#pLEASE write it

[lexicrvg]

im actually very into the "mav and ethan are twins" thing

and i think im MORE into the "they both accidentally (ethan) / on purpose (mav) fall in love with ice"

[spikedfearn]

My creative juices have been flowing again and with such good material to draw from recently, I've thought of writing a Remmick x reader fic wherein she wanted to be turned, but he refused. They have a falling out, but they end up crossing paths years later after she's been turned by someone else and then they meet again..... there's angst, some jealousy, tenderness, ANGST. I'm picturing Maroon and Do I Wanna Know? vibes.... Should I write it? Yay? Nay?

oh my god YESSSSS I can imagine the jealousy and possessiveness on his end when he realizes you went to someone else 😩

[vawobefanart]

Is there a Drarry fanfiction in which there is a parents day at Hogwarts where the parents watch how their kids do in class and Scorpius and Albus do everything together so Draco and Harry have to sit and do shit together and in potions the four of them somehow fuck up a potion so they all get bound together in a way that they have to be in close proximity all the time or they die or whatever so they have to live together until there’s an antidote and everyone’s like „I’m so sorry for you Harry/Draco“ cause they loath each other but while living together Harry sees how loving Draco is to Scorpius, hugging him and helping him and teaching him and reading him bedtime stories, and paying Kreacher (they are at Grimmauld Place since Harry has more children and that just makes it easier and Harry is ignorant towards elf enslavement ig) and Draco sees how Harry is playing with the boys and cooking them food and just treating them real good so they kinda fall in love with each other? Cause I need that. With all my heart. I need a detailed explanation of how much they hate doing shit together at Hogwarts (cheering their kids on for Quidditch, eating together and just spending time together), how they fight in potions and causing the accident, how they get scolded for it and how devastated they are to have to live together. And how Scorpius and Albus are so excited living together! And of course about how for example Harry sees Draco hug Scorpius and he feels this weird feeling and he doesn’t know what it is so he thinks he’s disgusted but it’s obviously attraction. You know? Plus points for adding Lucius somewhere in there in a way that doesn’t paint him as the most evil bastard, just you know, the Canon annoying, spineless, but still family loving, „my family is too good for you, but I love my son even though he’s annoyingly obsessed with you so whatever“ kind of way.

[xander-11]

Crazy Reddie fic au: Eddie and Myra have a baby and Myra dies during childbirth leaving Eddie as a single father to a baby(that looks nothing like Myra🙏 yw) and after awhile he meets Richie at a coffee shop and he’s like “cool that that comedian dude” but dosent go up to him bc he doubts any comedian wants to meet a random dude with a child, but then after Richie he gets his coffee he goes up to Eddie and sits by him saying that Eddie looks “familiar” they exchange numbers and after a few meetups(which over that time eddies child{daughter} warms up to Richie almost seeing him as a second father) they realize used to be friends they were children and after they share memories Richie says something about how he “used to” have “a bit” of a crush on Eddie and eddies like “really i had a crush on you to” and they laugh about it and then Richie’s like “why dont we have a go at a date? If anything for our 13 year old selves” and Eddie agrees (on the condition that Richie pays for a babysitter for eddies daughter) and then they go on a date and fast forward a few years they get married and Richie adopts eddies daughter and they live as a happy family until Richie and Eddie get the call from mike and then they get a babysitter for their daughter and go to derry *yk what happens* and then Richie comes home to his and eddies daughter and she’s like “hi dad, where’s daddy?” And Richie starts to cry and hug her and he says “he’s not coming back”

Pls someone write this and lmk 🙏

[inmyowndelusion]

I NEED TO SEE A LOTF AND YELLOWJACKETS CROSSOVER FIC

LIKE I NEED TO SEE THE CHARACTERS INTERACT😭 ESPECIALLY CHARACTERS LIKE LOTTIE AND JACK

The reason why I can’t write it is because I can’t finish Yellowjackets and I’m not yet down with LOTF

[meiczyslaw-mccall]

Anyone wanna treat us with Spencer x man fics???

I know you dooo

🙏

[leg0joker]

I want to destroy his ass, gonna make him beg

[lacontroller1991]

In need of my only Gordo girls on this hellsite to push me into writing that MM4F fic with Ed I promised almost 2 years ago. Tell me something, mother PLEASE 😔🙏🏼🎀

DO IT

ALL GORDO CONTENT IS GOOD CONTENT MY CHILD

-hope you're doing well :):)

[gracefulfirestellaswirl]

Fanfic idea: it seems sus that Harry the second one to find the horcruxes (Regulus Black was the first) so hear me out: what if there was a AU fanfic that writes about the people who realized that Voldy had horcruxes, and went to kill off the horcruxes but were unable to do so, maybe they died, lost a limp, maybe Voldy tortured them, etc in a 5 + 1 style. Like it'd be fun to see how other character figure out that Voldy had horcruxes or how much knowledge they have.

