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spark like flowers in the sky

#tales of arise #toarise #shionne imeris #alphen #rinwell #law #kisara #dohalim il qaras #this is so good! #I love the glow effect on the Blazing Sword!

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In the spirit of encouraging people to comment on fanfics while also making it easier to do so, I feel obliged to share a browser extension for ao3 that has quite literally revolutionized the comment game for me.

I present to you: the floating ao3 comment box!

From what I've seen, a big problem for many people is that once you reach the comments at the bottom of a fic, your memory of it miraculously disappears. Anything you wanted to say is stuck ten paragraphs ago, and you barely remember what you thought while reading. This fixes that!

I'll give a little explanation on the features and how it works, but if you want to skip all that, here's the link.

The extension is visible as a small blue box in the upper left corner.

(Side note: The green colouring is not from the extension, that's me.)

If you click on it, you open a comment box window at the bottom of your screen but not at the bottom of the fic. I opened my own fic for demonstrative purposes.

The website also gives explanations on how exactly it functions, but I'll summarize regardless.

insert selection -> if you highlight a sentence in the fic it will be added in italics to the comment box

add to comment box -> once you're done writing your comment, you click this button and the entire thing will automatically copied to the ao3 comment box

delete -> self explanatory

on mulitchapter fics, you will be given the option to either add the comment to just the current chapter or the entire fic

The best part? You can simply close the window the same way you opened it and your progress will automatically be saved. So you can open it, comment on a paragraph, and then close it and keep reading without having the box in your face.

Comments are what keep writers going, and as both a writer and a reader, I think it's such an easy way of showing support and enthusiasm.

#ao3

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Alright, to ao3's soon to be arriving Wattpad Refugees, a basic guide to general user culture:

1.) Unlike Wattpads vote system that let's you like each chapter, the ao3 equivalent kudos only allows one per work. Everyone is generally quietly annoyed about this. To engage with each chapter, you're heavily encouraged to comment. Trust me, it makes people's day.

2.) Ao3 has no algorithm. By default it's latest updated work first. You can find things to your taste through searches, filters and tags.

3.) 'No archive warnings apply' and 'user has chosen not to use archive warnings' mean two very different things. No archives warnings means the work is free from any content that could require a warning tag (character death, graphic depictions of violence, non-con, etc). User has chosen not to use archive warnings means it could contain any of the warning content, be it hasn't been explicitly tagged. Treat it like an allergen. No archive warnings apply is allergen free. User has chosen not to use archive warnings, may contain traces or whole chunks of the allergen. If you're likely to have a bad reaction, maybe don't take the risk.

4.) Speaking of warnings, ao3 has very few restrictions on the type of work that's allowed. Whatever your personal thoughts or feelings on that are, thats how the site is. You're likely to run across some dark subject matters and a lot of people are uncomfortable with reading that. You're well within your rights not like these works and have your opinion on whether they should be allowed, but harassing the authors of such works (or any works) is more likely to come back on you than them. Ao3 operates on a strong policy of 'don't like, don't read'. Use the tagging system to your full advantage to only engage with the kind of works you want to see.

We look forward to welcoming you all and seeing the fantastic works you create. Happy writing!

#ao3 #wattpad

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thinking about that post of people assuming ao3 has an algorithm and also about how bonkers persistent the view is that ao3 is social media lite. like with startling regularity I get comments saying something along the lines of "it's probably weird to comment on a fic this old--" no it isn't!!!! this is an archive I am literally just assuming you searched for a selection of specific tags or sorted by kudos or looked back on my pseud or any other number of completely normal ways to use an archive site ?? kill the tiktok ghost in your brain and comment on old stuff it's NOT weird

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Fanfic Writing Update

Been a hot minute since I've done one of these!

Distant Cousins (FFVII/Trigun) -- currently working on Chapter 37, which is going up the end of August! I need to extend my outline beyond where I currently have it, because otherwise I'm gonna flounder and have trouble getting the next few arcs written out.

The Chronicles of a Young Adventurer (FFXIV) -- I've completed the 2.0 story arc and started the patch content chapters! Currently, base ARR is going to end in August, and the patch content story is going to start late October.

A Warrior Returned (FFXIV/MobiusFF) -- I can start writing chapter 64 at any time, although with my readers only getting chapter 16 this week, pulling back to keep my lead from getting too big would probably be a good idea (currently I'm as far ahead as Feb 2025!). For reference, I've written past the second trial of ARR, but not by much. Readers only got the start of the Envoy quest on Friday.

Untitled project (MobiusFF/SoP/Dissidia) -- this is going to be a short project that I'm posting between the 2.0 and 2.X stories that Chronicles covers. Maybe. Hopefully. I've got at least one chapter written for it already, so the idea's a little more set in stone. Currently plan to have 3 chapters total, but we'll see if it wants to get away from me.

#next day reblog cause why not

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#MOOD #especially when I'm Several Months ahead of my readers and I've got a set schedule to work with #not to mention all the sections I haven't written yet #stares hard at current projects #there is a reason why I have a discord server and it's to keep my sneak-peek spam confined in a single channel

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Reblog if you didn’t write My Immortal

We’re going to find the author by process of elimination.

#definitely not

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Fanfic Writing Update

Been a hot minute since I've done one of these!

Distant Cousins (FFVII/Trigun) -- currently working on Chapter 37, which is going up the end of August! I need to extend my outline beyond where I currently have it, because otherwise I'm gonna flounder and have trouble getting the next few arcs written out.

