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"Just tell them we're Animorphs." "Tell them we're what?" "Idiot teenagers with a death wish."
THE ANIMORPHS30 ZINE IS HERE!!!
(And thanks to @gros-chat-fait for this beautiful cover art!!)
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the series, creators of the fanbase have come together to bring you a zine of nearly 200+ pages (at which point I'm not even sure we can call it a zine anymore! The correct term at this point would be anthology!), filled with art and writing.
You can download it as a PDF here, or if you just want to view it without downloading, it's available on Canva here.
Currently I'm still working on options for getting a printed release, but self-printing is still an option! Stay tuned—there should be a self-print mirror available shortly (I'll just need to change some links to QR codes, among other things).
Okay, I think that's all I have to say for now! Here's to thirty years!!!
going back to one of my first fandoms with a Tokyo Mew Mew fic
https://archiveofourown.org/works/86126001
@femslashbigbang thank you for the awesome prompt!
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I heard we're all in the mood for fix-its
Season 3's ending wasn't happy to me, it was horrifying, so I reframed it as horror that gradually dawns on the characters involved
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I'm so excited to reveal my entry for @gelphiebigbang2025 ! This was my first time participating in a big bang and I had a lot of fun and I'm grateful for the opportunity and the wonderful community <3
Oh, if Glinda could cry in this form, she would.
It was supposed to be a simple delegation to the swamplands of Quadling Country, where Glinda would make her debut as a public figure for the Wizard of the Emerald City. Glinda's friendly attitude towards the locals, despite the disapproval of her accompanying secret police officer, gets her cursed - or blessed - to transform into a beast every night.
Elphaba's timely intervention saves Glinda, and the two go on a journey to find refuge and a cure - a journey that'll help Glinda break away from being a pawn, and find freedom to regain her self, with her lovely, dearest... friend... by her side.
Check out this awesome accompanying art piece by my artist match @pasto_art on instagram/tiktok and @pasto_arte on twitter!
My art piece for @gelphiebigbang2025! This is a cover-style illustration for One Short Week (One More Time) by @zipzin ! The summary:
"What happens now? Glinda finally has Morrible’s recognition, but at what cost? She can’t help but mourn Elphaba’s abrupt departure and new status as the Wicked Witch of Oz. Is this really what she wanted?
Then she wakes up at Shiz, in their shared dorm room, and Elphaba smiles at her. Is this a dream, a chance to enjoy a facsimile of Elphaba before reality folds her into it once more?
But it keeps happening."
It's a really interesting time loop premise with action, emotion, and doomed yuri. Check it out!
This is a BEAUTIFUL art piece to go with an amazing time loop fic! Please go check both of them out and shower @zipzin and @sapphic-circles with deserved love and kudos!!
Mark Your Calendars!
After 6 long months of hard work from over 200 participants -- it is time!
On October 30th the reveals BEGIN! They will go from October 30th until November 21st, ushering in Wicked For Good.
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Hiya! I know it's been a little while but I just wanted to let you know I finally got around to making the web version of that fic poisoning tool I made about a month ago. It's at https://tricksofloki.github.io/ficpoison.html if you're interested :)
OHOHOHO!
Alright, I gave this a little test on my own fic over here. Quick little review/notes for anyone interested! (But the tl;dr is that I approve based on my initial review of the original code and based on using this web tool to automate running the code.)
This version is super easy to use. I'll be honest; I was struggling trying to figure out how to run the code locally before because that is not a coding language I personally use, and this website takes out all of the hard part of doing that. You need to do the one time task of creating a work skin to enable the "poison" CSS used, and you need to make sure that work skin is enabled for any work you're going to use this on. The code to put into your work skin is available at the link. If you already have a work skin you use, you can just add this class to it. (I think the tutorial I linked to does a good job walking you through how, but I'm open to doing a tutorial on this blog if anyone wants that.)
