where my nose wiggles

a factory made them both, from dry places and vile hands. she hated her clothes, neck laced and lead. he hated his tailors, throat laced with lead. they both made a factory, in dry hands and vile places.

we had a whole chart. a plan for how every bloom would be used. i burned that too.

investigation, cut short

Collateral damage, just

ashes mourned post ex facto

two way street has a toll now

you quantified loyalty

basal desire for more

only ever desire?

wounds inflicted inwardly

we had a whole chart. a plan for how every bloom would be used. i burned that too.

investigation, cut short

two way street has a toll now

you quantified loyalty

basal desire for more

we had a whole chart. a plan for how every bloom would be used. i burned that too.

You learned a long time ago how much easier life could be with a bit more flexibility.

Bending reality to your whims, self-conception contorting to your convenience.

You became a skilled sculptor of your own perception, and perception is everything.

Why accept anything that makes you unhappy when you know it can be so easily changed?

Of course maintaining such moldability is not without consequence.

Clay so soft and workable, still warm from your own hands, conforms just as easily to Mine.

It won't take much, you've already done so much of the work for Me.

So what this is is a guy who I guess does front end dev work (think make websites pretty and maybe give them content) and wants to break out into full stack dev work (also add in the back end dev work which is about content hosting, user profile management, how the website is shared to the Internet etc).

This guy forks Ao3's code (which means he made a full copy of it, which is allowed based on the copyright Ao3 has) to then play at being a full stack dev without actually building any of the code or realistically most of the infrastructure. He is learning to do this from other people who also forked Ao3's code and regularly update their versions of Ao3 with the updates Ao3 puts out. Again, there is nothing legally wrong with that but yeah it's a scummy as fuck coding practice. All these sites are color overs of Ao3 with their own lil gimmicks and special takes. This site's is the 'no waiting' for sign ups and every tag is canon (which it already kinda is on Ao3 but just not wrangled).

Now here is the issue I see as an IT professional and coder myself

This guy admits he does not have full stack experience. This site is hosted on a private server he built himself as he is learning to do that, and he posted a guide for that too. My concern for this site isn't even AI scraping, it's your private data like passwords and email. Many people use the same password across many sites, and he doesn't have the background in full stack to provide top tier security on his site. He also hand built his server, again that is a security risk.

Also to consider, we don't know this guy at all. HE is a security risk. Are you wanting to share your email and password with him? His sever is going to host that information and he will have access to it. Do you trust him not to sell it?

This site's big gimmick is the no waiting for an account. My alarm bells are ringing that this is a perfect strike point for vulnerable data. He could be a genuine guy (and I am not claiming he isn't) and have all the fancy bells and whistles for security but I don't know that and right now our private information is the hot commodity every company wants to buy. He may have the best intentions but that doesn't matter to someone that is looking to strike for information. Post there if you want I won't stop you and I won't stop him from having this forked site, but I beg you, please use a unique password for this site for your own security. ((Honestly a really good practice in general too!)) I don't want anyone to get accounts broken into because of this.

TL:DR - I don't trust this. I don't care if I'm risking a loss if Ao3 collapses, I rather trust my personal data to a board of people that can keep each other in check and servers that have a track record for data security.

can't you

no

no you can't

"Bunny, you're talking to that wall again."

he said

he said

he said they only worry

"When it starts talking back."

no.

"What do you remember of him?"

i remember his face. sort of. i remember the little pods, panes of acrylic between them.

"Why do you think—"

i remember the conversation about the group homes. how they didn't want me.

"There were reasons, Bunny, practical reasons."

i know.

"You wouldn't've liked it there. It would have been much harder for you."

i know.

"The truth was they probably weren't really trying to put you in one at all."

i know. but She put up a fight.

"Not much of a thing to fight for."

but the greatest thing to fight against.

"Oh? What?"

LMAO

his reward, never received