Y'know What?

On Ao3 I love when writers put the tag “I wrote this instead of sleeping” because of the fact that I read this instead of sleeping

some observations on color coding eyewear in ficton and their meanings

*concerned lily noises*

Remus: GO TO HELL Sirius: HEY SMARTASS I CANT GO HOME YET— SUMMER ISNT FOR ANOTHER THREE WEEKS Remus: I- James: babe— Regulus: he’s not wrong—

This is me about any fandom I’m in

“I’m gonna be normal about consuming this piece of media”

*narrator voice* she was, in fact, not normal about consuming this piece of media

Love me some One Topic

REBLOG THIS IF:

- you support trans kids under 18

- you support trans kids getting surgeries before 18

- you support trans kids starting hormone therapy before 18

PSA: bot comments are taking over ao3

The above examples have been provided with the authors' permission to demonstrate what these look like.

Basic rundown:

They are all 3 sentences long

Perfect grammar, capitalization, and punctuation

Like absolutely flawless English teacher-style writing with only a single exclamation mark, ever

No mentions whatsoever of character names, settings, situations, or anything that could be tied to the story

The usernames may be identical to people who exist on ao3, but the name is not clickable, and no profile is associated with it EXCEPT when you directly search for that name. What this means: the comments come from an unregistered (not logged in) reader, bots scrape the site for real usernames, attach that to the comment, and post

Please spread the word about this so authors can filter comments and report them accordingly

There has been some speculation about why this is happening at all, and the best guess is that this is a feature that AI-training story-scraping tools are implementing to try and make their browsing traffic look legitimate

the marauders fandom be like: