lost-cyptid
Art, Stories, OCs, Photography, Aesthetics (possibly fanfiction and writing if I get brave enough). My little corner for the lost souls and art lovers like myself.
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A writer friend told me something that broke my heart a little bit today; they're going to quit publishing their fanfic.
My instant thought was that they had been trolled or attacked or that something terrible had happened in their life because this person is so passionate about their writing. It wasn't any of that. Engagement with their works has been going down, as it has for many of us. Comments are like gold dust a lot of the time, and just looking through the historical comment counts on old fics on ao3 demonstrates this trend very clearly. It was not simply the comments dropping off which caused them to decide to stop posting, however.
My friend came across a discord server for their fandom (I should point out here that their fandom interest and mine diverged a couple of years ago, we stay in touch but don't currently read each other's posts because I'm not into their fandom and they would rather gouge their eyes out with a wooden spoon than read anything Star Wars) and specifically to share fic in that fandom. They joined, because we all love a good fic rec, only to discover that their latest multichapter fic, which has almost no comments and very few kudos, is being hotly discussed in this server as one of the best stories ever. Not one of these people has bothered to say this to them on the fic. When they asked, none of participants could see the point in telling the author of the fic they apparently loved so much that they love it.
This discovery has absolutely destroyed my friend's love of sharing fic. They share because they love seeing other people's enjoyment, and fic writers do that through comments and kudos/reblogs/likes because we don't get paid. There is no literary critic writing a blog post/article about how amazing the story is for us to copy and keep/frame. There is no money from royalties. All we have are the words of the people reading our works.
Those people on that server could have taken five minutes of the time they spent gushing about how amazing my friend's story was to other people and used it to tell the one person guaranteed to want to hear that praise how much they loved it. They could have taken a moment to express their opinion to the person who spent hours upon hours plotting, writing, editing, and posting those chapters. Instead, they deprived my friend of thing that keeps them sharing their writing, and in the process have killed their love of it. My friend now feels used and unmotivated.
I won't be sharing a link to their fic, they said I could share their experience but not their identity. I know they plan to post one final chapter. I know they intend to express their hurt at being excluded from the praise for the thing they created, and I know they intend to announce that as a consequence they will not be posting for a long while, if at all.
So please, I beg you, don't hide your love of a story from the writer. It's just about the only thing we have.
But first they must catch you 🏳️⚧️ Prints
My fish army. I need you.
If you are a fanfiction author who posts to AO3. Your work has probably been scraped into these datasets.
Send them a copyright takedown notice if you think your work is in this. Escalate to a DMCA report if you need to: https://www.copyright.gov/512/sample-notice.pdf (and send it to: dmca@huggingface.co)
Make sure to grab all your work IDs from Ao3.
Restrict your work to the archive.
Glaze your art.
So many of us are affected. You aren't alone. Maybe together we can take down this theft.
With more and more Ao3 authors restricting their works to the archive (due to AI scraping), they're going to be losing guest interaction. And probably generally feeling down because. You know. AI is stealing their hard work.
So! Now is a great time to stop by your favorite authors/stories and drop them some comments! They really appreciate it!
"born in the wrong era" but there's no particular time period i'd rather be living in, I'm just pissed af at having to live through the global resurgence of fascism
wikipedia no longer being anywhere near the top of search results when looking up anything feels eviscerating
It's scary to be transgender in the world right now but if you're transgender I love you and we have to stick together and keep fighting and keep living and keep loving
crazy question but have u ever drawn yaoi where one is a girl? i forget what's it called tho
HETEROSEXUALITY?
"Transgender rage is more powerful than the courts.
Transgender love is more hopeful than the law.
We have always been here and no "ruling" can eradicate us!"
Seen in Belfast, Northern Ireland
do u ever just
It's gonna be such a funny mess when Donald Trump dies of a stroke on April 1st, 2024.
Naturally everybody will think it's fake because of the date only to lose their minds (both positively and negatively based on their opinion of trump) when realizing it's real
There will be massive celebrations in the streets and on social media and lots of predictable "don't speak ill of the dead" discourse about those celebrations
Weird evangelicals will pull some weird number trick talking about how Jesus was conceived on April 1st and that makes Trump a sort of messiah and people will make fun of that
The Republicans (after they're done with the faux-sadness and faux-outrage) will stomp over each other to be his successor but none of them will succeed. They'll tear each other apart and have no single nominee for the November elections.
