GoodIntentions Etc

webcomics and fandoms and things, and such

[goodintentionsetc]

Heyy!!

I've created a GL webtoon on Canvas

It'll update EVERY Sunday at midnight

It's about two sixth form girls in London, figuring their shit out

SLOW burn, sorry 😭

But if you're into that, I would be so honoured if you'd check it out, tell me what you're thinking

It's called Oh My Days

[lenucciaurl]

felix is literally performing for ollie it's CRAZY. like he leaves that bathroom door cracked open on purpose so his little toy will come watch him, he's all "friendly" kisses on the cheek knowing exactly what he's doing, he's hoarding oliver from venetia and farleigh, he's 100% about to hatefuck ollie in that maze. absolutely wild that people think felix is this totally normal guy when he's like. so deeply fucked up.

[avaantares]

Fanfiction Authors: HEADS UP

(Non-authors, please RB to signal boost to your author friends!)

An astute reader informed me this morning that one of my fics (Children of the Future Age) had been pirated and was being sold as a novel on Amazon:

(And they weren't even creative with their cover design. If you're going to pirate something that I spent a full year of my life writing, at least give me a pretty screenshot to brag about later. Seriously.)

I promptly filed a DMCA complaint to have it removed, but I checked out the company that put it up -- Plush Books -- and it looks like A LOT of their books are pirated fic. They are by no means the only ones doing this, either -- the fact that """publishers""" can download stories from AO3 in ebook format and then reupload them to Amazon in just a few clicks makes fic piracy a common problem. There are a whole host of reasons why letting this continue is bad -- including actual legal risk to fanfiction archives -- but basically:

IF YOU ARE A FANFIC AUTHOR WITH LONG AND/OR POPULAR WORKS, PLEASE CHECK AMAZON TO SEE IF YOUR STORIES HAVE BEEN PIRATED.

You can search for your fics by title, or by text from the description (which is often just copied wholesale from AO3 as well). If you find that someone has stolen your work and is selling it as their own, you can lodge a DMCA complaint (Amazon.com/USA site; other countries have different systems). If you haven't done this before, it's easy! Here's a tutorial:

HOW TO FILE A COPYRIGHT COMPLAINT FOR STOLEN WORK ON AMAZON.COM:

First, go to this form. You'll need to be signed into your Amazon account.

Select the radio buttons/dropdown options (shown below) to indicate that you are the legal Rights Owner, you have a copyright concern, and it is about a pirated product.

Enter the name of your story in the Name of Brand field.

In the Link to the Copyrighted Work box, enter a link to the story on AO3 or whatever site your work is posted on.

In the Additional Information box, explain that you are the author of the work and it is being sold without your permission. That's all you really need. If you want, you can include additional information that might be helpful in establishing the validity of your claim, but you don't have to go into great detail. You can simply write something like this:

I am the author of this work, which is being sold by [publisher] without my permission. I originally published this story in [date/year] on [name of site], and have provided a link to the original above. On request, I can provide documentation proving that I am the owner of the account that originally posted this story.

In the ASIN/ISBN-10 field, copy and paste the ID number from the pirated copy's URL. You'll find this ten-digit number in the Amazon URL after the word "product," as in the screenshot below. (If the URL extends beyond this number, you can ignore everything from the question mark on.) Once this number has been added, Amazon will pull the product information automatically and add it to the complaint form, so you can check the listing title and make sure it's correct.

Finally, add your contact information to the relevant fields, check the "I have read and accept the statements" box, and then click Submit. You should receive an email confirmation that Amazon has received the form.

Please share this information with your writer friends, keep an eye out for/report pirated works, and help us keep fanfiction free and legally protected!

NOTE: All of the above also applies to Amazon products featuring stolen artwork, etc., so fan artists should check too!

[heywriters]

UPDATE: Plush Books still exists on Amazon and on Goodreads under the pseudonym "J.D. Geraghty" where the fanfics are also listed. They also have a list of cookbooks that are without a doubt AI written (the descriptions for the books are repetitive nonsense so god forbid what exists inside).

From what I can see on Amazon, most of the stolen fanfics have become "Unavailable." This entity likely operates under more than one name, so it isn't safe to assume crisis averted. Numerous bad actors are posting AI written works to Amazon, which just means plagiarism slurry with a side of potential danger (like the autogenerated mushroom identification books).

[tokyoterri2]

oh ffs. shared.

[asynca]

oh fuck you, 'JD Geraghty'. You did not write this. I DID.

[cam-the-orange-cat]

Unfortunately this is becoming a bigger and bigger issue. Keep the awareness up, it's gonna be a rocky ride.

