thanks for your time! However, due to copyright law, they will probably restore that page 70 or 80 or 120 years after your death And if you're at all popular, people will make their own copies and possibly publish them. Make sure no one else is able to access or add to it. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Firstly, a bunch of thanks for sharing such valuable information & experience with us.Actually, I was doing some research about the Wayback machine project usability & their development. Press J to jump to the feed. Does anyone know if this is something that can be done? I'm really not super concerned about copy right but it's somehow weird that AO3 celebrates this undermining of my control over my own content as a victory for fandom. Or for information on editing your series, go to How do I edit a series? Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, https://archiveofourown.org/works/35224105. Keep track of works you've visited and works you want to check out later. page, you will get an error: But dont worry! Please note that the work will not be removed from the seriesto do this, you must edit the work to remove it from the series before orphaning it. You will have to google each chapter individually (so type in google: author + title + chapter of choice), but honestly thats a small price to pay for having access to a goldmine of fanfiction! Really cool! Click on this arrow and a little box with the wordcached will appear. Which means apparently the story wasn't saved at all. After you have chosen which work(s) to orphan, you have two options: For more information on pseuds, please go to the Pseuds FAQ. Thank you. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Get notified when your favorite works, series, or users update. showed up :/. This is amazing! Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. If you need more help, please submit a Support request. Also while experimenting a bit with my account preferences I realised that AO3 is showing an apparently random number of my works on my profile even after I marked them as 'accessible for registered users only' which is a strange privacy setting. I deleted some stories associated with the username and email Im posting with. I have tried using the Wayback machine to find a fanfic called "i regret to inform you that magic is real", Here is the link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/35224105. Dive in! The project's director contacted us this week and explained the problem. Whichever you choose, your co-creator will not be affected and will remain a co-creator of the work. Guess what her page looks like now? On a mobile device, select "Filters" to access the form. I have been scouring the internet all day trying to find a way to get access to a copy of a now deleted fanfiction. i can get some of the fics (weirdly) but not all of them. myrach0ndria 2 yr. ago I think I had a fic in my bookmarks but its not there anymore and when I try to search for it the links dont work. Heath Slater was Wade's servant. This collection has been made from a variety of sources, including private archives, ArchiveTeam's 2012 crawl, nerdguy1138's archive and also Entropy11235813's archive. Longer fics will likely have more tags as more topics are covered, but they still rarely top a few dozen at most. All you will want to do is open google.com, type in the name of the writer (or the name of the fanfiction if you remember) + the website that their fanfiction was published on. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Your best bet is probably searching in Bing, which seems to retain caches better than Google. So I was going through my favorites, reading some of the shorter stories there when I got to an entry that read sorry this story has been deleted and -after removing the bookmark- I was struck by this feeling, part frustration, and part regret. Would've been happy all this time later if this shit actually WORKED on Mature and Explicit works. HIATUS--- This is the sequel to Heatwaves by tbhyourelame on AO3 summary: After years of online cal. Occasionally, some writers delete their fanfiction from the website. Where To Find Deleted Fanfiction? TLDR at the bottom. Orphaning is an alternative to deleting a work which you no longer want associated with your account. We are proactive and innovative in protecting and defending our work from commercial exploitation and legal challenge. This first widget will style itself automatically to highlight your favorite product. You can either remove yourself as an author from the Edit Work page, or orphan the work to remove its association to your account. As a reader I mainly go back and forth from ffn and AO3, I spend a considerable amount of time combing my favored fandoms in search of something to read but, like many of you, I sometimes find myself in something of a dry spell or I'm simply in the mood to read something from my already curated bookmarks. Online platforms likeRedditandQuoraallow