There will be discourse about if Biden and the living former presidents should go to his funeral (they won't, he was a traitor insurrectionist)
The Ukraine-Russia War immediately goes in favor of Ukraine as morale in the Kremlin is reduced. China similarly backs off from its threats on Taiwan.
Ten thousand new memes are made, some sticking around for years to come.
Not a month later a bunch of unofficial biographies of Trump hit the bookshelves, many with new details about just how awful he was.
DRAG IS NO LONGER BANNED IN TENNESSEE ✨✨
idk when we decided that explaining yourself shouldn't be part of an apology but like. if someone was a dick to me and apologizes but I still don't understand why they did it I'm not gonna feel any better
the thing is. The THING is. Uhhhhhhhh. Watching interviews of Andrew where he talks about his spiderman is heartbreaking, sometimes. Because he's trying not to say directly why exactly it was compromised, but you know exactly what he's saying. He says he went into the project thinking he was going to bring something to the character, and that was taken away by the corporate america, that he was too young to have been exposed to that kind of system. Stephen says playing Spider-man was a harmless experience, to which andrew is quick to laugh, "oh yeah it was harmless" he mocks. And Stephen is like oh was it not?? And andrew is like, let's not get to that, Stephen. Its all light, it's all funny, until you know exactly why it wasn't harmless. Andrew just wanted Peter to be free, he wanted Peter to have an MJ who didn't fit the typical standard. He wanted Peter to become more inclusive than ever and put that in the cinema. How powerful would that have been? How beautiful, and eye opening, and a breeze, too. It would have been cool to realise that oh yeah, superheroes are normal people. They can be gay. Spider-man represents all of that, Spider-man is white, skinny, black, a girl, a middle aged man, Spider-man is also a pig, for god's sake. Spider-man could easily be bi, too. But that was too forward for 2014, apparently. And it truly breaks your heart seeing him trying to talk about the injustice that happened to him, the kind of shock it must have been to realise that people- people who are supposed to be perpetuating new ideas and should be a medium to bring awareness- are in fact, downright homophobic. And if not homophobic- let's give them the benefit of doubt- they would definitely not want to take the risk. They will not put their jobs at risk. They would not, in fact, help him make this character reach it's potential. And it's not just about him, it's about so many characters who become wasted potential because of this. Fiction imitates reality a lot of times and it's heartbreaking to realise that so many people in real life also don't reach their full potential because of this system.
And now. NOW I'm so happy he's got to be Peter again. And he's got to throw a peace sign and be a disaster bi. Truly deserves it. Truly phenomenonal and beautiful and makes me wanna jump like a fucking seal and clap and dance and give him all the flowers and say love that for you. Love that for you, Andrew. Love that for all of us, you lovely human being.
COVID is slowly becoming a “third world” disease. While first world countries are hoarding vaccines, having doses for populations many times their size, third world countries can’t get any because pharma companies want to sell to the first world countries first. Even then, first world countries will receive them first. While rich countries recover from COVID, they will forget about the pandemic while many other countries live the absolute worst moment of the pandemic without being able to vaccinate their population.
Kestrel-dad not sure how to dad but he’s trying his best.
the fact he even had to ask 🙄
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Aight so excuse this massive thing I’m freaking out.
I’m a massive simp for many things, you know me you know this to be true, and I’ve been watching RE Village play throughs because oof man (also I’m poor I can’t get my own copy rn) right but here’s the thing, I write fan fiction, and thus I go researching shit right, now I’ve been under the impression that The village the game is set in was somewhere in Romania, I don’t remember exactly where I got it into my head I think it was to do with the big titty goth girlfrind’s name being Romanian or something right.
But okay so y’all remember the book in the intro to the game, that Mia is reading to bby Rose, when she closes the book you can see the title of the book is ‘Village of Shadows’ right so me being the fanfic guy that I am seeing that there’s no cannon name for this village thinks “Ah! I’ll just go look up the Romanian for village of Shadows!” Whomst the fuck was gonna tell me ?????!!
by the time this pandemic ends I’ll have to be slowly rehabilitated back into society like a raccoon or I’ll get scared and start biting
My gender was lost with the rest of my childhood memories. There is nothing but an inkling of it
Flawless
This is what Rasputin would've wanted.
this is really how i feel sometimes