#and i know people ARE mad at ai and may for those reasons and to that all i have to say is maybe this show isn't for you. and that's okay!

[finalacts]

the tags...OOM GET BEHIND ME!!!! that is MY meow meow who has done no wrong. and that is also namtan’s meow meow who has done no wrong

i really don't see ep 12 as her giving ai and may her "permission" to pursue a relationship? if anything it was more so her finally recognizing the sacrifices both of them have made for her, taking accountability for causing them pain, and letting them know they don't have to do that for her anymore.

and like it or not oom DOES have a role in their relationship, it's uhhh what happens when you pretend to be your twin sister to break up with her gf for her and end up falling in love instead while still pretending to be your twin sister 😭 it's why oom tells them to let go of their current relationship and build something new, something away from the lies that ai and may's first relationship was founded on.

if you're mad at her for this then you might as well be mad at ai for not telling her sister to fuck off earlier and at may for not telling ai to tell her sister to fuck off, or for walking away when ai didn't. but fundamentally that's not who these characters are and that's been known from like. episode 2

[breserker]

im noticing a disconnect. people are lamenting that they want people to read books more (as an indie author i agree read mine) but then i go onto youtube and see video after video mocking and making fun of books they clearly dont like for even existing.

im not talking about ai books or booktoks nonreading trend, im talking about books that were written and published being sneered at for having predictable and problematic elements. I cant get over the thumbnails ive seen where a book clearly billed as a gothic romance being derided for having a teacher student dynamic (gods forbid! it should have incest next time like the old gothic novels of yore that are cemented into the literary consciousness) or for fucks sake taking a clearly fetish romance book and splaying the "YOU SPAYED MY MATE" line as if its a condemnation of literary value when its just fucking wank material, get over it??

and i know you may be like but these books are bad and written bad and you fucking know what? i dont care. dunking on them is for groups of likeminded friends. and i know a huge problem is youtubes algorithim is designed for farming negativity, positive love for books get less viewed partially because they dont get pushed!

the point is. how the fuck is bashing books you deem problematically beneath you going to foster a love of reading. how is that going to foster authors who are bold in what they want to write even if you find it skeevy or wrong or bad. how are we going to encourage a healthy relationship to books of all kinds in a wide variety by condemning them?

and its like. some negative reviews ive clicked into have been nuanced and thoughtful. even of my favorite books! those ones rarely lean into the awful thumbnail culture youtube has. the point is not to never negatively review something, the point is to pull back from the slavering feast of enjoying bashing someones work for having offkilter tropes. am i judging a book by its cover? certainly. thats how thumbnails are supposed to work in this landscape.

i want to listen to more book reviewers but i cant get over the culture youtube has fostered. yes the publishing industry is very fucked right now, i decided to go the way i did with my books because of it. yes omg a book like that can be published....and you can too!!!!!!! alright? fuck. shit.

a book is so hard to finish writing, man. there are books far more worth this level of scrutiny, often in the nonfiction section like fucks sake doormat mom just released a book and its harrowing to read for all the wrong reasons. that feels like itd be influential of toxic people to remain toxic. because thats directly what its targeting, not some fictional wank material based off hormonal caste systems and also no one remembers what gothic actually means anymore.

christ im so mad. if you want people to love books you want them to love books. controlling what that love looks like and what books its directed at means you care more about controlling peoples values and tastes more than people loving books

[kittiesandkillers]

Nononono keep going I wanna hear about freaky kylar

Fine but it's not my fault if you're traumatized by the headcanons section.

Vrel said that Kylar is one of the kinkiest characters but they themself aren't aware of it since we're their first partner.

Kylar obviously has a breeding kink so I don't have to explain myself there.

Kylar is also strongly implied to be masochistic(to a lesser extent than Sydney, of course).

There are a couple of scenes that show that they're into some light knife play. The knife play becomes not so light when Kylar's at high jealousy.

The fact that they gave us a gift with a camera in it may imply that they're into voyerism. Not to mention the fact that they're a literal stalker.

The (semi) public sex scenes show some light exhibitionism (not even close to that of Whitney's though).

(High jealousy) Kylar is one of, if not the only character who has a somnophilia scene despite Vrel's comment about not wanting to add much somnophilia since they themself aren't into it.

They absolutely have a marking kink, it just makes sense. The scenes that imply it are there.

They might be a little bit sadistic based on some of their high jealousy scenes.

Kylar is a panty thief which means that they definitely have a scent kink.

I'm 90% sure that they choke us at least once during a high jealousy scene, and Vrel said that they'd be into being choked.

This isn't a kink per se but they canonically use their own drawings as masterbation material and Vrel said that they'd do the same with AI generated images of us as well.

Also they own a custom made sexdoll that looks just like us so that's gotta count for something.

(Update) Bondage is a maybe purely because they have tied us up, mainly to kidnap us but I'll count it regardless.

And those are the ones that I can back up with evidence.

I've seen a few people saying 'Kylar would be into (insert nasty thing here)' and I, unfortunately agree with a lot of them. So here's my grossness warning.

'Painting' us, which is supported by a scene where we're wearing a chastity belt.

Jerking off on/in our clothes and making us wear it afterwards. Which is supported by their marking kink and their scent kink.

Wanting us not to bathe so that they can get off better to our smell. As supported by their scent kink.

Similarly to 3, not wanting us to change our clothes as often so that our smell is stronger/lasts longer when they steal our clothes to get off to.

Carving their name into us, only at max jealousy of course. As supported by their knife play kink, their marking kink and their sadism at max jealousy.

Mad/sad jerking it to pictures of us online because how else would they know about all those photos of us without actively searching for them?

Pleasuring themself with any gift that we give them.

Giving us food with their bodily fluids mixed into it. This is one of the reasons why their food is so bad.

Piss kink but only at max jealousy because they'd get bladder shy otherwise. (Edit: piss kink made canon.)

(Update) Fucking our pillow and or blankets because it smells like us and to make something of ours smell like them for the same reasons as number 2.

(Update 2) Honestly, probably anything that has to do with our bodily fluids.

[yuseirra]

I honestly think there's a reason for having written Kamiki's character this way, I can sense it, if this isn't all. I ACTUALLY have a good idea how it's going to be and why it's like this. I jotted something down again...I keep talking about it because I feel like I can catch a glimpse of what they're going for in terms of what they want to do with this character. If you like him or the hikaai ship, it might give you hope~☺

I wrote this as a memo after having drawn that most recent comic with him and Ai, it may add to the context- my comics are based on my intepretations and analysis I have of them. It reflects those.

Yranslated in bulk through the trusty chatgpt 4.0..^^.. I do read it over before posting it but if there's anything awkward...it wasn't originally written in English so please be easy on me..!

This character(Kamiki) seems to have a very lonely personality. Ai has a slightly avoidant temperament, so she endures things alone, handling everything herself without relying on others. But this character genuinely loves being around people. Because of that, he finds it difficult to let go of people, easily trusts others, and, even though he gets hurt, still has a desire to build connections. In some ways, this desire is even stronger than Ai's; Ai is content if she can express herself and form a meaningful relationship with one or two people she truly cherishes. However, Kamiki has always liked being around people. It’s not so much that he’s extroverted—he just seemed to enjoy being around others. Due to environmental issues, he developed some anxious tendencies, but if he had grown up naturally, true to his nature, it’s likely that he, not Ai, would have been the one to act affectionately. You can tell by his expressions—he looked so happy, so joyful, and delighted. When he looked at Ai, he seemed like he almost didn’t know what to do with himself because he was overjoyed. He naturally had a love for people(more than Ai in a way because Ai started out cynical- they are in reverse. Kamiki starts out having a natural affection towards people and ended up becoming heartless while Ai started out being wary, then she started to find genuine love. They both are "loving" but I'm talking about their nature of development), and all that affection ended up ultimately being directed at Ai, who had shown him love. He adored people like a puppy, even when he was kicked around, and wanted to keep loving them.

