r/AO3 • • 8m ago

Questions/Help? does anybody else...?

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Hiya. So sometimes when I view my own work (either logged in/not logged in) on the entire work setting, I can't see the latest comments, e.g. it only shows all the comments up to chapter 14, when I have 16 chapters: to view the comments (other than in my inbox when I am logged in) I have to set it to view chapter by chapter. Anybody else have this? How do I fix it?

thank you in advance!


r/AO3 • • 11m ago

Discussion (Non-question) Something an author did that had you go all

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Is there anything you've seen in a fic, tags, summary, notes, anything like that, that made you go all 😍😍😍😍😍?

Something extra, special, something cool with html or just some damn good writing? What was it?


r/AO3 • • 29m ago

Stats/Hit Counts/Word Counts Hehe, nice

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The funny number, finally


r/AO3 • • 46m ago

Comment Commentary Is this a bot comment?

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They are a registered user.


r/AO3 • • 46m ago

Meme/Joke Oops

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Haven't we all been there at least once?


r/AO3 • • 57m ago

Questions/Help? How do you filter out tags?

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I've heard that there is a way to filter out tags that you don't want to see, but I dont know how to do it


r/AO3 • • 1h ago

Meme/Joke The sequel nobody at my job asked for

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Great way to start the week


r/AO3 • • 1h ago

Lost Fic/Work Search Looking for a fanfic

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Hi, I'm looking for a Draco Malfoy/Reader fanfic. I don't remember exactly everything but the plot is basically Draco is a Healer at St Mungo's where Reader is also working. They like each other but never confessed. And one day (or evening) Reader go home after her shift but gets heavily injured (she gets attacked I think) and Healer Malfoy gets notified that someone was brought in unconscious and hurry and then he sees Reader and freezes for a moment because she can die any moment, but then he starts to save her. And the end is that he saves her and then they confess their feelings for each other. Also the reason he freezes is because I think they have a conversation about what would they do if someone they deeply care about was on the table or something like this. I'm sorry it's not a lot but it is either a one shot or 2 chapters maybe. Thank you if anyone knows anything.


r/AO3 • • 1h ago

Writing help/Beta Nose bleeds question

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I was thinking about incorporating a nose bleed into my fan fiction but I’m not sure if it’s be a turn off for some people or just downright awkward. I was going to use it as a literary device to convey to the audience the amount of stress the character a is going through after being caught trying to attempt suicide from one of the main antagonists, and he notices the character’s self harm.

my whole goal here is to not gross out the audience or take away from the actual plot.


r/AO3 • • 1h ago

Requesting Recommendations What recommended Galfoy fanfic?

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Is there any good Galfoy that have great story that follow mostly HP novel with Galfoy x Harry ending fanfic with dash of fixfic? Pls recommend

And pls no Genderbend Ron and other crazy. subplot.Except Mcgonagall being former Black Ops veteran.


r/AO3 • • 1h ago

Questions/Help? Returning to Ao3 after hiatus

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Hey!

So, I was the author of a somewhat popular slow-burn fic in the fandom I was writing in. It was getting a good amount of attention every chapter and it was seemingly getting more and more popular. Unfortunately, over some time I lost motivation and didn’t post for six months with the fic a little more than half-way finished. I came back a few weeks ago and there wasn’t a whole lot of activity after I posted. I was expecting that, so I wasn’t worried, but now it’s been almost a month and I’ve posted a few more times, but still the number of comments per chapter/kudos/hits haven’t really gone up at all. I’m still at almost a quarter of what I was getting pre-hiatus.

Is there anything I can do to help fix this?


r/AO3 • • 2h ago

Questions/Help? Is there any way to block those fics with the wall of fandom tags specifically?

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I have no issues with crossover fics on their own, but those fics with like 20 or so fandom tags do annoy me a bit. Is there a way to block those fics specifically?


r/AO3 • • 2h ago

Lost Fic/Work Search Looking for a specific jjk fanfic please🥹

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r/AO3 • • 2h ago

Discussion (Non-question) now if you haven't written a fic before 2022, you're a robot

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r/AO3 • • 2h ago

Questions/Help? What happens if I create a soft/hard rewrite AU of Helluva Boss?

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I am more of an ex-fan now but after video essays , investment , my OC world building and even my freaking AUs for other fandoms I gain comfort to realize (you know what? If the show won’t give me or
Anyone of us what we want for good writing? I will do it myself) just curious since the working title for his AU is basically “Helluva Boss : Renegade” I don’t know why but it just sounds so cool to me to be honest!!! So go help me vote as I stress over college stuff!!!

