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A fan protest against the lack of action from the OTW on addressing issues of harassment and racism on AO3 and within the organization
AO3 has acknowledged that they have a harassment & racism problem that its parent organization, the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), needs to address. Currently, people can use AO3 to harass others through fanworks, comments, and tags. Just a few examples include: racist Untamed “spitefic” that used anti-Indigenous slurs and was written specifically to lash out at fans of color; a Transformer fic that used its Black-coded character to reenact George Floyd’s murder in July 2020; someone naming a fandom scholar who criticized their Nazi omegaverse fic in the tags of the fic specifically to incite harassment to the scholar; writers using racial slurs against commenters who pointed out racism in their hockey fic; and so much more.
In June 2020, after the murder of George Floyd, the OTW committed to addressing these issues. It has been nearly three years and they have not yet implemented any of the changes they promised, other than a blocking/muting tool that was already in development before 2020. We need to hold the OTW accountable to their own promises. (See the section further down on “Why Are We Doing This” for even more detail.)
As fans, together, we are powerful. We are organizing to protest the lack of action on promises made by the Organization for Transformative works to deal with issues of racism and harassment on their platform, Archive of Our Own.
We call on fans to do any or all of the following actions any time between May 17 to 31, 2023 to send a message to AO3 and OTW that we will hold them to their promises.
On AO3
Change the title of ten (or more!) of your most recent or most popular fanworks to include ‘End Racism in the OTW’ in the beginning, and provide a link to this post in your summary or first/top creator’s note
Post a new fanwork any time between May 17th to 31st with “End Racism in the OTW” either as the title or at the beginning of the title. The fanwork does not have to be long - it can be a 100-word fic, a quick sketch, a podfic of a ficlet, a 20-second vid/edit, a short piece of meta, etc. In the summary or first/top creator’s note, provide a link to this post
If updating any WIPs with a new chapter, add ‘End Racism in the OTW’ to the title and provide a link back to this post in your summary or first/top author’s note
Update your AO3 icon using the profile pic graphic in our Social Media Toolkit
Plan to maintain these changes until May 31, 2023, or longer if you wish
Send a message to the OTW asking for an update on their 2020 commitments!
For Readers: leave encouraging comments on fanworks with the "End Racism in the OTW" title to show your support of this initiative.
On tumblr
Reblog this Call to Action with the tag #End OTW Racism
Update your profile pics and banners using the graphics in our Social Media Toolkit
Follow this account for updates and signal boost our posts
On Twitter
Follow @/EndOTWRacism (remove the backslash) and signal boost our pinned tweet
Update your profile pics and banners using our graphics, and change your display name to include #EndOTWRacism
Use sample tweets and graphics from our Social Media Toolkit to tweet about your fanworks, and use the hashtag #EndOTWRacism
Help us make this a long-term campaign - sign up to help with other anti-racism projects and future actions!
Since their June 2020 statement, OTW has been working on updating their Terms of Service (TOS) to address racist and bigoted harassment, but with little transparency and only the vaguest of updates. It has been three years since their commitment to this update - we want to see the results of their work implemented in the next 6-12 months. Their TOS updates and complementary policies should include:
Harassment policies that can be regularly updated to address both on-site harassment and off-site coordinated harassment of AO3 users, with updated protocols for the Policy & Abuse Team to ensure consistent and informed resolutions of abuse claims
A content policy on abusive (extremely racist and extremely bigoted) content; by abusive, we are talking about fanworks that are intentionally used to spread hate and harassment, not those that accidentally invoke racist or other bigoted stereotypes
These points are not particularly new and are not our own innovation; please refer to Stitch's article written over two years ago, asking for several of these very things.
