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Hunter Schafer at the GQ Global Creativity Awards, dressed in a custom hand-painted Marni gown inspired by Vincent van Gogh's 'The Starry Night' (11th April 2024)

#art #gorgeous

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#groundhog day #lmao

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@writercorianarose

#lmao

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Leave me and my weird names in peace

#lmao #writing

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Taproot

While I appreciate you, who wants to be rose grown from concrete, willow stood alone on weeping ledge, nightshade left on graves, in veins,

I still yearn for the pulsing comfort of acacia networks of letter’d bitterness, mycelium net in impulse and spore, mangrove floats of home and hearth,

You do not deride my ache for community, But I hope one day you accept my shelter, Tender shoots shielded and fed, With my definition of love

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Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890)

Grote nachtpauwoog

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something about light and the way we look for it and inside it. something about the way we’ve never once since gotten over the symbolism of fire and matches and candles since we’ve been introduced. something about the way we equate light with hope and hope with love and love as healing which brings us back to light again. something about the way we love sunlight through trees and through water and windows and skylights and tunnels. something about how the solar eclipse happens every time I look at you. something about the way we love light and in so loving become it ourselves <3

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tortured poets / tolerate it

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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.

#i have some open invitations too #ao3 #fanfiction

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The Ogden Standard-Examiner, Utah, June 23, 1939

#ghost hunt #lmao

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Lighting Doodle

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e.e. cummings,from “if (among”, in 1 X 1 (One Times One), Complete Poems: 1904-1962 [ID’d]

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Guest comments back on!

Guest comments have now been turned back on! We'll continue to keep an eye out for any spam issues and make further adjustments as needed. (22:08 UTC April 23, 2024)

#ao3 #fan

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Reblog so everyone can hear what they need.

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« True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root, Must let their hands grow knotted as they move With a rough sensitivity about Under the earth, between the rock and shoot, Never to bruise or wound the hidden fruit. And so I watched my mother's hands grow scarred, She who could heal the wounded plant or friend With the same vulnerable yet rigorous love; I minded once to see her beauty gnarled, But now her truth is given me to live, As I learn for myself we must be hard To move among the tender with an open hand, And to stay sensitive up to the end Pay with some toughness for a gentle world. »

— May Sarton, "An Observation"

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~The Most Beautiful Woman in The World~

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#art #writing #long post