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You keep talking about the origins of AO3 as this group effort by an actual group of people who were friends and who spent time discussing this with each other in person. It's kind of blowing my mind. Is there a post or a journal somewhere that specifically keeps record of this?

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I'm dying.

Nonnie, seriously?

No, that's mean, I know you're serious. It's just flabbergasting how much fandom has expanded and how much there isn't a direct link to the past.

Astolat and Cesperanza floated the idea at Vividcon and various places, I think, though I wasn't going to cons in that era. We were all on LJ in those days, and Astolat made a big post nailing her theses to the door. Discussion in the comments was instant and prolonged.

A LJ com was set up to discuss. It was later renamed to otw_news, but if you go all the way back to the beginning, you can see brainstorming mess instead of official news posts.

Fanlore page linking to Astolat's post and giving a little context.

Early brainstorming: https://otw-news.livejournal.com/2007/05/

For example, here I am collecting links to older archives to look at for research when designing AO3.

Fun fact, we never intended to call it AO3. There was a whole call for name suggestions, but nothing was as evocative as astolat's original post title referencing Virginia Woolf. (For those who haven't thought about it, AO3's name is a reference to A Room of One's Own.)

Here's the name discussion

Here's the poll that came out of it

But also notice how many people voted: 562.

That's how many people cared at the time: a few hundred. Maybe a thousand if you count lurkers, but frankly, that community was not as lurkery as now. It wasn't just ten friends. It was a community effort. But what "our" community looked like at the time was vastly different. It was six degrees of Kevin Bacon astolat, not a vast sea of strangers like fic fandom on AO3 is now.

Here's an early post suggesting we ban the under 18s from the site entirely. Pity we didn't do so, given the rise of antis.

Here's the invite to a fundraising party at astolat's in NYC that following Halloween. I dressed as Amanda from Highlander, not very well.

You can tell we knew each other by looking at those comments on astolat's initial post. You can also tell how discussion-based that part of fandom was back in 2007.

The way my tumblr is now with a ton of text, back and forth, and hopping around between threads of conversation, all featuring a consistent set of faces, is very much like LJ. Most of tumblr is not.

#ao3 #this is so interesting

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A few of these are probably referring to the date posting bug thing, but AAAAAAAAAAAH!

#not described #ao3

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It has come to my attention that #userjacks isn’t taken so I am staking my claim over it. I’ll be tracking it; use it on a post if you want me to see it!! (Art, writing, edits, it doesn’t have to be HP related. I’m very excited to see whatever you make.) I’ll reblog anything tagged with it :)

#tz reblog

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lil dorlene doodle i finished today :))

#they’re so cute #dorlene #fanart #queuetiful

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that sort of friendship can keep you on your toes

#wolfstar #fanart #queuetiful #this is so !!!!!

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“oh… moony…. thank you 🖤”

remus: :) happy birthday

#AWW #sirius black #fanart #queuetiful

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💫 wolfstar, my loves 🌙

#wolfstar #fanart #queuetiful

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I don’t think there’s such a thing as being too old for fandom, I love seeing middle-aged and elderly people have fun with their favourite books and shows, but I do think there’s such a thing as being too old for certain types of fandom discourse, like at some point I expect you to have the maturity to take a step back and consider whether vitriolic online discourse about anime characters is really a good use of your spare time

#fandom shit #queuetiful

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regulus kept his crush on james a secret from barty for as long as possible until evan felt bad and told barty only to realise why regulus kept it a secret. this man would SCREAM across classrooms and fields to james to ask him to spend time with the three of them, he was not subtle AT ALL, in fact he would go out of his way to make sure james knew without actually saying the words "regulus has a crush on you"

i fully believe regulus wouldve done it back (though WAY more subtle) when he found out about barty and evan

#jegulus #rosekiller #queuetiful

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It has come to my attention that #userjacks isn’t taken so I am staking my claim over it. I’ll be tracking it; use it on a post if you want me to see it!! (Art, writing, edits, it doesn’t have to be HP related. I’m very excited to see whatever you make.) I’ll reblog anything tagged with it :)

#harry potter #marauders #wolfstar #<- for exposure #PLEASE use it on whatever I wanna see what you guys make #userjacks #<- that’s the tag #fuckery #uncommon name privilege

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making jegulus fanart is switching between the taylor swift playlist and the lana del rey one depending on which idiot you’re drawing

#caption so true #jegulus #fanart #queuetiful

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A little bite

#drarry #fanart #queuetiful #(n)ot (s)afe (f)or (w)erewolves

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Regulus: whenever I feel like I'm getting better, life throws something in my way

Barty: what, like an extra assignment?

Regulus: like a fucking bus.

Pandora, Evan, Barty, Dorcas: *concerned but relatable noises*

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can we talk about how young 21 is? how lily evans was pregnant at 19, a mother at 20, and at 21 she had to know that her husband's dead body was somewhere in her house when the nursery door opens.

she was just 21, begging for her baby's life to be spared. her life had barely began by the time her body fell to the floor on the night she used associate with dressing up and getting candy.

