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i must not stir the pot. stirring the pot is the notifications-killer. participation in the discourse is the little-death that brings total activity obliteration. i will face the bad opinions on the internet. i will permit them to pass over me and through me. and when they have gone past, i will turn the block button onto their source. where the discourse has come from there will be nothing. only i will remain.

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Sometimes people get their start in fandom with something like, idk, the MCU or light action shows like Supernatural or children's fantasy like Warriors (this last example said with love), where the writing is an inconsistent mess, characterization can change on a dime, there's no themes stronger than like "family" or "stop the bad guy from changing our way of life". And their fandom experience is taking the hints of interesting ideas presented and dropped and spinning them into something interesting, or just fluffy and fun, and then discarding the rest.

And then these people come to a piece of art that like. Actually has themes and good writing and a coherent vision, but they're still trained on The Giant Trash Heap That Must Be Sorted Through, so they start their routine of excising fun yaoi moments and throwing the rest in the trash, except now the rest is like. A professionally made passion project by a group of skilled writers with a hundred years writing experience between them, and this fan is writing the same coffee shop AUs as ever. And it makes something that feels same-y and fandom out of something unique and well-made and, well, interesting.

And like. That's their prerogative, more power to them, but it makes me wanna pull my hair out to talk to these people about a piece of media I actually care about beyond that Trash Heap level.

And if you're someone whose only fandom experience has been Trash Sorting and you're running into people arguing with you abt their favorite piece of media, give them a second thought I guess?

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Juno Steel is confused for 30 seconds (Audio from seasons 1-3 of The Penumbra Podcast)

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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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Not that long of a name at least, not like some of the others, but dang it looking at the numbers I'm going to have to fudge this a little I think.

False Kings - Poets of the Fall

Enough for Now - The Fray

My Own Miracle - Citizen Soldier

Survive - Jeremy Renner

A TV Show Called Earth - Philip Labes

Nothing Left - Halle Kearns

Zenzenzense - RADWIMPS

Only A Human - Silver End, Eirik Breivik Minde

2 Bed, 2 Bath and a Ghost - Bug Hunter

Nine - Sleeping at Last

9 to 5 - Dolly Parton

1994 - Alec Benjamin

Look at that didn't fudge any of the numbers and forgot there was a Z in there that had me stuck forever til I remembered Zenzenzense.

Tagging @ralkana and anyone else who wants to do this.

Got tagged by @myhumbleme to spell my url with songs!

Antebellum - Vienna Teng

La isla - Ciudad Jara

Mess - Noah Kahan

Alive - the Jekyll & Hyde musical

Young Volcanoes - Fall out boy

Virginity rocks - Starkid

Entre Caníbales - Soda Stereo

Radha - Jab Harry Met Sejal

Tagging: @claratyler @white-spirit-of-darkness @mercydellirium @volcaniclily @sunriseseance @ephemeralgalaxies @i-amusemyself @halfcaffeinated @battmellamy @friendly-jester and anyone else who wants to consider yourself tagged!

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hey. can we talk about how juno steel starts with juno and nureyev looking into a mask and then throughout the entire series they always keep up some type of facade with each other and with other people

#the penumbra podcast #juno steel #peter nureyev #tpp juno #tpp

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author: sorry I’m jumping on this bandwagon and writing a fic with the same premise as all these other fics

me, has read 500 fics like this one and is prepared to read 500 more: please never apologize for giving the people (me) what they (also me) want

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Various audio snippets of my childhood that I've collected.

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This has probably been said before, but the age difference between Toothless in the movies and Toothless in the books is wild. Movie Toothless is around Hiccup's maturity level, and they grow into adulthood together, which is lovely. Book Toothless has the maturity of a three-year-old human at the start of the series, and at the end maybe has the maturity level of a four-year-old human. In other words, Movie Hiccup went into the woods when he was 15 and found a best friend, Book Hiccup went into a cave when he was 10 and stole/adopted a child.

#httyd #httyd books #toothless

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Wasn't happy with the old design so have a Redesigned Boy

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Something I noticed in Stayed Gone is that Alastor pisses Vox off so much that Vox causes the entire city's power to shut down. This is a great visual to show how manipulative and wide spread Vox's control is. But this means everything, including Vox's side of his broadcast, goes down. But radio doesn't need to be plugged in, meaning that when the power went out and Vox's broadcasts went out- the radios were still playing. Still broadcasting Alastor's part. It showed a weakness in Vox's power and manipulation. And as most of the common sinners are terrified of Alastor, they know that his words were a threat. He was challenging Vox live on air, in front of any sinner that was tuned into their spat.

It also shows that the hotel runs on its own power, independent of Vox's control. Which is why he had to send Sir Pentious in undercover, so he could try to get a connection into the hotel.

Just an interesting story telling dynamic.

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KOSA Moves to the House

KOSA is still moving forward and OTW Legal explains how fans can add their voices and who to contact. Read more at https://otw-news.org/37dhnd5a

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today I learned that 1st httyd book was firstly published 20 years ago

so I wanted to make something to express my gratitude and appreciation to the author of the story and everything connected with it

httyd inspires me so much and my love for it only grows from day to day

I'm really happy to be part of the Fandom and have an opportunity to explore this magnificent dragon world

Thanks to Cressida Cowell!!💖

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Dream team

#httyd #httyd books #how to train your dragon #book!hiccup #hiccup horrendous haddock iii #how to train your dragon books #book!toothless #fanart

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I've heard of "they would not fucking say that" but I also sometimes feel like. Not only would they not say that, they specifically said the opposite of that and I know you all know it

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My god fellow AO3 writers: if you're posting the first chapter of what you know is an ongoing story, mark it as an unfinished multi-chapter fic (with or without a final chapter count), not a completed fic that just grows more chapters as you continue.

I'm not talking about discontinued works or one-shots that authors go back and add more chapters to - IMO that's a totally valid use of "completed." But I feel like I'm seeing an uptick in people mislabeling their obviously work-in-progress fic out of what I suspect is the assumption that people auto-filter out incomplete works. So look, a) I promise I don't, I read uncompleted stories all the time, and b) tricking readers into thinking your fic is complete will not endear you to them! Own your WIPness!