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Prompts for Pride

It’s Pride Month once more, which means I am once again hosting Prompts for Pride over on my writing server on discord, the self made event that I've done for the last four years where I write flash fic (none of them more than 1.5K and most of them less) for anyone in the server who cares to leave me a prompt.

If anyone would like to join in the madness, please fee free to join us!

You can find the fills from previous years here:

Prompts for Pride 2021 Prompts for Pride 2022 Prompts for Pride 2023 Prompts for Pride 2024

[phlebaswrites]

Looking (Into the Deep)

Summary:

Tobirama has always been good at keeping secrets.

This is just one more.

Rating: General Fandom: Naruto Relationship: Senju Tobirama/Uchiha Madara Word Count: 516 (Complete)

The sequel to Seeing You (Seeing Me), this is my entry for MerMay 2025.

Tobirama sits on the rock and sips coffee from the mug in his hand. The wind is strong today, whipping the waves into froth that breaks on the beach, but he knows that won't deter the person he's waiting for.

And, just as he expected, a small seal drags itself up onto the pebbles that make up the shore before galumphing over to him.

Read the rest on AO3.

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Knowledge and Koinobori

Summary:

Tobirama knows what it is to be one of many.

(He has brothers too.)

Rating: General Fandom: Naruto Relationship: Uchiha Izuna & Uchiha Madara & Uchiha Madara's Siblings Word Count: 669 (Complete)

Entry for @asian-drama-tropes

May Cram school | Carp jumping the Dragon Gate | Children’s Day | Koinobori (carp streamer)

This story is for @petitcanard, whose art inspired it.

Tobirama picks up his papers, tapping them on the table to make a neat stack before sliding them into his bag. Next to him, Izuna stuffs the homework haphazardly into his own bag and Tobirama winces at the mess they make.

"Shut the fuck up, asshole." Izuna snaps, slinging the bag over his shoulders. "Don't like, don't look."

Tobirama follows him out silently, already knowing - even on just a single month's acquaintanceship - Izuna won't appreciate the protest that he didn't say anything.

Read the rest on AO3.

[phlebaswrites]

Sakura and Speeches

Summary:

Izuna knows how the first day of school is supposed to go.

(Senior high school is not that different.)

Rating: General Fandom: Naruto Relationship: Uchiha Izuna & Uchiha Madara & Uchiha Madara's Siblings Word Count: 426 (Complete)

Entry for @asian-drama-tropes

April Hanami | Sakura blossoms | First day of school | School club

This story is for @petitcanard, whose art inspired it.

Izuna trots through the hallways, glad to finally be released from class and have a little time to himself before the family hanami party tonight.

The school entrance ceremony was full of speeches - they always are - but it was the same old thing, the principal and teachers encouraging them to be good students and work hard. He's not Taetaka-nii though, not calm and brilliant, and Izuna has other ideas about what he wants to do with his last few years of study before university.

Read the rest on AO3.

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Gym and Graduation

Summary:

Tajima knows his children.

(All of his children.)

Rating: General Fandom: Naruto Relationship: Uchiha Izuna & Uchiha Madara & Uchiha Madara's Siblings Word Count: 309 (Complete)

Entry for @asian-drama-tropes

March School graduation | School Uniform | Girls' Day | Handkerchief

This story is for @petitcanard, whose art inspired it.

Izuna walks across the stage, uniform worn properly for once, to take the certificate from the principal.

His bow is perfectly correct, but there's mischief in the corners of his mouth as he rejoins his class afterwards and Tajima sighs at the sight. All of his children have excelled in one way or another, and his youngest is no exception.

Unfortunately for everyone around him, however, Izuna's chosen area of focus is chaos.

It's no wonder that Madara focuses so much of his energy on their little weasel.

Read the rest on AO3.

[phlebaswrites]

April: 2,580

Drawn from the statistics page of my published works on AO3, this is for 2025 only. It does not include stories written in previous years.

January: 4,408

[phlebaswrites]

Someone else asked about this too so I made up a pre-filled version of the PDF form, here's a screenshot!

DM me on discord if you want a copy of the PDF version!

AO3 has been scraped, once again.

