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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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WIP. The finished form will probably never see the light of day~

Kind of AU where Poindexter was marginally less of a stubborn ass and took the (maximum) 2 mins needed to clear up the misunderstanding with Danny.

Dash will straight up not be having a good time in this - sorry, my guy.

Heavily inspired by that one comic about how the ghosts should be allowed to haunt that I cannot find again even after hours scrolling the dp tag. It lives in my head rent free. (If anyone finds it, pls let me know, fairly sure it was not a hallucination)

Edit: Nvm, found it-

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Fanart for: Not a baby, (Yes you are) by @starwrighter

https://archiveofourown.org/works/48866536

First meeting (- Damian and Danny)

Damian (tentative) re-design

Dick meets Danny ft. Damian

Duke

Duke again, but this time being bothered by a stalker (of the subnautica kind)

Tim

...And a messy sketch of his first meeting w/ Danny

All designs were drawn based off of Danny's unreliable narration and my imagination.

In other words, before I discovered the existence of the batfam BFF(Big Fucking Fish) form descriptions on the author's tumblr. So if you were wondering about that discrepancy, ✨️now you know✨️

Additionally, there were some hiccups where certain pieces of information got lost during the journey from Eyes reading, Brain comprehending and Hands drawing,

One such example is how Damian's 'four-fingered' grasp turned into ✨️four arms✨️

Another example!! This time less of a hiccup/ more a gratuitous application of artistic liberty and purposeful ignorance of practicality; Duke's tail - it pretty, 'nough said.

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wild thing about all those "why are people over 30 still in fandom" posts is that the idea of fandom (in the sense of writing fic etc) being a youth subculture or even a hobby that was particularly accepting of young people is insanely recent, like, last 20 years at most. prior to that not only was fandom overwhelmingly both driven and populated by people well into adulthood, but if you were a teen trying to write or discuss fic on livejournal or usenet you almost certainly avoided telling people your age, not only because that was general best practice for minors on the internet at the time but because you'd have felt very out of place if all those grownups had known you were a kid, and in fact there's a good chance they would have banned you from whatever community you were trying to participate in. the way that state of affairs managed to get memory-holed so completely we've transitioned to one where a lot of people think fanfiction is and has always been a hobby for teenagers that some unusually childish adults just never grow out of is genuinely bizarre

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nothing pisses me off more than when i see a fic on ao3 talking about reach. "this ship isn't here but i added them for reach" "this fandom tag isn't necessary but i'm adding it for reach" "reposting for reach" STOP IT!!!! this is not tiktok this is not twitter this is an ARCHIVE this is not how it works!!!

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Reading amazing fanfiction, then forgetting to bookmark it

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hyperfixation please stay with me long enough to complete the project. hyperfixation do not fade. hyperfixation finish what you started for the love of god

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Redrawing old FanArt for: Who you gonna call? by @jaewritesfic

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FanArt for: Who you gonna call? by @jaewritesfic

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‘boy i sure wish i was asleep,’ i whisper, clicking Next Chapter fourteen fucking times

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What's that bro? You began interacting with a media from a different country than yours and/or was made in time period different than the recent present day? Haha that's sick bro! Keep expanding your horizons bro! You're remembering to take into account that sociocultural norms, gender roles and genre expectations are different from what you are used to and meeting the story halfway, instead of forcibly superimposing your ideals into the story, right bro? Right? Right?

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I've seen a number of people worried and concerned about this language on Ao3s current "agree to these terms of service" page. The short version is:

Don't worry. This isn't anything bad. Checking that box just means you forgive them for being US American.

Long version: This text makes perfect sense if you're familiar with the issues around GDPR and in particular the uncertainty about Privacy Shield and SCCs after Schrems II. But I suspect most people aren't, so let's get into it, with the caveat that this is a Eurocentric (and in particular EU centric) view of this.

The basic outline is that Europeans in the EU have a right to privacy under the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), an EU directive (let's simplify things and call it an EU law) that regulates how various entities, including companies and the government, may acquire, store and process data about you.

The list of what counts as data about you is enormous. It includes things like your name and birthday, but also your email address, your computers IP address, user names, whatever. If an advertiser could want it, it's on the list.

The general rule is that they can't, unless you give explicit permission, or it's for one of a number of enumerated reasons (not all of which are as clear as would be desirable, but that's another topic). You have a right to request a copy of the data, you have a right to force them to delete their data and so on. It's not quite on the level of constitutional rights, but it is a pretty big deal.

In contrast, the US, home of most of the world's internet companies, has no such right at a federal level. If someone has your data, it is fundamentally theirs. American police, FBI, CIA and so on also have far more rights to request your data than the ones in Europe.

So how can an American website provide services to persons in the EU? Well… Honestly, there's an argument to be made that they can't.

US websites can promise in their terms and conditions that they will keep your data as safe as a European site would. In fact, they have to, unless they start specifically excluding Europeans. The EU even provides Standard Contract Clauses (SCCs) that they can use for this.

However, e.g. Facebook's T&Cs can't bind the US government. Facebook can't promise that it'll keep your data as secure as it is in the EU even if they wanted to (which they absolutely don't), because the US government can get to it easily, and EU citizens can't even sue the US government over it.

Despite the importance that US companies have in Europe, this is not a theoretical concern at all. There have been two successive international agreements between the US and the EU about this, and both were struck down by the EU court as being in violation of EU law, in the Schrems I and Schrems II decisions (named after Max Schrems, an Austrian privacy activist who sued in both cases).

A third international agreement is currently being prepared, and in the meantime the previous agreement (known as "Privacy Shield") remains tentatively in place. The problem is that the US government does not want to offer EU citizens equivalent protection as they have under EU law; they don't even want to offer US citizens these protections. They just love spying on foreigners too much. The previous agreements tried to hide that under flowery language, but couldn't actually solve it. It's unclear and in my opinion unlikely that they'll manage to get a version that survives judicial review this time. Max Schrems is waiting.

So what is a site like Ao3 to do? They're arguably not part of the problem, Max Schrems keeps suing Meta, not the OTW, but they are subject to the rules because they process stuff like your email address.

Their solution is this checkbox. You agree that they can process your data even though they're in the US, and they can't guarantee you that the US government won't spy on you in ways that would be illegal for the government of e.g. Belgium. Is that legal under EU law? …probably as legal as fan fiction in general, I suppose, which is to say let's hope nobody sues to try and find out.

But what's important is that nothing changed, just the language. Ao3 has always stored your user name and email address on servers in the US, subject to whatever the FBI, CIA, NSA and FRA may want to do it. They're just making it more clear now.

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i do not ghost purposely i just have no idea what to say ever

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Danny starts an OnlyFans to pay for college. It's actually doing very well.

Then, of course, he gets caught up in some other heroes shenanigans on his first day off in three weeks.

But it's fine, he guesses? He gets saved by said hero.

Who is a stuttering mess.

Kyle Rayner, on the other hand, has just met his favorite OnlyFans model in person and can't say shit because he's on duty as a Green Lantern.