Kazekunai

you have to MANUALLY opt out of it as well.

to opt out on desktop, click your blog ➡️ blog settings ➡️ scroll til you see visibility options and it’ll be the last option to toggle.

to opt out on mobile, click your blog ➡️ scroll then click visibility ➡️ toggle opt out option.

If they’re selling the data to analytics companies it goes under privacy, if it gets sold to AI companies it goes under visibility.

Their assessment of the invasiveness of the decision is dependent solely upon who the data is being sold to. It denies the existence of any intersection between violations of privacy and exploitation of labor.

if you still want to be visible to the world beyond Tumblr but don't want to give free creative labor to corporations, you need to opt out via browser (if you don't use a computer, it's easy enough to do by following the Visibility link from the Privacy page by using Desktop View)

someone not wanting unsolicited criticism on something they do for themself — for fun, as a form of self-care — out of love and passion has nothing to do with whether or not they can handle criticism. because we're not talking about a job they get paid to do. we're talking about a damn fanfiction. a hobby. something writers do in their free time as their source of comfort and getaway.

it's their art. not yours. it can be whatever and however an author wants it to be.

instead of trying to justify your action by gaslighting writers — whose works you read for free — that they "should be able to handle unsolicited criticism", ask yourself why you feel the need to go to someone's fic, read it, and then complain about things you don't like when you can always quietly leave if you don't have anything nice to say.

"can fanfic writers handle unsolicited criticism?" "can you learn basic manners and how not to be entitled?"

I have talked about this here, here and here.

basically I think unsolicited criticism is only reserved for something a person does as a job that they were paid to do.

fanfiction is a hobby that someone does for free and for their own enjoyment. that’s why unsolicited criticism does not belong in fanfic space. you (general you) don’t “criticize” someone’s hobby or how they do their hobby.

(not to mention, more often than not, an unsolicited criticism is actually someone wanting you to write something that fits their personal liking for free, because they’re too lazy to write it themself.)

that said, the only time criticism in fanfic space is okay is when an author specifically asked for one. otherwise, it’s rude and entitled. you (still general you) don’t walk into someone else’s house and start criticizing how the house owner decorates their own room.

also you don’t owe your readers anything. if a comment is rude or entitled, you have every right to delete the comment and block the commenter. don’t give these entitled people a reason to think you owe them anything. don’t give them a reason to think you write for their approval.

so if you asked me how I dealt with these entitled people, I deleted their comments, blocked them and then forgot about them.

False Face Fawn 2nd in my Glass Animal Mask series!

The initial design had glass antlers but they looked too bulky and didn't make sense for a fawn to have grown adult antlers so I replaced them with blue Lily of the Valley flowers. I'm particularly happy with how the white flowers on her back looks like the white fawn spots :D

Owl is up next!

As always, the hours long process videos, HD Image, and PSD file will be DMed on Patreon.com/c/Yuumei

kaveh is rich? the world really must be ending

2. Your creativity matters and so does your ability to share it

3. Serial harassers in fandom spaces are beginning to express discomfort that sites like AO3 completely strip their ability to do anything about fic they don't like, sometimes going as far as leaving entire fandoms due to the influx of "problematic fiction without a chance for consequences to the author". Posting your fanworks to AO3 actively contributes to making harassers feel unsafe and powerless in fandom

4. Militant anti-fanfic content creators also cannot do anything about fic posted to AO3

5. You can post anonymously to AO3, with the ability to de-anonymize at any time

Aw, what a sweet question!

That’s fine if you feel like doing it, though no one should feel obligated to do so. I doubt most wranglers would consider a single thank you tag “more work,” given that we don’t have to connect it to anything and can just move it over to the land where everything that doesn’t belong in a single fandom lives. It would honestly be a rather nice counter to the times people randomly curse at us in the tags. :’)

Without seeing the wrangling interface, I think it can be hard to know what’s really work and what takes a few seconds at most?

Tags that are “work”:

Unmarked OCs that might be minor characters from canon, especially a canon that doesn’t have a wiki. More info here.

Tags in a language that very few (or no) members of the Translation team speak. (Omg, if any of you speak Turkish as your first language, please apply the next time Translation recruitment is open. Please. I’m begging you. You would be a hero to wranglers.)

Confusing tags that stay in draft forever, or where the character or referenced thing doesn’t show up yet in the work, so we have no idea what the tagger really means.

You know those collections of tiny Tumblr ficlets that people put into a single work instead of a series? And then some of those people only tag with first names for characters and relationships? While tagging like a dozen fandoms, so we’re not sure which Jack and which Harry they meant? Yeah. Full names are a wrangler’s best friends.

Generic character or fandom names being used for different characters or fandoms, forcing us to do the disambig dance. It’s not the fun kind of dance. It’s more like the macarena out of tune with zombies kind of dance. Save us from the macarena zombies. More info here.

Works tagged with RPF fandoms but that have just fictional characters, and works tagged with a fictional fandom that have just real people characters. More info here. (This is one of those things people yell at us for in the tags, but we have no control over it.)

Tags that are easy:

Single-use freeforms/additional tags that clearly either have a filterable meaning or not. Syn and done or move and done. Wranglers can handle hundreds in an hour if they’re all clear, regardless of length. To repeat: we don’t care about length! Chatty is fine. “Tumblr-style” is fine. It’s not more work for us.

Using a tag that already exists (canonical or not) for the same meaning that it was originally used for. We never even have to look at it.

Original characters that are marked with (OC) or something like that. So fast, much move.

Characters from canon with their full names used, or if they only have one name, the fandom name in parentheses after it.

Relationships using characters’ full names.

Fandom tags that use the full fandom name, and if that’s kind of generic, having the media or author or year in the tag as well (depending on which makes the most sense for the fandom). No longer the sad, plaintive wails of “which Empire? which Librarians? which Ghost?” No more zombie dance.

I will never let AI touch my art, even as it becomes more and more prevalent in today’s society. I like to think that every part of the process, from coming up with the ideas to handwriting all the words, is special because it’s coming from me. I put my whole heart into my art, and I hope that it shows!

In this AI dystopia, your favorite artists need you more than ever! Join their Patreons, buy from their online stores, like or engage with their art on social media. Let’s uplift human artists over AI that continues to profit off of the backs of millions of artists that it stole from.

A reminder for when bad things happen that it’s not your fault. It can be easy to personalize and feel guilty for random misfortunes, but you didn’t do anything to deserve them! Life just has ups and downs.