People talk about the surprise albums from people like Taylor Swift or Beyoncé that drop with zero warning but I have just been existing in this world where every album I've ever heard in my life has been a surprise album because I didn't know that musicians had schedules that we could see
I'm working laaate 📝🕐 cause I'm a singerrrr 🎤💃🏼🎶 oh he looks so cuuute 😍🥰 wrapped round my fingerrrr 🤞🧎♂️ my twisted humor 🤪 make him laugh so often 🤭😇 my honey beeee 🍯🐝 come and get this pollen 🌸🌼 too bad your ex don't do it for ya! ❌️🤷🏼♀️ walked in and dream came trued it for ya! 💭🔮 soft skin and I perfumed it for ya! 😌💋 I know I mountain dew it for ya! 🥤😋 that morning coffee brewed it for ya! ☕️ one touch and I brand newed it for ya! 💅✨️ now he's thinkin bout meee 🙋🏼♀️ every night 🌙🌌 ohh that's that me espresso 💁🏼♀️☕️ say you can't sleeeep 💤 baby I know! 🤭 that's that me espresso 💁🏼♀️☕️
As it is Passover again, it is time for the annual debate as to whether the frog plague, which thanks to a quirk in the Hebrew, is written as a plague of frog, singular, rather than the plural, plague of frogs, was in fact, as generally imagined, a plague of many frogs, or instead a singular giant Kaiju frog. This is an ancient and venerable argument that actually goes back to the Talmud because this is what the Jewish people are. If we can't argue for fun about this sort of thing, what are we even doing.
In that spirit, I would like to submit a third possibility, which is that in fact it was one perfectly normal sized frog, who was absolutely acing Untitled Frog Game: Ancient Egypt Edition. One particularly obnoxious frog, who through sheer hard work, managed to plague all of Egypt.
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.
I love how after Lisa meets the Creature, she regains her joy, she wears funny crowns and lets herself be dressed up all goth and doesn’t care and eats peach rings and laughs and talks, she gets to enjoy being a teenagers again (which also means having mood swings on her period, singing without knowing the words, and killing people for their body parts) just the epitome of a teenage girl and then enjoying love and having fun with life again
hey guys if you’re planning on making a vaguepost on the dashboard can you message me with the details and some of the lore behind the vague post you’re making. a vaguepost for the dash and a detailedpost for me. because i like to know what’s going on. if you do this i will automatically take your side because you’ve done the right thing by letting me know what’s up. thanks in advance ❤️
I had a thought, dear, however scary, about that night, the bugs and the dirt. Why were you digging? What did you bury before those hands pulled me from the earth?