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hey i said this in a group chat earlier and honestly it fucks, so i’m gonna post it here too

Feel disgusted by something? Don’t immediately act on it. Deconstruct your disgust!

Be just a little curious about it. Why do you feel disgusted by something? What is it about the thing that disgusts you? Is it the whole that disgusts you, or just a part? Do you feel disgusted because you’re supposed to? Has someone told you to feel disgusted? Are you just disgusted because something looks unfamiliar to you? Do other people seem disgusted or are there people opposing your disgust (or do they, on the flipside, like it?). Is there a cultural context you might be missing? More importantly, could there be biases like racism, sexism, classism, homo- or trans-phobia at play? Is the object of your digust actually causing harm? Does someone benefit from your disgust politically?

Disgust is a powerful emotion, but one that deserves a lot of self-reflection. It’s easily weaponised and often deeply flawed.

#discourse

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Some people seemed to like my doodle of Shen Qingqiu, so I drew a Binghe too. (Again, sorry if it's not very good, I don't have a drawing tablet and can't seem to figure out how to get things to blend with a mouse...)

#scum villain's self saving system #luo binghe

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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.

#archive of our own

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Walid's GFM is now only €847 below goal!!

it was 3k below goal less than two days ago, and i'm 100% sure that a lot of the progress is fucking thanks to amazing mxtx fans.

people from SVSSS, MDZS, AND TGCF who missed out on the gotchas, and want to participate as creators OR get art/fic prompts from any of the three fandoms (including crossovers), BEHOLD:

Here are the ongoing creator forms:

And here are the prompt forms (5 for sfw and 8 for nsfw!)

#signal boost

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continuing the magical girl trend by drawing binghe in cardcaptor sakura’s ‘catch you catch me’ outfit

this is the cutest binghe I’ve ever drawn

[ prompt by @bingbingblorbo for SVSSSaction ]

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keep reading for extra doodle of shen yuan’s reaction:

#scum villain's self saving system #crossover maybe? #cardcaptor sakura #luo binghe #shen yuan #shang qinghua #bingyuan

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i really love this meme for bingqiu because the correct way to illustrate it is not with a bored sqq who's readily answering all these, but a SQQ that has a tone and expression brimmed with one hundred and twenty percent warm indulgence—a promise to grant whatever request LBH might have. like genuinely that's the only way

[ID: A text conversation with Scum Villain characters edited over it. It reads:

Luo Binghe: I have a question for you.

Shen Qingqiu: Yes I'd cry if you died Yes I'd still love you if you was a worm Yes I still love you No I don't want to break up

Luo Binghe: Thank you. End ID]

#scum villain's self saving system #bingqiu #luo binghe #shen qingqiu #they're so perf

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he also did the extreme version of pushing ming fan's face into an anthill!

luo bingge would love to put sj in a saw trap but i’ll be honest i think he lacks creativity

#idk considering how some saw movies go (I never saw one; too squeamish) I'm sure bingge would just need a few adjustments #I believe in him #scum villain's self saving system #luo bingge

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Two poster-style pieces, the second is a redraw of this (link).

Places to donate (link) / Huge information masterpost (link) / Info/resources/stories (link) / Do your daily click (link)

[Image Description: Two digital drawings made in the same style, with geometric line art and block colors. The drawings have the same background, which is a gradient of dark grey, to red, to off-white, to green. The drawing on the left depicts a man with tan skin who is wearing a black and white keffiyeh and a light tan thobe with the sleeves rolled up. He is raising his right arm into the air with an angry expression, holding a Palestinian flag. The text around him says ‘FREE PALESTINE’ in all caps. The drawing on the right depicts a woman with tan skin who is wearing an al-amira head scarf and a black thobe with red accent panels, each panel patterned with a different design seen on the keffiyeh. She is looking to the left with an angry expression, cupping a bleeding Palestinian sunbird in her hands. A single tear is rolling down her cheek. The text behind her reads ‘PALESTINA LIBRE’ in all caps, which translates to ‘free Palestine’ in english. Below the text is an elongated Palestinian flag. End ID.]

#signal boost

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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.

#archive of our own

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This list includes doctors in the United States, Australia, Canada, and Europe!

Even if you're not the target demographic, please share for any of your friends who may be.

And if you or someone you know would like to be added to the list, there's a place for that!

#health #resources

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people always talk about evil clones like oooh a dark mirror oohh what if you saw what are cruel person you were/are capable of becoming. and well yes but what if you were the evil clone. what if you looked in the mirror and what you saw was so bright it blinded you. what if you had to know exactly how good you could have been.

#haha yeah #scum villain's self saving system #luo bingge #luo binghe

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My little ponyhua

#scum villain's self saving system #shang qinghua

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Bing little pony but if he was a banei pony...

#luo binghe #scum villain's self saving system

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idk why i'm so productive today but as promised: here's bunhe with a bonnet to protect his curls hehe

#scum villain's self saving system #luo binghe #shen qingqiu #bingqiu

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xiao jiu xiao jiu xiao jiu xiao jiu xiao jiu xiao jiu

#yue qingyuan #scum villain's self saving system #qijiu

[magioftheseas]

Yue Qingyuan is a fun character because depending on what angle you look at him from, he is either surprisingly well-adjusted or surprisingly unhinged.

If you're looking at Yue Qingyuan, the composed, reasonable, ever-polite sect leader, you will probably be taken aback by how much of that is just smoke and mirrors. And not just like one layer, either, it's not simple like "beneath that smiling facade he's actually an ambitious asshole" or something, no, beneath the first layer of smoke and mirrors there is another one, and then another one, all piled up and twisted together over a core that is a terrified and starving child. He's like one of those old English pubs where the wood rot is so thorough that it's actually what's keeping the roof from collapsing.

But if you're looking at the former slave child who had to be the biggest, most responsible of a gang of neglected and traumatized urchins, who ran away to become a cultivator only to make a wrong choice that got his entire body and spirit taken apart and put back together again, only to lose the one relationship that mattered to him, then the fact that he's anything other than a weeping mess on the floor is genuinely impressive.

#he deserves the world #scum villain's self saving system #yue qingyuan

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my prompt for the svsss gotcha for gaza!

the prompt was sy transmigrated into a mer au pidw fic

#scum villain's self saving system #shen qingqiu