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Beelzebabe | 30 | 🏳️‍🌈 | 🇨🇱 | A silly cephalopod thirsting over fictional charas | 🔞 +18 space

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

I think ao3 is literally the only site where no censorship means no censorship. you can post the most vile things on there — things that will get taken down on any other platforms — and ao3 will protect you, your works, and your rights to create whatever you want, however you want.

and no, this isn’t me saying “write that messed up, disgusting thing” because while, yes, write it if it’s what you want (I myself enjoy writing dark fics, something I believe would be considered “vile” to a lot of people), this is me saying in a world of censorship and capitalism, ao3 really is a treasure.

everybody say thank you ao3

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

my toxic writing trait is imagining the scene in my head in long, full cinematic detail and then writing: “they fought. it was intense.”

[bebx]

“if you love this character then you must make him happy in your fics, right?” wrong. the horror. suffering. internal hemorrhage. hospital. immediately

[irandial]

Okay, hot tea!!

Apparently, the beef with SW is true and Tencent is the big Villain here, trying to bring PPg/Infold down!

Link to the related twt post here

And apparently, the hype that we as fandom have now created globally, helps infold indeed to fight against it.

If this is true, holy moly…. Then the war isn’t over yet and has only just begun…

But that also means we have to buckle for a longer wait, maybe? I don’t know… I‘m just confused now 😵‍💫

But I think that the government is now on it, is indeed something good? Because they already made that new law.

Oh my… I hope we are not the victims of this business bashing 😔

Edit: new link with translation of screenshots

[avananabread]

Sharing screenshots of the first link that no longer works:

[avananabread]

…so it appears the new link doesn’t work now either, but never fear, this sister has been busy! I failed to screenshot the original tweet but here are their attached photos:

@cairoblair sorry for sending you a link that no longer works, but here are the screenshots.

[irandial]

Adding another link:

Twitter

[mulders-too-large-shirt]

occasionally, you will discover an artist who drew roughly 300 beautiful pictures of your favorite characters over the course of a month and then never touched them again. you must accept this as a gift.

[sunnycringe]

[clementine-kesh]

i do think it’s funny when you’ve been into a thing long enough that you’ve done all the serious analysis you can do so now you’re mostly just thinking up looney tunes scenarios to put the characters in

[clementine-kesh]

looney tunes scenarios which are most importantly still impeccably in-character because of all the aforementioned serious analysis

[nat-20s]

You can replace [ACTIVITY YOU ENJOY] with [SCROLLING] but watch out. This sucks bad 👍

[nat-20s]

Some things about this post since getting quite a few notes:

1. If you see this post, highly recommend taking it as an opportunity to set a timer for 15 minutes and switch over to ACTIVITY YOU ENJOY. if after those 15 minutes, you want to go back to scrolling, that's okay!

2. Huge shout out to this popping up in my notifs often, bc I do go back to activity.

3. I think there are times where scrolling is fine. Right now, for example, I'm being connected to a machine for two hours to donate plasma and platelets. Yes this is a brag but it is also a time where scrolling is one of the few things I can do. (Though I will probably also read or watch something on phone lol)

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

hmmm, this seems to be some kind of curse breaking spell… be free ye reader

[princesscas]

I say this as both an author and someone who has been in fandom for a long time (15+ years): I do not trust the AO3 'Claude AI detector' skin. In fact, I will never trust any future "proof of AI" tools. Why? Because it's impossible to 100% know if someone used AI in any capacity.

I am anti-genAI, especially in creative fandom spaces, but I'm even bigger against witch hunts and harassment. Because that's all what this "exposed authors" document list (and future lists) is going to do. It doesn't matter if there's a big disclaimer about NOT attacking the people listed. The internet will do what the internet does nowadays and backstab anyone they deem unworthy, especially toward ones that they've been given the greenlight to attack. The obsession and paranoia about wanting to make sure that every single fandom creation is not made with AI is, quite frankly, getting out of fucking hand. No, I don't want to read AI works. But I don't have enough time in the day or much less the ability to care about checking. If I suspect something is amiss, I'll just do the fandom of old: Don't Like, Don't Read. Don't Like? Don't Engage. Hit the back button.

