Sideblog of @bookcaseninja. Alex - she/her. 26. I write fanfiction. Patron Saint of Lyric Battles I am not a Marvel fan. Do not send me anything marvel-related Masterlist
having 40 minutes to leave the house is terrible because 40 minutes is basically 30 minutes and 30 minutes is basically 20 minutes and 20 minutes is basically fifteen seconds. but 50 minutes? 50 minutes is an hour, and an hour? ooobh thats plany off time
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we used to get christmas episodes of television. halloween episodes. valentines. we used to get television that felt like part of your life. like it was happening alongside your life. now we mostly get 8 episodes dropping all at once every two years and they don't have time for any of that. i miss characters living alongside us
A collection of youtube channels have been uploading preexisting fanfictions in videos with little to no credit to the original authors. These are not podfics, these channels copy-paste the fics into text-to-speech readers then upload the unaltered audio over static or unrelated backgrounds, either art that is also stolen or mobile game footage. In addition to not naming the authors, they alter the title to make it that much harder for readers to recognize or find the original uploads. Some go so far as to pretend they themselves are creating the fics in question. Many claim that their stealing actually helps give fics "exposure" despite the intentional steps they take to conceal the origins of the fics they profit off of. However, this practice has lead many authors to discontinue fics after the frustration of having their hard work stolen. Many of these channels claim they will remove videos upon request, but will either argue with the author in order to keep it up, or simply unlist the video for a time until they think the author isn't paying attention anymore. And their solution to receiving strikes against their channels in the past has been to further obfuscate the origins of their content instead of even considering asking first.
”I got caught stealing, so instead of not stealing anymore, I’m doubling down on stealing even more so it’s harder for people to find out and prove I’m stealing. Stealing doesn't count if the specific person I stole from didn't call me out. I am the real victim.”
That, plus the incessant tag scumming in all the videos (spamming unrelated tags in order to appear in more search results) proves to me that these are lazy attention seekers who don't want to put in creative effort when they could just leech off of the passion of others.
In order to report them, go to their channel's "About" page and click the flag icon. Said icon might be behind the three dots in the top bar on mobile. Go to "Report User" at the bottom and tick the "spam and scams" button. This will allow you to list multiple videos as offenders instead of reporting them individually. Youtube's policy states that video spam constitutes:
Massively uploading content that you scraped from other creators.
Auto-generated content that computers post without regard for quality or viewer experience.
If you recognize one of your fics among the stolen, say so in the additional comments box, and perhaps call out the channel directly in the video's comments. If you recognize someone else's fic, please let the original author know so they can report the channel as well. Many have been confronted for stealing previously and refuse to admit wrongdoing.
Most of what I've found has been My Hero Academia fics since that's my fandom and those are the ones I can recognize as stolen, but there are many other channels that steal from other fandoms, so I invite anyone and everyone to reblog this with their own findings.
The reality is that this extremely low-effort content and new youtube channels are both very easy to make, so most likely they'll start new channels once the ones on this list are run through. But hopefully, if we all work together and keep whacking these moles, perhaps we can instill that same defeatism they caused so many creators who didn't deserve it, and eventually they'll give up.
My sincerest thanks to everyone who helped bring additional channels to my attention. A special thanks to ao3 user InArduisFidelis who brought the initial attention to the issue, and @owlf45 whose work was stolen.
Links under the cut.
YurikoFanfics - Not only stole content, but acted in comments as though they were the one writing these stories.
What-IF-Anime - Has the exact same "disclaimer" about not being the original author as the one above. Either they're the same person or the thieves are stealing from each other.
quirkywhatif7 - Either an alt of the above, or all these people are talking to one another because this one made a community post identical to a comment the one above made in response to being called out (the above screenshots).
https://www.youtube.com/@quirkywhatif7/about
DekuFanfic - It's the same fucking guy again.
https://www.youtube.com/@DekuFanfic/about
InfiniteParadoxfanfics - Nothing notable, same deal as the others.
WhatIfAnimeChannel - Admits in their community posts that other people write the fics they post but still doesn't give credit. Migrated to a new channel after issues with youtube, likely being flagged previously.
WTFW - Claims to have "[A] team of talented writers, voice actors, and artists work together to create immersive fan fiction stories that are sure to captivate your imagination." Just the same test-to-speech stolen content over videogames. So straight up lying claiming that everything is theirs (and that anything they make is quality).
https://href.li/?https://www.youtube.com/@WTFW
MHA2.0Fanfics - Lots of crossover theft.
https://www.youtube.com/@MHA2.0Fanfics/about
Collerwhatiif - Pretty sure this one is the same guy as the previous 2, also has one for another fandom.
https://www.youtube.com/@Collerwhatiif/about
https://www.youtube.com/@GoJoFanfiction/videos
ko_sensei - Another that claims to have a "team" that makes the stories they steal: " passionate about creating compelling and engaging fanfiction that explores the various "what ifs" in the anime universe."
