A fan-created, fan-run, nonprofit, noncommercial archive for transformative fanworks, like fanfiction, fanart, fan videos, and podfic
more than 68,590 fandoms | 7,737,000 users | 14,020,000 works
The Archive of Our Own 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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It's time to celebrate another milestone for the Archive of Our Own! We are incredibly excited to announce that AO3 now hosts more than 14 million fanworks. We only passed our last fanworks milestone in May, meaning fans have collectively contributed nearly 2 million works this year alone. The quill of collective fandom truly never rests! This incredible achievement is only possible because of the tireless and passionate work of fans all over the world in creating, reading, and sharing content across different fandoms and platforms.
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Fan Fiction Writers, a multi-fandom fanfiction archive, is being imported to the Archive of Our Own (AO3).
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Start the party, the AO3 is turning 15 today! This year has been full of exciting new milestones. Our total number of users has passed 7.5 million, with the number of works on the archive surpassing 13.8 million! (with over 1.6 million of them written in languages other than English)