But after losing Ai in such a terrible way, his heart completely withered away. In fact, it feels like the Kamiki we knew died when Ai did.

He changed completely, becoming someone entirely different.

This character's past is filled with suffering, and he is extremely isolated, which feels very unnatural given his personality and appearance. It seems like he never met anyone other than Ai who treated him kindly and warmly, and it’s as if he had no real family relationships either. Normally, in a natural situation, this kind of isolation would be unlikely. It’s not like he had a bad personality, wasn’t attractive enough, lacked intelligence, or had no abilities—he was superior in many ways. Yet, strangely, his life is downright miserable. There are lives like that, but in his case, it seems as if his happiness has been deliberately designed to be absent without Ai.

If I were the writer crafting this character, that would be the main reason for having made him like this.

To ensure that this person, who was decent to this extent, ended up living solely for Ai, I would push his life to such extremes. Making him so blindly dependent on Ai that he couldn’t possibly live without her. The character would be created so that Ai becomes his entire world. He would be willing to give everything, sacrifice anything, live entirely for Ai. But even with all that said, Kamiki wasn’t inherently the kind of person who would go completely mad, even under the worst circumstances. His basic nature wasn’t like that; he wasn’t the type to harm others. He was genuinely gentle and sensitive by nature. Now, he has completely lost his mind, which means there must have been a critical external factor that pushed him over the edge.

That’s what the songs are describing.

In a way, that’s a source of hope, because without it, how could he possibly be saved? It would be hopeless!! What’s the point of trying to save a person so evil and corrupt to the brim? But Ai asked to save him, right? So, it has to be done. For a character like Kamiki, what matters most is Ai’s will, from a narrative standpoint. Even if he says, “I’m beyond hope; I’m a criminal and can’t be saved,” if Ai says, “No, you deserve help,” then that’s how it should go. In this story, who matters more? Ai or Kamiki? It’s Ai, right? Kamiki exists because of Ai, and he is a character who moves according to her presence. He’s simply a character created for Ai. I like it :) Writing stories like that and creating characters like that—it’s quite common in romance stories. Even if you don’t study it, you get the sense of it just by observing.

If I were the writer, I would feel sorry for this character. I had to create him this way for the story (for characters like Nino and Ryosuke, I’d feel sorry because they were designed as villains from the start, but for this character, I’d feel sorry for making his life like this and breaking him to pieces). I probably wrote it this way because it was necessary for the story.

If I were in charge, I’d make sure to give the character enough focus in the story. I would definitely do that.

And if it were up to me, I would never let this character end like this without achieving anything, even once. Even for a villain, if they’re a proper one, they should be given some spotlight. If not, well, then they aren’t really the final boss, are they? Look at what’s happening now. It just makes you think, “Wow… this guy has lost it,” and, “Oh, he wants to see Ai (but is this true love or obsession?)” That’s what you think when you take a step back and just look at it. The character has depth, but this just doesn’t feel satisfying. Looking at the authors’ capabilities, it’s not that they can’t write it properly; they’re just holding it back for now.

It’s really cruel, the way they handle this character. But... if my guess is right, this author’s way of handling characters may be quite similar to mine. I get it, so I end up talking a lot.

When someone creates something beautiful and then completely shatters it, leaving no trace of its original form, it’s not without a reason, as long as it doesn’t come from sadistic intent.

Well... if it turns out they’re doing this just because they lack space in the story, or the effort for proper development, then it'd explain them having given them those two really good songs out of pity. But I hope that's not it. Either way, you'd feel sorry for this character from a writer's standpoint. That'd be the case for me since for me, my characters are like my children or a part of me. You don't make them suffer for the sake of plain suffering...at least, it's not the way I work. I guess I can't say for the writer's behalf but I feel like they do care about their characters. It's inevitable to a degree, if you want to form a character's heart and mentality. You have to dive into them in order to create a complex state of mind. And Kamiki's probably pretty complex. We can't seem to get a clear idea of him, but it does seem like he'd be a lot more than just a flat piece of paper.

It’s almost like, just like in the song "Dead and Seek," he wished to see his deceased lover again, and then something crept into his eyes, shattering and twisting his personality. The songs seem to imply that. If he were just a normal character, I wouldn’t even bring this up. He was someone who practically didn’t have a single malicious bone in his body.

Ai also often misses the mark, but she doesn’t seem to have any intention of hurting others. Aqua and Ruby, on the other hand, have those aspects, and while they can be negative, those traits are also what make them more human in a way.

But with Ai and Kamiki, those traits were almost entirely absent. It’s like they were divine beings in a way. That's actually why I feel...it may be that his responsibility of what brought him to be this way could actually be less than what we may make out of it. If someone contaminates water and dirties it, the water is not at fault but the person is. This boy...started out to be so pure. I guess he should be held responsible, he should be punished for his wrongdoings if he's done so many horrible things, but he didn't start out like this and I'm not sure if he could have become this way while being himself. It really gets me. And that's honestly the only way I see Ai's wish bearing fruit.

[maespri]

like a dog

hi i'm just joesara posting. that's all this is. like. man i love joesara. i can see them both romantically and platonically and either way their relationship is just. so beautifully devastating.

like here is sara, who is always doubting herself. and then joe, who's always countering her self-loathing. sara, who thinks she's too intense and hurts people too much. joe, who tells her that it isn't always a bad thing. sara who can't forgive herself for his death, who blames herself for pointing out that he wasn't the sage, who begged miley to let her switch places with him. and joe, who just tells her she's his best friend and he loves her when he's about to die. who tells everyone they're his friends, that he doesn't blame them.

joe, who carried around a dog keychain sara got him in his pocket for ages, who has accessories with bones on them, who tells sara he will stay loyal to her, "like a dog." who walked back to school after going on a date with her best friend, a date during which he just talked about her, because he knew she was scared of her stalker, who went to the fair with her in her minisode because of the same reason. this guy who sees her "flaws" as her strengths and supports her in whatever she decides to do.

i think the fact that she doesn't realize just how important he was to her until after he's gone is what gets me. he was always telling her she's his best friend, but it's not until she's talking to a robot version of him that she finally gets to reciprocate that, and i just know she'll always be carrying around so many "i wish i told him"s in her heart. but what i think is also so beautiful about her overcoming some of that grief and moving toward acceptance (at least in the emotion route) is that she realizes joe wouldn't blame her.

and i don't think it's entirely because of his AI. it's because she knew him.

sure, it's his AI that tells her that- but sara is well aware that isn't him. what she does finally realize in that moment, however, is that the real joe would forgive her. that he wouldn't be mad at her. that he doesn't blame her because that's not the kind of person he is. she forgives herself because of her own internal strength and memories. she forgives herself because he loved her no matter what.

and she keeps going. she lets go of the blame, but she doesn't lose those good memories she had with him. she lets what she learned from him strengthen her rather than hold her back. she internalizes the same things he always said to her and uses it to become better herself, to uplift the people around her who are still alive. she decides she's going to do everything she can to keep everyone alive because she doesn't want anyone to go through the same thing she did after losing joe. he's carrying her, he's carrying the narrative, long after he dies. spreading goodness.

they're eternally devoted to each other, even beyond the grave.

