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reve-writes · 1 year

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—you bury me; leon kennedy.

ʚ leon kennedy x reader | resident evil | 1,1k words. ʚ leon and reader finishes a mission. | can be read as a continuation of rotten work. ʚ injuries; zombies and stuff; fluff (no one dies dw). ʚ a/n more of my attempt to write slightly flirty banters between reader and leon. i learned the phrase "you bury me" aka "ya'aburnee" and my life has never been the same.

There are times when you think Leon is invincible, like he has come alive straight out of the pages of a comic book. He barrels through the undead like a machine—all tough exterior and deadly shooting accuracy that has your jaw dropping with awe.

And then, there are times when you are reminded he isn't. He is no untouchable otherworldly alien born with diamond-hard skin and superhuman strength. He's just flesh and bone knitted together and he bleeds. Despite his might, he's just one bad day away from an infection just as everyone else.

“Fuck,” he curses, face all red and chest heaving. “Goddamnit. Fuck.”

Your hands are trembling as you reload your magazine. The scene replays over and over in your mind: rotten jaw unhinging so close to his neck, teeth within biting distance and you think your entire world is coming to a halt.

Leon swivels out of the way just in time.

You're not a religious person, but for that one split second he avoids the death sentence, you think you should sing praises and grateful prayers.

“Are you okay?” You ask over guns blazing. Your magazine finally clicks in and you start opening fire to the growing hoard of zombies around you.

“Never been better,” he replies through gritted teeth. It was a dumb question to ask. You know he's not faring well—he is limping across the field, left foot practically being dragged behind him. He uses one hand to shoot, the other has an open gash through his short-fingered glove down his palm. His sweat-slicked forehead is also red with blood from a cut just over his eyebrow.

“Lean on me,” you tell him, moving to hoop his left arm around your shoulder. He's not a small man—what with trained muscles over his bones and a figure that slightly towers over you. “Let me help you, Leon.”

He tries to shake himself off of you. “Just get to the extraction point.”

“We'll get there quicker if you would—”

“Just run!”

“And what? Leave you here to be their dinner?” You protest, forcefully pushing yourself under his arm. “No way. I haven't even gotten a taste.”

Leon—even with the miserable situation you are in—chuckles. “Really? Is this the right time?”

He relents and lets you hobble him along. The field stretches long—somewhere off of a rural village whose residents are now nothing more than grotesque-looking undead. You've made it two-thirds of the way.

Bullets fly left and right, both from you and Leon. “Shut up, Leon. Walk faster.”

“Told you to run, didn't I?”

Your breathing is laboured from the Sisyphean effort. “Out of the question. I can't have your death on my conscience.”

“Not dying that easily, don't worry.”

He better not.

The helicopter engine roars in your ears as you step closer, dusty air stinging your eyes. You hear gunshots from your rescuer, covering you from nearby zombies. Your whole body is burning when you're finally hauled into the chopper with Leon. You finally let your muscles loosen, tension melting away as the engine roars to life under you.

The rest occurs in quick motion blurs. The usual mission reports and check-ups and then you're walking out the door with a patched-up, healthier-looking Leon by your side.

“Shouldn't they keep you on bedrest?” You ask. “Can't have anything happen to their golden boy.”

“They tried to.” He shrugs. “I'm fine, though.”

You stare at him, disbelief apparent in your wide-eyed expression. “Fine? How are you fine?”

You gesture to the walking stick he tucks under his arm and his splined foot. He waves a hand dismissively. “I've had worse.”

“You were so close to getting bit.”

The words echo into a drawn-out silence as the meaning truly sinks into him. It is strange, the numbness he has developed to the thought of dying. Constant exposure to mortal peril has desensitised him, he supposes.

“I watched it almost happen and for a terrible moment I thought that you were going turn into... into—”

“I didn't.”

He's right. You find comfort in knowing that he is still standing, that he's not going down so easily, but even Leon Kennedy is merely human.

“You know, if things ever go to shit, I hope I... go before you do.”

He's not following. Not exactly. “How come?”

“Don't worry about it.” You don't elaborate, but you know you mean it. A world without Leon Kennedy sounds like a world you don't want to be a part of. As much as he makes you want to tear your hair out, he's the only person who understands and shares your burdens.

