#furry fanfic writers do it better

[bobtheacorn]

I have a 3 y/o and it's after turkey day and she developed the Sniffles this weekend so today we laid on the couch and binged Mickey Christmas movies/specials and Duck the Halls (2016) was one of them and I just have a couple of questions that I'd like to ask the furry fanfic whump authors that were sitting in that writers room pitching ideas, chief among them....... Why?

[spyroforlife]

Hilarious idea, considering how some of the more successful and richest people are often furries or super nerds.

So imagine when Lucifer and Emberlynn help with the Hotel, everyone finds out that Emberlynn has a medical doctorate and was actually a surgeon before she died.

she was still in college so she wouldn't be a surgeon YET but she could have been working toward that

and with how stressful that schooling would be I could see her really diving into her fandoms and stuff as a way to disconnect and just have some fun

but hm idk if I vibe with surgeon for her. She clearly likes writing but idk if she'd want to make that a career either, plenty of fanfic writers would rather just keep it as a hobby. She still lived with her parents while going to college and her mom's comment of 'why won't she leave' could imply she's dragging it out and isn't REALLY committed to whatever she's going to school for, so she might not even know herself what she wants to do beyond watching her shows and writing fanfictions (god, that's relatable)

Imagine she's just taking classes for something totally random like computer science and talks vaguely about making her own big time blog site or something idk she doesn't know all the details YET but it'll be the next big thing and everyone's gonna want an account, it's gonna be great!

and then she gets killed by a demon so she doesn't have to figure it out anymore. You have to wonder what was going on in her life actually that she WAS so chill with Blitz killing her. Maybe she was hiding some serious stress under that unhinged fangirl persona of hers, who knows

Sorry not knocking the surgeon idea, that's fun, I just don't personally see it! Either way though I don't think she had a degree in anything yet since Blitz describes her as a college girl and she could still be early twenties, and really coulda been taking any sorts of classes while she tried to figure things out but she's way more interested in her hobbies

and then she dies and has a MUCH better time establishing herself in Hell and she hooks herself the biggest bad boy there and he can help her get whatever she wants <3

[nicegaai]

im attempting my fic reread today. im announcing this bc i will be liveblogging to keep my morale up, NOT THAT anyone cares but i personally need this, like ill only commit to do the thing if theres an imaginary audience holding me accountable. & i like to have fun :3

anyway. captains log, its a beautiful sunny july weekend. i just finished my morning coffee, and, i am dreading this so much. i dont like rereading my own writing but i shall get over it. ok here we go.

Þetta Reddast vagueblogged directors commentary edition

Ch 1:

*opens fic and starts convulsing immediately* god i wish i smoked weed rn. i cannot chill out ever for the life of me

My Mission For Today Is: to remember what plot threads I’ve left hanging so I can resolve this story properly. And also try n remember where the flow is going. I have the end plotted out, I just am a little lost … it’s been a while :-(

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Abrupt beginning!!!! I’m not mad because I have . I HAD. Almost no writing experience when I started this. it isn’t ideal but I refuse to be one of those fanfic writers that starts rewriting early chapters without finishing the last ones. Ive never seen one of those types actually finish a longfic. …I’d already rather yap than actually read LMAO AHH

Oh this is worse than I remember. thats cool that s great ok alright *coughs up blood*

"20 somethings" WOW I really did not know where I was going with this when I started huh

LKJSDLKSJDLGKGDJSLDGJK ??? Who authorized this. Who let me cook. What the hell

I could write this better now. I could edit this into something beautiful. <- devil on my shoulder

FORGOT I WAS MAKING RICE BRB

"generously offered nothing to the exchange." wait STOPPPP. I’m so funny

GRAMMAR ERROR DETECTED why is there two periods. I’ll be coming back to fix that …………………. :-(((

Fuck. This is a lot. Marge Simpson Hiding Her Face dot Png

Oh this is stupid this is gayyy this is fukcinnn . Who fucking did t his. What was wrong with me,. This is so good actually. what was i ONNNN. 

Im gonna throw up and I don’t know if thats like/. A complimentary thing or if im just cringing that hard . Im feeling emotions. I love my OTPs..OT3~5? I love them so so much

Ok as much as im like “eww bad writing” this is .. dare I say, rly good in places. Not to suck my own dick but maybe all hope isnt lost and imposter syndrome is an illusion

Grammar mistake #2. Goddddddd. they should ban me from the archive for this

EMILLLLL EMIL EMIL EMIL HIIIIII BABYYYY EMILLL I LOVE UUUU AWWHUUGHH everyone clap for my bewoved baby bruvver right FUCKING now

Urghhh gritting my teeth… Im fully expecting the flow of events to start not making any gd sense. There’s no way this came together the way I hoped in my head and .... For real I was never able to read this all the way thru. this is my first time, lol. and it was all disjointed on the authorial end to say the least. Im scared T-T

Jlxjvklsdkjfsjlkdkjlsjklkljzsdkjlgaskljdgjklasljkgdljkasljkdgjklasjlkdgljkaskljdgjakl?????????? 

Im not liking the ratio of dialogue to whatever the other stuff is. scene-setting I guess. prose maybe. i could have dragged this out way longer... By which I mean made it a more satisfying read. But WHATEVER !!!! 

TIMO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TIMOOOOOOOOOO NUMERO UNOOOO DO MUNDOOOOOO I really need to utilize him more. As soon as I finish this fic I need to write a Timo POV spinoff where he gets cancelled on furry twitter for proshipping in real life

Hmmmm chapter ending didn’t hit as hard in practice as it did in drafts. Oh well. God damn that was a lot to happen in one chapter LMAOO???

OH SHIT MY RICE IS STILL COOKING —— 

[raccoonfallsharder]

what’s your favorite version of rocket? for me it’s between eidos rocket and mcu rocket

this is such a great question ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶

it’s like asking “what’s your favorite star in the sky?” “which ice cream is the best ice cream?” “what flower do you prefer?” “what bird is the coolest bird?” “what cat is the best cat?”

it’s not that i don’t have a fave (i do, or at least i think i do), it’s just that im picking from such a fucken splendor of options. truly spoiled for choice. there’s no wrong answer here (although some of the comics artists have never, i think, seen a raccoon. here’s lookin at you timothy green ii).

so i’ll rank these motherfuckers but understand that i love them all differently. also im sticking to various versions of canon but honestly some of my fave rockets come from fanfiction writers like @hibatasblog, @caesarhamato22, @aliasrocket, & @elegant-fleuret ~ and what is mcu rocket or cartoon rocket or eidos rocket really but fanfiction with a budget?

anyone else who wants to share their faves and why, please do. it's so fucken fascinating to learn why certain rockets appeal to different people!

