So Embarrassing When I Forget Im Checking Someone's Blog And I Start Scrolling Through And Liking And

Here is my new obsession, hello guys

Abandon My Eulogy Ford is never going to be able to read poetry again. I'm being serious.

He read "Do not stand at my grave and weep" and immediately started weeping. He tried Emily Dickinson, and he was out cold—no more Stanford, just a sad pile of jello.

Stan is going to be chilling out, doing whatever he does, and then he has Stanford sticking to him like glue because he happened to read a poem about death.

It's a tough relife out there fr.

Every once in a while Ford will just sway into whatever room Stan is in and just. Stare. For a prolonged period until Stan looks up and is like "poetry again?" And Ford just silently nods.

SO much of poetry is about grief of some kind its frankly ridiculous-> (spoken as some who writes and consumes poetry near constantly)

Poor Ford is just trying to wind down to go to bed at a reasonable time and is hit with the full force of poets and their abilities in making you Feel Emotions

Doodles inspired by this au made by @aroace-get-out-of-my-face (your writing is AMAZING btw. I love your fics <33)

Just thought about Stan having a habit of making suicide jokes cuz that's how he used to cope with his depression before, but after the loop ends he keeps doing it and giving Ford heart attacks every single time because he thinks Stan is being serious

This happened at least once

girl's night!!

+ bonus

(here's a follow-up post^^ thanks for all the notes everyone!!!)

modern-day changeling tales

With the ai webscrape that recently happened on ao3 will you lock your works to registered users only? Its definitely insane whats going on and I’ve seen a lot of authors start to lock off all of their works.

If you don’t know what i’m talking about you can find out more here.

Please be safe and careful with your content!

I saw the thing about the AI scraping of Ao3. Unfortunately, my fics pre-February didn't escape, which means Abandon My Eulogy and Gonna See The Folks I Dig both were added in with the thousands of fics used to train some AI program somewhere.

But I'm not going to lock my works to be registered users only.

It's sad. To see my work getting shuttled off to be churned into a machine that spits out lifeless crap, its violating, and it does make me upset.

But AI could never, and will never, do what I do. And I do this shit for the love of the game.

I'm not making content to get a higher inconsequential number, im not doing this for some kind of internet fame or to be on the cover of Vouge or something. I write, and I make art, and I create because I love doing it, and I love sharing it, and I love when other people see it and they ALSO get the joy that I created it with.

I write to tell stories. I write to string words together to make phrases that turn into sentences that bear meaning to others. I write to make angst that'll make you cry, that makes me cry, I write happy comedy to make you, and myself laugh, I write to enjoy Fandom or just for the sake of creating.

AI could never take that away from me. And, assholes using AI to make some kinda money and using my work to do it pisses me off to no end, but its not gonna stop me.

I know there are some of you here who like and read my work and aren't registered users on Ao3 (Although, take it from me, I HIGHLY recommend becoming a user, its awesome) or simply read ao3 without logging in.

I see why other authors are locking down their work, I understand it and I even encourage them, but im not going to do it for my own.

Because I used to be an unregistered user. I used to be so afraid of getting caught reading unpublished stories that I didn't want anything associated with me, so I didn't make an account until YEARS later. I remember clicking on links and being behind a wall, unable to read a fic I wanted because I wasn't a user. I remember missing out on art and on stories I wanted to see.

So im keeping my stuff open. Im putting my work out there for the world, and unfortunately, that means that sometimes people in the world are gonna be dicks about free access and use my work. Someone might feed abandon my Eulogy into AI to spit out a new ending. Someone might use AI to make shitty generated art for it.

And it makes me angry. I do not give my permission now or ever to take my work, anything I've ever written, and put it into generative AI, and if I ever hear the name of someone doing it, I'll hunt them down.

But im keeping my doors open. The garden is free to enter, and I will try to make sure it always is. If Ao3 finds a way to make it so I can prevent my fics from being taken while still allowing free access to everyone, id be happy to use that. But until then, im going to keep writing, keep posting, and raising my middle finger to the assholes who think its okay to steal people's work.

Ponyo fish reference because how else could I deal with this ending

Comment on fanfics

A few days back on AO3 I found an unfinished, two chapter spideypool fanfic that was cute and had lots of potential and was also last updated two years ago. Two whole years! And it had only three comments, all of which on chapter one, none on chapter two. I enjoyed the fanfic, despite it being far, FAR from being finished and the chance of it ever updating again anytime soon was just about zero. So you know what I did?

I wrote a damn comment. On chapter two.

And I made sure that fucker was long and had a small theory of where I think the author would take the fanfic in the future. I let the person behind the fic know that I friggin LOVED the two chapters I got to read! That I would LOVE to see more! That I’d jump out of my skin in happiness and virtually hug them half to death if I saw that they updated it.

Let me remind you this fic wasn’t updated in two YEARS! I was the first to comment on it in a year. And the first to comment on chapter two! And you know what happened today?

I got a reply.

From the author of the fanfic. And the author said how I gave them life for a project they had loved (still did) and that they were now working on a third chapter. After two YEARS of not updating. Of not writing. And it makes me so friggin happy seeing what I did. What I caused.

With a single. Damn. Comment.

All that it took for me was to think a bit about what I wanted to tell the author and the comment it. All it took was one comment. And suddenly this person was inspired to continue a fanfic they had abandoned for TWO YEARS!!

I couldn’t be happier. I couldn’t be more proud.

Comment on people’s fanfics. No matter how few chapters there are. No matter how many years have passed since their last update. Comment. You like a fanfic? Comment on it. It’s that easy.