If you’ve been to my AO3 page lately without logging in or without an account and you see the page looking “empty” or “blank”

Know that my fics were NOT deleted. They’re still there, so don’t panic.

I just had to “Lock them” (Notice the little blue Lock next to the title). So they’re  set to “Only show your work to registered users”. Meaning that now in order to read my stories you may need to get an account (I know of ALOT of artist who have Invites and codes they’re giving away to help anyone who needs an account, but doesn’t wanna go through the hassle of waiting for an Invite.)

I ended up having to take this really difficult decision after all the drama that went down yesterday with those (unofficial) Apps that started appearing out of nowhere and people everywhere were freaking out after being told these apps had not only stolen all our fics on AO3, but that they were also making profit out of them through the use of Ads,“asking for tip$” from the users of said apps and also offering “Premium Content” that sometimes allowed the users to “Unlock” stories that were set Private. (WHY would you pay a total stranger money to view content that’s already available for FREE??)

(I also heard that the apps stole logging info if people logged into their AO3 through it. So these apps are all one big SCAM.)

The second reason why I did the Lock-Up was because many of my fics contain Companion Art/Fanart, I created specifically for the story/chapters which are added through Direct Linking through here on Tumblr.

It just sucks that authors and artists, like myself, get pushed into taking these drastic measures in order to protect our work from online parasites. ‘Cause fanart or not, Fanfic or not, it is still our hardwork. Something that we’re proud of and enjoy sharing with others. But if we, as the creators, are not allowed to profit from said work without receiving a Copyright Infringement Report or worse, having it taken down from the pages we upload it to (or you know... face a lawsuit).

Why should someone else who didn’t even put their two cents into their creation?

And like many have said, it sucks because a lot of our traffic and Kudos♥ come from Guest/People without accounts. So every time we have to restrict access/hide our stuff or move to another page that offers more security, it takes a huge bite out of the Feedback we usually get.

It’s not like on Deviantart, where I did ended up having to make both my accounts Private years ago so that its only visible to Members, after it was brought up that people from Photobucket, 4chan, Danbooru, ect kept coming into DA to steal drawings, recolor them and then upload them on other sites like it was theirs. And I think several companies do this as well (*coughcoughHOTTOPICcoughcough*). But in the end it made no difference on the way I receive Views/Feedback, since you still need an account in order to give anyone Like/Fave and Comments/Feedback anyway.

But places like AO3, Fanficition.net, Wattpad ect are different.

ALOT of people read fics from sites like these without the need from an account because the pages themselves make it easier for the readers to leave feedback/kudos/likes on the works without the need and hassle of having to get an account UNLESS you’re a writer yourself and would like to upload your own stories.

*SIGH* So yeah... I hope this all clears out and the “Lock-Up” will become a Temporary thing. TT

He’s trying to go out like Tony Montana.

I know we’re all tired of hearing, seeing and reading about the recent events, and controversies around Bangtan, especially Jiminie.

“And all over a fucking t-shirt.”

Most of you are probably still on this mindset. Because we know that it’s more than that, it’s more than an article of clothing expressing the post-war state of their country after years of suffering and its people being treated in all sorts of inhumane ways.

What this situation has taught (I hope) all of us to understand is that whenever a country’s politics, religious views or historic background are the main protagonist of a shit-storm.

Anyone’s fair game in the lion’s den.

I remember around 10 years ago, my 22th birthday, my friends threw me a surprise bday party. And I recall that one of my friends gifted me this t-shirt from a movie I’ve never heard before.

“The main protagonist is SO cool and badass. Thought of you when I saw it.”

I only remember that it was a black t-shirt with the red silhouette of the character (who I assumed was female) and some message in yellow lettering that was hard to make out exactly WHAT it said.

But anyway, come Monday or Tuesday of the following week, I’m getting ready for college and decided that it would be the perfect moment to wear the tshirt that my friend gave me. So I put it on with some jeans, ect. Get to school early for my first period and I think it was sometime around lunch time that I was hanging out with my friend at the Student Center when this guy came up to me directly.

For those who don’t know, I’m from Puerto Rico and over here, politics-wise, there are 3 main political parties that are always at war with one another all year long:

New Progressive Party ( PNP ) - Pro-statehood

Popular Democratic Party (PPD) - Pro-commonwealth, pro-autonomous entity: different from a federated state or a territory. (Estado Libre Asociado), as established in 1950 law

Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP) - Pro-independence, social democracy.

