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I don't know who needs to hear this, but as a creator -

I am fine with "the audience" -

downloading my fics

printing my fics

copy/pasting or screenshotting my fics

sharing your saved copy of my fics with anyone else who might want them in the unlikely but never impossible case that my fics are no longer available on ao3

making a book of my fic(s) and running your fingers across the pages while lovingly whispering my precioussss

doing these things with anything I create for fandom, such as meta, headcanons, au nonsense like 'texts from the brodinsons,' etc

I am not fine with "the audience"

doing any of the above with the purpose/intent of plagiarizing my work or passing it off as their own in any capacity

feeding my work into ai for any reason whatsoever

Save the fandom things. Preserve the fandom things. Respect the fandom things.

Enjoy the fandom things.

Destroy the myth that libraries are no longer relevant. If you use your library, please reblog.

ao3 comments will be like “i like this line of your fic” and my reply will be like “fantastic thank you here’s my entire thought process about how i ended up with that particular line and also an outline for another fic i have and fifteen resources i used to research 1980s politics” and nobody asked for that chill

Chapters: 16/? Fandom: Enchanted (Disney Movies) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Tyson Monroe/Morgan Philip, Giselle & Morgan Philip & Robert Philip (Disney), Edward/Nancy Tremaine, Morgan & oc Characters: Tyson Monroe, Morgan Philip, OC - Character, Giselle (Disney), Robert Philip, Nancy Tremaine, Edward (Disney: Enchanted), Sophia Philip, Narissa (Disney) Additional Tags: Before the epilogue happens, possibly an AU, More tags or characters may be added, Mild Gore, Kidnapping, Eating Disorders, Eating disorder but only mentioned in passing, Panic Attacks Series: Part 1 of Daughters of Andalasia

DONT BE AFRAID TO COMMENT ON OLD FICS DONT BE AFRAID TO COMMENT ON FICS IN A FANDOM THE AUTHOR MAY NO LONGER BE ACTIVE IN. IF THE STORY IS STILL UP LET THEM KNOW YOUR THOUGHTS IT MIGHT JUST BE THE REMINDER THAT MAKES THEIR DAY.

SINCERELY SOMEONE WHO JUST GOT A REPLY THAT MADE ME WANNA MAKE THIS POST

unsung benefit i think a lot of ppl are sleeping on with using the public library is that i think its a great replacement for the dopamine hit some ppl get from online shopping. it kind of fills that niche of reserving something that you then get to anticipate the arrival of and enjoy when it arrives, but without like, the waste and the money.

my dream as a fanfic writer is to write a story which people want to talk to me about and send asks about afterwards and discuss things the characters did and the symbolism and meanings behind certain lines and I'll be all "hehe thanks" but irl I'll be in literal tears because I wrote something that means something to someone

Chapters: 15/? Fandom: Enchanted (Disney Movies) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Tyson Monroe/Morgan Philip, Giselle & Morgan Philip & Robert Philip (Disney), Edward/Nancy Tremaine, Morgan & oc Characters: Tyson Monroe, Morgan Philip, OC - Character, Giselle (Disney), Robert Philip, Nancy Tremaine, Edward (Disney: Enchanted), Sophia Philip, Narissa (Disney) Additional Tags: Before the epilogue happens, possibly an AU, More tags or characters may be added, Mild Gore, Kidnapping, Eating Disorders, Eating disorder but only mentioned in passing, Panic Attacks Series: Part 1 of Daughters of Andalasia

Chapters: 15/? Fandom: Enchanted (Disney Movies) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Tyson Monroe/Morgan Philip, Giselle & Morgan Philip & Robert Philip (Disney), Edward/Nancy Tremaine, Morgan & oc Characters: Tyson Monroe, Morgan Philip, OC - Character, Giselle (Disney), Robert Philip, Nancy Tremaine, Edward (Disney: Enchanted), Sophia Philip, Narissa (Disney) Additional Tags: Before the epilogue happens, possibly an AU, More tags or characters may be added, Mild Gore, Kidnapping, Eating Disorders, Eating disorder but only mentioned in passing, Panic Attacks Series: Part 1 of Daughters of Andalasia

Chapters: 15/? Fandom: Enchanted (Disney Movies) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Tyson Monroe/Morgan Philip, Giselle & Morgan Philip & Robert Philip (Disney), Edward/Nancy Tremaine, Morgan & oc Characters: Tyson Monroe, Morgan Philip, OC - Character, Giselle (Disney), Robert Philip, Nancy Tremaine, Edward (Disney: Enchanted), Sophia Philip, Narissa (Disney) Additional Tags: Before the epilogue happens, possibly an AU, More tags or characters may be added, Mild Gore, Kidnapping, Eating Disorders, Eating disorder but only mentioned in passing, Panic Attacks Series: Part 1 of Daughters of Andalasia

Google: Okay, so you’ve now searched slang terms for various poker hands, Stith Thompson’s Motif Index of Folk Literature, and “revolver gun types.”