He hums thoughtfully, frowning, but ends up chalking it up to your usual rambling. “Okay, then. I'll catch you later.”

He starts walking to the car they've provided for him—chauffeur and all. Must be nice to be the golden boy. Before he has even walked three steps away, you grab his wrist with a slight tug and he halts.

“Go home,” you request. “You better not go and get wasted in some bar. Rest, Leon. You deserve it.”

“I wasn't going to.”

The look in his eyes says that he is most definitely going to drink his sorrows away.

“You're so unbelievably stubborn.”

“Look who's talking.” He holds up his wrist that you're still grabbing, wriggling it out of your grasp to press his palm on yours, fingers interlocking. “Also, if you wanted to hold hands, you could've just asked.”

“You—”

“I seem to also recall you saying something along the lines of wanting to have a taste—”

“Leon,” you interrupt immediately, not wanting to drag out the embarrassment that he's oh-so-generously giving you. “I mean it. Get some rest.”

“What are you? My parent?”

You narrow your eyes at him. “You need to recover well. The world needs saving and I need my mission partner.”

His hand is still warm over on yours, now hanging low by your side and the two of you look almost normal. Just two people holding hands waiting for their ride.

“You're cute when you worry about me.”

That has an involuntary smile to bloom on your face as you've used the same line on him before.

“Only when I worry?”

“And on other occasions.” This has you dizzy.

“Well.” He drops your hand and it twitches, already missing the spaces between his fingers. “I better get going.”

He gestures at the impatient-looking driver who has been sitting there the entire time. You shake your head at him. “Poor guy.”

“I'll call.” He gets into the passenger seat. You're standing just a step away from the rolled-down window.

“I might pick up.”

Before he has a chance to retort, you gesture the driver to go ahead and the car speeds off at once, leaving you to spend the rest of the day constantly checking if your phone has rung.

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#leon s kennedy x reader #leon kennedy x reader #—ki writes 🍯

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sparkrls · 4 months

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Bonus: The Brits

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Summary: Bonus content from my series Keep Driving, available on Wattpad

Author’s Note: If you enjoyed this, feel free to check out the full series. PS, contains small spoilers for the series

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11 February, 2023.

London, UK.

"ALL BECAUSE I LIKED A BOY!" Alliah belted, the highest note she had ever sang in her life. And then softly and gently, letting emotion leak through her voice, "All because I liked..." Her words were barely a whisper, "a boy."

She searched through the crowd, finding Harry's face, and those familiar green eyes. He was wide-eyed and blushing when she pointed at him.

Alliah bit her lip, trying to hide her smile at his reaction, and instead focused on the screams and cheers from the crowd. The applause lingered in her mind like smoke, and she stood taller as she found herself pleased by how loud the crowd was.

This was one of the most elaborate performances she had ever done, wearing a glamorous red dress that was draped in dangerous and elegant ways, with backup dancers and sparklers. The whole performance was supposed to be similar to the upcoming music video, set in a circus.

And sure enough, it did look like a circus on stage but in the most glamorous way possible.

She'd designed it all to be a metaphor, of the way her life was treated as if it were designed to be a circus, all her flaws and creases pointed at for entertainment. She would jump through hoops, walk tightropes and play with fire, just for the applause of other people.

Alliah had to admit she was proud of herself for coming up with the whole concept.

The lights shut off, the cameras turning to look at the crowd, and Alliah made her way off the stage as they quickly prepped it for the next award and the next performance.

She went backstage, where Harry was waiting for her, still dressed in the outift he'd used for the performance, red and black pants and an open jacket. No shirt.

His torso was like a sculpture of marble, embedded with black ink in lines and curves of beauty. Alliah could spent forever tracing her hands over his body, memorizing every little detail.

Alliah grabbed the skirt of her dress that was dragging on the floor, and ran up to Harry, hugging him tightly.

All she wanted was to celebrate this moment with Harry, bathe in the happiness of this day with him, the one person who truly mattered to her.

As soon as she backed away, she exclaimed, "Oh my God that was so cool! Holy fuck, I've never felt so confident. And did you see that little move I did with my hips? Did it look good? It felt good."

"You were incredible!" Harry agreed, kissing her full on the lips as she smiled into the kiss. "You looked beautiful and I loved the concept- you have an amazing mind, Mendoza."

