cute lol
I’ve never ONCE seen one of these and not being just like…absolutely riddled with tension, so. Keep passing them around, I guess!
Needed that, thanks. 👍🏻
One of those fandom things that I love is when there’s new characters around and, with the unwavering confidence of an old farmer appraising cattle, fanfic authors take one good look at them, tilt their imaginary hat, and go “Aye. Praise kink, that one. Mighty case of praise kink if I ever saw one.” And everyone else just “aye.”
Not to mention the plot tropes.
“I don’t think the Highschool AU is going to come in too strong this year. Fandoms a touch jaded for that. But the hurt/comfort is growin’ thick as weeds and twice as fast. It’ll be a good harvest, fer sure.”
@cynaram
“I hear over at [neighbouring fandom] they’re putting the top field into fix-it fics.”
“Yes, ‘twould be. They had a hard season last year, a right hard season.”
“You think I ought to plant a little Sailor Moon Wild West AU? Don’t know if anything would come of it. Might not make it to harvest.”
“Won’t know until you plant it, will you?”
“Ah, a heritage crop.”
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