Me: Yup. You forgot me looking up the canon heights of a bunch of different RWBY characters.

Google: …should I be concerned?

Me: No, no - I just want my fanfic about this fantasy world full of reality bending superpowers to be as accurate as possible and contain all the neurotically obscure references I can possibly squeeze in.

As a fic writer, i need every reader to know that:

I don’t care if your comment is coherent. I know what you mean and i love you

I don’t care if you ramble. I read every word and i love you

I don’t care if you leave a comment on a fic from four years ago or leave comments/kudos on like ten of my fics in one go. This isn’t IG, pls stalk my AO3. I love you

I don’t care if you mention the same thing in your comment that four other people have already mentioned. It’s actually really useful to know what resonated with people and I love everyone who takes the time to tell me they liked a particular turn of phrase

I don’t mind if your comment is super long or just a couple of sentences, i love them all

I love you

Romance: happily ever after

Mystery: ends when solved

Biography: ends with death

Fantasy/sci-fi:

You gotta read and watch some old books and films that aren’t 100% modern politically correct. I’m not saying you should agree with everything in them but you need to learn where genres came from to understand what those genres are doing today and where media deconstructing old tropes is coming from.

Also, more often than you might think, they’re not actually promoting bigotry so much as “didn’t consider all the implications of something” or just used words that were polite then but considered offensive now.

Kill the censor in your head.

I love you PBS I love you NPR I love you public libraries I love you wikipedia I love you project gutenberg I love you librivox I love you libby I love you hoopla I love you openlibrary I love you internet archive I love you resources that make information free and accessible to the public

oh I wasn’t aware it was feeding the ai. I’ve inserted hundreds of fics into chatgpt for their continuation or for a different plot within the same context just for fun and out of curiosity… but I’ve never posted any of them…

Indeed, anything that is given to AI it can use later to draw from. That's why it doesn't matter if you post them or not as it has now access to those writers' texts without their permission.

~Mod L

"no spam liking" stfu that's how i know my mutuals are alive smh

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Lockwood & Co. - Jonathan Stroud, Lockwood & Co. (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Lucy Carlyle & The Skull, Lucy Carlyle/Anthony Lockwood Characters: Lucy Carlyle, Anthony Lockwood, George Cubbins | George Karim, Quill Kipps, The Skull (Lockwood & Co.), Holly Munro Additional Tags: Sick Character, The skull returns, Canon Compliant, Holly is only mentioned, And it's really only barely Lucy Carlyle/Anthony Lockwood, Post-Book 05: The Empty Grave (Lockwood & Co.), Spoilers for Book 05: The Empty Grave (Lockwood & Co.), Book Spoilers

things that always make me happy: serial commenters. there are three types

1) reading a longfic chapter by chapter, leaving an increasingly emotional comment on every chapter, descends into keysmashes near the end: outstanding

2) read one fic by accident, clicked the author name, now working steadily through the backlog and commenting on everything, I wake up to an AO3 inbox full of enthusiasm: precious beyond words

3) the longterm serial commenter whose comment begins with I don’t even know this fandom but because they have followed me from somewhere else: stunning. humbling. magical.

I am actually begging some people to just let some spaces exist untouched by real-world issues and horrors.

Like I've lost count of the amount of times peaceful game or fandom servers have been ruined by people stampeding in with political rants, bitching about world issues, demanding internal activism, demanding vent channels so they can whine about their shitty parents, ect.

Like. Respectfully. Not every single space has to be inclusive of and welcoming of outside topics. The real world sucks. We don't needed to be reminded of that absolutely everywhere.

an epic save-the-world tv series ends in a "they all lived happily ever after" gets a sequel series but the sequel series is a low-stakes slice-of-life type show where these extremely powerful world-saving heroes have to contend with things like grocery shopping, PTA meetings, and broken refrigerators. The Redeemed Supervillain from season 1 suffers from Tony Hawk syndrome. The season-long throughline follows one of the dead-and-resurrected characters going through the bureaucracy being legally declared alive again.

DONT BE AFRAID TO COMMENT ON OLD FICS DONT BE AFRAID TO COMMENT ON FICS IN A FANDOM THE AUTHOR MAY NO LONGER BE ACTIVE IN. IF THE STORY IS STILL UP LET THEM KNOW YOUR THOUGHTS IT MIGHT JUST BE THE REMINDER THAT MAKES THEIR DAY.

SINCERELY SOMEONE WHO JUST GOT A REPLY THAT MADE ME WANNA MAKE THIS POST

So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????

I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.

Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?