helenwheelsridesagain

[helenwheelsridesagain]

touch-starvation needs to be written with emphasis on the starving part. you are hungry to be touched. so hungry that even the very taste of it makes you nauseous. it has been long since anything has ever touched you, ever fed you - that your body has grown more used to that gnawing emptiness more than anything else. it's better for you to be held, to eat but it makes you sick to try. you know

[helenwheelsridesagain]

the author's barely disguised lack of socialisation and profound sense of alienation from all other human life

[helenwheelsridesagain]

Well folks I've been sitting on this little script for ages and finally decided to just go ahead and publish it. What does it do?

you can enter any ao3 link - for example, to your bookmarks or an author's works page - and automatically download all the works and series that are linked from that page in the format of your choice

if your format of choice is epub (sorry, this part doesn't work for other file formats), you can check your fanfic-savin' folder for unfinished fics and automatically update them if there are new chapters

if you're a dinosaur who uses Pinboard, you can back up all the Pinboard bookmarks you have that link to ao3

don't worry about crashing ao3 with this! this baby takes forever to run, guaranteed. anyway ao3 won't let me make more than one request per second even if I wanted to so it's quite safe

I've been working on this for about two years and it's finally in a state where it does everything I want and isn't breaking every two seconds, so I thought it was time to share! I hope y'all get some use out of it.

note: this is a standalone desktop app that DOES NOT DO ANYTHING aside from automate clicking on buttons on the ao3 website. Everything this script does, can be done by hand using ao3's regular features. It is just a utility to facilitate personal backups for offline reading - there's no website or server, I have no access to or indeed interest in the fics other people download using this. No plagiarism is happening here, please don't come after me.

[helenwheelsridesagain]

Readers, make sure you have all your favourite Ao3 fics downloaded.

Writers, make sure you have copies of all the fics you have posted on Ao3.

I don’t want to be alarming, but things could get really bad really fast. OTW shared this today on Twitter, and I'm a bit worried about it 😅

Ao3 is a non-profit organisation. If they have to start paying taxes, I have no idea what will happen.

[helenwheelsridesagain]

This is your signal to let yourself write the deranged, uncomfortable, disgusting fiction that you've been thinking about.

[helenwheelsridesagain]

The act of simply watching people have sex is itself morally neutral. That's all porn is.

[helenwheelsridesagain]

I miss these freaks

[helenwheelsridesagain]

Readers, make sure you have all your favourite Ao3 fics downloaded.

Writers, make sure you have copies of all the fics you have posted on Ao3.

I don’t want to be alarming, but things could get really bad really fast. OTW shared this today on Twitter, and I'm a bit worried about it 😅

Ao3 is a non-profit organisation. If they have to start paying taxes, I have no idea what will happen.

[helenwheelsridesagain]

Forever lol'ing at people who are like "fascists and proshippers DNI" cause it's clear they don't understand either one if they're equating the two.

The whole point of fiction is to be able to explore themes and concepts that you can't explore IRL for a wide variety of moral and legal reasons. Video games don't cause violence, and just the same, other forms of fiction that explore dark themes don't cause people to act those things out IRL either, because the vast majority of people over a certain age are perfectly capable of distinguishing between fact and fiction.

Frankly, if you're equating fascists and proshippers as equally bad, you don't understand fascists and are in a way supporting their aims. Fascist ideology requires a certain claim to purity, including in behavior. Including sexual behavior. Including what fiction is allowed to exist. Including which artists are fair game to harm. Including exceptions for their own personal tastes which would seem to violate their rules for purity and goodness.

Do you see what I'm getting at? You, the baby queer anti reading this, will still get smeared as a pedo by fascists no matter how many queer writers of weird fiction you also pedo-jacket.

[helenwheelsridesagain]

August Adipose is ON!

August Adipose is a month long drawing challenge started by kivanbay on Twitter which challenges artists to draw bodies not often represented in mainstream media!

So... why draw a fat model?

#1: Not everyone is skinny or toned. In fact, most people aren't. Drawing a fat model gives you real life practice for drawing realistic body types and shapes and helps you learn where fat can land on a human being so you're better equipped to draw convincing people!

#2: Representation matters! Since bodies vary in shape and size, seeing yourself reflected in the media you consume is important to developing a healthy body image. Fat doesn't mean unhealthy, and any little bit we can do to normalize different body types will help us unlearn years of indoctrination about skinny = healthy. You can help by including fat characters into your roster!

#3: Fat is fun! One thing I hear from people a lot is that they loved doing figurative drawings and gesture drawings of fat people the most. Let's face it - fat is really fun to draw. It gives you the opportunity to add new shapes to your artwork and can help you develop your overall understanding of light and dark.

Hope this pose helps you - happy drawing!

[helenwheelsridesagain]

you actually don't have to justify why your characters are fat. they can just be fat because they're hot

[helenwheelsridesagain]

Meant to make a “your daughter calls me daddy too” joke. What I actually said was “your daddy calls me daughter too”.

I think I just unlocked a new insecurity for someone.

[helenwheelsridesagain]

have you guys ever used that subreddit stats tool to look up kink subreddits and deduce which seemingly arbitrary groups of people have certain kinks. i’m a scientist

[helenwheelsridesagain]

siken saw his words being twisted and he’s having none of it god bless

[helenwheelsridesagain]

sword time...

based off an incredible reference a moot shared

so happy with how this came together i cant lie

[helenwheelsridesagain]

do u think omegaverse acknowledges covid-19 and the generation of people who permanently lost their sense of smell like how are they all scenting each other now is the omegaverse economy in shambles

[helenwheelsridesagain]

I just reada really good fic but halfway through I realized "oh shit this is really familiar.... didn't I write something like this once?" And as I kept reading I kept predicting what happened next and the further I went the more convinced I was that they'd ripped off my story-

like, copied the ENTIRE plot and re-written it, just better than I had? The characters were more fleshed-out than mine were, and the POV was more interesting, and the pace made more sense- but it was MY STORY?

So close to the end I was like "holy shit.. do I message them? Ask if my story inspired theirs? Should I be angry? Flattered?" Cause their tags and description didn't mention me AT ALL, which, sure, it's fanfiction to begin with, but if you're using my work than at least credit me as inspo, right? Just to be courteous?

But I get to the end of the final chapter, and it's not finished, and I'm kind of disappointed cause I never finished my story and I was really immersed in their version now and had been looking forwards to seeing how they tied up my loose ends- so I scroll to the bottom to leave a comment, and.

It's MY URL.

IT WAS MY STORY THE WHOLE TIME.

THE ONE *I WROTE*.

In *2013*.

And FORGOT ABOUT

BECAUSE I WAS SO INSECURE ABOUT MY SLOPPY, SHALLOW, AMETEUR WRITING

And I'm just sitting here now staring into space thinking about every shitty story I've ever written now like

IT WAS ALL GOOD?

IT WAS GOOD THIS WHOLE DAMN TIME??

I'M A GOOD WRITER?????