Among those three, the third one on the list can be somewhat controversial and quite radical depending on the individual carrying out the ideology. Some individuals know their historic-facts well and know how and when to use them in a debate reciting line by line, word by word to prove a point. But then there are those who don’t know their own history and just go along with details and historic gossip which they try and use to humiliate others who don’t agree with their way of thinking (full anti-american mindset).

So, back to lunch time and the guy I mentioned before. This guy in particular I knew was part of the pro-independence movement, but also part of group with the baseless facts. So the guy comes up to me, gets all up in my face and starts confronting me over the shirt, questioning as to why I was walking around with a shirt that promoted gun-violence. I asked him why did he thought I was? so he points to the character on the shirt who apparently had a machine-gun for a leg?

I told him that it was a character from a movie, which i hadn’t seen (so I couldn't explain to him what it was about) and that the shirt was a gift from a friend (and said friend was right next to me). But of course this wasn’t enough for the guy, he just started going off questioning my morals and loyalties towards my country and asked if I was “one of those disgusting, pro-statehood, pigs who willingly sells their country over to the gringos in exchange for white-privileges.”

The verbal assault towards me and my friend went on until one of the police officers near the area, who knew guy, came over to put an end to the argument and told him to back off.

I never wore the t-shirt again after that day, cause I didn’t want to receive anymore backlash especially because the guy was quite... influential around campus. And #2. I was in a Catholic University and the problem with the shirt had reached the wrong ears. In addition I was a History majoring student so yeah... that image didn’t look too good.

It took awhile, but I got over it. Was their reaction an exaggeration? To me it was, and of course it was unfair how easily and quick people are to question or judge everything that you are; who you are because one day you unintentionally wore an article of clothing, an accessory, a hairstyle, ect.. that  just wasn’t to their taste or “threatened” what they believe in. 

So, regarding the issue with the boys, the best we can do is just let the according parties come to terms with the situation and sort it out, the best way that they can or know how. Because it happens in every country who’s history is smeared with blood from another.

There will always be two sides to the same coin and maybe neither one is right or wrong in the eye of the beholder.

As for Jimin and the boys, I hope they can move on from this nightmare just like they have during previous ones in the past. Also to be a little more quick-witted, wiser in their everyday decision-making, which i KNOW is hard to do when you’re in the entertainment business where everything’s all planned out for you and some days you won’t have a say in what you wear, what you eat or even when you go to sleep (it’s a beautiful dream to think the boys have a say in these, but lets be real... this is the dark-side of the Kpop Industry that everyone talks about and both the Asian and Western media are opportunist assholes).

And I also hope that BigHit, as a company, learns to listen a little quicker to fans concerns/worries when it involves the boy’s safety (how many times did Army need to repeat, tweet, tag, call or email BH to strengthen their security when the first d*ath threats occurred before shit got too real to ignore?) as well as their image.  

Should we feel pissed and powerless when there’s so little we can do to defend those who get dragged into these situations? Yeah, it’s totally okay to feel that way, it’s okay to be mad, it’s okay to voice your concern or POV on it if it helps you unwind and think clearly at the end of the day and see that everything will fall into place on its own.

LOL did I ever show you guys these?

I got them at hottopic last year since they were like the Danboard figure (but you know... less expensive) And in some comical way I realized that I kinda have "the maknae line" from BTS. Since the first one that I had purchased a week prior was the Black & White one who I already named "Min-mochi" (a wordplay between Jimin's name and nickname

So I thought, 'Heck, lets just name em all in a similar fashion'. So from left to right: - Min-mochi (top) - Tae-tae (bottom) - Kookie (right)

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Got tagged by @utopiajeon to describe myself using photos from my camera roll. (or, well, whatever you use for taking pictures).

replied to your post “The Ghost Army Tag I was tagged by @lokisasylum to do this game....”

haha, we both have a Busan & Daegu boy as Bias & Bias wrecker. Our Biases are vmin and Bias Wreckers are SugaKookie. XD and omg Yoongi's little wiggle dance LOL (its like a cute version of Jin's).