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Brief, weird announcement (Patreon)

Published:
2026-02-16 22:54:34
Edited:
2026-02-18 23:59:11
Imported:
2026-06
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Yo all. Kind of a weird thing to announce:

So I was going to start taking an hour a day to upload some stuff to AO3, including chapter 9 of Climbing Together as a Ranma gift for the month. However, all my fics have been hidden by an administrator.

Let me be clear. I saw no emails other than kudos and comments on fics from AO3. I wouldn't have even known about this if I hadn't been aiming to upload today. I have no idea what I did wrong, if anything. I will be contacting them as soon as I figure out who to contact in the first place.

This doesn't matter much to you all, but I figured I'd tell everyone about it before someone went over there to read a story there rather than here.

Fate Touched in Middle Earth is nearly finished, despite RL taking most of my time. I will hopefully finish it, then post it here to see any comments made before posting the corrected (if necessary) version over on fanfic. When it's posted here the Ranma poll will close... even if there's no mystery of which fic's gonna win there.

As an aside, would you all like to see character list type posts for each of the collections here? Something like what I did for Journey Gone Astray? - Oh, and after the next chapter, that story's going to get a new overall title. JOA will become the name of the first arc.

Update 2/18: Not certain why they hid my fics before contacting me, but they did contact me late last night, guys and girls. You're all correct, it is a patron and poll mentioning thing. Simple enough to fix, I will do so later tonight, although how long it will take them to look at the chapters and realize i solved the issue is beyond my control. I will also be posting the Ranma poll results tonight, as well as Fate Touched in a few minutes.

Comments

Adam Sephenson

while I'm not 100% sure about this, but is it due to admin checking for adult content/review or since you uploaded everything in one go? could be to checking for bot spamming or something.

Forrimus

AO3 is extremely strict on not being allowed to mention Patreon/Ko-Fi/SubscribeStar etc. That might be why.

FormVIEnthusiast

That's really weird. One of the only things AO3 enforces is not allowing references to patreon and such, so their legal defenses against media owners is rock solid. But getting everything hidden by an admin? Never even heard of that happening.

Aaron Orr

Is it possible you mistakenly left some patreon info in a posted chapter? Only other thing would be some a.i. Script that does not know that you are the OG crossposting for more exposure flagged it and admin just could not care too look too deep.

Daniel J Miller

I would love to see character lists for the collections

Delphinous

hope that it gets resolved quickly

Christian Jeffress

Appreciate the heads up, hopefully things are handled quickly

Tom smith

What! I didn’t even know you where on ao3? I’m down for character info :)

Israel Alonso

Not only your profile appears empty of works, but it deleted the copy I had in the app. Grrr

Primordial Vortex

Ao3 is admined by a bunch of cunts. As others have mentioned, if you've directly brought attention to patreon or made statements bringing attention to "commercialization" they lock your shit. But if you include a linktree or something like it with your ff, ao3, idfk twitter, and a patreon that's somehow fine?

Aseem Athale

Fam, the linktree is the loophole. They can't or won't enforce that. But they obviously won't ignore direct links to murky stuff like fanfic author's patreons.

Aseem Athale

And no need to call them names. They're 100% in the right with their position on commercialization. And yes, I'm aware of the irony of saying that while commenting on an author's patreon.

FormVIEnthusiast

No, AO3 doesn't do content moderation like that, they're an archive system. There is quite a lot of adult work on there. There is a chance the moderators got flagged down by the large volume of chapters (some people enjoy reposting other authors' works for some reason), but it was likely hidden due to references to Patreon or another form of payment system. AO3 are death on that sort of thing.

ChaosOmega98

You will have to remove all mention of patreon as I know that happened to another author who had a person actually report patreon mentioned where they had to remove all mention of patreon from every single chapter after there works were removed for a month

StarWaves

They ban linktree too now... They are trying to police other websites they have no power over.

lostone2

Yeah, me too. I'm sorry to hear about your troubles in A03.

MultiverseCosms

I'd agree if I haven't seen many stories stay up with said links. Feels more like admin power tripping on fandoms/stories they don't like.

Aseem Athale

CJ, they're trying to police the content on their own website.

Aseem Athale

MultiverseCosms, you can't detect everything, unfortunately, and AO3 has an absurd amount of stuff on it. Eventually, once their detection mechanism trawls over the fics you mentioned, they'll get removed as well.

vimesenthusiast

Oh, it probably is something like that. But I would have thought that the admins would email me something or talk to me at all rather than just hide my fics.

Hiryo

Well they are on Bluesky..

Hiryo

I too appreciate your heads-up.

Aseem Athale

vimesenthusiast, it was most probably some automated system that they use that did it, admins most likely don't even know you exist. Now, they probably should implement a notification thing just like youtube does for copyright strikes, and they haven't yet which is very much on them.

Treebeard Joshua

Have you considered posting on QQ(questionable questing)?

Novus

Good luck. Once the admins there get a bug up their ass, they won't accept ANY workarounds. I stopped using AO3 completely as they did that to my fics and utterly refused any of my fixes. Even when I removed all direct mentions of Patron, and just told people there was more of the fic they could find by Googling it, that wasn't enough for them. Which is complete BS, as their Terms of Service do NOT outline rules that strict. By the time I went several rounds with the admins I ended up removing all my works voluntarily from AO3...and refusing to even read anything on the platform again. They were that utterly dickish. I've had FAR more luck with Questionable Questing and Scriblehub. Your fics, in particular, would likely do well on QQ, as they have MUCH HORNY energy there and will approve deeply and possibly disturbingly of your harem pairings :-p. They are certainly Enthusiastic when I do multiships in mine...

Hiryo

Friend of mine prefers as well 'Scrible Hub'. However, IMO people for fanfics, instead of selfmade novels first go to ff.net and AO3. I for one like Scrible Hub too, even more so that one has to narrow down their tags to to the most important ones, instead of the tag-slaughterhouse on AO3. Despite all this, if I search for new Ranma stories I still go ff.net and AO3 first.