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Cuz my wife wold be mad I didn't reblog the noodle.

This is Money Snake. She only appears every 312 years. 

If you reblog her picture within the next twenty-five seconds you will have good luck and fortune for the rest of your life. 

I probably put way too much thought into it but I do enjoy making a more in depth story rather than winging it. I like to actually think about the worldbuilding, make sure things actually connect and make sense. I am a big history nerd and I feel like it's the closest I can get to writing my own history.

Me: Okay, Brain. Think about what happens next in this chapter.

Brain: *Skips three chapters ahead*

Me: No, no. This one, this chapter, the one we are writing right now.

Brain:.......*47 scenes forward*

Me: NO

"is this too cliche?" who cares? bro, write what you have fun writing. stuff your manuscript full of your favourite tropes. the same themes you love. all inspired by things you grew up with. do it all. go off. load. it. up. be freeeee

a sequence of Events. not crosby. not mcdavid. just one nhl player with no “reputation” and everything to lose.

Im enjoying the longevity of tumblrs recontextualization style of humor. a seemingly innocuous post followed by like "posts that a gnome would make" or like "are you a phone"

Guys, gals, enbies, people who are posting on AO3 do not care about the things you don't like about their fics. Seriously, you don't need to tell us and, in fact, we're basically pleading with you to not tell us.

Don't like how it's being written? Click back.

Don't like one of the characters? Click back.

Have nothing positive to say? Click back.

Legit do not comment your negative shit because we do not care.

We're not writing for you, we're sharing it with you.

Watch Elon Crust being the worst human alive:

Translation:

Everything (including art, writing etc.) you post on Twitter ("X") after 29. September belongs to Elon Musk and you lose rights over it.

(That means they can feed it to AI, change, publish and sell it without your consent.)

If you have friends who post their ART, WRITING, PICTURES (etc.) or other creative, self-made projects on twitter, please tell them.

wet dog

it’s just one of those croissant days

laughter is the best noise ever i can't believe people are worried they have an "ugly laugh" or whatever it is literally the sound of pure joy and no one should be ashamed of that i <3 ugly laughter

if u feel the first cramp and think "i dont need a painkiller yet, itll pass" ? that the devil speaking, take that painkiller immediately

I support the troops (the ao3 volunteer admins) in their war on terror (counter measures against whatever fucker decided to ddos my only source of dopamine)

Why a group may lie about their motivations

Given the AO3 DDoS attack, there have been questions about why a group may lie about their motivation in a situation like this.

I'm not going to comment on the specific group, because I haven't seen cofirmation of who's claimed it, and I'm not going to hypothesize about what their motivations may or may not be.

That said, probably the biggest reason to claim to have an ideology that you don't have is to sow discord. It's a pretty standard disinformation tactic to get two group that are both your enemy to go after each other. It's something we saw a fair amount from Russia during the 2016 election in particular, including on Tumblr.

For example, if you position yourself a religious group, saying that you are targeting a marginalized group due to your religious beliefs, you can get that religious group and that marginalized group to turn on each other and so ultimately undermine both in the process.

It's part of the reason why it's really important not to have kneejerk reactions to things like this--the attack is as much on the supposed attacking ideology as on the victims.

Ao3 is actually massively culturally important and very very good at being what it is. I’m so serious when I say that ao3 needs to be protected as the anti censorship, by fans for fans, nonprofit, volunteer run, expertly designed archival site that it is. You don’t have to read or like fanfiction to understand that on principle, ao3 is a site that should be defended.

Just sos you knows, AO3 is down under a DDOS attack right now. They’ve been coming back in little blips and then disappearing again. It’s been several hours. (For reference, it’s currently 3 p.m. eastern, July 10, 2023.)

https://twitter.com/AO3_Status/status/1678468065070030856

The culprit (as with a few other DDOS attacks recently) is Anonymous Sudan, a group that is likely Russian, not Sudanese. The ‘reason’ they gave–that AO3 is “full of disgusting smuts and other LGBTQ+ and NSFW things,” is thin and probably not completely legit, though still legitimately concerning.

The AS claim: https://twitter.com/FalconFeedsio/status/1678397195039526912

Reporting on AS: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-28/anonymous-sudan-does-group-behind-microsoft-cyberattack-have-ties-to-russia (you can use archive.ph to get this one, 12ft doesn’t seem to work)

As noted here, https://twitter.com/honeyskeleton/status/1678449598703050769:

DDOS protection is expensive especially for a high traffic site like ao3. And it’s uniquely vulnerable as an independent site without ads or other corporate support. SPECIFICALLY targeted bc of its queer works and yet ppl will still complain every time they ask for donations lmao 

So, again, when AO3 comes back online, please don’t go hard with refreshing all your tabs. Please do remember to download fics you love early and often as  you continue in your whole ~reading journey~. And please do support AO3 through a dono or becoming a donating member, if it is possible for you to do so.

Dealing with auditory processing disorder

LAWFUL: take the parts you heard and turn it into a clarifying question, e. g. "you saw your cousin where?" or "she's writing a what?"

NEUTRAL: "what did you say?"

CHAOTIC: take a wild stab at what the person said, e. g. "you want to baptize a mackerel?"

“A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.”

— Lorrie Moore