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the cashier at barnes & noble just gave me this duck at checkout and they said “i give these to children and people with a certain vibe.”

floored to know something about me aligns with this duck

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shhhh. important detective work ongoing.

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THROUPLE TROUBLE

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there is no unlived life or alternative reality where everything went right…. there is only here and now what are you going to do with it

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I’ve never come across a more threatening magnet

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"No climate justice on occupied land"

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this is the best album release of all time because where else are you going to get unironic takes like this and then even get a few hundred people to agree with it

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why do you hate swifties so much

because they aligned themselves with the treacherous count dooku

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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.

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Pets love to show up like Hello i am Mystery Wet :)

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if the universe were not so cruel the "Tailor Swift" would be a beautiful bird that elegantly sews its nest together

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Does anyone have that video of the Gaylor interrupting a gay couple to show them a song that’s like “I wanna have straiiight seeeex…at the gay pride parade…his balls are like a compass I love his ball sweaaaat his balls are like a chandelieeeerrrr”

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