i Just played her minisode for myself (after watching it some time ago) and i was struck with all these thoughts about them once again. i think what especially gets me is the fact that i think sara did have a crush on him and just. didn't have enough time to sort through her own thoughts, or tell him. there are so many moments, both in her minisode and in the game, where i think it shines through. and that's just another "what-if?" she may not realize for a while, but will always be in the back of her head.

i don't think grief is nearly as... "simple," for lack of a better word, as it's kind of shown in your turn to die. i do love the portrayal of it for what the situation dictates, but if/when sara ends up getting out of the game, and all the survival instinct wanes and she has time to fully process it... i feel so bad for her. there's nothing that won't remind her of him. there's nothing she won't miss. there's nothing she won't wonder about. all of that, it just. god it all makes me so sad.

i don't like when people say "move on" when referring to grief. i think that implies leaving it behind, and if you ever really love something, i don't think it's possible to just put it down and leave it there. but i do hope it gets easier for her to carry it around with her the same way it briefly began to in the death game.

anyway. in the end, it really just comes down to a very simple tragedy; two best friends who would do anything for each other only having the option of doing nothing.

yeah i'll be thinking about them for a while

[mistress-of-malevolence]

For this year's Mer-may (which I definitely didn't almost forget about) I present Angler Fish N & Octopus Uzi~ just the sketches though.

◀◁Possible AU details below? ▷▶ Warning: Long.

Ok, so I've never really made an AU before. Still, While I was designing these I was trying to figure out how the sea/ocean creatures would work good not just with their respective species (worker, disassembly) and abilities but also how I could integrate their pre-existing designs so that they would look nice and make sense.

First, I decided I didn't want them to be robotic for this since I like working with organic creatures a bit more. Having flesh eliminates most movement restrictions when posing since the body material is malleable. while the idea of robot mermaids is cool, I didn't feel like drawing a bunch of joints and stuff like that. Second, If they were organic then I needed to figure out why they were fighting if it wasn't for a huge human plot to destroy rouge AI. And finally, how was I going to incorporate their powers like absolute solver and other such stuff without necessarily using technology. Having all these things in the back of my head while I was drawing led to the following, so without further ado, here's that ↓. This gonna be long, I can already feel it...

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◇Story stuff.

A long time ago, merpeople ruled the water in peace. Humans kept to the land and the only thing they had to worry about were the sirens: Natural predators to the merpeople.

In the eyes of the merfolk, sirens were dangerous. Mindless, bloodthirsty monsters that couldn't be reasoned with. fortunately, their naturally heightened senses left them sensitive to sunlight. This kept them mostly contained to deeper, darker waters than the merpeople usually inhabited.

During the day it was safe to hunt, play and generally flourish as a species and at night they would hide in sea caves and other small spaces that a siren would have trouble fitting into.

That's how it was for many peaceful years. Occasionally one or two would die a victim to the monsters of the deep, but that was just nature.

But slowly as time moved forward and Humanity continued to develop, the merpeople were driven to deeper waters to escape pollution and being hunted.

Uzi's mother, Nori began having visions of a terrible fate that awaited her kind if things continued as they were and after weeks of pleading with her people and her husband to heed the warnings, she went to the sirens alone. for what reason? No one really knows. It's a mystery that only she knew the answer to.

After getting stung by the sirens paralyzing venom, her husband Khan made the heartbreaking decision to put Nori out of her misery before the sirens could do any worse, leaving him to raise their infant daughter Uzi by himself.

The incident resulted in a lot of deaths and many of the families of those that had passed blamed Nori. Saying that she was a mad woman and rumouring that she was a witch who had been meddling in dark magic that caused her to lose her mind and wander towards her death.

Seventeen years later, Uzi had grown up to be an unstable and particularly angsty teenager with a strained relationship with her colony and her father. Uzi believed that the ever-looming threat of the sirens was not something to hide from, but to confront head-on. Such notions labelled her as her mother's daughter in the worst ways possible: Crazy, an incident waiting to happen, most likely going to get eaten by a siren for reasons they will never understand.

Khan had kept the colony safe since Nori's death by having everyone hide away in a cavern big enough to house them but with an entrance so well hidden that everyone believed that the sirens would never find a way in.

Inevitably, Uzi grew tired of cowering and after fashioning the first semi-modern weapon her people had seen out of sea trash and other things humans had chosen to toss into their waters, she snuck out to confront the enemy.

The siren's lair was decorated rather grimly, with the nest seemingly fashioned out of the bones of long-dead mermaids, skulls stacked up together to make the walls of the lair. Inside the dimly lit den was a single male siren who was in the middle of feasting on a mummified corpse which looked to have been drained of all its blood.

As soon as he noticed her, he rushed toward her with killing intent. Uzi's fight or flight kicked in as she brandished her weapon, but it failed to deter the monster in his bloodthirsty craze. He grabbed her by the shoulders, stinging her with the paralyzing toxin in his Claws. Uzi barely managed to break free from his grip by slashing his face with her weapon, sending him reeling back from shock.

Uzi immediately felt her limbs growing heavier but ignored it in favour of taking the opportunity to take the Siren by surprise. While he was distracted she threw her weapon to the ceiling causing an avalanche of skulls to come crashing down on top of him. Uzi had only a moment to breathe, thinking her enemy was buried and dead before a clawed hand burst through the top of the pile like a zombie about to dig itself out of the grave.

Panic surged through her and with as much strength she could muster she pushed away the darkening of her vision and forced the few tentacles that didn't refuse to move to propel her forward with enough force to hopefully finish the job.

The siren's head burst through the pile of death with a groan of pain, but before he could do anything else, he was knocked unconscious as rock made contact with his already aching head.

All was silent for a moment, Uzi fighting for consciousness as her vision continued to darken, whether she was just crashing from the adrenaline or if the toxin was shutting her brain down she wasn't sure. but then the monster woke up, a confused look on his face as he pulled himself out of the skeletons. he blinked and turned his attention to the little creature before him.

"Did you just hit me with that rock?"

"Holy crap it talks."

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◈Extra details.

-The sirens and Humans have a deal with each other that if the humans drive the Mer-people deeper into siren territory the sirens will kill the species off in exchange for making them more powerful.

-Apparently, the humans want them dead because they are considered a threat, and can't be reasoned with.

-this is a giant lie on the human part, as they have made no attempt to talk with the merpeople and plan to kill all the sirens after the mermaids are dead.

-Rather than absolute solver being a program I'm changing it to being some form of magic that the humans discovered mermaids had after analyzing corpses that had washed ashore.

-In order to gain this power plan on reverse engineering it from the merpeople's remains while eliminating the prospective threat to humanity at the same time.

-The humans claim that they will make the sirens more powerful by implementing them with tech that will supposedly allow them to live and hunt during the day.

-This tech would actually be something of a remote detonator that once activated would be used to kill all the sirens off at once.

-I haven't decided if all sirens are angler fish, but probably not because that would be boring for me to design.

-Not all merpeople are Octopi though, that's for sure.

-I'd say that since merpeople can be the same species without necessarily being based around the same sea creature, the babies would simply take after one parent entirely.

-This would make sense in this as to why Uzi looks like the spitting image of her mom.

-While trying to figure out Absolute Solver I was really channelling Ursula for Uzi with the skull and the octopus stuff and it all just kinda resulted in sea-witch.

-Both mermaids and Sirens got bioluminescence as a default so that we don't gotta stifle that glow they got in canon.

-Since it wouldn't make sense for fish to have screens and stuff of their faces and bodies, those dark areas where the face-screen would be are just body markings now.

-Uzi's hat is now a sea anemone that just kinda chills on top of her head, kinda like how they do with crabs in real life.

