I mostly use my ff.net account for tracking authors/WIPs and leaving the occasional comment. I've been meaning to do a wave of crossposting of my anime fics (the ones clean enough to fit the site's TOS, anyway), but haven't gotten around to it yet.
"Epic AU" is used pretty loosely -- it basically covers any 'verse that has a separate masterpost. Somehow the D/sverse fics don't feel connected enough to warrant that.
The AO3 has become a main source of fic for people whose fandoms have gotten big there, and for people who want an efficient way to find certain tropes across fandoms. When it comes to people following me, the fandom divide can be very sharp: fake news readers are used to getting the fics on DW, but I get almost no feedback here for Madoka Magica stories. People following those tend to end up on the AO3 account.
I switched to one of the custom AO3 skins, so as far as I'm concerned it's very classy, all soothing muted tones and subtle texturing that gives it an old-fashioned feel =)
The kudos function is one of my favorite features. There are lots of fanworks that I read and like well enough, but that don't move me enough to be driven to type up a response. On deviantART they'll get a +fav, and the AO3 they'll get a +kudos; on sites where there's no way to give that kind of low-effort feedback, they just won't get any. (And sure, everyone who feels this way could force themselves to leave comments anyway...but I'd much rather have a site that accommodates our natural comfort level.)
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"Epic AU" is used pretty loosely -- it basically covers any 'verse that has a separate masterpost. Somehow the D/sverse fics don't feel connected enough to warrant that.
The AO3 has become a main source of fic for people whose fandoms have gotten big there, and for people who want an efficient way to find certain tropes across fandoms. When it comes to people following me, the fandom divide can be very sharp: fake news readers are used to getting the fics on DW, but I get almost no feedback here for Madoka Magica stories. People following those tend to end up on the AO3 account.
I switched to one of the custom AO3 skins, so as far as I'm concerned it's very classy, all soothing muted tones and subtle texturing that gives it an old-fashioned feel =)
The kudos function is one of my favorite features. There are lots of fanworks that I read and like well enough, but that don't move me enough to be driven to type up a response. On deviantART they'll get a +fav, and the AO3 they'll get a +kudos; on sites where there's no way to give that kind of low-effort feedback, they just won't get any. (And sure, everyone who feels this way could force themselves to leave comments anyway...but I'd much rather have a site that accommodates our natural comfort level.)