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[[http://archiveofourown.org/ Archive of Our Own]] (most commonly abbreviated as [=AO3=]) has been running since late 2008, gaining widespread popularity from 2011 onward. It almost exclusively hosts [[{{Fanfic}} fanfiction]].
The inception of the Archive started after the decline of Website/LiveJournal as a fanfic hosting platform, especially the notorious [[ScunthorpeProblem Strikethrough '07 incident]], where [=LiveJournal=] responded to threats from a group of {{troll}}s purporting to be ''Series/ToCatchAPredator''-esque online vigilantes by deleting a large number of allegedly "objectionable", but in most cases entirely innocent, journals and communities without warning, which resulted in many fans losing the contents of their journals. [=AO3=] as a project of the Organization for Transformative Works was a response to this, and the goal of the '[[MeaningfulName archive of our own]]' is to ensure a safe archive that would not purge fanworks due to pressure either from MoralGuardians or [[FanWorkBan aggressive copyright enforcers]].
To give an indication of how young it is compared to the existing behemoth Website/FanFictionDotNet (which started in 1998), [=AO3=] reached one million stories in total on February 15, 2014. The ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' fandom on FFN had roughly 674,000 on its own as of the same day.
The rise in popularity has been helped along by the rise of Website/{{Tumblr}} as both sites share a similar fandom mentality and outlook, as well as by [=AO3=] being the official hosting site or encouraged posting site for a few popular fanfic fests and events such as [[https://fanlore.org/wiki/Yuletide Yuletide]]. It also gained popularity when Fanfiction.net had a crackdown on Mature Content Fics in June 2013 (the last time that website did such a crackdown was back in 2002). [=AO3=] is very popular because it allows users to view fics as one single document instead of the separated chapters and even download stories as HTML, EPUB, MOBI, and PDF files, making it great for people who want stories on the go.
It also has a ''much'' less restrictive Review system than Fanfiction.net -- like [=LiveJournal=] or Reddit, it uses comments which may be edited and stacked on at your leisure, rather than having a single use for each chapter that can never be edited, replied to only privately. Other than that, there are also some comment moderation settings: authors may accept all comments by default, only allow them to be shown publicly after approval, or simply turn them off altogether.
Also notable is the "Kudos" system, which allows someone to say that they like the work without going to the trouble of a comment, but still better than another tick on the view count.
The impressive usability and lack of censorship on [=AO3=] has led to a massive and devoted coterie of users. So devoted that, in 2019, [[https://www.vox.com/2019/4/11/18292419/archive-of-our-own-wins-hugo-award-best-related-work the entire website was first nominated and then awarded the Hugo award for Best Related Work.]] The UsefulNotes/HugoAward is considered by many to be the premier honor in science-fiction, so just being nominated was an impressive feat for a website built and staffed mostly by volunteers. The award was accepted by noted author Creator/NaomiNovik, a co-founder and past board member of the OTW, and herself a multiple Hugo nominee.
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%%If you want to create a Tropes section on this page, be aware that user behavior is NOT tropable. Site in-jokes and community events are, however, and individual fanfics that don't have a page here are ESPECIALLY tropable, so if there are any fanfics there you'd want to pimp here, now's the time.
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!!"Tropes of Our Own":
* AdjustableCensorship: If you don't want to see certain content, archive warnings, ratings, or pairings as a reader, you can set the search to filter whatever you don't want to see from the results. It's one of the most comprehensive filtering systems of any fan-fiction archive, making it easy to find whatever you're looking for even outside of triggering or sexual content, such as a specific pairing, characterization, or AU scenario.
* AlanSmithee: If authors want to disassociate themselves from a work but don't want to take it down, they can choose to orphan the work. All orphaned works are moved to "orphan_account". Users who still want to retain some degree of control and be able to reply to new comments are advised to either add the works to the 'anonymous' collection[[note]]which is modified such that any mentions of the author's username are replaced with "Anonymous" and the work isn't shown on their profile anymore[[/note]], or transfer ownership to a throwaway account using the "co-author" property. [[invoked]]
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: There are multiple statements in [=AO3's=] Terms of Service reiterating that the website isn't responsible for any content that harms, disturbs, or triggers the user, often rattling off a list of intense adjectives describing said content that always ends with "grammatically incorrect" or "badly spelled".
