#unsurprising but annoying

[destinationtoast]

I've been getting a new wave of spam comments recently on AO3 that are easy for me to spot because they are responding to my fandom stats meta as if it were fiction:

[redacted]* left the following comment on [Fandom stats] Ted Lasso S3 on AO3: fandom response to Season 3:

I love how you explored the unexplored aspects of the original story. It adds a whole new layer of depth.

[redacted]* left the following comment on [Fandom stats tutorial] How to gather fandom data & do fandom stats:

Your fanfic is an emotional rollercoaster. I laughed, I cried, and I couldn't get enough. Fantastic work!

[redacted]* left the following comment on [Fandom stats tutorial] How to gather fandom data & do fandom stats:

Your writing has a lyrical quality to it. The prose is poetic, and it added an extra layer of beauty to the story.

[redacted]* left the following comment on [Fandom stats tutorial] How to gather fandom data & do fandom stats:

I can't get enough of your writing. It's addictive.

I believe I've only been getting these on my most recently updated three works (and mostly on the oldest of those three, which is also the most popular, the only WIP, and the only one with multiple chapters). But it's also possible I got some comments on older works that were fiction, and I didn't recognize them as spam.

Has anyone else been noticing a similar influx?

*Edit to add: redacted because at least some of the names the bots are using are real usernames, appropriated for spam. (But if the name in a comment is not linked, it's not the actual user leaving the comment.) If you see such comments yourself, don't blame the real users for the spam bots' actions!

[hyacinthsdiamonds]

Sky Sports: Charles winning Monaco isn't as big as Lando winning Miami

Also Sky Sports, who spent the entire race begging for pitstops to make the race more interesting: MAX HOW CAN YOU SAY IT WAS A BORING RACE FOR YOU PERSONALLY TODAY BECAUSE ITS DIFFICULT TO OVERTAKE ON THE TRACK, WHEN CHARLES WON?

[unheavenlybody]

i wanna quit my job so bad but i like having money obviously i just gotta make it thru the holidays at least jesus christt. it shouldnt affect me so much but i hate it so much its not even hard but still draining

[queerofthedagger]

there is a fine line between valid criticism about tik tok and other youth culture, and sounding like a grouch bitching about "the youth these days", and a lot of tumblr is really, really, really falling into the latter category. just sayin

[prisonpodcast]

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[katabay]

Do you have specific fiction authors that you like to read? What aspects of a story make you want to really dig your fingers in it? Is it horror?

I’ve got a couple! Keigo Higashino for sure. anything Naoki Urasawa does: I will be reading it. Priest (Guardian and Mo Du are all time favorites). also KJ Charles and Andrew A Smith!

ngl I don’t really have a concrete list of favorite fiction writers, I spent several days thinking about this one: like, I have favorite books for sure, but I don’t often find myself considering an author to be a favorite just because their book blew my mind. I’ve only read three of Andrew A Smith’s works, but he’s here because he gave an interview years that changed my entire approach to storytelling, and I still revisit it whenever I start editing a story.

honestly the big thing is that I like character!! I like compelling characters (extremely varied definition of compelling, it doesn’t have to be much, but it does have to have something) I like it when something goes full throttle into whatever it wants to be. I’ll watch a slow paced slice of life romance with the same amount of enthusiasm that I had for Devil Judge, and the 1vs10 beat down in Ipman takes up just as much space in my brain as the ‘let’s not see each other from now on,’ breakup in the Heirs (but for extremely different reasons lmao)

however. if I have to pick something more thematically specific: I like seeing people in power get what they have coming to them, I like explorations and confrontations of political and social injustices. kingdom is one of my favorite shows, and the horror is great, but it was the political-class-power aspect of it that solidified it as a memorable watch to me. kamen rider build did something fundamental to the circuitry of my brain. etc.

[faaun]

going over the results of our study is just actually infuriating it's the same fucking thing every time WHY IS THIS COUNTRY SO FUCKING TRANSPHOBIC MY GOD GET A FUCKING GRIP!!!! I NEED THIS GOVERNMENT TO GET A FUCKING GRIP ! I NEED ALL THE SYSTEMS THAT TRAIN OUR MEDICS OUR EMBRYOLOGISTS OUR NURSES TO GET A FUCKING GRIP !

[philtatosbuck]

the only bad part about st*dia being paid dust is the st*rek freaks are taking it as a win which is. Astounding to me considering stiles isn’t in the movie and derek literally fucking dies

[lonesomedotmp3]

"I caught wes and nate together last night" "screwing?" the way he doesn't even sound surprised... girl that would be insane

[hella1975]

you cant make edits to vampire empire by big thief bc the moment i hear that song i have to start singing it dancing to it acting it out throwing up clawing the walls etc. could be the best edit in the world sorry bossman im not watching that shit. im busy

[pochapal]

i hauve covid

[boydykepdf]

doctor scheduling a whole appt just to tell me how to get rid of my scars. girl i like them 😐

[thirddoctor]

My answer for New Who mostly depends on where each Doctor is because I only think Eleven would be annoying (affectionate) in the Pond era, with Clara he’d probably be easily handled by just giving him a trinket to fiddle with, while Ten would be insufferable separated from Rose, Twelve would be a blast as would War be pleasant. Nine might give me attitude but wouldn’t be an issue. Thirteen is annoying viscerally to me and normally I wouldn’t count that for the very specific question, but I just knew people would vote Eleven just because they are biased against Moffat era so I went ‘fine then I’ll vote for the era I hate’ but know I did put thought into it

Yeah I pretty much agree! I voted for Ten personally because I think under the wrong circumstances he would be the most insufferable by far, whereas I could handle the others.

[infizero]

rlly funny to me how rem has been rendered as this eerily beautiful ghostly looking woman with a draping white gown and long hair and ryuk is just some guy in black with crazy makeup

[clonerightsagenda]

To fuse two of my recent posts I think a funny additional twist to the ‘Doug and Miranda are friends’ situation is, given Eiffel hated Maxwell’s vibes on sight for unspecified reasons, if when alien clone Maxwell shows up again he still hates her vibes on sight. Maxwell does not give a solitary shit what he thinks of her but when she sees him excitedly showing Miranda Cracked.com she’s like. ok not to take it personally but what the fuck.

[letapollojusticesayfuck]

happy spotify wrapped swednesday the best part of this is the made-up genre categories