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[ SECRET POST #4126 ]

⌈ Secret Post #4126 ⌋

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I think you should! I don't get deleting fic. If you're on AO3, just orphan it! Nobody can 'prove' it's yours, and like another anon said - someone out there still loves the first fic some of us ever wrote and would be sad to see it go.

How quickly can you orphan a fic? Like does it have to be posted under your username first before you can orphan it? I'm wondering if it's possible for someone to see it's mine if they happen to be looking at the right time or if they remember what username it was originally posted under.

DA

There was a fic I needed to orphan like RIGHT away, so what I did was hit post under my own handle, and then immediately went to orphan it.

AO3 never sent any alerts out, as far as I know, so I'm safe :P

I do not know. Probably fairly quickly. I'd just read up on how to orphan (and ask if you don't get it, the AO3 people get back to you fast) and then go for it. The people who *would* see would be the people who are subscribed to you.

I would, personally, if it's that much of an issue - make an AO3 account, post everything locked so nobody can see it, then orphan it all at the same time.

SA as orphaner

I think there is a delay before AO3's alerts go out. I once had to change the handle of a person I was collabing with a fic on, and the alerts went out under the new handle, not the old one.

The risk of notifications going out before I could orphan the fic makes me nervous. I don't think it's for me. My original plan was just to create a separate ao3 username for stuff I don't want linked to my old account.

Well, that works.

I'm pretty sure you can lock everything, though, and post it private so nobody sees, and then you could orphan...but who knows? A new account would be easier, and you could always orphan that if you really wanted to, too.

If you wish you can post it to an anon collection (like this one: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/anonymous) and it will never even show up under your username. Everyone else will see the author as "Anonymous" but you see your own work as “Anonymous [Your Username]". As long as it is not a part of a series there will be no way to trace it back to you. You will still get comment notifications in your inbox and if you reply to them it'll be as "Anonymous Creator."

However, if you wish, after it is published as a part of the anon collection you can go back in and orphan it, totally separating it from your account and control.

Neat!

This sounds like a better option, thanks! I'd like to reply to comments and stuff, I just don't want to have my name on it.

You could create an anon collection and post your fics to it, so they'd show up as anonymous and then orphan from there if you didn't want your username to show att

When you orphan a fic, you lose ownership of it. If later you need to edit or delete it for whatever reason, you can't.

If the reason you want to delete it is being worried the story might be linked back to you... being unable to control whether it's available online is the exact opposite of what you want.

*shrug*

I don't see how it's possible to trace back an orphaned fic, frankly, especially if you're posting it first under lock and/or under a different name.

I mean - there are ways to do this.

I've gotten recognized at kink memes that were 100% anonymous, simply because the way I write porn is very distinctive.

But I'm mostly talking about stories that were originally posted under a username. There are so many ways the story can get linked back to you. For example, I recently deleted a fic. It still appears - with my username attached to it - in several rec lists, and at some point someone posted a link to it on tumblr and it got reblogged by 100+ people.

On the internet it's practically impossible to erase all traces of something. If they want, people will always have a way to find out I wrote a story with X title that was about Y.

But at least this way I can delete the story itself.

Sure, but like i said - make an AO3 account under something totally innocuous. Post all your stuff that you want to post locked.

Then orphan the whole kit and kaboodle. Unless you're a super-distinctive writer in a very small fandom, nobody is going to trace back *anything*.

That's an option if you haven't already posted a story under your main username. If you have, and you later decide that you no longer want that story to be attached to your username, your only option is to delete the story.

I'm going by the secret, which is stuff that has not been posted anywhere, and apparently also not in English.

I'm still fairly unconvinced of the impossibility of it all, but then - i'm not hyper-nervous about the possibility, either, so.
*shrug*

Yep, posted in German in German fanzines. And I'm not going to post them anonymous or orphan them. I already created another pseud to my AO3 account - the original fan name my fics were published under. *g*

Nice! I hope you get some more fans. :D

Nah, not necessarily. My author's notes have my contact info. What am I supposed to do, re-edit all my author's notes?

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