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lesbians are so awesome I wish they were real

#ohm yg od oh my god oh my goD #pearlina #splatoon

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#whoag i love how expressive this art is op #rottmnt

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some siffrins i drew recently

(the star freckles are actually related to a fic I'm working on! i will post that... at some point. it's long and i have a lot of planning i need to do)

#friend art #i dont go here but im HYPING YOU UP BROTHER THESE LOOK GREAT #KEEP IT UP BEN WHOO!!!

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♾️✨OUR MODERATOR APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN!♾️✨

We need hardworking Administrators of Order to grayscal- I MEAN to excitedly join our team! Visit the link below or in our pinned to apply.✨♾️

#PHEW OKAY I APPLIED SWEAT SMILE EMOJI #okay but forreal this art SLAPS hello?? i've been showing it to everyone today #even people not in this fandom #so thank you op #splatoon #side order #side order zine

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I'm taking away the word empathy from the NTs until they discover it isn't a synonym for "giving a shit about people"

#^^^^^

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oh yeah i’m going radio silent on socials until i finish this next fic so if you see me yell at me

#ashe talks

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After a month worth of procrastination…. It is done… Side order Pearlina🥰

#ooohhh yeah that’s what it’s ALL ABOUT #the EXPRESSIONS are making me feel things!! #that background looks like it was ripped from the game holy crap #ok anyway op hope you don’t mind that i’m now gonna just stare at this and daydream a little thanks #splatoon #pearlina #it’s always the pieces where they aren’t touching that get me right in the chest

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I kept thinking about the superficial similarities between Shahra and Blaze, so I made an AU out of it.

In this AU, Shahra doesn't go to Sonic to ask him for help; she is betrayed by Erazor earlier on and gets trapped by him, leaving her younger sister, Dunyazad, to stop Erazor and save the Arabian Nights. Dunyazad is much more closed-off than Shahra, and she is determined to save Shahra on her own. However, The Narrative mandates that she seek out an external Hero to aid her, so she (extremely reluctantly) seeks out the famed blue hedgehog.

Like Blaze in Sonic Rush, Dunyazad is resentful of and antagonistic towards Sonic at first, as she sees him as someone meddling in things that don't concern him. Over time, however, she learns that she is allowed to exist as a person outside of her supporting role as "Shahra's devoted sister," and as such, is entitled to her own feelings and desires.

As for Sonic... Because of Dunyazad's visual and narrative resemblance to Blaze, Sonic comes to terms with some feelings of his own... :)

#yessss blurry!! #love to see you drawing again bud #she looks great!!! #sth #friend art

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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.

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i love my LDR AU sillies

#ashe talks #ashe writes #pearlina #goodnight everyone

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Aaaand we’re live again, left over sales are now open!

There are only a handful of bundles remaining, but we are also selling individual merch!

Don’t get cooked, stay off the hook!

Link: https://pearlinazine.bigcartel.com

#pearlina #pearlina zine #splatoon #i just grabbed a few extra stickers so i can cover my headphone case hell yeah

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t-t-ten (10) minutes to go!!!!!!!!!!!!

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currently plotting an agent 24 interlude in LDR AU and none of you can stop me

#ashe talks

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All i wish for 2024 is every creator to start that project they’ve been thinking about, write those fics they have been planning, make messy art, and to have as little burnout as possible.

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The social attitude regarding age is consistently getting weirder. You’re not ‘pushing 30’ you’re just in your late 20s. 30 is not old and neither is 40 while I’m at it. Growing older is an enormous privilege and displaying that age is a gorgeous component of life. Spending your days trying to reverse that grace breeds an eternally wasted life.

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“We should at least give it a look,” Marina continues, as if she can’t read Pearl like her favorite manga—as if she doesn’t already know that Pearl is going to cave. “If it’s unsalvageable, we can pull it down. No point in leaving it up, right?”

Pearl sits back in her chair, crossing one leg over the other. Her foot bounces as they stare at each other, a small habit that she’d picked up from Marina over the years. “It’ll be salvageable.”

The grin that Marina hits her with is like the sunset over Mount Nantai, the first day they met: large and breathtaking. “Yeah?” she asks, pleased with the unsaid acquiesce to this years-long request.

“Yeah.” Pearl leans her elbow into the desk and her cheek into her fist. “Because you can fix anything.”

[So there's this treehouse in Pearl's backyard that really needs fixing up... Written for You & Me Against the Universe: a Pearlina fanzine. With art by SquidRyder!!]

My @pearlinazine piece is up now! Reminder that leftover sales open April 21, 2024 at noon EST!

#ashe talks #ashe writes #pearlina #splatoon #pearlina zine #WHOOO YEAH