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[chrisemrysfics]

Hello!

I'm here today because I need to ask for help, I'm giving a bit of life update for context (or full context if you didnt know me), but yeah I'd really love if you could take a few moments of your time to read, and consider whether or not you can and are willing to offer me financial support in the realms of what's possible for you. If not, I hope you can at least consider a reblog, though a reblog is welcomed even if you do help me financially!

If you don't know me, storytelling and writing is in my lifeblood, I do it out of love for my ideas, sharing for the sake of those that will enjoy what I have to share, which is why I chose to be indie (not let anyone else "control" or "rule" my passion) and also to share my works for free. I share online (site: chriscassar.carrd.co , note that I mean to revamp how it looks like, but the url will still be the same) and I simply set up Ko-Fi, Patreon and Paypal for those that wish to support me financially in my journey. You can follow the links directly now if you want, but I advise to read the rest of the post, for the context but also for the "gift for gift" option if you do end up supporting me financially!

(I also say it at the end, but I'm putting that part here too: For the support, any amount is welcomed. I'm making this a one time post I'll reblog from times to times, but if you're curious to keep an eye on me, and/or offer regular support, you can follow my indie writer blog (chriscassarcentral) and/or bookmark the pages you want to remember to check! )

Context

I started with fictional writings, but expanded into non-fiction, I'm working on two major projects (one for each domain), and a possible third secret project (too soon to truly decide if it'll happen or not, although I do want to make it happen if I can). In parallel to that, I'm a caretaker for my mother, which mean I had to learn to balance out caring for her, working on my writings, and self-care. For the past year or so, I've got more on my hands because my mom and I offered to house my datemate (my polyam way of calling someone I'm dating who isn't yet a life partner in my head). He has a son who is little, and it's not always easy, especially as it's gotten a bit harder for three adults and a little kid to live under the same roof (that isn't big enough to give everyone their own "proper space"). We do get along well, but it's just not an easy situation. I say that because its been affecting my ability to work on my ideas and projects, as well as pop online, but eventually, I'll find my footing, and I'll be less quiet online~!

Now, the reason I'm reaching out for help is because my personal financial situation is changing. I'm lucky enough to be housed by my mother, and that her and my brother are very supportive. I'm not going to be kicked out, and we aren't going to be without money. However, I had a financial aid from the government (not enough to sustain myself, but enough to participate in food expenses and have finances in my own name), which until recently, hadn't caused me issue. It's subjected to a contract in relation to "justifying" you fit the criteria to be given the aid, but until now, the people I had to meet to sign the contract wrote down I was a caretaker as well as an indie writer, that neither gave me a "proper income to sustainn myself" and that was that. The contract was signed, this was enough to justify the aid, and me having it added some breathing room to our finances.

I think you can see where I am going. The justification isn't working anymore. It's not enough in their eyes anymore than I'm a caretaker as well as an indie writer. I was told about figuring out a part time activity to "mollify the superiors" so I can keep the aid. This mean adding a third activity into my life, which takes away time and energy for the ones I'm already doing, but here's the thing: I wouldn't earn more. They literally want me to work a third activity for the same amount of money they were giving before.

We spoke with my mother, and we decided this is not worth it. I care too much about her well-being, I care too much about my writings and what I'm doing with my life. I'm not going to risk either to "mollify" those that decided whether or not to give this aid. I'm also so damn angry because I'm lucky enough I can tell "no thank you", because I can't help thinking of all the people who have asked this aid and cannot refuse signing the contract if the conditions aren't working out for them. All the people who might end up following paths they aren't really wanting to do, just because they need the aid and don't have the support to say no to what feels unfair to them and/or doesn't fit them.

So if it wasn't clear: I said no. They still want to see me next week, supposedly they game me time to think about it. But I know I'll say no. The moment I decided, I realized how badly I had been feeling due to the constant need to justify myself to whoever I was meeting to keep the aid. And I realized I wanted genuine support. I had fogotten why my works are free to access: I wanted to work solely with genuine support given freely. So I'm going to say no, my family and I are going to support each other. And in that same spirit, I'm asking for support.

