Agreed.
Every time I see someone who reads lots of fic on AO3 but doesn’t have an account, I have to wonder if they realize how many features AO3 has just for readers. This is not an exhaustive list, but here are a few (and I’ve saved the best for last!):
Bookmarks - You probably know these exist because you’ve seen them on fic you read. But did you know that you can:
Make private bookmarks that only you can see - they don’t show up when someone clicks that “bookmarks” link. Not even the author can see them.
Organize your bookmarks with tags.
Filter them like you would a search.
Add your own comments/descriptions, either for your own benefit or the benefit of people looking for something to read. (Just remember that unless your bookmark is private everyone including the author can see tags & comments.)
History - AO3 can track every fic you’ve ever viewed. My history is 373 pages long. However, you can delete any fic from your history with the click of a button, clear your entire history at once, or turn this off.
“Marked for Later” - Some people use bookmarks to save fics they haven’t read yet, but there’s also a separate system for that. When you’re logged in there’s a “Mark for Later” button on each fic. Then you can filter your History down to just those Marked for Later. Once you’ve read a marked fic you can then hit the “Mark as Read” button and it will drop off this
The downside to both the History and Marked for Later is that this system currently can’t be sorted or filtered beyond that, but it can be useful nonetheless if you want to save your Bookmarks for rereading your faves.
Locked fics - Some people lock their fics to registered users for many reasons. They don’t want their fics showing up in search engines, they don’t want bots stealing them, they’re having a troll problem, etc. Without an AO3 account you won’t even see that these exist.
Comment notifications - You have an inbox on AO3, and anytime anyone replies to one of your comments you will get a notification. No more having to go back and check fics to see if authors replied to you! You can also opt to get an email every time.
Customize how you see the site - You can use site skins, hide tags or warnings on fics, skip the extra step to view adult content (if you’re 18+), even customize how your browser titles the window.
Last but very much not least:
Subscribe to fics, series, or authors - I honestly don’t understand how anyone keeps up with WIPs without this.
Get an email every time a new chapter is posted, or every time one of your favorite writers posts a new fic or chapter!
Don’t want to read a WIP as it’s being posted? Subscribe and know as soon as the last chapter goes up.
Worth getting an account just for this alone tbh.
How are you living without it???
(Hitting subscribe is also one more way to show an author you care, although authors can’t see subscriber #s on series.)
There are probably more, but those are the main ones. Yes, you have to wait a few days to get an account, but it’s worth it. If you’re worried because you don’t want people seeing you kudos certain fics (that one tentacle fic you’ll never admit to having read?) - the way login is setup it’s actually super easy to log out, leave anonymous kudos, and log back in without leaving the fic. AO3 is designed by users; they’ve got your back.
And hey, if you ever decide to take the plunge and post something, that’s one step out of your way!
(And seriously, subscribing is a game-changer.)
Absolutely Worthy price of art
(Reenacted this HP post y’already know about :))
I was scrolling through Tumblr and came across a post of KNOWN PEDOPHILES ON TUMBLR (many of which have or want to rape actual children/minors)
Just a reminder that Castiel was a captain and highly skilled strategist while he served in heaven as a seraph.
Not to mention he was highly admired, enough to persuade half of the Host to follow him rather than his rival (an archangel) in his civil war.
In “Point of No Return” he faces five angels all by himself and is able to do so and still come out alive by carving an angel banishing symbol onto his own body.
Moreover, he would have to had been concentrating on not letting any of the blood flow from the carving while fighting off the angels, so as not to alert them with a bloody shirt until he was ready to actually use it.
Archangels are said to be “absolute…heaven’s most terrifying weapon.”
During the series, Castiel has faced all four archangels by himself, knowing it is certain death to do so. (In fact he was killed by two of them).
He managed to break into Lucifer’s Cage and rescue Sam.
In “The Great Escapist” he uses quantum super-position to remain out of Naomi’s grasp while protecting the angel tablet.
In that same episode, he dug a bullet out of his own guts while keeping the angel guarding him distracted before burying the bullet in the guard’s eye.
You should show him some respect.
The members of the "I am bisexual in every way except canon" club
This is edited, because I screwed up and put Elenour from the Good place on here and people in the comments told me she is canon bi. So I replaced her with Stiles. I honestly have no idea how I forgot him, since he is a poster child for fanon bisexuals.
This is.... Simply beautiful.
because the gag reel???
There are things Cas likes to do, now: spend hours outside in their makeshift garden, covered in soil and humming to the plants in his wide-brimmed hat; take long showers that use most of the hot water, leaving the bathroom partially flooded and smelling like jasmine; organize his tea collection; wear weird fabrics and bright lipsticks; run and spar and meditate; drink a cold beer; dance.
It’s the dancing that kind of fucks Dean up.
The rest he could definitely see coming - the idea that someone technically genderless wants to play around with gender ain’t groundbreaking to him, no matter how much that seems to shock people - but the dancing is… weird. Mostly because Das, for all his earnest enthusiasm, is impressively bad at it.
Then again, that’s what probably happens when you’ve been in a meatsuit for less than one percent of your entire existence; no amount of dance or movement theory can help the way Cas swings his damn arms.
He’s swinging them right now, Etta James playing low on the radio as he sits at the kitchen table “keeping Dean company” while Dean does the dishes. Dean isn’t totally sure how Cas always ends up keeping the dish washer company instead of washing, himself, but he figures it has something to do with the way that even though Cas looks like he needs an emergency room every time he starts to dance… he also looks kinda cute while he does it. In a please help him kind of way.
“Hey, get up for a minute.”
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This is the only valid post I've seen, that I wholeheartedly stan
Regardless of your stance on the trial, you have to accept the fact that making memes and compilations and tik toks about it was fucking disgusting and has set back domestic abuse survivors several years.
This was a trial that was publicly televised for a reason and you took that to mean it was entertainment rather than something to take seriously.
It’s gross and disgusting and I wish everyone who contributed to it a very long trip to hell
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