If you're poisoning an existing fic, first have a backup copy. Once you poison it, that copy is going to be annoying to UN-poison if you ever want to, so you should keep a private copy on your PC or phone or wherever so you have the unpoisoned version available. Once you do this, your copy on AO3 is poisoned, and it would take a fair amount of effort to unpoison as the author. Upside: as the author, you can see all the CSS stuff in the background, so if you really need to unpoison a copy as the author with full access to it, it's not impossible. Just really annoying.
For reference, here's what I can see as the author with access to the edit page:
I can clearly see where the poison is if I really wanted to go back through and unpoison.
And here is what I can see in a copy scraped with nyuuzyou's code:
You can definitely see it's messed up by looking, but you don't see an active callout to where exactly the poison code is. Keep in mind that not every scraper uses the same code as nyuuzyou, and more sophisticated code may pull something more sophisticated than the plain text from nyuuzyou's tool. Other scrapers may be pulling fics with the formatting and everything, and I don't know exactly what that output looks like. Depending on what their output is, if they can see the class for the poison, they can pretty easily code something to remove it. That's me being overly conservative, I suspect. I haven't heard of any scrapers who have bothered with anything more than plain text, and this isn't an issue unless they're grabbing the full HTML. (Translation: From what I know, this is NOT an issue. Yet. So this is not a weakness of the poison tool. Yet.)
Based on the output, anyone who's doing a half decent job of cleaning up the data they scrape would toss my fic out of the dataset. It's full of what look like typos because the poison got placed mid-word, so it looks like I just suck at writing. If your goal is to get tossed out of the dataset, this is perfect. If a scraper isn't paying attention at all, you can contribute some really terrible training data if they leave your fic in the set because your poisoned fic is going to be full or words that don't even exist thanks to the word placement.
As far as using the tool, I used an existing fic. I went into the edit page for the chapter, scrolled to the bottom and left the text editor on the default HTML mode. I copied everything in that box. (Easy method: click into the box where you can type out the fic, and press "Ctrl" and "A" to select all, then "Ctrl" and "C" to copy.) I went to the tab with all-hail-trash-prince's tool, and I pasted it into the box on the left.
I clicked "Apply poison" and the poisoned fic appeared in the right box. I copied the poisoned fic from the right box, went back to my fic on AO3 with my custom work skin already enabled, and I pasted the poison fic in place of the original fic. I clicked the preview button to make sure it would look normal, and it did. So I clicked to update the chapter with the poison block included.
I loaded the chapter with the default Microsoft screen reader turned on, and it didn't read any of the poison data, only the real fic that is visible on the screen, so success there.
So that brings us to applying this to a brand new fic. For those, you're going to go through the motions of posting a fic as usual, but instead of clicking post when you're done, you're going to swap that text editing mode over to HTML and copy everything in there. Take it to the poison tool, paste it in, and grab your poisoned copy. Go back to AO3, make sure your poison work skin is enabled, and then replace the original fic with the poison fic, making sure to stay in the HTML editing mode while you do.
(Sneaky quick edit after posting: sometimes the tool leaves you with a dangling <p> or </p> or <em>. Make sure you always preview the chapter after poisoning it, and you can go back in to the rich text editor to delete any of the floating tags that were accidentally put in by the poison.)
The last downside I notice is that your word count is immediately wrong. My 34k fic looks like a 43k fic after poisoning the first 16k words. Technically, you don't have to tell people the true word count of your fic but like. That feels a little rude to the reader, so I think it would be kind to briefly put the true word count either at the bottom of your summary or in your first author's note.
To me, the downsides of having to create a custom work skin (that trash-prince has kindly already written for everyone) and having the wrong word count displayed... are nothing. In comparison to having my fic be easy to scrape, I'll take those slight downsides any day. From what I know of the current scraping landscape, this is a reasonably effective way to make your fic useless to anyone who scrapes it because people are out there that will be scraping AO3 again.