No one owes anything to anyone. No photo proof. No video proof. No screenshots or anything else.

Lastly: Instead of calling out authors who might be using AI to help them create, why not encourage the use of non-AI resources? Writers Helping Writers. An old fashioned thesaurus. Word Hippo. And so much more that is out there, which some people may not even be aware about.

[fsbc-librarian]

This “detector” has already been proven to show false positives. It’s crap. It’s fear mongering and witch hunt inciting.

There are people out there using grammarly to edit their work because English might not be their first language, or they don’t know enough people to find a beta, or they’re dyslexic, or god knows how many other reasons.

There are people out there who are on the spectrum and their written work reads like ChatGPT because that’s how their brain works. There are people out there who are so goddamn skilled at what they do, others struggle to believe it’s real.

Do you know who else was like that? Michelangelo. Do you know *how many people* have stood in front of the statue of David and thought *how the fuck did any human create that?*

There are soo many telented people out there who are infinitely better than you, be it written word or drawn image, or hell, even a photoshopped picture. Just because you can’t do it doesn’t mean it’s impossible to do.

Stop adding to the witch hunts. Stop trying to cancel people loudly.

If you don’t like it, don’t read it.

It costs nothing to be kind.

[headspace-hotel]

AI is imitating the patterns in human-made writing

It's impossible to detect whether text was created by AI because the patterns AI writing follows come from human writers

Like, that's literally what an LLM is and does, it imitates the patterns that humans use when they construct language

[greeds]

[lalawashere24]

They might as well have just kept the game CN. Why even make it ‘global’ if global players will be ignored???

If their money is more important than ours, just keep the game atp. They wont be seeing a penny from me ever again. This is so insanely disrespectful to international players. We are CONSTANTLY ignored and disregarded, but CN players throw a tantrum and get what they want immediately. INFOLD has no backbone.

The plan was always to add more LIs, and now the work and creativity put into the story line and characters planned for the future was for nothing.

And FUCK all of the RACIST, bratty, homophobic, losers who threw a fit about Valko. Pls get hit by a truck💖

[corvusmemoriae]

Arguably for any communication going to infold it would be good to note that by conceding to these demands they are showing tacit agreement for the racist and homophobic reasoning, and moving forward we would have to consider these company values before contributing any funds.

[mysterioustravelervermin]

[sirenja-and-stag]

Just Hannibal briefly thinking about turning Will into soup

[xiexielians]

We were probably in a "you're mine" sorta dynamic?

[ao3commentoftheday]

every once in a while I remember that there are people who came to AO3 from video game fandoms, where they were set up to think "rated E for everyone" - except on AO3 it's

[papermint-airplane]

Lmao I got banned from the Zayne Mains community for mentioning that the game might be in danger because of the Valko situation.

So stupid. I was just trying to spread awareness in a community I love but nope, banned with no DM asking me to remove the post, no discussion, no chance of appeal.

Welp, have fun in your community when the game gets shut down.

[monnisaurus]

Not seeing the issue is really tone deaf.

The fact that infold messed up with the main story just because the CN fandom cried wolf (pun intended), makes me think they have the power to change anything from now on... Cause they know they can push for it.

And honestly, how long before our LIs do something they don't like enough, for them to also boycott?

Sad they banned you for being right

[mephisto-reporting]

And that's the part that's making me lose my fucking mind.

We lost an entire section of the MAIN STORY.

The livestream literally told us Valko's release was going to reveal more about the Aethercore—one of the biggest mysteries in Love and Deepspace and something that's been central to the plot from the very beginning.

So now what?

You think they can just delete him and nothing changes?

Do people genuinely think you can rip out an entire story arc without consequences?

Everything that was supposed to be revealed through Valko now has to be rewritten, redistributed, or outright cut. The main story is going to have to be retconned. Future updates are going to have to be reworked. Characters may have to be rewritten just to fill the gap he leaves.

If you're celebrating this because you "won," I sincerely hope you understand what you've actually cheered for.

You guys fucking derailed the story.