wondering

It is not hard to link to your Tumblr or Twitter with a vague message like, “If you’re looking for my other works or other ways of supporting me, go here: link.” I have had people buy me coffees after enjoying my fic and asking where to support me. I threw up a link to my Tumblr and people cared enough to follow it. They were fully understanding when I explained in the comments that they could not commission me and I could not link them directly to any donation platform, but they could go to xyz link to read more. And they did! Nobody has to put AO3 directly on the firing line.

Go ahead and commission independently. Just do it anywhere else except on AO3. And then don’t come crying to the community when you, personally, get a C&D from a massive corporation.

AO3 is our bullet shield. Tumblr will pull your shit down. Wattpad won’t fucking protect you. LJ and FF.net already sold our asses for one (1) corn chip. AO3 is trying to protect us, you goddamn lemmings.

If you cannot follow the rules that protect fanspaces, you do not belong in our fanspaces.

At the bottom, there is small text which says “A non-selective plan for dealing with the resurgence of blatant Fic Commissions on AO3, inspired by the campus Tik-Tok”.]

[The rest of the images are white with black text, which have a title followed by a bullet point list. They say:

If I see Blatant Commissions:

(Capitalized) I will report you

(Capitalized) I will report your ass

(Capitalized) I literally will not give it a second thought, i will just smash that report button

(Capitalized) I didn’t survive the transition from LJ, and the purge of ff.net just to see people make ao3’s job even harder than it has to be

On the right side of the slide, there is a PNG of a red button.]

[But fanartists…

It’s different

(Capitalized) I know, I know

It’s technically the same - it’s just different

On the right is the meme of Ben Affleck looking tired, smoking a cigarette out of a window with a bottle of alcohol beside him]

[Why you so mad?

Copyright law violation

Copyright law violation = slippery slope to getting sued by OC’s

Free Fanfic is made safe by the ‘Fair Use’ clause – which says that it’s okay to transform copyrighted property because no money is being made off of it

When you charge/commission – you lose your ONE defence]

[Learn your history

Fic writers got sued in the not too distant past

Some of them were sued very successfully and made to pay reparations along with their cease and desist orders

The name ‘Anne Rice’ still gives old fic writers flashbacks

Historically Fic writers have been reminded, viciously, about whose sandpit we play in and on what terms (Not Ours)]

[(Toggle case) but I never said I own the characters

There are several screenshots of disclaimers that authors put on their works, which say:

Crowley, The Book of the Law, 57. Disclaimer: I don’t own anything here, except the writing. No profit is intended except the sheer joy I get out of constructing this story.

JK Rowling owns Harry Potter. Fasa games owns Earthdawn.

Disclaimer: Everything belongs to J.K. Rowling and I make absolutely no money with this FF.

Disclaimer: Aragorn is mine! Allllll mine, my precious yessss….. (Just kidding, he belongs to Tolkien, who’s probably spinning in his grave at this very moment…)

All characters belong to George Lucas and Lucasfilm Ltd., yadda, yadda, yadda…

Disclaimer: The raven belongs to E.A. Poe. I’m just borrowing the hateful creature for a little bit, okay?

Author’s Notes: Sherlock Holmes and all related characters are original creations of the genius of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Original characters (meaning mine) will be noted. This fic takes place somewhere between A Scandal in Bohemia and Holmes’s retirement. Please R/R.

Disclaimer: The dear boys belong to Victor Hugo, may he rest in peace and not be disturbed by whatever I do with (or to) them. The first names of Marcelin, Francois, and Etienne were Manon Goutal’s brilliant idea. Alexandre and Laurent were mine. Claudette Prouvaire, Claude to her friends, is entirely a creation of my own mind (be afraid: oP). I’m not making money off this, nor do I want to. I have nothing. Have mercy on me. Archivists: Feel free to post this on your site, just let me know

Disclaimer: I do not own the characters and/or plotlines and/or dialogue of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice nor Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones. Duh.

Disclaimer: The Vampire Diaries does not belong to me. New characters, are mine.

– All the usual disclaimers apply – I own nothing – just borrowing these guys for a while –

Learn your history, it’s only in the last few years that we haven’t had to put disclaimers on EVERYTHING because AO3 protects us]

[but, but, I didn’t know I can’t charge…

(capitalized) read the terms of service

(Sub bulletted list): “You agree not to make available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising (defined as solicitations for direct or indirect commercial advantage” [AO3 TOS Section I, D]

“Promotion of commercial products or activities is not allowed.” [AO3 TOS, Section IV, B]

“Unsolicited commercial activity is not permitted on the Archive.” [AO3 TOS, Section IV B]

(capitalized) it’s literally in the terms of service use your eyeballs

Below is clip art of cartoon eyes that are wide open.]

