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this is incredible

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Entoloma melanocephalum, Kaikoura, New Zealand

photo: Benny CK Chia

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"Are you okay?" No because I will never feel comfortable in this fandom ever again.

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Tom Hiddleston by Marc Brenner (February 2019)

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✨Michael Sheen and David Tennant✨(NTAs 2021)

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nearly pet this angel

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So today I got a rather unkind comment on AO3 (one could call it hate), but I believe it to be a bot for several reasons:

Guest account, but username attached

Said username exists but person is unlikely to be reading Tolkien fic (according to their Tumblr and AO3, they are in other fandoms)

Two grammatically correct sentences

Super generic text that could apply to any fic:

"I've seen better fanfiction written by a toddler. Get it together!"

I'm curious, did anyone else get comments like this? Let me know.

And to those who have gotten rude comments and are now worried/upset: Maybe it was just a bot too. Either way: You're awesome for putting your writing out there for others to enjoy and you don't deserve to get rude comments for it. If you want feel free to message me to compare cases and discuss details :)

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i need people do do me a favor and be absolutely normal about it

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The Bear (2022 -) I 1.05 Sheridan

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I took Ainsley's advice.

Prodigal Son 1x20: Like Father ...

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Andrew Scott in NT Live: Vanya | Official Trailer

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I cannot stress enough how important it is to do silly, frivolous things that serve no other purpose than making you happy.

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Doctor Who | 3.11 Utopia

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Shut up they are so cute

@natendo-art thank you for the screenshots and the updates 😭🫶🏻

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things i think that are not mutually exclusive actually

1. the Internet has done what it does and there has been a lot of negativity and unnecessary hate and singling out and blaming people

2. its NOT okay to tell people they're stupid and selfish for being upset and condescend to them about not respecting artists bc thats not what anyone is saying

anyway i hope they listen and do this in a more gradual way bc while i understand it to an extent, this delivery was not it

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Watcher: I went from instant support, to feeling cheated within a few hours.

I paid right away. I cancelled a few of my patreon memberships and subscribed. Quickly.... whoops.

I believed them when they said they wanted to make television content. I was excited at the idea of having a Watcher app on my TV. My family loves watching them and I was excited to support them starting their own platform. I signed up right away.

Then...

I see no TV app. Wasn't that the whole point? To be on TV?

Well they must have a phone app as most people watch YT on their phone. Nope.

Then I figure it's in the works. I go to the help article on their site. No where do they say this is in the works. Just "meh, try opening a browser on your tv.... good luck to you."

Now I feel lied to.

They said they wanted TV level content, but it doesn't seem like they have any intention of watching it on TV... wait... or phone. So, this is curated to be best viewed on Desktop... they just said they wanted to move away from internet shows.

Now I feel played.

Then I look at their privacy policy. They're using the Vimeo platform to feed videos to their site.

Oh. So its not their own platform like they claimed. They're not building anything. It's a Vimeo channel with a paywall.

Now I feel used.

International viewers feel used.

Patreon members who paid ahead feel used.

The people who want to pay them as artists feel used.

It's not that people don't want to support. We do. I signed up for a year immediately. I want to pay them. Happily. But it feels like they're lying to us.

I don't even want to watch the free stuff anymore.

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I started reading the variety article for a bit more of an explanation but instead I just feel just that bit more angry.