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I...I have no words. This is horrible.

I got this comment on a story from my Other AO3 Account this morning.

(Info redacted because I prefer keeping these accounts separate but no one follows me on the side blog I have for that account.)

The story was posted almost a year ago and is relatively “popular” by my average statistics even though it has tropes and themes that are big turnoffs for a lot of people (hence separate accounts). This popularity is undoubtedly because it’s a Marvel Loki story and that fandom is massive.

So there is obviously an algorithm or a bot scrubbing ao3 statistics and leaving this comment on fics that meet a certain metric with the main character of the fic inserted into the comment.

I had a little time to kill this morning so I decided to investigate further. And y’all this is so predatory. Come on this journey with me. It made me mad. It may make you mad.

First, if you go to Webnovel’s website, you HAVE to choose between male lead or female lead stories before you can go any further. WTF?

And that’s weird, but this gets so much worse. This is basically a pay-to-read site that has different subscription models. Which… okay BUT! The authors don’t get paid! Look at that comment again. They’re promising a supportive and nurturing community, but zero monetary compensation. It’s basically, “post your stuff here so we can get paid and you can get… nice vibes?” I mean look at this Orwellian writing:

Using the phrase “pay-to-read model” in the same sentence as “qualitative changes in lifestyles for authors” deliberately makes you think that you can get paid and maybe even make a living on this website. But that’s not actually what it says and authors will not receive one red cent.

Oh but wait, the worst is still to come. In case this breaks containment (which I kind of hope it does) this is where I mention that I’m a lawyer in the US.

I don’t do intellectual property or copyright law but I do read and write contracts for a living. So I went to look at their terms of service. It was fun!

Highlights the first, in which Webnovel gets a license to do basically whatever they want with content you post on their site. This is how they get to be paid for people reading authors’ writing without paying them anything.

Highlights the second, in which Webnovel takes no responsibility for illegally profiting off of fan fic. This all says that the writer is 100% responsible for everything the writer posts (even though only Webnovel is making money from it).

Highlights the third which say that by posting, the author is representing that they have the legal right to use and to let Webnovel use the content according to these terms. So if a writer posts fan fiction and Webnovel makes money from people reading the fan fiction, and the House of the Mouse catches wise, these sections say that that’s ALL on the writer.

So that’s a little skeevy to start off with but the thing that is seriously shitty and made me make this post was that these assholes are coming to ao3. They are actively recruiting people in comments on their fan fiction. And they are saying they are big fans of the character you’re writing about and that they share your interests.

They are recruiting fan fiction writers and giving every impression that you can make money from posting fan fiction on their site and hiding the fact that you absolutely cannot but they can make money off of you while you try, deep in their terms of service which no one but a lawyer who writes fan fic and has some time to kill will read.

I see posts on here regularly from people who don’t understand how this stuff works, don’t understand that they (and others) can not legally make a financial profit from fan fiction. And there are tons of people who will not take the time to dig into the details.

Don’t deal with these bastards. Fuck Webnovel.

Besto ship

My attempt to hatasai fanart

People that really make fanart i love you all

I ship zutara. It doesnt mean i ship dramione as well. In fact, i don’t think i will ever ship them together.

There's nothing like reading what's supposed to be a fluffy fic of one of my favourite pairs, only for one sentence to destroy me and sent me into an 15 minutes emotional breakdown when I should clearly be sleeping if the night sky is any indication .

I-

i made a new uquiz to figure out what kind of guy you are

That fakeout kiss on Hunting Palismen was the biggest mistake the writers could've made if they wanted to push their lumity agenda. The crumbs made for taunting fans were already there:

•Neverar or whatever his name was, taller and with scars, just like Hunter

•Luz mentioning in S1 she wanted to fall for a hot her vulnerable upperclassman

•His very mysterious first appearance in S2 Ep1 planting the seeds for an enemies to lovers dinamic.

