My AO3 history is between me, my phone, and Satan. Satan not God cause I’m not makin it upstairs

Would you jump of a cliff or show your ao3 history to your mom

Not to complain about ao3, because it's God tier and I love it,,, but how I wish you could use filters on your history. Like,,, I was so young and naive for like,, years when I first used it,,, and I didn't bookmark stuff, or would only do it once in a blue moon back then,,,,, and there's so many fics I remember reading and would love to find again, but finding them from scratch out of every single fic out there can be such a struggle(not to mention sometimes they've been deleted, so there may not even be anything to find, but at least if you could filter your reading history, you would be sure that if it didn't show up it was deleted and not just that you're searching for it wrongㅠ.ㅠ) but yeah,,,, I absolutely adore ao3,, I just,,, the longing I have for a filter feature in the reading history tab is so strong,, the one thing in my many years of using it that I've wished could be added to such an already perfect hellsite,, yknow?

I made my first zine yesterday in anticipation of an event for students. I thought displaying one on the history of ao3 may make some of them smile and feel more comfortable since this is obviously a low art threshold zine… (shoutouts to @bad-surprise, @hazelmaines, and @thecoziestbean)

Here’s a short video with how to make an easy one page zine. Warning: you can lose a good hour or more to making one of these because it’s so much fun to create :)

my poor friend Pyro has been subjected to my AO3 history.

Documenting this for historical accuracy:

4/27/2023, 9:16 p.m. EST

So, fun bit of AO3 history and ATLA fic history. 

If anyone has seen this explanation for trying to identify the first fic ever posted to AO3, then you know that works are numbered sequentially.

The 8th fic ever posted to AO3 is an ATLA fic, and while it’s not tagged zukaang, it is tagged as pre-slash. As in, they’re on that trajectory.

Just like queer history is twisted and bent to make it more palatable to cishet norms, AO3 history is being twisted and bent to serve another agenda. I was there when A03 came to be, and I contribute every year, because I remember the cliusterfuck of Fanfiction.net, LJ’s Strikethrough, and the lording over that single-fandom and pairing archives put authors through. 

So, in the terminology of the first online MMORPGs:

LEARN

Oh...oh no

Just looked at my ao3 history....... I've read 5,704 fics in the 1-2 years I've had my account....... I need help

I feel like my ao3 history just got super cluttered all the time so I just turned it off lol XD no need to worry about sus things in your history if you don't have history on the website lolllllllllll

Ahhhh, very true😂

I think it's funny that without context if I saw some fanfic in my history that said "Chase..." and then something, it would be confusing without a context because there's a Chase in Paw Patrol and there's a Chase in Ever After High and I'm un both fandoms and read fics from both fandoms.

It's just that I was watching my history and it said something in the summary with uhm "Chase wakes up with his hand hurting" or something like that and I was "Wait? What Chase?" And then I saw that it was Chase Redford, I like him and I already remembered what fanfic it was

Yeah

When you and your sister watch rwrb and you explain that you've read the book and she states that we should all be worried about what im reading and I have to sit there and think of my ao3 history

Y’all would be traumatized if you saw my history

I hate it when I waste five fucking hours of my life to find that fic I was reading three months ago, forgot to bookmark and then closed the tab.

Yes, I'm still sitting here and scrolling.

The immense satisfaction of searching your AO3 history two years back in the hope of finding a fic you only remember the last line of and FINDING IT.