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catfish

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I Post once in a blue moon and get treated to scam bots

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Mc: (holding a torch)

Diavolo: do you still want to burn down the Castle?

Mc: yeah

Diavolo: so you are still upset I ate your cake?

Mc: you can be glad all I want to do is burn down your Castle

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Mc: I got a prescription for sleepiness

Lucifer: this is a piece of paper from Belphie saying he needs a pillow

Mc: good night

Lucifer: I hate you

Mc: hate ya too dude

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Mc: (eating an apple)

Lucifer: Mc stop eating my Princess poisoned apples

Mc: I cut some up for you too

Luicfer: I told you to stop eating mine

Mc: yeah but it's hard for me to know when I'm going to be in a fruit mood

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Mc: (holding Diavolo) apologize

Diavolo: but I didn't do anything

Mc: you just tried to kill a Demon

Diavolo: yeah but they insulted you

Mc: if I wanted to kill somebody I would have done it myself

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Mc: (holding cake) who behaved the most this week?

Mammon: I did-!

Beel: (tackling him out of the way) I didn't eat any of the others food

Mc: you just tackled Mammom for a cake

Beel: a cake that you made

Mc: still no reason to tackle your brother

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*MC being confronted by a noble demon part 2*

Lucifer: MC if he approaches us, don’t tell him anything about you; you don’t know where he’s from or who sent him

MC: okay

Noble demon: I see the rumours are true that there’s a human walking amongst our realm. You’re MC, aren’t you?

Lucifer *whispering*: lie

MC: no, I’m Barbatos

Lucifer *painfully*: lie better

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AO3 Stats & Notifications

One (1) person said this would be interesting so here's a post about what AO3 authors can see about their works and what they get notified for.

What authors get notified for:

comment on a fic

EDIT on a comment (some of u edit like 16 times and it is very sweet. I get an email every time)

Response to a comment

Request to join a collection (note: don't do this. collection owners have a lot of power over fic and should only be used for specific reasons and not to create a collection of fic you enjoy. that's what bookmark collections are for)

Gift

Related work notification

Daily kudos email. The daily kudos email shows all the kudos of the previous day in an order that makes sense to the ao3 database and not to human eyes.

The only bit of this that is clickable is the title of the fic. I can click into the profile of a nice user if I navigate to the fic and then go to the bottom where the kudos are displayed.

Things authors do not get notified for:

subscription to a fic or author

ending a subscription

deleting a comment

creating a bookmark

a fic view (if you visit a fic twenty times, no one knows that but your isp and your browser history and you)

Now here's what authors can see about their fic under the cut because more screenshots

The first thing an author can see is something everyone can see, and that's who left a public bookmark

If you click on the number next to bookmarks you can see this. And each username is clickable to see the other things they have bookmarked or written (side note, this is the best way to find other fic to read)

The author can also see the note a reader leaves on a public bookmark.

Please note that authors don't get a notification for this and I don't look at them (screenshot proving me a liar) so you aren't guaranteed to be seen by the author. If you like that last nice user want the author to know it stuck with them, you gotta leave a comment.

But there are also private bookmarks! And private bookmarks are, as the name sounds like, private. However. On the statistics page for each fic the author gets a little more information.

Here is the statistics page:

This can be selected to by year and the numbers will change EXCEPT user subscriptions. User subscriptions shows the current state of subscriptions. And since authors don't get a notification of number go up or down, they won't know when it's changed unless they are tracking it. Additionally there is no way to see who has subscribed. So you can subscribe to whoever you like or unsubscribe at any time and that is between you, the ao3 database, your ISP tracking your history, and your email client. But the author doesn't know. You are released from any social obligation to stay subscribed or any embarrassment you might have. Go forth.

See? Here is 2024 and it has the same number of users.

Also fun fact, the word count shows fic FINISHED in that year. I wrote a 90k fic that straddled 2024 and 2025 and the full word count for that is tracked on the 2025 page.

anyway back to info.

I can scroll down on this and get a bit more information on each fic.

Here I can see the number of people who have subscribed to a fic - but not who they are. I can also see the TOTAL NUMBER of bookmarks including private bookmarks.

Compare contrast:

The public listing shows 47 bookmarks, the statistics page listing shows 127. On average, most fics have about half of their bookmarks private.

