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About the AO3 "No Guest Comments for a while" warning
If you're not following any of AO3's social media accounts you might be in the dark as to what kind of "spam comments" have engendered this banner at the top of the site:
These spam comments have been posted about a great deal on the AO3 subreddit for the past couple of days. Initially they comprised a bunch of guest (logged out users) bot comments that insulted authors by suggesting they were using AI and not writing their own fics. Some examples, from the subreddit:
But it then escalated to outright graphic porn images and gifs being posted in comments, again by logged out 'Guest' accounts. Obviously, I'm not going to give examples of those, but between these two bot infestations, AO3 has clearly decided to act and has temporarily closed the ability to post comments for users who are not logged in with an AO3 account.
Unfortunately, this means that genuine readers who don't have an AO3 account won't be able to leave comments on fics that they enjoy.
If you are a genuine reader who doesn't yet have an AO3 account, I strongly suggest getting yourself on the waiting list for one. More and more AO3 authors are now locking their fics down to registered users only - either due to these bot comments or concerns about AI scraping their work - which means you're probably missing out on a lot of great stuff.
Hopefully guest commenting will be enabled again at some point soon, but I suggest not waiting until then. Get yourself on that list.
Wait times are going to be longer than usual at the moment, due to the current Wattpad purge [info on Fanlore | Wattpad subreddit thread], but if you're in line, then your invite will come through eventually.
Update: There's now a Megathread about this on the AO3 subreddit.
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✨With the punch of a pentagram I wap bam boom alakazam✨
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i have an important question . thx
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"This last re-read of Jekyll & Hyde really entrenched me in my interpretation, that Jekyll and Hyde are the same person."
"Well. Duh. That's the point of the story."
"No, you don't get it."
"..."
"I mean well, yes, technically, it's the point of the story that they are the same person, and most people get that - but they get it wrong."
"...you are overthinking this so hard."
"No! Listen. Ok maybe i am but- listen. Most pop culture interpretations give Jekyll as the full good side and Hyde as the full bad one, which we can both agree is a gross oversimplification."
"Yeah, obviously. Hyde is all evil, but Jekyll is not all good. He is a mixed bag like all humans are. He wouldn't even think of creating Hyde otherwise. He says as much himself."
"See! That's exactly my point! That's what Jekyll says!"
"...what?"
"When we get Hyde's full story, it's not Hyde telling it. It's Jekyll, a man who is characterised as caring so much about his own legacy that he went as far as doing all of this to not risk it. In other words, someone who has all the interest in the world to depict Hyde as somehow wholly other than himself."
"But he doesn't."
"Doesn't he? You said it yourself. He says: I am a mixed bag, like all humans are, while Hyde is not. He is something else."
"Well, that's confirmed by others, though. Poole calls Hyde an 'it'."
"It's 19th century England and Poole is an old man, he probably talks about chimney sweepers the same way."
"OK, but what about Enfield and Utterson and Lanyon and everyone else being repulsed by Hyde? That all points to him having something deeply inhuman about him."
"Inhuman, I'm not sure. Unnatural, definitely. He is a creation of science, like the Creature from Frankenstein, and as such he is deeply uncanny - I don't need to break out the freudian unheimleich, do I, you got what I meant. But would you say that the Creature is not human? The whole point is that he is."
"Ok, then what about Jekyll talking about how his perceptions and ideas and ways of thinking changed when he was Hyde? Or how Hyde grew with the passing of time?"
"Ah! See! That's the thing. That's Jekyll saying that. But hear me out. What's more probable: that whatever radical physical change that brought on Hyde's appearance brought on also some changes in brain chemistry that could feel as if one's thought patterns had transformed? Or that Jekyll truly managed to create a chemical sieve to separated good and evil, and put only the second to the forefront?"
"See, you ARE overthinking this. You talk about brain chemistry and probability, but this isn't a scientific paper. It's a parable. Do you think deteriorating lead white is the cause of Dorian Grey's portrait changing? Of course not. It's not chemistry. It's philosophy."
"No, you don't get it. We know Jekyll omits or glosses over parts of the narrative that are painful to him. He doesn't say what happened with Lanyon after he transformed, for example. He says that he shares a memory with Hyde yet the memories of the murder are hazy. Jekyll is trying to say: all of my evil instincts, and nothing else, were Hyde. What else could Hyde be if not evil? But if we assume that the Hyde persona was just as double as Jekyll's, just as filled with the potential for good and evil - that it was just Jekyll, only younger and more wild... that means that it's not just the original sin of creating Hyde that belongs to Jekyll. It means that every time he did something wrong, it was him, actively choosing to do so, because he knew it would be without social consequence."
"Ok, let's say i buy that. Is it that big of a difference? It doesn't seem so to me."
"But it is! Because it changes the meaning of the story radically."
"How?"
