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@southerndragontamer
I made a writer side blog!
Yep, I’ve got a place for all my writing to be besides my Ao3. Introducing!
@deskofmanyfandoms
I’ll be moving all my writing there! And it’ll be where I post new stuff! And of course Ao3 will always be updated at the same time, no worries!
reblog this if your blog is a safe space on april fools and won’t have any jumpers, screamers, or anything scary or anxiety inducing
@southerndragontamer
YOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! WILDFORCE FANART IN 2025-6 YES!!!
PSA: AO3 Bots Are Getting Worse (And Here's What You Need To Know)
Alright so if you're active on AO3, you've probably heard about the bot problem. It's been going on for years but it's gotten way worse lately, so here's a breakdown of what's happening and how to protect yourself.
What Are AO3 Bots?
Basically spam accounts that leave comments on fics. They're automated and they've been plaguing the site since like 2021, but they keep getting more sophisticated.
Types of Bots You Might See:
Praise Bots - These leave super generic compliments that could apply to literally any fic. Stuff like "This is pure genius, I'm in awe of your world-building" or "This deserves all recognition." The dead giveaway is when someone praises your "heartwarming" fic when everyone literally died and the earth shattered around them lmao.
Hateful/Cruel Bots - These are the really fucked up ones. They scrape REAL AO3 usernames and attach them to horrible, cruel comments. So innocent people get their names attached to hateful shit they never said. If you see a mean comment, check if the username is clickable - if it's not linked to an actual profile, it's a bot.
Kudos Bots - Some authors have woken up to like 30-60 fake kudos dumped on their fics all at once, with no corresponding increase in hit counts. This completely destroys the metric system especially in smaller fandoms.
AI Accusation Bots - These accuse authors of using ChatGPT or other AI tools, sometimes on fics that are literally older than the AI programs they're being accused of using. Some link to "AI detection tools" which are likely just trying to get you to feed more fics into AI training databases.
Misinformation Bots - A newer type that showed up in May 2025 claiming AO3 was removing works to "conserve server space" and telling authors to delete their own work or risk being banned. Complete bullshit - AO3 has never done this and never will.
Mary Sue Bots - Accuse your OCs of being Mary Sues, even when your fic only has canon characters and no self-inserts at all.
Art Commission Scam Bots - Leave praise then offer to make comic/art commissions of your fic. They get you off-site to Discord or Instagram, take your payment, then either send AI-generated garbage or ghost you completely.
How Do They Work?
The bots comment as unregistered guests and scrape real AO3 usernames to attach to their comments. The username shows up but isn't clickable and has no actual profile associated with it (unless you search for that name directly, which makes it look legit at first).
The newer ones are getting smarter too - they scrape your fic's tags and use them to make the generic praise seem more personalized. So if you tagged "angst" they'll specifically mention emotions and tension.
How To Spot Them:
Username isn't clickable/has no profile
Generic praise that could apply to any fic
Comments that make zero sense for what actually happened in your story
Multiple comments hitting your fics really fast (like 7 comments timestamped over 9 hours)
Sudden spike in kudos with no matching increase in hits
Anyone trying to get you off-site for commissions or services
The Emotional Impact:
This shit genuinely hurts authors. Some don't realize they're bots at first and think the hate comments or AI accusations are real criticism of their writing. There's also concerns from neurodivergent and ESL authors who worry their real comments will be mistaken for bots because their writing style might seem stilted.
And if your username gets stolen? You might have to track down authors and explain that hateful comment wasn't actually you.
What You Can Do:
As an author:
Delete bot comments as soon as you spot them
If it gets bad, lock your comments to registered users only (Settings → Privacy → "Only show your work to registered users")
Report the comments if you can
As a reader/commenter:
Don't panic if your username got stolen - reach out to the author and explain it wasn't you
Keep leaving real comments! Authors need to know there are real people who love their work
Maybe make your comments a bit more specific/personal so authors know you're real
Everyone:
Spread awareness so people know what to look for
Don't feed fics into "AI detection tools" that bots link to
Why Are They Doing This?
