Creator chose not to use Archive Warnings : the creator chose to not use the archives warnings because they didn’t want to, maybe to avoid spoilers.

No Archive Warnings Apply : none of the warnings apply to their content.

For more question about it :
archiveofourown.org/tos_faq#rati...

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#ao3

Welcome to our 4th tutorial, this time on warnings! You can find them in the 3rd quadrants next to the fic.
AO3 requires that creators either warn for or explicitly choose not to warn users.

Graphic Depictions of Violence : this work contains gory, graphic or explicitly described violence.
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If you’re scared of opening one by accident, don’t worry. Users receive a warning before accessing a work If it has warning or is marked as “Not Rated” “Mature” or “Explicit”, unless it was disabled in their preferences.

Next tutorial I'll explains the Warnings put on works.
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Mature : It’s for work meant for adults. It warns the user that the work may contain adult themes (such as sex, violence etc) that aren’t as graphic as below.

Explicit : It’s for work meant for adults. The content contain explicit adult themes such as detailed graphic violence, sex scenes etc

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you can also sort and filter them as seen below :
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Welcome to our third tutorial! Today i will explain how ratings and warnings works on Ao3! This post will be in 6 parts

Ratings are meant to measure the intensity of a work’s content. It gives users an idea of the suitability of the work for them.
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K-Pop Demon Hunters was released on June 20, 2025. And since then, it became internationally popular so much that the ship Rumi x Jinu is at the 99th place of the top 100 ships of this summer, in less than two months !

#ship #kpopdemonhunters #AO3 #rumi #jinu #kdh #rumijinu #huntrix #sajaboys

With the filter on, the number of works goes from 5 808 works to 452.

Next tutorial we will see the first category of tags on Ao3 : “the ratings” and explain them.

If you have question about the tutorial or further help needed to understand Ao3 don't hesitate to tell us!

#fanfiction #Ao3

Example: You want a work with the theme survival horror with romance in it but no character death or major one? Here's how to find it.

Ao3 has a tool which helps navigates on the platform, the sort and filter tool. It’s divide in two parts : include and exclude. With it you can exclude works that you may not like and find more works that may suit your taste.

Tags are fun! they help to categorize works on the website and find them easier. There’s 16,190,000 works on ao3, so having tags is a must to navigate all those fictions. Ao3 has a lot of tags, some are categorized and other less used not.

example below :

Did you know that the most popular ship of the summer 2025 on ao3 was "Jayce x Viktor" from the Arcane fandom ? Centreoftheselights posted the 2025 edition of the Ao3 ship stats, if you want to check more of their work check out :
archiveofourown.org/works/683529...

Ao3 also has several officials URLs:
archiveofourown.org, archiveofourown.com, archiveofourown.net, archiveofourown.gay, ao3.org, archive.transformativeworks.org, and insecure.archiveofourown.org.

It lead to the same site.
For more info about it check out :
archiveofourown.org/faq/accessin...
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Hi! Welcome to our first tutorial !
First of all, how do you access ao3?
Search for the terms “Archive of Our Own” or simply “ao3” on asearch engine to access it. The same applies to tags or anything related to ao3, whether it's news, FAQs, or anything, just add ao3 after it and you'll find it.
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