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ANYTHING FOR YOU JOSH

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Reblog with your favorite Animal Crossing villager in the tags, I want to know what people think. Mine is Daisy

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Teeth are bullshit. What do you mean you’re decaying. Get a fucking grip. You’re a bone now act like it. You don’t see my finger bones decaying from jerking it too much now do you

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About the AO3 "No Guest Comments for a while" warning

If you're not following any of AO3's social media accounts you might be in the dark as to what kind of "spam comments" have engendered this banner at the top of the site:

These spam comments have been posted about a great deal on the AO3 subreddit for the past couple of days. Initially they comprised a bunch of guest (logged out users) bot comments that insulted authors by suggesting they were using AI and not writing their own fics. Some examples, from the subreddit:

But it then escalated to outright graphic porn images and gifs being posted in comments, again by logged out 'Guest' accounts. Obviously, I'm not going to give examples of those, but between these two bot infestations, AO3 has clearly decided to act and has temporarily closed the ability to post comments for users who are not logged in with an AO3 account.

Unfortunately, this means that genuine readers who don't have an AO3 account won't be able to leave comments on fics that they enjoy.

If you are a genuine reader who doesn't yet have an AO3 account, I strongly suggest getting yourself on the waiting list for one. More and more AO3 authors are now locking their fics down to registered users only - either due to these bot comments or concerns about AI scraping their work - which means you're probably missing out on a lot of great stuff.

Hopefully guest commenting will be enabled again at some point soon, but I suggest not waiting until then. Get yourself on that list.

Wait times are going to be longer than usual at the moment, due to the current Wattpad purge [info on Fanlore | Wattpad subreddit thread], but if you're in line, then your invite will come through eventually.

Update: There's now a Megathread about this on the AO3 subreddit.

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AO3 Comments are SO SO SOOOOOOO important because you can only leave Kudos ONCE. You add to the hit count ONCE (every 24 hours).

So whenever someone updates their fic, the ONLY way an author knows who their regular readers are is if they comment on each chapter. And we WANT to know who's still reading.

Believe it or not, some of us think about the name that pops up constantly in the comments and go "omg I can't wait to see what they think of THIS SPECIFIC SCENE cuz I KNOW they'll say something about it!!!"

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all descriptions gender neutral, based on vibes only

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Chat, he doesn't know

Page 128, he doesn't know

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Chapter 2 posted today !!

TAGS: Alternate Universe - Zombies, Platonic Relationships, Road Trips, Unreliable Narrator, Implied/Referenced Cannibalism, Additional Warnings In Author's Note

SUMMARY:

It's a family picture, clearly staged. One man, one woman, one toddler resting on the woman’s hip.

Ghost’s heart sinks. It falls to the floor when he flips the photo over on instinct and spots a tight, feminine scrawl in plain black ink.

‘See you in Utah’

Running into a lost kid in post-outbreak Colorado makes a scouting mission infinitely more complex for our favorite duo.

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OMG the backstory behind the whole boop thing is amazing.

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Fallout theories ranking. If you're wondering about the placement of these feel free to ask but you will not change my mind

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bun!Ghost gif for @meowmeowriley

He's listening to all that gossip.