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Bot comments are getting a lot more aggressive lately. This is one I just got. It is a BOT, not a real person who has read the fic. They have not doxed me.

Notice that it's a GUEST comment, not a real account. There are also zero fic, or even fandom, specific details in this comment. That's because they get posted on many, many different fics.

Content warning: threats of doxxing, excessive profanity.

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"Don't get me wrong, I like Jax, but I don't want to see him take up more screen time that could be reserved for the rest of the cast." VALID. ✅️

"I worry Ragatha, Pomni, and the other non-Jax characters have only one purpose, and that's to serve/be stepped on by Jax." VALID. ✅️

"I think one of the biggest reasons I'm disappointed in Episode 5/the introduction of Funnybunny is that it feels like it's built on being a bad friend/hypocrite towards Ragatha. Despite her flaws, she's just trying her best like anyone else, and it makes me feel weird that her attempts to join in are met with awkwardness or outright rejection, and nobody really offers to put the work in for her that she puts in for others." VALID. ✅️

"Alright, I'm really upset with the show's directions so far, so I'm gonna go and harass the creator and VAs, and tell them to harm themselves or that they should go to hell because I'm angry. " NO! ❌️ NO.❌️ NO. ❌️NO. ABSOLUTELY NOT NO SIRREE BOB. ❌️

Seriously, having criticisms of something you love is normal, healthy even.

But FOR THE LOVE OF G-D, DON'T BE HARASSING THE SHOWRUNNERS/VAs, ESPECIALLY IF IT COMES TO THE POINT OF DRIVING THAT PERSON AWAY FOR THEIR OWN MENTAL HEALTH.

At the end of the day, it's just a show.

KPop Demon Hunters Fic Authors - do you think it'd be neat if podfics of your fics existed? Podficcer community culture AND the ao3 terms of service both agree we need your express permission to post podfics - Please let us know they're wanted by publicly posting (in your ao3 profile is a great place) a fanworks permission statement!

Check out @fanworkspermissionstatement for an easy statement builder and a very well done FAQ on permission statements! In addition to podfic, fanworks permission statements are a great place to post how you feel about translations, fan binds, art, and even more! You can also state if you'd like to be asked first, any other nuance that suits your preferences, or if you aren't comfortable with any of the above derivative fanworks.

One of the largest podfic events of the year kicks off this weekend and runs through the month of May - so while there's never a bad time to add a permission statement, now is an incredible time to do so!

Tagging some folks below the cut who may be interested in helping spread the word (no pressure though <3)

AI spam bots and scammers are using the tag #iron lung to insert themselves into the main tag during its huge wave of attention. This includes those pesky bots posting "porn" lives, unrelated AI images, fake article "read more" links and assorted phishing BS.

Don't interact with them. Please report and block as soon as you see one. These guys don't deserve the chance to prey on Iron Lung's audience.

Thanks,

You may have seen this video by MorgueOffical. It contains actual cult indoctrination techniques that MorgueOffical is using on his viewers. Do not trust this person! Do not become a member of their channel! Not for anyone else's sake, but for your own.

Don't believe me? There's more than a few videos about him by ExposingHyperianism. And this is Morgue's description on his own channel

YOU ARE

LITERALLY

OBSESSED WITH ME.

i go to check twitter, i find out you sent me a string of messages telling ME i'm "addicted"

i go check your twitter? you're talking about me like this to anti-TADC accounts:

and i also find out you're talking about me to TADC-critical blogs like i'm a villain!

and before all this!? you were STILL obsessively sending me anons trying to apologize and make me feel pity for you!

i'm gonna call this what it is:

YOU'RE ANGRY THAT I SET A BOUNDARY WHEN YOU WERE MAKING ME UNCOMFORTABLE BY VAUGEPOSTING ABOUT ME ON BLUESKY. AND NOW YOU'RE TRYING TO BULLY ME AND MAKE ME LOOK BAD TO STRANGERS.

YOU ARE A STALKER AND AN ABUSER.

when I got into fanfic, I had absolutely no clue what I was doing. I just knew it was fun and I was passionate about it. I didn’t have any friends in fandom, I barely knew how to use ao3 (I watched a useless YouTube video and taught myself everything I needed to know) and basically had to learn how everything worked by myself, but I was ELATED when I posted my first fic and people were reading it. It was mind blowing to me becuase back then, I had never posted anything of my own for people to see. I didn’t have a tumblr, I didn’t post anything on Pinterest, hell Pinterest was the closest thing I had on my phone to any sort of “social media”. So as you can infer, I was very happy when my fic was read by like ten people. It was just such an unnecessarily encouraging space full of nice commenters and people—I could go on a long rant about how GOOD a space ao3 is and how the people there are legitimately some of the best people ever as long as you’re curating your experience well but I digress—and I was Loving It.

a big game changer was when one of my fics kind of blew up. Idk, I guess people were yearning for some time travel (maybe it helped that it was my first fic over 80k) but point is that I got regular commenters commenting on every chapter I posted, and it was So Fucking Awesome to realize that the fic I had spent a year writing, expecting 50 people to read it at most, meant something to these people—meant enough for these people to come back got each of those twelve chapters and leave a nice note at the plot I had spent months dreaming up out of nothing but my own inspiration and enjoyment. It’s fucking crazy, you know? The realization that something you were doing just for your own happiness can make others happy. That a hobby you started just becuase you liked a character could spread until people stayed up till 2 am reading your words and offering their kudos and thanks and opinions and excitement in return.

so.

I am passionate about the relationships within fandom and how fanfiction feeds the fans, which leads to fans feeding the fanfiction in a beautiful cycle of support and thankfulness. Sure, there are always going to be those assholes that tear apart rather than truly critique, or the people that think your opinions render you trash, or who think your favorite character is shit or your writing is useless. There are always going to be those people and there’s nothing we can fucking do abkut it becuase it’s human nature to contain division and antagonists and differences in opinion. But those people—they make the rest of it all the more beautiful for their presence. It makes you realize just how kind a community this is. Guys, I would never have found my love for writing—any kind of writing—without fanfiction and the encouragement of every well-articulated comment citing their favorite sentences in my fics and each comment that just says “OMG AHHHHHHH”. Each one is special and each one I treasure becuase it lets me know that people are happy because of me. And not just in a “man I’m a people pleaser” way but in a “this community is beautiful” way.

I still remember quite fondly times when their were trolls in my comments or people being rude about choices I made in my fics, and other commenters came to my defense—telling them to shut up, that they were wrong or that they could just not read if they weren’t enjoying it. It made me so happy to see that people were kind enough to defend me from the people that came into my comments just to make a racket or hurt my feelings.

the point of this overly long rant, besides the fact that I just wanted to talk about how much I love fandom, is that the glue of this community is the support we give each other and the encouragement which we offer to young writers and people who feel insecure in their skill, wether that skill had been hardened by years of work or a single day of writing. The fuel of fandom is the good vibes we, the fans, are willing to put out there, and it always will be.