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You WILL write your WIP

You WILL write your WIP

You WILL write your WIP

You WILL write your WIP

You WILL write your WIP

You WILL write your WIP

You WILL write your WIP

You WILL write your WIP

You WILL write your WIP

You WILL write your WIP

You WILL write your WIP

You WILL write your WIP

You WILL write your WIP

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Everyone keeps talking about "the writer's barely disguised fetish". But I still haven't heard about "the writer's barely disguised huge ass pet peeve"

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You can survive almost anything through the right combination of:

Bitching and moaning

Hater-ology

Doing a goofy little bit about it

Having a buddy say "that's so fucked up" at intermittent points (you can also be your own buddy)

Destroying the cursed amulet you carry everywhere, why do you even have that thing

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It's all coming up Astarion.

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i don’t give a fuck if i “sound like chatgpt,” you will pry—my em dash—from my cold—dead—hands—fuck you fuck you fuck you

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The midjourney stuff just reminds of when we were trying to find a new platform to host the ao3 donation form, and companies kept trying to tell me about all their "ai" features that would track donor engagement, and figure out the optimal pattern to email individual donors asking for follow up donations, and all the ways they suggest we manipulate people into staying on our websites. It was a great way to filter out who either wasn't listening to us when we described our ethics and donor base, or just didn't believe us.

Now granted ao3 is a unique case based on a) the amount of page views we get in any given time period and b) the fact that most donors absolutely do Not want to be identified as such anywhere, (the default "list of recent donors" module got nuked Immediately) but it surprised me some that the concept of "donors who value their privacy and would be furious at even the whiff of AI" is unique. Some of us really are just existing in different worlds.

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and to your left you will see an abuser realizing that his victim might be the last hope he has. you also see a pure, good boy who has limitless compassion contemplate if he does have a limit:

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I’ll come out of spidey hidey hole soon, bam readers, promise

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i actually never ever want AO3 to be censored bc nothing is more fun than reading the tags on a fic and going “huh. didn’t know there was a market for that.”

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Fanfic is a free hobby.

It's one of the last few things we can have as a society that's free. You can engage, for free. People give you things (art, stories, etc), for free.

Don't buy into the consummerism just because it's everywhere else.

You don't have to consume everything you interact with. You don't have to use things, just because they exist.

You're allowed (still, for now), to have things that are enjoyable for free.

Do you realise how insane the world is? We don't have many places where we can just be, for free anymore, but ao3 is. Did you notice we don't have ads in ao3? We don't have pop ups? Where ELSE do we not have that?

Where else can you just go and not have to wait for a commercial to be over or for ads to be on the sidelines?

I don't think the younger people understand, but the whole of internet used to be like this. YouTubers would do Youtube for free, just because. You couldn't monetise your internet presence before.

Ao3 is like a little preserved corner of the internet where the old internet used to be, and it's being attacked by people who do not understand that free things are allowed to exist without judgment.

Please don't ruin this for us.

Some of us need it.

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We never really talked about it but The Ugly Ducking that grew up to be a beautiful swan was still probably pretty fugly from a duck’s perspective

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some of these fuel Spideypool nation and it's not even Peter, lmao.

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ru still in the spideypool rabbithole? 😏

I am beginning to remember that other interests exist, sooooooo I’m still in the whirlpool, but rather than letting it take me for a spin, I’m struggling against the current.

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I have final exams in 2 weeks so you know what that means: time for my quarterly reread of BAM

I love finding new details that I missed the first… 6? Times that I read it. Ugh you’re truly such a good writer

Omg you are so sweet, I’m so glad this fic means so much to you. thank you for letting me know! But don’t neglect your studying!!!!!!! Good luck on your exams 😊🍀

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Does Harry at least like his present? 🤣

He reluctantly likes it but he’s very suspicious and confused. V’s sending him some mixed messages with it and Harry’s just like 🤨🤨🤨

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does voldemort get harry a present? 😏😏

Yes. Whether or not it’s one you will like, I cant say xD

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Seeing the ask about evan being death, i am now wondering, what would happen to Dumbledore and snape after that? I feel like harry would really... Dislike them especially if evan really get starved while snape mocking the prospect of it before sending him back, Dumbledore definitely would feel guilty, because harry already said that yet he still send evan back anyway, would there be uproar in Wizarding world? Maybe something like pureblood propaganda using evan death to prove that muggle is bad? Cruel but i can see them doing that tbh

This could totally be a dark/indie Harry fic where he kills dumbledore and Snape in the vein of the bashing “dark” mid-2010s indie Harry fics in this genre I used to read, but to be honest if I was writing this, I would write something different with Dumbledore and Snape (tho I wouldn’t care to give Snape much screen time) just to be contrary.

And yeah if V and the dark side got wind of Evan’s death, the press would be insane for sure.

This is not an AU I’m particularly interested in tho. I know I’ve got a short or two that deals with the death of a child, but a long, full-blown fic would be way too much for me to handle mentally. That said, anyone is welcome to write their own BAM AU fic and I am always down to link to “Inspired by” fics on ao3!