" Shh! He's Doing Photosynthesis Right Now! "

" Shh! He's doing photosynthesis right now! "

Ft Pickle Jiu and Plant Yuan. They're so precious ♡(*´ω｀*)/♡

This is my fav trope y'know. It just... So fluff and really heart warming?? I need more tbh

losing my mind over this thread by @/kukuandkookie. she put it into words so well

why is every batfam post on this site about "tired dad bruce wayne is suffering from how insane his children are" my brother in allah whose example do you think they're following

this chapter of shen yuan of no relation by @grubus is now a core memory

Wei Qingwei is tall with broad shoulders, his eyes black and curious like a bird’s.

Wei Qingwei ft. Shen Yuan and the Wan Jian Peak pangolins!! WQW's personality and design has gripped me by the lapels and i am gripping back so hard. and a little Mu Qingfang as a treat <3

grubus and i both agree that MQF just feeds WQW seeds and WQW automatically eats them without thinking

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quote is my favorite line from the latest chapter of Shen Yuan of No Relation by @grubus!!

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Angry about Lore.fm the "AO3 Audible app"

For those who don't know, Lore.fm is an app that's advertised as "audible for AO3". It uses AI text-to-speech voices to read fics on an app completely separated from AO3 and creates a local copy of the fic audio on your device. It is stated to be non-profit.

1. It's opt-out not opt-in, that alone is a red flag and worthy of suspicion. The only way to not get your fic used without permission is to email them - it is unsafe and dubious to hand out personal email addresses to companies you don't know.

2. It takes engagement and agency away from the authors. Readers using this app don't even need to interact with the original AO3 post. Only a link is needed to generate the audio. An extension would've been significantly more ethical than an app.

3. Valid criticisms towards this project are labelled by the developer as "ableist and classist". Most devices and browsers already have FREE screen readers available. Especially for IOS (since this is mainly advertised for IOS), the existing built-in accessibility screen reader is very decent! I'd know cause I've been using it for more than a decade!

4. The developers show zero transparency. The devs listed for this app are also in a company that made an AI WRITING/STORYTELLING APP called Spinoff. The fact that this information is hidden on the appstore for Lore.fm tells me all that I need to know. I found the source for this on this comment by CupcakeBeautiful. [Edit: Unfortunately, the comment has been deleted by reddit for some reason, so I have removed the link to it.]

This whole thing pisses me off. Once again it shows that people don't respect and don't care about actual fic writers. I wish people would stop exploiting fanfiction authors under the guise of accessibility. Please think carefully if this is a company/project you'd want to support.

I don't usually post things like this on this blog, but I don't think a lot of people are aware of this situation on tumblr. Please feel free to add any information that I've missed. If this post comes off as aggressive, I apologise. I am just very frustrated.