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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.

#if anyone wants to get a direct invite to make your own account i have like 8 invites? #dm me and i'll give you one

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just a check-in to say that if you can't get out of work or school or obligations to go vote, request an absentee ballot! Go to your county's website and do that!!

#vote

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I am a(n):

⚪ Male

⚪ Female

🔘 Writer

Looking for

⚪ Boyfriend

⚪ Girlfriend

🔘 An incredibly specific word that I can't remember

#reference

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As we're now hours away from season 2 I wanted to quickly show off the AMAZING gift my friend made me for my birthday last year! Thanks again @themoonwouldnotcooperate <3

#ofmd #our flag means death #reblog from the main blog

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siken saw his words being twisted and he’s having none of it god bless

#fanfic

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telling a fic writer their characterization is good is the god tier of compliments, and the fastest way to find someone who will commit murder for you

#yeah #this

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Part 1 for under 450

#4203 kudos for my fic to definitely return #which i am planning to definitely return to lol #someday

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Did I daydream this, or was there a website for writers with like. A ridiculous quantity of descriptive aid. Like I remember clicking on " inside a cinema " or something like that. Then, BAM. Here's a list of smell and sounds. I can't remember it for the life of me, but if someone else can, help a bitch out <3

#writing #reference #ohhh

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New season out tomorrow, 12 May 2023, on Netflix.

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Giveaway

I have once again bought some humble bundles & have some overlap in the games I own. 

Whoever messages me about the one game you want, gets first dibs (I’ll go ahead & say System Shock 1 & 2 will come together if you want both). If you ask about a game that’s still available I will give you the gift link or code. You do not need to be following me to receive a game. Good luck!

112 Operator

Armello

System Shock: Enhanced Edition

System Shock 2

#video games #giveaway #baba is you #humble bundle

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IT’S NOT ‘PEEKED’ MY INTEREST

OR ‘PEAKED’

BUT PIQUED

‘PIQUED MY INTEREST’

THIS HAS BEEN A CAPSLOCK PSA

#writing #reference

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me: i wanna write

someone: then… write?

me:

#yeah

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#yeah

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Some words to use when writing things:

winking

clenching

pulsing

fluttering

contracting

twitching

sucking

quivering

pulsating

throbbing

beating

thumping

thudding

pounding

humming

palpitate

vibrate

grinding

crushing

hammering

lashing

knocking

driving

thrusting

pushing

force

injecting

filling

dilate

stretching

lingering

expanding

bouncing

reaming

elongate

enlarge

unfolding

yielding

sternly

firmly

tightly 

harshly

thoroughly

consistently

precision

accuracy

carefully

demanding

strictly

restriction

meticulously

scrupulously

rigorously

rim

edge

lip

circle

band

encircling

enclosing

surrounding

piercing

curl

lock

twist

coil

spiral

whorl

dip

wet

soak

madly

wildly

noisily

rowdily

rambunctiously

decadent

degenerate

immoral

indulgent

accept

take

invite

nook

indentation

niche

depression

indent

depress

delay

tossing

writhing

flailing

squirming

rolling

wriggling

wiggling

thrashing

struggling

grappling

striving

straining

#writing #long post #reference

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AO3 asks

tagged by @honeysucklebuttons <3 

Technically my writing blog is @sideofwritingsandramblings but this was the blog that was tagged lol

Keep reading

#personal #my fics #i promise i'll write again some day lol

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What’s writing, you know? What does writing actually mean?

#writing

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Thanks for giving me a chance ❤

#yes