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I know this was really fucking long but if you made it to the end, thank you very much for reading❤️

Im still workshopping this and I don't even know if anyone has already done something like this. I wouldn't be too surprised if they had since it's May and Mermaids are pretty popular... idk, if I make a fic I'll let you know.

[kumo-taoc]

A list of taocc characters and what I think their pokemon type/types would be and why

Kumo: Water/Normal

I struggled with this one a little, but I picked this because clouds are made of water, and kumo has sort of a cloud sweater! But kumo's just an all-around goofball, so I just put Normal as his second type.

Stitch: Grass/Rock

I chose grass for stitch because burlap is made of some sort of plant, and rock because sand is just a bunch of tiny little rocks.

Belle: Poison

This one shouldn't be hard to understand, but I'll explain anyway. She's made of poisonous sludge.

Icia: Ice/Steel

The ice one should be pretty self-explanatory, and I chose steel because she's a skilled swordfighter.

Bob: Ghost

...

Sign: Normal/Grass

Now, I may not know much sign lore, but I DO know that signs are usually made out of wood. Sign seems like a pretty normal guy, though.

Sun: Fire

I mean, she IS a burning ball of gas. Also, her arms are fire now!

Dusk: Dark/Ice or Dark/Fairy

Darkness just kind of fits with dusk. Also, it's usually dark around dusk (time of day) anyway. I couldn't decide the second type for her, and here's why. I chose ice because I remember elsie saying something about how she's connected to ice somehow, and it's usually cold around dusk (time of day). And fairy because dusk seems to be connected to them somehow...? I think?

Jessy: Grass/Fairy

I chose grass for jessy because he's made of wood! And, like, his wife has the fairy type, so why shouldn't he?

Clara: Grass/Steel

I chose grass for clara for the same reason as jessy and steel because of that sword they've got!

Abstraction Anon: Dark/Electric

Well, he lives in the cellar, which is VERY dark, and abstraction hurts. Guess what else hurts? LIGHTNING! /silly

Dialtone: Dark/Electric

Dialtone seems to be the kind of person who likes to sit in the dark. Also, he sleeps a lot. And he loves (old) phones and has phone cords, so electric just seemed right.

Alchemist: Poison/Bug

The poison part seems pretty obvious, and I chose bug because he's a tiny lil guy who I can probably crush under my shoe. (also mod bug ehehehe)

Helpful Anon: Flying

Helpful anon is just so... "helpful anon" that no other type seemed right.

Mix: Poison/Bug

Alcohol is a poison. Also, he's a butterfly now!

Kopi: Poison/Fighting

Kopi's got that weird pink goo that she shoots at people... ew... also, kopi has been described to be very strong!

AI Kopi: Steel/Bug

AI Kopi has those metal spider legs coming out of her back, so that works for steel AND bug! Also, she seems severely weakened, and bugs are notoriously weak.

D.R.U.N.K.I.E.: Steel/Electric

He's a robot (or more accurately, an ai that acts more like a robot than an ai)!

Drunkie: Normal/Poison

Again, alcohol is a poison! But other than that, he's just a normal guy!

Simp Anon & Lucy: Normal

They're just normal girls!

Chance: Fighting/Normal

She could probably beat someone up if she was really mad, but other than that, she's just a silly little girl with a silly little sandbag boyfriend!

Nightmare: Dark

Well, she's done a LOT of bad things, AND dark is, like, part of her theme and design.

Tophat: Dark

He's not AS bad as nightmare, but he's also done some pretty mean things. Also, he lives in a cave.

Aoki: Water/Ice

He lived in a forest where it constantly rained, he can probably summon rain/thunderclouds, and he... uh... does things with ice/cold. He can even control the temperature in a room!

Calypso: Normal

Welp, that's it for now!

She's just a silly little pillow person!

Thanks for reading all the way to the end! Have some cookies!

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[the-catboy-minyan]

i'm trying to comprehend your points about the terf-focused jkr discussion instead of holocaust denial focus, you are getting at something here i want to really understand from your perspective. i think people often come at these events through the lens of their own experience - for me i would fall under the mentally ill group that nazis identified as unworthy of existence but i don't see the holocaust at large as a primarily mental health community focused event, it was obviously an ethnic cleansing. i never put myself into the place of people targeted for ethnicity, religion, etc. by the nazis. i guess i'm asking - are you asking people to remember the totality of the holocaust and its staggering impact on Jewish people, not just take a detail and magnify it to focus on groups that have gained visibility in recent decades? if i misunderstand pls let me know! i want to understand these topics better, but if you don't want to explicate it that's all good too!

hi anon, thanks for the ask. sorry that my post wasn't clear, my thought process is a bit weird at times and i sometimes accidentally try to make multiple points at once, or forget my point halfway.

my problem wasn't that people are focusing on queer aspects of the holocaust too much, I'm queer myself. my problem was that people (in general) looked at JKR's behaviour and acted like:

of course she would stoop this low to engage in holocaust denial, she's a terf! only "evil" people can do such a vile thing as holocaust denial.

saying Nazis didn't burn books about gender affirming care is the worst act of holocaust denial you can engage in ever!!!

it being holocaust denial is a major part of why it's horrible.

now for why I think that:

pretending like only objectively horrible people like JKR are the only people who engage in holocaust denial is ignoring the rise of holocaust denialism we've seen from both the right and the left in recent months. there are people who have actively denied parts of the holocaust "calling out" jkr on it, while also insisting they're not denying parts of the holocaust because "they're right and the history books are wrong actually".

people are tweeting "hitler was right" or "hitler should have finished the job" every fucking day, recently AI translated videos on one of his speeches got circulated on social media positively. people are denying the death count is really 6 million Jews, or that the holocaust happened at all. JKR is denying specific books were burned, not that book burnings never happened or that they "weren't that bad", it's disgusting but it's nowhere near as bad as people make it out to be.

she's not denying those book burnings because she thinks there's no way Nazis would have stooped this low or whatever, she's denying them because she can't fathom trans people existing in history (the horror!). is it holocaust denial? well it's an important event that happened as part of the holocaust and she's denying it, so technically yes, but she's denying it because she's transphobic, not because she's actually denying a holocaust event. like, the reason people are mad isn't because they were burned during the holocaust and she saying they weren't, it's because it was books about trans research and she's saying they never existed.

I hope this makes more sense, thanks again for the ask, I highly respect people going out of their way to listen to other people's perspectives (this is something I also try to do myself). please feel free to engage with and discuss this post and my take, this is my personal opinion, not an objective fact, and others may see this differently.

[icypantherwrites]

Update on AO3 Situation + Final RAINN Support Event

(this is a little long, but please, if possible, read to the end.)

AO3 has *finally* reinstated my fanfiction To Become the Nightmare and in a way this nightmare situation is over. I'm still extremely frustrated and disappointed though with AO3 especially as I am 99.9% certain the only reason my issue was finally addressed was because I tagged their support page on Twitter/X rather than any of my emails and communications to their actual Policy and Abuse team. They also provided no apology or reason for the delay or an explanation for why their staff provided a 1-week timeline that they then ignored for 3.5 weeks. I'm grateful to have my story back, but this entire ordeal has been awful in so many ways.

I will also admit on a personal note it was also disheartening to see how many folks sent me messages, asks (to the point I locked them down on Tumblr) and comments on AO3 stories (of which I'd know there'd be even more if AO3 hadn't made the blanket decision to lock down all guest comments) wanting to know where I'd be updating now, getting upset over the fact I use Patreon as they don't want paywalls to read my works, asking about the status of current stories and former stories, etc. and very rarely, if at all, even taking into account how all of this was affecting me.

