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As a fanfic writer, I can say without any shame that I've managed to finish writing my fics thanks to AI.
Anxiety and Insomnia :DDD
Algún día voy a escribir algo tan bueno que se me cumplira mi sueño de que me regalen un fanart
In the spirit of encouraging people to comment on fanfics while also making it easier to do so, I feel obliged to share a browser extension for ao3 that has quite literally revolutionized the comment game for me.
I present to you: the floating ao3 comment box!
From what I've seen, a big problem for many people is that once you reach the comments at the bottom of a fic, your memory of it miraculously disappears. Anything you wanted to say is stuck ten paragraphs ago, and you barely remember what you thought while reading. This fixes that!
I'll give a little explanation on the features and how it works, but if you want to skip all that, here's the link.
The extension is visible as a small blue box in the upper left corner.
(Side note: The green colouring is not from the extension, that's me.)
If you click on it, you open a comment box window at the bottom of your screen but not at the bottom of the fic. I opened my own fic for demonstrative purposes.
The website also gives explanations on how exactly it functions, but I'll summarize regardless.
insert selection -> if you highlight a sentence in the fic it will be added in italics to the comment box
add to comment box -> once you're done writing your comment, you click this button and the entire thing will automatically copied to the ao3 comment box
delete -> self explanatory
on mulitchapter fics, you will be given the option to either add the comment to just the current chapter or the entire fic
The best part? You can simply close the window the same way you opened it and your progress will automatically be saved. So you can open it, comment on a paragraph, and then close it and keep reading without having the box in your face.
Comments are what keep writers going, and as both a writer and a reader, I think it's such an easy way of showing support and enthusiasm.
🟢 You are still a writer even when you haven't written in a while.
🟢 You are still a writer even when you feel like you aren't writing enough.
🟢 You are still a writer when you feel like your work isn't good.
🟢 You are still a writer when other people don't like your work.
🟢 You are still a writer when you aren't published.
🟢 You are still a writer when you only have works in progress.
🟢 You are still a writer if all you write is fanfiction.
The average Ao3 user
im usually not very good with requests... *proceeds to write 2000 words in a chap for a chat fic* this dont usually happen even in prose yall 😭
but this chap goes with the hc that pony and twobit are theatre kids so i think that was a catalyst for me to go overboard
surprise surprise! seven brothers content! first chap is short but this is just something chill i can update to show y'all first hand what the dynamic is...except in a modern texting era.
also if yall wanna see anything specific you can ask and i can deliverrr because i love exploring thiss!!
if you saw my other posts about my fic/headcanons for my au about the gang being all LEGIT brothers, can y'all tell me what you what like to see me write in that au? just as one-shots or what you'd like to see in the actual fic (in the works)?
i wanna write something and i have like no ideas so lemme know if there's any dynamics y'all wanna see into for the au or any specific events or ideas :)
so i followed through with that whole brothers au and so now i have a one-shot to test-drive the idea. i hope its decent (im not the best writer)
reblog if you have skilled writer friends and you're damn proud of them
I am so happy Ao3 is back. I would not have survived summer school without it.
KYLE DON'T TAKE THAT AWAY! I NEED IT!
kyle won't let me write my stories😭
ㅤㅤ
oh... you little...
Are you really kidding me?
fuck you kyle >:(
I think on Ao3 you should be able to ‘adopt’ orphaned fics and continue them as your own. I don’t think it’s a good idea, but I think it’d be really funny.
CHAPTER 2 IS HERE!!!!!!!!!!
Also my dorky ass was so excited to write the second chapter I somehow managed to finish it in one day lmao-
IT'S HERE!!!!!!!!!! CHAPTER ONE!
IT'S HERE!!!!!!!!!! CHAPTER ONE!
Dear God, when I get to heaven, please let me take my Ao3 bookmark list!!
Another AO3 thing I’m curious about, how do yall decide if something is good enough to read? Usually I follow a rule of 1 kudos for every 10 hits. One because it’s easy math and two it’s yet to fail me. Thoughts? Do you just go for it and pray it’s good?
reblog if you’ve read fanfictions that are more professional, better written than some actual novels. I’m trying to see something
I recently came across someone talking about AO3 being targeted by data scrapers and was wondering if there's anything that could aid in protecting your work.
So here's an extension that tries to do just that!
What does it do?
It modifies your text in a way that makes it harder for automated systems to process while the human eye sees no difference. Here's how it works:
Visual Changes: It randomly replaces some letters with similar-looking characters from different alphabets (e.g., the letter "a" might turn into a Cyrillic "а").
Invisible Modifications: It adds invisible characters that are not visible to the human eye but make it harder for automated systems to detect the actual content.
