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Congratulations! You are now a Magic-User!!

#poll

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#accurate

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#THIS

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#none of these #I'm too old for this poll #maybe mary lennox from the secret garden #or han solo #or indana jones #or a mermaid #but none of these

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anonymous reviewer: i don’t like the way you’ve written this character in this fic

me:

#writing #accurate

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#video #this is amazing

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The devastating difference between how much time it takes to write something vs how fast people read it lol

#writing #I love this

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"i hate small talk. you are a stranger. why the fuck would i want to talk about the weather with you"

i may be a deeply introverted and asocial individual, but even i recognize how many relationships have started with a single innocuous question, forged in the fire of an ember lit by humoring it with an answer.

humans make small talk, because small talk can grow.

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About the AO3 "No Guest Comments for a while" warning

If you're not following any of AO3's social media accounts you might be in the dark as to what kind of "spam comments" have engendered this banner at the top of the site:

These spam comments have been posted about a great deal on the AO3 subreddit for the past couple of days. Initially they comprised a bunch of guest (logged out users) bot comments that insulted authors by suggesting they were using AI and not writing their own fics. Some examples, from the subreddit:

But it then escalated to outright graphic porn images and gifs being posted in comments, again by logged out 'Guest' accounts. Obviously, I'm not going to give examples of those, but between these two bot infestations, AO3 has clearly decided to act and has temporarily closed the ability to post comments for users who are not logged in with an AO3 account.

Unfortunately, this means that genuine readers who don't have an AO3 account won't be able to leave comments on fics that they enjoy.

If you are a genuine reader who doesn't yet have an AO3 account, I strongly suggest getting yourself on the waiting list for one. More and more AO3 authors are now locking their fics down to registered users only - either due to these bot comments or concerns about AI scraping their work - which means you're probably missing out on a lot of great stuff.

Hopefully guest commenting will be enabled again at some point soon, but I suggest not waiting until then. Get yourself on that list.

Wait times are going to be longer than usual at the moment, due to the current Wattpad purge [info on Fanlore | Wattpad subreddit thread], but if you're in line, then your invite will come through eventually.

Update: There's now a Megathread about this on the AO3 subreddit.

#ao3 #bots are the worst

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dude got too distracted by thinking about joseph

#video #stranger things cast #joe keery

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"I can just take him out"

Stranger Things - Season 3 Chapter 4: "The Sauna Test"

#atranger things #steve harrington #scoops ahoy uniform #he looks so dewy #so pretty

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hello

can you please tell me to continue writing whatever the hell i am writing, because currently it seems like i'm writing nonsense

thank you

You too? Absolutely. You keep going and I'll keep going too.

#writing #positivity #thank you mr. gaiman

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yes i posted this on my other blog but you know what it goes here too

#ROFLMAO

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Reunion at Skull Rock 📍

Commission for Anne Forbes on twitter.

#stranger things #steddie #the sound I made #omg #so beautoiful

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There are currently ~2300 works in AO3 tagged with "Created Using Generative AI"

I'll be upfront with my opinion, which mirrors my opinion in regards to my field: using AI will only hasten your own obsolescence. The point of fanfiction is not to crank out fics, but rather to enjoy the hobby and communities of writing and fandom.

#fuck ai #fanfiction #polls

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#ROFLMAO

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#polls #you have amazing tags #<3