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Oh, Wyrm?

@tevruden / tevruden.tumblr.com

I'm back and just as ace as ever. My Art | Tev Pix Mastodon

What even is the deal with Tev anymore?

I’m going full knight with him

(from @jaw-bones​)  No longer a knight-errant paladin he’s actually in service to a prince but he’s still got the small issue of lizert. Turns that’s more of a deal for one of them than the other

At least until Tev uses that to actually get his liege to his appointments on time (yes they’re smooching now, dragons do what they want)

Oh, he can still eat magic and sometimes he gets an upset stomach from it. Thus. This is self-indulgent and I’m NOT sorry

Thank you for coming to my Tev talk

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Tev's a part-time quadruped but, he hasn't quite mastered standing on hooves.

On the plus side: his concerns about riding horseback are solved!

"Why don't people recognize Link in TOTK" bc everyone imagines the legendary swordsman to be built like Ganondorf and Link doesn't bother correcting anyone bc being hailed as a hero is like on the bottom of his priorities, which are topped by things like "Bake one of every pie"

Rando farmer: They say that once the noble hero of legend passed by this very village! Isn't that wonderful to imagine, genderfluid stranger?

Link, 5'6" with 2" heels and wearing a backless dress suspiciously stained with blood: no yeah that's wild

"Wouldn't they recognize him bc he's with Zelda" Everyone interacting with Zelda was like "Wow, the princess!! The princess who saved Hyrule is here, talking to us! Plus some guy with three sets of pronouns who's building a bomb but more importantly The Princess!! Wow!!"

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Zelda keeps coming across spare genders she doesn't need and Link follows behind scooping them all up off the ground like a starving trash possum

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Someone uses an unfamiliar pronoun around Zelda, and she hears the item pickup sound come from Link

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Can’t apply a gender to a force of fucking nature, this Link. 

oh so when BARBIE wants to stop being a doll and interact with the real world as a real person, it's fine and fun and great, but when I, charles "chucky" lee ray,

I mean they did arrest barbie. that's a pretty significant thing that happened. like I understand where you're coming from but they did very much arrest barbie

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FanFiction.net is not gone.

Right now it's a victim of DNS (Domain Name Service) spoofing. This means that a malicious party is trying to steal traffic from FFn by purchasing a very similar domain.

So if you want to read fanfiction and not see leaves, you have have to type out "www.fanfiction.net".

Please share so people stop panicking.

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Its not this either. the web server that fanfiction.net is pointed at is just misconfigured. if you look the DNS resolution chain points correctly to the nameservers in the whois info:

[Whois info showing that the nameservers for fanfction.net point to: NS11.CONSTELLIX.COM NS21.CONSTELLIX.COM NS31.CONSTELLIX.COM NS41.CONSTELLIX.NET NS51.CONSTELLIX.NET NS61.CONSTELLIX.NET]

If you then do a DNS lookup for www.fanfiction.net it hits those constellix.com nameservers and sends you to www.fanfiction.net.cdn.cloudflare.net:

This is perfectly normal in cloudflare enterprise. The issue is the hosting company didn't set up a redirect from fanfiction.net to www.fanfiction.net

This is NOT DNS spoofing. There is NO malicious party. It's just a simple misconfiguration.

Hanlion's razor at work.

Even Weird Al has had that™ experience with Tony Hawk

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Tony Hawk IS Forrest Gump

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So I looked up why and how this happened, and it turns out Weird Al hired a company called Birdhouse Skateboards to provide some “skate/punk” extras for the video. Birdhouse Skateboards is a company started by Tony Hawk, so not only did Weird Al end up putting Tony Hawk in his video without realizing it, he actually hired Tony Hawk’s company without realizing it! And then Tony Hawk just decided to go along as one of the extras himself.

BTW, he’d already won like 40 contests already, some of them international skateboarding contests. So it’s not like Weird Al cast some unknown skateboarder who ended up becoming World Famous Skateboarder, he was already well known and was running his own Skateboarding company.

Think of it this way. This wasn’t ‘Weird Al got Tony Hawk to be in his video’, this was ‘Tony Hawk found a way to be in a Weird Al Video.’

The chance that Tony Hawk has infiltrated your location or piece of media is low

BUT NEVER ZERO.