Supporting me&Gift for gift option

If you can and are willing to, the biggest support you can give is monthly, which I receive via Patreon.

In the spirit of giving freely and receiving from freely given support, but still showing gratitude for monthly support, the perks I give on Patreon are previews and early access. You get a bonus from monthly support, you're the first to see new stuff, but eventually it gets shared publically, so I stay true to my wish to give freely my works. Note that I had revamped my Patreon at one point, but haven't had anything to share since then, but I plan to "revive" it properly when I'll have new things to share!

If monthly isn't going to be for you, but you still wish to support me, Ko-Fi works for one-time giving, though you can use Paypal directly, too.

I've been doing "gift for gift" whenever I ask for help, which is not a commission because you aren't paying for a service, you're gifting me support, and you can choose not to ask, but if you ask, I can gift you something in return for the help. I've been considering making it a permanent thing, whether it's via Patreon or Kofi/Paypal, that anyone who gives me financial support, can ask for a little gift.

I'll see about whether or not I do a permanent "gift for gift" option, how it'll be if I do, but either way, right now, I'm open to gifting you something if you choose to support me on Patreon and/or Kofi and/or Paypal. I can do writings (fandom, original, fiction, non fiction), and another thing I can do is card reading (guidance). This is to give an idea of what I know I can do, but you can just ask if you're not certain or have another idea in mind, and I'll tell you if I can! In the same way, the length, etc, we'll just discuss everything together for your gift!

For the support, any amount is welcomed. I'm making this a one time post I'll reblog from times to times, but if you're curious to keep an eye on me, and/or offer regular support, you can follow my indie writer blog (chriscassarcentral) and/or bookmark the pages you want to remember to check!

Thank you for you time, no matter what you do after, it means a lot you took the time to read ♥

[chrisemrysfics]

Hello!

I'm here today because I need to ask for help, I'm giving a bit of life update for context (or full context if you didnt know me), but yeah I'd really love if you could take a few moments of your time to read, and consider whether or not you can and are willing to offer me financial support in the realms of what's possible for you. If not, I hope you can at least consider a reblog, though a reblog is welcomed even if you do help me financially!

If you don't know me, storytelling and writing is in my lifeblood, I do it out of love for my ideas, sharing for the sake of those that will enjoy what I have to share, which is why I chose to be indie (not let anyone else "control" or "rule" my passion) and also to share my works for free. I share online (site: chriscassar.carrd.co , note that I mean to revamp how it looks like, but the url will still be the same) and I simply set up Ko-Fi, Patreon and Paypal for those that wish to support me financially in my journey. You can follow the links directly now if you want, but I advise to read the rest of the post, for the context but also for the "gift for gift" option if you do end up supporting me financially!

(I also say it at the end, but I'm putting that part here too: For the support, any amount is welcomed. I'm making this a one time post I'll reblog from times to times, but if you're curious to keep an eye on me, and/or offer regular support, you can follow my indie writer blog (chriscassarcentral) and/or bookmark the pages you want to remember to check! )

Context

I started with fictional writings, but expanded into non-fiction, I'm working on two major projects (one for each domain), and a possible third secret project (too soon to truly decide if it'll happen or not, although I do want to make it happen if I can). In parallel to that, I'm a caretaker for my mother, which mean I had to learn to balance out caring for her, working on my writings, and self-care. For the past year or so, I've got more on my hands because my mom and I offered to house my datemate (my polyam way of calling someone I'm dating who isn't yet a life partner in my head). He has a son who is little, and it's not always easy, especially as it's gotten a bit harder for three adults and a little kid to live under the same roof (that isn't big enough to give everyone their own "proper space"). We do get along well, but it's just not an easy situation. I say that because its been affecting my ability to work on my ideas and projects, as well as pop online, but eventually, I'll find my footing, and I'll be less quiet online~!

Now, the reason I'm reaching out for help is because my personal financial situation is changing. I'm lucky enough to be housed by my mother, and that her and my brother are very supportive. I'm not going to be kicked out, and we aren't going to be without money. However, I had a financial aid from the government (not enough to sustain myself, but enough to participate in food expenses and have finances in my own name), which until recently, hadn't caused me issue. It's subjected to a contract in relation to "justifying" you fit the criteria to be given the aid, but until now, the people I had to meet to sign the contract wrote down I was a caretaker as well as an indie writer, that neither gave me a "proper income to sustainn myself" and that was that. The contract was signed, this was enough to justify the aid, and me having it added some breathing room to our finances.