Alliah grinned at the ground, blushing at his compliments even after being on the receiving end of them for years now. He always knew the right thing to say.

"I loved your performance, though," Alliah added, placing an arm around his waist as he placed one on her shoulder. She raised her hand to intertwine her fingers with the hand around her shoulder as she rambled, "You looked so happy and comfortable. Not like you were performing to a bunch of strangers, but the way you look when you're with fans."

Harry nodded, smiling softly as he gazed at her. "I just love being home."

"I get it," Alliah agreed, knowing how the location made all the difference. It's why she had been so comfortable at the Grammys and why Harry was so comfortable at the BRITs. "It really does make a huge difference, a little thing like geography."

"It does!" Harry agreed as they made their way into their dressing room and were helped out of their outfits and back into their 'normal' ones.

Once they were in their usual glamorous award show outfits, Harry hugged her around the waist, burying his face in the crook of her neck. "But I'm always home when I'm with you."

Alliah's fingers found their way into his hair, holding him close while still being careful to preserve the shape of his curls. She kissed the side of his head. "I love you."

"I love you too."

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myveryownfanfiction · 4 months

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Sharpuary day 14: Valentine

18+ MINORS AND THOSE WITHOUT AGE IN BIO DNI

tags: @illiana-mystery, @iobsessoverfictionalmen

warnings: swearing

I flinched as another singing valentine made it's way past my office. Closing the door hadn't done any good and at this point I was nervous to open it. There was no way of telling how many people, students and staff alike, would have sent one to me. Over the years, students would send them to staff as a joke even though a few of them would be serious. I happened to know Ronen got quite a few telling him how much they loved his class while Garlick got so many serious ones that she would use them as lining for the more deadly plants the students grew. There was only one I was looking forward to and I knew it wouldn't be behind the door should I open it.

"Is it safe to open the door or do you not want to know what's on the other side?" I heard Aesop call through. Laughing, I waved my wand and watched as the door opened enough to let him slip through before slamming shut again.

"How bad is it out there?" I asked, furrowing my eyebrows at him. Aesop smiled.

"Well I saw Ronen's. Garlick's. Dinah's." He listed off. "I think Weasley sent one although I'm not sure which one. Maybe both. Fig's protege for sure because it was more of a package than a valentine." I nodded.

"If Garrett Weasley sent me one I better be careful then." I said. Aesop gave me a sympathetic smile. "Might as well go round them up and hope that's the last of them." I sighed as I stood up. "Meet you back in your chamber's?" Aesop nodded.

"Or I could help you carry them back." He offered. I nodded with a small smile.

"Did you get any this year?" I asked as I finally opened the door, waving my wand to pile them up.

"The usual from the professor sharp fan club." He shrugged. "Fig's protege. Garlick. Ronen. Dinah." I watched him pick up half the pile before tucking them under his arm. "Just the normal ones really."

"You know, I've been waiting all day for one from you. It never arrived." I teased. Aesop smiled softly at me.

"That's because I was waiting for yours." He said. I smiled at him as I led the way out of my office. We started towards the faculty tower. "Seriously though, I was hoping to give it to you in person tonight." I nodded.

"I was hoping to do the same." I said with a blush. "I am going to warn you though, it is incredibly cheesy." Aesop laughed as I opened my door.

"Good. Mine is going to equally cheesy. If not more." He said as he set the valentines on the coffee table. "I also arranged for a dinner to be brought here and thought maybe we could walk around the grounds when the stars come out." I plopped down in the chair closest to the fire and smiled happily up at him.

"That actually sounds wonderful Aesop." I admitted. "I couldn't ask for a better valentine's day." He smiled at me before taking the seat next to me. Reaching into my robes, I pulled out his valentine. "Forgive me if you have heard the joke before." I said as I handed it to him. Aesop took it and laughed as he read it. There was a picture of a bottle of amortentia on it.

"You put a spell on me." Aesop laughed. I nodded shyly at him. "Oh I love it." He said, leaning over to kiss me. "This is the best one I have ever gotten." Blushing, I ducked my head down with a smile.

"Glad you like it." I said. Aesop reached into his jacket and pulled one out. He hesitated before putting it in my lap.

"Like I said...equally chessy." He said softly. I picked up the card and turned it over. I giggled as I watched the golden snitch move over the the Quidditch hoops over and over again.

