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I miss when I would get Tumblr asks that actually said things and weren't just digital panhandling scams.

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10 years of captain america: the winter soldier april 4, 2014 - april 4, 2024 (youtube)

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I am new to Stucky fandom and there is a fic that I really want to read since almost everyone has recommended it: the president’s son by rocksaltandroll. But it seems like I can’t find it anywhere, do you know where I can find it.🙏😭

Thank you in advance, have a good day!!!

can anyone help OP here?

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hey, here im looking for a deleted fic

there's this story that i read on 2/9/2022 and while i was organizing my bookmarks i noticed that it was deleted, i noticed the deletion on 10/13/2024.

here's the story:

sarah finds steve and bucky together, and forbids them to be together romantically. steve is stubborn and keeps trying to get close to bucky romantically and bucky tells him no, that it's wrong and steve gets really angry and really mad at his mom.

i'm pretty sure that the first chapter is the two of them in the future getting together and the story goes back in time over the course of the chapters until it reaches the scene where sarah finds the two of them together... i can't remember the number of chapters, the author or the name... if anyone can help me, even the name of it or the author will help me.

this was my favorite and I didn't used to put the fanfic information in my bookmarks... I deeply regret it.

I don't have that one m=but maybe someone will!

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Hi, I was wondering if you could help me find an old fic?

Read it years ago and randomly thought if it the other day. From what I remember, it was a modern au where people/people in the military can have a android/robot made in their image for their families and loved ones, should they die. Steve and Bucky were both in the military but Bucky died. After his funeral, Steve is taken to a place where he is introduced to an android/robot copy of Bucky to help with the grieving process. Steve never wanted one of Bucky but is forced to take him home.

Their relationship is rocky, but eventually Bucky begins "recalling" things that he as an android/robot shouldn't know?

Aaand that's pretty much up to the point I stopped reading it for some reason. Any chance you recognize it?

No idea, but maybe try looking in the Robots & Androids tag? there's not that many fics, you might get lucky!

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Hi! I was wondering if you could help me find a fic, from what I remember Bucky fell of the train and everything and when Steve rescued him and the rest of the team they got head lice and they have to shave their heads bald. I think I read it around 2020-2021

no idea on this one!

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NOTICE FROM THE OTW PAC

The Policy and Abuse Committee (PAC) has gotten several tickets where folks have lost access to their AO3 account because someone else has logged in and changed the email/password.

This was possible because folks were reusing the same email/password combo across multiple sites, and one of the other sites was compromised.

From PAC

Due to recent data breaches of other websites, many email/password combinations stolen from those sites are now circulating the internet. If you’ve ever used your AO3 password on another website, we recommend that you immediately change your password: https://archiveofourown.org/faq/your-account#changepassword Security reminder: You should never reuse the same email/password combination on multiple websites. Please keep your AO3 account email up to date, so that we can contact you if there are any issues with your account. To change your AO3 email: https://archiveofourown.org/faq/your-account#changeemail AO3 accounts are always free to create and use. You can request an invitation here: https://archiveofourown.org/invite_requests

Don't let this be you - make sure your AO3 password is unique to your AO3 account!

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hello could you help me find this stucky fic that i read a couple of years ago but suddenly i cant find it in my ao3 bookmarks even though im very sure i added it there. i dont remember exact specifics of the fic but if im recalling it correctly then it was set after ws and basically steve is living in this brownstone? type apartment, basically its this very small and budget type of place either in queens or brooklyn. idr where but it certainly wasnt the main new york area. and then bucky basically come there due to some reason and starts living with steve there. i also remember that there is this cat that finds its way into stucky's lives and bucky kind of adopts it. there are also these older neighbours they had that are just so cute and adorable and i think later in the fic bucky even had gossip sessions with some of the older ladies. i also remember that stucky later in the fic move to the avengers towers but they still love their little house in this dilapidated building and often come back to meet with the neighbours and all. i also remember that there was this outtake fic? or chapter i cant recall, but it had stucky coming back to their apartment to spend thanksgiving with the older neighbours. i think a lot of it was basically bucky getting back his memories, steve and bucky falling in love and it was quite heavy and intense but also had fun, cute, fluffy and funny moments. pleaseeee please help me find it. i dont know if i just lost or its been deleted. please help!

