#The archive of stuff

[thatweirdocryptid]

Hey you...yeah you, come closer would you please? Sneak attack you with lots of potential concepts at ungodly hours.

what if mole dog societies are structured like ants in a way, although the ruler/rulers does not give birth to all in the pack and just make sure everything is running smoothly. But each dog has a assigned jobs that benefit the pack like;"farmers"(of the solver flesh),diggers,babysitters, scavengers, scouts,ect.

If any mole dog that spends too much time outside will start to become a more darker coloration as their body start producing more melanin to protect them from the deadly sun's ionizing radiation; some becoming completely black in fur and skin

some mole dog pack/colonies may live strictly underground as others pack/colonies might send scavengers to the surface in hopes they'll bring back something for the rest of them. On rare occasions, scavengers can team up with disassembly drones with the promise of food of some sort. The scavengers that team up will try flushing out any worker drones that are out of reach of the disassembly drones

Most drones never get to see a real mole dog in their life. Lots of them considering them nothing but myth, but as mythical as unicorns to some others . There are barely any documented cases of mole dogs across all of the outposts

mole dogs can probably eat anything at this point that isn't just straight up unedible like; oil, concrete,metal, plastic,ect. Although sometimes they could be caught chewing on wires or scraps of metal

(Oops that's a lot. sorry i got too excited.I hope it doesn't scare you off )

W OA HFUHEFISUSUSUUWH mole dawgs are my lifeline rnź uryegwgdjwhs

[just-french-me-up]

'ao3 needs a like and dislike button'

what you need, my algorithm-rotten minded friend, is a grip

[minyicho]

starting a collection of my favourite AO3 author’s notes

honourable mentions

[moonchild311]

"people who stay up at night are either insomniac or In love" people who stay up at night read gay fanfiction on AO3 what are you on about?

[abbielauren2024]

Reblog if you’re grateful for your commenters <3

[theaftersundown]

fanfiction truly being the savior for everyones sanity

[kriz-smthn]

[kairithemang0]

I've got a lot of respect for smut writers. you write something incredibly sexual, it's probably somewhat of a look into your own soul, and then bitches are too scared to leave kudos of comments half the time, so it looks as though everyone hates your work. And yet yall still do it, and I love that

[artemisdesari-blog]

A writer friend told me something that broke my heart a little bit today; they're going to quit publishing their fanfic.

My instant thought was that they had been trolled or attacked or that something terrible had happened in their life because this person is so passionate about their writing. It wasn't any of that. Engagement with their works has been going down, as it has for many of us. Comments are like gold dust a lot of the time, and just looking through the historical comment counts on old fics on ao3 demonstrates this trend very clearly. It was not simply the comments dropping off which caused them to decide to stop posting, however.

My friend came across a discord server for their fandom (I should point out here that their fandom interest and mine diverged a couple of years ago, we stay in touch but don't currently read each other's posts because I'm not into their fandom and they would rather gouge their eyes out with a wooden spoon than read anything Star Wars) and specifically to share fic in that fandom. They joined, because we all love a good fic rec, only to discover that their latest multichapter fic, which has almost no comments and very few kudos, is being hotly discussed in this server as one of the best stories ever. Not one of these people has bothered to say this to them on the fic. When they asked, none of participants could see the point in telling the author of the fic they apparently loved so much that they love it.

This discovery has absolutely destroyed my friend's love of sharing fic. They share because they love seeing other people's enjoyment, and fic writers do that through comments and kudos/reblogs/likes because we don't get paid. There is no literary critic writing a blog post/article about how amazing the story is for us to copy and keep/frame. There is no money from royalties. All we have are the words of the people reading our works.

Those people on that server could have taken five minutes of the time they spent gushing about how amazing my friend's story was to other people and used it to tell the one person guaranteed to want to hear that praise how much they loved it. They could have taken a moment to express their opinion to the person who spent hours upon hours plotting, writing, editing, and posting those chapters. Instead, they deprived my friend of thing that keeps them sharing their writing, and in the process have killed their love of it. My friend now feels used and unmotivated.

I won't be sharing a link to their fic, they said I could share their experience but not their identity. I know they plan to post one final chapter. I know they intend to express their hurt at being excluded from the praise for the thing they created, and I know they intend to announce that as a consequence they will not be posting for a long while, if at all.

So please, I beg you, don't hide your love of a story from the writer. It's just about the only thing we have.

[saggitary]

There is no greater bond than the one between a person and the fictional character they’ve written 50k+ words about

[bonemeal12]

TMA lino print from class!

[actual-changeling]

In the spirit of encouraging people to comment on fanfics while also making it easier to do so, I feel obliged to share a browser extension for ao3 that has quite literally revolutionized the comment game for me.

I present to you: the floating ao3 comment box!

From what I've seen, a big problem for many people is that once you reach the comments at the bottom of a fic, your memory of it miraculously disappears. Anything you wanted to say is stuck ten paragraphs ago, and you barely remember what you thought while reading. This fixes that!

I'll give a little explanation on the features and how it works, but if you want to skip all that, here's the link.

Edit: Yes, this also works on mobile!

The extension is visible as a small blue box in the upper left corner.

(Side note: The green colouring is not from the extension, that's me.)

If you click on it, you open a comment box window at the bottom of your screen but not at the bottom of the fic. I opened my own fic for demonstrative purposes.

The website also gives explanations on how exactly it functions, but I'll summarize regardless.

insert selection -> if you highlight a sentence in the fic it will be added in italics to the comment box

add to comment box -> once you're done writing your comment, you click this button and the entire thing will automatically copied to the ao3 comment box

delete -> self explanatory

on mulitchapter fics, you will be given the option to either add the comment to just the current chapter or the entire fic

The best part? You can simply close the window the same way you opened it and your progress will automatically be saved. So you can open it, comment on a paragraph, and then close it and keep reading without having the box in your face.

Comments are what keep writers going, and as both a writer and a reader, I think it's such an easy way of showing support and enthusiasm.

[moonchild311]

"you've already left kudos here. :)" ok and I'll leave some more. You got a problem? Because in my opinion, this work is so good and the author totally deserves it

[wojtekaneko]

well that was awkward

[theaftersundown]

You, every night.