Honestly? Probably to keep AI brands in the "fandom news" cycle and create controversy. Some are straight-up scams. Either way, they suck.
Stay safe out there and keep supporting your favorite authors with real comments. We need that genuine engagement now more than ever. đź’ś
Tagging all my mutuals @ruinationz and @turbotasticnumberone and @cartoon-cat7241 and @cru5h-cascades and @seleyaaaa and @mono-squamblo and @strayfelinez and @strangelilangel and @yukihirop and @rivertheemoo and @meatmedallion and @drownedsilverforever and @senpaipaws and @cartoonlover999 and @byronicmoron and @resolutelymadvermin and @wanka-wanky and @looksmokin and @justwatchedsometv and @oakwoodvida and @human-n0-l0ng3r and @glooberousgoon and @goddess-of-lov3 and @lucifersdog-luci and @casethecreep and @aoihibiki247 and and @klyju and @fleshistic and @golshi-sweetheart and @femmesagemoon222 and @4ggravatez and @resonanthideoutruin and @saddmyths and @homestuckyaoi413 and @blueloky and @divine-vxnity and @ace-productions7 and @fiberopticemoweeb666 and @cryptedlullaby and @3veryth1ngstays and @blossomletters and @alpheiaa and @juniizhq and @sapphicavocado and @bloodybigirl and @yanderehiro and @dnplicoricenutttt and @russkiy-american-dreams and @2catnip4me and @miracle-winkel and @mickyx-x and @biblicallyunhingedtheo and @the-only-good-ai and @prettirei and @unhinged-pink-espresso and @patchofglass
I'd also add, resist the AI bubble that companies are forcing on us. Don't use generative AI to make cute cat pictures. Actually click on a website written by humans, instead of relying on the AI summary at the top. Turn off AI features on apps you use. It's bigger than AO3. Tech companies are trying to convince us that we need shitty AI to do things it's not actually capable of doing. The AO3 scams are one part of an entire scammy infrastructure.
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IVE BEEN WAITING ALL YEAR TO POST THIS YOU DONT EVEN KNOW
I’m crying.Â
i scheduled this a year ago..
Scheduling for every year
Fighting Time
The House of Hades, home of fearsome King of the Underworld, his beloved Queen and son the Prince of the Underworld, was a place where, had any errant Shade or Godly visitor not quick footed Hermes seen into the private bedchambers of the severe faced countenance of the Lord of the House at that moment would've scarcely believed their eyes.
Reblog the 500,000 dollar written check from Seto Kaiba and money will come your way.
Damn right we do cause we a got Seto Kaiba’s routing and account numbers
things that always make me happy: serial commenters. there are three types
1) reading a longfic chapter by chapter, leaving an increasingly emotional comment on every chapter, descends into keysmashes near the end: outstanding
2) read one fic by accident, clicked the author name, now working steadily through the backlog and commenting on everything, I wake up to an AO3 inbox full of enthusiasm: precious beyond words
3) the longterm serial commenter whose comment begins with I don’t even know this fandom but because they have followed me from somewhere else: stunning. humbling. magical.
these are all *chef’s kiss* and I want to add one more: 4) left a comment a while ago, comes back and leaves another comment on the same fic, telling you that they’re coming back to reread the fic: angels. blessings. lifesavers.
Fighting Time
The House of Hades, home of fearsome King of the Underworld, his beloved Queen and son the Prince of the Underworld, was a place where, had any errant Shade or Godly visitor not quick footed Hermes seen into the private bedchambers of the severe faced countenance of the Lord of the House at that moment would've scarcely believed their eyes.
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania may have developed a vaccine for seasonal allergies and food allergies.
Y'ALL THIS IS SO COOL AND COULD BE HUGE FOR SO MANY PEOPLE
additional article:
A new Penn mRNA vaccine stopped allergens from causing dangerous immune reactions and life-threatening inflammation in mice.
