peace was never an option

This is what happened when a fanfic site is profit driven. Wattpad sucks 😞

The email from Wattpad is so condescending imagine pressuring writers to update and work while they are doing it for free and fun. Also the discovery? Algorithm? Of Wattpad looks like a stressful popularity contest 😑

Hey I just wanna quickly say that you only get these if someone reports the story. I've barely updated on Wattpad in the past two years and haven't gotten any of these, mostly because I don't even have an audience over there who has the potential or drive to report my fics. So, corporate greed is bad, yes, but it's also readers being buttheads

Hmm, that's interesting! You know what happens if someone reports a story for being incomplete on AO3? Jack shit, because not churning out content for your fun little hobby is not a reportable offense on AO3! And that's because, unlike Wattpad, AO3 isn't profiting off of your work, either directly or indirectly, and so when readers are buttheads, the AO3 abuse mods ignore them, instead of sending out weird automated messages harassing writers for daring to have a wip.

Wattpad has gone to the dogs with greed. paywall and restrictions are also stupid insane, I used to love Wattpad until I couldn't read without an add every two chapters, and having to go offline just to avoid the unskipable minute long adds when Im trying to read to decompress, not to mention the library restrictions without a subscription is insane, I use AO3 for everything and AO3 has a working app now too!

And I stopped writing on Wattpad because I kept getting DMs constantly about how my updates weren't fast enough or my OC should have a different character trait to fit the readers likes, the ranking and rewards system also felt like it was turning the writings into a competition rather than being able to just do it for fun.

hey I'm sorry I know this is about wattpad, but I'm using this as a moment to make a public service announcement. this not solely directed at prev (although it is also partially directed at prev) and I want to be clear that there is 100% no reason that you're expected to know this, I am not blaming anybody for being fooled

AO3 doesn't have an official app

AO3 is optimized to run in your mobile browser, because they don't really have the people, time, money to spare developing and maintaining an app.

if you're using an app on your phone or tablet to access AO3 it's 100% an unofficial third-party app, and not by the Organization for Transformative Works.

if it says 'official' app, its still not one. it's an unofficial app. they are lying. they're using the logo and everything, too, but they are not an official AO3 app. I found two like this, and I had to look to find the 'we are an unofficial app'.

for the sketchiness of that alone, I would recommend deleting the app and changing your AO3 password. I'm not your dad, I can't tell you what to do, this is just advice that's intended to be helpful and friendly.

I know a lot of the internet doesn't work well in the mobile browser but I swear AO3 works great! You can even make your own skins to change how the page looks for you! (Or use skins that other people have made, there's lots out there!) Or you can download the fics and use them in an ereader of your choice, if you prefer.

just be really careful, because this AO3 app situation comes up every now and again. sometimes it's well-meaning fans, sometimes it's not.

if AO3 ever does put an app out- which is not on the roadmap as far as I'm aware- you'll be able to find lots of information about it on the AO3 website, confirming that it's genuine will be easy-peasy.

okay, love you, bye!

we need more vampire stuff that’s set really really far north on the planet. the potential… we don’t have any sunlight for a couple of months every year so they would literally be able to walk around during the day and no one would know…

"Oh but its so cold-" vampires literally wouldn't care. They would be attracting their victims by being dressed too lightly and people would be all like "oh no you are too cold, you are already cold to the touch, come inside" and then the vampire could be all "bleh!"

Continue✨ Keep going✨

Thank you, lady 🤗

The Nigerian accent. God. She reminds me of home...

Always grateful when this makes the rounds

Eurovision is in a week so reminder to not watch or support it in anyway with the fact that Israel is still in the competition 

Seconding this For Azerbaijan which is also genociding ethnic armenians in Nagorno Karabach and has not been excluded from the competition

Every time I hear about the cruelty of the genocide in Palestine I'm always baffled. Not by the logistics of it. I recognize that white western supremacist leaders value money and power over brown lives. They always have. It reveals itself in every political interaction.

But I guess... The lack of humanity always stuns me. How far detached do you have to be to be okay with this? To know what you're doing and do it, not even saying "oh well it's someone else" no it's YOU! YOU are the one committing these atrocities! How do you get there? I can't fathom what greed and privilege you have to have to be okay with this. To think that this is a "necessary evil". Even those who AREN'T going to benefit from it (i.e. white liberal voters) have convinced themselves of this. How do you do that?? How do you see live action the murder of tens of thousands (with the intent of millions) and not like... That shit don't bother you? It don't... Make you question that the leadership you're under, that the world you're in, is not the way it should be??

Me too. Once people go this far and still claim to still care about human life, it’s like, I can’t believe you. You can’t happily backstroke in a lake of blood and convince me that your soul is in tact enough to really care about “the greater good”.

Rebecca Perry, Beauty/Beauty; from 'Kintsugi 金継ぎ'

elon musk told jkr to calm down help fkfbkr

imagine being such a shit person that elon musk tells you to get a hobby

i hope they both kill eachother in real life <3

i think they should have a cagematch to the death

applied for 3 apartments last week, 2 i didnt get anything back and 1 just emailed me back to tell me my income isnt high enough

that's not how it works man i have to show them my tax info and shit

My understanding is that unlike in Canada (and probably the US), the ability to rent in Denmark requires more than just the credit score. Requiring some additional paperwork or whatever.

Well I'm not surprised at all. What else do you expect from basically a socialist welfare state?

btw! I was made aware that many people don't know that we're boycotting Eurovision this year, so.

we are boycotting Eurovision, as per BDS guidelines.

don't watch the stream, don't engage with the videos, don't post it about it on social media using hashtags that are going to trend. whatever you're getting from the show isn't worth it

truly my biggest "do as i say not as i do" trait has got to be my delight in seeing characters 'betray' their own team in order to prevent them from taking an action that they've realised is the wrong one, but also know will take too long to convince anyone else of before the shot has been fired and it's already too late to call it back. because like rationally i understand that in a way it's an expression of love and trust to undermine someone you looked up to in the hope that they'll come to understand your perspective and forgive you once you show them why they were wrong. but nevertheless if someone i trusted betrayed me and told me that it was "for my own good" or that i would "understand in time" i would want to boil them in oil. slowly.

huge fan of divorce. wouldn't enjoy it very much if it happened to me though.

"Courbes" for Revue Beauté by Revue Magazine/ July 2021

Photographed by Greta ILIEVA. Clothes by Michaela STARK. Modeled by Mateas GIUALIANO.

did it work tho?

god bless our troops [the ppl at ublock origin who keep updating the filters to keep working on youtube]

god bless our troops [the ppl at ublock origin who keep updating the filters to keep working on youtube]

god bless our troops [the ppl at ublock origin who keep updating the filters to keep working on youtube]