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Magi, 38, they/them, queer, autistic, white. I RT a lot of art. in kpop hell.

Joined July 2008
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[INSTAGRAM STORY] 261101 HOSHI 🐯: ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 👕: my stamina has been completely depleted 🐯: @.jeonghaniyoo_n @.joshu_acoustic #HOSHI #호시
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ok so just to get this straight: ao3 will come back in a couple of days completely unchanged but it took western fandom all of 15 seconds to go into lord of the flies mode over a minor inconvenience
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Blue check accounts getting nearly 10 million views on their tweets about their Google drives and fic writers are the fame hungry wannabe influencer capitalists for wanting a comment or two 😭
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people seeing commenting/engaging with fic as transactional rather than conversational is the root of all fandom evil tbh
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"he said he'd be here but..." csc we need to talk
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JEONGHAN KISSED JOSHUA AGAIN AND IT TOUCHED JOSHUA’S FOREHEAD THIS TIME!!!!
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i am yoon jeonghan's no.1 victim .
JEONGHAN JUST REVEALED THAT SEUNGCHEOL IS ATTENDING THE CONCERT TODAY TOO???
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if this great ao3 offline fiasco has shown you anything it’s how integral to your joy and fandom experience fic writers are. so make the effort to leave a comment, a kudos, and recommend their stuff at any opportunity. uplift your fellow community members.
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Fanfic authors don't have rights to their works. Yeah, that is why every other month we hear about another fic getting turned into a book 😂
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this debate is so weird because the world ends when there are no fics but you don’t want to kudo/comment on fics that take lots of time and effort so that we can stay motivated and write more stuff we can share with you??? no-brainer really
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This person scraped fics for their AI vibe code site in 2025 And they're doing it again. You people are fucking assholes for supporting this shit and promoting not just AI but also allowing it to scrape & steal from millions of AO3 writers. And us, fic writers are the problem?
I hastily put together a website to host the 25 April 2025 snapshot of AO3 by @nyuuzyou You can read and search works like you normally would now and it saves bookmarks to your browser
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Asking for people to maybe tell you they enjoyed your fanfiction is capitalist and "spiritually bourgeoisie". Truly we have our greatest minds contributing to this discourse. Awesome job everyone
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I LOVE MY TEAM I LOVE MY CREW svt have written many songs about fans, which you all take to heart. But when they write one song about their amazing team, could you not pay attention to the lyrics? They're called TEAM SVT for a reason. #PROTECTsvtDANCERS #TeamSame #TeamAura
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Ah, but I've been told it's the writers who are chasing numbers and fame and who are doing it all for attention
i do think ao3 was made for the downloading of fics but there’s a hugggeee difference between sending your downloaded epubs to mutuals privately, and posting photo slideshows of someone’s entire fic to another social media platform. like what is this
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pointing and laughing im crying 😭😭
olise giddy asf seeing jobe’s yellow card
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the saddest part is that when all is said & done, AO3 will be back and readers will return to the site, consuming their fav ships like nothing happened..like they weren't assholes to fic writers. But writers will still not get more kudos or comments that they rightfully deserve.
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Ppl are going MENTAL without 'their' fics they go grasping for drives and sites of dubious nature made by complete strangers. internet safety who? Where is this frantic energy when it comes to clicking a single button or spend 5 secs to write a single-sentence comment, I wonder.
yeah so the person who made this tweets nonstop about AI and already said they're going to scrape ao3 again and put it on a site specifically made for machine learning
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how come writers that want to connect with other fans through their work are engagement farming capitalists but people who post these google links for engagement and being called people's lord and savior are not losers?
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It does tickle me that about 36 hours ago people were insisting that fanfic is free game for criticism bc its an art, but now on the flip side have no interest in supporting the art. Its art when you get to be mean, but just some worthless bullshit when you have to be nice?
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