Randomized Effects: The changes are applied randomly, so the text looks normal to you, but it's scrambled enough to be able to confuse AI scraping tools, especially low grade ones.
In short, it "poisons" the text to make it less useful for AI, while still being readable for humans. However I want to mention that this is not a guarantee that the AI will not recognize your text anymore.
How do I Install it? (GitHub) https://github.com/Artepti/PoisonAIBros
Watch this Video or just look at the instructions under it!
Go to this Github Page (https://github.com/Artepti/PoisonAIBros) and click on the "<>Code" Button and then "Download Zip".
Unzip the files. And, go to your extensions setting in your browser. chrome://extensions/ (Google Chrome) opera://extensions (Opera) edge://extensions/ (Microsoft Edge)
Enable Developer Mode in the upper right corner.
Click on "Load unpacked" in the upper left corner and select the unzipped Folder called "PAIB-main", click on the Folder in there that's also called "PAIB-main" as well.
Congrats! You have added the extension PoisonAIBros!
Simply right-click on your AO3 Text (while in the HTML Editing Window) and select "Poison Selected Text" and voilà, your writing has been made into poison for AI!
I've tested PAIB on Microsoft Edge, Opera and Google Chrome. I've now also created an extension specifically for Firefox since they have a few different rules, download it here (https://github.com/Artepti/FirefoxPAIB)
If you want to see the Unicode that's been inserted, paste your poisoned code into here and click on "Show me the characters"
Important: The only negative I've discovered from using this extension is that it confuses screen readers, HOWEVER after a bit of tinkering and coming to a very simple solution, I've made a little dictionary for NVDA so that the screen readers read the poisoned text as normal. Download it here: https://github.com/Artepti/Unicodedictionary
I would not recommend using it on languages that don't consist of latin letters. The extension leaves math symbols, arrows etc alone, and while I have made sure that the code doesn't affect a lot of special characters (e.g. ü,â,..) I cannot possibly promise you that I caught them all.
My knowledge about coding is still very limited (I used AI to defeat AI by letting it help me out *insert Spiderman meme here*) so I'll try my best to help, but please keep that in mind.
Lastly, you shouldn't poison the text in the html Tab twice as it will make part of the invsible characters visible in the final text!
MON CHOU!!!! MY POOKIEBEAR!!! MI VIDA !!!! IS BACK !!!!!
IM NOT LIVE LAUGH LOVING IN THESE CONDITIONS YALL IM LOSING IT
this whole ao3 being down thing is actually driving me insane i think i’ve read every fic of my faves on here, tried to replay fics i’ve already read before in my head, went back on fanfiction.net and i’m tempted to go as far as looking through wattpad— i’m not okay yall idk what to do w myself it’s been 15 hours since ao3 has worked for me i will keep y’all posted on how long until i lose what remains of my sanity
Every character in a fanfic is a OC if you haven't watched the original content.
hello it's me
i am a writer, i write, i type on my keyboard :) i write some wild stuff out here and am not afraid to use words such as penis. i would like more attention on my ao3 so i'm actually using my tumblr everyone cheer
here she is folks !! i take constructive criticism and also requests. IF i feel like it. also sometimes i play ponytown
Ao3 my love what is happening to you who is hurting you beloved tell me and ill go stab them and ease your pain my love
Those who may not be aware, for the OTW election in progress there is one candidate who is practically out to end it all:
Tiffany G.
They are wanting to censor and make AO3 a place of control. They want to take our freedom to write and form it to what they think is the correct guideline to, "Make it more friendly."
AO3 already has a ton of filters and tags in place to aid in helping each person tailor their own AO3 experience. Something triggers them? They can filter that tag out. Wanna read G only? Can filter out the rest. Want to read E only?
Filter out the rest.
What this person is wanting to do, it'll take away the beautiful community we have. It is a platform of freedom, of writing what you desire and posting it to find others just like you. To try and put a semblance of authoritive control.. it's repulsing.
Please, please please for those who can vote, DO NOT VOTE FOR TIFFANY G. IF YOU DO AO3 WILL END AS WE KNOW IT.
Can't vote? Pay 10 dollars a year to become a member so you can vote in the future. I just did and regret not doing so earlier.
If you can't vote like me? SPREAD THE WORD. LET THERE BE AWARENESS. DON'T LET THIS PERSON TAKE AWAY THE AO3 WE LOVE. STAND UP, YELL IT OUT:
DO NOT VOTE FOR TIFFANY G.
Other WIPs include demi et demi, Galaxies in the Pond, the Nikiforov Fallacy, whatever I'm writing for the kagehina exchange, and any other ongoing fics I have going on.
I'm like. Going to die. Send help. Please.