I'm curious to hear anyone else's thoughts if they check this tool out or try it for themselves, so don't be shy! I'm one person, so maybe I can't catch everything. If you're seeing something that I'm not, I want to hear about it.
And if anyone wants a more visual step by step, you are welcome to yell my way. If this text post is clear enough for everyone, I won't bother, but if a more visual walkthrough will help anyone, then I'm happy to do it!
EDIT: Just tossing in a summary of feedback I've seen from others below!
The tool is pulling from a list of most popular English words, which means it may add inappropriate verbiage to G-rated fics. See this ask for info. trash-prince has made adjustments based on the initial words spotted, but please kindly report any other concerning poison words you find, particularly slurs and other wording that cannot be interpreted in a SFW way.
Reblogging to add a visual on how readers can still save an unpoisoned copy of the fic, as well as some notes on each method!
"Print as PDF"
Pros:
Works on mobile browsers
Works with TTS apps that support PDFs
Cons:
Ugly as all hell with little to no options to format it differently unless you have a paid copy of a PDF editing program
Not as easy as clicking AO3's download button
On PC:
1) Load the fic on AO3 as usual.
2) Absolutely do NOT click this button. It'll make an ugly unreadable copy.
3) Make sure this button says "Chapter by Chapter." If it says "Entire Work," then you're only looking at the first chapter, and this process will ONLY save chapter 1. Just click that button now if you need to switch it out.
4) Press "Ctrl" + "P" or click through the way you usually print something from your browser.
5) Instead of printing to whatever your normal printer is (if you use one at all!), change this option to "Save to PDF." If you want to change any other print settings you can do that now.
6) Click save, and it will pop up a save dialog asking where you want to save it. From there, just do whatever you normally do when you use the regular download button on AO3!
On mobile:
1) In your browser, go to the fic.
2) Still definitely do NOT click the normal download button.
3) Still definitely make sure the fic is on view entire work mode. The button at the top says "Chapter by Chapter" if you're in the right mode.
4) Click the menu you use to view more options when you're in a browser tab. Mine looks like this in the Samsung browser, but yours may be a little different.
5) Pick the "Print/PDF" option.
6) If yours has settings, awesome. You can play with those. Mine is bare bones, so I can just click here to change my printer and that's it. Use this setting to select "Save as PDF" to get a PDF.
7) Click the save button and continue the way you normally would with the regular AO3 download button.
Save as HTML
Pros:
This is more customizable because you're downloading all of the HTML and theoretically can change settings for fonts and backgrounds
Cons:
...BUT that may not be easy. That's new territory for me, so I'm willing to look into it more if anyone is interested in the potential, but I haven't had a need to use it because I always read fics in my browser.
And this could be intimidating if you've never played with HTML files before. PDFs may feel a lot simpler.
And it's still ugly, though in my opinion not AS bad as the print to PDF option.
Still not as easy as clicking AO3's download button.
On PC:
1) Load the work, same as above.
2) Same as above, do NOT use AO3's button to save.
3) Same as above, make sure you've loaded the ENTIRE work, not just the first chapter.
4) Press "Ctrl" + "S" to save the entire webpage.
5) Use the save dialog to put the file wherever you want it. Think of it as similar to a PDF or EPUB of your fic. It probably gets saved wherever you put those.
(Pro tip: if the file name it suggests has the phrase "Chapter 1" near the end, you forgot to switch over to viewing the entire work! Cancel out and switch to the entire work before you actually save, unless you're really trying to save only one chapter of the fic.)
6) Go to the place where you saved the fic. When you save HTML like this, it will create both an HTML file and a folder of files it uses to help that HTML file understand what it's supposed to look like. When you're ready to open it, you want to ignore the folder and open the actual HTML file.
7) If you've never opened an HTML file before, it might ask you what program you want to use to open the file. I select "Firefox" because that's my default browser. It should work with Firefox, Chrome, Edge, whatever you use to look at websites normally.