OTW has also already committed to various process-based actions for longer-term works towards centering antiracism, including hiring a Diversity Consultant. The last update that OTW published said that the consultant would be hired within the next five years (after already having had three years to work on it since their original commitment). That is not soon enough. We want to see the following process-based actions implemented:
Hiring a Diversity Consultant within the next 3-6 months
Committing to a policy of transparency on this topic, with quarterly updates on the progress of these projects including challenges and their plan for overcoming those challenges. These quarterly updates should be published on OTW News page and newsletters, not solely discussed in Board meetings
16 years ago, Astolat famously published her manifesto calling for a fandom Archive of One’s Own. In that time, AO3 has grown to be a central pillar of fandom, likely far outstripping its founders’ original vision. It is more than just an archive now; it is a central hub of the modern fannish experience. AO3 and the OTW must continue to grow and evolve with fandom over time to remain a healthy and functioning pillar of fandom. To that end, there are several areas in which the organization, as it admits itself, is lacking.
In June 2020, in the wake of the George Floyd protests and the uprising of the Black Lives Matter Movement, The OTW published a “This Week in Fandom” referencing the works of Dr. Rukmini Pande and Stitch, among others in which they discussed ‘making change for a better society’ through ‘conversations about race and racism’. In response, Dr. Pande and Stitch submitted a letter to the OTW calling for a more formal public statement than an offhand reference in a News Roundup that only served to call for thoughts and discussion without any indication the organization intended to do anything, policy wise, to address the issues being raised.
Eventually, the organization did remove the references to the works of Dr. Pande and Stitch and then made an official statement on the issue of racism within the organization and AO3. In it, they identified several things they would be prioritizing to combat harassment and benefit users. Some of those have been implemented (notably those that were already under development). However as of this writing, little else has been done especially in regards to:
Improving admin tools for the Policy & Abuse team
Reassessing the current mandatory archive warnings with the possibility of implementing others
And, most importantly, reviewing the Terms of Service (TOS) to allow the Policy & Abuse team to address harassment that is currently not covered by the existing TOS
By their own admission, the current tools and policies of the OTW are not sufficient to deal with issues of harassment and racism.
Several people who were involved in the founding of the OTW, including previous OTW Board members and staff on the original OTW Content Policy Committee, acknowledge that the founding of the OTW in 2008 and early board iterations failed us as a fandom by not doing enough, and by not even considering the way racism is perpetuated in fannish spaces, despite a long history of racism in fandom.
It has been nearly three years since the original commitment by the organization with little visible, measurable progress on these three crucial issues and a complete lack of transparency on where they are in regards to even beginning to deal with these issues. In fact, in Q&As, it was heavily implied by a member of the board that those calling for OTW to deal with issues of racism (which OTW had already acknowledged as a problem!) were not really fans but outside agitators.
This has cast significant doubt on the organization's sincerity and commitment to their stated goals, and on their position as leaders of a central fan tent-pole. Fans of color are not outsiders. They are right here, members of our community, and they are being harassed and targeted and driven out while space and platforms are being given to racists.
We, as fans of color and our allies, find the current state of fandom and current actions (and lack thereof) unacceptable. Fandom is our space, all of ours. We, as a fandom, have a right to a racism-free space and have a duty to our fellow fans to create that space. Unlike so much of the world, this is a space we can control and make better. It is a space we must make better. To read even more about this movement, visit our FAQs.
Just you guys wait until this is properly done
It’s a very specific scene from Fire Lily by Etherealbeing. It’s a pretty popular fic, and if you haven’t read it you definitely should! It’s sooooo good.
I read this scene a week ago and it still sits, like, promptly right in my chest, so I’m dealing with it the only way I know: by drawing.
ps…they’re cuties
if a fanfic is colored purple, it means its one if my top favs 😼
i have 6 more bakudeku fic recs for yall, and theyre GOOD.
(woohoo, a favorite)
hockey player katsuki and art freak izuku. i LOVE the angst and the fluff is just so sweet, definitely another fav
so far, CUTEEEE, i love fluff with intimite tension. short but sweet! the smit is brief and short but its still good if ur into it!!
usually im not into bottom Bakugou, but this is an exception, SECRET BOYFRIEND AU 😻 its short but SOOOO GOOD
clingy izukuuu , I LOVE WHEN KATSUKI HAS A SOFT SPOT FOR IZUKU!!! yayaya angst. that was SO CUTEEEE 10/10, short but i LOVED it
a mystery AND fluff, loving it. a little bit of gore but its short. cute ending, again, short but i liked it.
