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i'm sorry but this is the only submission to this trend that i'll consider giving any thought to

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#YOU FORGOT SAILOR MOON

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These carne asada tacos from Germany....

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best of the onion

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#i know people who have given themselves fandom names with plausible deniability bc theyre normal enough #i also know parents who have named their kids ganon and khaleesi and shit like that

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an important principle of fandom (and life, actually) is that if you want more of Less Popular Thing, it is good to create positive spaces and events for it. however, if you use those spaces to take cracks at the More Popular Thing which you perceive as stealing oxygen from your Less Popular Thing, you do not increase the audience for Less Popular Thing. you decrease it, because you irk people who like both Things. and depending on the relative popularity, there are quite possibly more people who like both Things than people who only like Less Popular Thing. (not to mention - you kill your chances of recruiting people who like More Popular Thing but are neutral on or haven’t considered Less Popular Thing.) 

you’re not campaigning for votes (where There Can Be Only One), you’re marketing for a share of people’s attention. don’t be petty. be effective. 

#INSULTING PEOPLES TASTES IS HIGHLY UNLIKELY TO RESULT IN THEM BECOMING HIGHLY RECEPTIVE TO YOURS

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discord is getting shittier and shittier and people talking about it is a good thing but i hope i never have to see "skype was good actually" revisionist posting because of it

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#princess kaguya made me bawl #its a VERY slow burn but the payoff is incredible

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Finally watching The Last of Us. Really feel like they understood Boston with the inclusion of the guy in the post-apocalypse with a still more or less pristine Red Sox hat. Fucking gold. 10/10

#to be clear theres a lot this show is doing well this just stood out to me #bc im a red sox fan #shits sacred

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Mythbusters have 3 categories of myths

the general public doesnt know how physics works

the general public doesnt know how lying works

oh crap this ones real

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About the AO3 "No Guest Comments for a while" warning

If you're not following any of AO3's social media accounts you might be in the dark as to what kind of "spam comments" have engendered this banner at the top of the site:

These spam comments have been posted about a great deal on the AO3 subreddit for the past couple of days. Initially they comprised a bunch of guest (logged out users) bot comments that insulted authors by suggesting they were using AI and not writing their own fics. Some examples, from the subreddit:

But it then escalated to outright graphic porn images and gifs being posted in comments, again by logged out 'Guest' accounts. Obviously, I'm not going to give examples of those, but between these two bot infestations, AO3 has clearly decided to act and has temporarily closed the ability to post comments for users who are not logged in with an AO3 account.

Unfortunately, this means that genuine readers who don't have an AO3 account won't be able to leave comments on fics that they enjoy.

If you are a genuine reader who doesn't yet have an AO3 account, I strongly suggest getting yourself on the waiting list for one. More and more AO3 authors are now locking their fics down to registered users only - either due to these bot comments or concerns about AI scraping their work - which means you're probably missing out on a lot of great stuff.

Hopefully guest commenting will be enabled again at some point soon, but I suggest not waiting until then. Get yourself on that list.

Wait times are going to be longer than usual at the moment, due to the current Wattpad purge [info on Fanlore | Wattpad subreddit thread], but if you're in line, then your invite will come through eventually.

Update: There's now a Megathread about this on the AO3 subreddit.

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“My story has so much gay rep in it!” Awesome. How are you treating your female characters btw

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Cocaine was a stimulant used by a priestly caste of the middle period United States called businessmen in order to commune with The Market. [1]

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oh shit, it's 3/21/23, 32123, palindrome day

#happy weed palindrome day

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Raise your hand if you have also been personally victimized by the barometric pressure changes 🥲

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first 5 faceless emojis are how your summers gonna go

#🅱️💜🥬🐟🙈 #completely incomprehensible