Like imagine someone thinks Voldy only made 3 horcruxes OR someone who has "figured them out" but got the wrong thing as a horcrux (cause they didn't realize horcrux killings were dramatic) or imagine someone secretive who almost figured it out but death eaters killed him OR Voldie read his mind and personally had him killed. (Doesn't that ring a bell?)

OR imagine how they found out: someone got a seer friend who predicted that or maybe they just got Horace Slughorn drunk and he let it slip, etc. (imagine if the duelling champion Fillus Flitwick did the latter and then he went on a horcrux hunt but got injured or something so he decided to teach charms at Hogwarts?)

Idk if this fanfic exists yet if it does please gimme the link, if not SOMEONE PLEASE WRITE IT 🥺🥺🥺

[georgeweasleyslostearhq]

PIRATE!EDDIE

i'm begging for pirate!eddie munson recommendations PLEASEEEEE.

or just write some i beg of you.

i feel like when i want something like this, if I write it myself i ruin it and it's just so bad.

does anyone have any fics.

or will anyone write it for me

here's your crown if so:

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love you, muah!

[padfoot-lupin77]

@ six of crows writers

Please

I’ll bake you biscuits

Please 🙏

when the character who's like "i will never reveal my trauma to anyone" gets a high fever and, while weak and delirious, starts spilling every.

last.

secret.

[the-river-nyx]

Me at 14 and me at 22 are having a bonding moment

[ekingston]

SO HERE IS THE WHOLE STORY (SO FAR).

I am on my knees begging you to reblog this post and to stop reblogging the original ones I sent out yesterday. This is the complete account with all the most recent info; the other one is just sending people down senselessly panicked avenues that no longer lead anywhere.

IN SHORT

Cliff Weitzman, CEO of Speechify and (aspiring?) voice actor, used AI to scrape thousands of popular, finished works off AO3 to list them on his own for-profit website and in his attached app. He did this without getting any kind of permission from the authors of said work or informing AO3. Obviously.

When fandom at large was made aware of his theft and started pushing back, Weitzman issued a non-apology on the original social media posts—using 

his dyslexia; 

his intent to implement a tip-system for the plagiarized authors; and 

a sudden willingness to take down the work of every author who saw my original social media posts and emailed him individually with a ‘valid’ claim,

as reasons we should allow him to continue monetizing fanwork for his own financial gain.

When we less-than-kindly refused, he took down his ‘apologies’ as well as his website (allegedly—it’s possible that our complaints to his web host, the deluge of emails he received or the unanticipated traffic brought it down, since there wasn’t any sort of official statement made about it), and when it came back up several hours later, all of the work formerly listed in the fan fiction category was no longer there. 

THE TAKEAWAYS

1. Cliff Weitzman (aka Ofek Weitzman) is a scumbag with no qualms about taking fanwork without permission, feeding it to AI and monetizing it for his own financial gain; 

2. Fandom can really get things done when it wants to, and 

3. Our fanworks appear to be hidden, but they’re NOT DELETED from Weitzman’s servers, and independently published, original works are still listed without the authors' permission. We need to hold this man responsible for his theft, keep an eye on both his current and future endeavors, and take action immediately when he crosses the line again. 

THE TIMELINE, THE DETAILS, THE SCREENSHOTS (behind the cut)

Sunday night, December 22nd 2024, I noticed an influx in visitors to my fic You & Me & Holiday Wine. When I searched the title online, hoping to find out where they came from, a new listing popped up (third one down, no less):

This listing is still up today, by the way, though now when you follow the link to word-stream, it just brings you to the main site. (Also, to be clear, this was not the cause for the influx of traffic to my fic; word-stream did not link back to the original work anywhere.)

I followed the link to word-stream, where to my horror Y&M&HW was listed in its entirety—though, beyond the first half of the first chapter, behind a paywall—along with a link promising to take me—through an app downloadable on the Apple Store—to an AI-narrated audiobook version. When I searched word-stream itself for my ao3 handle I found both of my multi-chapter fics were listed this way:

Because the tags on my fics (which included genres* and characters, but never the original IPs**) weren’t working, I put ‘Kara Danvers’ into the search bar and discovered that many more supercorp fics (Supergirl TV fandom, Kara Danvers/Lena Luthor pairing) were listed.

I went looking online for any mention of word-stream and AI plagiarism (the covers—as well as the ridiculously inflated number of reviews and ratings—made it immediately obvious that AI fuckery was involved), but found almost nothing: only one single Reddit post had been made, and it received (at that time) only a handful of upvotes and no advice. 

I decided to make a tumblr post to bring the supercorp fandom up to speed about the theft. I draw as well as write for fandom and I’ve only ever had to deal with art theft—which has a clear set of steps to take depending on where said art was reposted—and I was at a loss regarding where to start in this situation.

