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AO3 works being stolen and posted on rivd.net

What is happening, and what you can do. Check for edits with additions at the end of the post!

We've posted these infos in our Discord server, but want to make them accessible for more of you AO3 and fanfic folks out there. What is happening? A user called "Fanfic Books" on the site https://rivd.net is posting over a million of fanfics since May 18th (account creation time of that user), all of which seem to be stolen from AO3 users. You can check if your works were stolen by searching your AO3 username on that site. Reporting this on the site is tedious, and contains so much requested data and personal (sensitive) information about you that is just seems sketchy and like they want to grab your data to sell it off again. (See this for more on that.) That a virus called "rivd" apparently also exists does not help their case. Since the person posting the works is also listed as Moderator of the website, chances of successful reports are, by our estimation, very small to non-existant. (As you can look up here.) Creating an account on that site is also tedious - after trying it, the feedback was that a moderator needs to approve of my account creation request. How long that is supposed to take is not known. What can you do? We deduced - through admittedly rushed, because we felt like time was of the essence, and and sparce, checks - that people who have their works locked on AO3 have not been affected. (At all/as much is not to say, it's our best hope and theory rn.) We advised our server members to lock their AO3 works for the time being, as that currently seems like the only prevention method available. A great tutorial for how to lock all your AO3 works at once has been posted here. Kudos to this X/Twitter post that seemed to have started the spread of information, and others relaying the infos (like e.g. r/AO3 on Reddit). Edit (0,5h after initial post):

With permission of the author on AO3, here are screenshots from when I checked if their works (unlocked on AO3) were stolen. Searching for works of the FFL Discord server's admin, who has them locked on AO3, resulted no matches on the rivd site - hence the theory/recommendation that locking your AO3 works helps.

Edit 2 (4h after initial post):

There also seems to be a new occurrence that the fanfiction tab has been emptied/does not contain (publically displayed) fanfics anymore. What this means and if the fanfics are really taken down is unclear, but given that the anime fanfic category that once existed is seemingly completely gone, something is being done. Rumor is that a mass report of DMCA at Cloudflare caused this - it feels like a win either way!

Edit 3 (23h after initial post):

It seems like rivd.net is now completely down/inaccessible. See last attached screenshot in this post! No infos on what this means or what caused this are available atm, but like before, it feels like a small win!

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i wanna join an anti cinema cinema club

Found this yesterday as I was walking between classes and thought I should show everybody

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Epic Cosplay of “Horizon Zero Dawn”

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also not queerbaiting - character(s) is revealed to be gay BUT its not the identity you wanted ie. character is Bi but you wanted Gay - characters are gay but aren't in the relationship you want, like if Nandor and Guillermo dont end up together in WWDITS that not queerbaiting its shipbaiting thats a separate thing - the staff and marketing on a thing never touchs on LGBT things but the fandom is hyping the ideas up, is not queerbaiting they are not using it for marketing so they are not purposely baiting you. ie Encanto has queer themes read into by the fandom but the staff/marketing never used that in promotion (at least i don't remember them doing so)

real people being partially closeted or ambiguous about their own sexuality while making Gay Art is not queerbaiting

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THE FEELS Inspired by this scene in the Journal, which has not left my mind since i first read it:

Specifically, this part!

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their dynamic fascinates me

My favourite Merrill banter

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@lyricalvillain

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My memory of The Birdcage (1996) is always that it's more dated and more difficult to watch than it actually is. You hear "drag-themed comedy from the 90s based on a musical from the 80s based on a play from the 70s" and you brace yourself just a little, right? But the film has a strong gay perspective, so the fruity fag jokes mostly come off as warmly affectionate. There is a surprising amount of poignancy in Robin Williams' portrayal of Armand, grudgingly agreeing to his beloved son's request that he go back into the closet for an evening ("do me a favor and don't talk to me for a while"). The drag club's staff attempting to redecorate the apartment with stuff straight people might like (a taxidermy moose head, an enormous crucifix, and Playboy magazine) is extremely funny. Albert's histrionics are a point of tension because he does often come off as a stereotypically pathetic/comic figure, but towards the end of the movie he makes it very clear that he's aware of how people see him, and asserts that trying to copy a stoic masculinity he doesn't possess for the sake of social approval would be more pathetic. In the 1983 musical adaptation, they give "Albert" (Albin) the only good song in the whole show, "I Am What I Am", which Gloria Gaynor covered to the delight of gays everywhere. Apparently Nathan Lane wasn't (publicly) out yet in 1996, which is amazing because it means that at one point in this movie you're watching a gay man playing a straight man playing a gay man playing a straight man, in a movie about how it's important to be yourself, an absurdity that does seem to encapsulate the state of gay America in the 90s.

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BEETLEJUICE (1988) + trivia insp.

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a little thing about ford's bill-related ptsd :') the song is "i'll be seeing you" by billie holiday

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Sketching Dr Orpheus with multicolor pens and celebrating the return of the Venture Bros.

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🐕🐕🐕💞

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As an adult you must cultivate the skill of “Gross! Oh, well. Not my business.”

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Glad Hawke won cause lets be real on very specific versions of the warden or inquistior have been through worse

Base line Hawke has

lost their father young

had to flee their hometown from the blight

lost a sibling on the way

looses their other sibling when trying to provide for their family (either literally or figuratively)

almost buried alive in the deep roads

got caught in the middle of qunari conflict

looses their mom in frankly the most horrific way

finds out their dad was into some weird shit (its genetic i guess) so they got cursed blood

caught in the middle of the templar mage conflict but its worse this time cause they are connected to a war crime

Has to fight two nightmare creatures simultaneously

is now homeless again and is now wanted

gets dragged into the inquisitions nonsense cause their dad's nonsense is connected to it

For every positive Hawke receives they get two negatives right after

Definitely the Warden for me. What about y’all?

Oh! And what have they been through that makes it the worst? Love hearing about other people’s characters!

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something something dark magic

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"I feel like you're just here for the Griffin"

"what?

"All you do all game is pet the Griffin"

DRAGON AGE: THE VEILGUARD ASSAN

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Hey guess what? Firefox's creator, Mozilla, is considering whether to integrate an AI button/feature into their browser. If you, like me, use Firefox and wish to offer feedback, here is the thread: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/share-your-feedback-on-the-ai-services-experiment-in-nightly/td-p/60519

Pass it on.