"You're quite the catch." I read through my giggles. I looked over at Aesop with a smile. "I love it." He smiled softly at me. Two glasses of firewhiskey appeared at a wave of Aesop's wand. "Happy Valentine's Day." I said as I raised my glass.

"Happy Valentine's Day luv." Aesop said as he clinked his glass against mine before taking a sip.

#aesop sharp #aesop sharp x reader #aesop sharp fanfic #aesop sharp fanfiction #aesop sharp imagine #professor sharp #professor sharp x reader #professor sharp fanfic #professor sharp fanfiction #professor sharp imagine #hogwarts legacy #hogwarts legacy fanfic #hogwarts legacy fanfiction #hogwarts legacy imagine #sharpuary #sharpuary 2024

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billsfangearring · 1 year

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10 Lines Tag Game

Rules: share the first lines of ten of your most recent fanfics and tag ten people. If you have written less than ten, don’t be shy and share anyway!

I've seen this going around and even though I haven't been tagged I thought it would be a fun way to assess my own writing style now that I have nearly 10 fics published on AO3.

I've Built My Life Around You (ALOTO, Jess/Lupe, 250 words)

“Can’t believe it’s been ten years,” Jess says into the silent stadium. It’s not hard for Lupe to believe at all, actually, now that they’re back at Beyer.

Kiss Cam (ALOTO, Jess/Lupe, 250 words)

“We need the people in these two seats to make out,” the one with the braid says, shoving bills and a piece of paper into his hand.

keep you like an oath (ALOTO, Jess/Lupe, 250 words)

By unspoken agreement, Jess and Lupe keep Vi’s a secret—even from those who would be welcome. Lupe probably has a number of complicated reasons for it, but Jess only has one: she’s selfish as hell.

your love's got me trippin' on you (ALOTO, Jess/Lupe, 250 words)

“A beautiful drive into deep right by Brown, and DiGiovanni looks like she’s—yes, she’s going for third… Whoa! Woman down! DiGiovanni appears to have tripped! Rough luck for the Belles' first basewoman. Well, that’ll end the inning, and the Peaches hold the Belles scoreless through the fourth.”

red is the fire in our veins (ALOTO, Jess/Lupe, 250 words)

It was inevitable, really, a foregone conclusion, that Lupe’s gaze would be drawn to the muscled thigh next to her that’s outlined in insolent red.

Two Fingers Means Curveball (ALOTO, Jess/Lupe, 250 words)

“Miss García. Come with me for a minute.”

Love, In Deed and In Truth (ALOTO, Jess/Lupe, 250 words)

Lupe’s belief in God was built on an ethereal foundation of faith, but Lupe’s belief in Jess was built with the earthly planks of trust.

it's not enough (this time) (HP, Remus/Sirius, 2500 words)

If only we’d made a map of all of Britain, Sirius thought wildly as he made another random turn in Surrey. Then I could have stopped Remus before it came to this. I could have seen where he was, who he was with. I could have stopped him.

Dinner, Interrupted (HP, James/Lily, 150 words)

“He shoots. He scores! Another ten points to Gryffindor. Potter’s on fire tonight. Look, he’s taken possession of the Quaffle again! Excellent broom handling as he dodges left and right. That hoop is wide open… goal!”

I’ve only published nine fics on AO3, but here’s the first line of my portion of my Jess/Lupe WIP with Molly/squidgilator:

Lupe has no idea how much sleep she gets that night, other than not much.

Tagging: @broomsticks @everythingbutcoldfire @mollymarymarie @squidgilator @tahtahfornow and anyone else who wants to do it!

A few observations below the cut (feel free to ignore):

As an ardent dialogue-hater, I'm surprised that half of my fics start with dialogue! The fact that two of those are sports commentary is giving me a good laugh. Apparently I missed my true calling?

In my opinion, my Wolfstar fic—the only thing I've published that's over 250 words—has one of the weaker openings, which is a bit of a bummer because I actually edited that fic. I'm proud of the closing lines of each section though! I'm telling myself that this opening being kinda meh means I've improved as a writer since last summer.