After my post went up I remembered Project Copy Knight, which is worth commending for the work they’ve done to get fic stolen from AO3 taken down from monetized AI 'audiobook’ YouTube accounts. I reached out to @echoekhi, asking if they’d heard of this site and whether they could advise me on how to get our works taken down.

While waiting for a reply I looked into Copy Knight’s methods and decided to contact OTW’s legal department:

And then I went to bed.

By morning, tumblr friends @makicarn and @fazedlight as well as a very helpful tumblr anon had seen my post and done some very productive sleuthing:

@echoekhi had also gotten back to me, advising me, as expected, to contact the OTW. So I decided to sit tight until I got a response from them.

That response came only an hour or so later: 

Which was 100% understandable, but still disappointing—I doubted a handful of individual takedown requests would accomplish much, and I wasn’t eager to share my given name and personal information with Cliff Weitzman himself, which is unavoidable if you want to file a DMCA.

I decided to take it to Reddit, hoping it would gain traction in the wider fanfic community, considering so many fandoms were affected. My Reddit posts (with the updates at the bottom as they were emerging) can be found here and here.

A helpful Reddit user posted a guide on how users could go about filing a DMCA against word-stream here (to wobbly-at-best results)

A different helpful Reddit user signed up to access insight into word-streams pricing. Comment is here.

Smells unbelievably scammy, right? In addition to those audacious prices—though in all fairness any amount of money would be audacious considering every work listed is accessible elsewhere for free—my dyscalculia is screaming silently at the sight of that completely unnecessary amount of intentionally obscured numbers.

Speaking of which! As soon as the post on r/AO3—and, as a result, my original tumblr post—began taking off properly, sometime around 1 pm, jumpscare! A notification that a tumblr account named @cliffweitzman had commented on my post, and I got a bit mad about the gist of his message :

Fortunately he caught plenty of flack in the comments from other users (truly you should check out the comment section, it is extremely gratifying and people are making tremendously good points), in response to which, of course, he first tried to both reiterate and renegotiate his point in a second, longer comment (which I didn’t screenshot in time so I’m sorry for the crappy notification email formatting):

which he then proceeded to also post to Reddit (this is another Reddit user’s screenshot, I didn’t see it at all, the notifications were moving too fast for me to follow by then)

... where he got a roughly equal amount of righteously furious replies. (Check downthread, they're still there, all the way at the bottom.)

After which Cliff went ahead & deleted his messages altogether. 

It’s not entirely clear whether his account was suspended by Reddit soon after or whether he deleted it himself, but considering his tumblr account is still intact, I assume it’s the former. He made a handful of sock puppet accounts to play around with for a while, both on Reddit and Tumblr, only one of which I have a screenshot of, but since they all say roughly the same thing, you’re not missing much:

And then word-stream started throwing a DNS error.

That lasted for a good number of hours, which was unfortunately right around the time that a lot of authors first heard about the situation and started asking me individually how to find out whether their work was stolen too. I do not have that information and I am unclear on the perimeters Weitzman set for his AI scraper, so this is all conjecture: it LOOKS like the fics that were lifted had three things in common:

They were completed works;

They had over several thousand kudos on AO3; and

They were written by authors who had actively posted or updated work over the past year.

If anyone knows more about these perimeters or has info that counters my observation, please let me know!

I finally thought to check/alert evil Twitter during this time, and found out that the news was doing the rounds there already. I made a quick thread summarizing everything that had happened just in case. You can find it here.

I went to Bluesky too, where fandom was doing all the heavy lifting for me already, so I just reskeeted, as you do, and carried on.

Sometime in the very early evening, word-stream went back up—but the fan fiction category was nowhere to be seen. Tentative joy and celebration!***

That’s when several users—the ones who had signed up for accounts to gain intel and had accessed their own fics that way—reported that their work could still be accessed through their history. Relevant Reddit post here.

Sooo—

We’re obviously not done. The fanwork that was stolen by Weitzman may be inaccessible through his website right now, but they aren’t actually gone. And the fact that Weitzman wasn’t willing to get rid of them altogether means he still has plans for them. 

This was my final edit on my Reddit post before turning off notifications, and it's pretty much where my head will be at for at least the foreseeable future:

Please feel free to add info in the comments, make your own posts, take whatever action you want to take to protect your work. I only beg you—seriously, I’m on my knees here—to not give up like I saw a handful of people express the urge to do. Keep sharing your creative work and remain vigilant and stay active to make sure we can continue to do so freely. Visit your favorite fics, and the ones you’ve kept in your ‘marked for later’ lists but never made time to read, and leave kudos, leave comments, support your fandom creatives, celebrate podficcers and support AO3. We created this place and it’s our responsibility to keep it alive and thriving for as long as we possibly can.