-->''Unless it violates some other policy, we will not remove Content for offensiveness, no matter how awful, repugnant, or badly spelled we may personally find that Content to be.''
* {{Bowdlerise}}: {{Averted|Trope}}. Unlike Website/FanFictionDotNet, the Archive has minimal content restrictions, allowing explicit sexual content.
* ContentWarnings: The Archive has four primary content warning flags: "Graphic depictions of violence", "Rape/non-con", "Major character death", and "Underage". Authors can also choose to select "None of these warnings apply", indicating the story has no major content warnings, or "Choose not to use Archive warnings", indicating that they have chosen not to forewarn readers as to the content. Additional content warnings may also be provided in the tags.
* FakeRelationship: [[https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Fake*s*Pretend%20Relationship/works Has its own tag]], with over 40,000 fics written as of November 2022.
* FanTranslation: The archive allows you to publish translations of fanfiction and has a few settings available that makes it easier to give the original authors credit.[[invoked]]
* FanWebcomics: The archive allows you to share fan art and comics on it, although the images themselves cannot be hosted on the site and need to be embedded via external links.
* FreakyFridayFlip: [[https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Bodyswap/works Has its own tag]], with over 9,000 fics under it as of October 2023.
* FullNameBasis: The canonical character tags use that character's full name, nicknames and codenames included. For example, an ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' story might be tagged with "Angela 'Mercy' Ziegler" or "Jack 'Soldier:76' Morrison", or a ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' story might include "Jesús 'Soos' Alzamirano Ramirez". However, authors are allowed to tag their works however they like, and more minimalist tags like just "Mercy" and "Soos" can be redirected to the full canonical tag if they aren't ambiguous. In the case of stories where a character has multiple identities, they will be separated with a vertical line- for example a ''Literature/{{Worm}} fanfic'' would have tags like "Taylor Hebert | Skitter | Weaver", "Lisa Wilbourn | Tattletale", or "Victoria Dallon | Glory Girl | Antares".
* {{MST}}: Unlike FF.net, this is allowed on the site and even has a legitimate tag dedicated to it.
* {{Omegaverse}}: "Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics" is a tag. At over 165,000 works and counting (of which just over 3,000 are Original Works, the rest being fanfiction), [=AO3=] has one of the largest collections (if not ''the'' largest collection) of Omegaverse stories on the entire internet.
* PornWithPlot and PornWithoutPlot: Both tags on the site.
* RealPersonFic: Unlike Website/FanFictionDotNet, fics involving real people are allowed on the Archive.
* ScriptFic: Unlike Website/FanFictionDotNet, fics that use script instead of prose format are allowed on the Archive.
* SoulmateAUFic: 32,000+ of them, sorted into subcategories based on whatever RedStringOfFate is prevalent.
* StartMyOwn: Essentially the reason for the site's existence, with a dash of deliberately learning from history. The site is entirely funded by donations (no ads means no dealing with advertiser content policies), retains legal counsel (just having a lawyer on speed dial is often enough to fend off spurious legal threats to legitimately transformative works), and has a broad, clearly defined leadership structure with conflict resolution procedures (to prevent a site leadership implosion from taking the whole thing down from the top). All of these are lessons learned the hard way from other fandom sites.
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[[http://archiveofourown.org/ Archive of Our Own]] (most commonly abbreviated as [=AO3=]) has been running since late 2008, gaining widespread popularity from 2011 onward. It almost exclusively hosts [[{{Fanfic}} fanfiction]].
The inception of the Archive started after the decline of Website/LiveJournal as a fanfic hosting platform, especially the notorious [[ScunthorpeProblem Strikethrough '07 incident]], where [=LiveJournal=] responded to threats from a group of {{troll}}s purporting to be ''Series/ToCatchAPredator''-esque online vigilantes by deleting a large number of allegedly "objectionable", but in most cases entirely innocent, journals and communities without warning, which resulted in many fans losing the contents of their journals. [=AO3=] as a project of the Organization for Transformative Works was a response to this, and the goal of the '[[MeaningfulName archive of our own]]' is to ensure a safe archive that would not purge fanworks due to pressure either from MoralGuardians or [[FanWorkBan aggressive copyright enforcers]].
