ff.net has been in complete shambles for the past several years and is a notorious hive for plagiarism. The mods also nuked thousands of fics from the platform for reasons ranging from justified to incredibly questionable, and the site has had two of these mass purges in its lifetime. It's also been on the decline for years with constant outages, unresponsive mods, and a piss-poor tagging and search function. The owners of the site do not seem keen on even really giving the base code a spit shine, and I'd really question the security of it overall. I would not be surprised if they have a major data breach in the years to come. Don't get me wrong, I love it to death in a nostalgic way, but I can see why it's not exactly a great place to post fic these days.

Wattpad, usually the second site mentioned in these discussions, hosts tagged erotica alongside the rest of its content with no filter by default. This means you can find erotica in any search query you use unless you specifically exclude the tag. It's also a notorious hive for rpf, and allows rpf erotica. It also allows sexual content of 16 year olds, as it states in its code of conduct that, quote, "the age of consent is 16+ on Wattpad".

And really, those are the only notable contenders against ao3. Any other website you could list would fall into "niche" territory, and most writers do want their work to be seen so they can gain traction and potentially a clientele later on if they want to enter writing professionally. Plus, blogging sites like Tumblr tend to not be very conducive to posting fic as they aren't designed with a book format in mind, so word limits are tighter, you have to manually stitch a sort of chapter browser together by yourself as you post the fic, readers will encounter your fic in reverse chronological order, and honestly I could go on. Plus, Tumblr's tagging system is also complete garb, and if people don't reblog your fic, you're SOL. So, while I've heard of Fanfiction Online and have seen some promise in Quotev (I've made an account there recently, so consider that a "to be continued"), sadly, in terms of usability and popularity, all alternatives are overshadowed to the point of complete obscurity by the behemoth that is ao3.

Trust me, I hate that website and the cesspool it plays host to. Ever since I learned just how bad it was over there, I haven't spent a single second of my time on it. However, I can't blame aspiring writers for using it in the same way I can't blame other content creators for using YouTube rather than Dailymotion or Vimeo, despite YouTube's openly predatory practices towards their artists and child audiences (the Elsagate stuff never stopped, they're just using Mickey and Sonic now). The site holds a soft monopoly over the realm of fanfiction publication, and it's going to take a website that directly outclasses it in terms of user-friendliness to even really start giving it trouble and to convince the majority of the audience to switch over.

I'm all for taking as much of an audience away from that hellhole as possible though, so I'll gladly vouch for any alternative website that directly outclasses ao3 purely by design. Hell, ao3's code is completely open-source. If anyone manages to literally make a better ao3 (maybe even implementing those lofty promises of multimedia support that they've been harping on for years, hm?), I'll make an account on there the moment I hear of it and spread the word of it as far as I can manage.

Honestly, I think it really speaks to the state of fan culture overall that the best place to view and post fanfiction online is a csem hive, and I really want to change that message if I can. Unfortunately though, as much as I want a viable alternative, we're stuck between YouTube and Dailymotion, and I cannot blame anyone for wanting to stay away from Dailymotion.

Also @proship-blocklist since it was your post that was involved in this, feel free to add your input as an author/reader if you feel so inclined.

I know Mantra was made in a lab, but HOW was she made…? 👀

Is this anything.

How do yhe Star Sanses handle Genocide runs in the Swap au? Blue is a very important and core member but he also like... dies once a week or so. That's gotta be rough

Genuinely I’ve been WAITING for this question since I posted Sundays Suck WHEEEZE

He is. Not entirely ok, that’s for sure.

But he’s also gotten really good at getting around it without being suspicious! He’s got things he can say that 9/10 times trigger Chara to take hold again and spare him, ending the Geno Route. Or work the scenario in a way that it’s quick and painless, at the very least. If he really can’t afford to be gone for however long, he used to fake his death and pin it on Temmy or some wild chance.

However! Nowadays, with Error on their side, he can just glitch the system. Bring Blue back early, or make it so he didn’t die in the first place. It is. Extremely helpful, both mentally and in their field of work.

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:o yes!

