timeford is LITERALLY rotting my brain
i decided to do a rewatch of doctor who and was actually so disappointed that ford wasn't there?? baby, he doesn't even go to this school
About the AO3 "No Guest Comments for a while" warning
If you're not following any of AO3's social media accounts you might be in the dark as to what kind of "spam comments" have engendered this banner at the top of the site:
These spam comments have been posted about a great deal on the AO3 subreddit for the past couple of days. Initially they comprised a bunch of guest (logged out users) bot comments that insulted authors by suggesting they were using AI and not writing their own fics. Some examples, from the subreddit:
But it then escalated to outright graphic porn images and gifs being posted in comments, again by logged out 'Guest' accounts. Obviously, I'm not going to give examples of those, but between these two bot infestations, AO3 has clearly decided to act and has temporarily closed the ability to post comments for users who are not logged in with an AO3 account.
Unfortunately, this means that genuine readers who don't have an AO3 account won't be able to leave comments on fics that they enjoy.
If you are a genuine reader who doesn't yet have an AO3 account, I strongly suggest getting yourself on the waiting list for one. More and more AO3 authors are now locking their fics down to registered users only - either due to these bot comments or concerns about AI scraping their work - which means you're probably missing out on a lot of great stuff.
Hopefully guest commenting will be enabled again at some point soon, but I suggest not waiting until then. Get yourself on that list.
Wait times are going to be longer than usual at the moment, due to the current Wattpad purge [info on Fanlore | Wattpad subreddit thread], but if you're in line, then your invite will come through eventually.
Update: There's now a Megathread about this on the AO3 subreddit.
Stan is about to break after a soul crushing conversation, his only hope in the form of a small, tiny and strange shape. Not like Ford will care if he makes a simple choice to shift things in his favor. He doesn't care about him. It doesn't seem like he ever did.
Too bad that's the wrong choice.
My idea of an Evil Stan AU is coming to fruition! I have written and finished the fic over the three weeks I've been silent about my fics (mostly) and I'm proud of it! Gonna be posting one chapter a week until it's all out!
UM. IT SAYS PART 10. PART. TEN. ??? IM FREAKING OUT. THERES TEN PARTS. OF WRITTEN DOWN. TIMEFORD.
THERES A FUCKFIRNG TIEMFORD FIC. IM FRAAKING UMOUT. I WAS LITERALLY JUST SCROLLING LIKE “OH OH HOW I WISH THERE WERE TIMEOFRD FICS” RYAN_SKY I FUCKING LOVE YOU. RYAN_SKY YOU SAVED ME. OH MY FUCKINGG GOFDRFD THIS MIGHT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH ME BUT IDC. RISE TIMEFORD NATION. RISE RISE RISE RISE RIS
THERES A FUCKFIRNG TIEMFORD FIC. IM FRAAKING UMOUT. I WAS LITERALLY JUST SCROLLING LIKE “OH OH HOW I WISH THERE WERE TIMEOFRD FICS” RYAN_SKY I FUCKING LOVE YOU. RYAN_SKY YOU SAVED ME. OH MY FUCKINGG GOFDRFD THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ME BUT IDC. RISE TIMEFORD NATION. RISE RISE RISE RISE RIS