(this one was super fye)
oooo mission together, some sort of spy au. wait this is cute and funny, i love it. HELP THIS FIC IS FUNNY I LOVE IT. good smut too, 10/10
that’s it for now but i’ll be back 😼
ps…they’re cuties
if a fanfic rec is colored purple, it means its one of my top favs 😼
hey team, i got five more bakudeku fic recs for you guys and i LOVE THEMMMM. none of them have a low rating obviously because why would i recommend them if i didnt like it, but anyways…
im sensing angst, and i LOVE ANGST. i was right😸 i keep telling myself that i need to go to sleep after this chapter but then i keep going on to the next. it was shorter than i thought, but cutie!
okay so Katsuki was hit with a quirk that basically gets rid of inhibitions, and so far its cute, fast, but cute. its cheesy but i love it its over, it got extremely cheesy, almost made me cringe but still cute 8.5/10
bartender katsuki and artist izuku, love. starting off cuteeeee. okay this is going by fast. DANG IT NOW THERES ANGST AND ITS SAD. nevermind, all good. awhh i finished, it was cutie 😸
(uhoh! favorite!)
soooo theyre neighborssss, haven’t seen this au yet. AWHHH THIS IS CUTIE. YAYYAYA ROCKSTAR KATS. dude im OBSESSED with the writing in this one, this is definitely my fav so far. best smut ive ever read. easily the best fic ive read. infinite/10
okay so far small fluff and i LOVE the lead up. it’s one chapter and its super cute and short, entirely fluff!
it was short but i absolutely loved it. like OMG it was SO CUTEEEE. 10/10!!!!
again short, but was SO CUTEEEE, i loved it!!! it was total angst with fluff in the end and ugh i was just kicking my feet the entire time.
that’s it but i’ll be back 😼
ps…theyre cuties
hey babes, i finished some fics, so im sending out my ratings. just so yall know, theyre all high ratings cuz im obviously not gonna recommend bad ones, but they have live updates on them lol, so everything you read is me actively writing it down as i read it, so u get to see my reactions 😻 ok anyways…
no quirks au, theyre in college i think, and i like, very well written, the chemistry between bakugou and izuku is totally there, it doesn’t feel forced written. OMG THE FLIRTING 😼. ok i am riveting, its amazing. 10/10 5/5 IT WAS BEAUTIFUL. If you like fluff, I definitely recommend this one, it’s super sweet and lovable 😸. It does have smut from what i remember btw.
post war ptsd 😻 UGH I LOVE IT SO FAR. okay so the smut is so far 10/10. and the fluff is SO CUTIE. okay so as a sweet little christian girl, i think ill stop reading this one, a lot of smut but it’s good at least, the fluff is ADORABLE, and there’s angst too so 10/10. ps, its kind of a slow burn but theres still fluff before then soo…
its about the 8 years after izuku became a teacher so pro hero kat/teacher izuku, which i love already. slowburn is irritaing, they keep calling each other friends. okay…were getting somewhere. and the crowd starts…tearing up? YAYAYA LOVE! it was so cutie, no smut, pure sweetness! 10/10
this is a fandom favorite so it better be good 😡 so far its kinda cute with small slowburn. UGH, YAYAYAYAYYA. im gonna be honest, i stopped reading halfway through but i know the ending and stuff, it depends on the person but some people begin to ball from the ending, i didn’t but it IS sad.
that’s it, i’ll be back though, i promise 😻🙏
I've finished my Todoiida fic!!! It's 11k words, and one of my longest fics I've ever done in only like two weeks lol.
I adore these two so bad, and please, give me feedback on how it reads! I welcome it. :)
I’m in to a lot of different Anime’s and such most commonly My Hero Academia. Assassination Classroom, Fruits Basket and more Anime
Other: Shows and such, Ninjago, Zelda, The Owl house, and more recently Sonic The Hedgehog +
I both Write and Draw, I might also makes character analysis.