Some bits of this give me « This, You Protect »by owlet vibes, but I’m not 100% sure?

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It’s called Stucky because you’re never getting out of this ship, never in full.

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hi! does anyone have a copy of "Hi My Name Is Steve" by Whendoestheshipsail? i think it's been deleted for a while now but i didn't get a chance to download it before it was

anyone?

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Ok maybe you might know the fic I’m looking for. It’s possible I’m thinking of more than one fic but I just can’t find it no matter how much I look. It’s a Stucky fic that I read a few years ago I don’t know if it’s been deleted or if I’m just not using the right search terms. Basically one of the best scenes I remember is that Steve walks into a cell where Bucky/winter soldier is. Steve sits on a chair and hand feeds Bucky and himself from a tray of food. I also remember a scene where there seems to be either a recording or a memory of Bucky resisting hydra by screaming at them that they can’t tell him what to do, that they aren’t his dom/daddy, only Steve can tell him what to do. There was something about Bucky being too unstable to be used by hydra. Please let me know if you know what fic or fics these come from. Love y’all. Thanks for the help in advance.

Ps. There is another one where Tony and the others find the winter soldier’s cryo pod and break him out of the hydra base. then they find out it’s Bucky and Steve freaks out insisting they get him out immediately. And Tony has to convince him to slow down so they can thaw Bucky out safely. I can’t remember if that’s part of the same fanfic or a different one, but I can’t find this one either if it’s a different one. 

okay so I don't know the fic from your first paragraph, but the second I think could be Effects of Obliteration by geneticallydead ?

Before the fall of the Soviet Union, the Winter Soldier was sent to the American arm of Hydra - only there was a malfunction in the cryo-unit that meant it couldn't be opened, and it was left, powered but abandoned, in an underground base. 25 years later, the Avengers find it.

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a collection of steve/bucky references in books that i read

books: loveless by alice oseman, yellowface by r.f. kuang, princess in practice by connie glynn, felix ever after by kacen callender

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Fandom Trumps Hate 2025 Calendar

We're back, folks! FTH is back for be our ninth (!) auction, and there's lots of good work to be done. (What is Fandom Trumps Hate?)

In this post you'll find the calendar for the 2025 auction, along with links to some useful information, including this year's list of supported organizations. (All of these same links can be found in our masthead, but since that's not visible on mobile we wanted to make them easy to find elsewhere.) You'll also find dates for our Crafts Bazaar. (wait, the what? Read more at our 2024 Crafts Bazaar page.)

Here is this year's list of supported organizations. We'll be posting more detailed profiles of each of them over the coming weeks. We also encourage you to look at the Auction FAQ (which has lots of useful information for people thinking about signing up as creators, as well as dedicated sections on bidding and on nonprofit orgs.) If you're raring to go, you can look at our bidding policies.

Lastly, in a couple of weeks we'll be kicking off our newly-revived offscreen activism blog @fthaction. Why not give it a follow?

FTH2025 Auction Calendar

Monday, January 20th: creator signups open for both the auction and the crafts bazaar

Sunday, February 2nd: creator signups close

Friday, February 21st: browsing period begins, crafts bazaar announcement goes live

Tuesday, February 25th, 8am ET: bidding opens

Saturday, March 1st, 8pm ET: auction bidding closes

Monday, March 10th: craft stalls close

Wednesday, March 12: proof of donations due

...and if you're thinking the gap between the end of signups and the beginning of browsing period looks long: we have also noticed this! In order to accommodate some back-end changes that will help the auction run more smoothly, we've given ourselves an extra week to get ourselves set up. We've also got some stuff in the works to occupy that time -- we'll say more about that when the time arrives.

Together, we're going to make sure that there is at least one (1) good thing in the world with the number 2025 attached to it.