It looks like I tend to use fairly short and straightforward sentences? I'd love to hear if any other patterns stand out to you lol

#billie writes fic #tag game #(that i was not tagged in)#(I promise I’m done catching up with tag games now)#(sorry for tagging some of you repeatedly)

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brightgnosis · 1 year

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It's kind of funny, actually, because the other day I rolled my eyes at a post here, on Tumblr, written by someone who was claiming they "couldn't trust" anyone who was Autistic and still trusted Therapists in any capacity, because "the system is traumatizing to Autistic people". And while I don't doubt that's certainly true for some people, the individual doesn't count for the whole; it's generally just such a stupid fucking projection of your own problems and trauma, based in a lack of (and probably refusal to allow yourself) healing.

But in a very similar vein, actually? At this point ... I'm actually kind of starting to feel similarly about my own communities and ingroups (and if I'm being honest, I've already felt this way about some of them for a while) ... Because at every single point in my life that I have been fucked over, abused, gaslit, and traumatized? It has nearly always (except incredibly rarely) specifically been by the very groups of people I'm a member of, who were supposed to be the ones who actually understood, could sympathize with, and were supposed to protect me: Other Queer people, other disabled people, other Pagans, and other Neurodivergents, etc.

But it was never them. It was never the people it was supposed to be. There was always some trial by fire or other bullshit- some hoop I had to jump through to earn my right to be "good enough" among my own people despite all of the empty platitudes many of these communities give about "inherent human worth" ... But that spiel's nothing but empty lipservice and fake two-faced bullshit. When it comes down to it? Absolutely no one actually believes that- or, at least, no one certainly acts like they should if they truly did believe it like they claim to.

Like ... It's actually incredibly fucked up that, for my entire life, it's been the people who are traditionally "the abusers" to most people in my ingroups (Cis people- esp Cis Men; Neurotypicals; Therapists; The Straights; Christians; etc) who've been the ones who've never laid a finger on me; who, in the vast majority of cases, have actually been far more supportive of my Neurodivergency, my disabilities and chronic illnesses, my gender and religion, and all the things they generally shouldn't be- especially not in rural bumfuck nowhere Oklahoma- than my own actual communities and ingroups dedicated to those very things have ever been.

And whenever I say this openly I literally get met with active skepticism, "I'm not saying I don't believe you buuttt" bullshit, and literal requests for fucking trauma dumping ... Like ??? I even have to fucking prove my trauma came from the sources I say it did among my own communities- which is fucked up on a completely different level.

That's not going to make me go running into their arms by any means, don't get me wrong; this isn't a "ra ra the queers are bad" or whatever kind of post, and it never will be; I'm also well aware of the fact that the fact I'm starting to become actively resentful and distrustful of my own communities because of just how much abuse and trauma I've suffered at their hands is a trauma response I do need to work on ... But let's fucking face the reality here without all the bullshit, shall we?

When the people who are supposed to understand you are actually more abusive than the people who are actually supposed to be the abusive ones ... There's a fucking problem. And that problem is made significantly worse by the fact that absolutely none of these communities are ever willing to just buck the fuck up and admit there's some shit that's not right, and take some accountability for the bullshit ways we can actually quite frequently be toxic (and even outright abusive) to our own members- especially when they don't "tow the established line of opinion" (whatever that flavor is this week).

I don't need a trauma response built up over decades of communal abuse to tell me it's not fucking right; that no matter which way you try to parse it, a pile of shit is still a heaping pile of shit. And I'm a country child, baby ... All shit needs to be shoveled eventually.

#Personal #Being A Better Human Being #2023

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tamedgod · 1 year

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What are the trends when it comes to writing that you adore?

What are trends when it comes to writing that you dislike?

what i like:

idk if i'm just finally on the right side of tumblr or what, but i love love love me a good soft character, especially if they're a lady. soft female ocs were the bane of the writing community when i first started writing; the term mary sue was very popular at the time and was used very liberally when it came to any female character that wasn't overly sexualized, cold, distant, emotionless. while it's cool those characters exist, it made it frustrating to write at the time, so i'm glad that soft ladies are a bit more accepted in the scene :)

i'm a big fan of personal lore??? like yes fam, make more shit up???? whether it's steeped in pre-existing mythos or you make up your own world or species or anything else, i have mad mad respect. PLEASE tell me all about your shit, let me help you DEVELOP your shit, let me WRITE in this universe of your own making. i know from past experience writing haru that getting others into your lore can be challenging, but i promise you can always infodump about it to me.

