Ariquess-arts - Arique

If you are getting ready to post a work to AO3, but you haven't finished writing it yet, do not post a placeholder saying something like, "I'm going to write a fic about..."

AO3 is an Archive. It is meant to be a safe location for creators to house their fanworks, long-term. A title and tags alone aren't a fanwork, and posting a note about what you plan to post is against the Terms of Service and could end up getting you a warning on your account if you're reported.

Not to mention, when you edit a work that doesn't change the date on it. So if you post a placeholder today and then edit it next week to put the story in it, it won't go to the top of the tag. You'll annoy readers now without getting readers later.

Instead, I recommend either creating your work in another location (such as google docs or scrivener or other software of your choosing) and then moving it over into AO3 when you've finished your chapter/fic.

If you're like me and you prefer drafting in the AO3 window, then you can save your work as a draft. This allows you to create the placeholder without actually posting it for everyone else to see.

To save a draft, hit the Preview button at the bottom of the work posting form. Then, scroll down the preview to the bottom of the page and hit Save Draft. Drafts are saved for up to 30 days before automatic deletion. You can access your drafts from your Dashboard, under the link Drafts.

For readers, please do not go out of your way to search out these works and report them. That will bury the Policy & Abuse team in reports. However, if you see these while normally scrolling through the Archive, you can report the works by clicking on the Policy Questions & Abuse Reports link at the bottom of every page of AO3. If a work has already been reported, there is no need for you to report it again.

And if you're participating in a ship war, know that these works will not actually stay on the Archive. They will be removed for breaking TOS. The number of works that a particular ship or character or fandom has on the Archive is not a system you should try to game. Instead, enjoy the content you prefer and let others do the same.

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We live in a society in which everything is sexualized, and yet heterosexuality is somehow decoupled from the sex part of it.

Being straight is so ubiquitous, it’s somehow not thought of as a sexual thing most of the time. I think it has something to do with conflating sex and love, which is a whole other barrel of monkeys. But I think this explains so many homophobes and exclusionists’ views:

That simply being gay is seen as being openly sexual, even when the person in question is just kissing or holding hands with their partner, or even just mentioning their orientation

That an asexual person mentioning that they are asexual is “dragging people into their sex life”

Meanwhile, a straight person mentioning that they are straight, talking about their partner, and being openly affectionate in public with them is not seen as being unnecessarily sexual or corrupting the children because that’s just love

Related, that assigning children as heterosexual and joking about it is normal (onesies with “ladies man” and such on them)

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good for me I'm in EU so I CAN'T