Tag: ao3

I’m done explaining why fanfic is okay.

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Note: this post was originally made in 2010 in response to Diana Gabaldon’s epic rant about fanfiction. The original version is still being updated. I’m reposting it to Tumblr by request, but if you have any additions, please feel free to drop a comment at LJ so they can be added to the masterpost!

Dear Author of the Week,

You think fanfic is a personal affront to the many hours you’ve spent carefully crafting your characters. You think fanfic is “immoral and illegal.” You think fanfiction is just plagiarism. You think fanfiction is cheating. You think fanfic is for people who are too stupid/lazy/unimaginative to write stories of their own. You think there are exceptions for people who write published derivative works as part of a brand or franchise, because they’re clearly only doing it because they have to. You’re personally traumatized by the idea that someone else could look at your characters and decide that you did it wrong and they need to fix it/add original characters to your universe/send your characters to the moon/Japan/their hometown. You think all fanfic is basically porn. You’re revolted by the very idea that fic writers think what they do is legitimate.

We get it. 

Congratulations! You’ve just summarily dismissed as criminal, immoral, and unimaginative each of the following Pulitzer Prize-winning writers and works:

Keep reading

A Place in the Sun – LinguisticJubilee – Marvel Cinematic Universe [Archive of Our Own]

“You want to take care of your people. And you want to fly.”

–

Or, how Sam Wilson was too important to be in Avengers: Age of Ultron.

(2324 words, gen)

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The Sam Wilson I saw in Captain America: The Winter Soldier is the Sam I see in this story. It’s a guy trying to balance the life he chose and the man he was. It’s good and I highly recommend it. Takes place post Age of Ultron and references a few things that happen in the movie. Great Sam character piece.

A Place in the Sun – LinguisticJubilee – Marvel Cinematic Universe [Archive of Our Own]

shoutout to people who have archived their really old fic on AO3

iggyw:

whether it was originally shared on LiveJournal, on usenet, on mailing lists, on single-fandom archives, on personal sites, in zines, or just by being passed around between friends–

or whether you just kept it hidden in a drawer for ages–

whether you’re proud of it, or completely embarrassed by it, or whether you say you’re embarrassed (but you’re secretly kind of proud), or whether you actually forgot it even existed for a while–

THANK YOU.

Subscribing To AO3 Tags

copperbadge:

itstheclimb17 replied to your post:
Woah! How do you subscribe to tags on AO3?! This will change my life…

A GUIDE APPEARS! 

One thing to note: with a subscription to a tag, new stuff will show up in the subscription BUT updates of old fics will NOT show up. (I get round this by subscribing to individual stories if I want to keep track of them, then unsubscribing when the story is finished or if I lose interest.)

In order to get the “subscription”:

  1. Find a fic with the tag you want. It can be any tag, not just ship tags, though for demonstration that’s what I’m using. (ETA: this may be incorrect; it seems only tags that belong to single fandoms, or possibly only ship tags, have feeds.)
  2. Click on the tag. A page should load with that tag’s works in order from most recently updated to oldest.
  3. In the upper right corner you should see a line of buttons: “Works” “Bookmarks” “Subscribe To The Feed”.
  4. Click on “Subscribe To The Feed”. A new page will open.

Now, from this point you can do several things.

  • If you have an RSS reader like Netvibes or Feedly, you should be able to copy the URL (it will look something like “http://archiveofourown.org/tags/32197/feed.atom”) into the “new feed” option on your RSS reader.
  • If you want the feed streamed into your email, it looks like BlogTrottr can take the URL and your email and set that up for you. I haven’t used it, but it looks easy and harmless.
  • If you use Live Bookmarks, which updates your bookmarks when new fics come in, you can go that route too.
  • You can simply bookmark the feed page, though at that point you may as well just bookmark the tag page instead.

I use an RSS feed for everything I possibly can, including podcasts like Welcome To Night Vale and Caustic Soda, webcomics like Girls With Slingshots, and proper blogs like Chicago Architecture Blog. You can even use it to stalk tumblrs you don’t want to visibly follow (I have a few NSFW tumblrs that I follow on my feed rather than my dash). It’s very handy if you tend to forget to check sites you like to read.

One caveat — until you are getting a feed you don’t really have a sense of how many new fics are posted per day. I subscribe to Steve/Tony, Steve/Sam, Tony/Pepper, and a few others, but while I like Steve/Bucky I had to unsub from the tag because it was too busy for me to cope with on a daily basis.

Recommendation ebook reader (software – mac/ipad)

As the joke goes, there are many readers out there but this one is mine.  

What I look for in ebook reader software – 1. an easy to use interface when I’m actually reading the text. It absolutely must let me control the reading experience as far as font and color. My eyes aren’t as good as they used to be and I often read at night so I need to be able to pick the font and I love to read text reversed colors, especially at night (so white text on black background). 2. A method/style to cataloging books that makes sense to be and isn’t a pain in the ass to use on the device as well as on the mothership (my laptop). 

Marvin is great at 1 and moderately sucky at 2 so I keep using it because I lot of what I download on the fly is from AO3 which has oh so easy to use download links that just drop it right into the app. I originally would bookmark links and then load them in with Calibre but drifted away from that over time which means my Calibre library doesn’t have everything (annoying).

Anyway, if you are a voracious AO3 reader like myself and have an ipad/iphone I recommend Marvin as a reader app. The default theme is decent, you can build out your own color scheme and the interface really works as a book reader.

It has features I don’t use much (for fic reading) like bookmarks, annotations, defining words etc. It really is a feature rich reader that I use 10% of the functionality.

Marvin lets you grab files from dropbox, calibre, web, etc so it makes it super easy to suck stuff into your ios device. Promise!