AO3 Subscribers Poll

(please reblog and share for a bigger reach <3)

The reason why social media has gotten so much worse recently (reddits recent fuck-up, everything on Twitter since Musk, FB being FB, Tumblrs various attempts at expanding profitability recently) is because it is no longer possible to exist as a company by fencing in large parts of our social life and having investment money pump in on the basis of expected future value of that amount of information when it suddenly costs money to loan money due to suddenly high interest rates after the inflationary crisis of the last year, which has made the current model of the Internet that has existed for the last about 10 years completely unsustainable. All of them need to become profitable or die, and they are learning very quickly that that just isn't possible no matter how much of the life and information of the users one steals. We are witnessing the death-throes of Web2.0, and what comes after is as yet unclear.

Man, I miss the internet when you could just freely browse all sorts of niche blogs and fan sites without having to have an account anywhere... There was so much to explore! Now you need to have an account with Instagram and Tiktok before they'll let you see anything, or it's locked behind a paywall on someone's Patreon.

We used to "browse," like we were wandering free in a big pasture, and now it's a "feed," where someone keeps shoveling stuff into a trough in front of your face and you have to keep choking it down.

I miss "Free Range" internet is what I'm saying, I guess. Not this Content Factory Farming crap.

staff logging on to tumblr dot com today

humble request for people using their ao3 bookmarks as a reading list: godspeed in your reading quests, but please consider making those bookmarks private.

Ao3's bookmark search function is a really cool way to find new fics based off what other readers have said about them, but recently more and more of these have filled the search and made it pretty hard to wade through. :')

Every time i see some beautiful shiny special edition book on instagram only to read the synopsis and find out it's another Painfully Fucking Bland Romantasy YA 😭

gonna take a moment to be sappy on main...I am so grateful for, bewildered by, appreciative of all of you lovely folks who enjoy and support my silly writing.

Loud or quiet, long-time listener or newcomer, every and any fandom--you're all the best and I want you to know that my warm heart takes none of you for granted. You really know how to make an old clown’s day. 🥹🥹💕💕 I consider myself lucky to be part of such fantastic communities, and I hope I give you some joy in return!!!

Wdym clip studio paint is dropping a version 3.0… they just dropped version 2.0… wait what do you mean version 1.0 owners would have to double pay if they want to upgrade??? they wanna neglect 1.0 so bad to get us on their stupid sub service huh 💀💀

every time i try to do something involving text-to-speech on my ipad i get pissy all over again

"just activate voiceover! :)" says the app's official faq. okay first of all that completely changes the control scheme of the device second of all it sounds like absolute dogshit so consider the merits of fucking right off.

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I got a new phone so I can return to answering these.

Here you go:

I am willing to bet that new version of this software would actually make it significantly more difficult for me to do what I want

So I'm pretty sure my ao3 account got hacked lmao - good news is that I worked it out in time, but bad news is I've basically had to delete my old account and start a new one. This shouldn't actually impact anything on your guy's end - I managed to transfer all of my fics to my new account (which has the same username, timeofjuly), but if you were subscribed to me as a user, you'll need to re-subscribe. It also means that all of the comments I've left and replied to will now say Account Deleted, which kills me on the inside, and I've lost all of my bookmarks and all the works I was subscribed to, but what can you do. If you wanna re-subscribe to me as a user (my story and series subs aren't impacted, so if you're just into RTC you should be fine), you can do that here.

Still trying to upload my random writings to AO3! Here's a collection of my baby fics for non-Dimileth ships 💙💙💙 If there are other ships you'd like to see, I'd love the practice!

FLIP-A-CLIP IS FUCKING SUBSCRIPTION BASED NOW

I AM GOING TO SCREAM

whew okay. Eris and Rick are now fully uploaded to AO3. That took forever but I'm glad to have it there. Especially since it means I've got the fics secure in three places - tumblr, my docs, and AO3 - so I'm not liable to lose my writing

I have a fic in the works that is 1000x more fucked up than Book Scraps. Like. It’s so bad. It’s a character study based on an inch of an idea a commenter gave me (hi mutual <3) that I’m running with as fast as I can to make a country mile