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anybody got a good ao3 male reader like long fanfic recommendation? Like im talking about 10 chapters because every time i try to search I just find 1 chapters and i don’t know how to not get one chapter stories on ao3. 😭😭
How do you tag characters who are only mentioned in Ao3? Like Character A mentions Character C to Character B over the course of the fanfic/story but Character C never make an actual appearance
You can use additional tags such as:
Mentioned Character C
Referenced Character C
Background Character C
I wouldn't tag the character in the actual character tags because that would generally lead people to assume the character is physically present in the work.
A good rule of thumb is that unless the character or relationship are overtly present or regularly references significantly within the work, they belong in the additional tags.
Especially relationships. I can't count how many times a work has been tagged as Character A/Character B when in actual fact the "relationship" only exists as a brief mention of them dating in the past or something.
You seem p good at answering AO3 questions, so.
I'm writing a story for a fandom that has A Lot of characters. I am making a whole lot of characters show up, mostly for a scene or two here or there. The whole story will be 5 chapters.
Would "cameo character A" etc work for those characters that show up? They DO have dialogue and interact with the main cast for a moment at least. But I don't wanna mislead fans of the characters by tagging names of ppl that show up like twice.
The 'Cameo Character A' tag is a great tag for this, yes. Its also not an official tag but you could also use 'Brief Character A Appearance.'
The purpose of tags is to tell your reader what your story entails and contains and where possible, to what degree. The best way to think about how or what to tag is 'will people search for this' and 'will people want to exclude this.'
Its also why there's multiple variations of one tag, to communicate the depth of which it is present in the work.
(E.g; violence/graphic violence/mild violence)
To go back to The Salmon Analogy, lets say you go to a restaurant and see that they've got a 'salmon platter' on the menu. You'd more or less expect salmon to be the primary or at least a significant ingredient, right? So it'd be pretty misleading if there was only a small sample portion of salmon amongst many other ingredients.
Hello, I know that your blog is about discourse, but I wanted to ask something about ao3: is there a way to put images there?
My blog is about many things, not strictly discourse. I'm more than happy to assist or discuss on other matters.
And as it happens, there are! There are a few ways you can insert an image into the main body;
This tutorial is one such way.
So is this one.
Then there's all the fuckery with the actual HMTL, but nobody has time for that and if you write on AO3 in the HTML mode, God is scared of you anyway.
hi, sorry i'm looking for help w an ao3 thing and the subreddit is closed and you seem fairly knowledgeable so hopefully you don't mind me putting this in your askbox haha
is there a way to search for fics with relationships involving a certain character? obviously you can filter for specific relationships, but if you don't particularly care *what* the pairing is as long as it has character x in it, is there a way to do that?
my problem is i'm stuck in ensemble character hell, and so often fics tagged with that character feature them only in the background. whereas (generally) if a character is tagged in a relationship then it's much more likely that they'll be in the main focus.
so is there a search function that will turn up fics tagged x/y AND x&y AND x/y/z and so on?
This Reddit thread may be of some use to you.
Currently there is no surefire way to search specifically for all ship options involving one character at once, but there are several ways you can somewhat navigate the search function in order to achieve something similar. There are some instructions for this on the thread, but there is also the AO3 Hidden Search Operator Cheatsheet.
WAIT STOP. I JUST STARTED THINKING LOGICALLY (IM STUPID AND SLOW YALL SORRY..) SO IF ITS IN A COLLECTION CONNECTED TO AN ANONYMOUS DOES THAT MEAN THEY’D STILL HAVE ACCESS TO THE FICS??
im slow and stupid sorry guys😢😢 and tbh i havent had an ao3 acc till this one even though ive been reading on that website for yrs (i used to js write it down or take screenshots💀) but i should be right though, right??? 😨
YALL. I THINK MY FAV AUTHOR/FIX WRITER ON AO3 FOR COD QUIT WRITING FOR THE FANDOM. LIKE, I TOTALLY RESPECT THEIR DECISION 100%, BUT STILL DEVASTATED Y’KNOW?
LIKE, THEIR WRITING WAS ONE OF THE BEST THINGS IVE SEEN. THEY ALWAYS FED MY LOVE FOR THIS CERTAIN SHIP THAT I FELL INLOVE WITH IT!! (IVE REREAD THEIR WORKS SO MANY TIMES IDEK HOW MANY 😢). AND I JUST CHECKED UP ON THEIR AO3 ACC FOR UPDATES AND I SAW THEIR MOST RECENT FIC WAS TURNED TO “BY ANONYMOUS” WITHOUT A UNDERLINE (WITH UNDERLINE MEANS ITS ANONYMOUS IN A COLLECTIVE RIGHT? AND WITHOUT MEANS IT WAS ARCHIVED??)
AND Y’KNOW WHAT ELSE?? THERES BEEN MULTIPLE OCCASIONS AT LEAST MORE THAN 4-5 TIMES WERE THEY QUIT/ SLOWED DOWN UPLOADS BECAUSE PEOPLE WERE SO DEMANDING FOR MORE☹️☹️. LIKE IF THATS THE REASON THEY STOPPED I FEEL SO BAD BECAUSE THEY SEEMED SO PASSIONATE ABOUT THOSE FICS TIL PEOPLE GOT LIKE THAT.
LIKE, OF COURSE I ALWAYS FEEL BAD WHEN SOMEONE DOES THAT. BUT I FEEL EVEN WORSE IF IT HYPOTHETICALLY MADE THEM QUIT. AND I THINK IT MUSTVE HAPPENED TODAY OR YESTERDAY NIGHT ☹️☹️. I HONESTLY RLLY HOPE EVERYTHING IS OKAY WITH THEM URHEHJSJSNA :(((
so I recently ran into a issue with pictures not loading on my fic on mobile,I use mobile and Dropbox, they did load on my iPad and computer but now they won't load on them either,is there a way to fix this issue? This is what it looks like instead of a image being there.
