This. If anyone ever wants me to do anything in life, just hold my ao3 read list over my head and I will give you anything you want. I could never work for a government entity because just the threat of sharing my ao3 bookmarked list or my own terrible fanfiction would get me to spill all the secrets. 😂
The best thing I've ever found on ao3 is the hunger games book from Peeta's POV. a girl literally took the time to rewrite ALL 3 books from his POV. It's so well done and accurate to the books that I basically consider it canon.
Then fanfiction dotnet was cave paintings because 12 y old me was reading teen titans fanfiction in 2004 on the family computer lol I feel like im the only one who remembers or used that site fr
@@L0st_in_The_V01Dbasically last year AO3 had a cyber attack they flooded ao3 with requests to overwhelm the servers so it couldn’t function so they had to shut down the site for a couple days and the people we lost our minds a bit especially bc there was no idea how long it would be down sometimes if goes down for maintenance for a few hours and it’s planned but people still panic so you can imagine the mass panic that was this big shut down the ao3 users were out for blood for whoever was behind the attack
I love how Brittany always talks about fan content as if she’s explaining something totally freaky and insane to a normie when in reality she is not only preaching to the choir but the choir is actually somehow much hornier and freakier than her
One of my favorite fanfics on ao3 got updated after like a year. The author’s note was all like sorry I just left my husband and had my second child. Author’s notes are WILD.
Same except mine occasionally mentioned having some serious health issues on their social media so when they disappeared for more than a year we feared the worst. Thankfully they're still alive and their health is doing better now but it sure is a unique type of fear to not know and have no way of knowing if a person you met through the internet is dead or alive
i once read a completed fic but then like halfway through the author died in a car crash (rest in peace honestly) and another author had completed it for her. you could say that i was flabbergasted and had to take a short break before continuing.
Me because I’m looking up literally the specifics on the high school that all the characters are on and creating a Facebook account to join the schools sports group so I can see what the camp is like and their uniforms 😅 all for a 2 minute filler conversation
FOR REAL i came to this video after reading one where they were looking at constellations and the writer literally researched what constellations could be seen in that part of the world at that specific time 😭 it was like a paragraph long interaction but i appreciate the detail LOL
if you want a real answer its because getting paid makes it no longer qualify as just fanwork, and turns into someone trying to take credit for someone else's work and characters, universe etc. you are not allowed to drop any kind of links to places where you can get paid or mention any payment you might have received for a fic on ao3 for your own protection, bc once you have been paid you can be sued@@cameemz
one thing i love about non-native english speaker author is that they will say something like "excuse for my grammar mistake" and then proceed to write the most cambridge A level nobel prize masterpiece william shakespeare top notch scrumdelicious story
I think its because they're learning the language rather than it being their native language. They're learning all the correct words and proper grammar and then native English speakers write things like " i luv u bae" 😭(couldn't think of a better example)
I credit writing and reading horrible HP fanfiction in my teens with my ability to write college-level essays and understand post-high school literature while I was in middle/high school. Legit, fanfiction taught me how to write.
AO3 is wild because you'll see the most godless smut fic ever that was most likely written by a 15yr old right above a 500k word fic that could bring Harper Lee and Oscar Wilde to tears.
the interesting thing with ao3 is that if you hang around the site enough you pick up pretty fast what the average age demographic of a fandom (the ao3 version of the fandom ofc) is by the writing quality and content
10000000% I once read a Persona 5 fanfic and the writing, dialogue, plot, characterisation and pacing was crafted with such insane skill that it is my Roman Empire. I’ve been thinking about it every day for like two years. On the other side of the coin, the Danganronpa fanfic community is some of the most cracked and diabolical shit I’ve ever seen in my life LMAOOO
As someone who's basically lived on AO3 for the past decade (my mental stability kinda depends on it at this point), i feel both elated and terrified that Brittany is introducing our magic library to so many new people.
Stop, that “if there’s a will there’s a way” speech reminded me of a time when I was 13 I literally printed out a bunch of chapters of a Percy Jackson fanfiction because I was going somewhere without internet 💀💀😂😂😭
This is why fanfic reading is such a public part of my personality-people have to be used to hearing about me reading fanfic before I get in a deep relationship with them and they suddenly find out lmaooo
Middle aged, married and can confirm I LOVE Ao3 - the search function is incredible, you are very wrong Madame President, I'm sorry. You can filter to EXCLUDE tags so if there's a fandom you want to search but a pairing or an ACT you'd rather not read, you can filter them out (assuming the writer used tags haha). If it aint broken don't fix it 😶🌫️
Yes. Purpose-built websites are AMAZING for user experience and we are hella lucky that WE are AO3's customers (unlike every other platform online these days....)
getting accustomed to the layout did take me a while, but once i was used to it, it immediately became the only site i read fic on. their tag system is flawless! being able to tag your own bookmarks? life changing. excluding tags is so so awesome as well.
SUPREME LEADER!!!! now i can eat my lunch with content. you have my FULL attention. eyes closed hands off the wheel and i totaled my car in the process.
this is why parasocial relationships are a thing, you cant just bare your soul and not expect me to relate????? you are so real for this bestie. so great to connect souls witch you🤝
One of my favourite things about finding a new book series I like is knowing that there will be a copious amount of fan fiction on AO3 to lap up when I finish the canon content.
honestly i cannot share the stuff i read on ao3 with my closest friends, this is so brave of you but also i hope we can all be lesse shy about fanfiction bc it's so fun and harmless
The "if there's a will, there's a way" thing is so true, I remember seeing a post of someone on one of those tvs on the back of airplane seats mid flight. They waited until an ad popped up and clicked on it to access the internet and *immediately* got to ao3, I was cackling when I saw it.
I love that honestly and that reminds me of how I downloaded all of my favorite fics (some I have to screenshot because they weren’t on ao3) because I was going on a 13 hour flight and wanted entertainment. Ended up getting me through that flight.
Just stayed up reading the "Rough Day" fanfic. Oh maker was it good. The details just made me feel like I was there, that I learned all those skills. That I did all of it. Thank you Brittany. This was the experience that I needed tonight.
'you roll you eyes at the thought' then immediately saying fuck as it ruined the vibe, but immediately jumping back to read IS SUCH A MOOD. lmao, no matter the slight mistakes in a fic, when invested, you are invested, mistakes be damned.