As of the time of this post, AO3 has been scraped by yet another shady individual looking to make a quick buck off the backs of hardworking hobby writers. This Reddit post here has all the details and the most current information. In short, if your fic URL ends in a number between 1 and 63,200,000 (inclusive), AND is not archive locked, your fic has been scraped and added to this database.

I have been trying to hold off on archive locking my fics for as long as possible, and I've managed to get by unscathed up to now. Unfortunately, my luck has run out and I am archive locking all of my current and future stories. I'm sorry to my lovelies who read and comment without an account; I love you all. But I have to do what is best for me and my work. Thank you for your understanding.

[phlebaswrites]

Will filing a DCMA takedown mean that the jackass behind the theft will see my legal name and contact info?

I'm not a lawyer so I can't say for sure, but I think it's likely.

For starters, the takedown notice will go to the company so they'll definitely see your details.

nyuuzyou (the person claiming ownership of the dataset into which they've processed all our unlocked works on AO3) has already clearly indicated that they believe they're in the right, and they're willing to fight against the takedown notices - they filed a counter notice to say as much right after OTW filed the first takedown notice with huggingface (the website to which nyuuzyou uploaded the dataset).

They also tried to upload the dataset to two other websites (it's thankfully now been removed).

Given that, it's possible (though I can't judge how likely) that these takedown notices might end up in a court of law somewhere, and in such a case nyuuzyou will definitely have access to them - and all of our IRL names.

This is one of the hazards of DMCA takedown notices, leaving fanwork creators to choose between protecting our creations or connecting our IRL and fannish identities at the risk of doxing. It is also why I've been careful not to say that we must all file takedown notices, in fact I think that anyone who is in a vulnerable situation most emphatically MUST NOT.

Let me be clear.

DO NOT DO THIS IF IT WILL HURT YOU.

Instead, leave that up to fans like myself who have less to lose and are willing to take that risk.

Right now, what we are doing is engaging in both a legal fight but also something of a public awareness campaign.

The huggingface site that is currently hosting this dataset is actually one facet of Hugging Face, Inc. a well known French-American company based in New York City that works in the machine learning space. I can't imagine that they want to be known as bad faith actors who host databases full of stolen material. They are a private company right now, but if their founders ever want to go public (and make a lot of money selling their shares) they would prefer not to be the subject of bad press. I make a note that they might already be preparing for an IPO since their stocks seem to be available for purchase on the NASDAQ private market and they raised $235 million in their series D funding round. This is a company that is potentially valued at $4.5 billion - they have bigger fish to fry than a bunch of members of the public conducting the legal equivalent of a DDoS on them.

Because that's effectively what we're doing - we are snowing them under with takedown notices that have to be individually replied to and dealt with. We are trying to convince huggingface that deleting the dataset nyuuzyou uploaded is the easier and less problematic option than legally defending nyuuzyou's right to post it.

The other thing that we're doing is making a public anti-AI stand.

We are telling the LLM / Gen AI community that AO3 is not the soft target it might look like - they might be able to crawl the site against site rules and community standards but if they post their datasets publicly for street cred (and that's exactly what nyuuzyou is doing) then we will act to protect ourselves.

The status of fanwork as a legally valid creative pursuit - to be protected and cherished like any other - is a long campaign, and one that the OTW was founded on. When @astolat first proposed AO3, it was the next step in a fight that had been ongoing for years.

I'd been a fan for over a decade before AO3 was founded and I personally don't intend to see it fall to this new wave of assaults.

Though it is interesting to be on this end of a takedown notice for once in my life! 🤣

[phlebaswrites]

From the messages I've been getting, it looks like one of the problems people are having is that the form template that huggingface (the website currently that nyuuzyou uploaded all of our fics to as a dataset) uses isn't the most user friendly and people are worried about filling it out wrong.

So I made a partially prefilled template for you guys.

Use it in good health and stay strong people - what we're doing is working.

AO3 has been scraped, once again.

As of the time of this post, AO3 has been scraped by yet another shady individual looking to make a quick buck off the backs of hardworking hobby writers. This Reddit post here has all the details and the most current information. In short, if your fic URL ends in a number between 1 and 63,200,000 (inclusive), AND is not archive locked, your fic has been scraped and added to this database.

