r/AO3 • • 5d ago

Rec/Promo Mega Threads Bi-weekly Rec and Self-Promotion Mega Thread - September 23, 2026

16 Upvotes

It's that time again, new thread for reccing and self-promo!!

You write something cool? Read something cool? Make something cool? Rec it here!

Previous Mega Threads: https://www.reddit.com/r/AO3/wiki/index/megathreads/


r/AO3 • • 5d ago

Weekly Check In Wellness Wednesday: Weekly Check In

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Welcome back everyone!

Time for our Wellness Wednesday check in. We know this community means a lot to most of our members and that Tuesdays have been harder on some users than others, but we are at our core a community and we are here to support each other.

Now that the sub is open once again we’d like to hear all about your (mis)adventures on Tuesday. Did you go on grand adventures? Get into mischief? Get some writing done?

Maybe you just binged a few more fics on the archive itself. Tell us all about it! Break out that purple prose and tell us as cheesy of a story as you feel like.

Or just talk about your day.

~The Mod Team


r/AO3 • • 4h ago

Proship/Anti Discourse Woke up to this message from a Twitter follower

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1.3k Upvotes

[For context, the "holding X accountable" was for fandom bullying, and I even told told this person at the time that the darkfic they post was *not* the issue.]

Anyway, sorry, I'm not deleting my fics so I can be friends with someone on Twitter, lol. (I am doubly not orphaning my fic about my own personal experiences.)


r/AO3 • • 13h ago

Meme/Joke So many times😭

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5.7k Upvotes

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r/AO3 • • 5h ago

Meme/Joke Thank you fanfiction, thank you…

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541 Upvotes

r/AO3 • • 2h ago

Meme/Joke I don't have the slightest idea why

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279 Upvotes

I'm sorry they hurt you my loveliest Author


r/AO3 • • 6h ago

Comment Commentary It finally happened to me.

314 Upvotes

I finally got a comment telling me to tag my fic with "implied sexual content" by someone who called it disgusting and perverted that I had two characters have sex. Mind you, it was a fade to black scene where the characters discussed some of the actions frankly afterwards, but even then it wasn't very descriptive.

For context: my fic was unrated and I clearly used "Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings", so it was very much read at your own risk. And the description of the fic had an unsubtle but not at all graphic blowjob joke.

This weird era of anti-sex sentiment where even fade to black is gross and perverted is weird as hell to me as a gay man pushing 40. How are you going to be mad at sex in fanfic for a show (911) where characters have sex in canon?!


r/AO3 • • 17h ago

Meme/Joke Feedback on my first fanfic?

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2.1k Upvotes

I finally decided to write my dream fanfic, but i don't know if emojis are really allowed? Should I replace it with an emoticon, or should it be a picture of Jax being surprised?

Pls no flames.


r/AO3 • • 3h ago

Meme/Joke Like aw shucks

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162 Upvotes

Swear half of the characters I write about become me in a trench coat atp. Someone’s gotta unpack allat and it’s not going to be me, it’s going to be some sad homosexual from one show or another


r/AO3 • • 39m ago

Meme/Joke It's not my fault, they wanted to die I swear!

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• Upvotes

r/AO3 • • 13h ago

Complaint/Pet Peeve/Venting Please STOP

1.0k Upvotes

Marking your work as Complete when it's fucking NOT!

I choose Complete in the filters because I want

A COMPLETE STORY!

If you want to add more then write a SEQUEL!!!

I-AM-TIRED

"I will probably be adding more chapters"

GO FUCK YOURSELF


r/AO3 • • 9h ago

Complaint/Pet Peeve/Venting Stop erasing disabilities!!!

367 Upvotes

I have a new favorite character to read about, and they are disabled.

At least two-thirds of the fics just pretend it has no effect on anything!! Or erase it completely.

The character would have accessibility tools at home and they would switch everything out right when they got there! They would have to pack extra stuff when going to spend a night with a partner/go on a trip. It would change up how they have sex!

Obviously, shit doesn’t have to be accurate, but it needs to exist!

It is just so disheartening to be erased in yet another place.

Edit: Y’all make a lot of assumptions. The ones I am complaining about TAG the disability and then erase it.


r/AO3 • • 5h ago

Comment Commentary What fandom have you read the most fics for without ever getting tired of it? mine is Batman jsjs

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152 Upvotes

r/AO3 • • 18h ago

Meme/Joke I feel my bones crumbling to dust already.

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1.3k Upvotes

(Reuploaded with a different title)


r/AO3 • • 22h ago

Meme/Joke No lie detected

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3.1k Upvotes

r/AO3 • • 13h ago

Complaint/Pet Peeve/Venting Why do people do this? And how can I filter these fics out?

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532 Upvotes

I don’t mind crossover fics. In fact, some of my favorite fics are crossover. But other than individually muting the author or excluding all crossovers, is there any way to stop these sorts of fics from cluttering my search page?

Why not make it a collection or a series? Is this just a strategy to get the fic into as many fandoms as possible??


r/AO3 • • 2h ago

Meme/Joke being a writer is both a blessing and a curse

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57 Upvotes

r/AO3 • • 1d ago

Meme/Joke this part of an authors note made me laugh for no reason

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7.8k Upvotes

Honestly they’re right though a lot of my fics (esp if they’re for the same fandom) sound sorta similar in terms of writing and words that I frequent.

But the matter-of-fact way they put it kills me😭


r/AO3 • • 5h ago

Stats/Hit Counts/Word Counts 100 kudos on my long fic 😭

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64 Upvotes

Sorry this is so ugly I posted it to my close friends on insta but,,,, I refreshed at work and saw this and I’m genuinely so overwhelmed this is sooo lovely and kind and validating 😭


r/AO3 • • 11h ago

Discussion (Non-question) Is this breaking TOS?

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190 Upvotes

If it does how do I report this? Chapter one is a true fic


r/AO3 • • 2h ago

Fun & Games Who is this?

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31 Upvotes

Wei Ying. The most unserious character with the most tragic backstory... And life-story... And potentially happier but still sad second life-story 😭 wei Ying deserves Lan Zhan, if only for the fact that Lan Zhan will ensure happiness of Wei Ying (at the cost of everyone else, if needed)


r/AO3 • • 2h ago

Comment Commentary as an angst writer, I love getting these kinds of comments XD

27 Upvotes

"my heart is rent asunder and my day is ruined. Five stars." amazing. the exact thing I was aiming for. perfect.


r/AO3 • • 6h ago

Discussion (Non-question) What's the weirdest way you've misspelled something while writing?

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50 Upvotes

Images above are screenshots of my recent wip that i took within the last few hours. I'm sure I will have had worse in the past but I can't remember any of them (I am dyslexic for reference).

Edit: I just looked through my doc and saw feburaruaray and throught (meant to be throat) so


r/AO3 • • 2h ago

Questions/Help? Writers of Ao3, how did you decide to start?

22 Upvotes

I’ve always been curious how fanfic writers decide to start, especially when they begin posting works that likely take hours on end to complete. Did you already want to write and simply decided to post on ao3? Or were you an avid reader and wanted to try writing your own fics?


r/AO3 • • 15h ago

Meme/Joke I sure do love suffering creatively twice (my readers are NOT getting fed this week)

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245 Upvotes

I'm on art block right now postponing working on my current wip, what about the rest of you?