reblog to give a plushie to the person you reblogged this from
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@groovyempire @pencakesstuff
You guys better be on the look-out for stuff like this.
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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shrek is 15 years old today
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Thinking about why Shrek works and most meta twists on animation tropes don't & part of it is that Shrek is an actual comedy with jokes beyond "haha isn't that WEIRD", but also while it has plenty of jokes about fairy tales and Disney, it also does have a subversive twist on them at the end. It's a parody, but it's also at least somewhat sincerely a Beauty and the Beast story where true love's kiss makes Beauty transform, and where Beauty is drawn to Beast for who he is and not bc he "changed" his personality to be less monstrous (for Shrek is a honest boor in a world of repressive bores)
In conclusion
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Definitely sounds like Shrek.
love story between feisty redhead and emotionally constipated but lovable Scottish guy
pop culture references
goofy on the surface but actually really emotional
holding out for a hero (or an homage to holding out for a hero)
dance party ending
Am I talking about Shrek 2 or Much Ado About Nothing (2011) starring David Tennant and Catherine Tate
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I don't think we can trust the guardian as a reliable news source on anything from now on
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The sad story of the Three Bears in Shrek
Papa bear on the rebound though
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If you are a Christian that wants to host a Passover seder this year:
1) Don’t. It’s appropriative and gross.
2) Still don’t.
3) Jesus never participated in the type of seder that Jews have today. He lived (if he existed as described in your Christian holy books) during the Second Temple Era of Judaism, when worship was Temple-focused and ritual sacrifice was a key facet of the holiday. The modern seder takes most of its traditions from rabbinic Judaism, which was not the Judaism of Jesus.
4) Don’t do it. Don’t. No, there is no good reason for you to do it.
5) Given the Christian antisemitic violence traditionally inflicted on the Jews during this time of year (the lead up to Easter), it is EXTRA awful for Christians to try and appropriate our traditions related to Passover.
6) Don’t. Pesach is our holiday, and our religion is a semi-closed practice. Don’t appropriate our stuff. Don’t make our stuff about Jesus.
7) There are no exceptions to the rule that Christians should not host Passover seders.
Hope this helps.
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