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I desperately wish people would start actually reading the AO3’s TOS before confidently making ‘user guides’ to the AO3 that are just blatantly, flatly wrong.
Yes the AO3 has banned content. They do not allow anything that’s illegal under US law – though US law, importantly, does not ban fictional depictions of things – and they do not allow any commercial content. That includes your ko-fi link, or mentions that you do fic commissions. If you do post fic commissions to AO3 and want to mention the commissioner, the fic is a ‘request’ from the commissioner. This protects the AO3 and you from copyright law.
No the AO3 is not ‘a creative fanfiction archive’. It is a fandom archive. Your meta, insights, and theories are absolutely welcome and encouraged there. AO3 also encourages you to post other types of fanworks, like fan videos, podfics, and art, but unfortunately isn’t able to natively host those like it does text, so fic has kind of become what it’s known for. That absolutely does not mean that other types of fanwork aren’t allowed, or are discouraged by the site culture! Anybody who tells you otherwise is just plain wrong!
Emphasizing that fanart is ABSOLUTELY WELCOME on AO3 and the only tricky bit is that you need to use a link to where the image is hosted. Like…
- make a post or draft post here on Tumblr
- get the link from where you posted the art on Twitter
- the image link from your online store or art blog
- your private Discord or other server
The all you have to do is put the link inside the img src HTML tag in the body of the page where you set up the work!
You can do comics pages as chapters. You can set up series between works or multi-page comics. You can make one place for your random art or separate it out by fandom/ship (appreciated by those who use the filtering menus religiously). Linking two characters with & in the tag means friendship or platonic and / means romantic.
If you don’t have an AO3 account, ask around your friends circle – most of us have a few invite codes we can share, which is faster than the waiting list of people who just request a code.
(Sheith artists, you can help us get to the next milestone of 17K works on AO3!)
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