fluffmelange

brushbug banging out the tunes

I put all my effort into colouring this panel.

Man, she was terribly scared of losing him 😭

Ohhh boy, do we have news for you! Introducing...

Reader Comments!

Let your readers show their love—in words, GIFS, or any rambling combination. Like, comment, reply… get that sweet, sweet dopamine hit, and let the conversation roll.

Here’s how it works:

Create a Reader link via Share and export

Select Reader link

Choose Can interact, then check add comment.

Signed-in users will then be able to comment on your shared Reader link.

As the author, you're in control of your comments section. You can:

Delete comments on your work.

Turn comments on or off at any time.

Shape the tone and boundaries of your own Reader space.

And if you didn’t already know, Reader links also let readers:

Leave props (when enabled)! 👏

Customize their reading experience with themes (unless you choose one for them)

Use accessible fonts

Because it was trained on pirated work—including freely accessible online writing (like fanfic, academic texts)—ChatGPT picked up patterns and quirks native to human writing.

Including (sigh) the em dash.

There are other victims here (RIP tapestry and delve 🫠), but the appropriation of the em dash—a punctuation mark beloved by writers everywhere—feels especially personal.

A kind of low-grade panic is ensuing. Writers who once memed their own em dash overuse—the greatest punctuation mark ever to grace the control-freak’s lexicon, frankly—are suddenly backing away to avoid accusations.

No. More. We have centuries of dash-abusing writers behind us. We will not sit quietly while AI repurposes our beloved stilted aside—or the just-one-more clarification the sentence demands—or the dramatic pause your comma could never—etc.

You don’t write like AI—AI writes like you.

Defend the em dash.

(Feel free to download/share/stick it where it matters!)

There is no algorithm on that site.

Do not repost the same work multiple times on AO3, or change the date/time to put you back at the top of the list, to boost your stats. Do not post new chapters of a chaptered work as individual stories. These things are extremely rude and people who are angry at you will not want to read your stories.

DO REBLOG everything on tumblr because that is the only way this site functions. On tumblr, YOU are choosing what your followers see. They see what you reblog. They don’t see what you like. There’s also no algorithm robot AI whatever seeing what you like and showing you related comment. NOTHING HAPPENS to likes that affects what content ANYONE on this website sees.