I’m just so happy to have a TH-camr that I literally feel like is just like me. I always feel like I am listening to a best friend when I watch your videos and I love it. Thank you Brittany for being SO honest and not hiding our craziness lol
“I feel the judgement coming through the screen.” Girl I went from writing fanfiction to currently writing two books so trust I must be respectful to my roots
An excellent life hack I've come across just this year is if hit "entire work" then copy the whole thing (bottom to top is fastest) then click "speak" you have a little audiobook :)
The best way to use Ao3 is to just press search, edit search, and then you can type and edit any fandom/tag/preference that you want. You can find EXACTLY what you want to find as long as it exists. I usually start with the pairing - you type it into the “Relationships” spot - as long as there is a fanfiction for the pairing, the pairing will pop up when you search it. Usually goes by this format (using a random pairing): “Dean Winchester/Castiel” or the names will be flipped around. You can select the rating. I usually set mine to Mature or Explicit. Moving on. You can set TAGS. This is where it gets crazy. Here are some tags that exist: “Praise Kink” “Spencer Reid Whump” “Sexual Tension” “UNRESOLVED Sexual Tension” “Fluff” “Fluff and Angst” “Domestic Fluff” “Tooth-Rotting Fluff” - probably hundred more of tags that you can search up and apply to your search - however, more than 3 kind of specific tags, and you probably won’t find a fic. I’d say 2 or 3 tags can greatly narrow your search while still finding fics. You can also search Characters, Language, select whether they should be finished or unfinished works (or no preference), Authors, yada yada yada. The other great function that helps me a lot is the sorting function - you can do ascending or descending, and I find the best searches you can do are “Date Updated” descending or “Word Count” descending - “Date Posted” is probably also helpful, though I prefer “Date Updated”. “Date Updated” finds you the most recent fics - if you’re crazy like me and have consumed MANY works of a certain pairing - using this can help you find the most recent fics/new works and especially help you follow updating fics. I usually just look out for when a fanfiction/a certain title updates to the top again (as in the author updates it, it goes to the top of the fics each time it updates). If you haven’t read all the fics to a certain pairing and especially if you have A LOT of fics for the particular ship (yay! congrats!), then sorting it by Word Count descending can maybe help you find the length fic/what kind of fic you’re looking for. I find anything in the 1,000 to 9,000 word range can be a really good short or long form one-shot. Anything 50,000-200,00+ can be a good longer form fic. The fics between 9,000-50,000 are kind of a blend between this - usually good shorter-feeling multi-chapter fics. Anything shorter than 1,000 can be good but sometimes isn’t fulfilling or well written, and 250,000+… the author is either a God tier writer or they’re just someone who writes like shit and doesn’t know how to stop. If anyone read this who wants to use Ao3 but has trouble understanding its layout, let me say - I hope this helps. In my not so humble opinion, Ao3 is far superior to Wattpad or tumblr for fan fiction. I only hope this may guide you to finding the fic you’ve been craving DEEP in your soul.
Okay so I spent the last two days reading it and finished but it’s my first time reading ao3 so I need to know…is it still in progress?? I saw the writers comment about it being a while until the next chapter but the last update was last year March
@@ItsEllie1497 its not finished - the author (last time she updated) said there will be 5-6 more chapters. but she is in college so she's writing in her spare time. unfortunately we don't know how long until the next chapter.
Poet Richard Siken has admitted to posting Sherlock and Supernatural fanfic on Ao3. There are professional writers on those streets. It's serious. 300,000 word series serious. I love it
I read Rough Day because of this video (never seen the Mandalorian) but oh my god I’ve been frothing at the mouth, going feral, losing my mind, telling everybody I know that this smut will ruin your life. I haven’t read a book in a decade but I just smashed all 201,000 words in 4 days
It's in the Video's description! Have a nice read! I know I will (even though I don't remember jack shit about Star Wars, I was always a Trekkie Girlie (gender neutral)) @@AdisinWalsh
I find the AO3 interface SO much nicer. I can sort to my excessively niche interest, add whatever crossovers or additional fandoms I want. For example, I'm such a big DC fan, and I like different areas of DC like Batfam, Constantine, League of Assassins. I can't find something like that on any other website.
girl i just finished like 4 different fanfics by the same author which were all 80k+ words long with plots that did NOT let me stop reading for even a SECOND. i wouldve died if i had to stop reading. i cannot believe how good the plot, the smut, the grammar, the feelings and the character dialogue was. there are serious AUTEURS on ao3. and this was for detroit become human. you know, that video game with the voice actor for mr krabs? so good.
@@rosem7889 okay idk why but apparantly youtube didnt post the comment i posted? if it did and i just cant see it, well youll get the recommendation twice lmao. the author is called Jolli_Bean on ao3 and im seriously considering already re-reading their fics a few days later lmao
the way ppl who read bokks are so loud about it, sharing their passion with others, get to talk about it with friends BUT ive been reading ff for 10 + years almost every day, i dont think anyone in my life knows or will understand. there better ff on ao3 than any book ive read i so wish i can talk ab it with my friends. Brittany!!! thank u for sharing, u are an inspiration to us all, the way sharing your passions can be one of the scariest things, u r so brave
Right cuz why were so many women openly talking about reading 50 shades, but if I mention this Cinderella AU anime gay crossdressing fanfic I really like, suddenly I'm the weirdo 🙄 /s
AO3 is where I immediately go to find a well written story when a show ends terribly. I know there are some published writers that are actively writing fanfiction on AO3. Like it is so good sometimes. I have been following ONE single slash fanfiction of Stranger Things for the past like 3 years, and I get so excited when the writer posts an update LMAO
I love AO3. Hanging out in the Trek fandom on there is wild - you have absolutely beautiful examinations of a 50 year old show published last week, right beside imported zine fic from the 70s! All in the same place! AO3 really living up to the Archive part of its name there (Also fic has always been the domain of married women - those zines in the 70s were written by housewives who were BREAKING THE LAW writing about queer men having sex! Married, middle-aged and older women are the BACKBONE of any fandom that has any kind of longevity.)
