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New Crow Time 🐦‍⬛🦊🌟

#webcomics

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if anyone ever asks why return of the jedi is my favourite star wars film i’ll just send them this gif

#star wars

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#pokemon

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i know its already been said more eloquently but it really is insane that boeing can just...have a whistleblower executed mid-trial. its not gonna be in the news cycle, no one's gonna bother reporting on it - much less accusing them in a formal manner of killing him - in a few months no one's gonna remember it and everyone's gonna keep flying on their planes

#current events

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Hadi Rahnaward: 'Fragile Balance' (2023) rug sculpture created with matches

#artsy stuff

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In response to "Any advice for first-time players or DMs?"

ID: Three screenshots from the Critical Role: Sick Day livestream. Sam, wearing a Barbie hat and a bathrobe, is sitting next to Taliesin, who is wearing a pink shirt, one-piece pajamas, and is holding the game controller. Taliesin is speaking and the captions read "I'm not saying don't be cautious, but realize that there are worse things than dying on graph paper."

(note: these words were said as he built, in the BG3 character creator, Mollymauk Tealeaf, who famously died on graph paper.)

#critical role

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Happy 10th anniversary to Winter Soldier coming out!

#the winter soldier

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How do you want to do this?

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Goodbye, Faithful Caregiver.

#critical role #fan art #cr spoilers

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Launching my first art blogs with a small comic based on the amazing words of Ursula K. Le Guin!

#webcomic

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vegans make peace with honey

no shut up do it

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C-3PO (Anthony Daniels) getting some much needed shade in the desert while filming "Star Wars/ Episode IV- A New Hope" (1977)

#star wars #bts

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STAR WARS REBELS APPRECIATION WEEK Day 1: favourite Ghost crew member

I was a little girl when the Clone War came to Ryloth. My mother hid us below ground, but I would peek out when the Republic ships flew over, as they fought to liberate my world… I dreamt of nothing more than to be up there with them. ― Hera Syndulla

#star wars #hera syndulla

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The ink bottle lying on your desk... begins to crawl away..???

#artsy stuff

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Remember what was taken from you by the car companies to boost profits

(Above are historic streetcar maps of 6 US Cities, shown top to bottom, left to right, they are: st. Paul, Cincinnati, Detroit, Columbus, Chicago, Louisville)

#maps

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From Critical Role C3EP91

#critical role #fan art #cr spoilers

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My new bread pans make the most... Symmetrical loaves & they scare me kinda

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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 #fanfic