https://www.youtube.com/@ko_sensei/about
FantasticWhatIf - Multifandom stealing, uses the exact same bs disclaimer as many others.
https://www.youtube.com/@FantasticWhatIf/about
LettuceHeadFanfics - No credit, no acknowledgement of anything. Next one is an alt.
https://www.youtube.com/@LettuceHeadFanfics/about
brocollifanfics - Alt of above, once again admits to stealing with a declaration of "☆If you want to takedown any videos. You can mail us or leave a comment below the video☆"
https://www.youtube.com/@brocollifanfics/about
whatifofficial786 - Focuses on MHA/Naruto crossovers. Identical format.
https://www.youtube.com/@whatifofficial786/about
NotWhatIf - I've lost track of who's an alt of who but yet another identical format, descriptions, and bullshit claims of "enhancing the viewer experience" by putting a robot voice over bootleg fortnite footage.
https://www.youtube.com/@NotWhatIf/about
weebxds - Same again.
https://www.youtube.com/@weebxds/about
ItachiFanfics - Naruto channel, we can at least confirm that this one is run by a human given the rare different descriptions and a real voice at the beginning of videos before the robot comes back.
https://www.youtube.com/@ItachiFanfics/about
WhatIfDN - As if mockingly, a bunch of videos have a "credit" section in their descriptions that is of course blank.
https://www.youtube.com/@WhatIfDN/about
SpiceandBooks and spiceandfiction - Apparently Youtube itself has started picking up on the bullshit, because this multifandom channel is being dinged as ai spam so they started a new one.
https://www.youtube.com/@SpiceandBooks/about
https://www.youtube.com/@spiceandfiction/about
theoriginalastra - Doesn't even bother with disclaimers, the following are multiple alts/potential alts for different fandoms.
https://www.youtube.com/@theoriginalastra/about
SillySenpai12 - Highschool DXD alt.
https://www.youtube.com/@SillySenpai12/about
RosieRealms - Naruto alt.
https://www.youtube.com/@RosieRealms/about
DekuWhatIfs - Potentially another astra alt but not sure, doesn't matter because all these channels do the same thing anyway.
AnimeStark688 - No credits or disclaimers.
https://www.youtube.com/@AnimeStark688/about
Please take the time to report these channels, spread this post around, and reblog with any additional offending channels you find.
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Hey, I'm still around! Sorry I haven't posted much, nonnie, I've been pretty busy with schoolwork (I had wisdom teeth issues earlier this year which put me v behind), so I haven't been able to write much. Today was the last day of the school year though, so I should be able to write some more.
Summary: The freelancers get sent to assist a station in distress. They do not expect what they find there.
Pairings: Nope.
Warnings: Suspense, swearing, descriptions of dead bodies.
Words: 1,556
You ran into the first body not too long after you and Dani had parted ways.
Literally.
You ran into it.
Focused on the next bend in the hallway, you weren't paying as much attention to the floor as you probably should have, so you were caught completely off guard. A high pitched squeak escaped you when your foot ran into something and you lost your balance.
"Motherfucker!" You swore; you were in the middle of the hallway, there was nothing you could grab onto to save yourself from a nasty fall.
At first, you'd thought you had run into one of the maintenance androids - at this point, it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume that one of them had stopped in the middle of a corridor. Then you landed on the still-warm lump you’d tripped over and your hand landed in a cooling puddle of some kind of liquid. Some kind of red liquid.
That's when the realization hit you.
Because of course there'd be a puddle of blood surrounding the dead body.
And you were kneeling right in the middle of it.
The startled whimper that escaped you probably would've been classified as unprofessional had another security guard been present, but you were too focused on getting away from the blood and the body to care. With knees feeling like jelly, you scooted out of and away from the pool, not stopping until you hit the wall. Your head bounced off the metal none too gently, but the pain barely registered in your mind. You couldn't tear your attention away from the body, no matter how much you wanted.
It was just so... awful.
This wasn't your first time seeing a corpse - you've had the unfortunate experience of seeing a few of them in the past. None of them, however, were quite as startling as this one. In an almost perfect line on its chest were three holes, all of which seemed to still be leaking blood. They were big, far too big to have come from a gun, or knife, or any kind of weapon you could think of.
It looks like claw marks from an animal... Your brain supplied.
But what kind of animal had claws that large? And why hadn't it (and just the thought made you want to gag) just eaten the body? None of it made any sense.
Above you, some loud thudding and thumping in the vents pulled you out of your pondering with a start. Noisy piece of shit, You thought. Nevertheless, it did one good thing: made you remember what you were supposed to be doing. And that wasn't sitting on the floor, huddled up against the wall like a scared child. So you wiped your bloody hands on the bottom of your shirt and pushed yourself to your feet.
