I Wish Ao3 Allowed People To Give Kudos Per Each Chapter. These 100k Word NOVELS Need More Love Than

There should be a fanfic writing game called the showrunners challenge where someone writes a story and partway through someone else can play things like "actor leaves after 4000 more words" or "topic now too politically sensitive due to unforeseen world events" or "lost rights to that reference"

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Yet another AO3 bot situation - please spread the word!

Hi, it's me again, the person who wrote that viral post about fanfiction plagiarism! Today I'm here to warn you about abuse perpetrated by bots who have stolen AO3 usernames.

There's currently an epidemic of bots going around leaving (apparently random) horrible, hateful comments on people's fics. This isn't the first time bots have invaded AO3, but the big problem with this wave is that they're using real AO3 usernames to do it.

I learned about this when another writer contacted me after receiving the following comment on their story:

Now, while that is my username, I DEFINITELY did not leave this comment (and anyone who would leave something like that on a fic should be slapped! What an awful thing to post). This fic is in a completely unrelated fandom that I have never participated in, nor has that author participated in any of my fandoms, so the probability of it being some intentional fandom drama thing to make me look bad is also low.

The writer whose fic the comment was left on enlisted the aid of some friends and tracked down other guest comments with unrelated usernames attached, which is pretty strong evidence that they are being left by bots at random.

The TL;DR: If you receive a cruel comment from a (Guest) with an actual AO3 username attached, it's most likely from a bot. Please do not lash out at or dogpile the AO3 user who owns that name, and who in all likelihood has no idea that their name has been hijacked for evil.

If finding this kind of comment on a fic, even left by a bot, is likely to upset you, I would recommend changing your comment settings so that only users who are logged in can leave comments. To do this, edit your story settings, and under "Privacy," select the radio button that says "Only registered users can comment," as shown below.

Please spread the word to other AO3 users! And if you see mean guest comments on other fics, maybe let the author know that it's probably from a bot and not a real person who thinks their writing is bad.

Here is the link! What an amazing idea ❤️

Agatha being the first one to enter the trial's house but waiting for everyone to be inside before closing the doors. SHE'S NOT EVIL BUT JUST A BABY WITH POWER KINK

why are we all sleeping on kathryn hahn saying agatha is "for sure a top" in that podcast tho????? followed by "except that she's so powerful that sometimes she wants to be treated like a baby" WHAT

trying to be normal about the fact that people think 1) señor scratchy was a gift from Rio or 2) Agatha named him señor scratchy because it reminded her of the two people she loved the most (her son and her Spanish speaking WIFE)

I know that there are a lot of feelings right now, and everyone is absolutely entitled to them. The announcement certainly hit hard.

I did, however, want to add a little bit of my own hope into the mix. Maybe it won't matter. But maybe it will help someone feel just a bit better about everything.

For context, someone on Reddit made an excellent point that 90 minutes is plenty of time to tell a great story. Many have been told in less than that. Lion King, Nightmare Before Christmas, Beauty and the Beast, Totoro, I could go on.

I completely agreed with them. But I also wanted to add my own personal spin as well.

When you really get down to it, the plot of season two was truly only compromised of 90 minutes worth of plot between A + C. Maybe even less than.

A lot of it was drawing out a mystery that didn't need to be as long as it was. As much as I love me some putzing and meandering, seeing this entire 90 minute drama go down has made me realize just how weak season two was.

Did I love it? Hell yes.

But I'm also realizing that the plot wasn't tight.

Most of the memorable moments are comprised of seconds of screentime.

Not minutes.

Seconds.

The touching of Aziraphale's hand to Crowley's chest

"Look at you, you're gorgeous."

Hands touching during dancing

The final speech and kiss

Michael Sheen's bitchy little eyebrow raise

Michael Sheen eye fucking Crowley every chance he gets

Just Michael Sheen's quiet, quick acting choices in general

When breaking it down, most of what mattered added up to less than 90 minutes, with the rest of it being unfocused and dithering.

Now imagine 90 minutes. 90 minutes of focus on these two characters. No chance for meandering, no opportunity to wander off. These two will be forced to confront their issues, their grief, their resilience, their LOVE with nothing to pull us away. There won't be time for side characters to take the focus. There won't be time to worry about other relationships or spending time apart.

This is going to be about them because it can't waste time on anything else.

AND ANOTHER THING.

I keep seeing people saying "90 minutes isn't enough time to tie up all the loose ends". And to that I say...

What loose ends?

We really only have two. The second apocalypse and their love.

And to those who say 90 minutes isn't enough to stop an apocalypse, I counter with; season 1 stopped it in 5 minutes while they stood on what was essentially a parking lot. And they were side characters at that point.

In conclusion: we will be okay. Would I have loved six episodes to watch them circle one another? Sure. But I have spent more time reading fanfiction of them than watching the actual show, and those writers have created better scenarios than Neil Gaimen ever could. The kind of stories that would make Terry Pratchett proud.

We will get what we need. Because the people who fought for this love these characters. And because David and Michael would personally square up with Jeff Bezos in a parking lot just to be able to lock lips on screen again and again in a cottage by the sea

We will be okay. More than that, we will thrive.♡🖤

❤.

Took me turning off the audio, disabling the subtitles and, well, about six years to finally notice that Valery is wiping his glasses with his tie in the courtroom in front of everyone. 🙃💗💗

Positivityforlesbians here to give you some good news and positive vibes, so here’s the thing : girl in red’s album is finally out today on April 30th ! Go listen to it ! It’s called “if i could make it go quiet” ! That’s exciting in itself and I could stop this post here isn’t it ?! But no ! I’m making this post because guess who rarely ever post anything else than promo nowadays yet posted about girl in red’s album ? Taylor Swift ! Here’s a screen capture I took so you can see :

So basically we can now officially say that Taylor listens to girl in red and honestly y’all, that’s another huge clue. To me that’s not even a clue but typical signalling but this time she did it in a more obvious way than she ever did ! Look she even chose the 13th second of the song (!! she is the main character, she controls her own narrative, she knows what she is doing) which corresponds to a lyric that begins at 0:11 sec and ends at 0:14 sec that is “we’re not going back” AHHHHHHH I swear this is so fucking gay and if y’all straighties aren’t even capable to see this huge clue when you know at this point that “do you listen to girl in red ?” is THE way/joke to ask if a woman is a lesbian or bi withut really asking her then you’ll never be convinced. Taylor is one of us and this Instagram Story is the ultimate proof, I’m so hyped, let’s all be hyped ! Look at how much she isn’t bothered by the Gaylor rumors, she’s entertaining it 100%, we’ve been saying it all along ! Homophobes go home ! 💖💖💖

Also I’m so happy for Marie’s music, she’s super talented and inspiring, imagine being a gay woman from Norway and having Taylor recognizing your work, promoting it this enthusiastically and saying she listens to the album on repeat ! Listen to girl in red, in case it wasn’t the case already ! And OMG Taylor ! <3 ✨