Starcalista

bath time  | ू•ૅω•́)ᵎᵎᵎ

Hi folks, I know some of you like to use Goodreads to track all your reading and don’t want to distinguish between books and fanfiction.

I am, however, begging you not to do this. It is extremely jarring and disconcerting to be a fic author and find your works somewhere in the wild where you did not personally put them. Fics are not books, are not published in the same way as books, and exist in a precarious legal space.

if you are a fic author and you find your fic on Goodreads, you can get it removed!

Here’s how:

First, you gotta go to Goodreads support Contact Us page. Fill out the form as follows:

What can we help you with? - Book records: adding or editing

What device were you using? - this answer doesn’t matter

Are you reaching out as a publisher, author, neither, or both? - Author

What does your inquiry relate to? fanfiction recorded as book

In the main body of the question, include the link(s) to the Goodreads record(s) for your fic(s)

Hit submit!

Someone should contact you pretty fast; I got a reply within a couple hours, even though it was a Sunday afternoon. They wanted me to confirm that it was a fanfic and asked me to provide proof of authorship which was kinda weird to answer but I was like “uhhh my tumblr is the same handle as my ao3 does that count?” and that seemed to go over just fine.

Once they say they’ve deleted the records it should no longer be searchable although for whatever reason the direct links apparently still work. That’s Amazon for ya I guess.

五伏 - "Future" Forget all those dark sorrows, hold him tight for he's all your future~

#五伏 - "Now They See Us"

Inspired by the movie "Now you see me".

Al-Haitham and Cyno throughout Sumeru’s archon quests.

Yes… General Mahamatra Cyno, head of all the matra at the Akademiya. He’s a formidable hunter, and the ultimate nightmare for any who have committed academic crimes. 

I don’t know if anyone has ever done this before but, here ya go… The Different Types of Fanfiction! 

“Not using the heater during quarantine to save $$. Thought the cat was missing 🙃”

// Genshin Leak mention!!

i'm kinda obsessed with them. Haino in rival way like only I can insult my rival everyone else back away (?)

(for context, haitham was supposed to take the role of general mahamatra but he rejected it, so it was given to cyno)

the rest is delusional speculation 🤗