@thebibliosphere have you seen this? Could this help MCAS?
I'd need to know more, but if it's training the immune system not to overreact to the presence of an allergen, I suspect they're targeting specific protein strands that keep mast cells stable and from degranulating--which is what happens when you're exposed to a trigger.
So, yes, this could be significant in terms of calming down and reducing the over-priming of mast cells that triggers both normal and idiopathic reactions we see in mast cell diseases.
And even if it doesn't work (though I can't think of a reason why it wouldn't) this is still incredible. Holy shit, what a time to be alive.
most recent windows 11 update is wiping SSDs
there's been multiple reports of people's computers not booting properly after the windows 11 24H2 KB5063878 update due to it essentially wiping the hard drives (specifically SSDs) on computers and laptops. users have reported their SSDs aren't able to be read/recognized and unable to be seen in bios settings either.
sources: - https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/08/20/microsoft-is-investigating-windows-11-kb5063878-ssd-data-corruption-failure-issue/ - https://www.nichepcgamer.com/archives/windows11-24h2-issue-with-writing-to-the-ssd-is-this-caused-by-kb5063878-kb5062660.html
it's safe to assume all SSDs can be potentially affected by this update, so if you haven't updated yet turn off autoupdates
the bug caused by this update is seemingly triggered by installing/moving/deleting large files (50+ gb), which as simmers is what a lot of us do very pften
if you're unsure what windows version you currently have:
go to settings > system > about (at they very bottom) > and scroll down to see the current OS version
if you do currently have windows 11 24H2:
in settings, click 'Windows update' > 'Update history' > and under 'Quality Updates' check to see if the KB5063878 update is in the list of recently installed updates
don't panic, you can uninstall this update!
while in 'Update History', scroll to the very bottom and click 'Uninstall updates', and click 'Uninstall' for 'Security Update for Microsoft Windows (KB5063878)'
from there, give it some time to remove the update and after pause updates for as long as possible (5 weeks is the longest i think), but it will force an update if there's a big/official update for the fix
if you've already been affected and your computer is not starting or giving errors regarding your hard drive, i recommend visiting small pc repair shops to try data recovery as some have reported placing their SSD in an enclosure seems to work to recover the data
hopefully this is helpful is any kind of way! friendly reminder to back up your data to an external drive routinely!
BOTS AND SCAM COMMENTS ON AO3
WHAT THEY ARE AND HOW TO SPOT THEM
okay, I thought I should make this post since there has been an influx of scammers plaguing AO3 comments section and people are falling victims to them. so here it is;
WHAT THEY ARE
so far, there are three main types of these scam bots
bots that tell you AO3 is deleting works, and that you should delete the works yourself because your entire account will be affected if your works get deleted by AO3
bots that tell you your works are terrible
bots that tell you they want to draw comic panels from your works
ALL OF THESE ARE SCAM WITH MALICE INTENTIONS
bots that tell you AO3 is deleting works, and that you should delete the works yourself because your entire account will be affected if your works get deleted by AO3 are just trying to get you to delete your works, most certainly because they want to steal and/or use your works to train their AI and, once you delete your works, it becomes extremely difficult, almost impossible for you to claim ownership of your works when the original works have been deleted. AO3 IS NOT DELETING ANY WORKS.
bots that tell you your works are terrible are also just trying to get you to delete your works, most certainly because they want to steal and/or use your works to train their AI and, once you delete your works, it becomes extremely difficult, almost impossible for you to claim ownership of your works when the original works have been deleted.
bots that tell you they want to draw comic panels from your works are trying to hack your password, personal data and credit card information (they will say they see potentials in your work and are interested in drawing comic panels from it, and then they will ask you to discuss this with them on discord where you will have to pay/commission them for the “comics” you will never get, but you will get your password hacked, personal data and credit card information breached and stolen instead, do not fall for them).
