Super adorable Marinette!

A little Marinette for the anon that said they were fond of how I drew her <3

So cute! The Mousinettes are adorable!

Here is a commissioned piece from @sweetmeatdale. Thanks for the opportunity to work with you!

“Multimouse Banging Out the Tu—”

“Boop!”

This was originally animated but I posted both formats, depending on your preference. This was my first time making an animation and I have learnt so much. Here is the finished product;

This is peak Tumblr isn’t it - Neil Banging Out the tunes + Booping?

Here's how I choose what to read.

Run a search by fandom

If needed, narrow that down to a specific character or pairing

Sort descending by date updated

Read the title - if it's grayed out because I read a previous chapter, I mentally check to see if I remember liking it, most of the time I do, so I open it to read (usually in another tab because I like to open like 18 things at a time). If it's not grayed out, proceed to step 5.

Read the summary - if it appeals I continue to step 6. If it is empty or says something like "don't read" "this sucks" or "IDK I suck at summaries LOL" I skip it and go to the next story.

Look at pairings and other tags. If anything here makes it not my thing, I'll skip and go to the next option. If it checks out as fitting my mood and what I want to read (pretty broad categories, but I do have some squicks), I open it in another tab and then proceed to the next story in the list.

Repeat steps 4-6 until I've hit works I'm already up to date on.

I don't care if a story has views, kudos, or comments. I've been a new writer with no reputation, no followers, and no automatic interest in my work. There are lots of amazing writers on AO3. I also don't care if a story is finished. It used to bother me when works remained unfinished, because I was approaching fanfic as a consumer, the way you would buy books or check them out of the library. Fanfic is just as much about community as it is about the story.

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?

There is Currently No Ethical Use of Generative AI

Just saw a post arguing that text generative AI is just a tool, the way a paintbrush or a keyboard is a tool, and that writers can and should use it as needed.

I counter with a solid fuck no.

There are a lot of problems with the "it's just a tool" argument. With keyboards and voice recognition, you're still selecting your words, putting them in order, actually writing. If you aren't making your own words and sentences, you aren't writing. You're an editor, and you're claiming someone else's work as your own.

There is no ethical use of generative AI when your AI is trained on stolen content and requires a ridiculous amount of energy and water to run.

Fanfiction is a critical part of my mental health maintenance.

Please reblog this if fanfiction has been beneficial to your mental health.

There’s probably more but these are the ones I can think of at the moment! Please be considerate and don’t play pranks at other people’s expenses!

Have fun everyone!

i would have booped you my brother, my captain, my king

My youngest made this. It was VILE.

"What type of Nebraska voodoo is this?"

We fully planned to have free range kids (like we were growing up). But our friend group didn't have a lot of kids (a few had older kids and some stopped coming to our events when we had kids). Then we found that both the bulk of the families in our neighborhood and our kids' school were of the borderline helicopter and schedule EVERYTHING variety. We couldn't spontaneously have the kids meet up, it needed to be a scheduled play date. We've worked to push our now older teens to be independent in a society that has not wanted to allow this. And there is no where for them to hang out. If they take a walk with their friends, they're seen as wandering riff-raff. The malls have limits on teens under 18 without an adult because the management sees them all as gang members and trouble makers. We've lost the lower cost entertainment options to closure (roller rinks) and price hikes (movies). Our kids have SIGNIFICANTLY less disposable income than the milennials grew up with. Heck, our family is struggling to get by. The only place my kids can hang out with friends with any reliability is online. And it's not the phones' fault.

OMG SO FREAKING CUTE!

My Neighbor Batman

The challenge was to draw characters in a different style

I drew these for Guess That Artist event in dpxdc server im in >w< I animated it too! But didn't show the animation in the event because I knew it would rat me out XDDD Actually gives me an idea of like ;w; baby dick and jason being taken in. T o T I also made the cape wrap around Jason protectively. And then that's a moped I hand/digitally painted in the bg.. not a car. its too small XD

Maribat Idea Quest

A week or two ago I saw a suggestion for a prompt where Jason came home from patrol to find baby Marinette playing with a black cat in his safe house. I didn't think anything of it because I had no intentions of writing something like this. Then the brain weasels came.

I'd like to find the original post to thank the person who suggested it. Any guesses?

It literally snowed last night.

Because I’m curious-

Reblog so this breaks containment and reaches people near the equator

For the record, I would never knowingly use or share AI generated art in anything I post, so if you ever catch me doing so, it was an accident, and I'd like you to let me know so I can delete it.

OMG. SO CUTE! And perfect.

Postman goes to wrong house...

Thanks to our Patreons for helping making this video happen! More Tim and Bash 👇 https://linktr.ee/timandbash

Credits: Music: Markus Zierhofer Sound Design: Gabriel Gallardo-Alarcon

Incredibly fluffy and so perfectly Lukanette.