Grounded: Rocket Raccoon (2016) story by matthew rosenberg // pencil & ink by jorge coelho i love this furry bastard so much and this whole arc pulls on all my heartstrings which is probably why my first rocket fanfic was based off this storyline. he's at his snarkiest, most cynical self, still saving people in spite of how fucken thankless everyone around him is. as much as comics-rocket talks about how everything he does is for the money, i feel like this series really exemplifies his begrudging willingness to do the right thing for people even when people suck. i just wanna love on him tbh (platonically, romantically, domestically). wanna take care of him. wanna build him a blanket-fort and feed him hot cocoa. grumpy asshat

MCU's Guardians of the Galaxy (2014-2023) created by james gunn, et al. nose to tail, this rocket has the most consistent and coherent character development and we get to see so many sides of him in one long-lived arc, and it's fucking beautiful. just because of the nature of comics in general, we never get to see this much growth in any single incarnation of rocket. but here we have sad-rocket, dad-rocket, lonely-rocket, friend-rocket, baby-rocket, captain-rocket - i love him so much and what this movie has given us in terms of a fully-fleshed out character. plus we get to hear lines like "oh yeah" (you know EXACTLY what i'm talkin about) and his goddamn singing. not to mention that beautiful expressive face.... the way he moves when he's beating the shit out of ravagers... what? huh? where was i?

Rocket Raccoon: Blue River Score (2017) story by al ewing // pencil & ink by adam gorham i fucken love this comic arc. we get a lot of rocket in a suit and we get to see his impulsive behavior, his softness for otta (and by extension, his desire to love/be loved) despite their history, his cleverness in the colon and the final heist, and his relationship with gatecrasher. PLUS if you thought one sad snarky gun-wielding maniac wasn't enough, there's a subplot where rocket and deadpool team up and it's the best thing in the world. just a perfect little kiss from every five-star chef in the galaxy. i love rocket's last few lines to deadpool in this segment. perfection

Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy Game. (2021) by eidos-montreal and marvel entertainment. just to note: 4,5, and 6 got real murky for me in terms of figuring out how to rank these rockets. i wish i could watch this game multiple times so i could get a better feel for who this rocket is but it is SUCH an undertaking tbh. still, this rocket is so good. bitter, hilarious, sassy, isolated. i love him so much. i just want to play with his beard and also say lots of nice (occasionally naughty) things to him so he blushes really hard like in that sequence where pete was like "you deserve some praise" (i think that was the closest we've ever seen rocket to actual death, volume three included). there's a thing about rockets-in-general that i think this rocket in particular really pulls out of me: the desire to trust, and to be worthy of trust. ...that and the fact that you just know this guy is fuckin filthy. when he decides he wants you, he's gonna make you miserable in all the best ways. like, the level of teasing would be so over-the-top you might spontaneously combust before you get into bed (though luckily, he is an expert when it comes to manipulating combustibles).

Assorted other comic appearances that I've smushed into one thing in my mind. i dunno, friend. rocket who blames himself for pete's apparent death breaks my heart. rocket who thinks he's the only one of the guardians left breaks my heart. rocket who blames himself for groot's death breaks my heart. rocket who is sick and alone on halfworld like an animal crawling under the porch to die but ends up leaving inside a giant mech-suit to save his friends breaks my heart. rocket who protects chewy's kids breaks my heart even though it's supposed to be a lighthearted fucken arc. there are more.

Rocket Raccoon, Volume 2. (2014-205) story by skottie young, pencil & ink by various artists. yo. this rocket is so different and yet still perfectly rocket. he's a hyped-up little gremlin of a guy who fucks and is probably constantly high off blaster-fumes and engine-fuel. i fucken love him so much. imagine rocket with no self-confidence issues who pops caffiene pills and energy drinks every half-hour and smashes anything that can orgasm, and you've got a skottie young rocket. while other rockets might get you off because they think they've got something to prove or want to keep you coming back, this is a rocket who has learned how to use his tail solely for the fact that it's a claim to fame that means he can get laid anytime he wants. he never lacks for an excited partner (or partners) because everyone in sixty-nine systems knows how fuckin good he is. ultimately, he fucks like a god for the most (apparently) selfish, shallow reasons (and then inevitably ghosts his partners). or maybe not. maybe he's also just obsessed with the idea that anything he's gonna do, he has to do over-the-top. like planning an intergalactic scavenger hunt for your friend's birthday. ...but scrape the surface and underneath you find a guy who's just so afraid of being the only one of his kind that he's gotta fuck or shoot everything in his vicinity. what a wild little shithead. i love him so much, so much. p.s. the fron storyline - the cold, parts one and two - is one of my favorites. he loves groot so much. and princess jink is the fucken best

Guardians of the Galaxy TV Series/Cartoon. (2015-2019). i enjoyed this rocket and his gremlin ways. his fascination with duct tape is a particular point of charm. the take on his backstory was interesting. loved the episode with ja kyee lrurt - like it was so fuckin cute i could die. i need more of THAT storyline in particular.

Rocket & Groot TV Series/Cartoon. (2017) i loved this so much but it just left me wanting more (just because, you know, of the nature of this type of short-episode media). big skottie young energy. ultimately, trevor devall does a fine job but i think his voice in both this and the other cartoon make it a little harder for me to fully embrace these rockets. like his interpretation of rocket's voice just doesn't match mine, you know? and that's okay. still would rewatch 5,739 times.

how's that? i still need to watch telltale but i think i got most of the iterations in there lol. anyone i forgot, or who is worth specifically pulling out and mentioning by author/issue/edition?

[alexissara]

Top 11 Ships of 2023

Time for a typical and normal numbered top 11 list, the classic and well known format, top 11, which everyone uses and everyone loves garnering much SEO so that I may boost myself. This standard top 11 of the year list which everyone does annually really is covering ships I really loved this year. I love love and therefore love when romance is in things I watch and I love imaging relationships between characters. While I am not a super active fanfic writer or reader I enjoy fan art and thinking about dynamics and sometimes writing or reading. This year had a ton of girls I thought should kiss so without further ado let's get into it.

