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I moved from Wattpad to Ao3 when I was like 13. If I could figure out how to respectfully navigate the website and community there at that age, then some of you guys have NO excuse.

DO NOT ENFORCE CENSORSHIP IN THE PLACE YOU FLED TO IN ORDER TO ESCAPE CENSORSHIP IN THE FIRST PLACE.

gracieischaos

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peppermintquartz

Wattpad users: AO3 is an archive. It collects fanworks. You curate your own reading by learning to use the search function, checking boxes on what you want or don't want to read. There are several guides already circulating around on how to use AO3, not to mention the FAQ on the site itself. There is no app for AO3 because the site works well.

There will be themes and genres that give you the ick but your disgust is not the same as morality or standards. You don't have to read those fics. Just go back to your search and look at the tags for what you want. The archive is for everyone who creates fanworks. Lurk and learn how to use it, and appreciate that you get no ads whatsoever. Take ownership of your fanwork experience and be polite.

AO3 writers: lock down your accounts. Whenever we get an influx of new people barging around like entitled tourists in a small artisan eatery, we end up with a headache. Those who learn to behave will eventually get their chance to enjoy the really good stuff, and the petulant loudmouths will leave full of complaints because they didn't get their way, and that is how it should be.

AO3 volunteers: thank you guys for bearing the brunt of any nonsense that's coming your way

gracieischaos

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alexisneverokay

the watpadd kids crying about seeing stuff they don't like on ao3 are already killing me. if you refuse to use the very easy filtering system, and refuse to choose to hide content you don't want to see, you have zero right to be mad about seeing it. take some fucking agency over your own online experience. I have zero interest in your deliberate incompetence and childish temper tantrums. you're not special. learn to filter what you don't like- that's your responsibility, not anyone else's.

gracieischaos

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allthingswhumpyandangsty

I don't think people who come from wattpad after the purge and now want ao3 to have its own official app understand that one of the main reasons behind the recent wattpad purge that drove them to ao3 was due to pressure from appstore demanding wattpad to be more strict and follow appstore's policy. wattpad complied in order for its app to be able to remain on appstore. thus the wattpad purge.

ao3 doesn't have an app because for it to have an app, appstore will have to approve it first. and if, hypothetically, ao3 needs appstore to approve it, it will also have to abide by appstore's pro-censorship stance and start banning dark and taboo fics, which is against its own core principle of being completely against censorship.

ao3 doesn't need an app. it works more than fine without an app. the reason ao3 can allow dark and taboo fics, the reason it can allow the most disgusting and shockingly vile fics, and be completely against censorship is because it doesn't need appstore's approval. it stands on its own as a non-profit organization with functioning site and a team of lawyers protecting its platform, its users, and every single fanwork on its platform.

everybody say thank you ao3

here's the list of things you need to know about ao3 if you're new to the platform

gracieischaos

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catchaspark

According to Know Your Meme, on August 18th, 2005, Erwin Beekveld brought forth this work into the world. HAPPY TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY, THEY’RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD.

timefortigers

sheds a single tear

catchaspark

every august 18th my notifications break and i go, fuck, tumblr has failed me once again, but it hasn’t. it hasn’t failed me. it’s just the taking the hobbits to isengard-iversary. happy 12 years

puddeneen

#i hope we all celebrated this international feast day accordingly

katjohnadams

20 years?

20? Fucking? Years?

gracieischaos

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zechery-deactivated20220114

Send me to Mars with party supplies before next august 5th

thebaconsandwichofregret

No guys you don’t understand.

The soil testing equipment on Curiosity makes a buzzing noise and the pitch of the noise changes depending on what part of an experiment Curiosity is performing, this is the way Curiosity sings to itself.

So some of the finest minds currently alive decided to take incredibly expensive important scientific equipment and mess with it until they worked out how to move in just the right way to sing Happy Birthday, then someone made a cake on Curiosity’s birthday and took it into Mission control so that a room full of brilliant scientists and engineers could throw a birthday party for a non-autonomous robot 225 million kilometres away and listen to it sing the first ever song sung on Mars*, which was Happy Birthday.

This isn’t a sad story, this a happy story about the ridiculousness of humans and the way we love things. We built a little robot and called it Curiosity and flung it into the star to go and explore places we can’t get to because it’s name is in our nature and then just because we could, we taught it how to sing.

That’s not sad, that’s awesome.

*this is different from the first song ever played on mars (Reach For The Stars by Will.I.Am) which happened the year before, singing is different from playing

thebaconsandwichofregret

Happy Birthday you funky little robot!

Curiosity celebrates her 14th Martian birthday this week and she’s still trucking along in Gale Crater where she’s sampling Martian soil to learn about the geology and climate and teach us all about the ancient lakes that used to cover our nearest neighbor!

Thank you to everyone who keeps this post queued up so I never forget her special day. I love how much love this post gets every year.

If you would like to see what Tumblr’s favourite Rover has been up to recently you can read about her latest mission updates here and you can see her live position in Gale Crater on this map here. (You can also see the great photos she takes!)

Happy Curiosity Day. Go do something curious!

gracieischaos

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jellyfishforest135

Activated them like sleeper agents

adventures-in-instant-ramen

gracieischaos

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alagaisia

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

alagaisia

It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!

alagaisia

It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.

watermelon-converse

Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this

emi--rose

Hell yeah moon holiday

hello-delicious-tea

Ooh coming up we should celebrate

ariaste

PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)

sarostheghostcat

MOON DAY MOON DAY MOON DAY

wafflebloggies

moon day is 20th July!!!

silly-jellyghoty

Scheduling this a day earlier to remind you all and myself about the Moon Day tomorow!

sashaforthewin

Happy moon day to all who celebrate

kitsuneofthemist

This is your reminder to prep for Moon Day on July 20th.

inkyrainstorms

MOON DAY MONDAY THIS MONTH NOT A DRILL!!!!!

rangerofthesouth

MY MOOTS I WILL BE MAKING ART BECAUSE THIS SHOULD BE AN INTERNATIONAL HOLIDAY THANK YOU VERY MUCH

WHO'S WITH ME FOR MOON DAY????

sebsdoingstuff

MOON DAY MONDAY

the-frightening-ghoul

ㅤ

#moon day monday

gracieischaos

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leatherwingsinc-deactivated2015

dj-crack

I still think this is an insane reblog to like ratio

gracieischaos

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timberlakelove-blog-blog

maydaytrippe

last day to reblog

kim-kardassian-blog

you now you want to.

Gonna have to wait a whole year if you miss this.

paulwalkersdogwalker

Fine

gracieischaos

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roach