i love ao3 so much because where else am i going to find a genuinely moving and tragic piece of dark romance literature based on the folgers coffee home for christmas commercial from 2009?? shoutout to cj the x and their video about that commercial cuz it made me go read the fanfic they read in the video and it was just as incredible as they said... god i love ao3
Girl this is gonna sound unhinged, but youre genuinely helping me explore and understand my sexual interests. Ive felt too uncomfortable and ashamed to do it, but you make it seem fun and carefree and silly. Its so girly-pop and i love it so thank you ❤😭
You're so right! I've never really read fanfiction (besides a fucking hilarious Harry Potter fic where adult harry has to relive his hogwarts years) but girlypop is the best way to describe it. I love girlypop-izing things because honestly I'm just a girl and everything can be like that if you try hard enough
@@the_bearer_of_truth00 let me take a guess: is it Oh God Not Again! by Sarah1281 ?:D i laughed sm when i first read it (in one sitting... oops) hahaha girly-pop foreverr
I clicked on this so fast y’all don’t even know. Listen, I am not a y/n girlie (more of a m/m one) but I would watch 1000 hours of Miss Broski rec’ing AO3 fics. As someone who’s been on AO3 for 12 years I deeply appreciate this video. We love to see it! And so true re: there being incredible novel length gorgeous stories, many, tbh, better than published books.
I hear you! I'm a femslash reader myself and the gasp I gusped when I saw this on my feed lol I could watch a million videos of Brittany talking about fanfic all day
LMFAOOOO not the outages!! Some of those had me pulling my hair out, gnawing the bars of my enclosure…I started writing some of my own shit when the site was down but ONLY OUT OF NECESSITY.
I’m an old and I’ve been around since before AO3. I spent most of my time on Library of Moria 😄 Or livejournal. I love how old school AO3 is. It lets you find just what you need, no fuss. The smut warning is hilarious. Yes please, that’s what I’m here for, please and thank you. Some of the fics on there have literally pulled me out of depression. I hang out in the Stranger Things fandom and damn, there is some excellent and complex stuff to be found. There’s also no kink that hasn’t been explored with Steve at the center of it. None 😂
Me too! I remember the smut purge of ffnet and then the panic over adult livejournals and move to other journal sites during the development of AO3. I do miss livejournal culture, where we could interact on multiple levels at once and make really niche communities.
Hahahaha, I've recently gotten re-obsessed with Stranger Things while I've been on sick leave from work, but *hot damn* the fandom -infighting between the ship stans & antis is wild 😂 The high drama between the Steddies vs Harringroves or Jancy vs Stancy (because yeah, the ST fandom really *does* pivot around Steve's sex life but there's kinks I'd never even *heard* of in some of them 😅) has had its moments of almost rivaling SuperWhoLock since S4🍿
As soon as you said Mandalorian fan fiction, I thought “please tell me she knows about Rough Day”, and as always you did not disappoint! So glad I’m not alone in my love for that fic haha!
The narcos one was so good i was crying and feeling PEAK single lonely female vibes 😭😭 god this is a new low when my reaction to hot steamy scenes is to SOB
I'm 41, and i discovered fanfiction back in 2000, when I just started college. Adult Swim was still new, and I discovered Anime. Oh man, I loved that shit, and it literally opened up my career path because I started writing fanfiction and then realized I love writing. Fanfiction will always hold a special place in my heart.
Oh my gosh, same! I’m dyslexic and never thought I could ever go into literature but I started writing fics in high school and fell in love. I just got my first job as a journalist!
Hehehehe, I've recently rediscovered fics that I read *BACK IN THE 90s!!!* because the authors got around in the past few years to moving their work from dead/defunct Geocities sites to ao3. Oh my god it's like being in highschool again & I have to say, happy to see I had good taste even back then 😂
Literally not even halfway through one of them and holyyyyy Jesus jaw dropped. Goosebumps. I have to take breaks in between text chunks. thank you for the feast my lord 😩
Brittany acting like 98 percent of her audience doesn't read an unhealthy amount of fanfiction is my favorite genre
This is so real
Literally said, “okay okay yeah we know” 😂
As a person that doesn’t read this stuff. The warning and lesson helped Lmao I understand it better
@@Ghostspider0903Same
I never don't have like 20 tabs on my phone of A03
The most humbling experience is reading fic on ao3 and the author uses a word I don’t know like damn I thought this was smut not a penguin classic
The penguin classic kids books reading this comment 👀😬🤦🏻♀️😭😵💫😯🙄🙃💀
But honestly, this comment made me laugh a lot, so no shade at all 😁
Fanfic authors have multiple dictionary and thesaurus tabs open at all times. Source: me, a former fanfic author
me when i saw the word beleaguered
LOL
Penguins classics are so good
Not even Batman could torture my ao3 bookmarks out of me
That could be a fun meta fanfic tho!
agh real
This. If anyone ever wants me to do anything in life, just hold my ao3 read list over my head and I will give you anything you want. I could never work for a government entity because just the threat of sharing my ao3 bookmarked list or my own terrible fanfiction would get me to spill all the secrets. 😂
batman is already in half of mine
This is too real.
The best thing I've ever found on ao3 is the hunger games book from Peeta's POV. a girl literally took the time to rewrite ALL 3 books from his POV. It's so well done and accurate to the books that I basically consider it canon.
And you leave no title for us?! 😭🤣
WHATS IT CALLED
@@retrotween3066"peeta's games" it's also the top kudos work under the hunger games fandom
@@amydf333"peeta's games" it's also the top kudos work under the hunger games fandom
@@toastedsmorespoptart tysmmm
for the non-smut girlies: ao3 also has the most unmatched angst stories to grace this planet
the amount of times i’ve woken up with puffy eyes because of my late night angst ao3 reads …
real i joined ao3 for the smut now i check it regularly for like the 25k tearjerkers of my faves being put through the emotional wringer
i've cried over gay boys in the nineties more than i would like to admit
literally. i've cried multiple times
you ever feel your heart physically ache after reading that shit
This makes me feel how I imagine medieval peasants felt when the king drove his carriage through their hovel
Seeing the notification with the title and thumbnail is like hearing that royal trumpet melody
LMFAOOOO
This is the perfect comment ❤
Very relatable and completely understandable
Idk if you meant thru the town or blasting straight thru the peasant’s dwelling looney tunes style. Either way I’m enjoying the visual
Archive of our Own is like the Rosetta Stone of fanmade content. It would feel so wrong if they modernized the interface
Its the royal princesses diary for the peasants
Then fanfiction dotnet was cave paintings because 12 y old me was reading teen titans fanfiction in 2004 on the family computer lol I feel like im the only one who remembers or used that site fr
I actually adoree it everytime with my silly little skins from 2011
fr 200k of crying and hoping they survive and fall in love is a classic, weekly activity
i LOVE their ui
The way she reacts while she reads is EXACTLY what I do. Half of the time I read fanfiction is spent on me screaming at an imaginary audience.