I think you can see where I am going. The justification isn't working anymore. It's not enough in their eyes anymore than I'm a caretaker as well as an indie writer. I was told about figuring out a part time activity to "mollify the superiors" so I can keep the aid. This mean adding a third activity into my life, which takes away time and energy for the ones I'm already doing, but here's the thing: I wouldn't earn more. They literally want me to work a third activity for the same amount of money they were giving before.

We spoke with my mother, and we decided this is not worth it. I care too much about her well-being, I care too much about my writings and what I'm doing with my life. I'm not going to risk either to "mollify" those that decided whether or not to give this aid. I'm also so damn angry because I'm lucky enough I can tell "no thank you", because I can't help thinking of all the people who have asked this aid and cannot refuse signing the contract if the conditions aren't working out for them. All the people who might end up following paths they aren't really wanting to do, just because they need the aid and don't have the support to say no to what feels unfair to them and/or doesn't fit them.

So if it wasn't clear: I said no. They still want to see me next week, supposedly they game me time to think about it. But I know I'll say no. The moment I decided, I realized how badly I had been feeling due to the constant need to justify myself to whoever I was meeting to keep the aid. And I realized I wanted genuine support. I had fogotten why my works are free to access: I wanted to work solely with genuine support given freely. So I'm going to say no, my family and I are going to support each other. And in that same spirit, I'm asking for support.

Supporting me&Gift for gift option

If you can and are willing to, the biggest support you can give is monthly, which I receive via Patreon.

In the spirit of giving freely and receiving from freely given support, but still showing gratitude for monthly support, the perks I give on Patreon are previews and early access. You get a bonus from monthly support, you're the first to see new stuff, but eventually it gets shared publically, so I stay true to my wish to give freely my works. Note that I had revamped my Patreon at one point, but haven't had anything to share since then, but I plan to "revive" it properly when I'll have new things to share!

If monthly isn't going to be for you, but you still wish to support me, Ko-Fi works for one-time giving, though you can use Paypal directly, too.

I've been doing "gift for gift" whenever I ask for help, which is not a commission because you aren't paying for a service, you're gifting me support, and you can choose not to ask, but if you ask, I can gift you something in return for the help. I've been considering making it a permanent thing, whether it's via Patreon or Kofi/Paypal, that anyone who gives me financial support, can ask for a little gift.

I'll see about whether or not I do a permanent "gift for gift" option, how it'll be if I do, but either way, right now, I'm open to gifting you something if you choose to support me on Patreon and/or Kofi and/or Paypal. I can do writings (fandom, original, fiction, non fiction), and another thing I can do is card reading (guidance). This is to give an idea of what I know I can do, but you can just ask if you're not certain or have another idea in mind, and I'll tell you if I can! In the same way, the length, etc, we'll just discuss everything together for your gift!

For the support, any amount is welcomed. I'm making this a one time post I'll reblog from times to times, but if you're curious to keep an eye on me, and/or offer regular support, you can follow my indie writer blog (chriscassarcentral) and/or bookmark the pages you want to remember to check!

Thank you for you time, no matter what you do after, it means a lot you took the time to read ♥

[chrisemrysfics]

Item: A Crumpled Manual Rarity: ⏶ Common

Do you skip tutorials as fast as you can?

Feed your dashboard by answering my question, blogger.

Depends on the game, Mysterious Cat.

(But generally, no, I take my time with the tutorial!)

