AO3 DOT LIFE IS DOWN. Sorry Ganesh I don’t believe for a moment you’re a sweet innocent little 17 year old with good intentions.

Monday Motivation: You must destroy the moon. Nothing else in life is more important than this. Dedicate all of your mental and physical faculties to the task of somehow destroying the moon

Two years ago we filled two ballot curing volunteer shifts off people who rsvped from bluesky posts. Can we match that? Remeber: we wont be calling to persuade voters, these are calls to people who already voted but need to take one more step in order for their ballot to count. We can do it!

Fabienk - Angine de Poitrine

♥ Passionate ♥@concretexros3.bsky.social · yesterday

Gun to your head, name a song that’s over 6 minutes long.

I haven't said anything much about polls and midterm results mostly because you know what? Fuck if I know. Vote. Help people vote. Protect the vote after it happens. There isn't much more to say.

Alt: Waves background, awesome clipart text, in different styles: - not - too late - to - vote - get your - ass - to the - polls Behind “ass” is a peach emoji.

Isabel J. Kim@isabel.kim · 2h ago

im using my powers for good now. send this to your friend who loves to procrastinate.

Heads up that Chilling Effect is on sale until November 15th! A mere $2.99 gets you hours of entertaining hijinks, including Mad Max Mario Kart, a dinosaur telenovela, and a cruise ship kidnapping gone extremely wrong. And, of course, psychic cats. valerievaldes.com/books/chilli...

Chilling Effect

CHILLING EFFECT (Book 1) Finalist for the 2021 Arthur C. Clarke Award! 2020 International Latino Book Awards Best Novel – Fantasy/Sci-Fi Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra …

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OTW has confirmed that they have begun the process to have this website taken down. in the meantime, you may issue your own takedown notices if you wish as the legal process for this is QUITE slow, but being frank with you...

✨ achilles king | RED out now@hellostarshine.bsky.social · 11h ago

absolutely DO NOT send them anything for your ao3 email or letting them know what your ao3 email is. there is NO confirmation that they have ANY way to verify this and if they DO it is almost certainly from an attempted or successful breach.

Any other authors out there being inundated with book marketing scams & "fan" email? I am embarrassed to admit I was taken in the first time. Here's what I learned, in case it helps anyone else. #BookSky #KidLit

How to spot a "we'll feature your book!" scam

Thanks to @mvc.ink and @victoriastrauss.com for their resources

debbieohi.leaflet.pub

Here is the entire Reddit post for those who don’t have an account.

🌈 Deea 🦋 Space Waffles@poopsiekittens.bsky.social · 7h ago

⚠️ AO3 is aware of the AO3.life copy website and is taking action. Please take care, fellow creators, and don’t fall for phishing scams from these assholes. Don’t engage if you’re a reader, don’t sign up, and don’t try to make takedown requests if you are a writer. ⚠️

I've been quieter than usual about it cos *gesticulates wildly* but i do indeed have a book & many people have enjoyed it! I can guarantee you that it's better than dungeon crawler Carl. Sex scenes that matter! Funny jokes! Lesbians!! High quality paperbacks on my website, & eBooks everywhere else!

BOOM Goes the Bride by Valiant

A pulpy lesbian cyberfantasy romp with a touch of Doom, and BOOM.

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Louie Stowell@louiestowell.bsky.social · 16h ago

There is no truer nor more important fact than this for a creative seeking to promote their work. I have wanged on about a book until I want to die with shame and had people say, "oh, do yo uhave a book out?" When the shamedeath urge comes, you STILL haven't posted enough. Post double. Triple that.

⚠️ AO3 is aware of the AO3.life copy website and is taking action. Please take care, fellow creators, and don’t fall for phishing scams from these assholes. Don’t engage if you’re a reader, don’t sign up, and don’t try to make takedown requests if you are a writer. ⚠️

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I desperately need "some AI bro copied all of ao3 to sell its contents after it got taken down from a hack" to radicalize everyone who ever used ao3 to be against LLMs

Trans rights are on the ballot tomorrow in five states tomorrow. Assigned Media has been covering these fights extensively, and tomorrow evening our reporters will start by recapping the players and what's at stake, then stay up late to bring you live coverage as the results come in.

