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A one-year redraw of this drawing

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Do You Ride?

Leon thinks he can impress the beautiful newcomer, the legendary rancher, Ada Wong. He's confident in himself as he straddles the mechanical bull, sure that he won't be thrown off.

Western Aeon AU ❤️

AO3

ss by: bunnie_lori and heavensbullet on pinterest

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PSA

Just a heads up, there are bots going around on AO3 accusing people of using AI. Considering the timing, this is likely AI bros' retaliation for AO3 users calling them out for scraping their work. Examples of what you might be sent:

Screenshots from here.

If you get a comment like this, just report for spam and delete.

Edit: apparently they're also using people's usernames to try to make the spam seem more authentic, so if you get a guest comment from someone you recognise, it's likely not them.

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but what if i read one of your fanfics and then went to your ao3 accounts and read all of your fanfics and left a comment on every single chapter of every single one and you got spam emails from all of my kudos and comments and it made you smile, what then? what if i brighten your day with my words like you did mine, what then???

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Slow Dance

For the lovely anon that enjoys domestic aeon slow dancing in the living room. ❤️

It wasn't common to find Ada in his apartment, but it was a gift when she was.

Her back was to him, leaned against his open window that looked out toward the city. She'd wrapped her arms around herself the way she always did when she was tense.

"Rough job?" Leon asked. Ada gave a laugh so soft he wanted to lean in to hear more. It didn't surprise him that she knew he was there.

"Something like that," she replied. He took timid steps toward her, moved his arms around her waist, and leaned down to rest his chin against her shoulder.

The world outside his window was a light shade of blue as the sun sunk slowly into the horizon. Someone from an apartment across the street stepped out onto their patio. He and Ada stood quietly as he lifted a violin to his shoulder.

The soft melody of his music drifted over the other sounds of the city. Ada's body relaxed against Leon's chest, and he felt the urge to ask her what happened during her last job that made her look so distant now.

He'd never get an answer and he didn't think it mattered now that she was here.

"Dance with me?" he whispered.

"What?" she asked. He kissed up her shoulder.

"Dance with me," he repeated into her neck before leaving a soft kiss there. She tilted her head to the side with a sigh as he left another kiss along her jaw and cheek.

"You're not going to take no for an answer," she said with her eyes focused on him.

"Not this time," he said and leaned in for a slow soft kiss against her lips. Her eyes were hooded when he pulled away. "Please," he said gently to her lips. She rose on her feet to claim his mouth again.

The man across the street paused, and then began a new slower song. The long smooth notes blended into the next as a waltz.

Leon pulled her further into the apartment and took her hand in his. At first she stiffened as if the gesture was foreign to her.

"Surely you've slow danced before," he said.

"I have," she assured him as he moved them with light steps in a circle. "But not like this," she whispered.

After a few turns around his modest sized living room, she loosened up and leaned her head against him as they moved. The music lulled them into an easy rhythm.

Leon felt himself relax as Ada became pliant in his hands. The musician's music mingled with the other busy sounds of life that made his apartment feel like their own little world.

"Thank you," Leon said.

"For what?" she lifted her face to see his. The blue washed over her soft features that he'd memorized years ago. He ran his thumb along her jaw and leaned in to kiss her again.

They weren't much for words of affirmation, but he knew a kiss would say everything he couldn't.

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NOTICE: As more and more fanfic writers are using generative AI for their works (you uncreative dweebs), I hereby swear on everything I hold dear that I have not and will NEVER use generative AI in ANY of my written work. Everything I post will be organically and creatively my own.

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I already knew my work was scraped but to see confirmation hurts

I just reblogged the link if you want to see if your work was taken.

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Alright! Sorry for being so absent today! I was building a tool so you can all check your own names on demand.

I am asking that you not talk about it on Hugging Face. I'm sure word will get there eventually, but I'd like to avoid them accessing this as much as possible. Feel absolutely free to spread around Tumblr.

AO3 search tool is here! Use page 1 to search scraped fics by username. Use page 2 to search by work ID (which you'll need to do if you're looking for an anonymous work).

Or you can use this version, which is strongly recommended if you've published more than about 20 fics on the username you're searching.

If you're unsure which to use:

The first link is better if your entire username is a common word. For example, if you're username is just "bread" then you probably can't search yourself in the second link. The first version is way slower, so I recommend trying the second link first and using the first link as a backup option if the second fails.

The first link contains a page to search by work ID. This is good if you have an anonymous or orphaned fic, since that's not going to appear by searching your username.

The second link is better if you have a LOT of fics. It will give you a count of fics so you don't have to add them up. It will show the top 2,000 work results found.

