The horrors yearn for the tunnels

"Dark Priests are generally frowned upon in the supressed modern societies, but then we suddenly become a valuable asset when you're facing eternal darkness. Well your survival is none of my concern."

Shelter

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.

Big hike today! 8.5km of rocks, sweat and "it's what Sonic would've wanted"

It's Mom 3 day 🐸 (Photographer: MrJechgo)

Discovered this little gem of a game when I saw the sad little boy in Subspace Emissary being all lonely and immediately getting nightmares from the horrifying King Statue into Spider Mech Porky section of the zoo. Went on the internet pretty quick to figure what the heck was going on. Which, honestly, "random nightmare fuel into curiosity into boundless love" is absolutely a common pipeline for me with the media I end up enjoying WHOOPS

Love this game so much... I still wanna revisit cosplaying Kumatora someday, especially since all the surviving photos of that costume are godawful blurry AUGH

Now I have a big Mr Saturn TRAPPED IN ACRYLIC JAIL and he and cosplay prop Mr Saturn are friends :)

Blue Sky, Blue Star

This project is going to be the end of me and I am barreling towards it with wild bravery and a couple tylenols

Blog Index

Tags, Costume List and Sideblogs under cut

Tags:

#Original Content (Crafts; stuff I made with my goblin hands) #Cosplay #Fursuit #Sewing (Doesn't include cosplays) #Plush #MePosting (Classic life blogging) #Text (Musing, Rambling, Shitposting, etc) #CollectionPosting (Merch and such) #Exploration (When I go outside; Photography) #Reblog (On the rare occasion I do reblog) #Myers My Son (Crested gecko pics)

Individual Character Costume Tags:

#Dread Parasite Holon (Fursuit) #Karkat Vantas (Homestuck) #Dave Strider (Homestuck) #Kumatora (Mother 3) #Lucas (Mother 3) #Mizutsune (Blademaster Low/High Rank - Monster Hunter) #Great Jaggi (Blademaster Low/High Rank - Monster Hunter) #Nargacuga (Monster Hunter) #Young Link (The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask) #Bokoblin (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild) #Pico (Newground / Pico's School / Friday Night Funkin') #Warden Ingo (Pokémon Legends Arceus) #Ingo (Pokémon Black & White) #Wurmple (Pokémon) #Cesar Torres (The Mandela Catalogue) #Adam Murray (The Mandela Catalogue) #Mimic Cesar (Hail True Body) #Shadow the Hedgehog #Enki Ankarian (Fear and Hunger) #Cloud Strife (Final Fantasy VII (Dissidia, Remake)) #Robed Man (Final Fantasy VII (Remake))

Sideblogs:

@lens-of-truth : Reblog account. Mixed fandom content.

Road to Woodfall Temple

I don't draw nearly as much as I should nowadays but he makes me go ough

Cosmic Calamity

The path ahead is blocked

Happy yearly "I pull out a Homestuck cosplay photo from the vault" day! This year's cosplay is my first HS cosplay and 3rd overall costume, Karkat.

Homestuck was a HUGE part of my con-going experience when I was starting out in the early 2010s. Tumblr was a big fandom hub at the time and you couldn't go a day without finding a good ol' horn or armsock tutorial on a cosplay ressource blog, so it really kickstarted my love for the hobby proper.

It made cosplay accessible, imo. There were so many goddamn characters to pick from and the base outfits were so simple that assembling a HS costume made for a friendly introduction to the hobby! I remember picking Karkat partially because out of my favorite trolls he had long sleeves and making armsocks was scary at the time lol

And the fandom! Homestuck cosplayers were basically everywhere and you couldn't take a few steps without encountering another fan to nerd out with. It had a big community feel that I haven't seen occur since in conventions, at least not to that scale.

I'm getting nostalgic here so I'll cut it short, but I have fond memories of the fandom at the time and Homestuck has been a really important step in my cosplay journey.

Growth

Fucking GETS YOU