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Never liked Wattpad, long live Ao3.

Please everyone out there save your works💜🫶🏻

The thing with Wattpad??

Apparently, Wattpad is having some sort of purge where a lot of fics are just suddenly being deleted??

I personally don't use Wattpad to read fics anymore (moved to a03 back in middle school) and only post on there because I like my fics being able to reach as many people as possible, but if you actively post on primarily Wattpad, please back up your works and find another site to post them on just in case. This is Fanfiction.net all over again and look what happened to them.

I would recommend A03 as a good site to switch to. A03 doesn't do purges like this and you can write basically whatever you want. A03 is an archive that lets you post stories of any kind. I've seen some people complain about it being hard to navigate but I genuinely don't know what they mean because even when I first started reading on A03 back in middle school, it did not take me long to figure out how to navigate it.

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Sorry for being a bitch earlier, I needed to lay in the dark with my headphones for 3 hours to feel better

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No one reblogs on tumblr anymore.

No one leaves comments on Ao3 anymore.

Seriously people the lack of fandom interaction these days makes me genuinely depressed, it never used to be like this, makes me wonder what's the point of coming online to do anything anymore.

Reblog a post so other people can see it.

Leave a comment so the author doesn't feel like giving up.

Fandom cannot live on Likes or Kudos alone.

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Hello lovelies! 💜✨

I just wanted to leave here two links to the latest story I uploaded.

Some background: it's an original story I wrote in my mother tongue back in 2020, so at the full height of covid. It was an idea that grew from a memory of mine and a situationship (as we'd call it today) that didn't end well back in 2018. Yes, i dwelled on it for YEARS, the hurt was very deep. (So yeah, nothing Duskwood related 😅)

"Do I Wanna Know?" was born from that painful experience. The song is from Arctic Monkeys and it captured all the tumultuous feelings and the words left unsaid that haunted me for years.

It has angst, lots of emotions and hope. I wanted to give my characters a happier ending than mine.

You can find the first chapter here: Wattpad | Ao3

They'll be added on my masterlist as the chapters get translated, edited and published. If you feel like checking it out, I'd be happy. ✨💜

Hope you enjoy it!

Much love to all of you 💜🌌

#writing #my writing #writers on tumblr #writeblr #original story #songfic #original writing #original work #original characters #my ocs #ocs #writings #writers

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Daydreaming about my book:

Writing my book:

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“i wanna do this with you” A LOVE LANGUAGE

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what's a tumblr influencer? what am i influencing? my mental illness? 😭

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“Sometimes, the strongest people in the morning are the people who cried all night.”

— Book of prosperity

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Feeling so dumb when you stay up longer, waiting for a reply that won't come.

#personal thoughts #personal

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“I hope you fall in love with someone who never lets you fall asleep thinking you’re unwanted.”

— Unknown

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Hoping for the creative activity 😭😅

#writing #writing memes #writers #writing humor

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Fanfiction Authors: HEADS UP

(Non-authors, please RB to signal boost to your author friends!)

An astute reader informed me this morning that one of my fics (Children of the Future Age) had been pirated and was being sold as a novel on Amazon:

(And they weren't even creative with their cover design. If you're going to pirate something that I spent a full year of my life writing, at least give me a pretty screenshot to brag about later. Seriously.)

I promptly filed a DMCA complaint to have it removed, but I checked out the company that put it up -- Plush Books -- and it looks like A LOT of their books are pirated fic. They are by no means the only ones doing this, either -- the fact that """publishers""" can download stories from AO3 in ebook format and then reupload them to Amazon in just a few clicks makes fic piracy a common problem. There are a whole host of reasons why letting this continue is bad -- including actual legal risk to fanfiction archives -- but basically:

IF YOU ARE A FANFIC AUTHOR WITH LONG AND/OR POPULAR WORKS, PLEASE CHECK AMAZON TO SEE IF YOUR STORIES HAVE BEEN PIRATED.

You can search for your fics by title, or by text from the description (which is often just copied wholesale from AO3 as well). If you find that someone has stolen your work and is selling it as their own, you can lodge a DMCA complaint (Amazon.com/USA site; other countries have different systems). If you haven't done this before, it's easy! Here's a tutorial:

HOW TO FILE A COPYRIGHT COMPLAINT FOR STOLEN WORK ON AMAZON.COM:

First, go to this form. You'll need to be signed into your Amazon account.

Select the radio buttons/dropdown options (shown below) to indicate that you are the legal Rights Owner, you have a copyright concern, and it is about a pirated product.

Enter the name of your story in the Name of Brand field.

In the Link to the Copyrighted Work box, enter a link to the story on AO3 or whatever site your work is posted on.

In the Additional Information box, explain that you are the author of the work and it is being sold without your permission. That's all you really need. If you want, you can include additional information that might be helpful in establishing the validity of your claim, but you don't have to go into great detail. You can simply write something like this:

I am the author of this work, which is being sold by [publisher] without my permission. I originally published this story in [date/year] on [name of site], and have provided a link to the original above. On request, I can provide documentation proving that I am the owner of the account that originally posted this story.

In the ASIN/ISBN-10 field, copy and paste the ID number from the pirated copy's URL. You'll find this ten-digit number in the Amazon URL after the word "product," as in the screenshot below. (If the URL extends beyond this number, you can ignore everything from the question mark on.) Once this number has been added, Amazon will pull the product information automatically and add it to the complaint form, so you can check the listing title and make sure it's correct.

Finally, add your contact information to the relevant fields, check the "I have read and accept the statements" box, and then click Submit. You should receive an email confirmation that Amazon has received the form.

Please share this information with your writer friends, keep an eye out for/report pirated works, and help us keep fanfiction free and legally protected!

NOTE: All of the above also applies to Amazon products featuring stolen artwork, etc., so fan artists should check too!