If you have more than 2,000 published works, first off, I am jealous of your motivation. But second, that won't display right on the public version of the tools. You can send an ask or DM to have me do a custom search for you if you have more than 2,000 total works under 1 username.

You can also ask or DM if your entire username is a common word, because you're likely to get drowned out of the search results in that case. Try the tool first, but if it returns a lot of author results for your search, and YOUR name isn't in the results, ask me! There's a decent chance you're in there, but one of the tool's weak points is searching extremely common words.

In case this post breaches containment: this is a tool that only has access to the work IDs, titles, author names, chapter counts, and hit counts of the scraped fics for this most recent scrape discovered in April 2025. There is no other work data in this tool. This never had the content of your works loaded to it, only info to help you check if your works were scraped. If you need additional metadata, I can search my offline copy for you if you share a work ID number and tell me what data you're looking for. I will never search the full work text for anyone, but I can check things like word counts and tags.

Please come yell if the tool stops working, and I'll fix as fast as I can. Version 1 is slow as hell, but it does load eventually. Give it up to 10 minutes, and if it seems down after that, please alert me via ask! Anons are on if you're shy. Version 2 typically loads results within 1 minute and handles most users well.

On mobile, enable screen rotation and turn your phone sideways. It's a litttttle easier to use like that. It works better if you can use desktop.

Some FAQs below the cut:

"What do I need to do now?": At this time, the main place where this dataset was shared is disabled. As far as I'm aware, you don't need to do anything, but I'll update if I hear otherwise. If you're worried about getting scraped again, locking your fics to users only is NOT a guarantee, but it's a little extra protection. There are methods that can protect you more, but those will come at a cost of hiding your works from more potential readers as well.

"I don't want to know!": This tool is 100% optional. If you don't want to know, simply don't click the link. You are totally welcome to block me if it makes you feel more comfortable.

"Can I see the exact content they scraped?": Nope, not through me. I don't have the time to vet every single person to make sure they are who they say they are, and I don't want to risk giving a scraped copy of your fic to anyone else. If you really want to see this, you can find the info out there still and look it up yourself, but I can't be the one to do it for you.

"Are locked fics safe?": Not safe, but so far, it appears that locked fics were scraped less often than public fics. The only fics I haven't seen scraped as of right now are fics in unrevealed collections, which even logged-in users can't view without permission from the owner.

"My work wasn't a fic. It was an image/video/podfic.": You're safe! All the scrape got was stuff like the tags you used and your title and author name. The work content itself is a blank gap.

"It's slow.": Unfortunately, a 13 million row data dashboard is always going to be on the slow side. I think I've done everything I can to speed it up, but it may still take up to 10 minutes to load. It's faster if you can use desktop, but it should work on your phone too.

"My fic isn't there.": If it was published after March 15th, 2025, that was likely after all of the scraping took place. Otherwise, from what I can tell so far, the scraper's code just... wasn't very good, so most likely, your fic was missed by random chance. I am continuing to look for methods to reduce the chances of a work getting scraped anyway, and I will share on this blog if/when I find something that works.

Thanks to everyone who helped with the cost to host the tool! I appreciate you so so so much. As of this edit, I've received more donations than what I paid to make this tool so you do NOT need to keep sending money. (But I super appreciate everyone who did help fund this! I just wanna make sure we all know it's all paid for now.)

(Made some quick edits to the post on 04-May-2025 to update information a bit!)

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Swallow the Dark

"Breathtaking. If he didn't know to fear her, he'd be on his knees to be beneath her."

Leon Kennedy is kept a prisoner in Wong Castle, awaiting his demise, when he is summoned to the devil's bed chamber. Lady Wong has her own secret plans, sensual and dark.

Lady Ada x prisoner Leon

Aeon One-shot

AO3

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Warning you now, this smut fic needs good warning tags. Better yet, this smut fic needs Jesus. It's just erotica plain and simple

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Leon Bennet and Ada Darcy anyone?

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With more and more Ao3 authors restricting their works to the archive (due to AI scraping), they're going to be losing guest interaction. And probably generally feeling down because. You know. AI is stealing their hard work.

So! Now is a great time to stop by your favorite authors/stories and drop them some comments! They really appreciate it!

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Saw a post on here that was college au nalu where natsu was an art major and I have not stopped thinking about it. So here is my take on that :3

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people who leave comments on AO3 I LOVE YOU

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Was worried the chapters of my fanfic weren't long enough but then I remembered that this isn't homework and I can do whatever I fucking want.

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fanfic writers coming up with *chef’s kiss* perfect ideas to torture their blorbos then remembering they’ll have to actually write them out in order for the fics to not exist only in their heads