Sulleta and Chuchu [Gundam: The Witch From Mecury]

Opening with a Rare Pair but I am here to wave my Sulleta and Chuchu flag. While all my ships are polyam and open to them dating lots of other women if I had to pick a pair for either women it be them together. Unlike their other relationships this is a true ride of die pair. Chuchu and Sulletta always have each others backs even when their hurt by people they love and trust. Their both mech pilots and can fight together. Their adorable and sweet and I can see them blowing up their enemies together and wish we had more of it in the show.

Whisper and Tangle [Sonic IDW]

Pictured above is not an edit but an actual panel from Sonic IDW. While the creators have fairly clearly said that Sega simply will not allow them to make any romance canon straight or gay including for original characters these two are clearly being written as a couple and everyone has simply agreed that they are gay and hoping that fan pressure will eventually force Segas hands. These hero besties are opposites attracts goodness one is silent and keeps her feelings inside the other is out there and emotional but both kick ass together and support each other. These furries are probably as close to canon romance sonic is gonna get for the foreseeable future and their just so cute I'll never get over them.

Edelgard Polycule

While not a new ship or a ship with new offical content at all in 2023 outside of Edelgard talking about some of her girlfriends in Emblem ring conversations in Engage but I made new content, a lot of it for this ship in 2023 so it be lying to say it wasn't a top ship, probably the top ship given I ya know made fan content for it. Edelgard deserves all the girlfriends in the world and I am utterly giddy when I think about Edelgard and her big group of GFs. I feel similarly about many FE women but none as strongly as Lady Edelgard [Monica moment]. Edelgard does so much to make a better future for everyone and I think at the end of it, she should be loved every second of the rest of her life. I'm even doing like a private Three Houses roleplay thing for our combined ideal route for the game and crafting our own definitive version of the story.

HarlIvy [Harley Quinn Animated, DC]

Harlivy forever! Harlivy is for sure one of my oldest ships but it's also a ship that had a fucking load of amazing new stuff this year. While I have not read the comics proper we had a main line Harley Quinn comic where they said that a multiversal truth about Harley is that she has an Ivy and a fucked up evil Harley was redeemed by finding her fucked up evil Ivy with the help of main Harley. We had the utterly adorable DC Pride comic featuring them basically adopting Crash another lesbian character. Then we had a new season of Harley Quinn animated that while it started rough I think had a good purpose in establishing what the creators believe is the heart of Harley and Ivy and it's something I agree with so ya know awesome. Harley and Ivy complete each other and while I see them as being polyam I think their the core part of their relationship, nesting bitches for life. Their a couple I'd love to write some fics for and in general just a dynamic I really truly love a lot. Harley and Ivy are complicated and messy gals and seeing them figure their shit out together is great.

Jala/Tyler/Diya [Thirsty Suitors]

I want this messy trio of exes to be a sexy little triad. Jala and Tyler have a very messy history but to me I think the answer is clear on why Jala is like this, which is that she will never be happy with just one partner, she's not meant for monogamy and I think when her and Tyler have healed more and Jala realizes this about herself, they can have a talk and like both actually have a healthy polyam relationship rather than a toxic monogamous relationship. That's where Diya comes in she was an asshole and a bully but she's grown and she is a proud out lesbian now and helps take care of the community something Tyler cares about and she's still into Jala and i think them growing into a cute little throuple would be so good and I wanna see them kiss and I need it actually, it's canon according to me.

Pink Sugar Polycule [Pink Sugar]

This polycule is end game but I've been sold on them from go. These four sexy lesbians are just all such compelling characters, I want to know more about all of them, their lives when they were human, their lives in Purgatory, and see them thrive together as a little quad of deliciously darling dykes. These are some of my favorite characters ever written and the story is still in it's early days. I imagine in years to follow they will remain a favorite ship. They all feel very different but all feel like a realistic group of people to be friends and be lovers. Every dynamic between them works and they suit each other every way around. Any of them would be an amazing couple but all together their an even better polycule.

Juri and Chun-li [Street Fighter]

Another classic Alexis Sara ship that's got some new spice this year. The release of Street Fighter 6 had a little bit more Juri and Chun-li for us, Juri is still obsessed at the very least. Then we got a few extra tidbits in the You Got This Juri comics. Juri is this messy little disaster Gremlin and Chun-li is a mostly has it together sweet now adoptive mother. I think Juri would add some fun to Chun-lis life and Chun-li would help her get her shit together. I think both of them could help them be morally better people Juri would de-cop Chun-li and Chun-li would help her like not take obviously dubious hit jobs. Their just kinda perfect for each other ya know.

Sailorcule [Sailor Moon]

This is another one that technically had "no new content" like I didn't watch the new movie, I've been waiting for an offical release and it's not happened so here I am but what I did really get into this year was enjoying the inner senshi as a big polycule. I always enjoyed HaruMichi and quickly enjoyed HaruMichiSetsuna but kinda just shipping all the girls together while something on paper was like sure I do that evolved from a sure thing to something I actively really enjoy. A lot of that is thanks to yamino's amazing fan art and my own Magical Girl OCs who are pretty heavily inspired by Sailor Moon so I started to see them in the dynamics between the girls.

Shadowheart and Nocturne [Baldur's Gate 3]

One of this years totally new ships and one I truly adore and wish was more popular was Shadowheart X Nocturne. These two have probably my favorite tropey ship dynamic of them all Childhood friends to lovers. I enjoy all sorts of dynamics but when I am roleplaying, when I am looking at my most beloved ships, I am thinking wouldn't it be cute if they knew each other when they were younger? Nocturne and Shadowheart are so loaded with good little spice in their childhood friends to lovers arc too though. Like Shadowheart and Nocturne both picked their chosen names together. Shadowheart would forget everything with memories being erased and Nocturne would tell her everything and still love her every time. Even after forgetting her again in the most recent events Nocturne remains loyal to her to the point where if Shadowheart becomes a Selunite the sworn enemy of Shar Nocturne despite not having the strength to leave the faith still acts as an inside woman to help Shadowheart evade assassins from Shar. I think the two should get married and live happily ever after and my Tav can marry them both too, I don't see why not and they can both fuck Alyin and Isobel while we're at it. I just want them to be happy together. Outside of Three Houses stuff this is the ship I am most compelled to write fics for simply because no one else is shipping them and I think it's so fucking juicy and why won't anyone sit down with me and eat some of this delicious juicy fruits.

