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[carrots-bear]

Genius. Reblog to spread this genius

Double Kudos Alternative for AO3

As much as we all want the ability to add extra kudos to each chapter of our favorite fics on ao3, I do see fair arguments against it (such as it would consequently drown out amazing oneshot fics with multi-chaptered fics that skew the kudos ratio, etc). So, I have two proposed options instead.

1. When you love a fic so much that you double kudos and get that message of “you’ve already left kudos here :)”, I think they should nudge you toward leaving a comment instead. “You’ve already left kudos here :) You must really enjoy this fic! Why not leave a comment and let the author know :D” They don’t have to and they can easily ignore it, but it won’t mess with much of the important stats if they leave a comment to say their extra kudos and would encourage more of the positive engagement between readers and authors that we love.

2. You know how kindle ebooks can tell you which lines have been highlighted the most by the readers? I would love that feature for ao3. It can be toggled on or off and wouldn’t affect any stats at all, but it could be just an extra mini kudos within the story to let them know which lines in particular made you want to hit that kudos. My favorite comments to get on my fics are the ones where they paste in specific lines from the chapter to talk about them--it makes my day! I’m just so curious, I WANNA KNOW! But even if people don’t leave comments because they don’t know what to say, the ability to highlight their favorite parts is a good indication of their enjoyment. Plus, maybe the lines you highlight get collected into a folder in your ao3 account so you can hoard all your favorite collections of words that made you sob at 3am. I love those.

Anyway, those are my thoughts. Now back to writing.

[kiryuing]

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I love you Safety Wizard.

(Inspired by @keroascrazy)

[tendersugars]

[wild-moss-art]

This is why I read the reddit comments

[soranker]

laios985

[carrots-bear]

Pff-- Yes! Join us!

[cherchezlafemme]

[themetalhiro]

Looky here!

[keferon]

Don’t mind me I just like to see him go bananas about cartoonish Autobot rules

Maaan…..if Prowl was in tfp he would spontaneously combust at least once a day

[whalesharkstho]

pros and cons of scaring the shit out of ur big ass truck bf

(made a sort of part 2)

[spaceistheplaceart]

was gonna use terrible comic day to post this but its an idea thats been bonking around in my head for a min. if i knew how to program and the songs wouldnt all be copyrighted i would totally make this game.

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A grayscale sketchy comic.

Caption at the top: "A video game wherein you're driving alone and have to listen to the radio's clues to survive"

POV from the driver, hands on wheel with the radio to the right. It's night in a forest on a dirt road. The driver is approaching a fork in the road, indicated by a sign that points right and left. The radio plays the lyrics: "you better run, better leave this place- get lost and go a different way! go left! go left! go left! go, go!

The next panel we see the driver, who has long hair tied messily up in a bun, wearing a hoodie, a collared shirt, glasses, and has black nails. Two realistic hands reach from the darkness of the car behind them- one grabbing their arm. The radio plays: "Don't turn around 'cause you're gonna see my heart breaking-- don't turn around i don't want you seeing me cry--"

Underneath the panels are song credit. the first song is Radiant Children's "Go Left" and the second is Ace of Base's "Don't turn around"

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[livingdeadvoid]

I'd subscribe

Local food blogger Bernard Dowd and his penchant for getting into situations

Based on this post by @/chamiryokuroi

[labrayic]

Something about sunshine and rainbows and rain

[livingdeadvoid]

they had no right to be so funny yet here they are

ECCC 2023 OFMD Panel Highlights:

vico showed up in izzy cosplay, they all were very excited at having a room of 3000 people cheering for them

on being asked about becoming sex symbols: “there’s nothing sexier than kindness” -rhys

vico talking about how they had no clue on sailing and boat things, saying “starburst” instead of “starboard”

rhys started making sheep noises with a dad joke and then they all just started doing sheep impressions. samba’s was basically just a scream

vico standing up and showing off their sword “wait that’s a real sword” “how did you get that through weapons check??”

a question about who in the cast probably reads fanfic, they said nathan, paused, then said “i think con reads a lot of fanfiction”; samba gave a shoutout to rizzy

one word for what their character gets up to in s2: vico: serious gooseness (as opposed to silly gooseness) rhys: fantastical samba: let’s just say there’s more screaming

alex sherman apparently said s1 stede was a puppet becoming a real boy and s2 is stede becoming a man

on what cryptid stede would like best, rhys said “stede would go for the mermaid…or the kraken”

musical episode question, what song their character would sing: vico: tu pirata soy yo samba: let’s get it on (“as he’s torturing somebody”) rhys: rainbow connection

samba: you know, karl dies- rhys: WHAT

rhys: i wish i had stede’s hair samba: YOU DO

last question was what the toughest episode was to film samba: spoilers for s2?? moderator: how strong is your NDA? samba: very strong. there’s a sniper in the room

then vico said ep 2 was the toughest and rhys said there’s more physical stuff happening in s2, he had to workout, and samba got all the BTS

no release date or trailer, but it was a great panel with good questions and thoughtful answers

[emil1863]

the guys!!!