Me Realizing That If I Want To See Content For My Own Ocs I Have To Make It Myself:

easily one of the best stories I’ve ever read, and it makes me laugh like a loon every time I read it.

I reactivated this account just to let you know how much i am loving reading your fic Sasuke's No Good Very Bad Teammates. Thank you for your gracing us with such a funny, interesting, captivating story. <3

ahhh that's such high praise!! I'm so so glad you're enjoying the story -- it's one of my absolute favorites, and I still look back on it fondly even though it's been a while! :D

enjoyy, and thank you so much for taking the time to let me know!

My readers making connections and going crazy with the deep lore of my writing

Me who planned nothing and just typed out whatever random string of words my brain whispered to me today

Yet another AO3 bot situation - please spread the word!

Hi, it's me again, the person who wrote that viral post about fanfiction plagiarism! Today I'm here to warn you about abuse perpetrated by bots who have stolen AO3 usernames.

There's currently an epidemic of bots going around leaving (apparently random) horrible, hateful comments on people's fics. This isn't the first time bots have invaded AO3, but the big problem with this wave is that they're using real AO3 usernames to do it.

I learned about this when another writer contacted me after receiving the following comment on their story:

Now, while that is my username, I DEFINITELY did not leave this comment (and anyone who would leave something like that on a fic should be slapped! What an awful thing to post). This fic is in a completely unrelated fandom that I have never participated in, nor has that author participated in any of my fandoms, so the probability of it being some intentional fandom drama thing to make me look bad is also low.

The writer whose fic the comment was left on enlisted the aid of some friends and tracked down other guest comments with unrelated usernames attached, which is pretty strong evidence that they are being left by bots at random.

The TL;DR: If you receive a cruel comment from a (Guest) with an actual AO3 username attached, it's most likely from a bot. Please do not lash out at or dogpile the AO3 user who owns that name, and who in all likelihood has no idea that their name has been hijacked for evil.

If finding this kind of comment on a fic, even left by a bot, is likely to upset you, I would recommend changing your comment settings so that only users who are logged in can leave comments. To do this, edit your story settings, and under "Privacy," select the radio button that says "Only registered users can comment," as shown below.

Please spread the word to other AO3 users! And if you see mean guest comments on other fics, maybe let the author know that it's probably from a bot and not a real person who thinks their writing is bad.

Bonus:

Consistency what’s that

Anyway have a vine I redrew

if you’re still doing the requests, could you perhaps make a Ford and Mabel bonding somehow? I love your art! always very happy to see it on my dash!

Sometimes the best things are the ones that don’t make sense.

oh yea i can draw whatever i want

only if we can also put on gummy worms

would you like to share a two pound of candy corn with me this fine Halloween?

Only if we can put it on pizza

Me: *Sees long post of writing tips that I should really study*

Me: Nice

*Reblogs and never looks at it again*

i know it’s been said time and time again in a thousand different ways, and I won’t really be contributing anything new to it, but people really do put too much emphasis on romantic love.

love to me is sending a post to a friend for a fandom that i’m not in because he’s in it and will find it funny. love is buying another dice set for my friend even though she already has over fifty because i know she loves them. love is hating your sibling, not wanting to see or speak to them, and yet you know you would do anything for them, all they have to do is say the word. love is getting a vaccine that you suspected would make you sick for minimum of forty eight hours and turning out to likely be seventy two or more because your mother’s immune system is shot from her chemo, and you don’t want to risk it. love is stepping away from work because your friend is having a mental health crisis and needs someone to talk to her for a little bit. love is making plans with friends, and making new plans when those fall through, even though if you had all met at your current stages of life, you wouldn’t be friends. love is when you look back at all of these and know with absolute certainty that you’d do it all over again. love is all of this and so much more, and I feel so lucky to live in a world with so much love in it.