A non-profit, non-commercial archive for transformative fanworks; created by and for fans of books, music, art, games, shows, movies, real-person fiction (RPF), and other fandoms.
more than 83,040 fandoms | 11,810,000 users | 18,580,000 works
The Archive of Our Own (AO3) 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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Back in April, we announced that AO3 was exiting the open beta phase, a step mostly marked by the removal of the little beta note in the site header. In July, we followed this up with an official switch from 0.9.xxx release numbers to the big 1.0!
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The Big Bang, Baby Challenge, a Harry Potter fanfiction and fanart archive, is being imported to the Archive of Our Own (AO3).
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AO3 Tag Wranglers continue to test processes for wrangling canonical additional tags (tags that appear in the auto-complete) which don't belong to any particular fandom (also known as "No Fandom" tags). This post overviews some of these upcoming changes.