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It is 4 am and Mad Phosu going full “Pathetic” mood from Ch. 90 is all I can think about.

“You need me? I don’t need anyone at all”

im so fucking determined to get better i swear to god lets do this bitch lets go

page i made for my friend's zine about transness! my animal self...

sketches that I drew at night :р

soo about crisis on infinite earths...

tldr: razer and aya show up at 1:05:00.

but WOW. I thought I set my expectations at rock bottom, and I was still disappointed. I thought that their reunion would be glossed over, but we didn't even get that! there was no reunion! they're just here now, hi guys, no answers as to how they found each other again, no emotional resolution whatsoever. no mention as to how crazy it is that they're fighting the anti-monitor again, nothing. not even one little throwaway line that would be tantalizingly close to good characterization!

I see people posting about them showing up again and being excited, and I don't want to seem like an asshole by complaining about it. but this was so, so shallow. again, I wasn't expecting anything spectacular. I knew they wouldn't set up the whole movie to explore razer and aya, they had plenty of other characters (far too many, in my opinion) to focus on. but I just don't like how relentlessly positive everyone is being about this. I get we're all starved for razaya content, but it feels like we're giving dc praise for the absolute barest minimum.

I fell in love with Phosu in Afternoon’s cover. I knew I just needed to clean it and get rid of all the text so my crazy gemocidal baby could pop in full splendour <3

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I got this comment on a story from my Other AO3 Account this morning.

(Info redacted because I prefer keeping these accounts separate but no one follows me on the side blog I have for that account.)

The story was posted almost a year ago and is relatively “popular” by my average statistics even though it has tropes and themes that are big turnoffs for a lot of people (hence separate accounts). This popularity is undoubtedly because it’s a Marvel Loki story and that fandom is massive.

So there is obviously an algorithm or a bot scrubbing ao3 statistics and leaving this comment on fics that meet a certain metric with the main character of the fic inserted into the comment.

I had a little time to kill this morning so I decided to investigate further. And y’all this is so predatory. Come on this journey with me. It made me mad. It may make you mad.

First, if you go to Webnovel’s website, you HAVE to choose between male lead or female lead stories before you can go any further. WTF?

And that’s weird, but this gets so much worse. This is basically a pay-to-read site that has different subscription models. Which… okay BUT! The authors don’t get paid! Look at that comment again. They’re promising a supportive and nurturing community, but zero monetary compensation. It’s basically, “post your stuff here so we can get paid and you can get… nice vibes?” I mean look at this Orwellian writing:

Using the phrase “pay-to-read model” in the same sentence as “qualitative changes in lifestyles for authors” deliberately makes you think that you can get paid and maybe even make a living on this website. But that’s not actually what it says and authors will not receive one red cent.

Oh but wait, the worst is still to come. In case this breaks containment (which I kind of hope it does) this is where I mention that I’m a lawyer in the US.

I don’t do intellectual property or copyright law but I do read and write contracts for a living. So I went to look at their terms of service. It was fun!

Highlights the first, in which Webnovel gets a license to do basically whatever they want with content you post on their site. This is how they get to be paid for people reading authors’ writing without paying them anything.

Highlights the second, in which Webnovel takes no responsibility for illegally profiting off of fan fic. This all says that the writer is 100% responsible for everything the writer posts (even though only Webnovel is making money from it).

Highlights the third which say that by posting, the author is representing that they have the legal right to use and to let Webnovel use the content according to these terms. So if a writer posts fan fiction and Webnovel makes money from people reading the fan fiction, and the House of the Mouse catches wise, these sections say that that’s ALL on the writer.

So that’s a little skeevy to start off with but the thing that is seriously shitty and made me make this post was that these assholes are coming to ao3. They are actively recruiting people in comments on their fan fiction. And they are saying they are big fans of the character you’re writing about and that they share your interests.

They are recruiting fan fiction writers and giving every impression that you can make money from posting fan fiction on their site and hiding the fact that you absolutely cannot but they can make money off of you while you try, deep in their terms of service which no one but a lawyer who writes fan fic and has some time to kill will read.

I see posts on here regularly from people who don’t understand how this stuff works, don’t understand that they (and others) can not legally make a financial profit from fan fiction. And there are tons of people who will not take the time to dig into the details.

Don’t deal with these bastards. Fuck Webnovel.

Test animation of her new in-game model!

This model will be appearing in new areas and cutscenes!

Let us know what you think!