#lily evans #queuetiful #…

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when prompted with soft jegulus, soft jegulus is what i shall provide

#jegulus #fanart #queuetiful #this is beautiful #obsessed with your art style op

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So we know a lot of fics like to make Regulus talk in french and then James gets all flustered yada yada yada… This is obviously true, but Regulus Arturus Black, linguistics and cross-cultural communications connoisseur, would 100% be on his knees whenever James speaks hindi. James, who tends to ramble when he gets really concentrated, studying in the library with Marls, trying to explain Ancient Ruins to her because she’s rubbish at it and he doesn’t want her to fail her O.W.L.S., when all of sudden, mid sentence he switches over to hindi (because english words aren’t doing it right now, so he subconsciously switched to the language he could find the words in). Marls is used to this, and having grown up with James, just lets him babble on until he realizes she isn’t responding anymore. It usually takes him a few minutes, but then he just rolls his eyes and starts over. All the while, sitting a few tables over, Regulus, who is still very oblivious to his queerness and who has never really paid any attention to Potter before, goes beet red and doesn’t understand why he’s stopped his transfiguration essay and his brain just won’t stop short circuiting. Fast forward to the Hols of James’ sixth year, when a bloody and beaten Sirius and a tear-stained and hyperventilating Regulus show up at his doorstep (because yes the Black brothers have a good relationship, and no Sirius was not gonna leave Reg alone with their Hellbound of a mother), James squeaks out some hindi and calls for Euphemia. As Effie patches up Sirius and wipes away tears from Regulus’ face, Monty hugs his boy and James responds back with some more hindi, and for Merlin’s sake Reg cannot understand why his heart rate spikes again, even though he’s no longer having a panic attack. As the boys grow closer the summer before James’ seventh year, they start this whole flirty banter thing. Reg purposefully speaks french to James to make him all fidgety and cute, but what Reg doesn’t expect is James panicking and mumbling to himself in hindi (and Merlin that was hot). When they kiss for the first time, after very sexually tense quidditch drills, James mumble hindi’s onto Reg’s collarbone, and that’s when Regulus knows he’s done for, this lad in front of him owns his heart and there’s nothing he can do about it.

#jegulus #hindi is such an attractive language #I may be Indian but i also have good taste #james calls regulus meri jaan #queuetiful

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Fanfiction Trope MASH-UP

Rules: Send me two (2) tropes from this list + a ship and I’ll describe how I’d combine them in the same story. 

Historical AU 

Royal AU 

Modern AU 

Coffee Shop AU 

Bar/Restaurant AU 

Bookshop AU 

Florist AU  

Hospital AU 

Dance AU 

Airport/Travel AU 

Neighbour AU 

Roommate AU 

Detective AU 

Bodyguard AU 

Criminal AU 

Prison AU 

War AU 

Circus AU 

Summer Camp AU 

Teacher AU 

Dystopian AU 

Space AU 

Performer AU 

Soulmate AU 

Fairy Tale AU 

Massage Fic  

Sick/Injured Fic 

Proposal Fic  

Wedding Fic  

Holiday Fic  

Birthday Fic 

Pregnancy Fic  

Baby Fic 

Vacation Fic  

Bathtub Fic 

Text/Letter Fic 

Coming Out Fic   

Grief Fic  

Survival/Wilderness Fic  

Almost Kiss 

First Kiss 

The Big Damn Kiss 

Dance of Romance  

Flowers of Romance 

Chocolate of Romance  

Blind Date  

Not a Date  

Fake Dating 

Fake Married 

Arranged Marriage  

Accidentally Married 

Marriage of Convenience 

Mutual Pining 

Secret Relationship  

Established Relationship 

Awful First Meeting 

Forgotten First Meeting  

Accidental Eavesdropping  

Interrupted Declaration of Love 

Poorly Timed Confession 

Love Confession 

Love Confessor (Character A confessing their love for Character B to Character C)  

Everybody Knows/Mistaken for Couple 

Star Crossed Lovers  

It’s Not You, It’s Me 

It’s Not You, It’s My Enemies  

Character in Peril 

Heroic Sacrifice 

Flirting Under Fire 

Locked in a Room 

Twenty-Four Hours to Live  

Stranded on A Desert Island 

Stranded Due to Inclement Weather 

Huddling for Warmth 

Bed Sharing  

Did They or Didn’t They? 

In Vino Veritas  

Above the Influence  

Anger Born of Worry  

Green-Eyed Epiphany  

The Missus and the Ex 

Second Love  

Intimate Artistry  

Married to the Job  

Innocent Physical Contact 

I Didn’t Mean to Turn You On 

Aroused By Her Voice  

Erotic Dreams 

First Time 

Unexpected Virgin 

PWP 

Kink 

Makeovers 

Hair Brushing/Braiding 

Sleep Intimacy 

Scars  

Time Travel  

Curses 

Magical Accidents 

Accidentally Saving the Day   

#i’m begging #percieve me