Thanks You can either remove yourself as an author from the Edit Work page, or orphan the work to remove its association to your account. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. I got to their account, but any link I tried to click I got a screen saying I have to log in, but when I do it's like it kicks me out of the Wayback Machine and into ao3 proper, or to an error page on the Wayback Machine. So removing from search engines would only deny you possible viewership. Glad you found it again. You will want to click on this. 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. You can see a little arrow pointing downwards at the end of it. 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. Orphaning is an alternative to deleting a work which you no longer want associated with your account. PS: thanks for enclosing that link to the FAQ but I'm still wondering if there is any way to circumvent my fic being copied to the Internet Archive without posting it as 'archive only'? TLDR: Fanfic i read in 2017 probably got deleted and i want to find it. You can join by getting an invitation from our automated invite queue. So far only one person has deleted from AO3 and the fic was still on FFN but I have my own copy to enjoy. 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. You guys fucked up majorly with those. showed up :/. Now you would have the normal search results appear, like here above ^^. If you could find it, that would be awesome but thanks for trying, too! The Price We Have To . Unfortunately if you click on one of the stories while on this (rediscovered?) Press J to jump to the feed. (THANK YOU SO MUCH). The Archive of Our Own (AO3) offers a noncommercial and nonprofit central hosting place for fanworks. You can find a fanfiction.net archive download here but if the story was deleted before this archive was done (2014 or 2015 I think), it won't be there. Dive in! it's a shame, but thanks for trying to help! It was a Tokyo Revengers fanfiction with the ship of Takemitchy and Mikey. . 16 fanfictions and their names for you to enjoy. An unofficial sub devoted to AO3. 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)". Click on this arrow and a little box with the wordcached will appear. Hope you dont mind! If you find the fanfiction youre looking for has been deleted and remember the authors name, you can search for them on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media. Well, lets dive in and see some possible ways to retrieve them. Have your favorite fanfictions suddenly disappeared without a trace? Is there any way to find it? Even if it's not fool-proof, no one can expect that; but in the current phrasing it sounds like it's not working at all, with anything. In this post, we will tell you tricks on how to find deleted fanfics using Google, just like anybody else. Use the "Delete My Account" button at the bottom of your profile. And thank you @jbsforever (ily ). and our Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. So for example: jbsforever archive of our own Now you would have the normal search results appear, like here above ^^. with the asterisks being for the URL of your work in question. You get the full stories i. Hoarder of Iron Dad / Tom Holland / RDJ content. <3. (31), International Fanworks Day Feedback Fest 2023 (104), Open Doors celebrates the completion of 17 archive imports in 2022! I did find the majority of the fic translated in Italian here. 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 have orphaned your work, you can no longer edit it. Tonight was one such a time. Is it hopeless? If you need more help, please submit a Support request. 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. Im going to be using @jbsforever as example. Ugh this goes against all of my compulsive tendencies :/. It was on this site and might have been deleted and I forgot the name. For more information, please see our Late last year, the AO3 suddenly vanished from the Wayback Machine, a non-profit archiving service. i can get some of the fics (weirdly) but not all of them. Hm. Some examples of alternatives to AO3 areFanfiction.net,booksie.com,andtagpacker.com. Thank you. In that case, youre pretty much out of luck. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Hi! 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. I wanted to find the cached version, and I plugged in the url for the fic (that no longer works) into http://www.viewcached.com. thanks for your time! You no longer need to visit your favorite bookstore to purchase a book, but with a few button clicks or taps of your screen, you could be reading the next bestseller. 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. Which means apparently the story wasn't saved at all. Guess what her page looks like now? Maybe I've just not understood properly what this is all about, so *shrugs*, However, I do appreciate your attempts to comfort me in my woes. I can't be sure that I'm right about that, but it might be worth it to check with them. My attempt was to work more on them using a word document, re-write some and do some plot changes. Even if they wanted to, most publishing houses would oblige them to take it down. Where can I get more information if my question isnt answered here? 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 also need it to have a memorable name so you can easily remember it for later on in the process. Wow that 2010 archive is a blast from the past! Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. This is amazing! If you're concerned about the public availability of your works, check our "How can I hide my works from non-Archive users?" For further information on deleting your work instead, go to How do I delete a work? Thank you. You've lost some control, but on the other hand the stuff you're proud of / indifferent about will be (relatively) safe. And if you do just tell me and Ill delete this post. Does anyone have any experience in this matter and can help me? Well, if you take them off restricted, then you will have to contact the archive and ask for the pages to be taken down. (I tried searching for the title in the ao3 filter, search by date. If you're looking for how to read deleted fanfiction on AO3, you can search these archives; you could see a snapshot of the website at a point when the book was available. 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. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Some frequently asked questions about the Archive are answered in other sections of the Archive FAQ, and some common terminology is defined in our Glossary. 