I will not be silenced.

enemies to lovers but it’s a villain and a hero walking hand in hand out of the fire and the smoke together, leaving everything behind them

love the classic damsel in distress trope, but the damsel in question is a pathetic fictional man bleeding out in the dark somewhere on the floor before his ridiculously gorgeous knight comes for his rescue just when he’s about to pass out, and the ridiculously gorgeous knight in question is actually a deranged villain who is his archenemy. but they both have these frustratingly unresolved sexual tension going on where they both hate each other but are also super possessive and protective of each other in the sense that no one else can hurt this little guy but me!!!! and so the knight carries his pathetic damsel in his arms bridal style back to his goth castle where they have hot, kinky gay sex ever after (after he nurses his pathetic enemy’s ass back to health, of course, can’t risk bruising our fragile damsel when he’s already half dead).

Remember when we all collectively rejected Bakugou Katsuki's death so hard that he came back to life?

Can we talk about how we definitely don’t give the Magnus Chase books enough credit? Like these books are such a beautiful depiction of coming to terms with grief and finding purpose in new relationships. Magnus’ struggle to accept his mother’s death and his guilt over it culminating in a beautiful moment where he feels her love and presence with and for him in his battle with Surt. The horrific despair he feels whenever someone around him is hurt, literally moving him to tears every time, even when it’s Gunilla, someone who has been actively hunting him. The line about how they are all empty cups, but that they can share each other’s burdens instead of filling themselves with pain. Just the beautiful bonds these characters who have each been isolated in their own way have formed with each other. How each of these characters have every right to be bitter and spiteful as a result of the tragedy in their lives, but choose love and each other at every turn.

TOP 10 ANIMANGA ON AO3 BASED ON NUMBER OF FANWORKS (2009-2022)

To make this bar chart race, all series titles in the Anime & Manga Category on December 4 (or the closest date to it) of every year were copy-pasted from Wayback Machine to Google Sheets, rearranged according to number of fanworks, and then inputted to Flourish to turn into a bar chart race. November 2022 is basedon November 11, 2022 data.

Miraculous Ladybug was actually in the top 10 Anime & Manga from 2016-2021, before it was finally removed from the Animanga category in 2022. I'm excluding it in the rankings since it shouldn't have been in the animanga category in the first place.

CLAMP - Works was actually in 9th place in December 2013, but too many series were moving up and down the rankings at the time so it was impossible to catch a glimpse of it.

Thanks for understanding and hopefully I didn’t mess up anywhere! 🙏

ETA: Locked fanworks aren't included in the count because Wayback Machine can’t view those, only Ao3 users can.

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you know when you start writing a fanfic and you have a general idea of the length it's going to be, and then you start actually writing it and realize you have severely underestimated yourself and have once again bitten off more than you can chew

Just a warning, AO3 (@transformativeworks) is being overrun with bots. Please don't click these kinds of links if someone comments on your fic 🙄

Idk where they take you but I'm not risking it to find out.

(Also, remember to delete the comment from your fic and not just your inbox)

EDIT: Better off reporting the comments as SPAM actually!

HEY BKDKBK SHIPPERS I HAVE THE MOST IMPORTANT NEWS TO SHARE WITH YOU ALL

"Romantic Face Punching" is a whole fucking tag on AO3.

i've already added the tag to my Ground Beta bkdk fic. we need to flood this tag Immediately the whole point of bkdk is the Romantic Face Punching

Some more Ambush Simulation AU content.  I like to think this was the group photo they took before they said,  “All right, let’s go scare the shit out of some kids.”

Also on Ao3: The Summer Camp Ambush Simulation

Chapter 2 coming very, very soon. Stay tuned.

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Maybe you’ve seen these poses as a drawing base before.  If you don’t know where it’s from, it’s the opening sequence of Death Parade, a fantastic if soul-crushing anime with the most misleading opening ever, but well worth the watch.  12 episodes.

Here’s the original:

I know everyone wants stories with happy endings, and they all hate when the main characters die, and insist well what's the point of the story then, it didn't matter at all! they died!

but.

I don't know. do the stories of those who die at the end not matter at all?

because if that's the case, I have news about the stories told by everyone who has ever lived in this world.

we all die at the end. we are all doomed by the narrative.

but our stories still matter.

“this is my comfort ship” and it’s 2 gay (or at least headcanonically gay) characters who are archenemies and have bathed in each other’s blood at least once

in my defense, the sexual tension between them is off the charts so

shoutout to artists and fanfic writers, you guys really are the entire backbone of every fandom ever and i love you for it.

Perseus “No one touches her!” Jackson.

This attack on AO3 happened just when I have been getting back into my writing, and was really close to finally posting it 😔😔

But seriously, what a shitty thing to do on a site where a lot of people can express themselves. This site isn’t just a bunch of fandoms but people who love to write as an outlet to their stress.

And there are some super talented writers out there, like ‘you need to be a novel writer right now’ talented.

Super grateful to everyone who volunteers to always keep our hell-site going strong and how they’re fighting to fix it at this very moment. 🙏🏻🙏🏻