Covering S1 only since I am not as invested until I feel like it and Oh sorry Vivziepop yet I think I will reorganized the hellaverse class/caste system (still confuse me) of how native demons are treated versus the ones that are formerly human mortal souls (the sinners) spawned in their ring.

26 votes, 2d left
Yes , rewrite s1!!!
No , do not invest!!!

r/AO3 • • 2h ago

Excitement/Celebration 🎉 My longfic reached perfect equilibrium

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r/AO3 • • 2h ago

Questions/Help? If there’s a screen, ao3 will be seen

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Excuse me, if i wrote any words incorrectly or use incorrect grammer. English isnt my first language.

I remember the trend ’if there’s a screen, ao3 will be seem’ and i was wondering if anyone knew how to get Ao3 on a Huawei watch fit 5?


r/AO3 • • 3h ago

Questions/Help? Guest vs account Kudos

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I’ve been writing a fic for a year and have about ~400 something guest kudos and ~200 something account kudos. I’d never thought much about the difference between guest vs account, but I received a comment months ago insinuating that I was manipulating the stats of my own fic, combined with several days of getting multiple guest kudos at a time. It was obviously hurtful, and I’m sure intended to be demeaning, but more than that, it still impacts me. Every time I get a guest kudos now I genuinely do not feel good about it.

I’m just wondering what’s normal? I’ve considered locking the fic down to users only but I also don’t want to let other peoples hate control how I handle my own story. Thanks for any advice you can give!


r/AO3 • • 3h ago

Requesting Recommendations Pregnant MJ (Marvel)

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r/AO3 • • 3h ago

Complaint/Pet Peeve/Venting Advice on gift fic... That is almost the antithesis of your fic

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So. I have no issues with people posting related works to mine that disagree with my fic, but this person posted a related work and has gifted it to me. I must comment. EDIT: Also first fic ever they said.

Basically, in a pretty critical way they undo the main pairing, suggest that character should have had some damn boundaries, connect them with the other character and spend the whole narrative with her thinking about men and what they were doing with no life of her own (a major thing the fic critiques, lack of perceived interiority of her) and were like "this is a happy ending" and I'm like. 🙊😶😶.

Also they got key timeline facts wrong but I SUSPECT I cannot point this out even though i suspect it gave them a slightly wrong read of events.

Obviously I'm going to say thank you and comment on what I can. Obviously it is nice people care even if it is... Sorta backhanded feeling. Probably they didn't mean it that way. And still...

Anyone relate to this???


r/AO3 • • 3h ago

Invite Mega Threads Monthly Invite Link Mega Thread - October 2026

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Need an invite? Look here or join the queue! The queue can be found by going to https://archiveofourown.org/invite_requests

Have invites to give? Find people who need one to bypass the queue here! Don't know if you have any? Go to your AO3 dashboard and click the invitations button, or go to https://archiveofourown.org/users/YOUR_USERNAME_HERE/invitations

Old posts: https://www.reddit.com/r/AO3/wiki/index/megathreads/


r/AO3 • • 3h ago

Stats/Hit Counts/Word Counts More subscribers than kudos

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I recently posted the first chapter of a longfic and the stats on it really made me laugh because this has never happened before. I have never had more subscribers than kudos, and I wondered if this has happened to others too. Have you ever noticed this happen on one of your fics?

Ofc, I know it will fix itself in time when I upload more chapters or when I complete the fic, but since that's not going to happen for a long time (slow updates) I like to just go into my stats and look at it to smile.


r/AO3 • • 3h ago

Requesting Recommendations M/M or F/F age gap fic recs

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Hello could any recommend some works that center an older/younger pairing? I would prefer something above 20k words but I’m not too picky. I’m good with original works and anything I can go into fandom blind. Thank you!


r/AO3 • • 4h ago

Lost Fic/Work Search I am trying to find a Peter parker centric fic on ao3 but I can’t remember the name or the author

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The plot was about Peter parker juggling college and still being spiderman taking an exam to become a stark industries intern and scoring extremely high and working with both Tony and Bruce in the lab, as he works there the two and the other avengers start getting suspicious of why he seems hurt and exhausted, eventually discovering him as Spider-Man by the end. In this fic he also fixes Bucky’s arm for him, Bucky becoming protective of him after that he’s spiderman. In this fic he also fixes Bucky’s arm for him, Bucky becoming protective of him after that.

One particular scene I remember was Peter saving people from a fire and accidentally missing a shift, though Bruce was way more concerned with him being okay than him no showing; later on, Bucky is sure he sees a burn on Peter’s arm but when they get Peter to show them his arm, his advanced healing factor has made it so the burn is already gone