I draw/write for any of these fandoms and more. I’m open to requests of things to draw and write any little Short-Stories/One-Shots
I post fanfic on Ao3,
Favorite characters:
Mha: Shoto and Touya/Dabi Todoroki, Hawks, Shinsou, Tsuyu, Toga, fatgum, knuckleduster. (it varies really like a lot). ships: Shoto&Momo, Denki&jiero, Hawks&Mirko-(platonic or romantic) Kiri&Mina, Hero-AU-Touya&Burnin, Deku&Ochako. Ninjago: Lloyd Garmadon, Garmadon, Zane, Morro. ships: Nya&Jay, Kai&Skylor, Zane&Pixel, Old-Wu&Misako, Young-Garm&Misako. Assassination Callroom: itona Horibe, the tarasaka gang, karma and Koro Sensei. ships: Tarasika&kirara, Nagisa&Kayano, Karma&Manami, Hayami&Chiba, Yoshita& Hara, Sugino&Yukiko, Isogai&Hinano. fruits Basket: Yuki. . . .that tiss all. the owl house: Hunter, Willow, Luz, Darius, Raine, (again it varies some). ships: Hunter&Willow, Luz&Amity, Darius&Camila, Eda&Rain. Sonic the Hedgehog: Shadow, Rouge, Sonic, Silver, (movie)-knuckles, Mimic, Surge&Kit . . . . (it'd be quicker to name who I don’t like) ship: Sonic&Amy, Knuckle&Rouge, Silver&Blaze, Shadow&Rouge-(platonic or romantic) Amy&Shadow, Tangle&Whisper, Vector&Vanilla.
please be nice.
uhh. . . is there to much here? Or not enough? Like to much in one place not enough in the other? I don’t know what I’m doing
Update 2! I'm about 10k words into the fic, I've had a bit of a flare-up in my chronic pain, so I might be a bit slower than I anticipated
not that there's a lot of people waiting for my self-indulgent Todoiida fic lmao
Anywayyy, they mean so much to me <33
currently working on a Todoiida fanfic called 'Summer Can't Compare To Him' because they've been taking up every thought in my mind since that one scene where shouto cries ice and tenya puts his arm around him
I CAN'T KEEP DOING THIS THEY'RE TOO PERFECT
2,200 words in, gonna keep trucking over the next few days too 🫡
Update! I'm about 6,600 words in now, it's taking me a good bit to get where I want with this fic, but we keep going!!
currently working on a Todoiida fanfic called 'Summer Can't Compare To Him' because they've been taking up every thought in my mind since that one scene where shouto cries ice and tenya puts his arm around him
I CAN'T KEEP DOING THIS THEY'RE TOO PERFECT
2,200 words in, gonna keep trucking over the next few days too 🫡
currently working on a Todoiida fanfic called 'Summer Can't Compare To Him' because they've been taking up every thought in my mind since that one scene where shouto cries ice and tenya puts his arm around him
I CAN'T KEEP DOING THIS THEY'RE TOO PERFECT
2,200 words in, gonna keep trucking over the next few days too 🫡
to any readers or writers who see this, reblog with the weirdest line you’ve ever written or read (fanfic counts!). I’ll start: “‘Well, fuck me gently with a chainsaw’”
IT'S ALIVE
This is a continuation of @twenty-qs story "the rebellious bird" that they gave up for adoption (which is tagged at the start of the chapter) it was all done with permission and respecting as much as I can the info given to me as guidance. It's structured so that the first story is the first chapter/prologue and my story starts exactly were the original left.
Hope I did it justice and have a nice reading!
Also, I'm gonna post soon the character redesigns for both Law and toy!Rosi
OK so Harry and Draco are engaged from a young age Harry is raised by Wolfstar Like they adopted him He is the heir to the Potter and black Family Harry doesn't truly have friends besides Draco until they get the hogwarts. They have a shared cat/kneazle That adores Draco and is a bit fat. Harry still meets Ron and Hermione on the train. At 1 point on the way to hogwarts across the black lake Harry and Ron gets soaking wet and when Draco sees he Casted a drying spell on Harry to dry him off and Ron makes a comments can I get one of those and Hermione asks him how he knows that's spell already They are still Sorted into the respective houses that they are Draco was concerned about falling out of favor with Harry but Harry Insures him that hes never gonna fall out of favor when I last read it they were in 1st year and if I remember correctly that it was only 3 chapters so far And Draco makes a Comment that Harry is gonna be the head of the black Potter and malfoy while he is the consort of all 3 families.
