Latest Posts by shynsgore - Page 4

felt my soul vacate my body when i saw ai generated portraits load after i clicked next chapter on a fic. like KEEP THAT SHIT OFF AO3 WHAT THE FUCK

By the way, fanfiction isn't the place for reviews or criticism.

When you're a published author, it's like you're preparing a meal in a food competition. You expect a rating and to be told what worked and what didn't to improve your craft and embark on your career.

When you're a fanfiction author, it's like taking some of your free time to enjoy the process of baking cookies and then offering them to someone to be kind.

If you take a cookie from the plate, you don't spit it out and tell them it sucked.

Unless the writer asks for your opinion, you can keep it to yourself.

Adding this to clarify, and you don't have to agree with this by any means, I cannot force you to, but the reason Ao3 and Fanfiction isn't the space for criticism and ratings...is that it is a fan space created by fans for fans.

It isn't school.

It is a space where people with the same interests can congregate and enjoy the same fandom.

When you think about commenting on an fanfic authors fics, don't think if it as fishing around in your pocket to give them a compliment.

Compliments are nice. Most everyone likes compliments.

"I like your character development."

"You paint wonderful imagry."

Those are comments that are compliments. Speaking for myself as a fanfic writer they're nice, but they're not what my fan heart craves.

I want engagement with my readers.

The best comments I get aren't talking about my skill as a writer, but what just happened in the story because you and I (the reader) are already fans of the world created.

Comments like:

"NOOOOOOOO!"

"Did she actually just do that?"

"EXCUSE me?!?!"

None of these comments are compliments and none are critical. They are emotionally aligned with the story. They are engaged and with this engagement we create a little community in this tiny little space we get to call ours.

I cannot stop people from saying cruel things, but I can inform those people of the "dangers" so to speak when people treat fandom spaces like Ao3 as if it's Goodreads.

Writers, who write for themselves and offer it to you out of kindness, can decide that if people are just going to spit out their cookies they don't need to post about them anymore and that is how fandom spaces die.

If you don't like the flavor of cookie they made, or you're allergic to one of its ingredients...don't eat the cookie. Put it back for someone else to enjoy and then go find the flavor you do like.

Maladaptive deeply held belief: nobody could ever love me. Im going to die alone

Positive counterthought: maybe someone has an exceptionally rare form of mental illness that would cause them to make the grave mistake of wanting to fuck me

people who write their fics directly onto archive of our own site do not fear death by the way

in all seriousness, please always keep backups of your works, write them somewhere else (google doc is a good choice) then copy and paste onto ao3 when you're done, because ao3 itself does not automatically save your works for you, meaning you can lose all of your progress

I will stand by my “fuck AI” stance until the day I die. Nothing could ever change my mind about that bullshit, especially not the fuck ass ai generated fanfictions.

Might have to lock all my stuff on AO3 and I really wish I didn't have to think about that at all

AO3 has been scraped, once again.

As of the time of this post, AO3 has been scraped by yet another shady individual looking to make a quick buck off the backs of hardworking hobby writers. This Reddit post here has all the details and the most current information. In short, if your fic URL ends in a number between 1 and 63,200,000 (inclusive), AND is not archive locked, your fic has been scraped and added to this database.

I have been trying to hold off on archive locking my fics for as long as possible, and I've managed to get by unscathed up to now. Unfortunately, my luck has run out and I am archive locking all of my current and future stories. I'm sorry to my lovelies who read and comment without an account; I love you all. But I have to do what is best for me and my work. Thank you for your understanding.

I've seen a few people asking, what's the point of archive-locking your works now, if it's already been scraped?

We've been robbed multiple times now. This is just us locking our doors at night.

Gon is bad at fashion (it’s fine he’s a middle school boy) while Killua is good at fashion. These are indisputable facts that can be seen and confirmed from a glance at the manga.

I also think we can confirm (this is based solely on the manga and art drawn by Yoshihiro Togashi himsel) that Kurapika is a fashion disaster.

Consider: he is only shown wearing suits or Kurta clothes, both of which come with a matching top and bottom. Also consider: he’s a very functional person. The use of things matters more than their appearance. Conclusion: he does not know how to match difference pieces of clothing and doesn’t care enough to learn.

Also consider: Leorio is a fashion icon and this photo is constantly rotating in my head.

Im glad I coexist on tumblr at the same time as you, dude

reading a fic and they have a canonically repressed character say something directly and proudly

i loveeee writing "he should". he should reach out. he should take his hand. he should say something. he should reassure him. he should walk away. he should let it go.

never does btw. none of it, but he really should.

what real suffering looks like

i’m going to hold your hands when i say this and i am only going to be kind about it once: ai does not belong in fandom spaces, ever. not in writing, not in art, not in video, not at all. it does not matter how bad you want to see your favourite characters kiss, or how much you need a bit of help finishing a chapter, or whatever.

make friends with artists. commission somebody. learn to draw yourself. ask for a beta read. try a writing partnership. fandom spaces are communities, so engage with them! it is about the journey and the fact that we all love something enough to create and build together about that thing.

spending 30 seconds to kill a tree and get an AI to push out some soulless empty piece of “content” is antithetical to the entire point of being engaged with fandom, and if you’ve taken to doing this you should really reconsider if you belong in these spaces with the rest of us.

I don’t get art/writers block. I am in a constant state of art/writers block. I just get very very brief, very very rare moments of art/writers clarity.

maybe this is just me idk

My five year plan is to listen to music

friendly reminder ❤️❤️

you can be either a little hungry all the time or be ashamed of your body all the time and we all know what’s worse

★ 【kieed】 「 好难.. 」 ✔ republished w/permission

Scoliosis visible during autopsy.

You look around for scara fics... everything is sex.... scaranation desires deek....

Guys pls i need like scara fics where the main focus ISNT smut i read almost everything on this app and everything on ao3😭

hey emo boy!

im fantasizing about forcing someone with a cunt to spread their legs open so i can put out my cigarette on their clitoris