I can't see who made those extra bookmarks, just that they exist.

Also on the statistics page the comments are shown as the number of threads instead of the total number. I always reply to comments so the thread count is a more accurate reflection of how many people left a comment.

So to sum up, what authors can see if they investigate:

username on a public bookmark and any note left

the total number of bookmarks

the total number of subscriptions to themselves right now

the number of subscriptions on a fic

hits

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"Deprecated Fandoms" Spam Bot Alert!

If you get a comment that says AO3 is "deleting works to conserve server space", that is a Spam Bot. There is no such thing as "deprecated fandom content", nor is there any limit on the number of works that can be posted to a fandom tag (regardless of how "popular" it is). AO3 has not changed its content policies. We are committed to upholding our founding principle of maximum inclusiveness of fanwork content, and will only remove content that violates the AO3 Terms of Service. While non-fanworks are not allowed on AO3, we consider both original works and real-person fiction to be fanworks. Please don't listen to anyone telling you otherwise.

Unlike the previous round of art spam, so far these comments have all been from guests, so our advice for handling them is different! We're working on filtering these comments out, and flagging them as spam is how you can help. Read more below the cut!

To help train our automated spam-checker to block similar guest comments in the future:

If the comment is on your own work: 

Note: The "Spam" button only appears when viewing a guest comment directly on your work. This is because the AO3 comment inbox is merely a copy of the work's comments – deleting a comment from your AO3 inbox does not delete the comment from the work itself.

Go directly to the comment on your work, either by clicking on the link in your email or in your AO3 inbox.

Click on the "Spam" button to mark the guest comment as spam and remove it from your work. 

That's it! You don't have to do anything else.

If you see comments like these on someone else's work: 

Feel free to let the creator know the comment is from a bot and that they should mark it as spam. 

You can also report the comments as botspam via the Policy Questions & Abuse Reports form linked at the bottom of every page on AO3. 

If you are reporting multiple guest comments, please submit only one report and include all comment links in your report description. (You can get the direct link to any comment by clicking the "Thread" button on the comment, and then copying the URL of that page.)

AO3's Policy & Abuse committee (PAC) does not pre-screen content on AO3; they only investigate if they receive a report. All reports are reviewed by PAC volunteers, who are real human beings. You don't need to worry that your or anyone else's fanworks will be taken down due to a baseless report or a mass-reporting campaign. 

If PAC were to determine that you had violated the TOS, you would receive a notification of the violation via the email address associated with your AO3 account—not via comments, social media, or any other method. 

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THIS IS NOT REAL. If you get this comment, they’re just trying to get you to delete your fic.

1) I would have gotten some kind of email from Ao3 if this was true

2) this comment is formatted to be perfect to tack onto any fic they choose

3) ALSO why on earth would Ao3 get rid of entire fandoms off the site? Even if they WERE inactive? Who knows if others will be ‘late’ to the fandom and want some fic to read. Who knows if someone wants to come back to their 6 year old account only to find most of their fics deleted.

I’m lucky to be a reasonable adult who has seen tricks like these who also had a very kind person comment their own doubts.

Please let your Ao3 friends know <3

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Dead blog posts random shit because it came to me in a cruel vision

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knowing that the brothers aren't usually known for doing things in moderation*, and knowing that satan canonically loves saving money, it's entirely possible that he would be into extreme couponing if he was introduced to it

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*edit* also yeah I know a different Studio is developing it and the Kickstarter is for additional features doesn't change my mind

Fuck Solmare and fuck them trying to make another shitty app because their crap won't sell without a game attached

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Do you think Beel would give MC special version of food? Or get food for/share food with MC?

I only ask this because I found a massive crisp and immediately thought: Ah yes! Beel would probably offer this to MC as a nice lol gift/show of love!

He would absolutely do that with/for Mc, I always like to imagine Mc as one of the few people that Beel is willing to share food

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honestly don't want one of my rare posts to be completly negative, so have fun with the fact that when I wrote about wedding Headcanons I also learned the New App might be about marriage with the charas which is the second time I wrote something and it had some similar plot beats to what would be released to the game

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Fuck Solmare and fuck them trying to make another shitty app because their crap won't sell without a game attached