So, the other day, when I was discussing AO3's policy on solicitation, a tumblr user came at me saying that AO3's "no monetization/solicitation" rules were "bullshit" because nexus mods allows fan created mods to get paid.
Look at me.
Look at me right now.
AO3 protects you.
AO3 protects you and your works.
It protects your works from copyright strikes and DCMA takedowns.
It protects your work from advertisers.
It protects your work from overzealous legal challenges.
It protects your right to post adult content.
AO3 is non-profit and AO3 will never try to use you or your work to make a profit for themselves and AO3 will go to bat for you if someone tries to legally challenge you or your works.
Mastercard has no reason to mess with AO3. Visa doesn't. PayPal doesn't. Stripe doesn't. There's no compensation-for-porn exchange happening. By design. BY DESIGN.
AO3's founders knew that AO3 needed to be set up to protect us from any and all avenues of attack on fanworks. They've managed it quite successfully.
All y'all who thought they didn't need to? Sit the fuck down and SHUT THE FUCK UP.
"If tampons should be free, then so should my diabetes meds."
Yes? Yes they should be? Your life-saving medication that you need in order to live for a condition you were born with should be given to you at no cost?
Can't wait for Hallariel and Gilear to come back to Seacaster Manor only to find that their home is now essentially a youth community centre.
Studying! Dance and Music! Martial students use the Seacasters' training grounds and equipment! Fabian hires a life guard because so many kids want to use his pool! Kids who don't have enough food at home know that they can go to the Manor and order whatever they want and Fabian won't even notice the charges!
Kristen or Adaine make an off-handed joke about how they would've taken advantage of this kind of space 24/7 back when they had to deal with their shitty parents. The next day, there's forms to "rent out" the many bedrooms for free.
That leads to at least a couple students being there every morning, and it'd be embarrassing if they saw him only drinking milk in the mornings- that for sure would ruin his popularity- so he hires a cook... and of course, the cook might as well make breakfast for anyone else that happens to be there. Word gets out that there's always free breakfast (and a bagged lunch, of course) at Seacaster Manor for anyone that stops by before school.
One day, the wizards all start complaining about how much money it costs to just be a student. A week later, Fabian approaches the wizard teacher and says he's trying to clear out one of his house's treasure rooms and he's hoping the school can take some of these raw materials off his hands? It amounts to almost an entire class-set of wizard materials.
Gorgug and Fig vent about how unfair Porter is being, and that Fig is the one with access to one-on-one tutoring with Porter, when Gorgug is the one with the 400% courseload and is actually struggling with Barbarian Studies. Fabian goes to Riz and asks him to offer the upperclassmen with good grades tutoring jobs. Riz comes back a couple hours later, somehow with a whole-ass schedule of tutors.
A few months have gone by and Fabian is talking to Fig about how the Owlbears are falling apart, and he's barely holding onto his "Captain" title, and he hasn't had the time to throw a wicked party in weeks, and his popularity must be slipping, but he can't even tell because he's so stressed out, and-
Fig just stops him, looking flabbergasted, and informs him that that is not, in fact, where his popularity has been coming from. People love him because he's always showing up for everyone in a major way, and never even looking for any kind of recognition for his kindness.
Since my meds stopped working, here's what I've noticed:
(for context, i have diagnosed depression, anxiety, and ADHD)
My impulse control no longer controls my impulses, mainly money spending issues.
I lost my year+ duolingo streak.
My emotions are big and unable to be hidden - if i get angry, I yell and lash out physically. If I'm sad or disappointed, I start sobbing. My patience has dwindled to nothing.
My eating habits have become wild and inconsistent - not eating for two days and then binge eating everything.
I can't sleep. One of the first signs of my meds not working was waking up every few hours in the night. This also goes along with the impulse control; I can't make myself go to sleep because there's other things I want to do (doom scroll on my phone, read a 150k word fic, watch an entire season of a show).
Going on the sleeping theme: I can't get out of bed in the morning. I've called in sick to work once already because of this, and i've been late several times.
I'm tired all day and want nothing more than to be in bed
My bad habits have picked back up to extremes - my fingertips are always in pain because of how much i bite and pick at my nails.
I can't get myself to go to things I want to go to. Today was a figure skating show that a bunch of my kiddos (I'm a teacher) were in. I promised them I would go and i've been looking forward to going and seeing their hard work. I didn't go.
I don't talk to my friends. I've basically completely ghosted them and definitely forgot one of their birthdays.
I can't make appointments for necessary things (like the appointment to get new meds). It took my panic attack today for my mom to decide she was going to call for me. She had previously told me to "get over myself and just call and make the appointment." -- This would've been made a whole lot easier if the "request an appointment" button on the clinic website actually worked.
Ah eloquence, my best rival. If you speak with it you have either learned it, or were cursed by it. Which is the long way of saying “you know a lot or have ADHD.” And sometimes it’s both.
But in exchange for eloquence, you lose the power of brevity.
That is a perspective I have not seen before, but I believe you are correct. It makes sense that eloquence would be accentuated by brevity. But thinking on this, I think eloquence comes in two forms. With and without brevity. Because sometimes you need more than “I’m going to kill you”, sometimes you need “Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”
okay but think about it this way. the inigo montoya line is so famous BECAUSE of its brevity. he explains who he is, why he is there, and what he is going to do in short phrases that contain the bare minimum structural requirements to be considered sentences.
the first time you hear that line is when he is explaining what he is going to do to the six fingered man when he finds him. up until that moment, inigo has so little development. he’s just one of the nameless kidnappers of buttercup the princess. we know he’s a man of honor because he helps wesley climb up the rope so that he can fight him on equal footing. and that’s where we find out that inigo is a swordsman of such renowned skill and singular focus because he contains this burning drive for revenge. someday he will find and kill the man who killed his father.
and then when he finally meets the six fingered man and delivers that line, think about the context of that situation. you’re an evil dude with six fingers inside of the kings castle on full lockdown, and you’re just received word that you’re under attack by a gigantic flaming dread pirate roberts. you’ve got no idea what’s going on but you’ve heard of the dread pirate roberts (because everyone knows the dread pirate roberts) and suddenly out of the chaos, one man appears, and with so few words describes the singular fury that consumes him, all of which is directed at you.
my name is inigo montoya. you killed my father. prepare to die.
i became a fan from the live-action titans tv show (is that a controversial thing? ik live-action adaptions can be a touchy subject so sorry if that offends anyone)
i just really fell in love with Dick Grayson as a character and have gotten roped into the batfam- reading fics and all that stuff.
i wanna get into the comics but i honestly have no idea where to even start, like i’d probably want to start when dick comes in but i’ve heard his character doesn’t really start developing until later- but i’m open to anything honestly- i just get more interested the more i learn and i just want to start reading! (also ik there’s other shows too? what’s the general consensus on those? im so lost guys😭)
also maybe i should do a little intro too, so..
y’all can call me syd (she/her)
and i’m 19 :)
i think that’s good for now, right?
anyways, if anyone has tips on how to start reading the the comics or other media to get into that would be most appreciated, but otherwise im happy to just make some friends!!
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