internet users to connect with like-minded people in almost every aspect of life. What is a collection? I might be wrong, but until you get an answer from someone smarter (hehe), I don't think hiding from the search engines would help. for more information. Im going to be using @jbsforever as example. NOT THE ACTUAL WORK, Last Edited Thu 07 You can delete your account on your Profile page as follows: Log in and go to your Dashboard by selecting the greeting "Hi, [username]!" and choosing "My Dashboard" from the menu, or by selecting your profile image. Use the "Delete My Account" button at the bottom of your profile. More precisely: Would it be sufficient to select 'hide from search engines if possible' or not? tip: "uchiha sasuke/uzumaki naruto" angst kudos>10. D: here i was, thinking i'd hit the jackpot and could read some of my favourite fics again. For example, it could contain all works that have been created for a challenge, all works you posted in a particular year, or all of your bookmarked recommendations for a specific relationship, character, or fandom.You can also link related collections together by grouping them under a . All fans and fanworks are welcome! Participate in challenges. Particularly odd as I've already done that on the AO3 site proper. All you will want to do is open google.com, type in the name of the writer (or the name of the fanfiction if you remember) + the website that their fanfiction was published on. You will want to click on this. AO3 stands for Archive Of Our Own (the O3 simplifies the last three words starting with the letter O in its title). 09:38PM UTC, tip: "uchiha sasuke/uzumaki naruto" angst kudos>10, The OTW is Recruiting for Legal Committee Interns, News Translation Volunteers, and Volunteers & Recruiting Volunteers (0), A Priest in Korea is Moving to the AO3 (52), Thanks for Participating in International Fanworks Day 2023 (12), It's International Fanworks Day 2023! (Of course I'm having a hell of a hard time trying to find my old, cringy fics from 2010 that I deleted out of embarrassment, thanks to FFN denying web crawlers, so you shouldn't worry too much. The Archive of Our Own (AO3) offers a noncommercial and nonprofit central hosting place for fanworks. Unfortunately if you click on one of the stories while on this (rediscovered?) For more information, please see our Cookie Notice All you will want to do is open google.com, type in the name of the writer (or the name of the fanfiction if you remember) + the website that their fanfiction was published on. Once you see the search result, you will notice a URL under the title tag. For more information, refer to the, Orphan all works posted under a specific Pseud from the Pseuds page on your Dashboard. Hope you dont mind! Edit: Thank you everyone for replying! Reaching out to them and asking for a copy of their work might be an excellent way to get the fanfiction youre looking for; many times, an author has a copy of his fanfiction offline or privately saved on the cloud. 16 fanfictions and their names for you to enjoy. Anyway,jbsforeverrecently deleted all of her fics on Ao3. But, what do I do when only 3 out of 9 chapters are available on the web archive, and the fic is deleted from ao3? I'm wondering the same thing. Your body may be trying to tell you something. 20142023 Hoarder of Iron Dad / Tom Holland / RDJ content. >_<), Last Edited Fri 24 So for example: jbsforever archive of our own Now you would have the normal search results appear, like here above ^^. Maybe early 2021) but I think ao3 updated the site that even if you managed to the pdf irl for the story it will take you to the error page. So for example: jbsforever archive of our own. I am trying to look for this fic but cannot find any cache of it. - Ultimate Advice For AO3, Wattpad, And Tumblr Users <br>If you are wondering where to find deleted fanfiction on famous platforms like AO3, Wattpad, or Tumblr, you are in the right place! I'm in a fandom where harrassment over shipping is very common (though appears to be waning post-finale), so if I really, really love a work, I don't take a chance. Late last year, the AO3 suddenly vanished from the Wayback Machine, a non-profit archiving service. Mar 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20150917062824/https://archiveofourown.org/works/4344557. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. i've been trying to save fics, but it just says that the site's robot texts do not allow it. AO3 isnt the only online platform that offers writers a place to archive their fanfiction and stories. