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  I re-blogged this (the first time) in 2014. Today, I tried half a dozen times to re-blog it, and it wouldn’t work. So, I saved the images and re-posted it. I hope it helps make life a little easier. :-)   The original post is by iraffiruse.

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i fukcing hate this show

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One of the reasons I'm never getting over BBC Merlin: it starts and you see a boarding school blond jock bullying a public school skinny nerd and you think "oh, this is gonna be one of those brawn and brains situation" and then you realise, you're wrong. There are absolutely no brains in that situation.

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The experience to solve the problem....

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If you live in a red state/red district and have never contacted your Republican reps before, now is a golden time to start. Y'all know liberal talking points won't phase them, so you need to be calling/emailing and speaking their language. Demand to know why the Republicans are soft on crime with Trump pardoning the Jan 6ers. Demand to know why Republicans hate Christian values by their attacking the Catholic Church. Demand to know why your tax payer money is going to incarcerate illegal immigrants in prisons. Gulf of America? More like why not the Gulf of Lower Egg Prices?

Call them. Most importantly, speak their language.

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THE 22ND AND FINAL CHAPTER OF SEE SOMETHING SAY SOMETHING IS UP!

T_T <3

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Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

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Hugely curious about the stats of this. I'm testing a theory. Elaborate in the tags if you please.

Please reblog!

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Who else is getting spammed with the latest generation of "I'd like to make art for your fic" comment on AO3 that turns into a relentless attempt to get your e-mail or Discord contact information?

I'm on round #3, and AO3 definitely recognizes this rigmarole as spam -- probably intended to get financial information using some excuse like a commission. It screams AI. The comments now come from Registered User accounts, and Instead of leading with an offer of art like the previous generation of guest comments, they reference some element of the fic like a character's name. If you reply, then you get the art come-on and the request to talk on e-mail or Discord; the first time, I suggested a Tumblr DM, and the reply just pushed again for the same contact info without any link to the presumed "artist's" work or other details you'd expect.

AO3 circulated a Tumblr post about the first generation of this crap, but I have not yet seen an update. If you get a fawning, generic comment from an unfamiliar Registered User that feels a little off-kilter -- as if they didn't actually read the fic -- click on the username before replying, especially if it ends in a string of numbers. You're likely to find a recently established account with no works, bookmarks, or other profile details -- just a name and maybe an avi. And if you've answered a comment from a new "reader" out of courtesy and promptly get the push to send your contact info, DON'T interact further. You can ignore the comment and AO3's spam detectors seem to track it down within a day, or you can file an abuse report.

I hate talking to robots when I call my doctor, my Internet provider or my power company, but I *really* hate having them try to fish me for personal information on AO3. Be alert and stay safe out there.

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If there’s no great, glorious end to all this…

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For no reason here is a library story

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i think rickrolling is the only meme that gets objectively funnier with age. in 2009 you learned to anticipate it but in 2019 it happens just infreqently enough that i fall for it every single time