To give an indication of how young it is compared to the existing behemoth Website/FanFictionDotNet (which started in 1998), [=AO3=] reached one million stories in total on February 15, 2014. The ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' fandom on FFN had roughly 674,000 on its own as of the same day.
The rise in popularity has been helped along by the rise of Website/{{Tumblr}} as both sites share a similar fandom mentality and outlook, as well as by [=AO3=] being the official hosting site or encouraged posting site for a few popular fanfic fests and events such as [[https://fanlore.org/wiki/Yuletide Yuletide]]. It also gained popularity when Fanfiction.net had a crackdown on Mature Content Fics in June 2013 (the last time that website did such a crackdown was back in 2002). [=AO3=] is very popular because it allows users to view fics as one single document instead of the separated chapters and even download stories as HTML, EPUB, MOBI, and PDF files, making it great for people who want stories on the go.
It also has a ''much'' less restrictive Review system than Fanfiction.net -- like [=LiveJournal=] or Reddit, it uses comments which may be edited and stacked on at your leisure, rather than having a single use for each chapter that can never be edited, replied to only privately. Other than that, there are also some comment moderation settings: authors may accept all comments by default, only allow them to be shown publicly after approval, or simply turn them off altogether.
Also notable is the "Kudos" system, which allows someone to say that they like the work without going to the trouble of a comment, but still better than another tick on the view count.
The impressive usability and lack of censorship on [=AO3=] has led to a massive and devoted coterie of users. So devoted that, in 2019, [[https://www.vox.com/2019/4/11/18292419/archive-of-our-own-wins-hugo-award-best-related-work the entire website was first nominated and then awarded the Hugo award for Best Related Work.]] The UsefulNotes/HugoAward is considered by many to be the premier honor in science-fiction, so just being nominated was an impressive feat for a website built and staffed mostly by volunteers. The award was accepted by noted author Creator/NaomiNovik, a co-founder and past board member of the OTW, and herself a multiple Hugo nominee.
----
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%%If you want to create a Tropes section on this page, be aware that user behavior is NOT tropable. Site in-jokes and community events are, however, and individual fanfics that don't have a page here are ESPECIALLY tropable, so if there are any fanfics there you'd want to pimp here, now's the time.
%%%
!!"Tropes of Our Own":
* AdjustableCensorship: If you don't want to see certain content, archive warnings, ratings, or pairings as a reader, you can set the search to filter whatever you don't want to see from the results. It's one of the most comprehensive filtering systems of any fan-fiction archive, making it easy to find whatever you're looking for even outside of triggering or sexual content, such as a specific pairing, characterization, or AU scenario.
* AlanSmithee: If authors want to disassociate themselves from a work but don't want to take it down, they can choose to orphan the work. All orphaned works are moved to "orphan_account". Users who still want to retain some degree of control and be able to reply to new comments are advised to either add the works to the 'anonymous' collection[[note]]which is modified such that any mentions of the author's username are replaced with "Anonymous" and the work isn't shown on their profile anymore[[/note]], or transfer ownership to a throwaway account using the "co-author" property. [[invoked]]
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: There are multiple statements in [=AO3's=] Terms of Service reiterating that the website isn't responsible for any content that harms, disturbs, or triggers the user, often rattling off a list of intense adjectives describing said content that always ends with "grammatically incorrect" or "badly spelled".
-->''Unless it violates some other policy, we will not remove Content for offensiveness, no matter how awful, repugnant, or badly spelled we may personally find that Content to be.''
* {{Bowdlerise}}: {{Averted|Trope}}. Unlike Website/FanFictionDotNet, the Archive has minimal content restrictions, allowing explicit sexual content.
* ContentWarnings: The Archive has four primary content warning flags: "Graphic depictions of violence", "Rape/non-con", "Major character death", and "Underage". Authors can also choose to select "None of these warnings apply", indicating the story has no major content warnings, or "Choose not to use Archive warnings", indicating that they have chosen not to forewarn readers as to the content. Additional content warnings may also be provided in the tags.
* FakeRelationship: [[https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Fake*s*Pretend%20Relationship/works Has its own tag]], with over 40,000 fics written as of November 2022.