Taking a bracing breath, you moved near the body and snatched up your taser from where you'd dropped it when you fell. As you were wiping it off and checking to make sure the fall into the blood puddle hadn't royally fucked up the cheap-ass weapon, another series of thuds and thumps from the vents sent you scurrying back near the wall again. You pointed your taser at the vent as the noises passed over your head. They seemed to continue for another few feet before stopping above a vent opening directly in your path. The vent issued a rattling hiss right before a clear, sticky-looking liquid began to stream from the opening, a lot like the vent in the cafeteria did.
"Eugh." Just the sight of it made your stomach a bit queasy. "Jesus fuck, what is that stuff?" You murmured to yourself.
Despite your curiosity, you hugged the wall as you carefully edged around the large opening, not daring to take your eyes off of it. Was it just the vents having a maintenance issue like every goddamned other thing, or something… else?
It could be just another human, Your subconscious tried to reason - people, especially those in maintenance and engineering - crawled around in the vents more than occasionally. It was a quicker way of getting around, they claimed.
You looked at the vent, at the liquid still dripping out of it, and decided you didn't want to find out.
Clutching your taser tightly in your hands, you finished edging your way around it and hurried off down the hall.
Further away, evidence of the solar storm made its appearance. Overhead lights flickered on and off (giving you the start of what was no doubt going to be a most hellish migraine later), and a few more maintenance androids littered the corridor.
Oh, and more bodies.
Quite a few more bodies, all seemingly wounded in the same way as the first.
You pushed off from the wall as you came to the corner right before the security office you were stationed at. Hugging corners is a good way to get yourself killed, you reminded yourself repeatedly to keep yourself from chickening out.
And of course, as soon as you rounded the corner, there was another body directly in the middle of the path.
You let out a startled gasp and quickly stepped to the side to avoid tripping over it. "Keep going, keep going," You told yourself. "Don't look at it." But there was something about the split second that made you pause and turn. And the moment you did, you wished you hadn't.
The shirt. It was the corpse's shirt that caught your attention.
Unlike the other bodies you'd run into, this one's shirt wasn't completely soaked in its own blood. And unfortunately for you, that meant you could see the shirt's actual color.
Gray.
It was gray. Security gray.
Just like the shirt you were wearing.
You inhaled, a bit shakily. You didn't recognize the person, but the sight sent a shudder down your spine nonetheless. Maybe you were being a bit arrogant, but what the hell could tear apart a security guard?
You stared at it for another minute before forcibly shaking your head. "Get a grip, Y/N," You murmured to yourself, and you made yourself turn away and move on. You decided to sprint the remaining few feet to your destination.
The security office was a mess. And by mess, you meant it looked as if a tornado had swept through the place. Papers were strewn everywhere, Chairs were smashed. Desks were smashed or overturned. A filing cabinet (and you had no idea why the office had one in the first place) was on its side on the floor.
"What the hell happened here?" You murmured to yourself as the door slid shut with a hiss. After a brief second of contemplation, you slid your taser back into its holster and carefully picked your way across the room. Fortunately, your desk seemed to be one of the few that was still intact, as was the computer on top of it (unfortunately though, your chair seemed to have become collateral damage in whatever had taken place here).
You leaned against your desk, holding your breath as you lightly jiggled the computer's mouse. Your luck was weirdly intact though because the computer screen flicked on, seemingly unaffected by the solar storm that swept through last night. You quickly typed in your password to login and pulled up the inbox for inter-station messages. And that's where the luck ran out because the most recent message was the warning from yesterday morning about the storm.
There was nothing about the killings, or whatever was doing the killings, or even about the red alert.
"Goddammit," You growled, hitting the desk with an open palm. It seemed you were never going find out what the fuck was going on on this godforsaken space station.
You switched the computer off and hopped onto the desk next to it, wondering what exactly you should do now. You were already a quarter of the way through this section of the station and hadn't come across another living being aside from Dani.
I could backtrack and go back to the shelter, You thought. Maybe there's people other than Dani there. It was also the only logical option you could think of, so it won out. You started to pick your way back to the door, but paused about halfway there. There were lockers set into the wall and on the other side of them, almost right next to you, was a vent opening.
You had the vent system in this section of the station all but memorized (okay, so maybe you'd crawled through them to get around a couple times yourself) and if you remembered correctly, there was an opening right by the shelter. It would also be much, much faster than walking all the way around the way you came.
As you were considering your options, a familiar banging came from the vent entrance next to you. "Again?" You hissed, annoyance overshadowing your fear. You took a step towards the vent, wanting to find out just what was the thing that seemed to be stalking you.
The wheezing of the vent opening was drowned out by the squeak of a locker door opening. You whirled around, raising your taser, which was quickly knocked out of your grip. A hand grabbed you by your wrists, pulling you towards the locker.
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do you still do requests for DC's Legends of tomorrow (cause I got into the show sometime in 2020 after my hysterectomy surgery in Feb due to a fibroid)!
I do write requests for a few Legends characters. If the request is romantic/smutty, I prefer to stick with Len Snart, Eobard Ray, Sara, or Ava, but I’m willing to try the others if it’s more platonic.
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