I have been trying to hold off on archive locking my fics for as long as possible, and I've managed to get by unscathed up to now. Unfortunately, my luck has run out and I am archive locking all of my current and future stories. I'm sorry to my lovelies who read and comment without an account; I love you all. But I have to do what is best for me and my work. Thank you for your understanding.

[phlebaswrites]

Sure thing!

Copyright Alliance has a comprehensive guide here but in this case you can skip a lot of those steps since you know that your works are in the data set and the website that the data set is hosted on.

The next steps are then to fill out a takedown notice and email it to huggingface. Interestingly, huggingface actually has a form template for takedown notices, which you can find on their Content Policy page - look in the 'IP Infringement and DMCA takedown process' section and you'll find it right next to the email they ask you to send it to.

Since there's space for you to list multiple works you actually only need to fill out the form once. It'll be tricky trying to fit 150 fics in there though, so you could just use a representative sample. I did that, but also copied their template into my word processor and listed all 396 of my works which are in the data set - including five original works. I then converted that to PDF and emailed both letter and form to the huggingface email.

Since you have a relatively large number of fics to list, you might also find the process I used for that to be helpful.

Step 1: Go to your list of 'works' on AO3

Step 2: Hit the 'Edit Works' button

Step 3: Copy everything.

Step 4: Past the whole lot into a word processing file and do some basic editing. The start of my list looked like this:

As you can see, the spaces at the beginning of each line make it pretty obvious which lines are titles and which lines are fandom names, so take out all the fandom names.

Step 5: Remove all the duplicates created by having crossover works - if you have none of those, then skip this step.

Because I had a lot, I used a spreadsheet program and followed the steps here.

Step 6: This should be your final list so copy it back into the form template / your letter and you should be good to go.

In answer to your other questions, there's unfortunately no way to file a takedown notice without your legal name. The good parts are that the process is the same no matter where in the world you are and you don't need a lawyer to do it, so no legal fees.

Good luck and feel free to DM me if you have problems with any of this!

AO3 has been scraped, once again.

As of the time of this post, AO3 has been scraped by yet another shady individual looking to make a quick buck off the backs of hardworking hobby writers. This Reddit post here has all the details and the most current information. In short, if your fic URL ends in a number between 1 and 63,200,000 (inclusive), AND is not archive locked, your fic has been scraped and added to this database.

I have been trying to hold off on archive locking my fics for as long as possible, and I've managed to get by unscathed up to now. Unfortunately, my luck has run out and I am archive locking all of my current and future stories. I'm sorry to my lovelies who read and comment without an account; I love you all. But I have to do what is best for me and my work. Thank you for your understanding.

[phlebaswrites]

They got all of my fics too.

I've filed a DCMA takedown notice but the person who put this dataset together filed a counter notice and said - 13 days ago - that they expect the dataset to be restored in 10-14 business days.

I'd like for that not to happen, so if anyone wants my help in putting together a DCMA takedown notice about their own fics being in this dataset please let me know

AO3 has been scraped, once again.

As of the time of this post, AO3 has been scraped by yet another shady individual looking to make a quick buck off the backs of hardworking hobby writers. This Reddit post here has all the details and the most current information. In short, if your fic URL ends in a number between 1 and 63,200,000 (inclusive), AND is not archive locked, your fic has been scraped and added to this database.

I have been trying to hold off on archive locking my fics for as long as possible, and I've managed to get by unscathed up to now. Unfortunately, my luck has run out and I am archive locking all of my current and future stories. I'm sorry to my lovelies who read and comment without an account; I love you all. But I have to do what is best for me and my work. Thank you for your understanding.

[phlebaswrites]

Watching You (From a Distance)

Summary:

Sometimes, you watch.

(And despair.)

Rating: Teen And Up Fandom: Naruto Relationship: Gen, Uchiha Hikaku & Uchiha Izuna, Uchiha Izuna & Uchiha Madara Word Count: 356 (Complete)

Written for @spring-and-the-southern-shore , a zine of Uchiha Hikaku centered fanworks made for Qingming and Higan, this story is a gift to my fellow mod @greencuttingmat who has borne my faults with astounding grace and patience.