* FanTranslation: The archive allows you to publish translations of fanfiction and has a few settings available that makes it easier to give the original authors credit.[[invoked]]
* FanWebcomics: The archive allows you to share fan art and comics on it, although the images themselves cannot be hosted on the site and need to be embedded via external links.
* FreakyFridayFlip: [[https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Bodyswap/works Has its own tag]], with over 9,000 fics under it as of October 2023.
* FullNameBasis: The canonical character tags use that character's full name, nicknames and codenames included. For example, an ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' story might be tagged with "Angela 'Mercy' Ziegler" or "Jack 'Soldier:76' Morrison", or a ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' story might include "Jesús 'Soos' Alzamirano Ramirez". However, authors are allowed to tag their works however they like, and more minimalist tags like just "Mercy" and "Soos" can be redirected to the full canonical tag if they aren't ambiguous. In the case of stories where a character has multiple identities, they will be separated with a vertical line- for example a ''Literature/{{Worm}} fanfic'' would have tags like "Taylor Hebert | Skitter | Weaver", "Lisa Wilbourn | Tattletale", or "Victoria Dallon | Glory Girl | Antares".
* {{MST}}: Unlike FF.net, this is allowed on the site and even has a legitimate tag dedicated to it.
* {{Omegaverse}}: "Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics" is a tag. At over 165,000 works and counting (of which just over 3,000 are Original Works, the rest being fanfiction), [=AO3=] has one of the largest collections (if not ''the'' largest collection) of Omegaverse stories on the entire internet.
* PornWithPlot and PornWithoutPlot: Both tags on the site.
* RealPersonFic: Unlike Website/FanFictionDotNet, fics involving real people are allowed on the Archive.
* ScriptFic: Unlike Website/FanFictionDotNet, fics that use script instead of prose format are allowed on the Archive.
* SoulmateAUFic: 32,000+ of them, sorted into subcategories based on whatever RedStringOfFate is prevalent.
* StartMyOwn: Essentially the reason for the site's existence, with a dash of deliberately learning from history. The site is entirely funded by donations (no ads means no dealing with advertiser content policies), retains legal counsel (just having a lawyer on speed dial is often enough to fend off spurious legal threats to legitimately transformative works), and has a broad, clearly defined leadership structure with conflict resolution procedures (to prevent a site leadership implosion from taking the whole thing down from the top). All of these are lessons learned the hard way from other fandom sites.
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[[http://archiveofourown.org/ Archive of Our Own]] (most commonly abbreviated as [=AO3=]) has been running since late 2008, gaining widespread popularity from 2011 onward. It almost exclusively hosts [[{{Fanfic}} fanfiction]].
The inception of the Archive started after the decline of Website/LiveJournal as a fanfic hosting platform, especially the notorious [[ScunthorpeProblem Strikethrough '07 incident]], where [=LiveJournal=] responded to threats from a group of {{troll}}s purporting to be ''Series/ToCatchAPredator''-esque online vigilantes by deleting a large number of allegedly "objectionable", but in most cases entirely innocent, journals and communities without warning, which resulted in many fans losing the contents of their journals. [=AO3=] as a project of the Organization for Transformative Works was a response to this, and the goal of the '[[MeaningfulName archive of our own]]' is to ensure a safe archive that would not purge fanworks due to pressure either from MoralGuardians or [[FanWorkBan aggressive copyright enforcers]].
To give an indication of how young it is compared to the existing behemoth Website/FanFictionDotNet (which started in 1998), [=AO3=] reached one million stories in total on February 15, 2014. The ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' fandom on FFN had roughly 674,000 on its own as of the same day.
The rise in popularity has been helped along by the rise of Website/{{Tumblr}} as both sites share a similar fandom mentality and outlook, as well as by [=AO3=] being the official hosting site or encouraged posting site for a few popular fanfic fests and events such as [[https://fanlore.org/wiki/Yuletide Yuletide]]. It also gained popularity when Fanfiction.net had a crackdown on Mature Content Fics in June 2013 (the last time that website did such a crackdown was back in 2002). [=AO3=] is very popular because it allows users to view fics as one single document instead of the separated chapters and even download stories as HTML, EPUB, MOBI, and PDF files, making it great for people who want stories on the go.