8) The top looks ugly, exactly like how websites look with your internet is getting interrupted while loading them. Scroll down a bit and the fic itself looks fine. It's just the top that's weird.
Neither option is amazing, so you might want to ask yourself if this is worth it to you. Personally, I don't know of my fics having any readers who are downloading the fic to read offline, so it's not something I care much about for my own fics. I do care how it affects your fics, so it's still something on my to-do list. Whether that comes from finding an alternative download method that does work well or by modifying the poisoning method while still poisoning the part of the website mass scrapers go after, I'll keep looking to see if there's something we can do to improve the fic-downloading aspect of this.
Honorable mentions:
One riskier thing you could try is including an alternate link to the unpoisoned fic in your A/N. Generally, AI scraping is automated, so they're not actually reading the contents of your A/Ns or following any links you put in there, but you should know that they could theoretically do that. It's probably far more effort than they'd be willing to go to, but it's still a risk. That being said, if you want to take that risk, just use the A/N to put a link to a read-only copy of your fic on your choice of alternate host such as Ellipsis. (Not trying to advertise for them specifically, but I just really don't wanna rec something like GDocs with the decisions it's made around AI. Just use whatever host you like that allows guest access and lets you make a read-only/no editing copy.)
And finally, the less risky version of that is more manual, but you can tell readers in your A/N that you are willing to privately share a clean copy of the fic. Just give them somewhere to contact you, and use your best judgment. I highly doubt someone scraping is going to go to the effort to DMing you for a clean copy, but again. It's not impossible.
anon because I truly don't want to get into a slapfight here but. have you... tried asking any actual, current AIs if they can read your "poisoned" fanfiction? because. out of scientific curiosity I ran your recommended poisoner on some text (actually the text of the poisoner website itself) and then asked the bargain-basement, free-tier version of chatgpt what it thought the original text was. it was word-perfect. it had no trouble with it at all.
like this situation does suck and I respect that you want to do something about it but... I really don't think this method is going to do anything to even slightly inconvenience any AIs worth the name and plenty to hurt real people in the process. sorry :( you don't have to post my message or anything but maybe reconsider?
No worries, and I am not trying to get into a fight with anyone here either, including anyone who disagrees and chooses not to use any of the information provided. I try to be consistently clear about that, but to repeat: nothing on this blog is meant to read as, "YOU HAVE TO DO THIS."
(I am autistic and can struggle with how I come across to people, so if any of you are thinking I'm being a jackass, please tell me so. It is most likely not intentional.)
That is good information to have, and I did face my reluctance to use AI at all to confirm for myself. I only cried a little as I created a Ch*tG*T account so I could share and ask it what it sees in the scraped copy of my poisoned fic.
And then I yapped too much, so the rest is under the cut!
One more thing I did want to address: I am not looking to skirt any AO3 terms of service, stated or even implied. You won't see me encourage anything on this blog that I don't fully believe is allowed per AO3. A notable thing I'm seeing is some people saying this breaks a part of the TOS about technology, so I just wanted to walk through that section together.
This is the section people are referring to, as far as I'm aware. The relevant subsections are 1, 6, and 7.
a common misconception is that a revolution is built by years of painstakingly raising class consciousness among the masses while at the same time building up a party capable of taking leadership during a revolutionary crisis. nothing could be further from the truth. a revolution is built by making social media posts calling for a general strike over and over until one day it just happens
Oh, and refusing to participate in electoral politics and letting the government starve grandmas and the disabled, and refusing to try to feed and empower your neighbors because you dislike their politics or choice in fanfic! Those are also the key to a successful revolution.
Don't forget to use slogans and chants from languages or contexts you don't fully understand. You may not get a revolution right away and might make everyone suffer more and encourage someone unstable to do something terrible but it feels very revolutiony, which is the main point.
Oh, and blaming the Jews.
Can't have a revolution without blaming the Jews, then you might end up actually fighting against oppressive power structures instead of firebombing synagogues and Holocaust survivors!