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Reality star, actress, singer-songreader, perfumist, IBS survivor, best-selling author of a book I didn't write, and catchphrase-coiner. Denver/Boston

Yo. I’m leslieseviltwin over at threads. ✌🏼✌🏼✌🏼✌🏼

ICYMI, there was fear that companies were scraping public AO3 fics to train their AI without the consent of AO3 or its users. That fear has been confirmed.

AO3 has written about what they’re doing (and what they’re not able to do), and they recommend restricting your work to AO3 registered users only. [Instructions here]

This gross misuse of the archive by techbros is why I’ve locked down my fics for the foreseeable future. I recommend the rest of you do the same.

@lordoftherazzles made a quick guide for ao3 authors to lock all their works at once for registered users only here!

Someone recently messaged me worried I’d deleted all my fic - it’s all still there, it’s just locked to A03 because of this and other skimming instances.

Please note that many fanfic authors are locking their stories so that they are only accessible to registered Ao3 users.

They’re still there at Ao3. The authors have made this choice to protect their work from misuse/AI scanning.

Writing is so interesting. I've written millions and millions of words and I truly hate each and every one of them but would defend each and every one of them to the death so.

Over here waiting for professional pics and taking hits off of these

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THE BEAR  |  2.03

I think when I was a kid, anything that would give me any sort of excitement or amusement or enjoyment, it always got kinda f*cked. You know, I don’t think my family meant to ruin it or anything like that, you know. I don’t think they did it on purpose. But I think… Sometimes they just, they try too hard. You know, or they’d make promises that they weren’t able to keep.

Anyone have a blue sky invite? Twitter is now limiting how many posts you can VIEW.