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i'm currently researching the actual real rules for baseball for the next chapter of tsp you people better appreciate this

[eponymousfics]

I really hate where I see fandom going with AI.

I don't want to see AI-generated writing or art, period. But it's going to get harder and harder to tell as AI improves.

Which also means that newer writers/artists who write "too good" or "too weird" will be under immediate suspicion. Which means some genuine creators will feel frozen out.

It just paints a dire picture of fandom.

[eponymousfics]

Are you getting that annoying "Buy Art from Me" spam on your AO3? Here is what to do

First - if you are a real non-spam person asking folks to commission art by commenting on their fics on AO3.. please do not do that. That is a violation of the TOS.

Second - We are working on filtering it out, and you can help! Below the cut is info on identifying the spam comments, and then how to report them in the most effective way!

So we can stop this flood of spam.

<3 Mod Remi

(Details from PAC are below the Read More)

How to identify it - 1. Comments are left by registered accounts 2. Usually, the comments are on works that have just been posted or updated 3. The comment may provide very specific compliments about the work, and if challenged, the commenter will firmly deny being a bot or scammer 4. The key identifier is that in the comment itself, or in a follow-up to any reply to the comment, the spammer will always do at least one of these two things: - Offer to create art for the work, or say that they are an artist interested in working with you - Ask if they can speak with you on another platform (they may provide their own contact details for other platforms, such as Discord, Artstation, or Instagram)

THE BEST WAY TO REPORT IT 1. Select the 'Thread' button on the comment so that you're viewing the comment's direct page 2. Scroll to the bottom and select the "Policy Questions & Abuse Reports" link 3. In the "Brief summary" field, put "spam comment" 4. In the "Description" field, put "This is a spambot" and then "The account name is [whatever account name]" – this will ensure it gets sorted correctly - Please only include 1 account in your report – if you see another, then please file a new report - Please don't re-report accounts you've already reported

What AO3 is doing about this - 1. We're implementing several measures to try and stop these spammers from making new accounts, but unfortunately, some are going to slip through our fingers 2. Fortunately, it is very easy for us to get rid of this type of spam and prevent the account from posting more – so long as it is reported to us in the correct fashion. If our auto-sorter detects the keywords in your report that will file it into our "suspected spam" folder, then it's easy for our volunteers to quickly check and handle it

[eponymousfics]

ao3 wrapped [writers edition]

How many words have you written this year?

How many works did you publish this year?

What work are you most proud of (regardless of kudos/hits)?

What work of yours has the most hits?

What work of yours got more feedback than you expected?

Favorite title you used

If you use song lyrics, which artist’s songs did you pull from the most?

Pairing you wrote the most for this year?

Favorite pairing you wrote for this year?

What work was the quickest to write?

What work took you the longest to write?

How many WIP’s do you have in your docs for next year?

What’s your longest work of the year?

What’s your shortest work of the year?

What WIP are you taking into next year with you?

What’s your most common “Additional Tags” tag?

Your favorite character to write this year?

The character that gave you the most trouble writing this year?

What’s one pairing you want to explore next year?

Which work of yours have you reread the most?

How many kudos in total did you get this year?

Which work has the most comments?

Did you do any collaborative works this year?

Did you write any gifts this year?

Did you receive any gifts this year?

What’s your most common category?

What do you listen to while writing?

Favorite work you wrote this year?

Favorite line/passage you wrote this year?

Biggest surprise while writing this year?

[eponymousfics]

i have such a clear vision for this story (except for the entire middle part)

[eponymousfics]

A software update deleted about two months worth of writing and notes for writing bc the notes that I thought were stored directly on my phone were just. Straight up disappeared and refuse to download from the cloud. Manually logging in to the cloud allowed me to retrieve notes from my last back up before I had to stop paying for the extra storage which was in September

I mostly remember what I lost but I know for a fact there was stuff there I’m never getting back bc my memory is absolute shite. Nothing that’s truly un-rewriteable but I’m still feeling pretty bad about it. Mostly bc I know I shouldn’t trust technology but time blindness means that I assumed I’d backed things up way more recently than I actually had 😑

[eponymousfics]

So a while back I was like DAMN tsp is over 150k words!

Now that I’ve posted a new chapter I’m like wait why are we still under 200k >:(

I was feeling good about what I had for it and then I kept checking the word count and going “well that’s too short >:(“ but whatever, it’s the bookend for this arc it’s ok it’s ok

I would love for things to go back to being light and breezy and dumb Matsuno shenanigans without all this pesky emotional baggage and character growth now lol

[eponymousfics]

[eponymousfics]

You find the abstract of a paper:

“‘Harvey sucks because he still charges you for passing out even if you’re married’: Stardew Valley and Ludonarrative Dissonance

Depending on where you go in fandom spaces, Doctor Harvey of the popular indie game Stardew Valley is either beloved as an ideal malewife, or beloathed as a miser who delights in taking up to 10% of your total monetary worth nearly every time you reach the end of an in-game day without hitting the Go To Sleep button yourself.

However, this criticism falls prey to the pitfalls of ludonarrative dissonance—there exists in the game Doctor Harvey: the Character, and Doctor Harvey: the Game Mechanic.

In this essay we will explore these differences of categories which in truth share only a name, and I will use the phrase ludonarrative dissonance as many times as possible because I like how it feels traveling through my brain. Also leave Harvey alone it’s not his fault there was no additional coding done to change his behavior as a game mechanic post-marriage—”

You find the rest of the essay scattered in torn and bloody pieces on the floor, with the presumable author beaten to the pulp on the tiles with the phrase SHUT UP NERD scrawled above them in their own blood.

[eponymousfics]

The author's poorly disguised fetish

The author's proudly displayed fetish

The author's fetish you're pretty sure they don't realise they have

The author's fetish which they're firmly convinced everyone has and is just pretending otherwise

The author's non-sexual special interest which just sounds like a fetish because of their habitually unfortunate phrasing

The fetish the author is making a well-meaning effort to cater to in spite of clearly not understanding it themselves

The author's fetish that never quite makes it into the text because they keep getting sidetracked by the requisite worldbuilding

The author's utterly pedestrian sexual preference which the text treats like a bizarre fetish because they've got shit to work through

The author's seemingly innocuous recurring trope they're going to have a personal revelation about ten years down the road

The author's fetish you missed on a first reading because it's so far out of pocket, it never occurred to you that you could sexualise that

[eponymousfics]

[eponymousfics]

"should we tell authors on ao3 when we have discord conversations about their fics" i don't speak for everyone here but if y'all ever find a group chat discussing my fics you can should must and WILL send me screenshots of the whole damn thing. inflate my ego. gimme

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Y’all I am depressed about the election results so let me show you this Beetlejuice Fanta I got the other day:

I. I don’t even know what flavor it was supposed to be because it just said BEETLEJUICE but naturally it was piss yellow

And tbh it tasted like sweet boiled piss also so I mean 🤷🏻‍♀️

That’s probably what he’d taste like, so—thoroughly unpleasant experience but thematically 10/10

[eponymousfics]

i want to coin a phrase that's the opposite of writer's block. call it the muse's fire hydrant. thirty thousand story ideas are being beamed directly into your brain and if you don't write them all at once you will die.

[eponymousfics]

entering a weird but welcome period of writing a tiny bit at a time for a rotating roster of random fics

[eponymousfics]

oh no my pornography is turning into an angst-filled character study

[eponymousfics]

I think it’s appropriate that my 13th overall work posted to ao3 is a Beetlejuice one lol