Vicious Redhead

Everyone is always saying that they are scared of sharks and don’t want to help them.

But, this is a serious issue.

Sharks aren’t he only ones who are affected by the actions of hunting and shark finning, but the entire ecosystem.

So everyone, PLEASE REBLOG!

I keep dreaming for the sharks…

(Info redacted because I prefer keeping these accounts separate but no one follows me on the side blog I have for that account.)

The story was posted almost a year ago and is relatively “popular” by my average statistics even though it has tropes and themes that are big turnoffs for a lot of people (hence separate accounts). This popularity is undoubtedly because it’s a Marvel Loki story and that fandom is massive.

So there is obviously an algorithm or a bot scrubbing ao3 statistics and leaving this comment on fics that meet a certain metric with the main character of the fic inserted into the comment.

I had a little time to kill this morning so I decided to investigate further. And y’all this is so predatory. Come on this journey with me. It made me mad. It may make you mad.

First, if you go to Webnovel’s website, you HAVE to choose between male lead or female lead stories before you can go any further. WTF?

And that’s weird, but this gets so much worse. This is basically a pay-to-read site that has different subscription models. Which… okay BUT! The authors don’t get paid! Look at that comment again. They’re promising a supportive and nurturing community, but zero monetary compensation. It’s basically, “post your stuff here so we can get paid and you can get… nice vibes?” I mean look at this Orwellian writing:

Using the phrase “pay-to-read model” in the same sentence as “qualitative changes in lifestyles for authors” deliberately makes you think that you can get paid and maybe even make a living on this website. But that’s not actually what it says and authors will not receive one red cent.

Oh but wait, the worst is still to come. In case this breaks containment (which I kind of hope it does) this is where I mention that I’m a lawyer in the US.

I don’t do intellectual property or copyright law but I do read and write contracts for a living. So I went to look at their terms of service. It was fun!

Highlights the first, in which Webnovel gets a license to do basically whatever they want with content you post on their site. This is how they get to be paid for people reading authors’ writing without paying them anything.

Highlights the second, in which Webnovel takes no responsibility for illegally profiting off of fan fic. This all says that the writer is 100% responsible for everything the writer posts (even though only Webnovel is making money from it).

Highlights the third which say that by posting, the author is representing that they have the legal right to use and to let Webnovel use the content according to these terms. So if a writer posts fan fiction and Webnovel makes money from people reading the fan fiction, and the House of the Mouse catches wise, these sections say that that’s ALL on the writer.

So that’s a little skeevy to start off with but the thing that is seriously shitty and made me make this post was that these assholes are coming to ao3. They are actively recruiting people in comments on their fan fiction. And they are saying they are big fans of the character you’re writing about and that they share your interests.

They are recruiting fan fiction writers and giving every impression that you can make money from posting fan fiction on their site and hiding the fact that you absolutely cannot but they can make money off of you while you try, deep in their terms of service which no one but a lawyer who writes fan fic and has some time to kill will read.

I see posts on here regularly from people who don’t understand how this stuff works, don’t understand that they (and others) can not legally make a financial profit from fan fiction. And there are tons of people who will not take the time to dig into the details.

They left this on a fanfiction I was writing. Not only did the whole message (especially the weird font) seem shifty, but that fic wasn't even an attack on Titan fic, it was a Last Hours fanfiction in an AoT setting. Also, look at the commenter name; Definitely a bot. I looked up the contract and what some people thought of it and the first thing everyone warned about was that as soon as you post something there they get the rights to that writing. It's all a big trap.

Not to mention it's Chinese owned and therefore foreign writers might or might not suddenly be operating under a different county's laws if webnovel now owns your writing, and they claim to be an English website. Even if they use the language they are inherently trying to twist their wording and the owner of the site controls the writing and gets all the money. Even if they do pay you, it's not very much.

As one of my mutuals also very helpfully pointed out, they provide no email address or links to research their website. They simply tell you to search for them and give you a discord link.

No terf ever would want a women to take birth control without consent, this is only happening now that we decide that ‘woman’ has no meaning. This is what’s happening because we decide that women means a specific hormones and a chosen identity, not actual women.

So it also includes asian women or latino women or arabic women. So jot only black females. But i guess its easier to push everythibg down on white women and rscism 🤷🏿‍♀️

Its funny how everyone seems fine with trans women competing in the olympics, which I think is the utmost disrespectful thing a transperson can do.

trigger warnings: wounds, eating, drinking, kissing, semi-nudity, flashing lights.

Snek Crowley !

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Video of Tama

^Nitama majestic, and below with Yontama

Yontama.

The shrine of Tama Daimyōjin (Great gracious deity Tama), next to the Kishi station where she worked.