Rae Clair [I'm In Love With The Villainess]

MISSSS CLAIR! Rae's obsession with Clair might frustrate me a bit in the light novel version but in every other version I only find it utterly endearing. I love a good obsession, I love when someone is like on their mind so often and they live for them and it's just ahh so yummy. I think what Rae brings to Clair is really nice for Clair too. Clair feels abandoned constantly, she's lonely and trying to fit a model of a type of person that she's been told she's supposed to be. Rae helps her break those norms, makes her feel not alone, makes her realize she wants to help people. Their really adorable and I do look forward to picking up more of the audiobooks of the light novels and seeing how their relationships evolve along with keeping up with the manga as it releases in English volumes. Their really good and I want to engage them in every medium I can.

Nomoto X Kasuga [She Loves To Cook And She Loves To Eat]

I mean I couldn't not put these two on this list, I want them to kiss and have a house and get married and be together forever. This one has no messy layers, there isn't really the juice but what they have is the true to life, down to it's core, amazing sweetness. It's like a wonderful ice cream dish lovingly crafted down to the last delightfully delicate detail. They just are so good together, they make each other happy, they have a really real feeling healthy slowly building relationship. They both bring out the best in each other and they both always have a good time together. It's really perfect and I think it just feels so honest and sweet and like ya know as a lesbian I feel really seen by them, their relationship, them as characters and the whole story. Nothing is quite as wonderful as She Loves To COok and She Loves To Eat.

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[simnostalgia]

can’t lie dude there’s a massive difference between somebody having a photo of their teen sim in an underwear and “proship” where people openly support incestuous and pedophilic relationships. between you and me (and i’m saying this on anon bc i don’t want to get involved with any of this 😭) all of this is dumb but there’s a massive difference between falsely accusing somebody over THE SIMS and somebody who thinks it’s fine to look at art of a grown ass adult fucking a child because it’s fiction. your concerns are valid but you’re getting that mess of discourse mixed in with this for nothing. had a fun time on your blog while it lasted tho

super long rant but...

I've said this before and people got mad at me but like... I don't disagree with anything you're saying honestly. Like, OBVIOUSLY a full grown adult shouldn't be fucking a child. That's FUCKED UP.

But I mean, clearly the people who said that didn't think so? I mean, isn't that sort of the problem with this sort of thinking? Everyone thinks that THEIR extremely specific idea of what is and is not reasonable to assume is the right one.

I mean, take furries for instance. Doesn't anyone find it weird that we don't target furries that way? I mean, you may argue that "Well, anthro animals DON'T exist so we're not worried about protecting them" But we've seen SEVERAL groups of furries that have actually ended up being active zoophiles but not many groups of fanfic writers who were actually pedophiles working as some sort of cabal.

Like, I'm not trying to throw furries under the bus. But why do we all assume that we understand that it's harmless as they understand the difference between fiction and reality?

I'm not arguing that it's RIGHT or WRONG, I'm arguing that there seems to be no cohesion in what most of the 'progressive sphere' regards as being kosher.

Why is it that we assume someone writing that sort of fiction is some sort of deviant and not just someone who want to see the actors portraying those characters together and yet assume differently for any other kink?

I think there is an ulterior motive to cause bouts of accusations and recrimination in queer spaces and that young queer people were wrong made to believe that this would benefit them, when really this rhetoric just feeds alt-right orgs like Gays Against Groomers.

They know what they're doing. And many progressives in our spaces don't want to hear it because accusations have become a good way to get rid of those you don't like with flimsy evidence and even flimsier arguments. Once someone asked me to help them get rid of @blueheavensims because he was making poseboxes that were 'kind of rapey' and when I was like "'would you be willing to help me contact that advertisers for hunter420x's website, who has actual animations of children being molested" she was like "no, sorry".

and while I'm not naming names, this is someone that many of you know and respect as a simmer with 'good values'.

This isn't about what you should and shouldn't be allowed to write because honestly that was never the issue. It was about giving young progressives the rhetorical tools to destroy themselves for petty interpersonal drama while the right reaps the reward of figuring out how to get queers to accuse THEMSELVES of being pedophiles by co-opting progressive language.

Everytime I see a 20 year old with a 'dni proship' i assume its someone who would spit on an actual SA victim before helping them. You just pretend to care about this shit because it makes you feel like a better person when you're trying to ruin someone's life.

TL;DR: Write whatever the fuck you want. The people who will get mad at you generally care less about you doing it than how it looks. They'll tear down the person who said something they don't like over the actual powerful pederast every time. It's all performative bullshit.

Like, it's not that hard to see what most of you are doing, you're NOT that slick.

[dirty-droid]

Writer's ask: 30, 38, 42 😁

Howdy!!! Thank you so much for asking, I didn't think I was gonna get any more of these, but they're very fun!

30.  Favourite idea you haven’t started on yet.

Define started on? 😅 I did make a start on one of my various 'Hank and Connor raise Cole and baby Nines together' ideas but I have no idea if I'll ever finish it. I keep starting and stopping with every Hankcon Dads idea I have. Although that does remind me of the Hankconkus Dads one that I never actually started, where Hank has Cole from a previous marriage, Connor has Nines from a messy one night stand situation, and Markus just got custody of his half brother Leo and is new to town, and Hank and Connor help him navigate his new guardianhood and they all three fall in love!

I'm just a childfree asshole who's gotta get all that Hallmark shit out via fanfic, any warm fuzzies just get implanted into my boys.

(and then there's also the extremely self indulgent ooc smutty au I roleplay with my fiance where Hank kidnapped a barely legal Connor and forces him into a Daddy kink roleplay of their own with all of my favorite kinks and fetishes that I always think about writing as it's own fic but never do)

38. Weirdest story idea you've ever had?

Beyond repeating my answers for the above? 😂 Lemon Stealing Whore gets an honorable mention, but it's hard to say, I like a lot of Dead Dove topics but I'm pretty predictable, I know I've done some crack ideas before but I cannot remember them, it's not what I'm known for.