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Years later, you can always come back and see the website as it was when the crawler took the snapshot. It was about Sheamus and Wade both being kings in like the medieval times and having to fight each another one on one on the battlefield. You should . Orphaned works will be maintained by the Archive to be enjoyed by future fans; existing bookmarks and links will not break. That shouldn't happen :/The only problem I've had is with M/E-rated fics, where the agegate can trip up the Wayback Machine. Hoarder of Iron Dad / Tom Holland / RDJ content. For an author to have posted his fanfiction on AO3, it means they have access to the internet, which in most cases means they have an online presence on social media. It has up to 45 chapters, which I'm not sure is all of them because I found a possible chapter 56 here. Please consider turning it on! (And yes, I'm aware that for example Google is caching websites too), Last Edited Fri 24 An unofficial sub devoted to AO3. A lot of data has disappeared over the last 20 years, so it's not that the internet never forgets anything. <3. An unofficial sub devoted to AO3. This is how her page looks like right now: As you can see there are only 3 fics available. Where To Find Deleted Fanfiction? Hm. Here's the url: https://archiveofourown.org/works/11579037 I tried the wayback machine but maybe I did it wrong. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Users have the ability to link various pseudonyms and names under one account and also to "orphan" stories to remove their names from them. While we've done our best to make the core functionality of this site accessible without javascript, it will work better with it enabled. How to find deleted ao3 fic Hey, a while ago an author I was following deleted their account for some reason. They are a nonprofit website that allows users to post stories that could be fanfiction or original works; they run as a free-for-all, where anyone can write anything and share it. Orphaning will permanently eliminate all your identifying data from the selected work(s). Original TMNT Cartoon Fan. . localbarnes 2 yr. ago that's alright! Ask me anything, no matter how weird or how useless or non-related to my blog. 3. Register on any of these platforms and start a thread asking for the books in question, and it might be a search that yields fruit. We preserve our fannish economy, values, and creative expression by protecting and nurturing our fellow fans, our work, our commentary, our history, and our identity while providing the broadest possible access to fannish activity for all fans. But there were still 16 fanfictions available that we cant access through her page anymore. http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4125694/1/Public_Affairs, http://www.fanfiction.net/u/594667/funkyflamingo, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jorORmEDrWPM_x94KzMCx5WetktwahXt/view?usp=sharing. Like, in this particular case, does Archive.org respect the setting or not? People change too. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. The folks at the Wayback Machine have corrected this problem and the AO3 is available there once more. Edit: Typically, if a fic wasn't saved/archived on archive.org / wayback machine, you'd have to track down someone else who may have saved the fic themselves. A collection is a group of works and/or bookmarks compiled together under one theme. Privacy Policy. Idk. I can't be sure that I'm right about that, but it might be worth it to check with them. Well, lets dive in and see some possible ways to retrieve them. Does this link work for you? But this will bring you to how the page is currently installed. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love AO3, I actually think it's pretty perfect as it is, but I find it superconfusing that there's no info on these questions and everyone's just behaving as if we're standing on the Titanic which is about to sink every moment, and that seems a bit overly dramatic. TADA!!!!! FrozenAnna. If you are using a different browser, go to google.com Enter the link of a webpage that have been missing or deleted in the search bar. Is there anyway to find and download a story. Even if they wanted to, most publishing houses would oblige them to take it down. The alternatives listed above are websites, but if you need an app on your Windows or Mac system to check for fanfiction, you can useoStorybookorMyStorybook. Late last year, the AO3 suddenly vanished from the Wayback Machine, a non-profit archiving service. So for example: jbsforever archive of our own Now you would have the normal search results appear, like here above ^^. https://archiveofourown.org/works/35224105. https://archiveofourown.org/works/11579037. Is it hopeless? How did you search for it? The Archive of Our Own (AO3) offers a noncommercial and nonprofit central hosting place for fanworks. Hope you dont mind! In May 2013 I decided to do some additional works on my stories, so I deleted them here. Here's the fic https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jorORmEDrWPM_x94KzMCx5WetktwahXt/view?usp=sharing. Go through the exact same process you just did with the authors name, but just type their name and the title into google now (author + title). For further information on deleting your work instead, go to How do I delete a work? For more information on how to do this, go to, Orphan all works posted in a series from either the Series index page or Edit Series page. Now you would have the normal search results appear, like here above ^^. 