It sucks that people are treating the Reddit blackout as a joke or assuming it's impotent rage over a minor decision bc it's Reddit when like. No, a tech company shutting down access to their API by forcing third-party devs to pay completely unreasonable fees ($12,000 per 50 million API requests, which to the largest third party clients would be tens of millions of dollars) and in the process destroying both accessibility apps and moderation tools is Bad Actually

I really recommend people who don’t understand the awful accessibility implications of Reddit’s ludicrous API pricing to read r/blind’s statement on why they’re going dark:

So pretty much: Reddit refuses to compromise on accessibility tools for blind and visually impaired redditors so Reddit can pump up their valuation for investors when they go public later this year. (Source is here since r/blind is now private in protest). Many blind and visually impaired users will have to leave Reddit and perhaps the entire r/blind subreddit will shut down. Don’t believe Reddit when they say that they’re carving out exceptions for the API and working on accessibility. That’s fundamentally not true:

So in sum: Reddit has repeatedly neglected accessibility on their app despite multiple talks with blind and visually impaired redditors. Why should we take Reddit at their word when they say new accessibility features on their app are coming down the pipeline? How long is that going to take? The new API prices take effect in July, and the most popular third party apps like Apollo and Reddit is Fun will shut down before that. Thousands of blind and visually impaired redditors could be left without a way to access Reddit because Reddit’s chasing profits without any thought as how to preserve their diverse communities and readership.

LOVE AND REDEMPTION 琉璃 (2020) | dir. Yin Tao, Mai Guanzhi

plot 150 words bed-sharing 200 words smut 800 words projecting my fears, insecurities, and anxieties onto a fictional character 9,356 words fluff 150 words someone who is good at fan fiction please help me budget my WIP, my family is dying

150 words of plot seems excessive.

thank you for the reasonable advice

This site toppling the competition by opting to sell shoelaces instead of monetising their users must be one of the greatest examples of failing upwards in history

monoculture forests are deeply unsettling in a way that is hard to explain to people who do not spend a lot of time looking at forests

Now these two give me the vibes of an epic-romance that Season 1 was supposed to be about, but was lacking ❤️❤️

Honestly tho, the “true love” main couple from season 1 had chemistry of a fridge and a table lamp (all while Lee Dong-Wook can spark chemistry with anything that moves and half of things that don’t move).

And looking at these pics.... I want a full tv show with Kim Bum leading - doesn’t have to be romantic, but get him some scenes like that, because DAMN, BOY!

Also -  I want happy ending for Rang and I don’t care what the writers have to do to pull it off. Screw making him a punching bag over and over.

P.S. 1938 Rang and 2020 Rang have a very different .... feel. And NO, it’s not because 1938 is still a V and 2020 is not. Just... 2020 was less prickly and more ... confident? Didn’t have such an aversion to people touching him? Probably got laid on a weekly basis? ( XD ) 

+ TILL THE END OF THE MOON (2023 - EP22)

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more clj text posts 😊

What are you doing? Get up! Get up! Don’t go. You drank so much and soaked in such cold water… do you want to die? Are you caring about me or my heart?

Skip a Beat 1.06

Hi,

It’s you friendly neighbor fanfic author here. In the light of this apparent new trend of people feeding unfinished fics to AI to get an “ending,” and some people even talking about “blanket permissions,” let me just say this:

I EXPLICITLY FORBID ANYONE TO FEED MY FICS TO AI. DUDE, THAT IS ABOUT THE LEAST RESPECTFUL THING YOU CAN DO. IF YOU DO IT, SHALL YOU BE EXCOMMUNICATED FROM YOUR FANDOM AND WALK ON LEGOS BAREFOOT TILL THE END OF DAYS.

That is my anti-permission.

Thank you for your attention.

Co-signed.

And if I somehow come across mention of you doing this, I am going to track the author down, let them know, and proceed to make sure people know what kind of dirt-bag you are.

Look, I’ve been reading fic on the internet practically for about 25 years, and I have encountered many a fic I would murder several first borns to know what happens next.

I also -unfortunately- am also responsible for a few unfinished fics out there, but I want you to hear me loud and clear:

I’m just working on other shit like trying to be a person, you know.

But it’s very simple: if you want to know what happens next in anything I have up, unfinished:

I actually have shit written, I have outlines, I have hundreds of thousands of words stuck inside me I will vomit all over a person if even marginally asked.

Just ask my poor partner who got to listen to me talk about a massive reveal I have been sitting on for 10-15 years. (…oh Amy Bradshaw, I was merciless to you.)

I promise you right now with 1000% surety: no AI exists that will ever figure ANY of the turns I have planned.

Mind, I also know my shit is so niche and specific the likelihood of someone trying this is slim. But just fucking don’t for ANYONE.

Hi if you do this you are Officially Dead To Me.

This is not okay, this is NEVER OKAY.

I don’t CARE if it’s a fic that’s been unfinished for years, I don’t care if it’s a fic that the author has SAID they won’t finish. YOU. DO. NOT. FEED. THE AI. WITH SOMEONE ELSE’S STUFF. ESPECIALLY ON SOME “SILENCE IS BLANKET PERMISSION” BULLSHIT EXCUSE

DO NOT DO THIS TO ANY OF MY STORIES. EVER. IT IS FORBIDDEN.

I ever catch someone doing this on Ao3 to my or any other fic I am reporting their ass for story theft and blaring an alarm out to every fragment of fandom community I know.

Co-Signed

Star Trek: The Next Generation by Rachael Stott

ROSALINE (2022) dir. Karen Maine

SEAN TEALE as DARIO ROSALINE (2022) dir. Karen Maine

new meme format?