Actually, I'd have to branch out of fandom for that, because I've been in another Steven Universe phase, and that just opens up so many doors, the other night we were joking about Steven doing puppy play and actually accidentally shapeshifting into a dog because of how much he felt like a dog 🤣 (real talk tho, boy could just walk around like a furry, at least he could shift some ears and a tail, he just doesn't like to shapeshift) and the idea of Hannibal Lecter being Steven Universe's therapist? Insane concept, wowzers, that'd be so dramatic and funny.

42. How do you feel about love triangles?

I'm too into open relationships for that mess, like I don't hate them with a burning passion, I know why they exist, but they're just not that much fun and I like established relationships a lot better than a 'will they, won't they' situation. Why can't they all just get along? And smooch?

[disneyprincemuke]

https://www.tumblr.com/disneyprincemuke/746322037060108288/can-we-please-talk-about-the-lack-of-f1-fics-for?source=share

What you said right here! There's a huge problem within the fanfiction community where they think that just because you're in the community, you should be written for.

#1 calling women females is just icky and the same goes for calling men males.

#2 in his other post about this, he's literally trying to guilt trip people into writing more for male readers after saying he's not comfy writing for women.

?!?!?!

So you want people to step out of their comfort zone to write for men, but you don't want to do the same for women? Plus, it's proven that women take up 80-90% of the fanfic community, so ofc you're going to see a lot of women writing for women.

I'm not a woman, but even I see the amount of entitlement wafting off of that post and the other one...

I don't think anyone could've said it better than what you said

maybe i should start writing f1 x furry fics just to accommodate,, they do exist (i think) [im also just taking the piss btw like this whole saga is silly and unhinged]

#1 fr my bad cuz it was like 5/6am when i wrote that and i was HEATED as fuck bro

#2 IKR LOL I SAW THAT TOO?? like what…? i think i may even have seen a post where he said he’s not gr8 at writing and that’s why he’s saying that? but honestly, fic writers don’t HAVE to write for either groups if they don’t want to

it was a very hypocritical statement when posts prior to that, he was saying that he doesn’t wanna write fem!reader stuff like bro pls be serious for once in your life

even as fanfiction writers, women still can’t catch a break like WHAT

[ogdoadfates]

Holy fuck

Okay like first off I just want to acknowledge I don’t know what is considered a lot or a little when it comes to AO3 stuff like this but this is fuckin astounding to me. The fact that these numbers are this high for stuff that I’ve done. That I’ve written! I have a few disabilities that deal particularly with reading and stuff like that but I’ve loved reading and creating story ideas for YEARS now ever since I actually got into reading. (Thank you godzilla comics and homestuck for helping me by keeping my attention so my reading skills got better holy shit) Not to mention this is my first proper dive into interacting with a fandom that has a more so solid backing (I am a furry artist and am active in that fandom but it’s not really a fandom you can talk and interact with and have everything you say be understood.) and it’s been such an amazing experience so far!! Gods one of the wackyest things is that my first fanfic, my first writing? Was a weird ass modern au talk between Scanlan and Vax called ‘A song in the lonesome sea of emotion’ I wrote and posted that on 2023-02-13 it’s currently 2023-04-18 and at least according to a few of my friends and one or two other people my writings improved a lot, fuck even though I give myself a hard time even I’ll hand myself that! Whats even more crazy?? I have mutuals on here that are amazing writers! Like wtf y’all are amazing??? Even in the furry art side of my life I never really had that happen before! I am too scared to name names due to almost crippiling anxiety but to my first critical role mutual (which I think you know who you are?) thanks for in a way launching me further into doing better. To the mutual who continuedly reblogs my stuff with the nicest most sweetest of tags gods do I appreciate you, you have no idea how much that means to me! To the mutual who doesn’t even know it but actually inspired and got me into actually writing fanfics and talking about my aus (holy shit that was not expected) thank you! And to all my mutuals in general you all are such beautiful creative people, I am so sorry I don’t interact a lot I am an overly anxious person who fears a lot :’3 I am sorry that I also don’t tag a lot when I reblog I’ll try to get better at that you all deserve that! And just to everyone following me in general if it for prompt lists or for my stories/aus I apricate you all so fuckin much words can not describe how awesome this all is for me and I hope tocontinue to make and reblog stuff that makes you happy, excited, just entertained in general! I wish you all many many great days ahead!

[sweetest-hive-of-hearts]

reblogging again because the person did three things not two

1) gave a like,

2) reblogged

3) left an encouraging/positive comment ("looks great")

3 can be VERY HARD sometimes- but not impossible, 3 is hard because there's 1000 ways to read someone's comment,

for example: I once got blocked for a time by a miraculous blog artist (I will not name because they do deserve better than that) I admired and the most I could chalk it up to was because my "wow I love how you draw x y and z!!! I love how your not-kwami kwamis, when used like kwamis, make the characters look very furry-esc and very obvious not a normal kwami despite when not in use looking very kwami-esc" message was POORLY WORDED and only when I read back did I realize:

1) I did not tone tag to show I meant it positively (which I did fix when I realized while backreading because man their art is so pretty and wonderful,)

2) did not word it well enough to prevent the chance for it to be read as "wowwwww this is piss poor design" when I meant it as "holy shit this is so cool and amazing and I love the possible horror of people going "hahaa this is definitely x" only to be hit with the horror of "no this is something entirely not like x what the fuck what the fuck" :] great work!!"

(even if it was 3-4am when I wrote that comment that does NOT excuse the fact that I could have gone about it different and had fixed it to prevent it being read at all maliciously should I have read over it, tone taged, or just waited until the next day)

so please

1) leave a GOOD NICE comment for the creator!!

2) double check it, if it's not a genaric "good job" "wow!!" or similar, that it can't be read maliciously or at LEAST add a tone tag or in some form of brackets that you're genuine/positive (these guys!!-> () [] {} <>) to show you're genuine or reacting positively instead of anything negative

3) make sure to NEVER add criticism to it unless explicitly asked

("hey can I get some opinions on x or y bits of this piece?" means telling them to start from the beginning and redo everything is NOT WHAT THEY ARE ASKING!! AND IS NOT WELCOMED!!! if anything for newer creatives it will make them stop overall!!! so don't do it!!! especially since you don't know what they're going through!!! they might REALLY need some positivity!!)

4) for most creatives trying to do MASSIVE analysis of their work is super welcome!! especially with writers or fanfic writers!!! some artists too!!! just make sure the above applies to it and I'm sure you'll encourage someone to dust off an old wip of the next chapter or related work and post it too by doing so for giving them such a boost!!!

