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sayatsugu

When You Look at Dr. Grace

(part 1) part 2/2

#project hail mary #ryland grace #rocky the eridian #carl #wow thanks for making my cry #and smile

sayatsugu

When You Look at Dr. Grace

part 1/2 (part 2)

#project hail mary #ryland grace #carl #this is very lovely and made me cry

hudconera

happy pride month to this iconic scene

#heated rivalry #hollanov #happy pride month

itshype

Yes, the fics where Ilya goes to Shane's game in his jersey are cute and romantic. But why has no one even considered:

#heated rivalry #hollanov #headcanon accepted #sounds so illya that now this is my new headcanon

itshype

Yes, the fics where Ilya goes to Shane's game in his jersey are cute and romantic. But why has no one even considered:

allthingswhumpyandangsty

every day I learn bot comments on ao3 are stooping lower and lower

anyway if you get a comment like this, chances are that they are bot and their goal is to do whatever it takes to get you to delete your work, most certainly (from what I’ve heard) it’s because they want to “safely” steal your work, use it to train their ai without you being able to rightfully claim ownership of your work since “there’s no proof that the work was stolen/was posted elsewhere first by you” because the original source has already been deleted.

THEY ARE ALL BOTS. at first it was “ao3 is deleting fics and your entire account will be affected unless you delete the fics yourself” then it was “this work contains contents that are illegal and they have already reported you and your fic to the police” (yes, that’s how desperate these bots are), and now it’s this.

report their comments to ao3 for spam—in this case, specifically, I think you may be able to report them for harassment too—and don’t pay attention to them, most importantly don’t delete your works, don’t feel discouraged by their comments. remember that they are bots and they mass comment something like this on people’s works at random to get people to delete their works. (or even if they’re not bot, they are still pathetic bullies who don’t deserve your time or attention.)

MORE ABOUT BOTS AND SCAMS PLAGUING AO3’S COMMENTS SECTION HERE

shitpostinguniverse

#writing #I may need this in the future #so #reblogging for me and those who need this

rainbow-taishi

Filipino Isekai

#isekai #HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA

shadow-manor

The rest of the thread is here.

tl;dr: Don’t monetize AO3, kids. You won’t like what happens next.

ratherembarrassing

read this thread. this is by far the most concise explanation of a lot of different issues that i’ve seen in fandom spaces in a while. cosigning both the linked thread and the thread about aus/uk/can law that’s linked in-thread.

billybluboy

AHDHXHEBSG TWITTER WRITERS DID WHAT NOW???? AND PEOPLE PAID THEM????

prof-grace-aspen

If someone has never taken a class that includes copyright law, they may not know this stuff, so I don’t necessarily blame random people for not knowing what copyright is, but like… maybe just maybe it’s something that should be taught????

antifa-stray

mercurywells

Just another reminder, because this always drives me crazy, but even if monetizing your fic was 100% unambiguously legal and protected, AO3 would still not let you do it because AO3 was founded and is supported by people like me who want a fandom community that is completely divested from making money off of fic.

naryrising

Yes, this. Lots of fanworks on AO3 are unambiguously legal. Fics based on Shakespeare plays and fairy tales and Greek mythology and The Great Gatsby and your original character from your D&D game are not violations of copyright, because no copyright applies to those things.

AO3 still doesn’t let you monetize those things on the site, because we don’t want the site to be commercial! Because that’s not what it’s for!

It’s not there for you (generic you) to make money off the efforts of the people who build and maintain the site for free! We aren’t getting paid for the work we do to give you a nice site to use, just like you aren’t getting paid for the work you do to create whatever art you share there. Because fandom is supposed to be a community where we share with each other, and therefore we all benefit.

The deal is, we give you a free, stable, safe platform to host your works. In exchange, you get a site that isn’t covered in ads and tip jars and links to gofundme and “read the next chapter at my patreon”. You get one goddamn place on the internet that isn’t trying to make money off you. And we will defend that space and keep it non-commercial.

#fanfiction #this discourse again #sigh #i don't want ao3 to become comercial #i want this place to be free and enjoyable #ao3 are heroes that are protecting fanworks #i stil remember the dark ages for fanficion