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 81,260 fandoms | 11,320,000 users | 18,070,000 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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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.
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We're excited to announce that we've crossed another milestone: AO3 now has more than 18 million fanworks! A big Thank You to everyone who contributed to that success, whether you're a fanwork creator yourself, or cheering on your favorite creators with kudos and comments.
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Users often ask us to create a mobile app and wonder why we haven't done so already. We've spotlighted this before and even included it in our FAQs, but it comes up often enough that we wanted to provide an updated explanation of why we don't have – and don't plan to make – an app.