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FanFiction.net is not gone.

Right now it's a victim of DNS (Domain Name Service) spoofing. This means that a malicious party is trying to steal traffic from FFn by purchasing a very similar domain.

So if you want to read fanfiction and not see leaves, you have have to type out "www.fanfiction.net".

Please share so people stop panicking.

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Its not this either. the web server that fanfiction.net is pointed at is just misconfigured. if you look the DNS resolution chain points correctly to the nameservers in the whois info:

[Whois info showing that the nameservers for fanfction.net point to: NS11.CONSTELLIX.COM NS21.CONSTELLIX.COM NS31.CONSTELLIX.COM NS41.CONSTELLIX.NET NS51.CONSTELLIX.NET NS61.CONSTELLIX.NET]

If you then do a DNS lookup for www.fanfiction.net it hits those constellix.com nameservers and sends you to www.fanfiction.net.cdn.cloudflare.net:

This is perfectly normal in cloudflare enterprise. The issue is the hosting company didn't set up a redirect from fanfiction.net to www.fanfiction.net

This is NOT DNS spoofing. There is NO malicious party. It's just a simple misconfiguration.

Hanlion's razor at work.

[Image ID: a comment on this post from ‘justhere4coffee’ which reads: “That's not spoofing, nor malicious; www.fanfiction.net and fanfiction.net are not separate URLs. It's a misconfiguration in the DNS server which means that the un-prefixed URL is not being sent to the correct entry point on the hosting server. Don't go saying this is someone else, as people may be tempted to take retaliatory action and they'll be taking it at the people you're trying to help!” /End of ID.]

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So it's not a DNS misconfiguration per-se: www.fanfiction.net is being hosted by way of cloudflare, and connections are being routed to cloudflare by that CNAME (Canonical Name) record I mention above. This isn't a valid method to direct traffic to fanfiction.net into cloudflare, as you can't have a CNAME at the apex of a domain (the point where it is delegated to you) because you can't have a CNAME and other data; and in order to host a DNS zone like fanfiction.net the SOA (Start of Authority) and NS (name server) records for that name are mandatory.

To fix this, you can do things that are SUPER sketchy from a DNS hosting PoV, (like host an imitation copy of the .COM TLD on your authoritative DNS server and then put your CNAMEs in there.) Or you can just set up the web server to redirect.

If you're ever in this situation, my professional opinion is to do the second one.

Trust me.

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FanFiction.net is not gone.

Right now it's a victim of DNS (Domain Name Service) spoofing. This means that a malicious party is trying to steal traffic from FFn by purchasing a very similar domain.

So if you want to read fanfiction and not see leaves, you have have to type out "www.fanfiction.net".

Please share so people stop panicking.

Avatar

Its not this either. the web server that fanfiction.net is pointed at is just misconfigured. if you look the DNS resolution chain points correctly to the nameservers in the whois info:

[Whois info showing that the nameservers for fanfction.net point to: NS11.CONSTELLIX.COM NS21.CONSTELLIX.COM NS31.CONSTELLIX.COM NS41.CONSTELLIX.NET NS51.CONSTELLIX.NET NS61.CONSTELLIX.NET]

If you then do a DNS lookup for www.fanfiction.net it hits those constellix.com nameservers and sends you to www.fanfiction.net.cdn.cloudflare.net:

This is perfectly normal in cloudflare enterprise. The issue is the hosting company didn't set up a redirect from fanfiction.net to www.fanfiction.net

This is NOT DNS spoofing. There is NO malicious party. It's just a simple misconfiguration.

Hanlion's razor at work.

tumblr added another secret feature. if you make a post and just type "gullible", it turns it into a different message. tell me which one you got!

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whoa cool it worked!

tumblr added another secret feature. if you make a post and just type "gullible", it turns it into a different message. tell me which one you got!

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Looks like fanfiction.net is gone. Probably should have backed up the fic I had there. Woops. Too late now.

Okay, this is very weird. The green leafy thing is what I’m seeing but apparently there are multiple people who can still access the site? I’m very confused right now.

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Mobile site m.fanfiction.net still up for me but I’ve taken this opportunity to download the few fics I’d posted there

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Use https://www.fanfiction.net/ something is weird with the hosting.