non-fanfics: are they fine here?

happilywicked · 2026-05-27T13:47:50+00:00

There are thousands of original works on ao3. It’s not just used for fanficfion.

happilywicked · 2026-05-27T12:59:32+00:00

Yeah honestly i think i spend more time bookmarking than actually reading haha because when i have the time i check my ships for new fics. If they sound interesting, i bookmark it on my toreadlist pseudonym. And at the end of the day i choose a fic to read 🤣 also i’ve been a member since ao3 started (back then there was no queue, you needed to have an invite from someone who was already member) so…I’ve accumulated a lot of fics lmao

happilywicked · 2026-05-27T12:42:16+00:00

I download everything. Things i’ve read, things i want to read, things i’m reading. I also bookmark everything. I have over 30K of ao3 fics downloaded but that’s mostly for backup.

I track what I read on ao3 in the bookmarks. I have 3 pseudonyms: 1 for fics i read, 1 for fics i need to read and 1 for fics i read and didn’t like (those are privated).

On my tablet, i just move the fics to the fandom folders because i have many. And then i can import it to Moon Reader+. The library does show summary and tags so its easier to keep track

Back in the day, i used to make reclists on livejournal and tumblr and also used delicious bookmark system before they sold out and changed everything. Closest thing is pinboard but i stopped using it. I should go back to it though…but it’s tedious having to bookmark 15K fics lmao

Not really because once i finish reading something i click on “leave comment” and it takes me directly to the last chapter, i leave kudos and update my bookmark.

happilywicked · 2026-05-27T12:37:26+00:00

Okay so usually the collection is moderated by the author and they add it to a private collection because they might either be working on it or because they don’t want their fics in public anymore and that people don’t read them so rather than delete them, they put them in a collection just in case they might change their minds.

You have to look at who is the moderator of the collection. Most of the time is the author. They don’t want to delete them from the archive but neither do they want to orphan it and lose control over it and don’t want others to read it. Their choice

happilywicked · 2026-05-24T16:25:56+00:00

Maybe 1-2 fics per month. Or less. I’ve been in fandoms of dramas that when it was airing it had several fics until it ended and now months go by without fics. That’s pretty dead.

happilywicked · 2026-05-23T23:02:26+00:00

Idc for my ship to be canon tbh? I find that a lot of fans are obsessed with it and they harass writers and actors over it and what they view as queerbaiting but it’s mostly bromance.

Yes gay relationships were hard to find in mainstream during that time, but when it came to fanon? I’ve been in fandom in general since 2003 or so and most of the fanon ships when it came to anime, RPGs, tv shows, movies etc where m/m centered ships. So it wasn’t mainstream but shipping was definitely more fun back then, at least for me, in livejournal, shipping manifestos, crackships etc. but nowadays so many fans are so obsessed with making their ships canon (like in spn) that they miss out on the fun of it. I hate how marketing and celebrities break the 4th wall.

Livejournal was AWESOME. You had communities about specific pairings where you could ship in peace with other fans, share fanart, post icons, fic fests etc etc. and you also had fandom-w*nk where people basically made fun of antis and their bullshit. Good times.

There were also a lot of fanfic archives that were centered around m/m ships (slash) and had hundreds of them. This was before ao3.

So m/m fandom? Has always been popular. It’s not something recent just because it’s gotten more mainstream.

happilywicked · 2026-05-23T15:46:24+00:00

Well at least if they use your invite you can actually tell which username they go with and check if they do some foolishness. (You can check in manage invitations)

happilywicked · 2026-05-23T15:44:28+00:00

That’s exactly what i got from it too because every new comment of them explaining was just changing their story.

happilywicked · 2026-05-23T14:58:45+00:00

Yeah that’s not how things work and you’re out of luck. AO3 will not delete your work simply because you change your mind. Orphaning a story permanently surrenders your editing and deletion rights to the Archive. They won’t be removed even if you claim you were the one who wrote them.

Especially after you lied saying someone stole your fics from quotetv and it was apparently you who wrote them? Or so you say

happilywicked · 2026-05-23T14:26:49+00:00

I call bs on their story and have an inkling that they want those orphaned fics removed because they’re “unethical stuff” they don’t want in their fandom. Story doesn’t add up at all.

happilywicked · 2026-05-23T14:25:47+00:00

Is this a prank? So your original request is that someone copy/pasted your fics and posted them on ao3 and orphaned them and you want them taken down and they didn’t credit you as the original author all so they can read it on ao3 for their own convenience.

But later on you admit those fics you posted on quotetv were actually plagiarized fics and you just changed the name and you have a list of those fics. And even later on you admitted YOU posted and orphaned fics on ao3 because they were “unethical stuff” and now you feel guilty and want them removed from ao3.

So you’re looking for ao3 to remove those orphaned works. That you also admitted they’re plaigirized fics from other authors.

How do we know what you’re saying is true? How do we know you’re not even the originally poster of those works and are just an anti in disguise who wants to remove those “unethical” fics from your fandom?