[(Capitalized) In conclusion

(Capitalized) don’t fucking charge for fic

(Capitalized) don’t put on ao3 that you’re charging for fic

(Capitalized) don’t link your ko-fi, patreon, paypal, on ao3

(Capitalized) just don’t fucking do it

Then, if you can join me for Phase 2. March 7 2025 thtough March 14 2025? No Amazon. None. 1 week. No orders. Not a single item. Not one ebook. Nothing. 1 week. Just 1.

If you live outside the USA boycott US products on February 28 2025 and stand in solidarity with us and also join us for the week of no Amazon.

Are you with me?

Took this from Instagram because this is urgent US folks.

You need to call and email your reps no matter if you live in a red or blue state. This cannot be allowed to pass.

& how its republicans top priority to get passed

Spread this far- this could end voting rights for hundreds of millions of Americans

I think you might have misinterpreted the comic. the joke was how she, an ace person, could forget something as obvious and familiar to other people as sexual attraction! I thought her reaction was so funny I suggested making a daily comic about it.

Lyd is my girlfriend! We’re in love! Passionate lesbian love. For four years now! Since that comic we moved in together and we’ve started building savings for our life together! We talk online (Twitter, we don’t really use tumblr) about struggles we face, homophobia, lesbian history and representation, and the intersection of being gay with being ace, not ace, gender conforming, and gender non-conforming. That comic you’re saying is homophobic might look like it to someone without the context of our life, and maybe it did cause a sapphic woman to feel alienated due to her sexual attraction. I understand that because I’ve felt that way many times from the words of both lgbt and non-lgbt people alike. But it was an accident, and while that can’t take away the damage, I promise that Lyd’s comics showing our happy life together, our posts online, even our youtube channel all do infinitely more good for fellow sapphic women and other lgbt people than this comic did bad. Lyd apologized for the misunderstandings and lack of clarity.

Please stop holding other lgbt people to an impossibly high standard. We have so many enemies in this world, the last thing we need is to be attacking each other for the smallest infractions.

- Meg, a lesbian

a comic about being

an ace lesbian*

One of the exclusionist “talking points” was that asexuality, just by itself, was homophobic and all asexual people are homophobic, no exceptions. Yes, the whole orientation. Yes, even when there are homoromantic asexuals. No, it didn’t make sense even back then. So of course, to an exclusionist, a statement like “allosexuals feel sexual attraction” is homophobic because it indirectly mentions asexuality, which is homophobic.

Who else has to use their powers of deduction to figure out what they’re feeling?

It could be from something called Alexithymia. It can happen to anyone, usually when trauma is involved, but it’s a common experience for Autistic people for a couple of extra reasons.

One is that it’s linked to struggles with interoception, and I don’t know if you’ve heard, but Autistic people do tend to have some differences in sensory processing. 🙃

The other is that we’re very often gaslit when it comes to our feelings and experiences, starting from a very early age, which leads to doubting our own reactions to things and never learning how to process, or even recognize, our emotions or their connection to physical sensations.

This is how it often goes for me. I notice physical, sensory, and cognitive changes first and have to work my way backwards to see if there are any big feelings behind it. (And yes, I really did have to do this even when my uncle died.) I might then need help accessing those feelings in order to let them out, which is where music or certain movies come in handy.

For example, I have a sensory aversion to smooth, hard floors (like tile). So, as a little kid, I would always stay on the carpet whenever possible. If I had to go somewhere with those floors, I would stand on my toes and try to stay on other things (like mats, clothing on the floor, etc). When my parents replaced all of the carpet in our house with smooth vinyl, I suddenly couldn't avoid uncomfortable floors anymore so I begged them to get me some socks. They fought me a lot on that because I "never had issues with it before." But finally, they let me wear socks indoors and now I wear them all the time so I don't have to touch the floor.

I did have issues with those floors! It just wasn't clearly visible because I avoided them as much as possible. They assumed I was fine with them because they didn't see me, like, having a meltdown with bare feet on the tile, because I specifically avoided going on the tile.

I think it's the same thing with speech in my case. Sometimes I struggle to speak out loud, and there have been times when I've broken down crying because I had to say something but couldn't. It didn't become clearly visible until highschool, because I was homeschooled until then, and I couldn't struggle to speak if there was nobody else to speak to in the first place. So, while for some people they figure out their speech difficulties early on, I didn't because there wasn't any opportunity to try speaking to people outside of my immediate family. And then, when I got into highschool, I started to have problems. So, I did the same thing with talking that I did with floors, which was avoiding it. I was just the quiet one that stood in the corner, even if I wanted to say something, because I wasn't sure I could. When I learned that some people use other ways to communicate, like AAC apps, I tried using one once and it was really helpful. But then I told my dad about it and he laughed at me. Because, according to him, I "can talk just fine." And now I'm scared to use my AAC app because I don't know if I need it enough to deserve it. Thanks Dad. 👍

When did I ever "talk just fine," outside of talking to my immediate family? Just because I wasn't scolded by crappy teachers in elementary school for not talking doesn't mean I don't struggle to talk. It just didn't come up earlier because there wasn't a chance for it to. And then in highschool, when I realized talking was hard for me, I started avoiding it.