It also has a ''much'' less restrictive Review system than Fanfiction.net -- like [=LiveJournal=] or Reddit, it uses comments which may be edited and stacked on at your leisure, rather than having a single use for each chapter that can never be edited, replied to only privately. Other than that, there are also some comment moderation settings: authors may accept all comments by default, only allow them to be shown publicly after approval, or simply turn them off altogether.
Also notable is the "Kudos" system, which allows someone to say that they like the work without going to the trouble of a comment, but still better than another tick on the view count.
The impressive usability and lack of censorship on [=AO3=] has led to a massive and devoted coterie of users. So devoted that, in 2019, [[https://www.vox.com/2019/4/11/18292419/archive-of-our-own-wins-hugo-award-best-related-work the entire website was first nominated and then awarded the Hugo award for Best Related Work.]] The UsefulNotes/HugoAward is considered by many to be the premier honor in science-fiction, so just being nominated was an impressive feat for a website built and staffed mostly by volunteers. The award was accepted by noted author Creator/NaomiNovik, a co-founder and past board member of the OTW, and herself a multiple Hugo nominee.
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%%If you want to create a Tropes section on this page, be aware that user behavior is NOT tropable. Site in-jokes and community events are, however, and individual fanfics that don't have a page here are ESPECIALLY tropable, so if there are any fanfics there you'd want to pimp here, now's the time.
%%%
!!"Tropes of Our Own":
* AdjustableCensorship: If you don't want to see certain content, archive warnings, ratings, or pairings as a reader, you can set the search to filter whatever you don't want to see from the results. It's one of the most comprehensive filtering systems of any fan-fiction archive, making it easy to find whatever you're looking for even outside of triggering or sexual content, such as a specific pairing, characterization, or AU scenario.
* AlanSmithee: If authors want to disassociate themselves from a work but don't want to take it down, they can choose to orphan the work. All orphaned works are moved to "orphan_account". Users who still want to retain some degree of control and be able to reply to new comments are advised to either add the works to the 'anonymous' collection[[note]]which is modified such that any mentions of the author's username are replaced with "Anonymous" and the work isn't shown on their profile anymore[[/note]], or transfer ownership to a throwaway account using the "co-author" property. [[invoked]]
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: There are multiple statements in [=AO3's=] Terms of Service reiterating that the website isn't responsible for any content that harms, disturbs, or triggers the user, often rattling off a list of intense adjectives describing said content that always ends with "grammatically incorrect" or "badly spelled".
-->''Unless it violates some other policy, we will not remove Content for offensiveness, no matter how awful, repugnant, or badly spelled we may personally find that Content to be.''
* {{Bowdlerise}}: {{Averted|Trope}}. Unlike Website/FanFictionDotNet, the Archive has minimal content restrictions, allowing explicit sexual content.
* ContentWarnings: The Archive has four primary content warning flags: "Graphic depictions of violence", "Rape/non-con", "Major character death", and "Underage". Authors can also choose to select "None of these warnings apply", indicating the story has no major content warnings, or "Choose not to use Archive warnings", indicating that they have chosen not to forewarn readers as to the content. Additional content warnings may also be provided in the tags.
* FakeRelationship: [[https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Fake*s*Pretend%20Relationship/works Has its own tag]], with over 40,000 fics written as of November 2022.
* FanTranslation: The archive allows you to publish translations of fanfiction and has a few settings available that makes it easier to give the original authors credit.[[invoked]]
* FanWebcomics: The archive allows you to share fan art and comics on it, although the images themselves cannot be hosted on the site and need to be embedded via external links.
* FreakyFridayFlip: [[https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Bodyswap/works Has its own tag]], with over 9,000 fics under it as of October 2023.
* FullNameBasis: The canonical character tags use that character's full name, nicknames and codenames included. For example, an ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' story might be tagged with "Angela 'Mercy' Ziegler" or "Jack 'Soldier:76' Morrison", or a ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' story might include "Jesús 'Soos' Alzamirano Ramirez". However, authors are allowed to tag their works however they like, and more minimalist tags like just "Mercy" and "Soos" can be redirected to the full canonical tag if they aren't ambiguous. In the case of stories where a character has multiple identities, they will be separated with a vertical line- for example a ''Literature/{{Worm}} fanfic'' would have tags like "Taylor Hebert | Skitter | Weaver", "Lisa Wilbourn | Tattletale", or "Victoria Dallon | Glory Girl | Antares".
