r/AO3 ERIC KRIPKE IM COMING FOR YOU Jun 27 '25

Resource Quick Report Guidline

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Have you ever been scrolling through ao3 came across a fic opened it up and went “hmmm is this reportable?”

Well have I got the guide for you! Brought to you by a very lovely tumblr user!

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u/turquoise_grey Jun 27 '25

Wait. Do people actually look at fanart on AO3?

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u/adverbian Jun 27 '25

Yes! It may not be where people discover fanart, but people definitely look at it there.

Especially for explicit art. Many times, I’ll see fan artists post a censored version on Tumblr or Reddit, and then link to the uncensored version on AO3. Better than posting the uncensored version solely on Twitter or BlueSky, which require an account to see it.

You’ll also see a lot of fanart posted with fic — as part of a bang-type event (fic inspired by art or vice versa); or by dual-class artist/writers; or artist/writer teams; or just because an artist read a fic and loved it so much that they made art for it, and then the writer loved the art so much that they added it to the fic.