3. Press J to jump to the feed. So we will be working with the words under there, the ones that appear in green. A supportive community for writers, readers, and reccers to talk about and share FanFiction. Because for me, it shows a work that was archived on September 17, 2015, when it had 67 kudos. A book posted on AO3 is not often published; however, there might be such occurrences. I checked Wayback machine too, but it's not there, probably since the story was published pretty recently. Note the following: Your Bookmarks page can be sorted and filtered, just like any set of results on AO3, using the Sort and Filter form at the side of the page. Then this forum is the forum for you! You will want to click on this. Examples of such internet archives areArchive.org, Time Travel andStillio. Work Search: By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. Im going to be using @jbsforever as example. For more information, go to How do I edit a series? Can you find this fanfic for me? On archive.org I did find some Fanfiction archives however I am not sure how it works or if that specific fanfiction or other stories by the author are on the archive. Question, whenever I try to view a fic on the Wayback Machine, AO3 asks me to log in, and then tells me the fic doesn't exist. Well, if you take them off restricted, then you will have to contact the archive and ask for the pages to be taken down. There's a fanfic I really liked that the author recently deleted. The fact that your works are restricted should be enough. It looks like it is missing the last 10 or so chapters, though it is better than nothing. Thank you very much for your help. I've tried using the Wayback machine, but it doesn't exist there. AO3 because of its huge library and incredible search engine to find the . . You also need it to have a memorable name so you can easily remember it for later on in the process. You've lost some control, but on the other hand the stuff you're proud of / indifferent about will be (relatively) safe. Now you would have the normal search results appear, like here above ^^. I would also love to have some insight in what the option 'hide my work from search engines when possible' actually does or doesn't do. For more information, refer to the. And if you do just tell me and Ill delete this post. r/AO3 Please be more considerate to your fellow AO3 users . Thanks In this post, we will tell you tricks on how to find deleted fanfics using Google, just like anybody else. . The Wayback Machine only archived the WARNING PAGES that you receive when you open those kinds of works. Fill in as many of the sections as you can, and see if you can find the fic then! You should prepare a good memory because you are going to need . Had just settled in for a long night of saving fics, and "Page cannot be displayed due to robots.txt." 16 fanfictions and their names for you to enjoy. Trusting the Internet to keep them up is never a good idea, haha. And even went through EVERY SINGLE fanfic with the ship tag on ao3 in hopes of finding it) But i couldn't find any trace of it online. You guys fucked up majorly with those. If you remember what it's about, websites like AO3 or fanfiction.net have pretty advanced filter options. Refer to What is Orphaning? ACTIVITY Shirogayne-at-WF 4 yr. ago. We all understand this. The original story was deleted and it's hard to find the whole comic now since it's broken into parts all over the internet, so I gathered as much as I could find and add it on here for anyone who wanted to read it! If you keep the work as part of the series, the orphan_account will be listed as one of the creators of the series. If you select the "Edit" button, your comment will then appear in a textbox in HTML format. Here is the link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/3643800/chapters/16769512. I recently saw a post here on Tumblr that said that when a fanfic gets deleted from Archiveofourown.com or Fanfiction.net(or any other website you can think of)you will never be able to find this again. I think on the long run it will be pretty unlikely that everything will be saved, because most of the stuff on the net is either ephemeral or simply rubbish. You can orphan the work according to the instructions in How do I orphan my work(s)?the byline on the work will read "orphan_account" or "your pseud (orphan_account)". The fanfiction itself is from the Sweeney Todd fandom located in the movies section. You need to create a private collection first. Ugh this goes against all of my compulsive tendencies :/. Save everything you want locally. Examples of such internet archives are Archive.org, Time Travel and Stillio. How do I orphan a work which I have co-authored/co-created with someone else? 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