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NOT. A. JOKE. 💛💛💛

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Apparently it’s real?!

Here are some comments that describe how I feel lmao:

WHAT IS GOING ON? Everyone’s acting as if this is completely legit and are straight up saying this is not a prank but like…

If it wasn’t for this picture I would absolutely not believe it for a second but like also it totally seems like a Shayne thing to commit to the bit that far in advance…

I legit have not been in this fandom for nearly 4 years but I had to go on insta as soon as I heard about this!!!!

I hope it’s real and if it is I’m so happy for them!!!!

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This is your daily reminder to stop kosa. Email your reps or go to badinternetbills.com/ and it will send the email for you. You can also edit what it will say in the email.

Also share information about kosa and how to stop it with everyone, you could reblog or just post your own post on your blog or text a friend. Even telling one person makes a difference.

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either way it's still the funniest thing that's ever happened on april fools

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WHAT IS GOING ON? Everyone’s acting as if this is completely legit and are straight up saying this is not a prank but like…

If it wasn’t for this picture I would absolutely not believe it for a second but like also it totally seems like a Shayne thing to commit to the bit that far in advance…

I legit have not been in this fandom for nearly 4 years but I had to go on insta as soon as I heard about this!!!!

I hope it’s real and if it is I’m so happy for them!!!!

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I don’t watch them anymore like at all, but I’m so happy for them♥️

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Move your writing from Wattpad to Ao3 NOW

I don't know if this will reach anyone who writes on wattpad but if it does: wattpad legally owns everything you've put on their site. This "partnership" with paramount means that they could take the plot off your original story, make a movie out of it, and take all the profit themselves because you are not legally entitled to a share, as per the terms of service.

But, navigating a new website can be scary or unpleasant. So I figured - as someone who migrated from wattpad to ao3 myself a couple years ago - here are a few tips:

When you sign up, you need to have an 'invite', this will be sent to you by the site in three days max.

Unlike Wattpad that I remember had limited tags - both in number and in scope - ao3 tags are numerous and cover a lot of ground. You can tag for everything that is present in the fic or only for things you consider important. This is entirely up to you.

Tags are three categories, usually: archive warnings, relationship tags, additional tags. Additional tags is where you would put specifics of the work.

Fandom tags, also. Though they're not really called tags, just the fandom of the work. Original Work is a category, and you can freely use it.

Sometimes readers might ask you to tag with something specific - a potential trigger that you may have missed. You are not required to comply - you are mostly left to your own devices on ao3 - but most people do. It makes everything better for everyone involved.

Ao3 works don't really have 'covers' as Wattpad works do - the medium is completely text based. people find your works based on pairing and additional tags, and judge it based on title and summary. You can still make covers for your work, but you will have to put it inside the work and people will only see it if they've already clicked on it.

Relationship tags fall into two categories: Character/Character for a romantic relationship and Character & Character for a platonic relationship.

There are six archive warning categories; 1- No archive warnings apply 2- rape/non-consensual 3- major character death 4- underage 5-graphic depictions of violence 5- creator chose not to apply any archive warnings.

A little bit of an afterthought;

- major character death is mostly considered anyone from the main pairing(s), but if a side character makes enough appearances to be loved by the audience, you might want to choose this anyway.

- choosing not to apply archive warnings is an ambiguous situation. you might do this to not spoil anything in the work - not advised, that's not how people choose to read things on ao3. your readers will feel betrayed - or if you feel an archive warning is Too Much but whatever happens is a little too close to home with one of them - in this case, you're advised to explain further in additional tags.

The posting page is fairly simple, similar to wattpad in a lot of aspects. No 'header', though. Fully text-based in posting. But you can have pictures in the body of the work itself which is how meme fics came to be - fics entirely told through meme pictures.

oh, ao3 has two interesting functions that wattpad doesn't have at all:

First; you can post anonymously. you do this by making a "Collection", setting it to anonymous, and putting your published work in that collection. This is how Anonymus and gift fests are usually kept secret! Be mindful that the Anonymus state can be applied to any collection by the owner at any time, so don't let your work be added to random collections by people you do not trust.

Second; orphaning a work. If you thought a story that you wrote was fun and cool but childish, so you still want people to read it but without it being attributed to you - orphaning the work will put it in the archive's servers as 'writer-less'. Once you orphan a work you have no more control over it - you can't delete or edit it.

Per Line Commenting was one of the fun features of wattpad; ao3 does not have that. People who really like your stuff will write lengthy comments, put paragraphs at a time in quotation marks, and then tell you how they felt about it. This is neither better or worse, just different. speaking from experience, it's less funny, but more genuine and heartfelt.

NO ALGORITHM. you will discover so, so many hidden gems and your story will be found by so, so many people. No more of popular works getting all of the spotlight.

oh and no "Awards" either but from what I remember those always sucked so this isn't important. You get found by the tags or by word of mouth and other people's bookmarks and tags.

Oh, and you don't just 'favorite' fics, you can 'bookmark' them which means "I liked this!" And you can 'rec' them which means "I think you should read this!". Bookmarks and recs can be public or private.

How could I forget! NO ADS. ao3 is a non-profit, so nobody who works on it makes a single cent off the incredible amount of traffic the site gets. You will not see any ads in the interface of the site or in any of your stories.

And finally, the ao3's most important feature: the site isn't going to fucking steal your story!!! You completely and legally own the work you put on ao3, and if it does get stolen they would actually help you get it back.

It's 2 a.m and this is all I can think of. Don't let paramount steal your hard work on your writing, they're assholes who do not deserve more money than they have.

If you are reading this and have a question about any part of it, do feel free to ask me or anyone else who has their ao3 link in their bio, they'd know the ropes. You can also read the full archive faq for more in-depth explanations of everything here.

Take your work off wattpad before it's too late, y'all.

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Happy birthday to AO3 🎂🎉

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oh my god???

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Update

Ok so this page is basically dead but i was scrolling through Twitter and saw this :

I had no idea was he was talking about but the replies were all a mess with no evidence, and this is the only reply i could find with anyone remotely having an idea what happened:

Of course doesn’t mean it’s true, even the person said they can’t confirm.

Anyone else know? Otherwise might just have to wait till he makes his statement.

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Ok so this page is basically dead but i was scrolling through Twitter and saw this :

I had no idea was he was talking about but the replies were all a mess with no evidence, and this is the only reply i could find with anyone remotely having an idea what happened:

Of course doesn’t mean it’s true, even the person said they can’t confirm.

Anyone else know? Otherwise might just have to wait till he makes his statement.

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Icons✨

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Haven’t opened Twitter in a while but was treated it this❤️✨👌🏾

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i love when people make extremely self-indulgent content that exists for no other reason than that they enjoy it

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I’m thirsty all right lmao

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Writing advice from my uni teachers:

If your dialog feels flat, rewrite the scene pretending the characters cannot at any cost say exactly what they mean. No one says “I’m mad” but they can say it in 100 other ways.

Wrote a chapter but you dislike it? Rewrite it again from memory. That way you’re only remembering the main parts and can fill in extra details. My teacher who was a playwright literally writes every single script twice because of this.

Don’t overuse metaphors, or they lose their potency. Limit yourself.

Before you write your novel, write a page of anything from your characters POV so you can get their voice right. Do this for every main character introduced.