#fanfic archive

[melannen]

How To Make Your Own Fanfiction Archive, In Just Ten Easy Steps

As the go-to "person who knows about AO3" for quite a few people who read fanfic but aren't really linked-in to wider fandom culture, I've fielded a lot of questions about how to do certain things on AO3 to which my best answer is "you should really start your own archive!" I think, in general, more fans starting their own small archives would be a net good for fandom. AO3 was never meant to be the only archive for all fandom, or even the main archive, and the more spread out and backed up we are the more resilient we are.

But of course I have to be reminded that a lot of fans these days don't really have any idea how little "you should start your own archive!" really involves. (Also, that I should practice what I preach.) So I am now making my own fanfiction archive, and writing up this post as I do it to tell people how to make theirs!

Go to https://neocities.org/ and sign up for an account. It only needs a username (which will also be your website address), password, and email. Pick a username that will be related to your archive's title!

Choose the free account option (if you ever need more than what the free account offers for a text-only archive, you should probably look into graduating from neocities.) This should take you to a menu of "how to make a website" tutorials. You should do them! They're useful skills. But let's get your archive running first.

Hit the big red Edit Site button, or open the menu under your username and select "Edit Site".

Select the "Index.html" file to edit. You're now in an HTML Editor. Congrats, you're a web developer c. 1999!

Find where it has text between the < title> tags. Delete the filler text, and put in the title of your new archive. This text will be what shows on the tab when people go to your archive.

Find where it has text between the < h1 > tags. This will be big header text at the top of your page. Put the title of your archive here again. If you have no experience with HTML, you should read over the other sample text. It covers the basic basics very well! Once you've done that, you can delete everything else between the < /h1> tag and the < /body> tag. Save your index.html file.

Get an HTML file for a fanfic you would like to add to your archive. If it's on AO3, you can use the html download option built into AO3. If you have it as a word processor/google docs file, you should have the option to save as an html file. Save that html file to your computer.

Go back to Edit Site on Neocities and go to "upload". Find the html file you saved and upload it. (You can also drag and drop files to upload.)

The file you uploaded should now be showing with your other neocities files. Right-click on the title and select "copy link".

Go in to edit index.html again. Under where you put your header text, type < br> < a href=" . Then paste in the link you copied. Then type "> Then put in the title of the fic. Then type < /a> . Then save the index page again when you're done. You can do this for every fanfic you have.

Congratulations! You now have your very own personal private fanfiction archive that you are 100% in charge of and make all the rules for. It's at least as good as half the ones I was reading on when I started reading fanfiction and will serve its function well as a way to let people read your fic. You can link to it from anywhere you want! (Including your AO3 profile.)

Blogpost version, with FAQs and discussion

Anyway, here's my beautiful new fanfiction archive made using this tutorial:

Melannen's Fanfiction Archive

(I am honestly way more disproportionately proud of finally making that than I expected to be. It's nice to have your own archive.)

If you make one, share it here ! I want to see!

#ao3 #archive of our own #fanfiction #fanfic archive #how-to #tumblr what are you doing to my angle brackets #why would you do that what's wrong with you

[the--highlanders]

His head bowed almost automatically, as if he was in mourning. Maybe he was. Mourning the smoking ruins of their friendship, everything they’d had, the best thing in his life. Would the Doctor even want to travel with him anymore, now he knew how Jamie felt? “I meant it,” he mumbled. “I – aye, I – I meant it. I thought I wasnae going tae have another chance.” When he dared to glance up, just for a moment, he found the Doctor staring at him, lower lip captured between his teeth like he was trying to feel the ghost of the kiss. Or to chase it away. Jamie had tried both, last night, lying in his bunk and staring up at the stippled metal ceiling. “Jamie, ah -” Even with his head bowed, Jamie could see the Doctor’s fingers moving, twisting over each other restlessly. “I’m not human. You do know that, don’t you?”

Believing they're about to die, Jamie kisses the Doctor. The next morning, they face the consequences.

#second doctor #two/jamie #fanfic archive #my writing #HELLO i am so sorry this took a month #i have been dealing with uh. the Big Sad #but we are back in business so we'll see how we go

[professordrarry]

Are there newer Wolfstar readers appearing that haven't yet committed to memory bits and pieces of The Shoebox Project?

Please.

Please go read it.

