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forcing myself to draw daily 5

phone doodle because I was away from my pc for most of today

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hey uh new type of ao3 spam comment just dropped. (I know it's spam because the fic they left this comment on . doesn't have chapters. lmfao). Report this kinda comment as spam and don't take it personally it is literally recycled bullshit

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saw this cute post and now I'm not going on reddit for the rest of the day. quit while you're ahead

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more cookie run - a take on Black Raisin cookie! forcing me to face the fact that i did not know how to spell raisin u_u

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Jack Showdown (Jack Off) - Round 4

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idk who needs to hear this but if you have been putting something off bc it doesn't need to be done until the end of the month. we are almost done with the teens we are approaching the big numbers (the twenties). that date shall dawn upon you swiftly and without mercy before you know it. psa for everyone except me i got plany off time

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Everybody do the wenis!

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you know a joke that never EVER gets old is when a character says smth like “I will NOT go to [place] and that is FINAL” and then it cuts to them in that place I eat that shit up every single time

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Who makes the porn bots. Where do they come from. What do they hope to achieve.

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“i’m scared of losing you” but they’ve never even kissed.

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making a collection

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Feel free to print and distribute this image

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this is peak Craigslist

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how come my dashboard smells weird

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Transferring my period cramps onto spam scam bots rn

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i made this account so i COULD be the world’s biggest cunt but like. you understand that if you don’t like or comment on a fic that you have SUBSCRIBED TO then that author isn’t going to be motivated to update, right? like you understand that if you want more from a writer (or artist or gif maker or meta poster or any other kind of creator in fandom spaces) you have to interact with them. and i know not every creator wants concrit but i would literally love getting that than getting subscriptions with no indication of if the reader even likes the fic or not. subscriptions counts that don’t align with kudos or comments just make me think they’re bots and if that means no real people are interested then im not gonna keep posting. that story lives in my head i don’t need to write it down for me. i do it to share with others as part of a fan community.

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i had a thought of "do people not know what AUs are anymore?" and then i remembered nobody explains fandom stuff to new people anymore so it is entirely plausible people genuinely don't know what AUs are and nobody has explained it to them, so for today's lucky 10,000:

"AU" stands for "Alternate Universe" or "Alternative Universe" (same difference) and is basically any thought scenario for a fandom that isn't canon and can't fit within the canon universe. If it takes place in the canon universe but something is notably different, that is typically what's known as a "Canon divergent AU," because it diverges from canon.

an AU can be absolutely anything. There's a couple of widespread pan-fandom au scenarios that often get thrown around, like coffee shop aus, genderbend aus, hanahaki aus (hanahaki is a whole thing in itself i'd recommend researching on your own), etc. One you might hear sometimes is "crossover AU" which is when you have characters from one fandom interacting with characters from another.

You can have as many aus as you want. They can be whatever you want and you can do whatever you want in them. It's a sandbox for you to play around in and explore how things would be different or how the characters would act in those circumstances or environments. Maybe they have different relationships with each other. Maybe they behave slightly differently. Or you can just say "Okay, [x] is true. How did they get here? How would things have to be different for this to occur?" which can also be fun.

If you are ever confused about why people ship something that seems completely out of the blue or doesn't make sense to you in the canon setting, there's a good chance they like it in an AU setting! Not everything everybody is interacting with is necessarily the canon! Not everybody wants things to exist in canon and just want to explore playing dolls in a different sandbox and that's okay. And their sandbox might look a lot different than yours, and that's also okay. You have the freedom to make your sandbox whatever you please. Do whatever you want forever. Get funky with it. AUs are fun.

Okay that's my schpeal. everybody go have fun and play nice now.