HOW TO SPOT THEM
what all these 3 types of bots have in common is that;
most of them (keyword, most, not all) are guest users or empty accounts.
their comments are all the same copied and pasted scripts that they mass leave on lots of authors’ works at random.
their comments are all vague, in the sense that there will be no mention of any specific characters’ names, no mention of any specific scenes or events from your works (granted, they need to be vague because they are bots, they never actually read your works, and they have to be able to use the same comments on other writers’ works too).
report them for spam then delete their comments when/if you get them.
please spread this if you can. us writers gotta look out for each other. stay safe, everybody ♡
Would you prefer to see my writing in a writing blog?
Yes make a side blog for writing and link it
No keep it all mixed together here
[Image IDs: Text reading: This is from a friend of mine who is a pediatrician:
"A family came in with their 2mo. And they were very hesitant about vaccines. "Which ones are really important?"
So I went through each disease for which the child would be vaccinated today.
*I told them about diphtheria and the 30% mortality rate, how diphtheria toxin is one of the most toxic substances known, as a single molecule can kill a cell. I told them about how this disease used to terrify communities.
*They'd already heard of tetanus. Everyone has heard of tetanus.
*I told them about pertussis and the baby I saw who coughed and coughed and coughed and coughed and coughed....until he went into laryngospasm. We did everything we could. I will never forget his mother throwing himself at our feet begging us not to say what we were going to say. I let that family see the tears playing in my eyes as I described the memory. They needed to know that I am doing this because I fucking care. Not because of some quality metric.
*We'd already discussed how hepatitis B is spread by nonsexual transmission and how in the prevaccine era, as many as 65% of infants born to HBV positive fathers had HBV by the tme they were were a year old. We talked about how that is a life sentence before age 1.
*They know about polio.
*I talked about the baby I watched die of pneumococcal sepsis. Another mother at our feet. Another family destroyed by a microbe.
*I described a cricoidotomy in graphic detail to explain what Haemophilus influenza type B does.
*I was admitted for rotavirus in February of 1979. I still have the hospital bill for $20. My mother told me about how sick I was. And 25 years later, I became a resident and I saw babies with rotavirus. You could hear the diarrhea from across the emergency department. We had to do our own IVs at the NYC hospital. The babies were just so sick and all we could do was keep them hydrated and wait for them to recover. And then in the fall of 2006 the rotavirus vaccine came out. And in February of 2008 I was the senior on the floor and there weren't any rotavirus kids. It was just...gone.
And I asked that mother, now that she'd asked me which vaccines were important, I was going to turn the questions around. Which ones did she think were important?
That baby got every recommended immunization today. I won. RFJ Jr. lost. The parents won; that mother won't be throwing herself at my feet.
Most importantly, the baby won.
Today, I was a hero and this is why I am a pediatrician." /End IDs]
ATTENTION EVERYONE
I HAVE SOLVED THE EDNA VS MEGAMIND PROBLEM
OK, so you want to have great presentation with the most dramatic cape you can find, right? But Edna Mode says no capes. But Megamind says presentation is the most important part. How to appease both?
Get a fucking bitching cloak. A big, gorgeous, fantastic, fabulous cloak that blows dramatically in any wind. You enter in that. Looking your opponent dead in the eye, you unfasten the cloak and make a point of either handing it off to someone or dropping it onto the ground.
Appeasing Edna:
Since you took off the cloak, it's not getting in the way or hurting you.
The fastener is probably very easy to undo and just secure enough that wind won't force the fastener to become undone.
If you can fly, you probably won't be going too fast in the cloak since it would greatly increase air resistance. Plus, if you have to go fast, you can just remove it beforehand or in the air, which could potentially be really fucking cool.
Appeasing Megamind:
CLOAKS ARE FUCKING BADASS M8
Taking off the cloak can signify shit just got real and you're taking this seriously, which can be HELLA cool.
If you're able to perform attacks from afar without having to take off your cloak, this makes the previous point even COOLER.
Repeat of the third point for Edna.
In conclusion, we need more characters who wear badass cloaks they remove when they fight.