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i'm guilty of treason (i've abandoned control) by voxofthevoid

i'm guilty of treason (i've abandoned control) is a smokin' hot Steve/Bucky series by @voxofthevoid

Description: S.H.I.E.L.D Agent Bucky Barnes is captured on a mission and meets Commander Steve Rogers, the erstwhile Captain America. It escalates quickly.

The Bind

voxofthevoid's work is uniquely challenging to typeset because of the long lyrical story and chapter titles, written all in lowercase. How do you set these up so that they (1) squish in nicely, (2) look properly elevated as chapter heads, but also (3) retain the impression of nonstandard capitalization?

The solution I found was using the Gobold font family, which has some interesting alternates and ways to title that are less obviously caps-or-minuscule

Title page illustration: @麻痔旳小日子 weibo.com/liduke

Titles: Gobold Uplow

Table of Contents: Gobold Lowplus

Body: Adobe Garamond Pro

silver Dead Dove Publishing endpapers

Case in dark blue Duo bookcloth and Selvedge Indigo patterned paper from Cambridge Imprint.

Fanbinding #157 by ArmoredSuperHeavy/Dead Dove Publishing, Completed December 2024

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SO HERE IS THE WHOLE STORY (SO FAR).

I am on my knees begging you to reblog this post and to stop reblogging the original ones I sent out yesterday. This is the complete account with all the most recent info; the other one is just sending people down senselessly panicked avenues that no longer lead anywhere.

IN SHORT

Cliff Weitzman, CEO of Speechify and (aspiring?) voice actor, used AI to scrape thousands of popular, finished works off AO3 to list them on his own for-profit website and in his attached app. He did this without getting any kind of permission from the authors of said work or informing AO3. Obviously.

When fandom at large was made aware of his theft and started pushing back, Weitzman issued a non-apology on the original social media posts—using 

his dyslexia; 

his intent to implement a tip-system for the plagiarized authors; and 

a sudden willingness to take down the work of every author who saw my original social media posts and emailed him individually with a ‘valid’ claim,

as reasons we should allow him to continue monetizing fanwork for his own financial gain.

When we less-than-kindly refused, he took down his ‘apologies’ as well as his website (allegedly—it’s possible that our complaints to his web host, the deluge of emails he received or the unanticipated traffic brought it down, since there wasn’t any sort of official statement made about it), and when it came back up several hours later, all of the work formerly listed in the fan fiction category was no longer there. 

THE TAKEAWAYS

1. Cliff Weitzman (aka Ofek Weitzman) is a scumbag with no qualms about taking fanwork without permission, feeding it to AI and monetizing it for his own financial gain; 

2. Fandom can really get things done when it wants to, and 

3. Our fanworks appear to be hidden, but they’re NOT DELETED from Weitzman’s servers, and independently published, original works are still listed without the authors' permission. We need to hold this man responsible for his theft, keep an eye on both his current and future endeavors, and take action immediately when he crosses the line again. 

THE TIMELINE, THE DETAILS, THE SCREENSHOTS (behind the cut)

Sunday night, December 22nd 2024, I noticed an influx in visitors to my fic You & Me & Holiday Wine. When I searched the title online, hoping to find out where they came from, a new listing popped up (third one down, no less):

This listing is still up today, by the way, though now when you follow the link to word-stream, it just brings you to the main site. (Also, to be clear, this was not the cause for the influx of traffic to my fic; word-stream did not link back to the original work anywhere.)

I followed the link to word-stream, where to my horror Y&M&HW was listed in its entirety—though, beyond the first half of the first chapter, behind a paywall—along with a link promising to take me—through an app downloadable on the Apple Store—to an AI-narrated audiobook version. When I searched word-stream itself for my ao3 handle I found both of my multi-chapter fics were listed this way:

Because the tags on my fics (which included genres* and characters, but never the original IPs**) weren’t working, I put ‘Kara Danvers’ into the search bar and discovered that many more supercorp fics (Supergirl TV fandom, Kara Danvers/Lena Luthor pairing) were listed.

