#definition included for anyone who doesn't know what hotlinking is

[bisexualbaker]

Discord is also cracking down on image sharing, particularly hotlinking [definition], so watch out for that; just last night I came across some author's notes featuring an image that was hotlinked from Discord servers and therefore not loading.

Unfortunately, sometimes your best bet really is to get a third party image hosting service and to copy/paste text prompts in the notes.

I'm always seeing AO3 works with notes saying "Based on this fanfic prompt: [dead tumblr link]" or "Inspired by this fanart: [dead tumblr link]" or "[person] made this amazing fan edit of my story! Check it out:[dead tumblr link]."

Source posts disappear all the time on tumblr.

But reblogs don't!

So I am begging tumblr/AO3 users:

If you want to link a tumblr post in one of your AO3 works, please first reblog the post to your own tumblr blog, and then link your reblog, instead of linking the source post directly. That way your AO3 the link will keep working, even if the OP deletes.

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