As AI-generated sites with millions of scraped AO3 works (at least one of which is charging $) popped up this weekend, @elizabethminkel.bsky.social's late 2024 piece on an inflection point for "fic as endless content" feels more relevant than ever. Unlocked now—read or listen to an audio version:

The Endless Appetite for Fanfiction

In 2024, everyone wanted a piece of fic, from AI grifters to traditional publishers to ravenous audiences. Where did that leave the people who write it?

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Writers, check the Authors page of this scam website--your name and image may be there. Much of the content on the site has been stolen from Park, Fine & Brower. They don't seem to be on Bsky--can someone get the word to them?

Victoria Strauss@victoriastrauss.com · 7h ago

Here's an especially convincing-looking scam that's soliciting writers about film rights: www.arclengroup.com But only if you don't look closely. Domain registration less than a week old, "team" photos have all been stolen, & street address belongs to real agency Park, Fine & Brower

It costs 0$ to share my post! Every share could lead me to a sale! Use code BIBIHOLIDAY15 to get 15% off any non sale items! Code expires Nov 30th at 11:59PM MST. Store: Bibipins.com

When I’m in charge, automatic opt-in will be illegal.

K.A. Doore@kadoore.com · 10h ago

At some point in the near future we need to make automatic opt-in a crime punishable by being punched in the face repeatedly by everyone you opted-in

Please be safe on the internet folks. Take some deep breaths. It's okay to feel furious, defeated, sick, etc. Feel your emotions, acknowledge them, but don't let this overwhelm you. If you need to step away from the internet to take care of yourself, please do what you gotta do.

making an audiobook, even with ai TTS, is an unauthorised transformative work, that they are then selling you cant handwave that away with a opt-in "ask and itll be removed" their payment processor is Dodo Payments report them. payment processors do NOT want to process payments for infringing sales

Holy shit you guys. Do NOT go to that AO3 dot life website. Not as a reader, not as a writer. It’s a phishing site that yes probably has all the fics you’re looking for but it’s also stealing all your info. Do! Not! Go!

absolutely DO NOT send them anything for your ao3 email or letting them know what your ao3 email is. there is NO confirmation that they have ANY way to verify this and if they DO it is almost certainly from an attempted or successful breach.

#WritingCommunity Email abuse@spaceship.com about this. This website likely scraped content from AO3 or the Wayback Machine, without consent, and is profiting off audiobook versions of the content that uses a generative AI service. Hopefully helpful info in the replies.

Dear fic writers, you might want to check if your fics are there but DO NOT send them the email to ask for removal, as they want your email address you use on AO3 and it's very sketchy. Email the web host abuse@spaceship.com reporting copyright infringement to make them take it down

*taps the universe on the shoulder* Hey. Uh. Universe? Hi. Sorry. 🥺👉👈 I hate to be a pest but, uh. You, like... you know you owe us big time. Right? We really want what we're owed. Asap.

Happy Valentime's everyone! (My costume this year is, "Very confused dude")

HOT PEOPLE USE LIBRARY CARDS, NOT CHAT GPT, pass it on!!

Hey #WritingCommunity - you should have a website! Many of you do, but some are relying on social media or other restrictive platforms. There should be a thing you have more control over. I made a little guide about it, because it can scary. Also, I'll help – *for free*! astounded.net

MVC (editing!)@mvc.ink · 3d ago

On this note, lots of people have said it but: Have your own, real website! It doesn't have to look great as long as it is accessible and contains useful information! You can do it for free in a lot of cases. ℹ️ Authors: I'll help you with this *for free!*

I will move mountains to adopt this cat the minute he is ready. (Provided she can let go of him.)