"What the fuck." Izuna-sama sounds commendably calm, but Hikaku can't match his friend's composure.

"This can't be happening." They both suspected something had gone wrong when their clan head didn't join them in the Pure Lands after their deaths, but never in their lives would Hikaku have expected this. "How is he doing this?"

"Nii-san! Why would you take your shirt off!" Izuna-sama screeches at the sight unfolding across the river that separates life from death, but his brother takes no notice. "And what is that!"

"I can't look." Hikaku covers his face. "It was bad enough before."

Read the rest on AO3.

[phlebaswrites]

Having a Chat (With You)

Summary:

Sometimes you make a mistake.

(And no one ever lets you forget it.)

Rating: Teen And Up Fandom: Naruto Relationship: Uchiha Hikaku/Uchiha Madara Word Count: 502 (Complete)

Written for @spring-and-the-southern-shore , a zine of Uchiha Hikaku centered fanworks made for Qingming and Higan, this story is a gift to my fellow mod @greencuttingmat who has borne my faults with astounding grace and patience.

"Ugh, can you believe this?" Madara airdrops Shisui's tweet to his husband's laptop with a flick of his fingers, and watches Hikaku freeze as the browser displaces his Outlook client. "These kids are so much more annoying than we ever were."

"I'm sure your father said the same, and more than once." Hikaku frowns at the screen and then hits reply before typing rapidly. "And they're young, it's fine."

"I don't care how young he is, it's not okay for him to post questions about import taxes on social media!" Madara climbs out of the bed and heads to the bathroom. "That's what the company intranet is for!"

Read the rest on AO3.

[phlebaswrites]

Taking a Walk (With You)

Summary:

Sometimes you lose something important.

(It happens every year.)

Rating: Teen And Up Fandom: Naruto Relationship: Uchiha Hikaku/Uchiha Madara Word Count: 1,722 (Complete)

Written for @spring-and-the-southern-shore , a zine of Uchiha Hikaku centered fanworks made for Qingming and Higan, this story is a gift to my fellow mod @greencuttingmat who has borne my faults with astounding grace and patience.

Part 1 of Two's Company (So's Family)

"I can't believe we lost him again." Madara stomps through the grass angrily, as if trying to trample it underfoot. "What happened to the ribbons we tied on that bush last year!"

"They faded in the sun," Hikaku knows his husband is just venting rather than looking for an actual answer, but he can't help offering one anyway. The perils of being married to the boss, he supposes. "Either that, or the birds stole them for nesting material."

"Urgh!" Izuna slaps at the mosquito which lands on his arm, and the way it splatters into a gory mess shows how it feasted on him. "Every bug here is converging on me, I swear!"

"One day, I'm going to burn this stupid hill to the ground." Madara vows vengefully. "And then dad's grave will be easy to find!"

Read the rest on AO3.

[phlebaswrites]

February: 6,194 March: -1

Drawn from the statistics page of my published works on AO3, this is for 2025 only. It does not include stories written in previous years.

January: 4,408

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School and Snow

Summary:

Madara knows how to be a big brother.

(He's had lots of practice.)

Rating: General Fandom: Naruto Relationship: Uchiha Izuna & Uchiha Madara Word Count: 312 (Complete)

Entry for @asian-drama-tropes

February Kotatsu | Oranges | Ofuro | Bicycle

This story is for @petitcanard, whose art inspired it.

Madara picks up another piece of mikan, shoving it into his cheek and wiping his fingers on the towel before grabbing his pencil and writing down what he hopes is the right answer.

Math and he have never been the best of friends, and he doesn't have nii-san around to double check his homework anymore so he's having to concentrate a little more than usual this year, but at least he's not failing.

Read the rest on AO3.

[phlebaswrites]

Izuna Week 2025 @izunaweek

Day 7: Mangekyo Acquisition | Tied Together | Actor AU

Collab with @phlebasphoenician, where Izuna gets his Mangekyo from Tajima giving his own up to Izuna

Please take a read at Phlebas' fabulous fic!