[chrisemrysfics]

[b0tster]

todays a big day for longtime discord haters like myself 🫩

[moonlitmanchego]

for those who were wondering 🫩🫩🫩

[trainerdot]

hi okay we've seen some posts about this floating around and i wanna clear up what this means before any misinfo spreads too far.

if you are in a country like the UK or australia with recent age verification laws, this changes nothing. if you are NOT in any of those countries, this will work the same way their age verification does.

on discord, this DOES NOT outright block access to the app. it will prevent you from accessing channels marked as age-restricted, and it will prevent you from viewing images that the automatic image detection software deems as "adult content". which is annoying, but that software doesn't pick up on too much. also, it doesn't stop you from sharing images with third party hosting services lol

again, you DO NOT NEED TO VERIFY TO CONTINUE USING DISCORD. DMs will work fine. most servers will work fine.

do not verify. you do not need to. don't let this become normalized. just continue using the app. find ways of noncompliance. show them how worthless this is.

[sodomit]

If any of you are running servers with NSFW channels, you might consider removing the automatic NSFW marker and leaving just the name/role as content indicator.

[crossoverfamily]

I tracked back the previous post I made with a dream I had to share because it felt like a decent story idea with Peter and Tony, which made me realize how long ago it was (May 2024 dear gods), and yeah, previous night I had a dream that also had this vibe of a possible AU idea. And also is a fun thing to share.

So in today's dream, I think I was more so Tony than Peter? It first started in a flat-like settings, or just, you know, living interior, and in this sort of omniscient way you can have in dreams, I knew that dream-Tony (dream-self?) was an alien, and there were multiple types of alien on Earth, not all of them well intended? And there was this sense of "pretending to be human" so the "dangerous" species don't realize who is not human?

"I"/Tony was going to leave, with someone else (which later the dream make it to be Rhodes), and someone stops me/Tony, worried? Wanting to come? And I realized it was dream-Peter? Tony didn't let him come.

Then me/Tony is in the streets, then something is happening? And realizing the "bad" aliens are doing something, me/Tony decides to act, and then its like, you know how for SIM Tony, the suit is kind of organic and inside him/part of him? It felt similar. The moment me/Tony decided to act, its like, from within, an armour is forming (which is also the moment I/Tony is revealing they're alien), and beside me/Tony, "Rhodes" is doing the same.

At first, it was a feeling, a sense of what was happening, but I'm pretty sure I was waking up, my brain started putting more MCU stuff, because the armour became the iconic Iron Man suit, Rhodes was in the War Machine one. And then Spidey came in, and dream-me had this brief "vision" of seeing dream-Peter "suit up" the same way Tony and Rhodes did in the dream, and yeah, Spidey joined them. Too bad my dream ended there.

In short: my dreams cooked up this vague idea of, at the very least, Tony, Rhodes and Peter belonging to a specie of aliens that are hiding among Earth humans, where apparently a core aspect of that specie is this sort of organic, symbiotic armour they can call at will. And each of them still had their "superhero" look once in armour, except, alien.

(There is actually a last thing before I woke up, but I do attribute it to the fact I was waking up and so my brain "hijacked" the "natural" dream, it was this brief sense of like. Peter being more than just "spider-man, alien version", and transforming into a dragon. I know this is my brain because dragon-Peter has been featuring my fictional daydreams a lot XD).

[random-stuff-from-my-head]

(Wrote an essay defending starker cuz people piss me off)

Let’s be real. Bringing up “Starker” is usually a surefire way to start a war. You’ll instantly get hit with the “But it’s father/son!” and “The age gap is predatory!” comments. And look, the movies give those arguments a whole lot of ammo. The mentorship is the obvious text. But the subtext? The subtext is a messy, electric, and profoundly intimate connection that feels too big to be contained by just one label. For a lot of us, what makes their dynamic so magnetic isn't the paternalism, but the frighteningly equal understanding between two people who are, at their core, two versions of the same story.

They’re both geniuses haunted by the same ghost. The ghost of “my power, my failure, my fault.” Tony builds a suit of armor to atone for his weapons. Peter puts on a mask because he didn’t stop a thief. That’s not just a shared backstory. It’s a shared psychological wound. And nobody else in their lives gets it. Pepper loves Tony but fears his obsession. May loves Peter but can’t know his burden. But Tony and Peter? They look at each other and see a reflection. They speak in a shorthand of guilt and responsibility that feels closer to two traumatized veterans than a dad helping with homework.