I have poured years into posting on AO3, on making it a platform where I have over 2.5 million words worth of stories for everyone to enjoy, and am dealing with AO3 painting me as some villain because I linked to an organization to try to help sexual assault victims, and their complete lack of communication on top of all of that felt intentional. It's put me in a really bad mental health state and coming in daily to see multiple people asking and asking about how will *they* read my stories and making me feel guilty for not updating just... it really hurt. And the answer was I didn't know entirely what was going to happen and was still hoping for the best outcome with AO3. And contrary to some of the accusations I received, I never intended to put all of my new and upcoming works behind a Patreon paywall and certainly never planned to delete any works other than the single one I mentioned (and I explained why that was). I may have used Patreon's platform (because it has better formatting than say Tumblr) and made the works posted there available to the public (anyone can join as a free member, fyi), but that was never the end-game and the fact so many people got mad and angry and posted honestly kind of cruel asks and comments... I'm really hurt. I'm a person too and I share my works with my own time and energy and to have everyone so embroiled in this "me me me" energy when I was really struggling with what AO3 did, just... makes me not want to post anymore anywhere at all. I won't do that because I won't punish those folks who have been supportive and kind, but please, take a moment before you comment to think how it feels to be the recipient of a message like that. That's all the energy left I have to spend on that but please, be kind. Be understand. Be appreciative for what you do have and remember always that authors have feelings too.

Going forward I'll be looking to get back to updating existing stories and publishing some backlog on AO3 during this suspension/lock; however, I will be holding off on that until AO3 lifts their own blanket ban on guest comments as I know there are plenty of folks who prefer to engage that way and/or haven't yet been able to get accounts. You may have seen as well that my account, given that it seems to be AI-bots leading the reason for the guest ban, has been locked down to only AO3 accounts able to read my works. That will remain in effect until AO3 releases theirs and it may be something I ultimately do to protect my account and my works in the future, but for now once the current AO3 situation has been resolved that will go back to access to guest accounts as well.

In the meantime, with To Become the Nightmare restored and the fact my earlier RAINN support events have thus far yielded $2 for me to donate (which hurts in other ways xD Come on y'all, financial support for a great organization and some emotional support and love for the author, what's not to like about that?) I'm going to do one final event to try to raise some funds for RAINN and at least try to make a small, positive difference in all of this mess.

For the remainder of this week, anyone who leaves an engaged comment (100+ words, no quote-backs in that word count, about the fanfiction at hand) on To Become the Nightmare I will donate $2 per comment to RAINN. It would also personally mean a lot to me as this story never really had a lot of comment engagement in the first place AND on top of that it got a really, really toxic comment. I unfortunately get those folks regularly on sexual assault recovery fanfictions I write because they refuse to accept that everyone heals in different ways AND also refuse to take accountability where if they don't like what they're reading they have the power to hit the back button on their browser and just not read it. I left that particular comment up (you can see it on page 2) if you want a taste of some of the people I still encounter to this day. Anyways, it would mean a lot to hear from those who may want to read it, but given that it both a; has sexual assault and b; is an M-rating please do read it at your own discretion. I'm posting the full summary below and please read the warnings tagged on the story. I'll post an update at the end of the week with how much we managed to raise for RAINN (and if you'd like to donate on your own too, please feel free~! ♥)

To Become the Nightmare

Summary: [College AU] “And if you didn’t want to have fun,” nails dug into Lance’s skin as the grip tightened and Dios, he couldn’t move, he couldn’t move, “then you shouldn’t have been such a pretty little tease, freshie. You wanted to hang with the big boys? Well,” he chuckled, “welcome to the real party.” Hot breath wafted over Lance’s face as the upperclassmen smirked down at him. “Now let’s get it started.”

[hallowmoon-art]

TouchStarved - Potential Character Alignments

I wanted to see if I can guess the possible moral alignments of the TouchStarved LIs.

Ais - Chaotic Neutral.

While he seems to like getting into fist fights, Ais doesn't seem to be the type to constantly seek them out. He likes to relax and do his own thing for the most part. It could take a lot to make him truly angry, but once he's mad, he's mad and the city may lose a block or two or more. Though he probably doesn't care whether or not he hurts people, it's unclear if he likes finishing off enemies or not. Or if he just sometimes kills randos on the street bc he's pissed. So Chaotic Neutral teetering on Chaotic Evil I would say for now. "Chaotic Neutral creatures follow their whims, valuing their own freedom and self-interest above other concerns. Such creatures dislike being ordered to do things, and pay no regard for rules or other creatures’ expectations. And, while they are not always selfish to the point of harming others (for no reason), they feel no compulsion to help other creatures in need."

Leander - Lawful/Neutral Evil

From, what's been released about Leander, he seems to be the "good guy." Wanting to make his home a better place. But, looking at those designer bags under his eyes, he's losing sleep over something. My running theory is that he goes Dexter on his enemies. He very much has his own moral code, but by society's rules, he knows its wrong. So that's why I'm guessing Lawful Evil. If that's not the case, and he's just losing sleep over constantly trying to become more powerful, then my guess would lean a little more to the Neutral Evil side. But Leander is the hardest one for me to come to a decent conclusion.

Lawful Evil creatures act within a code of behavior, but are otherwise self-centered. They are often tyrants, or would be if they could, seeking to use their code of behavior to advance their own interests.

Neutral Evil creatures are self-interested, and do whatever they can get away with to advance their own interests. They might follow rules if it serves them, but they do not feel bound to do so. At the same time, they aren’t to unpredictable as Chaotic evil creatures.

Kuras - Lawful Neutral

While he does offer medical care for free, it seems to be only to those he sees as worthy or deserving. And he's done something to make him have enough regret to stay bound in Eridia for centuries. So it seems his heart is mostly in the right place, he has his own moral code that doesn't exactly follow that of a saint or hero. "Lawful Neutral act in accordance with the law, tradition, or with some code of behavior. While this code can often be external (the law, a religious tradition, etc.), it can also be self-determined."

Mhin- Neutral Good

So far, Mhin seems like the only other character willing to follow society's laws, but they're not above killing someone if they had to. Though It may be something they don't want to do. "Neutral Good creatures do their best to do what they consider “good”, but don’t cling to rules or stricture so much as Lawful Good creatures. A Neutral Good creature might still obey the law or society’s expectations most of the time, but they are not rigidly bound by them, and they view doing right thing as more valuable than obeying some strict doctrine."

Vere - Chaotic Evil

Purposely causes trouble for his own entertainment. He doesn't seem to care who he hurts or takes out in the process, and deliberately antagonizes people (mostly Mhin) just to see the suffering and potential bloody/deadly outcome. He'll lie and harm anyone to get what he wants. Only helping or bowing down to those he sees as an equal (like Ais) or someone more powerful (like Kuras). "Chaotic Evil creatures are motivated by arbitrary and often malicious whims. They are typically greedy and selfish, and are often violent. They give no thought to the wants or needs of other creatures, and pay no heed to rules or expectations. Such creatures will typically only bow to authority when threatened."

[taterswithranch]

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[argentumcor]

Having just replayed Never Fade Away, Alt is full of shit. She's her, alright, and Johnny's memory of those events is acurate.

First of all, we have the journal entry, one of the underrated ways he interacts with V:

You get nightmares, don't you V? The stubborn kind that keep coming back, night after night, like they wanna make sure you never forget a single detail, sight or touch? The kind where you can barely breathe because you know what comes next? You ever get those? I know you do. So here - welcome to mine.

