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I wonder if “we have to torture this special character. in the lab facility. with secret science.” is an interest all 12-year-old children share or were we just the generation exposed to Maximum Ride
The Facility is a critically important part here. See it’s a Science Facility. It’s run by a very shady clandestine organization, which is incredibly powerful. They’re maybe part of the government, or if not the government then something Illuminati-like.
As such The Facility is very high tech, and likely buried underground or hidden somewhere no normal person can access. The Torture being done is for Science, which the Facility is for. It’s all scientists in lab coats doing the torture. There is so much lab equipment and probably a lot of devices hooked up to the special character which will beep and go off the charts when the special character has a violent mind explosion. This part is important.
And a special mention to the couple of people identifying that a 12-year-old stuck in school all day is, perhaps, in a way, a special character being tortured in the science facility.
i think this captures the defining pathology of the collective social media psyche right now. we are in the thrall of people who are wantonly cruel but who also demand to be coddled at all times in every way
[Image IDs: Image #1: Tweet from latke (latkedelrey) reading: when someone is edgy and also doesn't want people to respond negatively to them it's like Okay well then you have to pick one because you can't identify as Provocative but Afraid of Provoking. that's not real
Image #2: Tweet from america’s lounge singer: no no no you misunderstood. I said “fuck Your feelings”. My feelings are very important and must be handled gently, like a tiny baby hummingbird /End ID]
Making brennan lee mulligan proud by drafting a dnd campaign where you get hired to find a mercenary responsible for the death of a nobleman who owns every apothecary and healer in the city and along the way you discover more and more about the city's working class struggles and how the people have started to rally in support of this one man and can you guess what current event has inspired this one?
[First ID: The group Mystery Inc. from Scooby-Doo. They are all running in various postures, seeming mostly frightened. End ID.]
[Second ID: The logo of the group IPRE from The Adventure Zone. Their logo is a blue circle with a white border and big text in the middle reading IPRE. IPRE is surrounded by smaller rainbowy circles. The background of the image is red. End ID.]
With the recent rumblings about censorship and work deletions on Wattpad, many users are considering posting to AO3 for the first time. If that describes you, you may have questions.
This post is a collection of resources you can use to start finding the answers to these questions. If you don’t find what you’re looking for at the links below or you have something more specific to ask, please feel welcome to post questions in the reblogs and comments here.
If you’re an AO3 pro answering questions in these notes, be kind. We were all new once, and other fans helped us then. It’s time to pay it forward.
Resources (under the cut)
How does AO3 work? What is and isn’t allowed?
My first recommendation for new users is always to skim the Terms of Service FAQ. It explains what AO3 allows and why in plain, straightforward terms. AO3 does not allow placeholder works, commercial content such as commissions links, or “work search” posts.
How can I change the look of the site?
The appearance of AO3 is very customizable! If you just want a basic dark mode, scroll down to the bottom of any page and click “Reversi” under the Customize menu. For more advanced customizations, I can’t recommend @ao3commentoftheday enough. They have so many gorgeous tutorials for everything from site skins to making the site’s content filters do whatever you want.
Wattpad users may especially appreciate the Floating Comment Box extension, which makes commenting on AO3 work slightly more like Wattpad.
How does AO3 search work?
This handy guide by @backofthebookshelf covers the basics. Here is a cheatsheet with more advanced searching tricks.
I’m ready to post my own works. How do I add [specific thing]?
With a little bit of HTML, you can do some incredibly neat things in an AO3 work. Here’s the website running Doom. Here is a very comprehensive guide to Limited HTML on AO3. It may look intimidating at first, but you can get a lot done by copying and pasting and paying attention to the results. As a fun bonus, check out the rest of the series, which includes step by step instructions for making your fic look like text messages on a phone screen, newspaper articles, sticky notes, and more.
Why is Wattpad doing this now? Have similar things happened before?
Fandom creatives have been outrunning purges and legal threats for a long time. Here is a comprehensive timeline of fandom purges and legal actions taken against fanworks, from 1977 to the present day. Here is another timeline written by @olderthannetfic, with associated commentary from other fans.
Purges on LiveJournal and other sites circa 2007 influenced the founding of AO3. You can read in detail about the circumstances of its founding and the construction of the policies it abides by today here.
If you read this far, I’m proud of you. Migrating to a new site is always hard, and there’s so much grief when archives purge content without warning. Welcome to AO3. We’re glad to have you. 🤝
Under Obama there was a report that we should be warry of the rise of white extremism and the right wing threw a fit and Obama had to placate them by not doing anything about it.
[ID: a tweet by Cory Fitz @/cory_fitz that reads "the key to understanding backrooms is that members of gen z were kids when shopping malls started dying".
the quote-retweet by Lunchbox 🐔🗣️ @/fishinl0ve reads "i've talked about how gothic horror is a fear of the remains of a now dead decadence of the past, ie haunted castles or old haunted mansions. our modern version of this is evidently empty shopping malls and anamatronic pizzaria arcades". end ID.]
BTW if anyone wants to see an analysis of how gothic horror and mascot horror intersect (in one particular case, anyway), check out @wonderfulworldofdarklords' Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory episode, especially 1:34:41 through 1:36:16.
Between the empty shopping malls and the animatronic pizza arcades, we've got the past reaching into the present (when it isn't bulldozed over) and the corruptor of the innocent (how many horror stories are of children being lured away from the bright and colorful child-friendly space by an adult infiltrating that space?) And despite the lack of crumbling castles, Victorian manors, and brooding Byronic vampires or werewolves (unless you count the grumpy mallgoths who despise just how pop-culture focused Hot Topic is these days), that fits the gothic horror subgenre.
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