This is where the romantic reading plants its flag. It asks: what happens when that recognition isn’t just mentorship, but attraction? What if Peter’s hero-worship of Iron Man curdles into a devastating crush on Tony, the real, vulnerable, exhausting man he meets in the lab at 3 AM? He doesn’t fall for the billionaire. He falls for the insomniac who’s just as broken as he is. And Tony, a man who’s armored his heart as thoroughly as his body, finds himself disarmed by this kid whose moral compass is so innate, so uncynical. It’s a love built not on pedestals, but on seeing each other’s worst flaws and loving the person in spite of, or even because of, them.

And yeah, people yell about the age gap. But in what world are these two mentally the same age? Peter was literally dusted in an alien war and came back to fight a purple titan. He’s been making life-or-death calls since he was fifteen. Tony, meanwhile, is emotionally stunted, a chaotic genius in a mid-life crisis who connects more with his A.I. than most people. Their meeting ground isn’t a birth certificate. It’s the shared, aging weight of saving the world. It’s the PTSD. That creates a terrifying parity.

This isn’t about ignoring the fatherly beats in the movies. It’s about arguing that the relationship is bigger, weirder, and more complex than that one box can hold. The canon gives us the skeleton: the protective panic, the desperate legacy-building, the world-ending grief. Fanfic just puts a different kind of heart inside that same skeleton. It takes the undeniable canon truth, that they love each other desperately, and explores a different shape that love could take.

In the end, the sheer ferocity of the debate proves how powerful their bond is. They are, as so many have said, two sides of the same coin. But maybe it’s not a coin about mentorship. Maybe it’s a coin about two people who found their only true mirror in each other. A reflection so complete it could blur every line, including the one between “I need to save you” and “I am in love with you.” The films frame it as a mentorship, sure, with paternal overtones. But to reduce it to only that is to ignore the unsettling, equal intensity of their connection. The space between the lines of that script holds a thousand other possibilities. And for a lot of us, that’s where the real magic, and the real argument, begins.

[starkerlover]

THIS. This needs to be reposted so many times that it reaches the right audience and so this peacefully bring peace for us starker fans/lovers and for the starker ship itself.

[crossoverfamily]

It's exactly why I love them regardless of whether they're written as platonic or romantic, they just feel like two people who can love each other with a love that transcend "traditional types" of love. There is just so much to consider when it comes to the "mirroring" you can find between them, and how complex they are. Peter isn't just a regular teen, and Tony isn't just a regular man. There is also this appeal of exploring the messier, complex aspects of love and attraction, in addition to the messy complexity of canon context.

Plus I always felt the timing of their first meeting plays a part in why I love their relationship, and why it does allow for that non-platonic foundation to be possible. When they first meet, Tony and Pepper aren't together anymore, are on a "break". Tony is seeing his "world crumble", so to speak, with the fracture in the Avengers, which is why knowing he's also not having Pepper add to it all. Who is currently left in Tony's corner? Who can he count on? Not many are left. And no one who truly gets him. And that's exactly when he meets Peter. And what is one of the first thing he learns about Peter? That he's all alone in relation to his hero life (just like Tony is, or almost is, and how he started), and most of all, that he displays a similar belief of responsibility.

And what the movies do is, after Civil War, all we know of Tony's life is through Peter's movie Homecoming. After Civil War, Tony's story is only seen via Peter's story, and Tony is fundamental to Peter's story. I'd argue that Tony's story continues to relate deeply to Peter even after Homecoming, because what do we know of Tony's story after Homecoming? Only hints from Infinity War, hints that suggest Peter and Tony have spend time together, and in Infinity War, how much screen time does Tony has with Peter? How much of the story has Tony and Peter together? How much of Tony's story is on one side, the enemy he knew was coming, and on another, about Peter being by his side, his reaction to realizing Peter is right where its most dangerous, but also, right where Tony is? The dusting scene is heartbreaking, but even more so when it comes to Peter's death in Tony's arms.

And when Peter is gone, how much do we see Tony? Not much. Just enough to set up his return on Earth, then later, the life he's living, and then, lo and behold, how does Tony return to the hero's life? By looking at Peter's picture. And the story is all about the battle then, yet at the same time, even though we know there was more than Peter returned, reunions that were waiting to happen, whose reunion was given special screentime? Peter and Tony. When the battle is over, and Tony is dying, Peter is integral to his final moments. And Peter's story afterward continue to be full of Tony's "ghost".