[soundwave-macaque]

So I just did a little bit of experimentation with chatGPT (wait hear me out) just to see what it can actually do / "make".

It was incredibly interesting! The first thing I did was describe my fanfic to chatGPT and seeing if it actually would write it in the image in my head. Not only did it fail to write what I was envisioning, I wasn't even able to tell it was set in the murder drones until it mentioned N and V, which are the only characters mentioned.

Then I went through and pasted in every description for every chapter of my fic into chatGPT to see what it got and again, it was nothing like what I imagined. Not only that, I was able to notice chatGPT's pattern of writing (which is bad. It kinda just rambles into meaningless description and is devoid of any and all emotion)

Then I tried to get chatGPT to draw things (again this was experimentation I would never post AI "art" as my own) and what I got was fascinating. The first thing I tried to do was get it to draw J. This failed because apparently chatGPT cannot draw copyrighted characters. Next I tried to get a disassembly drone oc. I asked it to give me a tall feminine disassembly drone with pink hair and a black dress. What I got was cool, but didn't look anything like the murder drones art style or a disassembly drone. Unfortunately I did not save the image so I will describe it: it was an ultron looking robot with pink hair, red eyes, and spider arms on its back. Cool but not what I asked for.

Then I asked for a stand in the art style of jjba golden wind with long bat ears and speakers on the arms and legs. I did in fact save this one so I can show you what I got!

WARNING! THERE IS AI ART AFTER THIS BREAK! THIS WAS MADE FOR EXPERIMENTATION PURPOSES! I AM SORRY!

This is what I got. Yes, this is cool! Really cool like I do in fact like it, but this WASN'T WHAT I ASKED FOR. I specifically put in the request for the art style to be like that from part 5 of jojo's bizarre adventure. This is a really interesting design but it is not in a jojo's art style. This is also the only art style I've seen chatGPT use. This is also not quite what I asked for! I asked for speakers on the arms and legs! I see what looks like fans and I guess those could be speakers but they don't really look like it!

Due to the responses from chatGPT, I am incredibly confident that it is incapable of replacing artists or writers. Everything I got from chatGPT was soulless and empty art wise and writing wise. It failed completely to impress me. Random furry art that people make on tumblr is infinitely better than EVERYTHING I saw chatGPT make. Because you can feel when someone puts there soul into a piece of writing or art. ChatGPT cannot do this and consistently falls flat.

[blepsweirdfandomthoughts]

So I popped onto the ao3 Tumblr and...censorship? On AO3? I have some thoughts.

I've been reading ao3 for around...4, 5 years at this point.

I've seen fluffy stuff, I've seen smutty stuff, I've seen fluffy smut, I've seen things that is cursed beyond all hell.

Do I want to read those dead dove do not eat fics? No. Is the solution then censorship? No.

If I don't want to read a gory/very explicit fic,

1. It is tagged as very gory, explicit, dead dove do not eat, so I skip over it.

2. Just use the tags system on the side to not include any of these fics. It's actually fairly easy to use, once you get over the brief intimidation of all the buttons and search boxes.

Censorship, in some cases, is ok. Bleep out curse words on kids programming. Sure.

But this is a case where censorship goes beyond all the legitimately gory stuff. What do we count as censored material? All the sex? BDSM? Furry? A/B/O? LGBTQ?

Books get banned for the weirdest reasons. 1984 was banned in the US for being communist, while also being banned in the USSR for being too pro American.

And just because a fanfiction has risqué content doesn't automatically mean it's going to be complete crack and shameless smut. Evern if the fics just a giant ball of plotless porn, there are tags for that. I've learned about bdsm, consent, tropes in fiction, and writing itself through ao3 itself better than some books out on the shelves, making ludicrous amounts of money despite them being complete trash. (Lookin at you E.L James)

IF YOU DONT WANT TO READ IT, DONT READ IT.

You're not obligated to read these fics if it makes you uncomfortable. If you want to read it because it makes you happy, go right ahead. If others want to read it because it makes them happy, you have no authority to say that they can't because it makes you uncomfortable.

Furthermore, these fics are a sign of dedication, a labor of love, in a way. Somebody sat down at their computer, laptop, phone, or blackberry, and typed out all of this. FOR FREE. Had it Beta'd perhaps. The amount of time put into these fics is nothing to be scoffed at. To have all this time, these instrumental pieces of humanity, ripped away because one person found it uncomfortable is a bit unfair, isn't it?

Finally remember that fan fiction is FICTION. Pixels on a screen. There are no actors cast. There are no helpless interns abused. The only people abusing themselves are the writers and the betas, screaming as they figure out how to write a sex scene without 3 consecutive uses of the word "member".

The fanfiction community is one where creators and readers come together to gush about the Fandom, characters, and ships they love the most (Still gotta tie it into Sandman somehow bc it's my current fandom- check out Slow Burn by Arahir; fluffiest sh*t I've read in a while.).

Censorship ain't gonna do shit. Prohibition didn't work. Overturning Roe v. Wade won't work (sorry for that political reference, it's a topic I could rant about later). So banning/censoring something so inane like smutty fanfic, is basically like shooting oneself in the foot. We're still going to find a way to write and read it, no matter what the higher ups do. Heck, a site called "collection that belongs to the common public" might pop up with all the smutty fanfics yall want.

Maybe continue working on...porn censorship instead?

So. Yeah.

[herooffire101]

I got writer's block for today's prompt, so in lieu of a fanfic, headcanons in my cats human au because I have my own cats and even I know our furry friends have their own routine (also because I couldn't think of how they would as actual cats because my cats are not an example). Hobbes, named after the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, is seriously like Hobbes in the comic, and really wants attention even though we're trying to go through our day (he has developed kitty asthma, so me and my mom have to give him inhalers). MY other cat, Shadow, is a weird and a bit brain damaged (we don't know much, though she did have a polyp in her ear canal that we had to take her to Cornell) but we love her anyway. (We can't get another cat because of my dad)

Honestly, it was easier for me to do my human au.

The Normal Morning Routine in my Cats human au

Depending on the day and shift starts, either one or both of them are the semi-responsible functioning adults in the morning. Bomba is more trusted because she has a general plan, a routine to follow because if it goes wrong then she is liable to have a bad day.