having been writing on this site for over a decade now, the slow evolution from toxic, fetishized lbgt rep to the now abundantly healthier rep is a BIG plus for me. i love diverse cast and characters, and i love that this place has become a haven for better rep (this is at least my experience over the years).

what i don't like;

ahhh i hesitate to talk about stuff like this, but i am not a big fan of callout posts / culture. as someone who's lived through too much drama in my twenty-eight years, online and offline, the rise of callout culture in the rp community here just served to add extra stress for me. there are definitely shitty people on here whose behavior should not be excused, but to me there's no point in expending all that energy to hate them and shit on them. block, report, blacklist, and just forget about them. take it from someone who spent years of their life expending energy on hating someone to the point of obsession and exhaustion; you'll be and feel a lot healthier if you just cut them loose and leave them behind.

while i feel lgbt rep has improved over the years i've been here, i can't necessarily say the same for diversity in terms of color. on my old occult multimuse (can be found at @magmarisen if you want to explore, but it's inactive), i tried very hard to ensure i had a healthy amount of rep and culture in my characters. there are folks i don't associate with anymore that i can't say the same for, whose characters were always straight white folks. while this isn't necessarily an issue overall, i just personally don't care for that trend. part of writing is expanding your knowledge, understanding, and writing diverse characters to keep things fresh. add some zest to your muse list!!! variety is the spice of life!!!!

gonna end this one with uhhhhhh if you still don't want to write with ocs (fandom or indie) in 2023 then damn dude quit being a coward. like to each their own, but the trend that ocs have to jump through hoops of fire to even potentially qualify to write with you (and trust me i know this feeling all too well) is just absurd. every character ever written is an oc, some of them just happen to have public lore. you taking an established / canon character and giving them your own take and headcanons is, funnily enough, pretty much making that muse your oc. part of writing with someone is talking to them; ask them about their ocs. if you want to know something and you can't readily find it somewhere, just ask. i'm sure you'd make their day. thanks for coming to my ted talk.

#m. answer #m. munday #this one got a little long

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aquaburst3 · 2 years

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I seeing posts on my dash on here about in light of the news of Sudowrites using AO3 fanfiction to train their ai. In response, a lot of people are posting that they are restricting access to their fics to prevent theirs from being next. Um...hate to burst people's bubbles, but that won't do much and the damage was probably already done ages ago.

Scrapping fanfiction for bots is unfortunately super common in the tech field. AI is not as advanced as people advertise. Writing bots are still "trained" by feeding it digital content, which has to come from somewhere, so a lot of fuckwits see fanfiction as free real estate to "train" their bots. Hell, we have people like these fuckwits gloating about doing exactly that...

There aren't many laws about scrapping for bots at the moment. Companies like Wattpad already sell fics to companies for bots and warn about it on the TOS. This is a disgusting practice, especially without people's consent, but these people simply don't care, seeing this act of plagiarism as for the greater good of humanity with the god complex that statement implies.

What can you actually do about this? Unfortunately, not a whole lot. Like I said earlier, if one of these idiots scraped your fic, the damage was already done ages ago. Once AI learns a thing, it cannot forget it. Locking your fics behind a wall at this point would be like getting an alarm after a robbery—sure it might prevent this from happening again, but it won't undo what was already done or get your shit back. The only thing you can do is use a robot txt header, but even that's not a sure fire and is more something AO3 can do to protect users from this practice in the future. Deleting or putting your fics behind a wall over this is totally understandable, but I also feel like it will only hurt your human readers in the end and make your fics get less traffic.

In the end, I guess, treat AO3 and fanfiction like you always have. As someone who has been writing fics since I was a kid, you have always risked plagiarism every time you posted something online. FF.net and Wattpad still have a huge problem of people copying others' fics on other sites and claiming it as their own. That's part of the reason why those sites made it where you can't copy the text on there without jumping through hoops. Hell, I've seen that exact thing happen on Wattpad where someone copied a whole ass fic from this very site and deleted it when someone called them out. It's just the method that it's being done is new. But that risk shouldn't stop you from being creative and putting your shit out there, because I can assure you that there are plenty of people out there that are eager to see your work and will be heartbroken if they see those works vanish.

