alwaysupatnight

Ashley. Millennial. Writer. ☀♉︎ ⇡♊︎ ☽♈︎ FDTD | DANDADAN | LADS | KNY | JJK My Edits | Ao3

[alwaysupatnight]

Does she smile? Or does she mouth, "Fuck you forever"?

[corpseprize]

the reality of being a writer

heres how to fix it

[em-bitterred]

Keep your priorities straight: post fic.

[xiaonme]

everyone have higher opinion of themselves and their fanwork NOW!!!!!!!!! no fanwork produced is ever a given!!! they are passion projects made by people who love something so much that it drives them to create!! I think everyone who makes things themselves in their own time should be so deeply proud of what they do and the skills they have!!! be proud of the skills you have acquired from creating, because you gain skills anytime you have created something!!!

[barry2018-2023]

the idea of going to the movies alone being like sad and pathetic is crazy to me like thats barely a social event to me. If you try to talk to me during a movie at the movies I will kill you.

[hasdrubal-gisco]

Stealing this from twitter but I liked the concept: put in the tags where were your 8 great-grandparents from (given modern borders) ?

[lyouve]

Books are so cool because there are no fucking ads in them

[aardvarkingmad]

There are no fucking ads in them NOW.

I've been buying books for decades, and I remember when the plague of slick, stiff paper ads inserted in the middle of paperbacks fell upon the book buying public. Usually cigarette ads, as I recall, probably because that was after cigarette ads were forbidden on television and radio. They were annoying as hell because they tended to make the book open to that point by default--and you couldn't cleanly pull them out, either.

Fortunately, this plague on book buyers was fairly temporary, probably because it wasn't a good investment for the advertisers. A given book's ad can only reliably be expected to be read by ONE reader, and there was no way of tracking who it was, whether it influenced their buying habits, etc.

And good riddance.

[dduane]

KOSA again, with a different name… and they’re trying to sneak it past you before July 4th. CALL YOUR REPS!

The KIDS Act Would Require Age Checks To Get Online

Buried inside the KIDS Act are provisions that will push online services to verify all users’ ages, require government-directed moderation p

Like the man said…the shadow takes another form and ruses again. Time to make some calls and let them know we’re watching.

[ralfmaximus]

Adobe quietly injects AI content into user’s files, hikes prices

Adobe Creative Cloud quietly rewrites users' files with AI, hikes prices, sparking outrage.

Evil Hat Productions, a TTRPG and board game company, announced on Bluesky that the latest PDF files for their Umdaar game had injected autogenerated AI alt text, without warning. Other users are reporting that not only does alt text generate for undefined images, it also overwrites previously existing alt text.

Adobe raised their subscription fees from $59.99 to $69.99 a month, citing advanced AI features as the reason, while simultaneously injecting AI generated text into users' PDF files without permission.

Consider this reason #59,999 to dump adobe.

If you haven't already.

[phae-touched]

Adobe alternatives from XdanielArt (as of 2024, there is probably an updated collection by now).

[ralfmaximus]

This is fantastic! Thank you.

[orteil42]

some of you seem to be under the unfortunate impression that i enjoy finishing things. i enjoy making things

[porcelain-requiem]

RIP to Daveigh Chase. Gone way too soon. 💔

[barbiegirldream]

Important personality test. What kid were you in gym class? I was the try hard who took it too seriously

[lovelylogans]

is there such a thing as a beta but instead of reading for line edits or plot notes, they just read my work and recommend what tags to put on ao3 outside of like. warnings.

[centrumlumina]

Lulu's Totally Unofficial Guide to the Top 10 Freeform Tags to Add to Your Fanfic

Genre - Fluff, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Slice of Life, Case Fic, etc.

AU - If it's an AU, what kind? What role do each of the characters play? How is it different to their canon role?

Parts of canon - If it's not an AU, what part of canon is it about? Is it set before, during or after a particular episode?

Themes - Are there any topics or ideas which you are trying to explore, or which come up repeatedly?

Minor Warnings - Is there anything you think you should warn for that isn't included in the archive warnings?

Format & Length - Is your work art, video, podfic, etc? Does it use a particular format like a Drabble or 5+1?

Characters - What is going on with each of your major characters? If you had to describe them with one or two adjectives, what would you pick? (Format as [Adjective] [Character Name].)

Relationships - What is going on with each of your major relationships? Are there any relationship tropes like Slow Burn or Enemies to Lovers in your story?

Tropes - Are there any tropes or common story elements in your story that haven't been tagged yet? If your work was on TV tropes, what are the first things you would add?

Sex - If your work includes sex, what kink(s) and specific act(s) does it involve?

Remember: you can always look at the drop-down menu for suggestions. But! If you want to tag something that doesn't appear on the drop-down menu, you can & should write in a new tag!

[mikkeneko]

This is a good guide!

[businesstiramisu]

This is one of the things r/ao3 is actually pretty helpful for, in fact I think centrumlumina's guide is almost word-for-word match for advice that i see posted regularly on there. Its also great for "here's a thing that happens in my story/i want to warn readers about, is there a tag for that?" (Or even "this tag i already know about doesn't suit my purposes for xyz reasons. What can i do instead?")

[imdrinkingmiso]

I am doing whatever the opposite of locked in is .

[taavicleric]

I am locked out. I am in the parking lot. The rain is coming.

[woodrider]

ma'am, I'm going to place you on a brief hold while I look for a reaction image

[omtai]

They just don’t release the hounds like they used to

[hobohobgoblim]

in my day someone just let the dogs out. never did know who.

[luntfontanne]

damn he really is an all-time poster