Sup, I’m A Hot Mess.

I'm 26, genderfluid, pansexual, polyamorous. Enjoy.

[sunderwight]

Okay but if anyone's actually having troubles reconciling multiple conflicting ideas that they like for a fictional character, like the whole "Ryland Grace is somehow aroace and in a polycule with Rocky and Adrian and very gay for Simon Ironlung" thing to where it's not meshing together as like, well with the power of queerness anything is possible, but just like, but surely I must pick one?

You don't have to actually do that. The beautiful thing about fictional characters and the whole business about them being tools of a narrative, is that you do NOT need to concretely decide anything about them outside of the confines of whatever story you want to tell today. Multiple conflicting ideas about the same blorbo never actually need to settle into one definitive verdict. I mean it's fine if they do, but it's not required.

And in fact it's usually a good idea if you like to create things for you to practice switching between several mutually exclusive possibilities. Not only is it good creative practice, it also keeps you from getting so stuck in a single concept of an idea that you become hostile to conflicting opinions.

[kyraltre]

So... About the fanfiction.lol site that is being shared... I am someone that has a little web dev experience, have done several coding projects and am an IT professional. I did a minor investigation on this and here are my thoughts:

So what this is is a guy who I guess does front end dev work (think make websites pretty and maybe give them content) and wants to break out into full stack dev work (also add in the back end dev work which is about content hosting, user profile management, how the website is shared to the Internet etc).

This guy forks Ao3's code (which means he made a full copy of it, which is allowed based on the copyright Ao3 has) to then play at being a full stack dev without actually building any of the code or realistically most of the infrastructure. He is learning to do this from other people who also forked Ao3's code and regularly update their versions of Ao3 with the updates Ao3 puts out. Again, there is nothing legally wrong with that but yeah it's a scummy as fuck coding practice. All these sites are color overs of Ao3 with their own lil gimmicks and special takes. This site's is the 'no waiting' for sign ups and every tag is canon (which it already kinda is on Ao3 but just not wrangled).

Now here is the issue I see as an IT professional and coder myself

This guy admits he does not have full stack experience. This site is hosted on a private server he built himself as he is learning to do that, and he posted a guide for that too. My concern for this site isn't even AI scraping, it's your private data like passwords and email. Many people use the same password across many sites, and he doesn't have the background in full stack to provide top tier security on his site. He also hand built his server, again that is a security risk.

Also to consider, we don't know this guy at all. HE is a security risk. Are you wanting to share your email and password with him? His sever is going to host that information and he will have access to it. Do you trust him not to sell it?

This site's big gimmick is the no waiting for an account. My alarm bells are ringing that this is a perfect strike point for vulnerable data. He could be a genuine guy (and I am not claiming he isn't) and have all the fancy bells and whistles for security but I don't know that and right now our private information is the hot commodity every company wants to buy. He may have the best intentions but that doesn't matter to someone that is looking to strike for information. Post there if you want I won't stop you and I won't stop him from having this forked site, but I beg you, please use a unique password for this site for your own security. ((Honestly a really good practice in general too!)) I don't want anyone to get accounts broken into because of this.

TL:DR - I don't trust this. I don't care if I'm risking a loss if Ao3 collapses, I rather trust my personal data to a board of people that can keep each other in check and servers that have a track record for data security.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

some people don’t deserve fanfics, much less for free.

also even if authors didn’t tag any specific warnings but they used the “creator chose not to use archive warnings” tag, then that is your warning.

“omg you should’ve —” no one forced your entitled ass to read anything. fanfic writers write for themselves and their own enjoyment. if you don’t like what you’re reading, quietly leave. ao3 is not an airport. no one cares about your departure so no need to announce it.

[dicklessthewonderclown]

the idea circulating new gen fandom on tiktok that you should only be shipping canon couples is genuinely so baffling. like where’s your whimsy? where’s your joy? don’t you know that fandom was built by the spirk shippers before you, hell, before my fucking parents, were born??

[luna-azzurra]

A non-writer asked me "but where do you get your ideas" and i genuinely did not know how to explain that it's not a place. it's not a website. it's not a folder. it's that i was on the bus and a woman was holding a paper bag very carefully and something about the way she held it made me need to know what was inside and then i needed to know why she was sad about it and then there was a whole person and then there was a whole story and the bus had already stopped and i missed my stop. that's where.

[cbk1000]

As a society, we need to go back to understanding that strangers on the internet are, you know, strangers. I feel lately that I'm seeing a rise in 'An author I love blocked me because they took my comment the wrong way' posts on the ao3 subreddit, and then the comment is them calling the author a fucking bitch or something like that.

Don't do this. Tone doesn't translate well in text, and if you don't have a rapport with that author, they are not going to interpret, 'You're a fucking bitch' as, 'Author I hate you for being so talented and making me feel so keenly.' They're going to interpret it as you being an asshole. You can shit talk with your friends because you have an established relationship with them and can distinguish between playful banter and genuine anger. You do not have this with a stranger, no matter how much you like their fics. You will have a much more pleasant time in fandom and not get cockblocked from interacting with your favorite writers if you remember this.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

THISSSSSSS!!!!!!! curate your own internet experience. block them because they’re allergic to peanut butter, block them because they have what you don’t, block them because they dislike your favorite food, block them because you don’t like their layout, block them because you can.

blocking is NOT a personal attack against someone. it’s you curating your own internet experience and catering for your comfort, and you have every right to do that.

you, yes, you!!! you CANNOT tell other people to censor themselves for your own comfort and personal likings. you CANNOT tell them what they can or can’t post. you CANNOT tell them what they can or can’t write. you CANNOT tell them what they can or can’t draw. BUT you CAN block them for whatever reason.

that block button is offered to you for free. use. it.

