A fan-created, fan-run, nonprofit, noncommercial archive for transformative fanworks, like fanfiction, fanart, fan videos, and podfic
more than 66,560 fandoms | 7,245,000 users | 13,260,000 works
The Archive of Our Own is a project of the Organization for Transformative Works.
With an AO3 account, you can:
- Share your own fanworks
- Get notified when your favorite works, series, or users update
- Participate in challenges
- Keep track of works you've visited and works you want to check out later
You can join by getting an invitation from our automated invite queue. All fans and fanworks are welcome!
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The Election season is in full swing! Live chat with candidates is coming up soon. You can find links to the candidates' answers to your questions at the bottom of this post.
The Fanlore annual bingo was a huge success! Thanks to everyone who took part and awarded badges, and special thanks to Chimaera and FaalThien for their mythical creature and illuminated manuscript themed graphics.
Between February and May, we deployed a host of enhancements, bug fixes, and performance improvements. This included measures to combat spam and abuse, a fix that drastically reduced the size of PDF downloads containing Chinese, Japanese, or Korean characters, and a big Rails upgrade.
