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I wish more fanartists would put their work on AO3. Just followed an artist who organizes their work by making a series for Fandom X, and within that, they have multi-chapter works for different ships & gen. Every new chapter is just their latest image for that subject.
It’s been so delightful not to have to wade through social media algorithms and endless ads.
If you’ve never posted fanart on AO3 before, you need to know that AO3 doesn’t host images. That means you need to upload them somewhere else online and then embed them in your post. There’s an FAQ that tells you how.
You can also upload your meta works to AO3! Got a 5K essay on cultural appropriation in Dragon Age? Or a multi-part work on queer subtext in the X-Men broken down by writer and era? Post it – we love to see it!
Fanfic may be the biggest part of the archive, but that’s not all it’s there for!
Yes yes yes yes!! And may I encourage people to use this tagging system:
“metafiction” – for self-aware fiction
“meta analysis” – fannish nonfiction (also consider the “Essay” tag!)Makes it easier to differentiate under the “meta” tag umbrella!
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