Also the fact that ALL the episodes that followed also planted plot seeds: S2 Ep2 lumity/Blight family, S2 Ep 3 King's backstory, S2 Ep 4 wittelore and S2 Ep 5 Gus's overpowered magic

And then, then Hunting Palismen aired. I bet Dana Terrance was like “I'm gonna reference the trailer but make sure lumity is developed so no one can ship them hehehe”

And my honest reaction after seeing the bad but sad boy under an abusive “caretaker” happily interacting, talking about the very topic he's supposed to eradicate, cooperate with, defend and lastly have a deadass shoujo-between-shonen moment to reveal his name to a depressed yet sunshine girl was:

Okay but, even though I dislike TTT for making the characters sit on their asses for months for no reason [like seriously, Im not sure why they're wasting time building a door without titan blood. Luz and Hunter both know a door will not work without titan blood.] It's the most entertaining episode of the season for me. When I first watched this episode I wasn't bored like i was with the other two episodes.

It's not just because of the Lunter bonding and Lunter hints - it's that they wrote the episode in such a way where it looks like Hunter is homewrecking Luz's and Amity's relationship. If you were to insert yourself into Amity's POV it looks like Hunter has a thing for Luz. And that is soooo funny to me.

like seriously,

Luz and Amity have been clinging to each other since they came to the human realm. The only time she isnt with Luz is when Luz is at school and this specific day TTT takes place on. This is one of the rare moments Amity isn't with Luz and she's going to be busy for many hours trying to figure out the mystery behind the rebus.

Amity inspires the others to venture into the human realm with her so they can figure out the mystery behind the rebus. Everyone is ready to go into town but Hunter needs to change his outfit because Amity thinks its cringe. So Hunter is like, okay, ill change and catch the next bus into town.

And then he never shows up

So it's like, hmmm, I wonder where Hunter could be on a day Amity isn't clinging to Luz and is going to be in town for many hours...

AND THEN - the next time anyone else sees him, he comes through the door with Luz lying about where they've been and what they've been doing. It's an obvious lie but no one questions it.

At the faire Amity tells everyone - including Hunter - that she wants to surprise Luz with the rebus after the carriage ride. However, after the "Wittebane Backstory" carriage ride is over Hunter and Luz completely disappear. Amity literally takes her eyes off of them for a moment and they vanish.

Then Gus says THIS as a response to Amity's worry: "Calm down. They probably just went to buy some more cars."

His dialogue here never fails to make me laugh because it sounds like Gus is covering for his bro 😭 and it's even funnier when you realize Gus just retold Hunters lie lksjdsldf

Anyways, right after Gus tells her to calm down, Amity notices the rebus is missing... She knows Luz wouldnt take it because she literally does not know it exists. HUNTER knows about the rebus though - AND he knows Amity wanted to surprise Luz with it. So its like... Why would he take it when he knows she wanted to surprise her girlfriend with it? He must have put two and two together during the carriage ride and knew the rebus was actually going to lead to titan blood [they were unsure if it was going to lead to titan blood initially].

But... that doesn't explain why he would take it... everyone was going to go get the titan blood together right after the ride. Perhaps... Hunter wanted to impress Luz by taking all the credit for uncovering the mystery behind the rebus even though he never showed up when they were looking for information about the rebus in town... That's so strange... why would he do that?

...You dont think he has a thing for Luz do you?

Let me remind you that no one else besides Luz and Hunter think Belos is still alive. Hunter didnt want anyone else to know because he doesnt want to scare them. So Hunter and Luz just VANISHING into thin air is very sus. And then the missing rebus makes their sudden disappearance even more sus because Hunter knows Amity wanted to surprise Luz with it. Also, nobody knows why Hunter stole the rebus from Amity - they NEVER get the answer to this mystery. Hunter - nor Luz - never tell them why he stole it. He never tells them he stole it because he thought Belos was alive. So, it is perfectly logical for them to assume Luz and Hunter DIDNT know Belos was alive UNTIL he intercepted them at the graveyard.

It's so fucking funny to me. It makes it extra funny because they wrote such juicy drama UNINTENTIONALLY. This is the perfect storm for Amity to know about Hunter knowing Luzs secret before she did. It also the perfect set-up for confrontation between Hunter and Amity.

Shot out to my therapist for gaslighting me into believing my emotions are valid. I think is working

How a normal day scrolling through ao3 feels like

Please get rid of my writer's block!!!!