Also, there is no version of events, even if you chose the less asshole options, that comes across as flattering to him. He does not regard it as some heroic tale of Johnny; when V comes out of it, he expects her to be as horrified of how he was as he was reliving it.

But it doesn't come across as flattering to Alt, either. She shows up to the concert when she said she probably wouldn't, then they bang which he is sentimental about, and then she's all "it's been real, it's been fun, not quite sure it's been real fun, deuces." She doesn't tell him things, partly for perfectly rational reasons- he was out of his mind between drugs, fame, and, uh, anger issues- and partly because relationship stuff. I get the impression Johnny never hid things from Alt, not that his secrets were dangerous in any way no matter what he thought, but she sure hid things from him. It was an epic love and a true love, but it was not a good love. I think she sees the memory and is defensive about it.

Alt is so clearly still mad at Johnny. She is not human anymore in very fundamental ways, and I think that is far more a choice than just purely a function of her form of existence. We never get a reason for her creating Soulkiller when she was human, but I can't conceive of a good one. I am not one to think technology is ever evil- it's a tool, tools cannot be evil- but Soulkiller (did she name it? As an AI, she denies this, but she plays it that there's Alt and then there's Alt) is only going to end up being used one way, she had to know that, she was not naïve. I've got doubts about Alt's character is all I'm saying. Rogue may deal death callously, but I don't think she is quite so heartless as Alt. Too much heart, maybe- same as Johnny, hence the explosive mix.

Anyway, she is definitely still mad at him. Fond of him, too, almost helplessly, but very mad at him. She so clearly blames him for her death, which is in fact silly. She shuts him down hard when he wants to talk and not casually. An AI, even a cold calculating one, would not essentially slam the door in his face like that. She'd say "I am not the Alt you knew, there is nothing I can say to you that would give you what you want to hear." She does not. He wants to talk, she says "No" and kicks V and Johnny back.

What's interesting about Never Fade Away I think Johnny has some awareness that this is not real. That's why there's less asshole options. Johnny has changed in his time with V, short as it may be at that point (the VDB path is always my second, after Hellman). When he tells Milt "I missed you" it's not 2013 Johnny saying it. It's 2077 Johnny, who is very very alone except for this gonk dead merc chick who is dying because of him and pure shit luck. He should pay his tab the bartender at Atlantis, he should help the merc with the vending machine- I think in real life he didn't do any of these things. He's torn between the inevitable choices and wanting this to go better in some way, to be better. The real choices, I think, are the asshole ones- it's way he always has to come across as a lunatic egomaniac by saying several times that Alt was kidnapped because of him. In 2077, in V's sober brain (you can't match him for the substance abuse in game, excellently displayed), he knows that's not the truth.

This is thematic. The game's nearest thing to a happy ending is The Star, I think most people agree, but it is full of sorrow and uncertainty anyway. Johnny is gone and by the end of the game- if you didn't go for a speedrun of the Devil ending- he is as dear to V as anybody. The Aldecaldos may knows someone who can help, but they may not.

It's not the destination that matters- in the end that is, for all of us, the grave. It's how you get there. Do you choose others before yourself, do you pay your debts (a reoccurring theme in Cyberpunk 2077), or do your choose your own survival- yourself- before all else? You will see the natural consequences of your choice, and you will certainly die as all must, but you must choose.

And you can choose better, shit luck, incomplete information, rotten old world, and all.

[blissfulphilospher]

Rhaenys, Viserys and Rhaegar

I will force my friend to draw art for the fic as she draws for her own as soon as she gets free but untill then, here are the AI pictures of there three. 

Princess Rhaenys Targaryen 

She has her mother's colouring but people can take a glance at her and say that she is her father's daughter. In my opinion sho could have been the most exotic Targaryen princess with Valyrian and Rhoynish features. 

(Seriously, Rhaenys Targaryen should have lived. Just like all of her namesakes she should have lived a long life got married have kids and die on a dragonback. I believe had she lived Viserys wouldn't have turned like he turned out to be as he would have someone to share grief with, someone who lost her everything too. But too precious to be sold to Dothraki, Rhaenys brought Dorne, Viserys would be the fool to sell her.)

Prince Viserys Targaryen 

I didn't used used Harry Lloyd but he still turned out looking like this. I am proud of the lilac eyes. 

(Does someone else agree that Viserys has the roughest and the saddest life any Targaryen prince ever had? People hate him, for the right reasons as we see him through Dany's pov. But if we had his I don't think people would. Imagine loosing everything you had in days, your family dead, the people who bowed to you out for your blood and having no allies or whatsoever. Being the descendants of great feared kings like Aegon I, Jaehaerys I, Viserys II, Daeron II and Aegon V and then you have to beg others and being ridiculed and laughed at. Even Blackfyres fared better. And  Rhaegar won/No rebellion fics where Viserys is still insane for no good reason? Seriously people?)

Prince Rhaegar Targaryen

I am not happy about those eyes which were supposed to be indigo but okay. Rhaegar was said to be beautifully tragic.... Tragically beautiful?

(I have no words for this man. I am disappointed just as the rest of his ancestors who spilled countless innocents blood to keep the realm they made, the Iron Throne and a 14 year old northern girl isn't worth it. Thousands of deaths, Rhaella had runaway from her home, Elia's murder who had been dutiful to him, Rhaenys murder who was hiding under his bed, Aerys murder who killed Brandon and his companions because they threatened Rhaegar, Viserys's suffering and descent into madness and gruesome death, Aegon's secluded life without knowing his family he who would have been the Prince of Dragonstone and Dany's life who have too go through all of that alone and she is 15! All of that isn't worth it. And who knows if he kidnapped Lyanna? I have a strong feeling that Jon will too feel repulsed to know the truth and may go in denial. He is Eddard Stark's son, no matter who was the sperm donor. )

[modstarfell]

Heard you wanted to do some analysis character, maybe you could do Yuri? Aside from his whole gimmick with him hating men and being loyal to women, I genuinely think he's pretty interesting guy if he got more screentime :0 (Plus, I remember LINUJ said that he's one of the smartest aside from Kanade, Kokoro, and Syobai)

Thank you for sending this ask!

Let's start with the fact Yuri is both Russian and Japanese and can speak both of them fluently. Having often spoken Russian mid-sentence before correcting himself to Japanese when he realizes others didn't understand him. Next we have the fact of he's gone so far as to be able to correct Kanade when she calls the island tropical, he's not afraid to correct information even if it's a girl who gets it wrong. Dipping a bit into Yuri's past, he's had to study so much in order to please his father who is the reason he would be considered "Ultimate Spaceman" in the first place. Being forced to study everything he could about space to prepare him for space flight he'd obviously know at least some things about space.

Having been part of his family with such a high status and having been kidnapped over 37 (Possibly more, 37 is just what he remembers at the time of the game!) has likely helped him gain more knowledge then most give him credit for too. Having the will to survive if half the battle in those sort of situations. The other half is having the knowledge and ability to stay calm. Yuri may act overly excited around women, but he's really only seem to have started that after seeing Akane's reaction to talking about Utsuro.

Even if it was only for a short time, Yuri didn't know what to do with his life until he asked Akane about her past, or roughly... Why she was working as a maid. Akane's face lit up with happiness and excitement for a brief moment as she went on to talk about Utsuro, that expression on her face sparked something within Yuri in the first place. He wants to be someone who when at least one girl thinks of him, they'll light up the same way Akane had.

Yuri was actually smart enough to recognize "Akane" inside of Sora. It's foreshadowing that happens so early on that most don't even realize it. He says that Sora reminds her of someone he's known a long time ago before going on to tell the story above. It's his final FTE we get with him. A piece of the puzzle that Mikado restates later on, Yuri having been connected both VIA Monocrow and through "Akane" herself.