In short: their meeting was an interesting timing for Tony especially, and once they met, their stories were deeply tied to each other. So is it such a surprise than anyone who loves Tony or Peter or both, noticed that? Is it a surprise that people wanted to explore what canon didn't give us? And when you get such a complex, interesting relation to explore, of course we'll explore all kind of versions.

But the first that come to mind? The mentorship, the "platonic", and then, the way its not that hard to introduce "not so platonic" into the equation. And canon give us just enough that we can also explore healthier and unhealthier versions. Its basically a perfect recipe for fandom to sink its claw into. But above all? It's about love and wanting to see stories were the seemingly "impossible love" does happen. Sure, you'll find smut, you'll find unhealthy, you'll find all sorts of fics and fandom ideas for Starker. But at the core, we saw these two, we saw the potential, deep down we saw the "impossible love" aspect, and we said "let's make it happen".

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

you’ll achieve the most you can if you go at your own pace

[tired-stressed-trying-my-best]

[derekscorner]

[vergess]

Here's a direct link to the petition, since Twitter is a nightmare world where "link in the replies" no longer works because you can't fucking see replies anymore.

Petition: Ban payment processors stopping services based on objections to legal content

Government should legislate that payment processing companies may not place stipulations on use of their services regarding sales of otherwi

[lambofkhalaa]

i trust y'all got this. If you can't sign, reblog. Spread the word.

[homobiwan]

"Why didn't they just communicate?? They're so stupid!" Have you considered that communicating with someone you love and value and don't want to hurt is scary and that vulnerability takes practice and that perfect characters with perfect words make the most boring stories of all

[chrisemrysfics]

This was personally helpful to see and I can affirm that in real life, no amount of logically knowing what you might need to communicate can make up for how difficult it is when you don't want to hurt a loved one and how scary it does feel and how much you have issue showing vulnerability even though you want to.

So yeah, it's a valid writing advice, but also a great reminder for real life I needed.

[metalheadsagainstfascism]

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

Further, some authors may never even find out the lawsuit is happening. The court's suggested notification scheme "would require class claimants to themselves notify other potential rightsholders," groups said, overlooking the fact that it cost Google $34.5 million "to set up a 'Books Rights Registry' to identify owners for payouts under the proposed settlement" in one of the largest cases involving book authors prior to the AI avalanche of lawsuits.

If you're an author, please use this database to see if you could qualify for that sweet GenAI lawsuit money.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

I have never ever ever in my life asked someone to blaze my posts.

But if you want to throw me some pennies blaze this. I want ALL OF THE AUTHORS to know that they have the opportunities to get some sweet sweet GenAI lawsuit money.

Like to charge. Reblog to cast that Anthropic will have to pay out the ass.

-fae

[gothiccharmschool]

Oh look, my book is in there. GIVE ME MONEY.

[elodieunderglass]

Interestingly, I reblogged this thinking it might be interesting for my followers - but as I’m not an author I didn’t think further.

Then I did think for a second. I realised I had fallen into the classic tumblr trap of believing that Authorship Equals Fantasy Fiction Writer. It’s amazing how that gets into your own head.

I went back and found a clutch of my scientific papers on there.

Not something that’s worth me pursuing any farther - and a lot of those works are very openly open access, and so they are honestly the exact sort of content that SHOULD be used to train responsible models. But worth remembering that it’s very common on tumblr to think of all writing as, like, genre fiction, and there are other types of writing too.

[cassolotl]

“First of its kind” AI settlement: Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion

Settlement shows AI companies can face consequences for pirated training data.

Authors revealed today that Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion and destroy all copies of the books the AI company pirated to train its artificial intelligence models. In a press release provided to Ars, the authors confirmed that the settlement is "believed to be the largest publicly reported recovery in the history of US copyright litigation." Covering 500,000 works that Anthropic pirated for AI training, if a court approves the settlement, each author will receive $3,000 per work that Anthropic stole. "Depending on the number of claims submitted, the final figure per work could be higher," the press release noted.

each author will receive $3,000 per work

[starksvinyls]

hey, uh, psa for any discord server admin/mods:

discord is updating their guidelines and its uh…

yes, you read that right. even text, including FICTIONAL characters.

here’s the link so you can read the whole thing for yourself.

here is their full list of banned content:

you can’t even talk about your own abuse. what the actual hell???