[bunnis-monsters]

People send me asks every week informing me they’ve seen my fics used for ai chatbots or that they themself on alt accounts are scraping my fics to generate ai writing(which is seriously messed up)

At first I stayed quiet, not wanting to bring it up because I know it’ll just cause more people to scrape my works.

But I’m so tired. I’m tired of my hard work being stolen. Why do you do this to us? Haven’t I given you enough free stories? Do you know how much I love all of you, how happy it made me when people commented on my fics and said they liked them?

Now that AI is more popular, I’ve seen in real time how people started treating writers like they were just a content farm. People abandon us or feed our works into AI if we don’t pump out stories fast enough.

It’s exhausting. The last few years I wrote so much that I ended incredibly burnt out to the point I’ve barely written anything in the past few months, but it’s still not enough.

Nothing is enough.

Please, for the love of god give your favorite writers some love. A lot of us are so close to giving up. I know I am.

[statisticalcats2]

There are gonna be people who won't like hearing this but if you want to live in a world where mixed marriages, families, and adoptions (particularly POC adopting outside their "race") aren't maligned and discriminated against, then you have got to get more chill about seeing someone partaking in something cultural that you don't think fits the "race" you perceive them as.

[statisticalcats2]

It's a vague memory now, it was a vague memory even at the time I made this post, but I think what sparked this was remembering stupid comments I saw about a Chinese-American cookbook that were complaining about it being written by a white woman and then I looked the white woman up and the briefest research showed she was adopted as a child into a Chinese-American family and just....

*pinches nose*

Fellas, is it cultural appropriation to inherit your family's culture but you don't pass the blood quantum test?

All of you are literally just racist. You've come full-circle. You're working under the belief that people are supposed to "keep to their own kind" and that means the socially invented concept of "race", and "race mixing" of any sort is unnatural.

[statisticalcats2]

Putting this in a separate reblog because it involves fictional media but it was still implying a messed up worldview....

This reminded me of a post I saw about someone theorizing what MCU Morgan Stark's middle name was because we just knew her middle initial was "H" and they considered that the namesake might be Yinsen Ho but they didn't want to believe that because it would be, quote, "cultural appropriation".

Cultural appropriation. To name your child after someone you personally knew and was very important to you.

Don't you know it's unnatural for someone of a different race to be important to you? The races are not supposed to mix!

It's literally just racism. Why do people think they're being anti-racist activists by being some of the highest level of racist?

[smegorl]

Yeah this trend has been gaining strength for years of "the races shouldn't mix (but in a Marx honoring way)" and it's seriously fuckin concerning.

[flamingwell]

Cultural appropriation is stealing something from another culture that they're not happy to share and then passing it off as your own (and generally benefiting from it in a way that diverts those benefits away from the source culture).

Cultural appropriation is NOT enjoying things from other cultures that they're happy to share, it's NOT mutual cultural exchange between friends, and it's DEFINITELY NOT inheriting your own culture no matter what you look like you absolutely fuckwaffles

[fabasten]

How to curate your timeline:

Step 1: like & follow people who say smart, logical, level-headed things that you agree with

Step 2: block people who say unhinged, rude or problematic things

Step 3: like & follow artists, gif makers, writers you enjoy and people who add to the culture of the fandom in a positive way

Step 4: block people who post about things you don't personally enjoy or have takes that you strongly disagree with

Step 5: voilà! sit back & enjoy your tension-free timeline

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

got emotional and cried while reading a fic only to later check the tags and see it was ai-generated. give me my tears back

[whitepeopletwitter]

[blanketfortarchitect]

[rebloggingistheenemy]

[writingdose]

insane to me how, to some people, this is not a common sense

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

Is adding donation links in fics okay? Like fic ends, writer says that if readers want to they can donate money, and then they donate if they wish?

no. that is against ao3’s terms of service.

anything that involves money is against their site’s terms of service. doesn’t matter if it’s commission or donation or anything. on ao3, you cannot mention or link anything that involves money.

ao3 is a nonprofit site known for hosting millions of works of others’ copyrighted characters. it has to stay nonprofit and forbid any mention of money on its platform to avoid getting sued left and right. I’ve said this before, but the only reason ao3 can exist as it is today is because its main rule is “nobody can use their site to ask people for money in any way, shape or form”.

I’ve explained more here.

[notjusthespongenextdoor]

For a city to be walkable. It must also be sittable.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[aristocrating]

its 2026 i cannot handle any more fucking "author A obviously ripped off author B" discourse by people Who Have Only Seen the work of author B and admit themselves that they have no further knowledge of the literary landscape they are moving in. like.

[nudityandnerdery]