SAME!!!
im like are yall seeing this omg😮😮
Realll
Same😭
“People died” in reference to ao3 outages is so real, personal experience
like IM people
that ddos attack a while back by homophobes had people eating their neighbors fr
Uh... As a wattpad user what the heck is that I'm very curious
@@L0st_in_The_V01D it's called a running bit
@@L0st_in_The_V01Dbasically last year AO3 had a cyber attack they flooded ao3 with requests to overwhelm the servers so it couldn’t function so they had to shut down the site for a couple days and the people we lost our minds a bit especially bc there was no idea how long it would be down sometimes if goes down for maintenance for a few hours and it’s planned but people still panic so you can imagine the mass panic that was this big shut down the ao3 users were out for blood for whoever was behind the attack
I love how Brittany always talks about fan content as if she’s explaining something totally freaky and insane to a normie when in reality she is not only preaching to the choir but the choir is actually somehow much hornier and freakier than her
me when she was talking about after like girlie there is not one fan here who doesn’t know what that is
Literally like know your audience girlie, we’re all freaks!!
Right like. no yaoi? no omegaverse?? this shit is tame by my standards ive been in the trenches so long
One of my favorite fanfics on ao3 got updated after like a year. The author’s note was all like sorry I just left my husband and had my second child. Author’s notes are WILD.
idk her but i respect the hell out of her
Same except mine occasionally mentioned having some serious health issues on their social media so when they disappeared for more than a year we feared the worst. Thankfully they're still alive and their health is doing better now but it sure is a unique type of fear to not know and have no way of knowing if a person you met through the internet is dead or alive
Oh my god?!?
Lol I use those to explain the words that might be confusing
i once read a completed fic but then like halfway through the author died in a car crash (rest in peace honestly) and another author had completed it for her. you could say that i was flabbergasted and had to take a short break before continuing.
10:18 the way she casually pulled up a narcos fanfic that was over 225,000 words long- aka between 500-900 printed book pages- is so real
And it was incomplete too I'm crying
ngl i have read 200k fanfics in one sitting before so no wonder
me realizing i nearly finished an iconic 500k-word jamilton fanfic in prolly a week:
👁️👄👁️
@@theletterm8865what's jamilton?
this is me but i get 350k+ words into a fic only to realize 15 hours later that it's been discontinued and the author hasn't posted since like 2018
they say “if there’s a screen, ao3 will be seen” and i think that’s beautiful
I’m from Spain and thank the gods it’s still not all that known here, I can read on ao3 anywhere I want 😂
Rumple Goocher AO3 entry when?
on it
need it in my life
oh my godddd
I'm a writer and this is giving me ideias
I would pass away 😂😂😂😂
I love ao3 writers sm. the amount of RESEARCH they do for the tiniest details??!!??? plS why aren't these angels getting paid
I WAS JUST THINKING THIS. Like I want us to be able to donate so they can get the royalties they deserve
Me because I’m looking up literally the specifics on the high school that all the characters are on and creating a Facebook account to join the schools sports group so I can see what the camp is like and their uniforms 😅 all for a 2 minute filler conversation
FOR REAL i came to this video after reading one where they were looking at constellations and the writer literally researched what constellations could be seen in that part of the world at that specific time 😭 it was like a paragraph long interaction but i appreciate the detail LOL
if you want a real answer its because getting paid makes it no longer qualify as just fanwork, and turns into someone trying to take credit for someone else's work and characters, universe etc. you are not allowed to drop any kind of links to places where you can get paid or mention any payment you might have received for a fic on ao3 for your own protection, bc once you have been paid you can be sued@@cameemz
NO LITERALLY
one thing i love about non-native english speaker author is that they will say something like "excuse for my grammar mistake" and then proceed to write the most cambridge A level nobel prize masterpiece william shakespeare top notch scrumdelicious story
LITERALLY!!! and it’s always so good that it doesn’t leave ur mind for months😭
This is so real
THAT IS SO TRUE!!!😂
THATS when you know ur gonna read an oscar level story
I think its because they're learning the language rather than it being their native language. They're learning all the correct words and proper grammar and then native English speakers write things like " i luv u bae" 😭(couldn't think of a better example)
"i'm over ghost"
brittany broski instantly starting the video with ghost fanfiction:
REAL 😭😭😭
me looking at ghoap fanfic and her mentioning ghost just gave me a mini heart attack
the way reading fanfiction since i was 12 has evolved my vocabulary more than any normal book has! the reading comprehension was off the CHARTS
it has truly done more for me than reading any assigned classic book in school
SAME
I credit writing and reading horrible HP fanfiction in my teens with my ability to write college-level essays and understand post-high school literature while I was in middle/high school. Legit, fanfiction taught me how to write.
FACTS! Made scrabble waaaay easier.
IS THIS WHY I WAS THE GIFTED ENGLISH BURNOUT KID 😭
Mother your hair is HAIRING this warm tone is absolutely eating
Right?! It makes me want to see her with like a warm chocolate brown like Brooke Schofield has ❤️
yassss i’ve been telling her to dye it auburn
Agreed!! All I could focus on while watching this weeks podcast, the strawberry blonde looks BEAUTIFUL
i’m absolutely obsessed with it too!! makes me wanna dye my hair now 🤭
For real she looks gorg!! Makeup too!!!
The best on3s are the one that state “English is not my first language…” or something along those lines.
Eh sometimes those are actually unintelligible as a native speaker. It's a dice roll for me but yeah some of them are gems
"MASKED MEN. MASKED! MEN!"
