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Private detectives useless as hell all I do is sit behind a desk dramatically lit in black and white stripes by my half open blinds and smoke cigars. Living the dream

#privatedetective #detectivelife #i have 19 unsolved cases

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prohibition hitting hard...making some bathtup gin tonight. DM for recipe

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hopital

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Clara Bow is 20??!!!

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SHE SHOULD BE AT THE SPEAKEASY

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Smuggling some moonshine in my coat oh boy I sure do hope no big scary prohibition officer comes andbpins me and handcuffs me hahha oh nooo that would suck

#wink wink

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my thirsty ass could NEVER be a bootlegger!!!!

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Anyone else think some of those jc leyendecker drawings are kind of yaoi ....

#those arrow collar advertisments got me feelin smthn #jc leyendecker #jcleyendecker #jcl

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she speak on my easy till I jazz

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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.

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If you're reading this, let me have a moment of your time.

Hello, I'm here to talk about HB3. You're probably wondering what HB3 is (since barely anyone's talking about it), to give a basic rundown on what this thing is, HB3 is a law that's similar to KOSA. Except it's for Florida exclusively. It aims to “protect” minors online by making them more unsafe. Like taking away safe spaces and crucial information.

If you live in Florida, don't give up or panic! iirc, it's having legal trouble due to it being unconstitutional. But Don't feel relieved yet, Kansas has done something similar (I'll probably talk about that later)

Now is there anything that we can do? Of course! But we can't call them since it already passed as a law (I think) the most we can do is protest and spread awareness. If you have friends or mutuals in Florida let them know!!

If there's any petitions to sign to get rid of HB3/any info I got wrong please let me know

If this post is janky it's because it was hastily written by a very paranoid teenager,, srry

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Imagine texting Paps late at night. He’s sending you silly, sleepy texts and memes, sending you into a fit of giggles. Paps texts you that he can’t sleep for some reason. You jokingly ask if it’s because he’s thinking about you. Paps takes a moment to type before texting “Actually, yeah. It is because of you”. You text him that he’s such a sap. He then texts “Yeah cuz i lauv you”. While you’re reacting to his message with a heart, Paps has shoved his face into his pillow, his face glowing so bright. He’s trying to correct his spelling by texting back “love” but each time he sends it, it’s still not correct. Eventually, he just sends a “<3 u”. The two of you go back to texting and end up falling asleep during your late night conversation.

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I have such carnal desires for the skeletons it’s not even funny

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this is, honest to god, one of the funniest ads ive seen in a long time.

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outer :b

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i lowkey ship tumblr ♠ twitter now

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Outer Sans!

FINALLY DONE AFTER YEARS OF PROCRASTINATING‼️‼️

This was a request by @thingintheswamp

A LOT OF THANK YOU'S TO MY FRIEND @garbagebr3ad FOR PATTERN DESIGN AND BACKGROUND I WOULD NOT HAVE THIS DONE BY NOW IF SHE DIDNT HELP ‼️‼️‼️🥺

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I was today years old when I learned that when you type “otp: true” in AO3 search results it filters out fics with additional ships, leaving only the fics where your otp is the main ship

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bruh, do you know what it's like to go on the silly little site to read silly little fanfictions and be jump scared by a completely green bar and over 91 thousand dollars in donations :/?

i simply cannot fathom how it got full so fucking fast 😭

yesteday it was in the yellow 🤸‍♂️

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He caught you trespassing in Nightmare's territory, now he'll take you to the boss.

Dust belongs to Ask-DustTale

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hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

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I am a queer minor.

If KOSA is passed, my parents will be able to see every single thing I do on the internet, including what I say to my friends, what I read, what I write, the fact that I have a romantic partner, etc.

I will need to censor my own words to prevent being sent to an all girls boarding school, being unable to reach my friends, and being unable to speak freely with my brother.

This will effectively strip me of any support system I have.

This is dangerous and will cause many deaths in many family's, many due to hate crime, and many due to suicide.

STOP KOSA