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As a fic writer, i need every reader to know that:

I don’t care if your comment is coherent. I know what you mean and i love you

I don’t care if you ramble. I read every word and i love you

I don’t care if you leave a comment on a fic from four years ago or leave comments/kudos on like ten of my fics in one go. This isn’t IG, pls stalk my AO3. I love you

I don’t care if you mention the same thing in your comment that four other people have already mentioned. It’s actually really useful to know what resonated with people and I love everyone who takes the time to tell me they liked a particular turn of phrase

I don’t mind if your comment is super long or just a couple of sentences, i love them all

I love you

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You need to move off of Google Docs!

I know some people have seen the news recently and may be doubtful of it. To the uninformed, Google Docs has started using AI to find "inappropriate" and "problematic" content, scraping your documents and deleting it. I know some people are unsure if this is real or think this is not going to affect them.

I regret to inform you that this is real.

As I was on a call with some writers and we were moving our documents as a precautionary measure, one person discovered entire pages missing that they did not delete themselves. This is happening to us, it's not a hoax or a rumor, it's happening right now. You need to move everything if you want to preserve it.

If you're a writer with writer mutuals, please reblog this so they know. I rarely write on Google Docs anymore, but I started my fanfics on there, and I would be devastated if I lost works more than ten years old because people decided marketing appeal is more important than creative freedom.

EDIT READ THIS: https://www.tumblr.com/bravehyde/790422701153157120/hi-can-we-have-any-sort-of-source-about-the

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reasons to write fanfiction (I'll start):

share a cool scene that popped into your head

evoke a particular emotion the canon makes you feel

song made you think of a character or idea from canon

make people feel the same way about a character you do

make dolls kiss for fun

explore ideas the canon hints at but doesn't do anything with

traumatize characters and make them suffer

coddle characters and let them rest

had an insane idea for a crack ship and now everyone needs to know

the author of the canon was wrong and must be fixed

use familiar characters to explore your own ideas and plotlines

canon is too short and you need to wallow in the universe of the story

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may all the people who see this finish their current wip this year

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"Can't wait to see where you take this story" well I can't wait to see where this story takes me either

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reblog if you want a lesbian in her mid thirties to boss you around and take you clothes shopping

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guys just remember anything nice u do for urself has to be earned through suffering. the nice things can be things such as eating, sleeping, buying things u need, etc. but the suffering must be extreme torture and pain. this is a healthy way to approach ur daily life

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Sorry to anyone that's messaged me in the last like 2 years i probably didnt reply i bet ur cool i just dont know how to exist and im scared all the time

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Study: Winged Aerith

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caffeine time

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being so staunchly anti generative ai while everyone around you is "i used chatgpt" and "i asked grok" and google search is useless and every company is implementing ai and every single celeb is taking ai money and partnering with ai is like... it's so jarring. why can't you see the harm like i can? why are you so lazy? why are we making society this stupid? can we please stop? it's killing people does that not matter to you?

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hating is fun but sometimes you see someone only ever be a hater and never a lover and it's like. ok well do you like anything at all or do you only see the world in shades of bad to worse

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Censorship doesn’t only matter when you think something you like might be censored next. Censorship is wrong in and of itself.

Fiction is fiction. It’s not real. People should be allowed to purchase and engage with fiction that others dislike. They should be allowed to purchase and engage with fiction that others find wrong.

I was going to say “people might be using fictionalized depictions of things to explore their trauma! They might be using it to explore important messages! They might be using it for [other justification]”. And any of these things could be true. But they don’t need to be.

Censorship of fiction is wrong. It doesn’t matter if the things I like will not be censored. It doesn’t matter if I find the things being censored repulsive. The problem with focusing on the slippery slope is that it assumes that the bad thing happening now is only bad because of what might come next. But censorship is bad in and of itself.

No one should choose what others can engage with. Not Mastercard. Not Visa. Not Collective Shout. Not Moms for Liberty. No one.

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me, unsure of how to add an additional piece of context to my sentence:

the humble parentheses:

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"The nonbinary afab who goes by she/her, dresses femininely, and uses a push-up bra when I—" when you what? What's wrong with her?

Is she not nonbinary enough for you? Is the way she experiences her queerness and how she presents not perfect enough for you? Nonbinary people don't owe you androgyny, right? So why is she the exception? Why does she have to hate herself to appeal to your standards? Why is she any less trans—any less worthy of respect—cause it's "not visible"? Queer solidarity my ass. Don't spout this bullshit on Pride, man.

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"with this remake project, now your favourite game from 15 years ago with strong art direction and style can look like an unreal engine asset flip with ray traced lighting"