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"please put your fingers through the bars i promise i wont bite them PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEAAASEEEEEE"

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Anxiety: You're almost 30 and haven't published a single book. You wasted your chance to become a successful author!

Me: Stan Lee created Spider-Man at age 40. George R. R. Martin wrote A Game of Thrones at age 48.

Anxiety: Oh fuck nvm you do you, king.

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Fanfiction writers be like:

"here's the immensely time consuming 100K word novel-length passion project I'm working on between my real life job and family! It eats up hundreds of hours of my one and only life, causes me emotional harm, and I gain basically nothing from it! Also I put it on the internet for free so anyone can read if they want. Hope you love it!" :)

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At first glance, the image of the Sixth Doctor suspended between two trees appears absurd.

Upon learning that the trees were formerly human beings, the absurdity does not lessen

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Welp I guess fanfic writers have our work cut out for us fixing that hot mess.

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PSA

Just a heads up, there are bots going around on AO3 accusing people of using AI. Considering the timing, this is likely AI bros' retaliation for AO3 users calling them out for scraping their work. Examples of what you might be sent:

Screenshots from here.

If you get a comment like this, just report for spam and delete.

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I need sacha dhawan's master to come back so there can be an entire episode where he and ncuti just

at each other for an hour straight

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a writing competition i was going to participate in again this year has announced that they now allow AI generated content to be submitted

their reasoning being that "we couldn't ban it even if we wanted to, every writer already uses it anyway"

"Every writer"?

come on

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mr. russel t. davies with your shiny big disney budget can we please please dunk the new master in several gallons of blood. for enrichment. please.

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Currently waiting for my spouse (The Master) to come back from war (make an appearance). I haven't seen them in years (I rewatched Spyfall yesterday). I'm sure they'll be back soon.

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do you think the master would read the doctor x reader fanfictions

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I'm making my online friends watch the first Librarians movie this next Monday.

I am doing my part to add people to the army of fans for this great franchise~

what if you where A HOMELESS ORPHAN on the streets and the only person who wanted to adopt you was THE LITERAL GRINCH WHO STOLE CHRISTMAS and you grew up being taught to WORSHIP THE GOD OF THIEVES but you wanted to BE A HERO so you naively JOINED MI6 because you grew up watching COPAGANDA AND JAMES BOND thinking that's what heroes looked like only to REALIZE THE GOVERNMENT IS EVIL and leave to BECOME REAL LIFE ROBIN HOOD then you got CHOSEN BY THE GOD OF KNOWLEDGE to be one of it's envoys on earth WHO SAVES THE WORLD EVERY WEEK TWICE BEFORE FRIDAY but you have to keep pretending you only care about yourself because you are AFRAID OF INTIMACY AND COMITTMENT but then you get TRAPPED IN A TIMELOOP AND KILL YOURSELF IN FRONT OF YOUR FRIENDS only to get FORCIBLY RESSURECTED and scramble to PRETEND YOU DON'T REMEMBER THE TIMELOOP because you don't want to ADMIT YOU WHERE SECRETLY ROBIN HOOD THE ENTIRE TIME because you're still TERRIFIED OF EMOTIONAL INTIMACY

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If you're reading this...

go write three sentences on your current writing project.

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Who else is getting spammed with the latest generation of "I'd like to make art for your fic" comment on AO3 that turns into a relentless attempt to get your e-mail or Discord contact information?

I'm on round #3, and AO3 definitely recognizes this rigmarole as spam -- probably intended to get financial information using some excuse like a commission. It screams AI. The comments now come from Registered User accounts, and instead of leading with an offer of art like the previous generation of guest comments, they reference some element of the fic like a character's name. If you reply, then you get the art come-on and the request to talk on e-mail or Discord; the first time, I suggested a Tumblr DM, and the reply just pushed again for the same contact info without any link to the presumed "artist's" work or other details you'd expect.

AO3 circulated a Tumblr post about the first generation of this crap, but I have not yet seen an update. If you get a fawning, generic comment from an unfamiliar Registered User that feels a little off-kilter -- as if they didn't actually read the fic -- click on the username before replying, especially if it ends in a string of numbers. You're likely to find a recently established account with no works, bookmarks, or other profile details -- just a name and maybe an avi. And if you've answered a comment from a new "reader" out of courtesy and promptly get the push to send your contact info, DON'T interact further. You can ignore the comment and AO3's spam detectors seem to track it down within a day, or you can file an abuse report.

I hate talking to robots when I call my doctor, my Internet provider or my power company, but I *really* hate having them try to fish me for personal information on AO3. Be alert and stay safe out there.

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Not Even Valentine’s Day

AN: This was an idea that I had for Valentine’s Day that took way longer to write than expected because it ran away from me and become 5000 words long… This is my first time actually publishing any of my fanfiction (but I have plenty of ideas for more Master fics in many incarnations, so expect more at some point). But yeah even though it is no longer even February here we are. (Blame school in part for making it take forever to get it out)

Word Count: 5396

Warning: smut/lemon

Description: The Master surprises you by taking you out on a date for Valentine’s Day.

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