If there's a silver lining in all this, OpenAI is being sued to this already. These guys will likely be sued for this as well. This has some major grounds. You cannot copyright your fanfiction. That's part of the reason why you are able to write fanfiction without being sued. However, the characters used in those fanfiction are under copyright. Companies like Marvel/Disney, Warner Media and Nickelodeon can sue these fuckwits to kingdom come for using their properties for profit without their consent if there's strong enough evidence. Knowing how Disney is with copyright, they are gonna flame roast their asses and it will be glorious. These sorts of lawsuits will likely result in stricter laws or even outright bans against this practice and make bot makers legally liable for anything they spit out.

Also, both GPT-3 and OpenAI have a bunch of TOS that tell you not to use them to write porn. AO3 is well known for posting porn. You can connect the dots there...

As a side note, parts of that Reddit thread are misleading. As much as I despise the man with all of my being, Muskrat left OpenAI board in 2018, so he has nothing to do with this.

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tw: transphobia😭 hi I'm a radfem cisgirl (I hate using "cis" and "trans" words but here I need to for the sake of the story) I've got a friend from ny highschool (we're in college now) who's also a radfem and is always sharing great feminist stuff. Yesterday, she shared the comment of a girl saying "this fight for abortion (it is illegal in my country) is for men/people with vaginas too!" and mocked it. I preferred not to make up any opinions about her because of one single post. But today, she shared a picture of Miss Spain 2019 (a trans girl) who talked about her experience with sexism, and mocked her too. This time, it was obvious to me she was just being transphobic trash. She received lots of backlash and deleted the post, but instead made a new post complaining about people caring about transphobia but not about sexism (a very stupid post, if you ask me). This time, along with some comments from other girls respectfully telling her to stop being cruel and mocking towards trans women, she received a lot of support from other TERFS (although these TERFS said they hate being called TERFS just for being honest and brave lmmfao). They said that transwomen don't belong in radfem because they just suffer from discrimination, not oppression, and listed some reasons why: according to them, trans girls don't suffer: obstetrician violence, forced pregnancy, feminicide, child marriage, genital femenine ablation, glass ceiling barriers, being implanted "maternal sense" while kids, getting their ears perfored while babies, among other stuff, and that differentiate ciswomen biological reality from trans women biological reality isn't transphobia. Other girls said they knew transwomen who were mean to them, using derogatory terms to refer to ciswomen and they were mean and cruel, using this argument to generalize about all transwomen smh.

I'm just so stoned that people could be so cruel to transwomen and set them aside from the feminist fight when they suffer from already being excluded from so many things. It sickens me that some people don't belive trans people exist and treat them that bad, specially trans girls. I wish I could debunk the info this TERFS are spreading because it's so dangerous and enables transphobics to keep harming transpeople and I find that unbearable, but I am not as informed as I should be to debute all their lies at once. Could you help me?

So starting with the question of transwomen in radfem spaces, I don’t think many (if any) transwomen would say that they experience the exact same type of discrimination that cis women do. There’s often this idea that “trans people don’t believe in biology”, but that’s a bad faith argument. Trans people understand biology very well, often more than their cis counterparts do, because it’s such a big part of their identity.

Yes, transwomen don’t suffer obstetrician violence, forced pregnancy, child marriage, genital feminine ablation, etc. (I can’t even find any articles on the ear thing). They do experience femicide, at way higher rates that cis women do. Transwomen are women, and they’re discriminated against in their own way; sometimes that’s because they’re women, and sometimes that’s because they’re trans. Transwomen are largely supportive of fighting with cis women to rid the world of discrimination for all women, cis and trans alike.

By contrast, TERFs seem to think that because transwomen sometimes suffer a different type of discrimination than cis women, they can’t be “real women”. But that argument makes no sense to me. The vast majority of affluent, white, straight, cis women will never suffer the violence that is apparently so central to the cis female experience. They’re extremely unlikely to experience femicide, child marriage, genital mutilation... and yet they can acknowledge that those issues are feminist issues, even though they’re not universal to all women. Why shouldn’t the discrimination that transwomen face also fall under that umbrella? And if they can accept that women who have had hysterectomies, or women who have chromosomal differences, or women who are intersex, or women who present butch are all women, why shouldn’t transwomen also fall under the umbrella of womanhood?

