syd, 30↑, dyke, any pronouns, white — florida man, morning person, audio drama enthusiast, horror writer, and gendertrash bastard. ♡ @skeletoast
podcast hell
Joined February 2017
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not to be a dick but this is VERBATIM what hoardes of fic writers say when anything (usually untargeted writing advice) makes them feel insecure about their writing. it sucks but we are the architects of this mindset. stop doing this. writing's hard. take pride in your shit.
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just saw someone saying “i’m compiling a list of authors who don’t consent to the drives so we know who to avoid in the future and never share their works” if you have this much time on your hands pick up a good book and improve your reading comprehension. you need it
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Have you considered respecting authors wishes and copyright law and waiting 2-4 weeks for ao3 to be restored what is wrong with you people? Our work is being stolen daily and you need marvel characters to fist each other so badly you're serving up entire catalogues for free.
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I think people forget that, many times, fanfiction is just a way for writers to present a theory or interpretation of a character or event, so community engagement doesn’t literally mean people kissing the ground they walk on. They just want to find people to nerd out with.
critical support to the hacker at this time 🙏
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maybe we ARE in a literacy crisis if 125k people don't know the difference between “download for personal use” and “reupload to external websites without consent”
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its so crazy how ao3 being down for like 3 weeks could have led to people boosting writers' other socials and connecting with them elsewhere and asking them to crosspost themselves/creating webrings but that would require readerbases having maturity levels above a third grader
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i read their response here and it baffles me that they don't see the problem with this. it shouldn't be the default assumption that they'd consent to this. again, ao3 is not gone. there's no urgency that all of this should be necessary
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ridiculous. writers don't need to fill a form to remove themselves from this drive. it's you who have to obtain the permission from them before uploading anything to the drive.
a massive fic drive like this is very unnecessary. ao3 will be back in a few weeks. you'll survive.
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Genuinely, like. My take on it, and a VERY common take of actual IP holders, is:
Commissions, specifically, are fine. No matter what the commission is- writing or art.
The problem is when you then sell access or mass produce it, such as writing a fanfiction and then trying to-
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Ngl, the absolute disdain so many readers have for writers is getting me down and killing my motivation. Like I had no idea just how many people consider writers content dispensers instead of fellow fans sharing their passion and looking for community
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at this point it's not about fanfic for me. it's about the fact so, so many of you are so comfortable being disgustingly, horrifically inconsiderate and cruel to other human beings. down to calling them parasitic, expendable, replaceable, all for expressing normal human emotion
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I need you all to remember this fuck ass ao3 outage is Temporary it is Not Lasting Forever the Data Is Still There. you are not preserving "lost media" the fics will still be there when ao3 comes back. go and read a fucking book or two, saying this as a fic writer