[chriscassarcentral]

Hello!

Quick little words of update: I plan to move to @ellipsus-writes when it comes to sharing my works, I'm just debating whether I want to remove them from Google Docs as soon as possible even if I haven't done yet the move, or wait to have the space-time-energy to move to Ellipsus then remove it (and hope its soon I can do that).

I do plan to have my existing works all become "archives" as I will see to rework them into FGF for original fiction, and for non-fiction, they are already marked as "archived", so while I did want to keep my works accessible, I'm not sure I want to keep them on Google any longer that I need to. If I do end up removing them before I move to Ellipsus, I'm likely going to change to the new version of my site and make a note I'm working on finalizing things.

In parallel to that, I've been thinking of sharing my ideas and progress, likely via videos, which would give everyone the chance to choose between waiting for the "official writings" and checking out what I'm working on (I plan to do my best in "rating" each video on how much they might reveal about plot points, so you would also be able to choose what to watch or not if you want to keep some mystery). A part of me wants to do it because I don't know how long it will take to develop both projects of mine, and as much as I wish to play with the little mystery of seeing the stories unfold as I imagine them in mind, sharing the actual ideas matter more to me than "doing it perfectly". So yeah, I'm thinking about this too!

But my first priority will be moving to Ellipsus, and then we'll see!

Wish me luck!

[moonshinemagpie]

Everyone: Please please please don't write your books in Google Docs. Frankly don't use Google Drive for personal stuff.

Their terms of service say they take down stuff like content related to terrorism and trafficking, but this Google Sheet was literally a list of movies I'd watched this year and books I'd read.

[moonshinemagpie]

Holy smokes, guys. It's way worse than I thought. Google actually took away access to every single file of fiction writing I'd made on that account. BUT I backed it all up on Scrivener yesterday by coincidence. So I haven't lost my work, but I could have just lost the 12,000 words I've written this month after a year of really intense writer's block. I honestly don't know what that would have done to my psyche.

Please be careful out there, folks! <3

[diffidentphantom]

this makes me glad to have seen.

I mostly write on google docs, because of how easy the site is to navigate.

but I do write a lot of nsfw. Might be time to look for a new place to write. I use Reedsy already for Original Stories that aren’t fanfics.

Does anyone have any suggestions for alternative writing sites?

[theforlorne-deactivated20250910]

Oh boy, I'm cracking my knuckles ready to advertise the hell out of Ellipsus. I started using this website towards the end of last year to get away from Google, and I haven't looked back.

They're currently hosting all of my original nsfw works and fanfiction.

It has similar functionality when it comes to the stuff that made docs good. It allows you to organise things in folders, they offer pre-made templates to help writers out, and plenty of inbuilt formatting options with a spell check.

If your friend also uses it, they can access your works to beta/leave comments. Please note that I haven't tried this myself. I don't have any friends that use it right now, so I can't say how well it works in this regard, but it looks promising. If you do pick it up, I'm more than happy to test out that feature with you.

I have, however, been writing on this for a while now, and let me tell you the DRAFTING? The way they handle drafting is the best thing ever, and it has improved my enjoyment of the writing process itself tenfold.

Simply put, you can add drafts to your story that create a copy of your work within your work. You can cycle through these, but usually you'll be working on whichever drafting stage you're at. Any changes can then later be compared to the main draft before/if you decide to merge them together to create your improved document.

It also saves those drafts afterwards, so your second draft isn't ever entirely gone after being merged. While you can't unmerge your work once they're combined, you can at least go back to see what you had in your second draft compared to your third, fourth, or current main draft.

It's my editing dream.

Exporting has a few available options: document link, snippet, pdf download, markdown download, copy as html, copy as markdown, copy as rich text, and the legendary export to ao3 button.

