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The Beast that Bothers

#so true to life

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S.686 - RESTRICT Act

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Now and then, I get reminded of how Marie Kondo was treated by White people online and get really angry about it.

Like, think about it. For such a long time, due to slavery and colonialism, women of colour have been tidying up after White people. Women of colour cooked their meals, took care of their children, and cleaned their houses. And yet, and yet! Women of colour have never been considered trailblazers and celebrities in these industries. Think about who gets to be celebrity chefs, who gets to be the face of home makeover shows, who gets to capitalise off being lifestyle coaches?? But when a woman of colour becomes a prominent forerunner in home organisation, and suddenly, White pple have problems with it??

#her advice is so good too #like it was so helpful for my room

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OP went to live in the Beast's castle.

staying with my father and my teenage brother occasionally has been very enlightening actually i need to think about it positively

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Literally the first thought I had was käänteiskentauri

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Once again I’ve become overly conscious over the fact that I’m really just a brain with tendrils controlling a meat mecha😔

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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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What absolutely sends me about this is the fact that, about a year ago, we had a different cat named Popsicle get on the naughty board...for stealing treats from his roommates.

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this was like 8 individual slaps in the face

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weird anti ideology finally leaking out into the mainstream

#it makes sense this would develop as a complex #of like basically you get ripped to shreds if you're not 100% morally pure and 100% unproblematic #when like god forbid people are a little human sometimes #and fuck up occasionally

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Life-sized Peacock Sculpture made of spoons and other metal found objects 

by Liddlenomnom