Him remaining the most calm out of literally anyone while realizing they were trapped on the island while not only a nod to his kidnapping events; shows he's got a level-headed approach to things, able to take a step back and analyze their situation they're in. Figuring out how to work with what you got in any given moment can be something people often struggle with doing as the most common response is fight or flight in a situation like that.

Speaking of Monocrow.... It shows Yuri is incredibly smart with computers as well; at least enough to create his own AI. Even if they originally didn't look like Monocrow and was instead a girl. We don't know the original purpose of .... "Mono-san" prior to Mikado's changing of programming/appearance. I like to think there might be a chance she had been based off Akane and take on more of a therapist role to help out others.

None of the participants actually had any trouble with Monocrow the entire time when he was interacting with them, and they all seemed to figure out PRETTY quickly that Monocrow was following the AI written inside him, unable to deviate from it so they never seemed to get mad at the mascot when Monocrow played a bigger role directly then Mikado seemed to.

[xmiisuki]

Hii! I know you made a hardcover for HWE, so I felt as if I had to tell you this:

Umi has been exposed for blatant plagiarism and use of AI in her works. For evidence, I recommend checking out this user called @.manikas-whims . They have provided proof of plagarism. (As for the proof of use of AI, I think you can find it upon further research)

Apparently, upto 66% of her work is AI generated. And she copied two fics (both of which are now deleted).

Your rejection may cause her to finally cave in and realise the severity of her actions. It may ellicit a response from her, So, please, look into the matter.

I hope this situation is resolved peacefully! Peace ✌️

Hi Anon, thank you for the heads up! I apologised for answering late, I was working nonstop for my shift. Anyway, this might be a long post and will be my only answer to do this. So I'm very open-minded when it comes to this...chaos.😅

I am clearly very aware and done my own research around here in tumblr without any word. And yes, I looked into the matter checking out Manika's blog along the original fanfic authors Zombie and Venus(?) blogs since the day of the hate shoutout. So right after, I even made a conversation with Umi as well too. I had only discovered Umi and other fanfic authors since Sylus released (July).

First of all: I'm not mad or upset, I maintained my thoughts about this situation as this is not my first time seeing an author plagiarized or regards in the writing field. Since this sets in the fanfiction world, which is the most complex and complicated media to visit, not like in the real publishing world when it is completely different. Publishing is a straightforward fact that plagiarizing with AI is a huge No-No deal. However, we know both worlds still apply for copyrights, writers' rights, analyzing infringement, writing structures, plagiarism detect, and use commercials in the community. I won't get any details in these things since we'd already learned these stuff on our own accords.

Before I get into the fanfic issue, I used to be both as Author's Moderator and Social Moderator in Webnovel (WN) for nearly 10 years. Both positions are a bit different to one another, but it is still a moderator working with the editors for the author. Personally, in my experience, I used to be immature mod during those early 2 years when I found out about the thief-author copying the same exact scenes from my long-time author's multiple published work (which she's still in official contract in WN). I was a different person to do hating, spreading, posting, and watching them like a hawk just as the same unhealthy ways like the anons and the people from the other side to call out the thief in the opening. We tried possible ways to report it and take it down. Even my author sent an appropriate DM to that thief to take it down in WN but no responses coming from that author. In the results, the company and the thief don't do anything and no proper resolvement. The thief never takes the action as she took it selfishly for her own pleased, its a true story she won WN award of the month along her personal book badge medal for readers. It's a horrible experience to go through, and it bothers me, my author, and to the readers very often. This happened like 4 times? Multiple times? I forgot it's a long time. Personally, what we did is move on and create things better properly. There is nothing much we could to the thief but letting them be in disgraced since they don't like taking the responsibility of their action.

The reason I mentioned that experience is because I am seeing a similar situation here with Umi and the rest, but on the opposite side "what if your author plagiarized." I come to see and learned now that putting myself in someone's position looking forward to your fanfic author who writes a series which you were really invested on copying just one or more scenes while the rest of its work is completely came up original concept; it will hurt majorly of the readers, especially for the OG fanfic authors out there. It caused many emotional/mental damages and never found a good justice. That based, it will be out of hand and out of control as we humans want more negative outcomes.

I do agree OG fanfic authors like Zombie need justice for it, knowing they worked hard writing original in their descriptive ways at any typical genre like smuts, fluff or dark romance, etc.

Though, when it comes to calling out on a person online with a full hatred, like sending death threats, telling a blogger to go fck themselves and suicide attempts? That is a different story from plagiarism and the most horrifyingly to witness. It's a cyberbullying/behavior issue.

In other cases, honesty, this might be my most unpopular opinion; fanfiction is half plagiarised no matter what. Because fans are using the canon character that was already established in the world to use it on their accords' biased fanfiction work. Which it is why its fairly commercials in the works of writing. Fanfiction is free to everyone to be entertained, and we can all agree in a same common ground that fanfiction is actually a good start for practicing writing and come up with our own concepts by using the existing elements. Overall, it's fiction.

There's no need to be exaggerating over fanfiction. I've seen a lot of readers in both fanfiction-multiple-fandoms and published worlds gets toxic over plagiarism as if its a biggest crime in the writing world. You know what's the worst scenario than plagiarism? Making fanfictions as PROFITS. People sometimes forgot about it. Fanfiction profits are highly illegal no matter how the story is good and transformatively original plot goes; the readers, company, or the rightful owner will sue the author without a source of permission for using canon fictions to make money.

In one way or another, the truth about fanfiction is that it is never perfect. You will encounter and always find lots of mischaracterized characters, settings, world-building, misutilized magic system which is improperly 100% so far off away from the main officials like Love and Deepspace, Harry Potter, Final Fantasy, Naruto, Genshin, Attack on Titan, One Piece, Jojo, etc. All of them have in one common which its: fiction.

There is something I also wanted to talk about off-topic plagiarism despite fanfiction works. Don't we all agree that we did the same thing to plagiarised our homework when we were students once in our school/college days, to ask your bestie or classmate's homework to see their answers? Or copying the work you found online before the time deadline or any reasons that the homework is too difficult to solve? I'm pretty sure all of us have done it once or who knows how to count in this lifetime hahaha! Ofcourse, it is not funny, but it is the truth. We copy each other's work. Don't you think I didn't know 50 Shades of Grey is basically ripped off Twilight fanfiction entirely? No. Did it upset me? Not really. Did it changed everything that I visionalized, especially my favorite characters, that it is almost copied from one work to another? Yes, indeed. My coworker, who is a professional writer, even told me that Star Wars is also fanfiction from the bible (not directly but symbolically parallels to say). Even AIs are also plagiarised. Everything you'll see and what you find, it is all plagiarised or rewording if you wanna call it. I'm not saying plagiarism is allowed, I am truly against it. What I am saying is that plagiarism has been so heavily common nowadays that we are seeing the same thing over and over but a different retelling. That is why it is so hard to try to come up with original ideas. Some people don't realize this fact because their mentality is too busy to defend their favorite things believing it's original.

My digital bookmarks for my author in WN was also plagiarised. I was very upset about it so yes, I understood what Zombie and Manika's positions were. However, it's different because this is about fanfic in community where people can be aware to report and tell, not dealing with the company who won't do crap about it. What I think the best solutions for all these hate to stop between these fanfic authors (Umi, Manika, Zombie, Venus, etc) is by:

1.) Communication. A personal DM author-to-author is a great start discussing the issue and drama, comes in term to be respectful and take responsibility for the action privately. Without it, like I said from my experience, no communication will lead toxicity, or yet...it will bring the worst parts in the community, especially in fanfiction world.