* {{MST}}: Unlike FF.net, this is allowed on the site and even has a legitimate tag dedicated to it.
* {{Omegaverse}}: "Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics" is a tag. At over 165,000 works and counting (of which just over 3,000 are Original Works, the rest being fanfiction), [=AO3=] has one of the largest collections (if not ''the'' largest collection) of Omegaverse stories on the entire internet.
* PornWithPlot and PornWithoutPlot: Both tags on the site.
* RealPersonFic: Unlike Website/FanFictionDotNet, fics involving real people are allowed on the Archive.
* ScriptFic: Unlike Website/FanFictionDotNet, fics that use script instead of prose format are allowed on the Archive.
* SoulmateAUFic: 32,000+ of them, sorted into subcategories based on whatever RedStringOfFate is prevalent.
* StartMyOwn: Essentially the reason for the site's existence, with a dash of deliberately learning from history. The site is entirely funded by donations (no ads means no dealing with advertiser content policies), retains legal counsel (just having a lawyer on speed dial is often enough to fend off spurious legal threats to legitimately transformative works), and has a broad, clearly defined leadership structure with conflict resolution procedures (to prevent a site leadership implosion from taking the whole thing down from the top). All of these are lessons learned the hard way from other fandom sites.
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* {{Omegaverse}}: "Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics" is a tag. At over 165,000 works and counting (of which just over 3,000 are Original Works, the rest being fanfiction), AO3 [=AO3=] has one of the largest collections (if not ''the'' largest collection) of Omegaverse stories on the entire internet.
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* FullNameBasis: The canonical character tags use that character's full name, nicknames and codenames included. For example, an ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' story might be tagged with "Angela 'Mercy' Ziegler" or "Jack 'Soldier:76' Morrison", or a ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' story might include "Jesús 'Soos' Alzamirano Ramirez". However, authors are allowed to tag their works however they like, and more minimalist tags like just "Mercy" and "Soos" can be redirected to the full canonical tag if they aren't ambiguous.
** In the case of stories where a character has multiple identities, they will be separated with a vertical line- for example a ''Literature/{{Worm}} fanfic'' would have tags like "Taylor Hebert | Skitter | Weaver", "Lisa Wilbourn | Tattletale", or "Victoria Dallon | Glory Girl | Antares".
** In the case of stories where a character has multiple identities, they will be separated with a vertical line- for example a ''Literature/{{Worm}} fanfic'' would have tags like "Taylor Hebert | Skitter | Weaver", "Lisa Wilbourn | Tattletale", or "Victoria Dallon | Glory Girl | Antares".
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* FullNameBasis: The canonical character tags use that character's full name, nicknames and codenames included. For example, an ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' story might be tagged with "Angela 'Mercy' Ziegler" or "Jack 'Soldier:76' Morrison", or a ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' story might include "Jesús 'Soos' Alzamirano Ramirez". However, authors are allowed to tag their works however they like, and more minimalist tags like just "Mercy" and "Soos" can be redirected to the full canonical tag if they aren't ambiguous.
**ambiguous. In the case of stories where a character has multiple identities, they will be separated with a vertical line- for example a ''Literature/{{Worm}} fanfic'' would have tags like "Taylor Hebert | Skitter | Weaver", "Lisa Wilbourn | Tattletale", or "Victoria Dallon | Glory Girl | Antares".
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* {{Omegaverse}}: "Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics" is a tag. At over 165,000 works and counting (of which just over 3,000 are Original Works, the rest being fanfiction), AO3 has one of the largest collections (if not ''the'' largest collection) of Omegaverse stories on the entire internet.
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It also has a ''much'' less restrictive Review system than Fanfiction.net--like [=LiveJournal=] or Reddit, it uses comments which may be edited and stacked on at your leisure, rather than having a single use for each chapter that can never be edited, replied to only privately. Other than that, there are also some comment moderation settings: authors may accept all comments by default, only allow them to be shown publicly after approval, or simply turn them off altogether.
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It also has a ''much'' less restrictive Review system than Fanfiction.net--like net -- like [=LiveJournal=] or Reddit, it uses comments which may be edited and stacked on at your leisure, rather than having a single use for each chapter that can never be edited, replied to only privately. Other than that, there are also some comment moderation settings: authors may accept all comments by default, only allow them to be shown publicly after approval, or simply turn them off altogether.