Please help me find this I've been looking for it for a long time I remember reading I cannot find it again And sorry for being a little conjumbled I was typing as I remembered And I believe that it was on A03 When I remember it fits that style of that website It's a look of it and layout I will add more if I remember more
I’m actually a sucker for this??
Cut the cameras ahh result
which ao3 tag are you?
That feeling when one of your fav fics gets a sequel 4 years later ooooh babEy
I need you to understand that when I say "comments are appreciated!" I mean that I will reply to every one of them. I mean that an email with an ao3 notification has a higher priority than a message from my mother. I mean that I will have entire discussions in the comment section if you're up for it. Message me on tumblr and I will have the same discussions on an even more unhinged level. I will dissect entire personalities and ships and fictional political structures and worldbuilding with you. I will become your new best friend. You already ARE my new best friend. At the last battle, I would raise Anduril and say "For my ao3 readers" while a single tears rolls down my cheek, and dive into the fray. I would upload from beyond the grave if someone asked about the next chapter
I was thinking “hey maybe I’m posting too much on AO3, maybe I should slow down”.
Then I remembered it’s AO3. If I want to upload my fanfic with 7 chapters a week I can.
Thanks AO3 for existing.
So…
I don’t know what to say, all I’m doing is writing and writing…
Anyway I hope you still like Akko’s adventure as an omega!
I need you to understand that when I say "comments are appreciated!" I mean that I will reply to every one of them. I mean that an email with an ao3 notification has a higher priority than a message from my mother. I mean that I will have entire discussions in the comment section if you're up for it. Message me on tumblr and I will have the same discussions on an even more unhinged level. I will dissect entire personalities and ships and fictional political structures and worldbuilding with you. I will become your new best friend. You already ARE my new best friend. At the last battle, I would raise Anduril and say "For my ao3 readers" while a single tears rolls down my cheek, and dive into the fray. I would upload from beyond the grave if someone asked about the next chapter
Sometimes life is surprising.
At one moment you are working on the highest grade of your college year.
The next moment you are writing an explicit omegaverse smut while watching an University Production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
“No thoughts, just instincts. And one ridiculously good-smelling Alpha.”
Akko Kagari was supposed to be a Beta. She was supposed to be normal, free—not an Omega in a world ruled by Alphas who want to own her.
But fate is cruel.
Now, she is hunted. Desired. Expected to submit.
She refuses. She fights. But instinct is stronger than willpower, and the one Alpha she can’t escape is the one she fears wanting the most.
Fighting it is useless.
Falling into it is dangerous.
And when heat takes hold—when the pressure finally breaks—there will be no turning back.
And gosh, why does Diana smell so good?!
(For those who had read chapter 1, yes the jacket is traumatised)
Like all this ? They are all fanfictions I'm planning to write/currently writing. It goes from a simple Omegaverse to a Christmas Movie stereotype with even a crossover with Beastars... And yes in all those fanfictions Diana is having a hard time (I promise I love her) And yes it's just Little Witch Academia...
After weeks of work.
And many mental breakdown because I don’t know the fuck how an omegaverse work. May I present you…
Under Pressure
“No thoughts, just instincts. And one ridiculously good-smelling Alpha.”
Akko Kagari was supposed to be a Beta. She was supposed to be normal, free—not an Omega in a world ruled by Alphas who want to own her.
But fate is cruel.
Now, she is hunted. Desired. Expected to submit.
She refuses. She fights. But instinct is stronger than willpower, and the one Alpha she can’t escape is the one she fears wanting the most.
Fighting it is useless.
Falling into it is dangerous.
And when heat takes hold—when the pressure finally breaks—there will be no turning back.
And gosh, why does Diana smell so good?!