I feel you Brittany *hides my Winter Soldier fancams*
HELP THATS SO REAL
*insert those tiktoks that are like hot mask or hot masc here*
the amount of WS y/n fanfics ive read is concerning ngl
he’s everything to me
That part made me howllll. im crying
AO3 is wild because you'll see the most godless smut fic ever that was most likely written by a 15yr old right above a 500k word fic that could bring Harper Lee and Oscar Wilde to tears.
the interesting thing with ao3 is that if you hang around the site enough you pick up pretty fast what the average age demographic of a fandom (the ao3 version of the fandom ofc) is by the writing quality and content
@@thj_5046YEPPP LMAO
10000000% I once read a Persona 5 fanfic and the writing, dialogue, plot, characterisation and pacing was crafted with such insane skill that it is my Roman Empire. I’ve been thinking about it every day for like two years.
On the other side of the coin, the Danganronpa fanfic community is some of the most cracked and diabolical shit I’ve ever seen in my life LMAOOO
@@EL-wz6qgWHAT IS THE FIC NAME?? I need P5 content in my life😩
@@gabbygi it’s called “you will never take my heart alive” on AO3!!! Thank me later
As someone who's basically lived on AO3 for the past decade (my mental stability kinda depends on it at this point), i feel both elated and terrified that Brittany is introducing our magic library to so many new people.
can you please recommend me a fanfic u really like im willing to read anything
@@slay9395 READ HOUSE OF CARDS
@@slay9395 sure! Do you prefer a straight or a gay ship?
i don’t mind either but i prefer straight ones, and thank youuu!!!
@@slay9395Reader insert? Or original character? Or two known/canon characters?
ok but “a cheap trick and a cheesy one-liner” is a FANTASTIC title
no fr
It's the most AO3 fanfic title I've ever seen 😂
Brittany has upgraded from wattpad to AO3🤩gotta love it
Honestly, that sums up a lot of us stickin with AO3 😭 AO3 is just better, great memories with Wattpad tho, just doesn't hit anymore
@@lilkeyla5769help i literally started on ao3
@@lilkeyla5769wattpad 2015-2017 had peak harry styles fan fic
character development
@@deftectivenot the character development🤣💀💀 dead af
ao3 has such a place in my heart. there have been fanfics on there that have made me sob harder than when my grandma died.
Literally!!!!! Omg I’ve literally cried to sleep from an ao3 fan fic
This is literally soooo real I have cried harder at ao3 fanfics than when my dad left
no literally or not seeing my family for days because i couldn’t stop reading
I’m sorry for your loss but holy shit 😭
😭😭😭
Stop, that “if there’s a will there’s a way” speech reminded me of a time when I was 13 I literally printed out a bunch of chapters of a Percy Jackson fanfiction because I was going somewhere without internet 💀💀😂😂😭
This is killing me, that’s true dedication I have so much respect for you😭😭
I did the same but with very smutty glee fanfic. My older sis found them it was the most mortifying thing ever.
@@violetkittens8859,😭😭you poor child
@@violetkittens8859 NOT GLEE omg i would have hurled myself into traffic
I printed 3 fanfics out and bound them myself and used a fake Percy Jackson covers so I could read them in public without internet 💀
one of the tags for rough day being “favreau forgive me” is SENDING me 😭😭
Rough Day is a f*#%ing work of art.
@@alyssa3405Brittany linked it in the description
@@meifennellysieu7510amen
HANDS OFF THE WHEEL, FEET PROPPED UP ON THE DASH BOARD, EYES CLOSED, THE VIDEO ON 100
being jumpscared by unholy ao3 tags is the girlhood experience
It truly is
LMAO "DEAD DOVE DO NOT EAT" IS THE ONE THAT GOT ME
13:36 I love the yell at the gramamr mistake and then immediately continue reading
Lol “gramamr mistake” 😂👌🏻
So real
woops lol@@katiekat-dickson
very me whenever i go on ao3
The humbling experience of explaining to my husband that I consume AO3 Star Wars fan fiction and have since I was 12 ☠️😭
This is why fanfic reading is such a public part of my personality-people have to be used to hearing about me reading fanfic before I get in a deep relationship with them and they suddenly find out lmaooo
Middle aged, married and can confirm I LOVE Ao3 - the search function is incredible, you are very wrong Madame President, I'm sorry. You can filter to EXCLUDE tags so if there's a fandom you want to search but a pairing or an ACT you'd rather not read, you can filter them out (assuming the writer used tags haha). If it aint broken don't fix it 😶🌫️
The exclude function is a lifesaver!
Yes. Purpose-built websites are AMAZING for user experience and we are hella lucky that WE are AO3's customers (unlike every other platform online these days....)
THIS!
Omg i was there pre exclusion and it was a nightmare... i swear heaven opened when they gave us that exclusion tab
getting accustomed to the layout did take me a while, but once i was used to it, it immediately became the only site i read fic on. their tag system is flawless! being able to tag your own bookmarks? life changing. excluding tags is so so awesome as well.
The echo after “MASKED MEN” has me crying 14:39
The bravery you have for bearing this to us is INSANE. You could not pry the smut I read from my cold dead hands
my plan is to pay someone to destroy every record of my fanfic reading when i die so no one can ever know
you could not waterboard the fanfics i read out of me 😭
the CIA has nothing on me when it comes to my ao3 tags
For real. Not even the C.I.A could make me reveal my bookmarks.
the way that i cannot leave my kindle ANYWHERE near people because of the HORRIFIC ao3 smut on there- 😭
😭😭😭*relate*
"'you roll you eyes at the thought' FUCK" KILLEDME for NO reason im crying
same plss
ME TOO i had to pause
SAME PLSSSS😭😭
The typos take you out of the fantasy sometimes
SUPREME LEADER!!!! now i can eat my lunch with content. you have my FULL attention. eyes closed hands off the wheel and i totaled my car in the process.
can I join you fellow broski citizen? I brought nachos
I got a pb&j! On my way
That is just a small price to pay for the supreme leaders content
Finished my good soup, our leader provides thy good grub.
THIS!!!!!
You would have to hammer fifteen nails into my nail beds for me to reveal information such as this, cap’n
this is why parasocial relationships are a thing, you cant just bare your soul and not expect me to relate????? you are so real for this bestie. so great to connect souls witch you🤝
One of my favourite things about finding a new book series I like is knowing that there will be a copious amount of fan fiction on AO3 to lap up when I finish the canon content.