Also FUCK generative AI. It has NO place in fandom spaces.

THE 'SMALL' PRINT (some of it in all caps):

*Weitzman knew what he was doing and can NOT claim ignorance. One, it’s pretty basic kindergarten stuff that you don’t steal some other kid’s art project and present it as your own only to act surprised when they protest and then tell the victim that they should have told you sooner that they didn’t want their project stolen. And two, he was very careful never to list the IPs these fanworks were based on, so it’s clear he was at least familiar enough with the legalities to not get himself in hot water with corporate lawyers. Fucking over fans, though, he figured he could get away with that. 

**A note about the AI that Weitzman used to steal our work: it’s even greasier than it looks at first glance. It’s not just the method he used to lift works off AO3 and then regurgitate onto his own website and app. Looking beyond the untold horrors of his AI-generated cover ‘art’, in many cases these covers attempt to depict something from the fics in question that can’t be gleaned from their summaries alone. In addition, my fics (and I assume the others, as well) were listed with generated genres; tags that did not appear anywhere in or on my fic on AO3 and were sometimes scarily accurate and sometimes way off the mark. I remember You & Me & Holiday Wine had ‘found family’ (100% correct, but not tagged by me as such) and I believe The Shape of Soup was listed as, among others, ‘enemies to friends to lovers’ and ‘love triangle’ (both wildly inaccurate). Even worse, not all the fic listed (as authors on Reddit pointed out) came with their original summaries at all. Often the entire summary was AI-generated. All of these things make it very clear that it was an all-encompassing scrape—not only were our fics stolen, they were also fed word-for-word into the AI Weitzman used and then analyzed to suit Weitzman’s needs. This means our work was literally fed to this AI to basically do with whatever its other users want, including (one assumes) text generation. 

***Fan fiction appears to have been made (largely) inaccessible on word-stream at this time, but I’m hearing from several authors that their original, independently published work, which is listed at places like Kindle Unlimited, DOES still appear in word-stream’s search engine. This obviously hurts writers, especially independent ones, who depend on these works for income and, as a rule, don’t have a huge budget or a legal team with oceans of time to fight these battles for them. If you consider yourself an author in the broader sense, beyond merely existing online as a fandom author, beyond concerns that your own work is immediately at risk, DO NOT STOP MAKING NOISE ABOUT THIS.

PLEASE check my later versions of this post via my main page to make sure you have the latest version of this post before you reblog. All the information I’ve been able to gather is in my reblogs below, and it's frustrating to see the old version getting passed around, sending people on wild goose chases.

Thank you all so much!

[artemisdesari-blog]

A writer friend told me something that broke my heart a little bit today; they're going to quit publishing their fanfic.

My instant thought was that they had been trolled or attacked or that something terrible had happened in their life because this person is so passionate about their writing. It wasn't any of that. Engagement with their works has been going down, as it has for many of us. Comments are like gold dust a lot of the time, and just looking through the historical comment counts on old fics on ao3 demonstrates this trend very clearly. It was not simply the comments dropping off which caused them to decide to stop posting, however.

My friend came across a discord server for their fandom (I should point out here that their fandom interest and mine diverged a couple of years ago, we stay in touch but don't currently read each other's posts because I'm not into their fandom and they would rather gouge their eyes out with a wooden spoon than read anything Star Wars) and specifically to share fic in that fandom. They joined, because we all love a good fic rec, only to discover that their latest multichapter fic, which has almost no comments and very few kudos, is being hotly discussed in this server as one of the best stories ever. Not one of these people has bothered to say this to them on the fic. When they asked, none of participants could see the point in telling the author of the fic they apparently loved so much that they love it.

This discovery has absolutely destroyed my friend's love of sharing fic. They share because they love seeing other people's enjoyment, and fic writers do that through comments and kudos/reblogs/likes because we don't get paid. There is no literary critic writing a blog post/article about how amazing the story is for us to copy and keep/frame. There is no money from royalties. All we have are the words of the people reading our works.

Those people on that server could have taken five minutes of the time they spent gushing about how amazing my friend's story was to other people and used it to tell the one person guaranteed to want to hear that praise how much they loved it. They could have taken a moment to express their opinion to the person who spent hours upon hours plotting, writing, editing, and posting those chapters. Instead, they deprived my friend of thing that keeps them sharing their writing, and in the process have killed their love of it. My friend now feels used and unmotivated.

I won't be sharing a link to their fic, they said I could share their experience but not their identity. I know they plan to post one final chapter. I know they intend to express their hurt at being excluded from the praise for the thing they created, and I know they intend to announce that as a consequence they will not be posting for a long while, if at all.

So please, I beg you, don't hide your love of a story from the writer. It's just about the only thing we have.

[depraveddame]

feels like fake news