"Look. We are having this whole conversation, right? And people who are reading follow the turns, maybe even read them in two different voices. But it's just one person writing. There's the illusion of a conversation, of an exchange of ideas, but actually the decision on who is right is taken, because there is only one person writing."
"Like Jekyll writing about Hyde, I get it."
"But that is also the situation for Hyde! That's why his character is so full of rage and rebellion and hatred towards Jekyll - because he *is* Jekyll. Jekyll takes all the parts of himself that he wishes to hide and puts them on Hyde. But that's not who Hyde is. Hyde is Jekyll as much as Jekyll is Hyde, and Jekyll trying to confine Hyde to the realm of the evil and wrong is just Jekyll trying to get away with murder, again, if not physically, at least in the memory of posterity."
"You are saying that, what, Jekyll killed Carew?"
"Of course Jekyll killed Carew. He also stepped on the girl. Hyde is small, and has a light step. He wouldn't have managed either of those things if he wasn't still Jekyll, with all of his weight and strength. Jekyll himself uses the first person when he describes the murder."
"So Hyde destroying Jekyll's things and putting blasphemous words in his holy books..."
"It's all Jekyll, acting in self-hatred. That's the whole secret. Jekyll hates himself because he is a coward. He wishes he had the courage to be the person he wants to be out in the open, but he doesn't. So he creates a mask for himself, one that grants him total freedom. And in that total freedom he is also free to hate himself and his own legacy and all the ways being Henry Jekyll has him trapped. But its all him, all the way, making the decisions."
"Alright, I guess. I don't see how this is radically different from my interpretation."
"You believe Jekyll when he says-"
"I believe Jekyll believes that. You dislike Jekyll because you recognise in him your same desire for a flawless, composed life, and this brings you to automatically treat him as a liar who knows he's lying. But you and I both know that a lie one tells to oneself becomes a truth soon enough. I think Jekyll truly believes Hyde to be all evil, and I think Hyde believes it, as well. It explains why the gravity of his sins escalates so rapidly, and why he never tries to reach out or form human connection as Hyde, although his appearance probably didn't help. And if someone thinks that they have no choice, isn't that the same as having no choice at all?"
"So your point is..."
"You don't believe Jekyll's last confession. I do, in the measure that I believe that he believes it."
"...but we are the same person."
"Yes. Well. We are all a mixed bag, aren't we."
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Fans' attitudes toward AI-generated works
Irissa Cisternino, a PhD candidate of Stony Brook University, is writing their research on topics related to technology, art and fandom. You can participate by filling out a survey and additionally, signing up for an interview. The survey is expected to last until at least the end of April, those, who signed up for the interview, will be contacted later. You need to be at least 18 years old to participate in either, be able to understand and speak English and identify as a fan.
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"ummm you know the writer only included that because they have a FETISH right?" is always so funny to me as a disparaging comment, because imagine if people spoke that way about nonsexual interests. "the lord of the rings? didnt the author only write that because he was interested in linguistics? thanks, i'll pass" "yeah, i used to love spongebob as a kid, but i can never see it the same after finding out stephen hillenburg is a marine biologist :/"
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Lucifer asked Mammon for a check-in photo
not really happy with it but hey
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Wow mer Sleuth Eclipse @naffeclipse love how he turned out<333
You draw mers because it's mermay, I draw mers because my brain is rotting, we're not the same🧍♀️
Wallpaper size and ramblings under the cut<3
Idk how this happened. I was just brain rotting about mers and an octopus with dark purple and bright red palette. And people on discord were brain rotting about sj eclipse. And it clicked... And I just started drawing it on a stream. We also were thinking how we can make him have a fucking unbuttoned shirt lmao. And Bean did come up with a good option but I didn't know how to add it while we face his back so he's kinda nakey here fldnnekfkd. Nevermind, I just like how he turned out and I'm excited <33
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Curious here, will we ever get to see Eclipse in the Mad Scientist AU?
Maybe
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Happy Eclipse Day, everyone!
And a recreation of the event for those who missed it:
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The guy
orca eclipse from @naffeclipse 's Apex polarity!! GO READ GRRR!!
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In honor of the solar eclipse happening today, here’s some simple/subtle TSAMS Eclipse phone backgrounds :D I wanted to do something a little bigger, but I know I wouldn’t finish it in time lmao.
(Other versions under cut!)
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Biting
A few things lmao. I've been experimenting with my design for the DCA again so forgive me if Sun's rays are inconsistent compared to the prior art but I think this is how I wanna keep his rays at when drawing. And uhhh I used C9!Y/N for this because. reasons also bc I kinda missed drawing 'em...
O h gosh I haven't brought up C9 in a while so uh for ppl who are from DCA fandom that weren't following my blog around the end of 2022 and dunno what this is-- this was my very first default au, you can learn more abt it through the cloud nine tag below or through My Masterlist of AUS for the DCA
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