[ SECRET POST #6337 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6337 ⌋

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Comments

AO3 question

[(Anonymous)]

Is there a way to post a fic on AO3 so it's only visible to myself? Drafts get deleted after a month or so.

One of my favourite authors deleted their fics. I was able to retrieve some of them using the wayback machine but only in chaptered form, which is an annoying way to read fics to me.

Is there a way to unload the fic to AO3 but in a way that it's only visible to me? AO3 would be the easiest and most comfortable way for me to read the fics, but obviously I don't want them public in any way.

Re: AO3 question

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think that's a function on AO3 since its an archive meant for everyone/or anyone signed on.
However, if you have an account on here or are willing to create one specifically for fanfics - you can post it and set it on private so that no one but you can read it - plus you can tag it and put it behind a cut so that you can organize it. That's what I've been doing with half-written fics that I'm working on.

Re: AO3 question

[(Anonymous)]

Set pairing as No Pairing and No Warnings and No Sex

Nobody on AO3 will ever look at it, I guarantee it. They are horny little bastards over there, they won't look at stuff they can't get their masturbation material from.

Re: AO3 question

[(Anonymous)]

Whether people will bother to look at them isn't really the issue here. It's having the fic publicly accessible and visible when the original author already took them down once. The question isn't "how do I make these fics look boring so no-one will click into it", it's "how do I post someone else's fic in such a way that the original author can't possibly find out I'd posted it".

Re: AO3 question

[(Anonymous)]

Post it on Wattpad lol.

Re: AO3 question

[(Anonymous)]

"Obviously I don't want them public in any way".

I realise you're obviously just trying to troll here, but you could at least pretend to have read the actual question.

Re: AO3 question

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sorry that no one loves you or wants to spend time with you, but if you really stop and think about it, it's your own fault.

Re: AO3 question

[(Anonymous)]

That is absolutely not true. I'm ace and read AO3 for stories of characters doing fun things and going on adventures. I prefer fics without sex at all, but if it's there I will skip over it.

Re: AO3 question

[(Anonymous)]

Have you tried contacting the author to ask if they're willing to provide a copy in a better format, or if they've re-posted them elsewhere themselves. Re-uploading deleted fics to the very site they author deleted them from is kind of a dick move, even if the intent is to make them private.

Re: AO3 question

[(Anonymous)]

One, start downloading fics. Two, just copy and paste each chapter onto a google doc as one document. Keep it forever.

This is the answer.

[(Anonymous)]

Google doc or other writing program. I use LibreOffice.

Re: AO3 question

[(Anonymous)]

In my say we'd print our fics out for reading offline, it was too expensive to read them logged in.

Re: AO3 question

[(Anonymous)]

AO3 is not an appropriate platform to meet this need.

Re: AO3 question

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, you can create a Collection by going to the Collections option on your dashboard, click the New Collection button, give it a name, then tick the Moderated, Closed, Unrevealed and Anonymous boxes, then add the fics you want to keep to yourself to the collection.

Re: AO3 question

[(Anonymous)]

But yes, you should not do this, it's very rude.

Re: AO3 question

[(Anonymous)]

Seriously. Please do NOT do this with other people's fics, for any reason.

Re: AO3 question

[(Anonymous)]

why?

Re: AO3 question

[(Anonymous)]

Because the fic's author chose to take it down for a reason. You storing a copy on your personal hard drive for your use is fine, but putting it back up on the Archive's servers under your name, even hidden and anonymised, is deliberately circumventing their choices about their fic for - what? Marginal convenience.

Re: AO3 question

[(Anonymous)]

They chose to share, they gave up their story privileges when that happened. The most they can do is choose to no longer share on their own account. AO3 is fundamentally committed to the right of people to share in stories, and not have original writers be the sole authority on public story telling. We have lawyers fighting for exactly that. That ethos applies all the way to the top, and all the way to the bottom. Whether you are JK Rowling or the lowest Harry Potter drabble writer, you shared, we own. You can withdraw your participation, but not your cultural contributions.

Re: AO3 question

[(Anonymous)]

Bullshit.

AO3 itself is the biggest advocate for authors's ownership over their own work. Whenever they archive previous or resurrected fic collections or archives, they make it crystal clear that any author of any fic within that collection can choose not to allow their fic to be archived, or have said fic removed from the archive.

Re: AO3 question

[(Anonymous)]

AO3 is fundamentally committed to the right of people to share in stories, and not have original writers be the sole authority on public story telling. We have lawyers fighting for exactly that.

Using your JKR example, try uploading any one of the Harry Potter novels, word-for-word, and see what happens.

We have permission to use the WORLDS others have created. We do not have permission to reproduce their works word for word. We explicitly DO NOT have permission to do that.

Re: AO3 question

[(Anonymous)]

Are you, by any chance, cameolove?

Re: AO3 question

[(Anonymous)]

In the simplest possible terms: it is not your fic, it is not your work, you have no right to upload it to the Internet without the actual creator's consent, and you sure as fuck do not have the right to upload it to the exact same site they chose to remove it from.

Re: AO3 question

[(Anonymous)]

Because its not your fic.

Its also just a dumb way to accomplish what you want. Way easier to dumb it in a word prigram and save as one document.

Re: AO3 question

[(Anonymous)]

Save it as a word document? Or other office based equivalent, that's how I save the fic I want to re-read because then I don't even need to be connected to the internet to read them.

Or I suppose a private Dreamwidth blog could work too? It depends on how you want it formatted I suppose.