I went looking online for any mention of word-stream and AI plagiarism (the covers—as well as the ridiculously inflated number of reviews and ratings—made it immediately obvious that AI fuckery was involved), but found almost nothing: only one single Reddit post had been made, and it received (at that time) only a handful of upvotes and no advice. 

I decided to make a tumblr post to bring the supercorp fandom up to speed about the theft. I draw as well as write for fandom and I’ve only ever had to deal with art theft—which has a clear set of steps to take depending on where said art was reposted—and I was at a loss regarding where to start in this situation.

After my post went up I remembered Project Copy Knight, which is worth commending for the work they’ve done to get fic stolen from AO3 taken down from monetized AI 'audiobook’ YouTube accounts. I reached out to @echoekhi, asking if they’d heard of this site and whether they could advise me on how to get our works taken down.

While waiting for a reply I looked into Copy Knight’s methods and decided to contact OTW’s legal department:

And then I went to bed.

By morning, tumblr friends @makicarn and @fazedlight as well as a very helpful tumblr anon had seen my post and done some very productive sleuthing:

@echoekhi had also gotten back to me, advising me, as expected, to contact the OTW. So I decided to sit tight until I got a response from them.

That response came only an hour or so later: 

Which was 100% understandable, but still disappointing—I doubted a handful of individual takedown requests would accomplish much, and I wasn’t eager to share my given name and personal information with Cliff Weitzman himself, which is unavoidable if you want to file a DMCA.

I decided to take it to Reddit, hoping it would gain traction in the wider fanfic community, considering so many fandoms were affected. My Reddit posts (with the updates at the bottom as they were emerging) can be found here and here.

A helpful Reddit user posted a guide on how users could go about filing a DMCA against word-stream here (to wobbly-at-best results)

A different helpful Reddit user signed up to access insight into word-streams pricing. Comment is here.

Smells unbelievably scammy, right? In addition to those audacious prices—though in all fairness any amount of money would be audacious considering every work listed is accessible elsewhere for free—my dyscalculia is screaming silently at the sight of that completely unnecessary amount of intentionally obscured numbers.

Speaking of which! As soon as the post on r/AO3—and, as a result, my original tumblr post—began taking off properly, sometime around 1 pm, jumpscare! A notification that a tumblr account named @cliffweitzman had commented on my post, and I got a bit mad about the gist of his message :

Fortunately he caught plenty of flack in the comments from other users (truly you should check out the comment section, it is extremely gratifying and people are making tremendously good points), in response to which, of course, he first tried to both reiterate and renegotiate his point in a second, longer comment (which I didn’t screenshot in time so I’m sorry for the crappy notification email formatting):

which he then proceeded to also post to Reddit (this is another Reddit user’s screenshot, I didn’t see it at all, the notifications were moving too fast for me to follow by then)

... where he got a roughly equal amount of righteously furious replies. (Check downthread, they're still there, all the way at the bottom.)

After which Cliff went ahead & deleted his messages altogether. 

It’s not entirely clear whether his account was suspended by Reddit soon after or whether he deleted it himself, but considering his tumblr account is still intact, I assume it’s the former. He made a handful of sock puppet accounts to play around with for a while, both on Reddit and Tumblr, only one of which I have a screenshot of, but since they all say roughly the same thing, you’re not missing much:

And then word-stream started throwing a DNS error.

That lasted for a good number of hours, which was unfortunately right around the time that a lot of authors first heard about the situation and started asking me individually how to find out whether their work was stolen too. I do not have that information and I am unclear on the perimeters Weitzman set for his AI scraper, so this is all conjecture: it LOOKS like the fics that were lifted had three things in common:

They were completed works;

They had over several thousand kudos on AO3; and

They were written by authors who had actively posted or updated work over the past year.

If anyone knows more about these perimeters or has info that counters my observation, please let me know!

I finally thought to check/alert evil Twitter during this time, and found out that the news was doing the rounds there already. I made a quick thread summarizing everything that had happened just in case. You can find it here.

I went to Bluesky too, where fandom was doing all the heavy lifting for me already, so I just reskeeted, as you do, and carried on.