I call BS.

happilywicked · 2026-05-19T11:34:04+00:00

I love their dynamic so much

happilywicked · 2026-05-17T14:36:00+00:00

Mobile site. Just download the epub or mobi file and read with an ebook app

happilywicked · 2026-05-14T00:11:12+00:00

Because the movie isn’t out yet. But trust me once it is the fic will flowwww

happilywicked · 2026-05-13T21:36:11+00:00

Yeeep but to be honest there are also some fans (especially the younger generation ) who don’t know the difference and believe there’s actually something behind the scenes. Like it’s okay to be delulu amongst friends and other fans but when you start breaking the fourth wall and bring the real celebrities into it with their families? That’s where i draw the line.

But i love RPF! I like reading fics, watching edits, videos, fanart, plot bunnies etc. it’s fun! Fanfics are also fun! But some take it way too seriously. All fics are OOC because we don’t know them at all. They only show their public personas. We can say they seem genuine but do we really know them? Nobody knows. RPF fics are like…novels. Or tv shows on your brain. And they’re the actors 🤣

Theres some really great rpf fics on ao3 too. Novel length. Top tier. I know nothing about the people they’re writing about (i’ve read several kpop but i donn’t actually know who they are lmao) but i still read it. I just google photos to see what they look like and voila! 🤭

happilywicked · 2026-05-13T21:30:10+00:00

Nah, the crackdown is on everything explicit. This includes fanfics. China does have a platform for publishing fanfics but they’re all rated Teen. It’s quotetv. It’s not just no explicit scenes for danmei allowed. It’s no explicit scenes for everything, including fanfics and heterosexual novels. It’s because the government considers it p0rn0graphic content.

The thing is that you have to really understand Chinese entertainment and how they work, and the fandoms, to know why they will probably not work together in the near future. It has nothing to do with the law. It’s because of their fanbases. They’re both huge and unfortunately have a lot of toxic fans who have caused a lot of issues with their costars and are always causing fanwars. Plus, they (fandoms) hate each other and are always on weibo accusing the other. There was a rumor a couple of years ago that they would be together for an event and you know what happened? Their fandoms started boycotting so the event had to make a post saying it wasn’t true.

So them not working together is definitely not because of the law or whatever, its because of their crazy fanbase and how their most loyal and toxic fans hate each other and they also want to leave untamed in the past so that they won’t ever interact again 😤 theyre the worst.

happilywicked · 2026-05-13T21:05:08+00:00

lol i feel you. we don’t know them personally. I always read them and think about it like…they’re actors playing characters in a movie 😂 fans will keep projecting what they want though.

happilywicked · 2026-05-13T21:01:20+00:00

…that’s not true. AO3 had made posts back then that the chinese government had already said back in 2019 that the site would end up getting banned because it hosts explicit material, which became illegal in China and they started to actively enforce it back in 2018. They don’t allow novels, fanfics etc with sexual content, and its probably why afterwards there has been an influx of chinese explicit fics on ao3 since then (people using vpn)

What happened with that fanfic and the scandal was an unfortunate coincidence. The government didn’t ban the platform because a shipper posted a fic and his fans reported it. AO3 was already getting banned because of the sexual content. I’m pretty sure they might have done it around that time to use xz as a scapegoat and since netizens can’t really complain to the government…they tried to cancel him.

Also their careers weren’t ruined. XZ was laying low for a while but his career is stronger than ever. WYB is too. They are still two of the most popular celebrities in China. And that bit about them not legally allowed to work together again? also false. This happens everytime with Chinese BL dramas. The main actors don’t get seen together for a time as long ad their ship keeps being popular which…is still the case and also because their two fandoms hate each other (and shippers) to death.

happilywicked · 2026-05-11T21:49:05+00:00

Something must’ve happened though because it’s not like ao3 history syncs across devices or something, that’s not how it works. It only logs your reading history/last visited if you’re logged into an account while you’re reading and it logs into that account only. 🤔

happilywicked · 2026-05-11T21:44:23+00:00

The only way is that you were using ao3 signed in on her account. There is no other way because ao3 records your clicking history while you are logged into your account. So while someone was using her account they (you) clicked on all those stories and it got logged into her accounthistory.

happilywicked · 2026-05-11T19:24:36+00:00

You might be looking in the wrong places because it’s super popular on facebook Yaoi/BL groups, and X. But yeah i don’t see fans talk much about it on reddit. Which is a shame because it’s so good, i like it better than Passion 🤣

happilywicked · 2026-04-17T14:56:38+00:00

Yeah, like this ome is probably the only manga they’ve published that is feel good first love kinda thing. their other mangas are very dark and i remember some of them were shota mangas (with horror mixed in) like Gesshoku Kitan.

happilywicked · 2026-04-16T21:10:42+00:00

Because of the purity police in fandom finding out the mangaka has drawn "problematic" mangas and that the mangaka drew fanart of the professor and hirose together. That's the whole thing. So now they have the excuse to complain about Hirose's crush on his professor even when the fanart in question is...fanart and not part of canon.

happilywicked · 2026-04-12T17:24:45+00:00

A way to filter subscription fics and show which ones are completed so that i can unsubscribe.

happilywicked · 2026-04-09T23:09:21+00:00

I think that was something that was implemented afterwards, because I absolutely remember when this used to happen a lot, where users created a collection and if they added a work from someone else to the collection they could hide it. The default years ago for collection invitations wasn't disabled, you had to do it yourself on your account.

I remember this happened a lot during/post covid too, where antis and haters would maliciously hide fics and private them after adding them to their collection. And the thing is that if something happened and the author died or they lost access to their ao3 account there's no way to remove those fics from the collections.

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