I've found my people :*) me rushing to finish hannibal and jjk just so I can read fanfiction is actually insane
@@GreenJuicePouch jjk fics... i think about convergence theory by achilleid and nothing tastes sweeter by mullermilkshake every day of my life
@@watupbword951thanks for the recs 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼
i've literally gotten into things by reading fics and being like fuck i guess i'm in this fandom now. jesus christ
Yasss and fanart
honestly i cannot share the stuff i read on ao3 with my closest friends, this is so brave of you but also i hope we can all be lesse shy about fanfiction bc it's so fun and harmless
The "if there's a will, there's a way" thing is so true, I remember seeing a post of someone on one of those tvs on the back of airplane seats mid flight. They waited until an ad popped up and clicked on it to access the internet and *immediately* got to ao3, I was cackling when I saw it.
I love that honestly and that reminds me of how I downloaded all of my favorite fics (some I have to screenshot because they weren’t on ao3) because I was going on a 13 hour flight and wanted entertainment. Ended up getting me through that flight.
Just stayed up reading the "Rough Day" fanfic. Oh maker was it good. The details just made me feel like I was there, that I learned all those skills. That I did all of it. Thank you Brittany. This was the experience that I needed tonight.
The fact that it’s unfinished kills my soul
that fanfic literally changed my life. thank u brittany
'you roll you eyes at the thought' then immediately saying fuck as it ruined the vibe,
but immediately jumping back to read IS SUCH A MOOD. lmao, no matter the slight mistakes in a fic, when invested, you are invested, mistakes be damned.
sometimes i read something and think “damn just let me beta read and edit some stuff furiousowl4,,, give me a chance i can make you shine”
I've been saying, AO3 has some of the most wonderful novel-esque stories I've ever read
sometimes I wonder how I would have turned out without wattpad or ao3
I for sure would've would've in college rn making 8 figures on a crypto scheme but I lay in my room writing and reading fanfic
I’m just so happy to have a TH-camr that I literally feel like is just like me. I always feel like I am listening to a best friend when I watch your videos and I love it. Thank you Brittany for being SO honest and not hiding our craziness lol
I love how educated Britney is on the subject of fanfic’s, I feel like I can really trust her analysis on what makes a good fanfic
“I feel the judgement coming through the screen.”
Girl I went from writing fanfiction to currently writing two books so trust I must be respectful to my roots
GRABBING THE BARS OF MY ENCLOSURE THANK YOU OVERLORD
😂😂
the fact that I remember the first chapter of Rough Day being uploaded and immediately bookmarking it. Insane that britney broski was readin' it too
My favorite omegaverse (don't judge me) author used to have her HUSBAND proof read her smut. AO3 is a family 👏 business 👏 we love to see it
This is why we support family owned buisnesses 🙌🙌
LMAO I LOVE THAT
drop the author girl🙏
you can’t say that and not give us the name
WHO IS THE AUTHOR DUDE.
Professor to professor, great class. I would like to add, that AO3 will change your life and in the long run, its actually easier to use
thank GOD I was just about to eat my lunch
REEEAAAALLL
Same
same twinnn
oooo I gotta wait to watch this with lunch good idea
MEEEEE
An excellent life hack I've come across just this year is if hit "entire work" then copy the whole thing (bottom to top is fastest) then click "speak" you have a little audiobook :)
The best way to use Ao3 is to just press search, edit search, and then you can type and edit any fandom/tag/preference that you want. You can find EXACTLY what you want to find as long as it exists.
I usually start with the pairing - you type it into the “Relationships” spot - as long as there is a fanfiction for the pairing, the pairing will pop up when you search it. Usually goes by this format (using a random pairing): “Dean Winchester/Castiel” or the names will be flipped around.
You can select the rating. I usually set mine to Mature or Explicit. Moving on.
You can set TAGS. This is where it gets crazy. Here are some tags that exist:
“Praise Kink” “Spencer Reid Whump” “Sexual Tension” “UNRESOLVED Sexual Tension” “Fluff” “Fluff and Angst” “Domestic Fluff” “Tooth-Rotting Fluff” - probably hundred more of tags that you can search up and apply to your search - however, more than 3 kind of specific tags, and you probably won’t find a fic. I’d say 2 or 3 tags can greatly narrow your search while still finding fics.
You can also search Characters, Language, select whether they should be finished or unfinished works (or no preference), Authors, yada yada yada.
The other great function that helps me a lot is the sorting function - you can do ascending or descending, and I find the best searches you can do are “Date Updated” descending or “Word Count” descending - “Date Posted” is probably also helpful, though I prefer “Date Updated”. “Date Updated” finds you the most recent fics - if you’re crazy like me and have consumed MANY works of a certain pairing - using this can help you find the most recent fics/new works and especially help you follow updating fics. I usually just look out for when a fanfiction/a certain title updates to the top again (as in the author updates it, it goes to the top of the fics each time it updates).
If you haven’t read all the fics to a certain pairing and especially if you have A LOT of fics for the particular ship (yay! congrats!), then sorting it by Word Count descending can maybe help you find the length fic/what kind of fic you’re looking for. I find anything in the 1,000 to 9,000 word range can be a really good short or long form one-shot. Anything 50,000-200,00+ can be a good longer form fic. The fics between 9,000-50,000 are kind of a blend between this - usually good shorter-feeling multi-chapter fics. Anything shorter than 1,000 can be good but sometimes isn’t fulfilling or well written, and 250,000+… the author is either a God tier writer or they’re just someone who writes like shit and doesn’t know how to stop.
If anyone read this who wants to use Ao3 but has trouble understanding its layout, let me say - I hope this helps. In my not so humble opinion, Ao3 is far superior to Wattpad or tumblr for fan fiction. I only hope this may guide you to finding the fic you’ve been craving DEEP in your soul.
you’ve explained ao3 perfectly🙏 I’ve been sorting fics through kudos cause I thought those would be the best rated lol
@@xoch1717 also probably a very good method! I’ll have to try sorting by kudos.