#Shoebox project #Old fic writers unite #maurauders era #fanfic archive #But not the way we mean it now #wolfstar #And technically a million other tiny tropes

[thebahwrites]

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Top Gun (Movies) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Relationships: Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw/Jake "Hangman" Seresin, Tom "Iceman" Kazansky/Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, Robert "Bob" Floyd/Natasha "Phoenix" Trace, Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw & Nick "Goose" Bradshaw, Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw & Tom "Iceman" Kazansky & Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, Nick "Goose" Bradshaw & Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, Javy "Coyote" Machado & Jake "Hangman" Seresin Characters: Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw, Jake "Hangman" Seresin, Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, Tom "Iceman" Kazansky, Natasha "Phoenix" Trace, Robert "Bob" Floyd, Javy "Coyote" Machado, Reuben "Payback" Fitch, Mickey "Fanboy" Garcia, Billy "Fritz" Avalone, Logan "Yale" Lee, Brigham "Harvard" Lennox, Callie "Halo" Bassett, Solomon "Warlock" Bates, Neil "Omaha" Vikander, Beau "Cyclone" Simpson, Ron "Slider" Kerner, Charlotte "Charlie" Blackwood, Penny Benjamin, Amelia Benjamin, Original Male Character(s), Original Animal Character(s) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Superheroes/Superpowers, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Character Death Fix, Fix-It, Dysfunctional Family, Found Family, Slow Burn, superhero au, Angst with a Happy Ending, Eventual Happy Ending, Getting Together, Violence, Nick "Goose" Bradshaw Lives, Goose's Force Ghost, Idiots in Love, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, does it count as mcd if we're bringing them back within the hour?, trust the process, the author is going somewhere with this Series: Part 1 of we could be (heroes) - that top gun superhero AU Summary:

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”

Bradley Bradshaw had tried so hard to follow into his father's heroics footsteps, chasing the legacy of legends such as Goose, Maverick and Iceman, despite his own shortcomings. He'd pave his own path and carve his own star into the heroes' hall of fame. But a botched mission, a tragic death and five years later, he's invited to come back to his old hero academy one more time. Accepting means facing everything in his past, legacy and tragedy alike.

If only, to keep his old teammates from the same fate. Or maybe to try and salvage whatever is left of his family, Rooster is going to make his way back home.

Whatever the reason is, he knows something's wrong. What he doesn't know is that old ghosts will come haunting back.

#top gun #top gun maverick #top gun fic #hangster #sereshaw #icemav #bobnix #rooster #hangman #iceman #maverick #fanfic archive #//please have mercy this is me coming back to posting fanfic after 8+ years #//but here is the hero au no one asked for and I provided anyway #//we love aviation but this is me going what if they were militarized superpowered people instead #//too many thoughts too many thoughs #//at the sound of 'too many cooks' #abt: killshot

[shoot7ngstars]

::: Alpha for Hire :::

— Archive for the AU (where to read)

Where Jungkook, a successful omega, wants to have a baby, but he doesn't want to be in a relationship.

So he hires alpha Namjoon - a supposed sugar baby - to knot him pregnant.

— Commissioned — a/b/o universe — Contracts — Control freak Omega Jungkook — Chill fanboy Alpha Namjoon — Soft, hurt/comfort, happy ending — NSFW: smut, mpreg — Side ships: sope, vmin — Length: medium short — Previously called "Daddy for Hire"

::: TWITTER ::: (Partially revised, might contain grammatical and orthographic mistakes)

— Less than 500 tweets (70% social media 30% written)

CLICK HERE

::: ARCHIVE OF OUR OWN ::: (Partially revised, might contain grammatical and orthographic mistakes)

— 18k words (33 chapters)

CLICK HERE

::: WATTPAD ::: (Partially revised, might contain grammatical and orthographic mistakes)

— 1 hour 50 minutes read (36 chapters)

CLICK HERE

#pandora_stories #bts x bts #bts au #bts fic #au archive #fanfic archive #pandora_archives #namkook au #side vmin #side sope #alpha x omega

[circusrat13]

Hey, I made something. I wrote this to get myself out of a depressive episode, so if it's a little bit bland, that's probably why. Chapter 2 soon to be written.

Summary:

Shane reluctantly agrees to help Steven with his university thesis, which leads them into an abandoned hospital, where Shane meets an interesting stranger, that claims to be a ghost hunter.

#Watcher #watcher entertainment #buzzfeed unsolved #shane madej #ryan bergara #steven lim #shane and ryan #fanfic archive #fanfiction #my writing

[stonedscully]

Just a reminder to my fellow xf fic junkies, the website X-Libris is a godsend. The creator has put an amazing amount of work into compiling decades of old (and sometimes lost) fic, most of them with their original cover art!! I cannot reccomend it enough, and I especially want to shoutout their amazing tag/genre page. Anyways thank you for listening to my TED talk

#x-libris #txf #x files #fanfic #fanfic archive #txf fic #msr #fanfiction #seriously its awesome #10/10 tagging i dont even bother with ao3 anymore

[bebx]

reblog if you’ve read fanfictions that are more professional, better written than some actual novels. I’m trying to see something

#writeblr #ao3 #archive of our own #writer #writing #writers #whump #angst #fanfic #fanfiction #blorbo #writing tropes #writing trope #writing prompt #writing prompts #writing challenge #writing community #writing inspo #writing inspiration #writer’s block #tropes #trope #whump tropes #whump trope #prompt #prompts #whump prompt #whump prompts #whumpblr #whump community

[becuzmdsaidineededpersonality]

#femslash #f/f fanfic #f/f romance #f/f ship #archive of our own #ao3 #ao3 fanfic #ao3 tags #fanfiction #fanfic #fanart #destiel meme news