Which days each one is the semi-responsible one

Monday: Bomba. Tugger is the late shift the previous night, staying downstairs until 10pm usually, sometimes Midnight. Bomba has the later day shift. She’s responsible for the front of house, being the Bar/Front of house manager. She makes the signs for the week special

Tuesday: Bomba plus Tugger, however, has the day shift in the kitchens. He’s the semi-responsible adult to get these kittens to bed  

Wednesday: Both. Bomba mostly gets the afternoon shifts, really.

Thursday: It starts transitioning to equal parts to more Tugger less Bomba, because she’s the Bar Manager. It’s a whole lot healthier for her sanity to be behind the bar than being a waitress.

Friday: Tugger. Bomba’s stuck with the night shifts during the end of the week.

Saturday: Both. Scheduling managed to get them the evening shifts, though Bomba has the longer night shift while Tugger has the shorter shift. He’s kitchen, She’s bar. She gets to deal with the drunken idiots lot.

Sunday: Tugger. Bomba had the night shift, so she has this day off.

(Sidenote to this: This is not official, because they do a lot of things, and Bomba mainly runs the money management side of Heaviside, so she does it mainly from their apartment home above the restaurant. Tugger does custom woodworking on the side, so they are managers with some freedom because of their needs. Munk is more of the day-to-day management, with Bomba and Tugger best at their positions. Bomba is technically working under Old Deuteronomy as the group accountant)

Breakfast

Tugger is the lesser responsible adult, to the point where Demeter has to step in occasionally (with whatever kittens are with her and/or Munk) to get the kittens that Tuggerulina are responsible for (namely Plato, Electra, Jemima, and Caramel, as mentioned in my demestrap one-shot (Electra doesn’t really come into the household until she’s 2 and a half because she does live with her foster dads and brothers. Bomba loves her all the same as Plato, though)) ready for the day because Tugger definitely has some form of ADHD, but to his credit, he does his best no matter what

Tugger IS the better cook, though not by much. He’s more used to working in the kitchens downstairs at Heaviside, so the chefs there give him a lot of advice, especially working with his ADHD, like ways of streamlining the process so that he can put more focus on the more fiddly bits. He makes mistakes quite often, usually by burning the toast. Or the pancakes. Bomba has woken up by the smell of burnt food multiple times, which means it time for her to wake up and take over.

Bomba focuses a lot better with making food. It’s chemistry to her. She’s been always good with science, and numbers. She may not understand the concept of drawing out the main themes of those dense novels she had to read for English class, but numbers are easy, sensible (unless it’s calculus. Calculus can go die in a hole, for all she cares).

It’s Saturday when they are both up at the same time, so they cook breakfast best working together. It’s been known that demestrap plus kittens will show up to Tuggerulina’s for breakfast because Bomba provides the chemistry, and Tugger can provide the artistic flair to make breakfast the bomb. (She mainly does the pancakes and French toast. Eggs and bacon she leaves for Tugger.)

Who tries to get the kittens to school (school-aged kittens only)

It’s mainly Bomba, and only Plato and Electra. Jemima and Caramel are (depending on when and where I create the story) 1) too young or 2) are homeschooled because Jemima had one too many issues with her peers and she got her mother’s brain. Bullying was a problem for both Tugger and Bomba, and it did not endear them to public school. As I written in my “Love Confession” fic, they had accommodations for schooling, IEPs, though Bomba’s came too late. She finally got hers after she was diagnosed at 12, and Tugger, while very smart, could not focus well and the ADHD meds he wouldn’t take because he horrified him and everyone else, (and neither Grizabella nor Deuteronomy would put him through that as well. They hated how he was when he took the medication. Tried for a week and everyone in the tribe wouldn’t put him and the kittens through that again. The found alternative ways to help him, and Bomba was a big help as well.) Bomba, for her part, taught Jemima and Caramel how to read, write, and do simple math because Jemima has a big independence streak that Bomba definitely encouraged with learning (Caramel is too much like Tugger, she employed the same strategies she used for Tugger with Caramel).

Tugger will get these kittens to school, though he will (intentionally) act like the biggest goofball you’ll ever seen. He will make Plato and Electra embarrassed to be seen by their peers with him. If they ever ask him to stop, he will reply “I am the Rum Tum Tugger. If you offer me one thing, I will want something else. Me and Bomba are walking contradicts.” This is why each kitten that Tugger and Bomba are responsible for want Bomba to be the one they see when they are picked up by the bus and dropped off. (Tugger has at one point dressed up in a cheesy dinosaur costume with Bomba just standing there, trying to hold her giggles while Jemima and Caramel are just laughing at their father. It gets worse as they get older.)

What can cause this routine to go wrong

A lot of things.

There is one memorable moment, one I did actually try to write but I got writers block and couldn’t think of a way out, was when the Sunday routine was already going to be thrown off because Tugger, Bomba, Plato (5), and 10-month-old Jemima were going up to the vacation house (no one knows who owns it, it’s either Gus, Old Deuteronomy, or Bustopher Jones. Demeter and Bomba have attempted to get it out of Gus, but he kept on telling them stories of their parents teenaged years there.), but it gets even more thrown off because of an annoying employee of theirs didn’t come in and Tugger, who was supposed to clock out at 8pm, had to stay until 2am because there was no one else. Both Tugger and Bomba are bothered by this, and they have a time to get there so that they could get a room together, or Jenny will force them to sleep in separate rooms (Jenny is annoyed at them still after four months of finally revealing that they already gotten married behind everyone’s back, minus Alonzo and Cassandra).

Either of them being summoned suddenly can throw their day off, whether be a sudden queen calling or bursting into the room (I would say it's usually Demeter because Bomba trusts her with the key)

As I said, I couldn't think of as actual cats because it was harder for me, and how my brain works with stories. Also, I would like to point out that somehow, me, @jelliclekay and @munku-collar all have human Bombalurina being some kind of business woman and I like it. *buries head in embarrassment*

[titleknown]

Reblogging both because OP is right, but to yes-and add to that... I'm baffled that people're saying "The old days of the net was better, nobody was afraid to be cringe," because like...

...No?! Like, I was there back in the aughts-era of the internet, and outside of those small circles that were okay with that, the internet was so fucking vicious and cruel to those deemed cringe.

