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Voiceteam is a Discord-based annual event for the podfic community. Teams will earn points for making different voice-based or voice-adjacent creations. For each round, teams will get a list of ten point-earning challenges and then will be set loose to strategize, create, and have fun!

TIMELINE

Sign-ups: April 1–25 Discord server opens: April 27 Check In 1: April 29 Round 1: April 30–May 6 Break 1 and Check In 2: May 7–8 Round 2: May 9–15 Break 2: May 16–17 Round 3: May 18–24 Amnesty: May 25 Tiebreaker: May 26 Chill Optional DIY Afterparty: May 27–31 Results: June 1

This is our fifth year running, and it's always a ton of fun! Click through to the linked post for a TON more info, and then, if it sounds like something you'd enjoy, you can sign up to play!

#I will reblog this for the graphic #that graphic IS voiceteam #exquisite vibes #podfic #VT is the best fannish event I’ve ever participated in

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So this happened… 😊

If you like enemies-to-lovers stories and haven’t read it yet, you can pick up a copy HERE

#this book is so good #also there is fencing 🤺 #there should always be fencing 🤺

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Xena's feats make sense if you assume that every episode is adapted from Gabrielle's scrolls and she's just too transfixed by Xena's muscles to describe the fight scenes accurately.

#xwp #xena warrior princess

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Voiceteam is a Discord-based annual event for the podfic community. Teams will earn points for making different voice-based or voice-adjacent creations. For each round, teams will get a list of ten point-earning challenges and then will be set loose to strategize, create, and have fun!

TIMELINE

Sign-ups: April 1–25 Discord server opens: April 27 Check In 1: April 29 Round 1: April 30–May 6 Break 1 and Check In 2: May 7–8 Round 2: May 9–15 Break 2: May 16–17 Round 3: May 18–24 Amnesty: May 25 Tiebreaker: May 26 Chill Optional DIY Afterparty: May 27–31 Results: June 1

This is our fifth year running, and it's always a ton of fun! Click through to the linked post for a TON more info, and then, if it sounds like something you'd enjoy, you can sign up to play!

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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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reblog for sample size, please and thank you! I remembered to make this a full week-long poll

like the last poll, NO MULTIPLE OPTION! YOU HAVE TO PICK JUST ONE!!

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Alanna the Lioness

#oh wow oh wow #alanna the lioness #tamora pierce #tortall

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Have you played DALLAS : The Television Rolepalying Game

By James Dunnigan

Playing through scenarios, mostly as a character from Dallas. Seduction is an actual stat (along with Coersion, Persuasion, and Investigation, as well as Power and Luck)

#this is amazing #i can’t stop laughing #dallas (1978)

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There should be a fanfic writing game called the showrunners challenge where someone writes a story and partway through someone else can play things like "actor leaves after 4000 more words" or "topic now too politically sensitive due to unforeseen world events" or "lost rights to that reference"

#this looks like so much fun

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newbie fic authors, shooting themselves in the foot: This fic is bad haha I suck at writing lol I am being mean to myself in the hopes that you will be nice to me but actually am dissuading anyone from even clicking on my fic because all I have done to advertise it is tell you why you shouldn't read it

me: I am King Big Dick of Fanfic Mountain and I have arrived in your fandom with the Express Intention of writing my Very Favorite Fics, which I will generously allow you to read. You're welcome.

#if you tell me how bad your fic is I will believe you #and I won’t read your fic

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Hacks Season 3 Trailer

#ok I might have to watch season 2 #because season 3 looks awesome #hacks hbo #hacks

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#566 #but most aren’t active anymore

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I can't believe it's taken me this long to paint her! <3

#wow #stunned silence #t'pring #star trek strange new worlds

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#it’s just black #I had to change it to that though #I do not want pictures behind my apps #it’s distracting

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