I've Been Busy! Not Bad Busy, But I've Been Really Focused On Something! This Is A Big Project For Me!

My favorite scene from Clown's recent Makeship commercial

[ID: A digital artwork of Wally Darling and Barnaby B. Beagle standing in the vacuum of space, surrounded by floating debris and three colorful planetary bodies. The black background depicts countless tiny stars that are all arrayed in different colors. Wally conveys an inquisitive expression with his finger pointed towards his mouth. The speech bubble above him reads, "How did we get up here, Barnaby?". In response, Barnaby is seen shrugging his shoulders with his usual smiley expression. The speech bubble above him reads, "Beats me, kid!" as if in a whimsically aloof manner.]

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I don't know how to explain it but there's something about Subcon that sparks my brain. Like I get so many ideas and stuff off of it. The other chapters don't really do that, at least not to the extent that Subcon does. The lore, I think! And the cut content from it is also interesting. The other chapters are cool and awesome and amazing, don't get me wrong, I love them too! But Subcon will probably always be my favorite.

Alright, I was bickering with my sister and I told her I'd make a poll in an attempt to settle it, so...

Y'all I made a stream schedule!!! :0

Psst! Fellow writers!!! Thought I'd reblog to let more people know.

Fanfiction Authors: HEADS UP

(Non-authors, please RB to signal boost to your author friends!)

An astute reader informed me this morning that one of my fics (Children of the Future Age) had been pirated and was being sold as a novel on Amazon:

(And they weren't even creative with their cover design. If you're going to pirate something that I spent a full year of my life writing, at least give me a pretty screenshot to brag about later. Seriously.)

I promptly filed a DMCA complaint to have it removed, but I checked out the company that put it up -- Plush Books -- and it looks like A LOT of their books are pirated fic. They are by no means the only ones doing this, either -- the fact that """publishers""" can download stories from AO3 in ebook format and then reupload them to Amazon in just a few clicks makes fic piracy a common problem. There are a whole host of reasons why letting this continue is bad -- including actual legal risk to fanfiction archives -- but basically:

IF YOU ARE A FANFIC AUTHOR WITH LONG AND/OR POPULAR WORKS, PLEASE CHECK AMAZON TO SEE IF YOUR STORIES HAVE BEEN PIRATED.

You can search for your fics by title, or by text from the description (which is often just copied wholesale from AO3 as well). If you find that someone has stolen your work and is selling it as their own, you can lodge a DMCA complaint (Amazon.com/USA site; other countries have different systems). If you haven't done this before, it's easy! Here's a tutorial:

HOW TO FILE A COPYRIGHT COMPLAINT FOR STOLEN WORK ON AMAZON.COM:

First, go to this form. You'll need to be signed into your Amazon account.

Select the radio buttons/dropdown options (shown below) to indicate that you are the legal Rights Owner, you have a copyright concern, and it is about a pirated product.

Enter the name of your story in the Name of Brand field.

In the Link to the Copyrighted Work box, enter a link to the story on AO3 or whatever site your work is posted on.

In the Additional Information box, explain that you are the author of the work and it is being sold without your permission. That's all you really need. If you want, you can include additional information that might be helpful in establishing the validity of your claim, but you don't have to go into great detail. You can simply write something like this:

I am the author of this work, which is being sold by [publisher] without my permission. I originally published this story in [date/year] on [name of site], and have provided a link to the original above. On request, I can provide documentation proving that I am the owner of the account that originally posted this story.

In the ASIN/ISBN-10 field, copy and paste the ID number from the pirated copy's URL. You'll find this ten-digit number in the Amazon URL after the word "product," as in the screenshot below. (If the URL extends beyond this number, you can ignore everything from the question mark on.) Once this number has been added, Amazon will pull the product information automatically and add it to the complaint form, so you can check the listing title and make sure it's correct.

Finally, add your contact information to the relevant fields, check the "I have read and accept the statements" box, and then click Submit. You should receive an email confirmation that Amazon has received the form.

Please share this information with your writer friends, keep an eye out for/report pirated works, and help us keep fanfiction free and legally protected!

NOTE: All of the above also applies to Amazon products featuring stolen artwork, etc., so fan artists should check too!

me when i have to face consequences for my atrocities :(

New Year plans! :)

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Sure has been a while, but he's back in my brain (tragic)

if you’re having a bad day, here’s a cute little marching band

I've never heard truer words spoken.

Gonna be building a new comp soon, but since that got delayed a bit, I figured I’d put this out there real quick before it’s ACTUALLY April 1st and all the unfunny “jokes” come rollin’ on in XP

Also ye, I’ve actually made some major changes to my Snatcher voice!! Big thanks to @habijob for her pointers, this is defo gonna be less of a throat wrecking voice going forward!

I learned a valuable lesson the other day. If any of you know about A Hat In Time (if you don't, please check it out it is an underrated gem), you know how intimidating Queen Vanessa is. I was in a roleplay the other day and let's just say, if she yells to SHUT UP, you should probably either change the subject or stop talking. Now, me being my dumb self, I did not. I kept blabbing on. Where's Snatcher when you need him, you may ask? He left on the topic of a certain storybook... and I almost got everyone killed, which would have been the end of the ENTIRE roleplay series unless we found a way to bring people back without the use of timepieces (I promise I have a good reason as to why they're COMPLETELY out of the question). Luckily though, that was avoided and hopefully none of us are dumb enough to test it again. And I WILL, as the Hat Kid of the roleplay PROJETILE ANYONE who is ever as stupid as I was to do anything close to that again because I realize how actually dangerously close of a call that got to-

And that is my TLDR for today because F E A R . (My friend Luna, if you are reading this, you do an amazing job as Vanessa and scared the absolute peck out of me, please never change 😭)