I came here to procrastinate away from writer block have a good time and I'm honestly feeling so attacked right now

if you would be so kind as to reblog this if you feel insecure about your writing skills.

¡ 25000 «Me gusta»!

Por un lado me hace feliz, por otro lado me pregunto que dice esto de mi vida social...

No but this is a literal mood

I woke up to write a fake dating au idea that had come to me in my dreams, and I spent like half an hour writing a chapter before I looked at the clock.

It was 4:37 a.m.

Of a Sunday.

Guys it’s. 2 am. I’ve been writing fanfic, what has my life become, 

She's an icon, she's a legend and she's the moment. A thousand times better than Pikachu man, come on now!

For actual adult Scooby Doo they needed 2 things:

Bisexuality

On screen tax fraud. Like why do you think they're always in that van. They're Howl Pendragoning.

Hoping Apollo did give the gift of prophecy to this one

the year is 2023, marie kondo holds j*ff b*zos by the skin on the back of his neck in front of a public gathering

“does this one spark joy?” she shouts at the restless audience, they boo in response

she snaps his spine like .5mm mechanical pencil lead and throws his lifeless corpse to the crowd, they cheer in response

It‘s a form of self care

ao3 just dropped it's Christmas gift. I've been constantly searching a kghn fic that I completely loved but read once, never downloaded and got lost. After two years of filtering and despair without knowing if it had been deleted, I finally found it again. I'm ecstatic.

Guess I should pay it back with finally updating my own fic. Time to defeat writer's block.

What the past couple days have felt like

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A kagehina fic idea, brought to you by the dumpster fire known as my brain with fever:

It's third year, and the recent graduation of five of their members has left the team unbalanced. No one has approached the gym for joining the Karasuno ranks, and the curtain of time is closing before they are disbanded for not having enough people. Desperate for continuing playing volleyball, and following Yachi's manga plots, Kageyama and Hinata enter into the wonderful world of fake-dating in order to fill the quota of players by selling the club as a place for romance.

Flapjack noooooooooooooooooo

I don't get how you can ship Lumity and be biphobic at the same time...

Some of you guys like to pretend Luz is a lesbian and leave the most biphobic and braindead comments on Lunter posts. This might be a really hard concept for you idiots to grasp, but a bisexuals sexuality doesn't change depending on who we're dating.

It's also very weird of you to assume Hunter is straight. You assholes like to complain about Lunter shippers (and the ship itself) being "heteronormative", but then label the kid with an unspecified sexuality as straight by default. Very, very strange.

Luz likes boys, this is something that will never change no matter how many deranged comments you leave on Lunter posts. And Luz isn't a lesbian just because she's dating one.

Cry about it, but most importantly leave people who like harmless pairings alone. Especially us bisexual fans who have different tastes for pairings than you.

;)

Reblog if you have made a friend online that you would love to hang with, but they live far away.

never forget how hard they had to nuke Lukanette bc they accidentally made a pairing 100000x better than Adrienette

SpyxFamily x Pokemon crossover where Anya gets adopted by Team Rocket. That's it, that's the post

Never forget that Steven Universe’s queerness was intrinsically linked in its narrative and themes. It told a story of oppression, mental health, triumph, and loving yourself using characters both metaphorically and literally queer (along with neurodivergent, PoC…there’s a lot of layers to this). Anyone downplaying its LGBT+ rep is talking out of their ass. I’m so tired of this show being the animation community’s punching bag. The discourse around this show hasn’t changed since 2018. Who fucking cares that it isn’t perfect, we’ve heard it all, most agree. But the fact a cartoon for children aimed to be this nuanced, complex, and mature, whilst still being a whimsical cartoon is amazing and exactly what kids need. I know they’ll grow up thankful that they watched it and all the other cartoons following in its footsteps.

this is the only valid twitter thread

#let's make s+p a derogatory term 2k22

Rb if you would not be S+P approved

most people continue to watch all of miraculous ladybug and hope that adrien and marinette get together at the end. i watch every episode of season 4 once, violently hate it and pretend it doesn't exists and live the rest of my life in denial and pretending luka and marinette are endgame