The Chronicles of a Young Adventurer (FFXIV) -- I've completed the 2.0 story arc and started the patch content chapters! Currently, base ARR is going to end in August, and the patch content story is going to start late October.

A Warrior Returned (FFXIV/MobiusFF) -- I can start writing chapter 64 at any time, although with my readers only getting chapter 16 this week, pulling back to keep my lead from getting too big would probably be a good idea (currently I'm as far ahead as Feb 2025!). For reference, I've written past the second trial of ARR, but not by much. Readers only got the start of the Envoy quest on Friday.

Untitled project (MobiusFF/SoP/Dissidia) -- this is going to be a short project that I'm posting between the 2.0 and 2.X stories that Chronicles covers. Maybe. Hopefully. I've got at least one chapter written for it already, so the idea's a little more set in stone. Currently plan to have 3 chapters total, but we'll see if it wants to get away from me.

#cross' rambling #cross' fanfiction #trigun #ffvii #ffxiv #mobiusff

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You know, an interesting tumblr transformation that's happened gradually, and which I've seen no one talk about: ask-culture has essentially dropped off to nothing.

By which I mean, asks used to be WAY more of the tumblr economy. They used to be more common to send, and receive, and see. They were integral to the collaborative, forum-like behavior of old tumblr communities, not even to speak on the HUGE number of ask-blogs that used to exist to only be interacted with in ask-form.

I'm not saying this in a vying-for-attention way but instead in an observational way: I used to get way way more asks in like 2015, even with a fraction of my follower count. I wonder if it's due to the homogenization of social media sites? There's a lot more of this divide between "content creator" and "consumer" instead of just a bunch of peer blogs who would talk to each other. "Asks" aren't really a thing on twitter, are they? And as I understand it, the closest thing to an "ask" on instagram or tiktok would be a creator screenshotting some comment and responding to it in a new reel or video or whatever those content mediums are. Are asks just too tumblr-specific? Is that aspect of the site culture dying out as more and more people converge to using all their social media sites in the same way?

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I am having far too much fun writing things.

Chapter 63 for A Warrior Returned is now in-progress. It's going up next February.

And Wol's caught somewhere between fury and frustration, which is kinda delicious. I might be able to start hinting at things sooner than I was thinking I would...

#cross' rambling #cross' writing #cross' fanfiction #a warrior of light with a trauma trigger of small cute things getting killed in front of him was not something that I expected #but I will absolutely take it and run with it. :3

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*SIGHS*

Another AO3 app that's pretending to be official when it's not (or at least isn't making it clear its unofficial.) They're using AO3's name and logo, and embedding ads.

There is no official AO3 app

Someone else is gathering your data, potentially your log in information etc and making use of it how they please. (They say they're not but their privacy policy says otherwise)

They are making money from the ads without the fic writer's consent.

They've also rated it Pegi 3 (which is ludicrous)

Please, even if you care about nothing else, for the safety of your data, please don't use this app. Certainly don't give it your AO3 log in details.

I've told AO3 that it's infringing on its copyright. I will be requesting they remove access of my work as I do not consent to my creative content being used to generate ad revenue for them.

I will be reporting it as incorrectly rated.

The only email address I can find is [email protected] which is included in their privacy policy, and [email protected] as their developer.

#ao3 #ao3 app #yeesh #you do not need an app for everything trust me

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#one piece. In high school. #because I had a friend who got me interested enough to investigate. #I spent the whole summer binging One Piece from the beginning all the way up through the time skip #and then during college up to somewhere in Dressrosa #haven't really been keeping up with it since but at least starting in Dressrosa isn't going to put me AS far back as the beginning....

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Reblogs greatly encouraged!

What's this? A little calendar teaser and update for everyone??

You betcha! We're getting close, so here are the facts so far:

Calendars will likely be up for pre-order in June/July.

Since they are for 24 months, they will likely be $20-$30 USD.

The charity we'll be donating to this year is A New Way of Life Reentry Project, who provide housing, case management, pro bono legal services, advocacy, and leadership development for people rebuilding their lives after incarceration.

I'm hoping to do a run of 500 calendars!

I'm basing that number off the previous poll I did about the mullet!Stan calendar, so I'm hoping there will actually be that many folks purchasing it. But that's where you come in. YES YOU! In order to make this calendar a success (and to ensure I don't end up with 300 of them taking up space in my house), I need all of you to be sure you reblog this post, share links on other social media sites, and generally do whatever you can to spread the word.

I have faith we can make this happen!

Preview pics by: @dragon-tidbits @gruvu @devisopod

#oooo #gravity falls #gravity falls calendar

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I hate the “open floor plan” that everyone is obsessed with in houses now. I want nooks and crannies and bizarre floor plans. I don’t need to be able to see what someone is doing on the other side of the house. I want places to hide and lurk and dwell in the shadows. I am the beast who awaits in the labyrinth

#I would love a secret reading nook #or a secret writing nook #gimme that desk space between the walls that no one else knows about

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i want 60 thousand votes by next thursday

#written fanfic and currently writing fanfic! #otherwise I wouldn't have updated a fic this morning

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New week, new chapter! Wol gets some good news and starts the Envoy quest!

#cross' rambling #cross' fanfiction #mobius ff #mobiusff #mobius final fantasy #ffxiv #wol #crossover #yda #papalymo #kan-e-senna

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#I'm...beating up monsters en masse with a whole bunch of other people #so...probably arrested for animal cruelty? Except I was basically acting like an exterminator? #(I've been running FATEs in FFXIV for those who are confused. I want my YoKai Watch minions!)