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Start putting this in your credits if you do creative work, fellas.

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This is your semi frequent reminder that there is no official AO3 app

All those are unofficial and available on the Google play store as of August 13th 2025. They mirror AO3's content and insert ads, for which the developer gets paid by page impression (that's every time the ad appears in the fic you're reading) not just clicks.

No money goes to AO3, nor to the fic writer. It goes to the person who did the bare minimum.

Many of these apps have poorly worded or non existent privacy policies, so they may also be mining as much data as possible and selling that on to unknown third parties.

Please, just use the official AO3 site and the browser.

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trust us bro.

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occasionally I am struck dumb by the sublime beauty of the world in the small moments, you know?

egg

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"Why are you worried about the loss of weird porn games when obergefell v hodges could be overturned?"

I'm going to spell it out for you:

Conservatives view queer content as inherently sexual and unsuitable for children (ex: trying to ban heartstopper for sexual content despite it being a fairly pc romance)

The itch.io censorship is meant to ban/censor content viewed as sexually immoral

This includes "illegal" kinks such as incest/pseudo-incest, rape/cnc, and "violence" (who knows where the line is drawn there? Blood/cutting? Flogging? Spanking? Bondage?)

Notably also included, though, are kinks involving "bodily waste" (ie piss, scat, vomit) which is Not illegal. Just icky.

This means that ANYTHING arbitrarily considered "icky" or sexually immoral, legal or otherwise, can be censored/banned under the pretense of being unsavory adult content

Reread the first bullet point

These are not separate issues

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Soaking this in

If you don't know what this is, here's an explanation: Both Fortnite and Call of Duty employ something called "Skill-Based Matchmaking" (SBMM for short), and it has become the bane of a certain subset of players who very vocally yell about how it is ruining multiplayer games.

In short, the game secretly and quietly keeps track of your "skill level." Even if a game has both ranked and unranked modes, it is always tracking this skill level stat that reports back how quickly and easily you're getting kills. When you connect to a new match, it tries to group you with players near your skill level.

The idea being you start with zero skill stat, and by playing the game well, your skill stat levels up until you eventually plateau and you are forever playing the game with people that are just as good (or bad) as you are, within some level of variance.

This means if you're one of these career streamer guys or a Youtube clip compilation sort of dude (or both), then you very quickly get put into high tier matchmaking pools with all the other career streamers and wannabe esports pros. Hence the very loud, very vocal complaints, because if you're one of those guys, the idea of having a "casual match" goes away. Everybody is always firing on all cylinders and you're expected to do the same in order to keep your rank and not look embarrassing to your captive audience.

So Activision apparently ran an experiment per Charlie Intel (article here) where they reduced SBMM's effectiveness, meaning the big fish pros and the little tadpole casual players were thrown into more games together.

The result was a sharp uptick in players rage quitting matches early, some even quitting the game entirely and never coming back. The report notes that while player retention for players with a high skill rank was improved, they make up such a small percentage of the player base (apparently less than 1%; the article has some grammar problems) that servicing them really doesn't make sense.

As it turns out, low level players don't want to get hopelessly destroyed by wannabe esports pros. And those pros make up such a small percentage of the player base it doesn't make sense to keep feeding them more low level chum, even though they are the hungriest for it. As more and more low level players permanently leave the game due to frustration, it turns into a wasteland where high level players are getting mad at each other until they also get frustrated and leave as well. SBMM ensures long term health for a game's multiplayer ecosystem.

And being a Fortnite player, it's so validating to hear this. "SBMM is ruining multiplayer" was always a narrative coming from streamers and youtubers who were frustrated by having to actually TRY instead of being able to score easy clip compilation fodder on clueless newbies.

Enjoy sticking to your smurf accounts now, I guess.

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getting mad at me as if I control the fafsa and as if you didn't make me full out your portion.

"you made a mistake" yeah no shit theres a reason why they fuckin email it to you

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....So, um, does this not freak anyone else out??? Is it just me??? Because like, this sounds like actual hell for all the kids involved. Their entire childhood and teenage years has now been dedicated to filming a (unneeded) reboot of Harry Potter to the point they can't even go to school at any point with this type of school being set up for them and them only, and even then the school stuff is second to filming, being at hours that let's be real, any other kid would be fucking resting and such in, not having to race to do school work because they spent their normal school hours filming. This is literally actually giving vibes of WB trying to find any loopholes they can to have the kid actors film non-stop to the point it won't be surprising if stuff comes out about behind the scenes some time after the reboot is done with. Btw before anyone says this is normal on sets with kids, last I heard a-lot of film sets aren't setting up schools for the next decade basically of the kid actors life, they have tutors coming onto set at best to handle the school work with the kid actors and when they done with filming finally, the kids go back to school like normal. This is basically set up to mess up the kid actors chances at education and developing like kids should while in education let alone their chances at socialising outside of fellow child actors and the adult actors around them...all so that a terf can make more money for her bigotry and replace the cast that turned against her.

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The Mirror of Yesterday and Tomorrow

My favorite illustration from the MCDM Talent supplement.

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I cannot put into words how much I Fucking Loathe the fact that when you search something on youtube now it will randomly intersperse blocks of "people also watched" and "for you" into the results. That's not what I searched for, youtube. I typed in a search query because I wanted to see search results, not random unrelated garbage you have placed in my way apparently to either inconvenience me or force me to scroll further for actual results. I despise your wretched little games and every time I see it I can only instantly close the tab as I am overcome with the urge to burn something down.

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Girl when I tell you my life flashed before my eyes

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Today Israel killed beloved journalist Anas al-Sharif. May he be the light of Revolution.

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my friends and i usually call my favorite character archetype the "smug bastard", but after some very scientific research, we've come to a better shared characteristic

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...no way I played both parties in the situationship I LITERALLY PLAYED MEDKIT REALIZED I WAS ASS (I WAS NEW) AND SWAPPED TO SUBSPACE BECAUSE I WANTED TO KILL WHAT THE HELL

play phighting. Please. can anyone hear me

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friendly reminder that leaving “ghost” hate/harassment comments (writing something shitty and then deleting it) still sends me an email with a copy of the comment even if my ao3 inbox deletes it.

so yeah, I’m sending that screenshot right to the policy and abuse team…