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[pastself]

There was something you were hiding, on the night you ran away.

[pastself]

When your partner has a praise kink but you're Montessori trained so you know that praise is an ineffective way to encourage development and it's much more productive to acknowledge their effort so that they learn to effectively give themselves feedback so they can develop a healthy intrinsic motivation instead of deriving their self worth from labels put on them by other people .... "baby it's amazing how much you could last today compared to last week"

[pastself]

Y'all are amazing. Reblog to hug the person you’re reblogging from.

[pastself]

one of the top 10 peter jackson's creative choices was seeing the one (1) sentence about the beacons being lit in RotK and going "I'm going to film a scene that is so absolutely iconic based on this"

[pastself]

gotta stop myself from binge-reading all the temeraire books somehow

[pastself]

the idea of a podcast having dynamic ads that relate to you even when the episode came out years ago is so perverse. like it's a sound file a podcast is just an audio clip. and you're telling me before the audio clip reaches my ears some algorithm is poking around in its guts adding things and taking things out. you're ravishing it. it's obscene

[pastself]

So glad they didn’t put this in the show bc I genuinely would’ve spontaneously combusted.

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Me rn.

[pastself]

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.

[pastself]

Things were better. Tony was better. They were better. And then, one day, it was the anniversary of Tony’s parents’ death.

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Want for Nothing (on ao3) — Chapter 13: Bach in Black

Peter Parker/Tony Stark | Chapter count 5k+ (Total 67k+)

Chapter summary: Tony doesn't need to star in an epic saga. What he needs is family.

Tags for this chapter: Canonical childhood trauma involving the death of a parent(s), Piano playing, May being awesome, An overly rosy picture of why billionaires make NGOs, but fuck it -- I choose to believe Maria Stark would be the exception.

[pastself]

I desperately wish people would start actually reading the AO3's TOS before confidently making 'user guides' to the AO3 that are just blatantly, flatly wrong.

Yes the AO3 has banned content. They do not allow anything that's illegal under US law - though US law, importantly, does not ban fictional depictions of things - and they do not allow any commercial content. That includes your ko-fi link, or mentions that you do fic commissions. If you do post fic commissions to AO3 and want to mention the commissioner, the fic is a 'request' from the commissioner. This protects the AO3 and you from copyright law.

No the AO3 is not 'a creative fanfiction archive'. It is a fandom archive. Your meta, insights, and theories are absolutely welcome and encouraged there. AO3 also encourages you to post other types of fanworks, like fan videos, podfics, and art, but unfortunately isn't able to natively host those like it does text, so fic has kind of become what it's known for. That absolutely does not mean that other types of fanwork aren't allowed, or are discouraged by the site culture! Anybody who tells you otherwise is just plain wrong!

[pastself]

They sent him to Afghanistan and he came home without his heart…. it doesn’t hurt to be a hollow man if you’ve never know anything different

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[pastself]

tony stark spent his entire adult life under the guidance of someone who not only would (and did) try to have him killed, but was also fine with him not dying quickly and being tortured for three whole months if it meant he would bring home a single new piece of technology

tony came back home from captivity and sat down in front of dozens of reporters and turned to this man, specifically, to tell him that it was really good to see him again BOY i’m very fucked up over this like there was a post-captivity period there where tony didn’t know stane had screwed him over and this guy was there wrapping his arm around tony’s shoulders and sitting on his couch and playing his piano and publicly speaking on his behalf!! that is a LOT

[pastself]

art is hard and i taking a nap