2.) Public statement. I know people HATES the silence from author-thiefs. For not doing author's notes aside about appropriate apology. I get that, been there done that. I don't like it as well too, but if you have been observing the fanfic author's personality, and their answers answering anons' questions; you will know that this author will be transparent as possible to build that kind of relationship with readers. There are lot of times readers will twist around the author' statement (trust me, I've seen this alot and it never stops there), depending on the person to believe the author's admitted faults. It's not only Umi, it is actually the whole entire fanfic authors out there. As long the author communicates to their readers for what happened, the transparency counts that authors can give the options to readers where readers can either choose to stay as continue to support the author, for better improvement and growth or leave the author and find another story to like. It is up to the readers' choice, and how they want to believe in the author. Trust and transparency of who you are as an author is a main thing that captures readers' hearts. The combinations of words and taking actions together in online will define a person's personality. No action statement = No valid acceptance. The lies is the worst thing to hear and its painful than hearing the truth as its less painful.

3.) Rewrite it. It is that simple. Or, give credits for that kind of inspiration. It is never too late to rewrite from what happened and start making up on your own. We all went English class once, our teacher knows telling us to rewrite our paragraphs after it's done reviewing. It's also recommended for fanfic authors that needs a beta reader before the chapter goes out to the world. It is not difficult to ask for help or asking questions if the story is good or not. A feedback is a good tool for any writers. Fanfiction is a point where imperfections are placed on. In example like Menacled by Senlinyu, a Harry Potter Draco x Hermoine fanfiction. Those characters were technically not canon to be together in the books or movies. Harry Potter in her fanfiction is mischaracterized for being a brat. The Handmaid's tale in Menacled is basically plagiarized ideal, but taking that idea in the Wizard world is not so bad to be entertained by Sen's genius concept. Which is why she's successful to rewrite her own world for actual publishing , later at the end of this year dates, she has to take down the Harry Potter system due for copyright infringement. Or else it is penalized to steal and plagiarized.

Am I defending Umi? Clearly no. What I am saying is we all been there done that of plagiarism. It is very common now everywhere, anywhere, and in educations. We just never realized and adapting to think we really are making our ideas original. So I completely understand that all of these authors Umi, Manika, Zombie/Venus where they come from.

I am a very die-hard fan that I love to look forward to something for reading and interact, and that is where my social stands are earning as an author's moderator to do get-to-know-about-authors. To see authors or any potential writers whether it's published or fanfic in examples like: how they communicate to readers, what is their concept, do they know well of their characters; plot; story; setting; world-building in writing? What is this author's personality, are they good or bad to the readers? Will they build a good relationship with the audience? How will they answer the reader's question. Are they transparent and be true to themselves? Etc. Etc. This clearly why I ended up following Umi, because I can tell this author can write write more than thousand word counts like a published author would do. I can see she can answer and build her relationships with readers according to my examples above I mentioned. She can write. It's just that plagiarism is the main problem that kills the mood here. If other people don't see it that way? That is okay! Because everyone has their own opinions and valid. There is no need to give hates on. Simply ignore it if they don't like the content.

For the HWE hardcover part, I will put hold for now until everything settles down. I talked to Umi about it, definitely ofc she respectfully understands whether I want to do it or not because of the situation. It is up to me to create a binding physical copy as I was the one to bring up this idea of mine.

I really hope this chaotic drama will bypass in the future and clears up between Umi, Manika, Zombie, Venus, and to everyone out there who were effected by it. But I know for sure LADS fandom or any fandom fans out there who will discover fanfic works will take no heart to accept this because the damaged is already done. Long last conversation I had with Umi was about giving the best solutions/advices, and most importantly, try to make things right so no hates can further spread to both sides of the party. I'm highly sure and confident that she will make a public statement of the faults here. Give her time in despite ch14 posted, she's only young writer in her early 20s to learn about in the writing field. It takes a lot of mental power as everyone is different to handle the situation, especially receiving tons of death threats in their inbox. If she do posted her statement, hear her out first what she has to say before clashing the harsh comments. It's not so hard to listen first before shoving something down someone's throat. And I hope Zombie and her fans will also have justice and have a heart of acceptance. We're all imperfect humans. I'm not perfect, I made alot of mistakes too. 🤷‍♀️ It's okay to agree to disagree whichever points I said and mentions in this post. All opinions are valid, just not in a harsh utmost aggressive bullying behavior.

Hope this helps and clears the misunderstanding. 💜

Kudos to Zombie, Umi, Manika, Venus, Roma, whoever has the talent of writing despite pretty or ugly, writing is a beautiful ability. 🫶🏻 I enjoy every fandom contents such like anime or gaming fanfics. I don't know how to write stories like that, especially sexy smuts. 😂

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"she's a white billionaire who has a jet and damages the environment, I don't have sympathy for her, she can cry in her multimillion dollars house #eatthe rich" if you say something like this in this kind of situation then I think you are even worse. First of all misogyny doesn't see colour. Doesn't matter if you're white or black or brown, if you're a woman you're gonna experience misogyny. Just because she's white doesn't mean she should be harrassed like this. Jay-z is a billionaire with double the amount of money Taylor has. Pretty sure his companies damage the environment is some way like we all do. So why is no one angry at him and why is his fake naked body not getting viral? Idk maybe the men who are making these ai are only making images of women's bodies bc they know most men who are the audience of these images are not gonna enjoy a man's naked body the way they would enjoy a woman's. And if it happened to Rihanna, who's also a billionaire, everyone would scream racism and be sympathetic.

Yes Taylor is ultra famous rn so she'd be easy target. But this can happen to anyone. If this happens to an average girl who's explicit ai photos get posted on the internet without her knowledge and the whole town is talking about her, can you imagine the the trauma she and her family would have. Now imagine the trauma Taylor and her family is experiencing while the whole world see her naked body which is not actually her body. Especially bc she was actually sexually assaulted when she was younger and couldn't speak out at the moment. No amount of money can make you immune to harrasment and forget this kind of experience. She's being stalked everyday and the stalker gets released everytime for some reason. How would you feel if you were not safe in your own house? Wherever she goes a huge crowd gathers. How is she supposed to know who has good intention and who doesn't! Anything can happen to her at any moment. I don't care if she's a billionaire as long as she spends her money on good purpose. She worked hard for whatever she's got. Do you expect her to throw all her money in the ocean? Would that make you more happy than her helping other people in need with her money?

You may not like her or her music. That's okay. It's not about that. But if you think this is what she deserves for being a billionaire and having a jet then you are as bad as the ones making those disgusting images. No matter what she's still a human.

Also, every fucking woman on this earth should be angry about this not just Taylor's fans, this could happen to any of us. And every man who cares about the women in their lives should be mad too.

im going to say something thats gonna get ppl pissed but its just so weird i cant take it anymore.

taylor’s stalker has been arrested 3 times in the last 5 days. he keeps getting released, and RIGHT after getting released he goes back to her house again.

there are thousands of horrific AI pictures of her on twitter, which get thousands of likes and are not taken down no matter how many reports ppl make. but as soon as you say something to the men that made those disgusting NON-consensual pics, your tweet gets banned.

yet, somehow, someway no one seems to bat an eye on it which is so crazy to me bc no one seems to extend a sympathy towards her or accept that whats happening to her is just BLATANT misogyny. idk what occured in these last few years for yall to think misogyny can’t just happen to any women but its driving me crazy. yes she’s rich, white and priviledged yet STILL experiences these things, doesn’t that make you wonder just how pervasive misogyny is????