Alright, to ao3's soon to be arriving Wattpad Refugees, a basic guide to general user culture:
1.) Unlike Wattpads vote system that let's you like each chapter, the ao3 equivalent kudos only allows one per work. Everyone is generally quietly annoyed about this. To engage with each chapter, you're heavily encouraged to comment. Trust me, it makes people's day.
2.) Ao3 has no algorithm. By default it's latest updated work first. You can find things to your taste through searches, filters and tags.
3.) 'No archive warnings apply' and 'user has chosen not to use archive warnings' mean two very different things. No archives warnings means the work is free from any content that could require a warning tag (character death, graphic depictions of violence, non-con, etc). User has chosen not to use archive warnings means it could contain any of the warning content, be it hasn't been explicitly tagged. Treat it like an allergen. No archive warnings apply is allergen free. User has chosen not to use archive warnings, may contain traces or whole chunks of the allergen. If you're likely to have a bad reaction, maybe don't take the risk.
4.) Speaking of warnings, ao3 has very few restrictions on the type of work that's allowed. Whatever your personal thoughts or feelings on that are, thats how the site is. You're likely to run across some dark subject matters and a lot of people are uncomfortable with reading that. You're well within your rights not like these works and have your opinion on whether they should be allowed, but harassing the authors of such works (or any works) is more likely to come back on you than them. Ao3 operates on a strong policy of 'don't like, don't read'. Use the tagging system to your full advantage to only engage with the kind of works you want to see.
We look forward to welcoming you all and seeing the fantastic works you create. Happy writing!
never let anyone tell you that trawling through mediocre victorian poetry isn't worth it. we just happened upon an absolute BANGER of a worm poem. go read it or else 🪱🪱🪱
Hey you guys seen Hell to Pay? It's a pilot and it's going be made into a webcomic soon and that makes me super excited, I'm looking forward to it!
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Intended for a mature audience- Watch it if you want, I'd love to be able to scream about it with other people (seriously I got brain worms over this). I'll copy paste the video's description for a summary;
Robert Lowery, America's most well respected entrepreneur, has passed away. Instead of passing onto Heaven as the next phase of his life, his soul is transported to a Hell-like hub for demons in the multiverse, where he gets a second chance in life to continue being a sinner and become a demon of his own. Now renamed to "Profundus", he refuses to accept this new phase of life and struggles to find his way back to the living world to say goodbye to his still-living wife one last time. Unfortunately, three colorful demons won't make it easy for him.
Oh oh also! I've the main character is an older dude (did the math for this screenshot and he's like 51, unless I did my math wrong lol), which I think is cool especially since most main characters tend to be youngins (although I guess compared to the other characters he is a youngin)
(Date of Birth: Dec. 24, 1958; Date of Death: April 1, 2010)
(Can I just say that him dying on April Fool's Day is great, I wonder how that affected people's first reaction to news of his death)
Hell I even made very quick-ish silly doodles for this!
It's planned to become a webcomic this month so I'm really looking forward to it!
Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.