Sometime in the very early evening, word-stream went back up—but the fan fiction category was nowhere to be seen. Tentative joy and celebration!***

That’s when several users—the ones who had signed up for accounts to gain intel and had accessed their own fics that way—reported that their work could still be accessed through their history. Relevant Reddit post here.

Sooo—

We’re obviously not done. The fanwork that was stolen by Weitzman may be inaccessible through his website right now, but they aren’t actually gone. And the fact that Weitzman wasn’t willing to get rid of them altogether means he still has plans for them. 

This was my final edit on my Reddit post before turning off notifications, and it's pretty much where my head will be at for at least the foreseeable future:

Please feel free to add info in the comments, make your own posts, take whatever action you want to take to protect your work. I only beg you—seriously, I’m on my knees here—to not give up like I saw a handful of people express the urge to do. Keep sharing your creative work and remain vigilant and stay active to make sure we can continue to do so freely. Visit your favorite fics, and the ones you’ve kept in your ‘marked for later’ lists but never made time to read, and leave kudos, leave comments, support your fandom creatives, celebrate podficcers and support AO3. We created this place and it’s our responsibility to keep it alive and thriving for as long as we possibly can.

Also FUCK generative AI. It has NO place in fandom spaces.

THE 'SMALL' PRINT (some of it in all caps):

*Weitzman knew what he was doing and can NOT claim ignorance. One, it’s pretty basic kindergarten stuff that you don’t steal some other kid’s art project and present it as your own only to act surprised when they protest and then tell the victim that they should have told you sooner that they didn’t want their project stolen. And two, he was very careful never to list the IPs these fanworks were based on, so it’s clear he was at least familiar enough with the legalities to not get himself in hot water with corporate lawyers. Fucking over fans, though, he figured he could get away with that. 

**A note about the AI that Weitzman used to steal our work: it’s even greasier than it looks at first glance. It’s not just the method he used to lift works off AO3 and then regurgitate onto his own website and app. Looking beyond the untold horrors of his AI-generated cover ‘art’, in many cases these covers attempt to depict something from the fics in question that can’t be gleaned from their summaries alone. In addition, my fics (and I assume the others, as well) were listed with generated genres; tags that did not appear anywhere in or on my fic on AO3 and were sometimes scarily accurate and sometimes way off the mark. I remember You & Me & Holiday Wine had ‘found family’ (100% correct, but not tagged by me as such) and I believe The Shape of Soup was listed as, among others, ‘enemies to friends to lovers’ and ‘love triangle’ (both wildly inaccurate). Even worse, not all the fic listed (as authors on Reddit pointed out) came with their original summaries at all. Often the entire summary was AI-generated. All of these things make it very clear that it was an all-encompassing scrape—not only were our fics stolen, they were also fed word-for-word into the AI Weitzman used and then analyzed to suit Weitzman’s needs. This means our work was literally fed to this AI to basically do with whatever its other users want, including (one assumes) text generation. 

***Fan fiction appears to have been made (largely) inaccessible on word-stream at this time, but I’m hearing from several authors that their original, independently published work, which is listed at places like Kindle Unlimited, DOES still appear in word-stream’s search engine. This obviously hurts writers, especially independent ones, who depend on these works for income and, as a rule, don’t have a huge budget or a legal team with oceans of time to fight these battles for them. If you consider yourself an author in the broader sense, beyond merely existing online as a fandom author, beyond concerns that your own work is immediately at risk, DO NOT STOP MAKING NOISE ABOUT THIS.

Again, please, please PLEASE reblog this post instead of the one I sent originally. All the information is here, and it's driving me nuts to see the old ones are still passed around, sending people on wild goose chases.

Thank you all so much.

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does anyone know wtf word-stream.com is or where to send them a takedown request? i just found a bunch of fics, including my own, hosted on this AI slop site—apparently offering what I assume are AI-generated audiobook versions & (equally AI-generated) ratings and reviews. i can’t take a closer look without signing up, which, no thank you, but it looks like they’re hosting the full fics and are peddling a paid subscription for the trouble of hosting them. can someone more knowledgeable than me explain what our options are in this situation?