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Glaze is out!

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I just learned about this. It's in Beta. Please read all the information before using.

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I love this so much!!!!

Well... Someone is focusing on her training 😅

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Not really related to my last two questions, but I've been meaning to ask for a while, can Stitches see how much time someone has left to live?

Yes! He actually knows how many days a person has left to live

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Quick PSA, if you get one of those "Work scanned, AI use detected" comments on AO3, just mark them as spam.

Some moron apparently built a bot to annoy or prank hundreds of authors.

There is no scanning process, your work doesn't actually resemble AI writing, it's all bullshit. Mark the comment as spam (on AO3, not the email notification you got about the comment!) and don't let it get to you.

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Follow up question if you don't mind, does this mean Stitches is the boss's son????

b̴o̴s̶s̵ ̴d̴oesn't see it that way

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So, so interesting!

About the "changes" the boss causes, does that mean that mean that Stitches got in more trouble than Carver and Alan, or just that he's been working with the boss for longer?

Oh, Stitches was just born that way.

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How interesting!

Hola! Tengo algunas preguntas bastante específicas pero si las respuestas son posibles spoilers siéntete libre de responder ❤️

Hasta dónde entiendo Carver y Stitches son como son porque han estado en contacto con todas estas cosas paranormales ¿Fue su Jefe quien les hizo eso? ¿fue progresivo? ¿cuánto tiempo tardó? ¿dolió demasiado? Pareciera que Alan no ha sido afectado físicamente de esa forma hasta ahora ¿Por qué es eso?

Eso es todo por ahora, gracias 💋💋💋

Boss tiene favoritos a veces. Pero incluso si eres su favorito, no estarás a salvo de ningún "cambios" que haya planeado para sus trabajadores si se meten en problemas. Y a veces es simplemente impredecible.

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Carver is Alan's coworker!

There's a lot more info about him on the official Tumblr for the game (@hatchetmanofficial) if you want to check that out as well.

who tf is carver? /genq

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Fanfiction Authors: HEADS UP

(Non-authors, please RB to signal boost to your author friends!)

An astute reader informed me this morning that one of my fics (Children of the Future Age) had been pirated and was being sold as a novel on Amazon:

(And they weren't even creative with their cover design. If you're going to pirate something that I spent a full year of my life writing, at least give me a pretty screenshot to brag about later. Seriously.)

I promptly filed a DMCA complaint to have it removed, but I checked out the company that put it up -- Plush Books -- and it looks like A LOT of their books are pirated fic. They are by no means the only ones doing this, either -- the fact that """publishers""" can download stories from AO3 in ebook format and then reupload them to Amazon in just a few clicks makes fic piracy a common problem. There are a whole host of reasons why letting this continue is bad -- including actual legal risk to fanfiction archives -- but basically:

IF YOU ARE A FANFIC AUTHOR WITH LONG AND/OR POPULAR WORKS, PLEASE CHECK AMAZON TO SEE IF YOUR STORIES HAVE BEEN PIRATED.

You can search for your fics by title, or by text from the description (which is often just copied wholesale from AO3 as well). If you find that someone has stolen your work and is selling it as their own, you can lodge a DMCA complaint (Amazon.com/USA site; other countries have different systems). If you haven't done this before, it's easy! Here's a tutorial:

HOW TO FILE A COPYRIGHT COMPLAINT FOR STOLEN WORK ON AMAZON.COM:

First, go to this form. You'll need to be signed into your Amazon account.

Select the radio buttons/dropdown options (shown below) to indicate that you are the legal Rights Owner, you have a copyright concern, and it is about a pirated product.

Enter the name of your story in the Name of Brand field.

In the Link to the Copyrighted Work box, enter a link to the story on AO3 or whatever site your work is posted on.

In the Additional Information box, explain that you are the author of the work and it is being sold without your permission. That's all you really need. If you want, you can include additional information that might be helpful in establishing the validity of your claim, but you don't have to go into great detail. You can simply write something like this:

I am the author of this work, which is being sold by [publisher] without my permission. I originally published this story in [date/year] on [name of site], and have provided a link to the original above. On request, I can provide documentation proving that I am the owner of the account that originally posted this story.

In the ASIN/ISBN-10 field, copy and paste the ID number from the pirated copy's URL. You'll find this ten-digit number in the Amazon URL after the word "product," as in the screenshot below. (If the URL extends beyond this number, you can ignore everything from the question mark on.) Once this number has been added, Amazon will pull the product information automatically and add it to the complaint form, so you can check the listing title and make sure it's correct.

Finally, add your contact information to the relevant fields, check the "I have read and accept the statements" box, and then click Submit. You should receive an email confirmation that Amazon has received the form.

Please share this information with your writer friends, keep an eye out for/report pirated works, and help us keep fanfiction free and legally protected!

NOTE: All of the above also applies to Amazon products featuring stolen artwork, etc., so fan artists should check too!

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someone: hey I noticed this thing you did in your writing!

me, kicking my feet up flirtatiously: oh??? do you want to hear my thoughts on why I did that? do you want a play-by-play of the language choices in every related sentence? do you want an exhaustive breakdown of The Themes???

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PFFFT 🤣

But I take the fact that he "won't process it" to mean that he won't realize the significance of what you just called him. He might not even remember that that's his name. Calvin Salway isn't there anymore. There's only Carver.

How would Carver react to being called "Calvin" or perhaps "Mr. Salway"?

he won't process it

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I promise there is a method to my madness...

How would Carver react to being called "Calvin" or perhaps "Mr. Salway"?

he won't process it

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How would Carver react to being called "Calvin" or perhaps "Mr. Salway"?

he won't process it

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THIS IS SO COOL!

I knew right away that this was a cipher, and when I put it in a decoder I found that it was a Monoalphabetic Substitution cipher specifically. The most interesting possible solution I found was this:

Calvin Salway Crooked Snake

"Crooked Snake" I think is a reference to Carver, whose VA has a Twitter account for him with the username "@Cr00kedSnake". If that's the case, I think this could mean that Calvin Salway is Carver's real name :)

Pnyiva Fnyjnl PebbxrqFanxr

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If only I had known this sooner!

All I have to do to win a fight against Carver is throw shrimp at him >:)

Do Alan&co have any allergies? Sorry if you've already answered that

Erika is allergic to bees

Carver is allergic to shellfish

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Because just like we have hopeless romantics, we also have hopeless optimists

okay can someone explain this to me.

i keep seeing people either aim for a "no ones dead" ending or a good ending where everyone lives and i just??? don't get it??

like i understand, it's a dating game you don't want the love interests to die, but that being said this is a horror dating sim we're talking about??

someones gonna end up dead no matter what we do, no happy endings i can see so why try to find the impossible??

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Offering accepted. Welcome, fellow newcomer! :D

Just played MDHM and I am now obsessed with this guy.

I am very very new to the game, please accept my smol offering oh dear fandom : D