YAS QUEEN
@@xoch1717 I do that too! But when I've read all the top stories of a certain pairing *cough* Merthur *cough* then I'll do OP's Date Posted method.
This is what I do!! I wish they tags search worked a bit better though. The more uncommon ones can't be searched.
rough day is a new york times best seller in my heart
YESSSSS
Girl absolutely
Okay so I spent the last two days reading it and finished but it’s my first time reading ao3 so I need to know…is it still in progress?? I saw the writers comment about it being a while until the next chapter but the last update was last year March
@@ItsEllie1497 its not finished - the author (last time she updated) said there will be 5-6 more chapters. but she is in college so she's writing in her spare time. unfortunately we don't know how long until the next chapter.
real
Poet Richard Siken has admitted to posting Sherlock and Supernatural fanfic on Ao3. There are professional writers on those streets. It's serious. 300,000 word series serious. I love it
WHAT?!!
dont forget about his tumblr, where he posted about writing fanfic on ao3 for captain america/winter soldier
@@katteather4599 I'm SO curious what he has written because there are some absolutely beautiful Stucky fics out there.
I've definitely heard other authors admit to writing fanfiction for their unused plot bunnies.
this is fucking wild
I read Rough Day because of this video (never seen the Mandalorian) but oh my god I’ve been frothing at the mouth, going feral, losing my mind, telling everybody I know that this smut will ruin your life. I haven’t read a book in a decade but I just smashed all 201,000 words in 4 days
Rough day changed lives, when I saw that you uploaded this video I was CERTAIN you were going to talk about ROUGH DAY
I've never used ao3. HOW DO I FIND THIS PLEASE HELP
It's in the Video's description! Have a nice read! I know I will (even though I don't remember jack shit about Star Wars, I was always a Trekkie Girlie (gender neutral)) @@AdisinWalsh
EXACTLY ROUGH DAY IS SO MONUMENTAL
changed the mandolorian fanfic world for the rest of time there will never be a mando fic not based on rough day
It really did change lives
I find the AO3 interface SO much nicer. I can sort to my excessively niche interest, add whatever crossovers or additional fandoms I want.
For example, I'm such a big DC fan, and I like different areas of DC like Batfam, Constantine, League of Assassins. I can't find something like that on any other website.
Just finished the Maddy interview, and this pops up immediately. What a day. 🎉
Literally came to type same sis😂🫶🏻
SAAAAAME
Same!
It’s so interesting bc I just personally cannot do reader fics so seeing someone actually read it out is just crazy to me
girl i just finished like 4 different fanfics by the same author which were all 80k+ words long with plots that did NOT let me stop reading for even a SECOND. i wouldve died if i had to stop reading. i cannot believe how good the plot, the smut, the grammar, the feelings and the character dialogue was. there are serious AUTEURS on ao3. and this was for detroit become human. you know, that video game with the voice actor for mr krabs? so good.
WHO!?!? tell me now pleeeeaasseeeee
SPILL
details needed NOW
hello, back again to ask that you give us some recommendations please
@@rosem7889 okay idk why but apparantly youtube didnt post the comment i posted? if it did and i just cant see it, well youll get the recommendation twice lmao. the author is called Jolli_Bean on ao3 and im seriously considering already re-reading their fics a few days later lmao
The notif literally popped up when i was reading on ao3, duty calls
REAL
Not me married writing on ao3 sitting next to my husband I have been seen
Brittany, words cannot DESCRIBE how thankful I am for the Mando fic recommendation 🤯 that shit is a work of art
the way ppl who read bokks are so loud about it, sharing their passion with others, get to talk about it with friends BUT ive been reading ff for 10 + years almost every day, i dont think anyone in my life knows or will understand. there better ff on ao3 than any book ive read i so wish i can talk ab it with my friends.
Brittany!!! thank u for sharing, u are an inspiration to us all, the way sharing your passions can be one of the scariest things, u r so brave
"Oh I read constantly. All the time."
"Really? What do you read?"
"........fanfiction." 😅😅
Right cuz why were so many women openly talking about reading 50 shades, but if I mention this Cinderella AU anime gay crossdressing fanfic I really like, suddenly I'm the weirdo 🙄 /s
AO3 is where I immediately go to find a well written story when a show ends terribly. I know there are some published writers that are actively writing fanfiction on AO3. Like it is so good sometimes. I have been following ONE single slash fanfiction of Stranger Things for the past like 3 years, and I get so excited when the writer posts an update LMAO
Rough Day being unfinished is my roman empire,,,, I check for a new chapter weekly, it's so bad how much I'm obsessed with that fic
PLEASE ME TOO it’s an emotional attachment atp
its LITERALLYYYY been years for me
I just finished what was available and I’m heartbroken. WHERE IS SHE 😭 I have to know more
Literally just finished it. Im not ok
It’s comforting to know that we’re living the same life out here.
I just know Brittany would EAT UP the marauders fandom fics they are ACTUAL WORKS OF ART!!!
FORREALLL!!! Like any Wolfstar long fic (or the one shot smut tbh 😭) I think she’d love. Literal NOVEL WORTHY FICS
It seems she only (or mostly) reads self insert fics :/
No literally, and so much angst and suffering, but also fluff
Omg yesssss!! I used to read that shit in uni ❤
Not me being absolutely *in love!* with Marauder era jily even now in my 20s 🫣😳
I love AO3. Hanging out in the Trek fandom on there is wild - you have absolutely beautiful examinations of a 50 year old show published last week, right beside imported zine fic from the 70s! All in the same place! AO3 really living up to the Archive part of its name there
(Also fic has always been the domain of married women - those zines in the 70s were written by housewives who were BREAKING THE LAW writing about queer men having sex! Married, middle-aged and older women are the BACKBONE of any fandom that has any kind of longevity.)
This exactly!
As a millennial woman aging into that demographic, that completely tracks.
girllll you've introduced me into a facet of life I didn't know i was lacking. crazy things are about to go down in my mind
Me too girl
enjoy your new life!
my 3rd year anniversary of reading fanfics is coming up soon 🎉🎉 never wanna go back to the time where I wasn’t reading
i love ao3 so much because where else am i going to find a genuinely moving and tragic piece of dark romance literature based on the folgers coffee home for christmas commercial from 2009??
shoutout to cj the x and their video about that commercial cuz it made me go read the fanfic they read in the video and it was just as incredible as they said... god i love ao3
The fact that you actually linked the fics saved my night I love you
yes I read bow me away and it's actually good. Our fearless leader has done it again 🫡
@@Shreks_freshbussylmao same 😭🤞🏽
Girl this is gonna sound unhinged, but youre genuinely helping me explore and understand my sexual interests.