[the--highlanders]

Jamie looked at him, there – stood over his pot, stirring away – and then he couldn’t bear to look any longer. He let his eyes wander across the room, from the drying herbs to the books, from the crystals all the way to the pot on the stove. It would have taken two men to move it. He might almost have called it a cauldron. There was no doubt in his mind, now. “You’re the wizard, aren’t you?” he said. The Doctor just turned around and beamed, a wide, bright, beautiful smile that sent Jamie’s heart lurching in his chest like he’d stepped off a cliff. “Yes!” he exclaimed, entirely cheerfully. “Yes, I am.” He gestured expansively across the kitchen with the spoon, sending a splatter of liquid flying onto the counter to sizzle against the wood. “However did you guess?”

After passing out in the forest, Jamie wakes up in a stranger's house - and realises he might be exactly where he needs to be.

#second doctor #two/jamie #fanfic archive #my writing #HELLO everyone this is a very different one!! #so we will see how it goes #meant to have this up earlier but uhhhhh i made the cardinal error of opening the sims. and you know how that goes <3

[midnights-dragon]

#found this gem on twitter #ao3 #archive of our own #ao3 memes #ao3 writer #fanfic #fanfiction

[team--edward]

Another AO3 thing I’m curious about, how do yall decide if something is good enough to read? Usually I follow a rule of 1 kudos for every 10 hits. One because it’s easy math and two it’s yet to fail me. Thoughts? Do you just go for it and pray it’s good?

#fanfic #fanfiction #ao3 #archive of our own

[sagegarnish]

🦀 Kudos Crab 🦀

If you are scrolling and see Kudos Crab, your fics will be blessed!

You will get good comments and kudos!

You will beat your writers block!

GO AND WRITE!

#fanfic writing #fanfics #fanfiction #fanfic #writeblr #archive of our own #archiveofourown #otw #ao3 memes #ao3

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

feeling called out today

credit: _ADWills

#writing #writeblr #writer #ao3 #archive of our own #writing memes #writers #writing community #writing challenge #fanfic #fanfiction #blorbo #whump #angst #fluff #bookblr #writing tropes #writing trope #writing prompt #writing prompts #writing inspo #writing inspiration #tropes #trope #prompts #prompt #whump tropes #whump trope #whump prompts #whump prompt

[shoot7ngstars]

::: (Come) Be My Teacher :::

— Archive for the AU (where to read)

Yoongi has a reputation for being the best in bed.

So what will happen when Taehyung asks him to take his virginity?

— High school setting — Strangers to friends to fuck buddies — Light Angst: misunderstandings, typical teen stuff, obliviousness, "break-ups" — Length: short — Despite the innuendos, it's SFW: it only has implied/referenced underage drinking and sex, mentions of fighting

::: TWITTER ::: (Not revised, full of grammatical and orthographic mistakes)

— Entry for Taegi Week — Less than 150 tweets

CLICK HERE

::: ARCHIVE OF OUR OWN ::: (Revised, but it still might contain misspellings and such since English is not my first language)

— Entry for Taegi Week — 9.4k words (one chapter)

CLICK HERE

::: WATTPAD ::: (Revised, but it still might contain misspellings and such since English is not my first language)

— 2 versions (gay and straight) — 50 minutes read (7 chapters - for each version)

CLICK HERE

#pandora_stories #bts x bts #bts au #bts fic #short story #au archive #fanfic archive #pandora_archives #taegi au #taegi fic

[actual-changeling]

In the spirit of encouraging people to comment on fanfics while also making it easier to do so, I feel obliged to share a browser extension for ao3 that has quite literally revolutionized the comment game for me.

I present to you: the floating ao3 comment box!

From what I've seen, a big problem for many people is that once you reach the comments at the bottom of a fic, your memory of it miraculously disappears. Anything you wanted to say is stuck ten paragraphs ago, and you barely remember what you thought while reading. This fixes that!

I'll give a little explanation on the features and how it works, but if you want to skip all that, here's the link.

The extension is visible as a small blue box in the upper left corner.

(Side note: The green colouring is not from the extension, that's me.)

If you click on it, you open a comment box window at the bottom of your screen but not at the bottom of the fic. I opened my own fic for demonstrative purposes.

The website also gives explanations on how exactly it functions, but I'll summarize regardless.

insert selection -> if you highlight a sentence in the fic it will be added in italics to the comment box

add to comment box -> once you're done writing your comment, you click this button and the entire thing will automatically copied to the ao3 comment box

delete -> self explanatory

on mulitchapter fics, you will be given the option to either add the comment to just the current chapter or the entire fic

The best part? You can simply close the window the same way you opened it and your progress will automatically be saved. So you can open it, comment on a paragraph, and then close it and keep reading without having the box in your face.

Comments are what keep writers going, and as both a writer and a reader, I think it's such an easy way of showing support and enthusiasm.

#alex yells at the void #ao3 #archive of our own #ao3 stuff #fanfic comments #fandom