Yes it’s a Diakko omegaverse. Yes it’s finally out. And I have a whole ship chart so you can have the kind of dynamic Im aiming for! (credit to @deoxysacid for the chart.)
Shout-out to @pretzcorn with who I’ve been talking about this AU for a moment <3
Summary:
Chiyo Kagari grew up in a quiet village, far from the magical world, raised by a mother who always kept the past buried. But when she receives an invitation to Luna Nova, she quickly realizes that her heritage is far more complicated than she ever imagined. Her name is legendary, her mother is a figure of history, and the past she was never meant to uncover is starting to resurface.
The deeper she digs, the more she finds herself entangled in secrets that no one wants her to know. Who is the woman strangely tied to Akko in ways no one will explain? Who is Snake, the distant and enigmatic mentor who seems to know more than she lets on? Most of all, what is Akko truly hiding—and what is Chiyo’s real role in this story?
As Chiyo dives deeper into the mysteries of her family, she begins to uncover truths that shake her sense of identity—and hint at a legacy darker than she ever imagined. Now, caught in a web of hidden agendas and ancient secrets, Chiyo must decide who she can trust… and how far she’s willing to go to uncover the truth. But some mysteries were meant to stay buried, and the answers may be more dangerous than she ever anticipated.
I AM NEARLY OVER WITH MY OMEGAVERSE WIKI
MY FANFIC FINALLY HAS A TITLE
AND A SUMMARY
IM NEARLY READY TO WRITE THE FIRST CHAPTER
ALPHA!DIANA/OMEGA!AKKO HERE I COME
For those new here, let me give you the summary:
Chiyo Kagari grew up in a quiet village, far from the magical world, raised by a mother who always kept the past buried. But when she receives an invitation to Luna Nova, she quickly realizes that her heritage is far more complicated than she ever imagined. Her name is legendary, her mother is a figure of history, and the past she was never meant to uncover is starting to resurface.
The deeper she digs, the more she finds herself entangled in secrets that no one wants her to know. Who is the woman strangely tied to Akko in ways no one will explain? Who is Snake, the distant and enigmatic mentor who seems to know more than she lets on? Most of all, what is Akko truly hiding—and what is Chiyo’s real role in this story?
As Chiyo dives deeper into the mysteries of her family, she begins to uncover truths that shake her sense of identity—and hint at a legacy darker than she ever imagined. Now, caught in a web of hidden agendas and ancient secrets, Chiyo must decide who she can trust… and how far she’s willing to go to uncover the truth. But some mysteries were meant to stay buried, and the answers may be more dangerous than she ever anticipated.
(Yes it’s a Little Witch Academia fanfiction)
Now I need to sleep because it’s 1:00am in my time zone lmao-
A believing heart is you magic! ✨
Like:
- Because of Daryl, the Cavendish are pretty poor and to help with the depts, Daryl proposes her niece as a compensation while waiting to be able to pay back some noble/king or anything
- Diana is raised from her 6 years old to 16 years old by being trained to be a guard (like maybe trained with Amanda as her childhood friend)
- At 16 her mission is to look after Akko
- Akko is obviously a gay mess
- Diana is just like “yeah the princess is pretty friendly, just that)
- They are on the brick of revolution and Diana has to protect Akko
(Yes Diana has a sword and masc clothes, yes she is hot)
Dinnae ken why Akko is not working but here she goes again
As I’m back with my fanfic but I sadly can’t draw yet, I’m sharing with you the original Picrew of the characters of my fic! Because honestly I’m proud of how they turned out.
We have in order Snake, Chiyo, Akko, Cassia and Lizzy.
I have nothing more to say.
I hope you are enjoying my fic? (I have many more Picrew pictures if interested)
All credits go to @maetheellen
As I’m back with my fanfic but I sadly can’t draw yet, I’m sharing with you the original Picrew of the characters of my fic! Because honestly I’m proud of how they turned out.
We have in order Snake, Chiyo, Akko, Cassia and Lizzy.
I have nothing more to say.
I hope you are enjoying my fic? (I have many more Picrew pictures if interested)
All credits go to @maetheellen