FIC: I Guess I Live Here Now (MLB; Lukanette)

Characters/Pairings: Luka Couffaine, Marinette Dupain-Cheng; Luka Couffaine/Marinette Dupain-Cheng

Rating: Teen and Up

Summary: Luka wasn’t sure exactly when he started living with Marinette, but it was definitely some point between her favorite knitting mug showing up in his cabinet and the time he returned from the studio at three AM to find her asleep in his bed.

Author’s Notes/Warnings: Y’all.  This one has been sitting in the Hoard for ages.  It started with the shower tiles (and I’m still not sure where that inspo came from; I would have sworn Quick, but none of us can find it), grew from that, then sat in the Hoard for probably over a year just biding its time.  I opened it up last week to find the first two scenes and notes, and after a really rough couple of weeks the next thing I knew I was just floating in the moat around Fort Fluff with these idiots.

TL;DR: Never give up on your WIPs.  They all get finished.  Eventually.  😂

“I Guess I Live Here Now”

“You don’t have to do this, you know,” Luka chuckled, nudging Marinette’s shoulder with his arm.  She looked up at him with a grin and bumped him back, except she didn’t pull away and ended up leaning into his shoulder.  If his heart picked up a few extra beats at the familiarity of her closeness, they both pretended not to notice.  Her head rested on his shoulder, and she looked up at him with impossibly blue eyes.

“Of course I do,” she said, reaching over to poke at his stomach.  An eyebrow lifted, and her smile grew.  “Juleka and Rose are busy.  Dingo’s working.  Bri’s still stuck in Berlin.  The Captain’s God knows where.  Someone has to make sure you don’t end up living in a crap hole.”

“…I don’t know if I’m insulted or not at the implication that I wouldn’t be able to tell a good place from a…crap hole,” he said sardonically, laughing a little.  Marinette nudged him with her shoulder, or maybe she just snuggled closer.  It had been getting harder to tell lately.

The site is built on the use of tags, which are there to help you determine if a story is right for you.

If you can't be bothered to read the tags, don't whine about what you end up reading.

If the taglist is too long to read, maybe skip that fic.

If an essential tag is left out (something big like death, pedophilia, incest, whatever), feel free to slap the writer in the comments - though note that the writer uses "choose not to use Archive warnings" there's a good chance something triggery could happen in the story and the writer wants to keep it a surprise.

If all this isn't enough for you, you can fuck right off. Your preferences do not dictate what is allowed to exist in the world. Make your own fanfic site that provides the kind of content you want.

Good morning! I’m salty.

I think we, as a general community, need to start taking this little moment more seriously.

This, right here? This is asking for consent. It’s a legal necessity, yes, but it is also you, the reader, actively consenting to see adult content; and in doing so, saying that you are of an age to see it, and that you’re emotionally capable of handling it.

You find the content you find behind this warning disgusting, horrifying, upsetting, triggering? You consented. You said you could handle it, and you were able to back out at any time. You take responsibility for yourself when you click through this, and so long as the creator used warnings and tags correctly, you bear full responsibility for its impact on you.

“Children are going to lie about their age” is probably true, but that’s the problem of them and the people who are responsible for them, not the people that they lie to.

If you’re not prepared to see adult content, created by and for adults, don’t fucking click through this. And if you do, for all that’s holy, don’t blame anyone else for it.

Reminders for new ao3 users (in no particular order):

- filter your searches like you would on a library website or in an online catalogue

- don’t post placeholders, fic searches, or recommendations as fics. DON’T! It’s against ao3 TOS

- there is no algorithm. ao3 sorts by date posted/updated unless you filter with specific search criteria

- ao3 is a non profit. that means it doesn’t sell ads to make money — it only survives on donations. this is why it can show you so many fics without ever flashing an ad or pop up at you!

- report fics that break TOS when you see them (I.e., placeholder fics, searches) to help other users navigate better

- the tag “dead dove, do not eat” doesn’t equate to gore/awfulness automatically. it is a complementary tag that enhances current tags. E.g., if the fic is tagged “gore” and “dead dove, do not eat” the author really wants you to mind the gore tag

- most fandoms have a variation of “no beta, we die like (x character)” and they all link back to the “No beta” tag

- publishing a new fic sometimes means it won’t show up in the fandom/pairing tag for a few minutes

- subscribers receive update emails at different times, depending on when you update/publish your fic. there’s no good way to predict when an e-mail will be sent — it can be in 30 seconds, or two hours later

- some fics are restricted by authors to those with ao3 accounts only. if you see a blue lock in the upper right corner, that fic is only visible to logged in ao3 users

- you can block commenters now! this didn’t use to be a thing

- updating a fic just to stay at the top of the pairing tag/fandom tag is a dick move. unless you’re legitimately editing or adding chapters, this just annoys readers and fellow authors, and people will skip over your fic