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* FreakyFridayFlip: [[https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Bodyswap/works Has its own tag]], with over 8,000 fics under it as of November 2022.
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* FreakyFridayFlip: [[https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Bodyswap/works Has its own tag]], with over 8,000 9,000 fics under it as of November 2022.October 2023.
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The impressive usability and lack of censorship on [=AO3=] has led to a massive and devoted coterie of users. So devoted that, in 2019, [[https://www.vox.com/2019/4/11/18292419/archive-of-our-own-wins-hugo-award-best-related-work the entire website was first nominated and then awarded the Hugo award for Best Related Work.]] The UsefulNotes/HugoAward is considered by many to be the premier honor in science-fiction, so just being nominated was an impressive for a website built and staffed mostly by volunteers. The award was accepted by noted author Creator/NaomiNovik, a co-founder and past board member of the OTW, and herself a multiple Hugo nominee.
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The impressive usability and lack of censorship on [=AO3=] has led to a massive and devoted coterie of users. So devoted that, in 2019, [[https://www.vox.com/2019/4/11/18292419/archive-of-our-own-wins-hugo-award-best-related-work the entire website was first nominated and then awarded the Hugo award for Best Related Work.]] The UsefulNotes/HugoAward is considered by many to be the premier honor in science-fiction, so just being nominated was an impressive feat for a website built and staffed mostly by volunteers. The award was accepted by noted author Creator/NaomiNovik, a co-founder and past board member of the OTW, and herself a multiple Hugo nominee.
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The inception of the Archive started after the decline of Website/LiveJournal as a fanfic hosting platform, especially the notorious [[ScunthorpeProblem Strikethrough '07 incident]], where [=LiveJournal=] responded to threats from a group of {{troll}}s purporting to be ''Series/ToCatchAPredator''-esque online vigilantes by deleting a large number of allegedly "objectionable", but in most cases entirely innocent, journals and communities without warning, which resulted in many fans losing the contents of their journals. [=AO3=] as a project of the Organization for Transformative Works was a response to this, and the goal of the 'archive of our own' is to ensure a safe archive that would not purge fanworks due to pressure either from MoralGuardians or [[FanWorkBan aggressive copyright enforcers]].
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The inception of the Archive started after the decline of Website/LiveJournal as a fanfic hosting platform, especially the notorious [[ScunthorpeProblem Strikethrough '07 incident]], where [=LiveJournal=] responded to threats from a group of {{troll}}s purporting to be ''Series/ToCatchAPredator''-esque online vigilantes by deleting a large number of allegedly "objectionable", but in most cases entirely innocent, journals and communities without warning, which resulted in many fans losing the contents of their journals. [=AO3=] as a project of the Organization for Transformative Works was a response to this, and the goal of the 'archive '[[MeaningfulName archive of our own' own]]' is to ensure a safe archive that would not purge fanworks due to pressure either from MoralGuardians or [[FanWorkBan aggressive copyright enforcers]].
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The impressive usability and lack of censorship on [=AO3=] has led to a massive and devoted group of users. So devoted that, in 2019, [[https://www.vox.com/2019/4/11/18292419/archive-of-our-own-wins-hugo-award-best-related-work the entire website was first nominated and then awarded the Hugo award for Best Related Work.]] The UsefulNotes/HugoAward is considered by many to be the premier honor in science-fiction, so just being nominated was an impressive for a website built and staffed mostly by volunteers. The award was accepted by noted author Creator/NaomiNovik, a co-founder and past board member of the OTW, and herself a multiple Hugo nominee.
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The impressive usability and lack of censorship on [=AO3=] has led to a massive and devoted group coterie of users. So devoted that, in 2019, [[https://www.vox.com/2019/4/11/18292419/archive-of-our-own-wins-hugo-award-best-related-work the entire website was first nominated and then awarded the Hugo award for Best Related Work.]] The UsefulNotes/HugoAward is considered by many to be the premier honor in science-fiction, so just being nominated was an impressive for a website built and staffed mostly by volunteers. The award was accepted by noted author Creator/NaomiNovik, a co-founder and past board member of the OTW, and herself a multiple Hugo nominee.