Like, you could not publicly exist as a furry or a fanfic writer without being bullied off of most major online social spaces! That is a thing I witnessed!

Like, my paranoia over the backlash wrt the inverse problem of toxic positivity in fandom isn't that we're moving away from the "good old days," it is that in that backlash we are backsliding to those bad old days by taking up their methods, and as someone who was there I do not want that to happen.

Attempting to articulate a concern I have in the simplest way possible

[carpisuns]

New anon, but I saw the last one and I have some thoughts. Specifically, I have been obsessing over ml for the last month or so, and I’ve only seen three episodes, and they were the three released before crocoduel. And you know what? I wasn’t that into it, it wasn’t bad it just wasn’t half as engaging as fanon and fanworks have been for me.

I’ve also done this with the Magicians, Supernatural, and a couple others. I think the reason that this works, for some people, is because it is a more familiar and in many ways, easier way to discover and become attached to new material and new characters. Fan writers and artists are coming from a place of love for their source material (no matter what issues they may have with it) and that bleeds out into their work. Time is spent developing the characters and their feelings, their relationships, in ways that canon so often can’t or isn’t allowed to, and reading that, it’s very easy to fall in love with new characters very quickly. There’s also common AUs and dynamics that make it much easier to start something new.

And also: comfort characters. So many fans find common ground with characters and further project onto them, particularly in fanfic. And because of that it’s often easier to identify with a fan’s interpretation of a character than it is to identify with the canon’s, since you have these more deeply explored feelings and relationships based on a combination of canon and the personal experiences of the fan writer. Also, with these kinds of fics it’s extremely emotionally affirming since for someone who doesn’t have much of any connection with the source material, it feels like the original, even if you’re reading a large body of work by a lot of different people. And I’m so used to fanfic as a substitute for the emotional work and character development that shows/movies/books don’t have room for or aren’t willing to get into, that approaching a fandom as it’s own original piece of media in a way, feels very comforting.

That’s my perspective on it anyways, and why I do this. I do think it is a good thing to engage with the canon to an extent, even if it’s just watching a few clips (how I found ml) but I also don’t think you need any real connection or knowledge of it to be deeply invested in the fandom. Sorry, this got very long.

you know, i totally get being on, like, the fringe of fandoms and interacting with fanon to an extent without a proper investment in canon (I have a couple fandoms like that), but i honestly just can't imagine becoming super invested in a fandom when I am not invested in the source material...maybe that's just a difference between you and me, idk.

but also, i gotta admit that i'm struggling a bit to understand the reason. you yourself pointed out that fan work is enjoyable because the creator's love for canon bleeds into it. and isn't that the reason that you would want to give canon a real chance? obviously there is fan content made out of spite lol (and sadly a fair amount in this fandom), but to me most fan content is like a love letter to canon. like, "i adore this thing so much that it inspired me to create and share with other people who adore it." and what better recommendation is there than that?? i would think people would wanna familiarize themselves with canon in order to better enjoy fanon(?)

i completely understand your point about fan content delving further into characterization and relationships where canon hasn't/can't, and that is such a big appeal of fanfic/fanart. but i don't feel like that's a reason to not engage with canon? on the contrary, i feel like you are missing something important in your understanding and appreciation of that wonderful exploration if you haven't experienced firsthand the foundation that canon set. and maybe that missing thing is just your personal interpretation of a character/dynamic.

for example, i could say, "adrien agreste is this, this, and this and he would do this but not this." and of course i will think im right because my characterization is always perfect 😌sakjdfaldjks but someone else might have a slightly different interpretation, and someone else will have another interpretation, and when you mush all those individual takes on a character together, you will get a good sense of who they are, but you still don't have the Original™️ to draw your own interpretation from. idk, to me it sounds like basing your opinion of chocolate ice cream on what other people are saying about it without ever trying it yourself? ajsldakljf maybe that's an oversimplification but i do think that without experiencing it for yourself, your understanding will always be kind of incomplete.

idk, i big agree with everything you said about why fan content is special, but everything that is a point in fanon's favor is not a knock on canon. to me fan content feels pretty inseparable from canon, so it just doesn't compute to me to take canon out of the equation? then we would have nothing.

i feel like it's almost kinda trendy nowadays to be like, "oh this show actually sucks lmao but the fanon and AUs are good." like it's shameful to actually...enjoy source material? 😭 i mean i completely understand that miraculous ladybug is not gonna be everyone's cup of tea and that's fine! but if you truly enjoy the fan content that much i encourage you to give canon a real shot. it's not that surprising to me that you watched 3 recent episodes and didn't vibe that much, since you haven't seen the 3 seasons of buildup that lead to them. miraculous has a neat way of tying a bunch of things together so if you aren't familiar with all of it, you're probably missing out.

personally my love for miraculous was kind of a slowburn at first. i only started watching the show because my sister and i made a deal that forced me to watch the first few eps lol. and i didn't really vibe either. but there must have been enough of a spark there for me to keep watching bc for some reason i did and the more i watched the more i fell in love with it until it became the thing that occupies my brain more than anything else. i started with canon and then got into fanon, but it could easily go the other way too. and if you're already invested in the story and characters, i have to imagine it would be much easier to push past the initial cringe of "this is a show about a couple of teen furries rated TV-Y7 on netflix" lol and give anything you don't vibe with the benefit of the doubt.

again, to be clear, i'm not trying to judge or gatekeep here! i'm just saying this because i genuinely LOVE miraculous. it's my favorite show. that's why i make things for it. that's why i have this blog. i want people to watch it. so maybe, pwetty pwease, try watching the show you like so much? 🥺👉👈

(source bc i was too lazy to make my own so i stole this from twitter)

[thegayfromrulid]

One-Shot Requests

I'm going to leave these open on a mutual understanding that I'm a very busy doctoral student who also has ongoing fanfictions to write as well. If you understand that these will be written and given back when I have the brain-space for them, then please feel free to make a request!

One-shots will be posted to both to this Tumblr and my AO3. Please give me your AO3 username if you wish to have the one-shot gifted to you on AO3. Unless you request on anon or specifically instruct otherwise, I will place your username in the notes on AO3 to thank you for your idea and request.

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Finally, do not bash another author's work by coming to me "instead of" them or "because I do X, Y, or Z" in a way you, personally, may think is better. I am not competing with my fellow fanfic authors. I will deny requests that imply you wish to insult another fic writer.

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