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. 9 steel_dejones 8 mo. A lot of data has disappeared over the last 20 years, so it's not that the internet never forgets anything. What I want to say, and get your opinions on is this: would it be better/ possible to delete the stories but leave the title and summaries in the bookmarks that predate the deletion? AO3 allows certain fandoms (including Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles) and story types (including songfic) that have been banned from FanFiction.Net. This thread is archived New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast 16 9 comments Best There, you'll be able to add that fic to the private collection you created. Only a few authors would leave a free copy of their book on AO3 while selling them in bookstores. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. You could be in a situation where a book has been deleted that you enjoyed reading years ago, and you want to reread it. An unofficial sub devoted to AO3. Is there a way where fanfics get archived (despite ao3 technically also bein an archive)? The project's director contacted us this week and explained the problem. I'm wondering the same thing. Cookie Notice But this will bring you to how the page is currently installed. I can see none, unless of course I would choose to delete my work for whatever reason and people still want to read it (which is pretty hypothetical since it's not particularly popular). 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. FAQ. Your body may be trying to tell you something. I am trying to look for this fic but cannot find any cache of it. From your Bookmarks page, find the bookmark you want to delete. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Is there any way I can recover them? (Check out the Archive homepage from 2010!). 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). A book posted on AO3 is not often published; however, there might be such occurrences. Now you would have the normal search results appear, like here above ^^. 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! Questions and answers about our Terms of Service can be found in the Terms of Service FAQ. This site is the Italian version of FFN, and you'll have to create an account to access the fic. If you're looking for some information that's important to you (such as research for work or learning how to manage your money), then the advice here is to first write down the relevant keywords on a piece of paper to figure out exactly what you want, which will be a lot more efficient. Thank you for updating us! People change too. Some fanfiction authors dont post their stories on just one website, so you might be in luck and find that they didnt delete the story on another website even though they removed it on AO3. I download it. 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. I wanted to find the cached version, and I plugged in the url for the fic (that no longer works) into http://www.viewcached.com. All fans and fanworks are welcome! or any one for that matter. 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. I know I did it a long time ago with a story I liked (around late 2020? Refer to What is Orphaning? The first chapter came up, and I copied it, but I can't find chapters 2, 3, etc. 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. This is how it works: Open Google chrome. Download works you might want to read again in a year, crosspost your own works to other sites, and be sure you save back-ups locally and/or with a trusted online service. But this will bring you to how the page is currently installed. 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. 05:27PM UTC. FrozenAnna. If you select the "Edit" button, your comment will then appear in a textbox in HTML format. 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! Once you see the search result, you will notice a URL under the title tag. Does anyone know if this is something that can be done? Fill in as many of the sections as you can, and see if you can find the fic then! So for example: jbsforever archive of our own Now you would have the normal search results appear, like here above ^^. TADA!!!!! - 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! Remember to register and log in to any of the above services before searching for the book, as sometimes authors can restrict their works from being seen by non-members. So, check if the fanfiction youre looking for has been published if youre looking for it on AO3 and cant find it. https://archiveofourown.org/works/35224105. There is no way for you to re-attach the work to your account, and we can't do it for you. TLDR at the bottom. The Archive of Our Own (AO3) offers a noncommercial and nonprofit central hosting place for fanworks. You may also like to check out our Known Issues. Anyway,jbsforeverrecently deleted all of her fics on Ao3. Tbh I don't want my fic to be visible for registered users only but I also don't want it to be saved where I can't delete it - Google updates its cache regularly, so if I take something offline it will disappear after a while. 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). 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. (THANK YOU SO MUCH). 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 . Im going to be using @jbsforever as example. She had a lot more than that. You can see a little arrow pointing downwards at the end of it. We all understand this. Logging in doesnt actually do anything if youre viewing a page saved on the Wayback Machine its a frozen page, not something you can interface with. 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've tried using the Wayback machine, but it doesn't exist there. Can you find this fanfic for me? HIATUS--- This is the sequel to Heatwaves by tbhyourelame on AO3 summary: After years of online cal. After you have chosen which work(s) to orphan, you have two options: For more information on pseuds, please go to the Pseuds FAQ. Get notified when your favorite works, series, or users update. Your user name and/or pseud is removed from the byline on the work and all its chapters. Edit: Thank you everyone for replying! We're pleased to announce that after seven months, the Archive of Our Own is once again available on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine! Privacy Policy. So we will be working with the words under there, the ones that appear in green. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, https://archiveofourown.org/works/25585375, http://archiveofourown.org/works/3643800/chapters/16769512. 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