A fan-created, fan-run, nonprofit, noncommercial archive for transformative fanworks, like fanfiction, fanart, fan videos, and podfic
more than 70,860 fandoms | 8,236,000 users | 14,690,000 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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Would you like to assist AO3 users by resolving complaints? Are you fluent in a language other than English and passionate about making OTW more accessible? Do you have experience copyediting or proofreading academic journals? Or do you have experience with research methods, problem solving or nonprofit governance? The Organization for Transformative Works is recruiting!
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At the start of the year, we upgraded our library for managing pseud and collection icons. To follow that large effort, we deployed some smaller fixes and improvements while we worked to address some performance issues due to increased traffic. We also did some preparations for the next big Ruby and Rails upgrades.
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On and leading up to February 14th, Communications celebrated the 11th annual International Fanworks Day (IFD)! Translation helped make IFD content available in 26 languages.
