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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

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The voyage home

Sometimes I see pictures and wonder if I can Escaflowne-ize them.

Idk but I feel like the blue is giving Hitomi a ghostly look, already slipping away from this world…

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they're trying to make an example out of Luigi Mangione and Briana Boston on a massive scale. the punishments are extreme and over the top. the humiliation, dehuminanization and slander is in full force. it's nowhere near how the justice system and the media treat suspects of far more heinous crimes. we've been told for decades that mass shooters who slaughter dozens of innocent people are just loners who struggle with mental health. the message is clear: the lives of regular people are expendable and the murderers who take those lives are deserving of compassion. the lives of billionaires are precious and holy, those who even SPEAK about deposing them are deserving of the full force of the law: they want to put Briana Boston in prison for 15 years. those who have the balls to do it get laid bare to the world and treated as subhuman: we know from other inmates that Luigi's living conditions are horrible, the police have released pictures of him where he's clearly urinated on himself in a sick effort to humiliate him. guilty or not he's a hero for even enduring that treatment.

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I have really enjoyed Star Trek: Lower Decks. Celebrating the finale with some fanart and taquitos.

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I didn't do enough art this year for the face your art or year of art 2024, but I did play a bunch of video games on steam. Another year of mainly playing Baldur's Gate 3 lol

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Come back to draw them for a little canon celebration 💞🎊

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WHOA!!!!! i love my friends' ocs

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me as a writer

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Rhea Ripley X Karlach

Needed to not do commission work for a day, my brain is fried :P

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Getting back into drawing some Escaflowne fanart

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If any one of my posts is to break containment, make it this one.

Before January 2025, download your favorite fics, especially those with smut or queer content.

If Project 2025 goes into effect (which it very likely will now that we have three red branches of government in the US), they may attempt to restrict the use/sharing of media on sites like ao3.

This particularly applies to fics with smut or any type of queer content, because the official Project 2025 document states, "Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children, for instance... has no claim to First Amendment protection... Pornography should be outlawed."

Now, I don't expect ao3 to disappear or go anywhere without a fight, but it's best to be on the safe side these days.

To download your favorite fics:

Go to archiveofourown.org and open the fic you want to download.

At the top right corner, to the right of the 'subscribe' button, is a button that says 'download'. Click it.

A drop-down menu will give you the option to choose the format of your download. Choose your preferred format (.epub and .pdf are my personal favorites -- .epub lets you open a fic in the apple books app and .pdf is compatible with like every device and program out there).

When you click the button for your preferred format, a pop-up window appears confirming your choices. The title of the document will default to the title of the fic, so be aware of that and consider changing conspicuous titles to something ignorable, especially if you share the computer.

You're done! Now do this with all your favorite fics!

Stay safe out there, your favorite characters are rooting for you <3

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Experimenting with new brushes and diff ways of drawing with Dilandau from Escaflowne

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Palestinian girls and women are forced to use tents as pads. People boost. Donate if you can

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heeppy hoolida

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Much like with Halloween, I am not doing anything for xmas or new years this year. Except taking time to rest.

I wish all the very tired folks some kind of time off to rest this holiday season.