[hirudineadentes]

no you don't get it felix becomes upset with oliver cleaning his dorm because he's breaking the rules. the people who serve felix must do so invisibly because to do otherwise would force felix to confront how much others have to pick up after him and oliver comes in and demands: look at yourself, look at who you are and what you do, and this is the first time that felix resents him

don't make me acknowledge the ways you serve me. don't make me think about it. don't make me look.

[inketh]

[maraschino-fairy-deactivated202]

wishing all artists a very sincere "get weirder with it" this coming year

[coffinvows]

shoots my yuri beam at u

[prouvaireafterdark]

“I LIKE HOW YOU WITHHOLD” Y’ALL THEY’RE GONNA FUCK SO NASTY

[masriyah]

my patience is thin with people who like to walk the fence when talking about palestine but for one last time. what hamas did was brutal, yes. it was violent, yes. but most importantly it was inevitable. when you push people to such extremes, stripping them of their rights, their land, their dignity, their childhood, their dreams, their whole lives, they are bound to push back. if hamas didn't do it (even though this lazer focus on hamas is also a skewed perception of what's going on, other Palestinian resistance groups are also involved, including marxist/secularist groups) some other group would have, if they didn't do it now, they would have done it later. this kind of violence from the occupied is an unavoidable response to a much greater, much more brutal form of violence done by the occupier. thus the blame for the lost lives of israelis should only be placed on the zionist occupation. if you cannot understand this, or do not accept it, i'm not willing to take anything you have to say about palestine or palestinians or hamas seriously.

[sailorsola]

1 Corinthians 13:4-7

For day twenty-five of @iwtvfanevents's event for louis's birthday month: faith

[bumblebeebats]

I feel like some people need to relearn Genre Expectations... "Man, this tragedy sucks!!! Why didn't they just do XYZ, then everything could have ended happily!!" well, then it wouldn't be a tragedy, would it. "Man, this lighthearted teen romcom is terrible, it's so sappy and unrealistic!!" Well, yeah. If it had been gritty and dark, it wouldn't have been a lighthearted romcom, would it. Is the writing actually bad or are you just trying to order a milkshake from a Home Depot

[complicitsacrilege]

[blueiight]

LOUIS: my husband (WHO?) is DEAD. i dont want REMARRIAGE. i want SEX. click to see my PUSS

[rosiefingereddawn]

Claudia the moment she sees it

[loo-nuh-tik]

[hydrahowl]

Faggot /neg

i cant tell if its funnier that theres an overlap between "tonetag user" and "person who uses slurs derogatorily", or that you had to specify it was negative

[femslashfictournament]

Femslash fic tournament

Hi everyone! This is the femslash fic tournament. This tournament was inspired by @thecoolerbestfanfictournament. I love it and think it was an excellent idea. But I don't love seeing f/f fics overshadowed because its such a niche and often overlooked part of fandom, so I decided to make a tournament just for them. Please see below the cut for the rules.

Best femslash fic tournament

Submit your favorite f/f fics

Rules:

You can submit any fic that is classified as f/f. Gen fic and multi-category fics can be submitted only if the f/f relationship is the central relationship. Fics based on relationships including a nonbinary character(s) are allowed if they feel to you like they fit the tournament.

All ships are allowed. This tournament is run by one person, and it's just not realistic to think I'm going to be able to enforce content rules. I won't have time to read all fics myself and I won't be familiar with all fandoms. If you don't like something that was submitted, vote against it.

Fics can only be submitted via the form and with a link. Any fics submitted via DMs or asks or fics submitted without a link will not be counted.

I'll take fics hosted on any website as long as the link works. In fact, I'd love to see some pre-AO3 submissions from older sites.

Submissions will stay open through Friday, October 13. After that, I will either do preliminaries to get to 64 or do a first round with more than two fics per poll, depending on the number and average length of submitted fics. The length of each round will be announced later but match-ups will be staggered.

The number of times a fic is submitted will have no bearing on whether or not it gets into the tournament, so please do not submit the same fic multiple times.

I won't publish anti-propaganda. People worked hard on these fics, and I'm not going to use this blog to platform flames.

Why is this called the femslash fic tournament? I picked femslash over alternatives like f/f and wlw because it's the historical term, and this is a celebration of the culture and history of this side of fandom. Also f/f would have been hard to make into a url.

So with all that out of the way, have fun everyone!

@tournament-announcer @tournamentdirectory @ao3topshipsbracket @long-fic-tournament @actually-insane-blorbo-bracket @femslashrevolution