Tried to imagine Jonathan "being a freak is the best; i'm a freak" Byers as an utterly straight cis dude and it just did not compute. Truly, can't make my brain do it.

does kockdaily have a tumblr? i want to delete my twitter but i like y’alls posts too much to get rid of it

i got the url already but me and alex are still working out some stuff. also we have exams rn

WELL I made a thing! Inspired by the South Park Character Sorter going around, this one lets you pick between two ships and rank all your South Park ships! Reblog with your results if you take it <3

maybe I'm really stupid and partially asleep, but even though mc is a cis woman they keep talking as if she suffered a lot because of... it? like if she suffered the same as someone trans, am I missing something? ​is it purely because of the way she dresses? like telling V "you know I'm not a man right" like what lol how could she not know? and H talking about her own life experiences and saying mc must know how she feels... hm idk if she does she's white. ANYWAY I LOVE IT SO MUCH MUAH :*

you're right, there's not a lot of variation between cis or trans mcs at the moment. to be honest, i don't consider the cis mc "cis" anyways, she's butch. either way, both versions of her dressed and passed as a man previously, and she still presents very masculine & may be mistaken as a man.

obviously, it's not the same as if she were a trans woman, but to the random bigot in the bathroom, it doesn't make a difference.

with mc's memory gone, she has complicated feelings about her gender; she knows that she spent a lot of time as a man working blue collar jobs, and that from what little information she's managed to pry from Valentina or piece together on her own, she knows that she seemed to have accepted it and even liked it right before her entombment. but now she doesn't have to do that anymore, and she's not sure what that means for her when a lot of her identity was wrapped up in this kind of drag king-esque performance.

this is also the same for the trans mc, though with the added anxiety of being trans. i didn't change the conversation between mcs because i honestly didn't feel it was necessary; the player knows how their character feels & can decide precisely where the mc's fear is truly coming from - if it's because she's trans & butch or if it's just because she's butch.

when she has that conversation with Valentina, it's not that she thinks Valentina is being literally transphobic or anything like that. when they look at the painting of her and Valentina, and when Valentina calls her "husband," she's afraid that because she's butch/trans, and because she used to pretend to literally be a man, then Valentina is afraid of her and potentially sees her truly as a man, and more specifically, as Standard.

there are plenty of people (including lgbt people) that treat butches like this. something i've mentioned a few times here is the term "heteropatriarchal" which is typically applied to butches and butch/femme relationships. basically people equate butches to straight men enforcing the patriarchy because they're choosing to "emulate" them. there are a lot of lesbians that hate butches & treat them like shit because they're considered the "bad" lesbians. there are a lot of people that are critical of butch/femme because they think it's "heteronormative" because, again, they think butch = man and femme = woman. and all of this is doubly so for transfem butches.

with Hana, she is trans, so after the mc gets screamed at in the bathroom, that's what she's talking about. before that, when they have the first conversation in the car, Hana should actually always tell a white mc that she can't understand. after the bathroom, Hana will only confide that she's trans with an mc that has a high enough relationship with her, and with white mcs she should say something about this being "the one curse that we do share" but otherwise she should make it explicitly clear that the mc (and Valentina for that matter) can't understand her experience.

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I figured out one of the problems with one of my prescriptions is that the doctor wrote a 90 day one instead of a a 30 day. I called my doctor and had them send it into cvs to it filled. Then the pharmacist called to yell at me for not fixing some billing code in my health insurance which is weird because she told me I couldn’t do that and she had to tell corporate and then it would take 5 business days.

every smart person should be required to have a Dumb Friend purely for the joy of teaching. if you only have Smart Friends they'll most likely already know the thing you're bursting at the seams to tell somebody about like it's new information. but Dumb Friends? Dumb Friends don't know any of this stuff, its all new information to them. and that's beautiful.

fellas i am not winning with assignments lately 🫡

i did not wrestle w high performance computing for the last 24 hrs just to let batfam get away with the batcomputer in future chapters

You're really really neat

I've been practicing the dark magic of computer graphics today! Unfortunately for my hubris I've been struck with the curse of the shadow crystal

“   Even if you fall or falter, I will be with you. ” (rose)

LOVE IN ITS MANY FORMS

"That... is quite a statement to offer up and probably shouldn't given how intense both of those can be biblically speaking aside my own unique flavor of potential."

Hello! I just wanted to ask if you were planning on adding percentages to the stats and relationship sliders in the game? I'm a bit color blind and it's almost impossible for me to properly see what my stats are. I've always appreciated percentages in IFs because then I know my stats even if I can't see the colors properly.

It's fine if you don't wanna add it in, I have no idea how hard it is to code, but it would be very appreciated.

Loved the demo by the way! I like your writing a lot :)

Hey there! Thanks so much for bringing this up, I agree the stats are kind of a mess even now, and I’ve been planning a renovation for a while now! I’ve been wanting to do a revamp of some of the visuals, and though a larger update is a longer way out, quality of life stuff like this should be the most important thing to do so never hesitate asking about it!

I’ve adjusted the colors on the stats to make them a lot more apparent now, so hopefully that should help, and due to some really helpful direction, percentages should be up and running too! Opposing stats look verrry funky right now, but it’s just a formatting issue and hopefully whenever I overhaul things it’ll look better- but it should all be working! Thanks so much for bringing this to my attention! If there’s anything else that arises please let me know I appreciate you <3