Ive felt too uncomfortable and ashamed to do it, but you make it seem fun and carefree and silly. Its so girly-pop and i love it so thank you ❤😭
what does "its so girly pop" mean
@@l.elizabeth41it’s a gen z way of saying girly and cutesy
@@Wafflesrbetter oh that’s weird lol. I’m gen z but never understood that
You're so right! I've never really read fanfiction (besides a fucking hilarious Harry Potter fic where adult harry has to relive his hogwarts years) but girlypop is the best way to describe it. I love girlypop-izing things because honestly I'm just a girl and everything can be like that if you try hard enough
@@the_bearer_of_truth00 let me take a guess: is it Oh God Not Again! by Sarah1281 ?:D i laughed sm when i first read it (in one sitting... oops) hahaha
girly-pop foreverr
I clicked on this so fast y’all don’t even know. Listen, I am not a y/n girlie (more of a m/m one) but I would watch 1000 hours of Miss Broski rec’ing AO3 fics. As someone who’s been on AO3 for 12 years I deeply appreciate this video. We love to see it! And so true re: there being incredible novel length gorgeous stories, many, tbh, better than published books.
I hear you! I'm a femslash reader myself and the gasp I gusped when I saw this on my feed lol I could watch a million videos of Brittany talking about fanfic all day
@@boixgeniusfemslash readers rise up!!!! (also apparently femslash readers and boygenius fans are one in the same)
LMFAOOOO not the outages!! Some of those had me pulling my hair out, gnawing the bars of my enclosure…I started writing some of my own shit when the site was down but ONLY OUT OF NECESSITY.
Girl there is zero judgement, only admiration. You are our hero 🙌🏻
I’m an old and I’ve been around since before AO3. I spent most of my time on Library of Moria 😄
Or livejournal.
I love how old school AO3 is. It lets you find just what you need, no fuss.
The smut warning is hilarious. Yes please, that’s what I’m here for, please and thank you.
Some of the fics on there have literally pulled me out of depression. I hang out in the Stranger Things fandom and damn, there is some excellent and complex stuff to be found. There’s also no kink that hasn’t been explored with Steve at the center of it. None 😂
Me too! I remember the smut purge of ffnet and then the panic over adult livejournals and move to other journal sites during the development of AO3. I do miss livejournal culture, where we could interact on multiple levels at once and make really niche communities.
@@jenniferbrown8305 same! I made a bunch of real life close friends over on livejournal. One of them has been going strong for over 10 years.
@@jenniferbrown8305 livejournal was great. I made a bunch of real life friends on there!
@@jenniferbrown8305 omg I completely forgot about livejournal
Hahahaha, I've recently gotten re-obsessed with Stranger Things while I've been on sick leave from work, but *hot damn* the fandom -infighting between the ship stans & antis is wild 😂 The high drama between the Steddies vs Harringroves or Jancy vs Stancy (because yeah, the ST fandom really *does* pivot around Steve's sex life but there's kinks I'd never even *heard* of in some of them 😅) has had its moments of almost rivaling SuperWhoLock since S4🍿
why is you talking about fanfics and fanfic platforms literally so validating. ily
ive read the most tear jerking fanfics on ao3 istg
I need the way you screamed 'MASKED MEN' played on loop for 10 hrs pls
As soon as you said Mandalorian fan fiction, I thought “please tell me she knows about Rough Day”, and as always you did not disappoint! So glad I’m not alone in my love for that fic haha!
The ColeyDoesThings shoutout is awesome for me to see. She’s underrated. Brittany doing a video about ao3 brings me life.
I would rather come out to my family than share my ao3 bookmarks
the best part about ao3 is how you have to go to the deepest depths of the website just to get to the tame fanfic
The amount of times I too have been reading AO3 and asked “is this allowed?” 😂
I am 100% certain that most fanfic writers rode a horse at least once in their life. I will die on this hill
I was about to contest this but then I remembered that I have in fact ridden a horse.
I…have also ridden a horse, strangely enough
*_so far, i haven't, if anything i quite hate horses_*
*_seems like i'm not a part of the most then, more uniqueness_*
The narcos one was so good i was crying and feeling PEAK single lonely female vibes 😭😭 god this is a new low when my reaction to hot steamy scenes is to SOB
Rough Day CHANGED ME 🧎🏻♀️ I hope no-droids knows how loved they are 🫶🏼
LMAOO LITERALLY IT CHANGVED ME SO MUCH
I was so excited when she mentioned it because NO WAY she read it too 😭
Ilysm for calling out other ppls bad fanfic suggestions 😭😭 there's a real Art to ao3 smut
ALSO your eyes look SO beautiful here, the whole look is giving!
ikr when I saw that glittery shadow look with that lash- I knew I had to try it for myself
AO3 fics did more for my mental health than any therapist ever could.
13:36 “FUCK” has me GIGGLING
I'm 41, and i discovered fanfiction back in 2000, when I just started college. Adult Swim was still new, and I discovered Anime. Oh man, I loved that shit, and it literally opened up my career path because I started writing fanfiction and then realized I love writing. Fanfiction will always hold a special place in my heart.
Oh my gosh, same! I’m dyslexic and never thought I could ever go into literature but I started writing fics in high school and fell in love. I just got my first job as a journalist!
Sometimes I read fanfics written in the early to mid 2000s and I wonder where the authors are now
Hehehehe, I've recently rediscovered fics that I read *BACK IN THE 90s!!!* because the authors got around in the past few years to moving their work from dead/defunct Geocities sites to ao3. Oh my god it's like being in highschool again & I have to say, happy to see I had good taste even back then 😂
I didn't realize how young brittany was until i heard her talk about wattpad vs ao3 and her perspectives of the two 😂
Literally not even halfway through one of them and holyyyyy Jesus jaw dropped. Goosebumps. I have to take breaks in between text chunks. thank you for the feast my lord 😩