As for the website itself, it's in beta, so I assume they'll add more in the future, but what I've seen is already really good. Their latest addition was the ability to add images (up to 512kb in size) to your documents which has been delightful.

They also claim to be against censorship and AI in their mission statement. There might be another website out there more suited to you, but this will always be my recommendation unless they fuck up. It's worth the try!

It takes a lot for me to begin to trust a writing site for promising to care about writers, but they've given me no reason to doubt them so far.

Anyway, never thought I'd be out here advertising for a website, but here we are. I hope this doesn't come back to bite me in a few years.

[chrisemrysfics]

I had Ellipsus in my radar (I can't recall but I think you're the one who told me about it?), but now I'm seriously considering moving there for my original works, I've been using Google Docs as a way to share since I wanted the in built feature of preventing download and copy/pasting while also being able to share with others, and I didn't really know another alternative that suited me.

It does look like Ellipsus can suit my needs for sharing my original work, I don't know yet if I'll try to use the in build writing and drafts tool, and of course I'll still have to give a proper look around to see, but yeah, I feel like when I have the mood, I might just give a serious look into Ellipsus and move there.

(It's funny since I have been seriously considering actively sharing my ideas rather than wait to have "proper stories" so people have the choice to wait for the "official writings" or see the initial ideas and how they develop, with the side note that I did always plan to make bonus that spoke of the development process, but initially those would have been bonus "after", now I'm considering doing them "before" and "in parallel" to the "official writings" and probably have "layers" like non spoilery and low spoiler and high spoiler "warnings" for each bonus. Now I see this about Ellipsus and I'm like "am I being told something" 😂)

[gumy-shark]

i wish all my mutuals who @ me in those tag games a very i swear i see it and i love being thought of even though i rarely if ever do them. i love you.

[ross-hollander]

I assure you: somebody, somewhere, is on the exact same wavelength as you are.

[chrisemrysfics]

I love how this is represented and I want to add: it doesn't matter how "similar" it looks to something else, no one else truly encompass the exact same combination of sheer you-ness that then trickles into what you bring on the table. You, your style, your ideas, your way of execution, and just something we can't describe that's unique to each creation.

And in addition to the fact you bring something unique to the table no matter how "similar" or not it is to other things, we cannot forget that so many people actively love seeing new creations for things that "already exist". You just need to take a look at fanfiction for example, and how much people adore and actively hope to see more new fanfics of their favorites ships, trops, etc.

So yes: there will always be at least one person, and quite likely, more than one, that will appreciate what you have to offer!

[lesbianwyllravengard]

hey uh new type of ao3 spam comment just dropped. (I know it's spam because the fic they left this comment on . doesn't have chapters. lmfao). Report this kinda comment as spam and don't take it personally it is literally recycled bullshit

[lesbianwyllravengard]

Also y'all this really ties into how impactful comments are and why it's so encouraged to leave comments and leave NICE ones. If I hadn't known this was spam, and if I'd gotten this on my currently-updating fic, it would've crushed me and likely convinced me to never update again. Adversely, even one nice comment from someone is enough to motivate me to write and share more. If you read a fic you liked, tell the author that! If you're reading an unfinished fic, leave a comment to say you're excited for more, or comment throughout chapters even! It really is so easy and quick to do, and it's not only nice but it can also completely alter a writer's motivation and inspiration

[drgrlfriend]

Fanfic writers, please be aware that for some reason having bots spam fics with negative comments is a thing now. Not sure what anyone gets out of spreading misery, but just know it's not anything to do with your fic. I got one that was like, "This fic is a delight ... just kidding, it's unfunny and tedious." It was very clearly unrelated to the content of the fic but for someone else it might have been heartbreaking.

[clotpolesonly]

what i've heard about this sort of thing is that fics that have been deleted are harder to prove the provenance of, thus making them easier and safer for AI generators to scrape for their data sets

they're trying to encourage you to delete/orphan your fics so you can no longer prove that they're YOURS

[almightyrawks]

Signal boost for all writers in my network. If the comment mentions no specific details about your fic, assume it's a bot post, delete it, and keep writing your great works. Also tell your friends about this and let's keep our space on AO3 as awesome as it is.