Further, is that really all that womanhood is to TERFs? Experiencing the trauma and discrimination that so often accompanies being a cis women? I don’t think inclusion to a group should be predicated on the amount that one has suffered or how many “oppression points” they’ve amassed. And I don’t think being a woman should be predicated solely on biology, especially given that we never really know what kind of biology a person has just by looking at them. What “being a woman” is is a metaphysical question that derails the discussion of trans feminism, and it’s a question that I don’t think a lot of TERFs actually have a good answer to. It’s just an easy way to put the burden of proof on trans people and trans allies and waste our time (but if you’re interested, I do have an opinion on this. I just think it’s best saved for a different time).

In terms of trans people being oppressed, there’s all sorts of data to suggest that trans oppression is very real. In the US, trans people were banned from serving in the military under the Trump administration, a decision that was only overturned a few days ago, and the Trump administration also reversed the Obama- era Title VII policy that protected trans employees from discrimination. Trans people are overwhelmingly lacking legal protections- there are no federal non-discrimination laws that include gender identity, and in some states, debates over limiting the rights of trans people to use public bathrooms are ongoing.

About 57% of trans people faced some type of rejection from their family upon coming out. Around 29% of trans people live in poverty (compared to 11% in the general population and about 22% in the lesbian and gay populations), and that number is higher for trans people who are Black (39%), Latinx (48%), or Indigenous (35%). 27% of trans people have been fired, not hired, or denied a promotion due to their trans identity. 90% of trans people report facing discrimination in their own jobs. Trans people face double the rate of unemployment that cis people do (about 14%) and about 44% are underemployed. This is despite the fact that a reported 71% of trans people have some level of post-secondary education- actually higher than the general population, which is about 61%. It’s often cited that women earn 77 cents on the dollar compared to men, but that statistic doesn’t even exist for trans women.

54% of trans people have experienced intimate partner violence (compared to about 24.3% of cis women), 47% of trans people have been sexually assaulted (compared to about 18% of cis women), and about 10% are physically assaulted in a given year.

About 22% of trans people and 32% of trans people of color in the US have no health insurance (compared to about 11% of cis women), and 55% of trans people who do have insurance report being denied coverage for at least one gender affirming surgery. 29% of trans adults have been refused healthcare by a doctor or provider because of their gender identity. In one study, 50% of trans people said that they had to teach their medical providers about trans care. Trans people are four times as likely than the average population to be infected by HIV. 41% have attempted suicide at one point in their lives, compared to 1.6% of the general population.

20% of trans people have been evicted or denied housing due to their gender identity, and trans people are four times more likely than cis people to be homeless. Only 1/5 of trans people report that they have been able to update all of their identification documents, and 41% have a driver’s license that does not match their gender identity. 22% of trans people report that they have been denied equal treatment by a government agency or official, 29% reported police harassment, and 12% reported having been denied equal treatment or harassed by judges or court officials.

75% of transgender students feel unsafe at school because of their gender expression, 60% are forced to use a bathroom or locker room that does not match their gender, 50% were unable to use the name and pronouns that match their gender, and 70% of trans students say that they’ve avoided bathrooms because they feel unsafe. 78% of trans students report being harassed or assaulted at school.

And these are all statistics that focus on trans people at large. The discrimination is worse for transwomen and especially transwomen of color. All of that certainly sounds like systemic oppression to me.

Every person who chooses to be a TERF perpetuates this discrimination. It’s just bigotry towards trans people, plain and simple. And for what? A reactionary fear that all transwomen are secretly sexual predators and all transmen are confused girls who don’t know better? Unfortunately, men can be sexual predators just fine without having to jump through the convoluted hoops trans people go through to be recognized as their true gender identity, and transwomen are way more likely to be sexually assaulted than they are to be sexual predators. There are no reported cases at all that transwomen are dressing up as men to assault women in bathrooms. There aren’t even statistics on how frequently trans people are sexual predators. And transmen are just as capable of making informed, thoughtful decisions as cis women.

TERFs shouldn’t be pitting themselves against trans people. There’s just nothing to be gained from doing that. They should be working alongside trans people to fight the patriarchy and the discrimination that cis and trans women both face, regardless of what that discrimination entails.

Last thought. Not to be a stan or anything but if you’re interested in learning more about these issues, Contrapoints has a number of really good videos on the topic of TERFs (including one that just released today!). They delve a bit deeper into the actual questions that TERFs often bring up and provide some nuanced answers.

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