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Joined August 2020
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(Let me be doomy and gloomy for a moment) I am so wary and uncomfortable with how visible the fanfic community is now a days. Too much spotlight and the wrong people start looking our way, people who are more than happy to try and rip our communities apart
are we fucking kidding? ts was NOT supposed to (literally) go mainstream
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🚨‼️🚨 LOCK IT UP PEOPLE 🚨‼️🚨
ao3 outage being reported on cnn is a level of being perceived that i think is extremely bad for fandom 😭😭
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just saw someone use the term fandom parasite for people who only start discourse in fandom without contributing to any sort of fanworks and giggled a little
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Unsurprising that nuance is dead but the website that scrapped ao3 and is trying to charge $ for fanworks is SO VASTLY DIFFERENT than fans sharing epubs and PDFs with other fans. Acting like these are equivalent is a misrepresentation and actually not helpful.
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Every time an AO3-scraped site pops up and everyone starts issuing DMCAs or using the site’s forms to take their work down, I just rip my hair out. Do not ever do this. It is almost ALWAYS an attempt to prey on your emotions to get your email or other data. Report to OTW and let them handle it. OTW is on the case now, as it happens. Just breathe.
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Update from the Ao3 subreddit regarding ao3(dot)life-
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ATEEZ 8ITHDAY : OUR ETERNAL STARS - a wall of messages from atinys
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all this crazy behavior since ao3 went down is another example why fandom should have stayed for the fun crazy people and never have reached the insane crazy and fake moralist people
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if there are any of my fics you want a copy of let me know and I can share a gdoc link!
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i’ve said this so many times before but this fanfic discourse is an incredible way to distinguish who only began engaging with fandom post 2020
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Found an interesting, if long winded substack that uses the Ao3 downtime happening at the same time of that HP fic being repurposed as a novel as a starting point to talk about the shift of fandom culture from gift economy to a transactional one
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my thoughts on this whole downloading fics things is a) ao3 has always had the notificable option to download fics, b) people who have survived or know about fic purges and mass deletions are going to want to save any fic they like, c) the fact that it took the longest shutdown
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you can live without reading fics for a month……. you dont need to scramble to go on some random person’s drive and read there or beg someone for a link….
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All I've seen after this AO3 shutdown is that people do not understand law and are willing to let fear dictate whatever they want and be obtuse instead of... you know. Think for 5 seconds and breathe. It's both very funny terribly disheartening to see.
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something something about corporations inserting themselves into the business of ao3, one of the last anti censorship, capitalism-free and ad-free places on the internet. #ao3outage
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AO3 is doing what every security engineer dreams of being able to do after a breach. finding evidence of a breach and getting to say “we are taking everything offline for 2-4 WEEKS to ensure it’s completely clean and do a full investigation” is unheard of with for-profit companies.
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the artist for drip visualizer YENA PARK @.yeahyeahna posted on ig !! they talked about how they had around one month for the project, wanted to capture ateez's lore while bringing out drip's unique mood and energy, mentioned they had a lot of freedom during the production process, and thanked the rest of their team. it's labeled as AI so they tried to repost but it's still there unfortunately but there's no AI ! their other work also looks very cool go check them out and show support if you can !! instagram.com/p/DfE4MUTiddc/
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i just want real art back.
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The fact that generative AI has created a fundamental doubt in reality. We now pause to check if an artwork, video, or design is even human-made before we can fully appreciate it. It has damaged the instinctive joy of it. It’s sickeningly tragic.
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bao retweeted
BRING OTPs, BROTPs, AND NOTPs BACKK
No one ever calls ships they hate NOTPs anymore, its all somethingslop now 😒
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