Hey, AO3 Folks (and Fanfic Writers Elsewhere)... If You See This Offer, RUN AWAY FROM IT. IT’S POISON.

When someone tells you a plan, if your first thought is “that has to be illegal” it’s probably not a good plan. However, if your first thought is “I don’t think that’s illegal, but only because it’s so insane that nobody making laws thought of it first” then it’s an excellent plan.

Video Games Fictional Characters

A skeleton, a blue hedgehog, and an animatronic bear walk into a bar…

Spamton | Deltarune +3

Sonic the Hedgehog | the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise +8

Glamrock Freddy | Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach

Sans | Undertale +5

Ingo | the Pokémon franchise

Kirby | the Kirby franchise +10

Mario | the Super Mario Bros. franchise -1

Kris Dreemurr | Deltarune +11

Sundrop | Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach

Moondrop | Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach

Shadow the Hedgehog | the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise +17

Phoenix Wright | Ace Attorney +1

Link | The Legend of Zelda franchise -10

Gregory | Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach

Miles Edgeworth | Ace Attorney +3

Ralsei | Deltarune -4

Susie | Deltarune -3

Noelle Holiday | Deltarune +8

Mammon | Obey Me! – Shall we date? -11

Lucifer | Obey Me! – Shall we date? -13

Main Character | Obey Me! – Shall we date? +3

Knuckles the Echidna | the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise

Montgomery Gator | Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach

Papyrus | Undertale -2

Glamrock Chica | Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach

Roxanne Wolf | Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach

Jevil | Deltarune

Berdly | Deltarune

Subway Boss Emmet | the Pokémon franchise

Ekko | League of Legends

Kim Kitsuragi | Disco Elysium

Bowser | the Super Mario Bros. franchise

Azul Ashengrotto | Twisted Wonderland

Diavolo | Obey Me! – Shall we date? -1

Leona Kingscholar | Twisted Wonderland

Frisk | Undertale -1

Malleus Draconia | Twisted Wonderland +11

Glamrock Bonnie | Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach

Barbatos | Obey Me! – Shall we date? +4

Arthur Morgan | Red Dead Redemption 2 -8

Mettaton | Undertale

Floyd Leech | Twisted Wonderland

Maya Fey | Ace Attorney

Simeon | Obey Me! – Shall we date? +1

Michael Afton | the Five Nights at Freddy’s franchise

Riddle Rosehearts | Twisted Wonderland

Harry Du Bois | Disco Elysium

Sora | the Kingdom Hearts franchise -14

Solomon | Obey Me! – Shall we date? -8

Idia Shroud | Twisted Wonderland

The number in italics indicates how many spots a name moved up or down from the previous year. Bolded names weren’t on the list last year.

BEHOLD! SOMETHING I MADE OUT OF PURE, UNBRIDLED BOREDOM!!!

We Need Help

tw; homophobia

i am having to remake this post because my last post has died out, and sadly we are still in desperate need of help. for background for those who dont know me, my name is j, i am a 23 year old transguy living with my wife (they are also lgbt, and lives with a neurological disorder among others)

we just received our notice that our rent will be raising from 895 to 1050 in september. we are on fixed income and stay afloat with financial aid, but this is a huge blow because we were under the impression it would be cheaper then this, but they are tacking on utilities. on top of that, we are currently waiting the 10 days for our ebt card, because the first one they sent never arrived, and so we have been going without food despite being paid out on the 10th. this is really bad for the reasons above, since food instability is a major trigger.

as some of you know, my wife and i moved to az from our home in wa exactly a year ago to help her disabled mom who was asking for help. june is the anniversary of the month we got kicked out and lived homeless until we got this apartment, when her mother determined she no longer could accept our relationship because we are gay. it is a complex situation but traumatizing for my partner and the reason i say so is because we have no one to help us with transportation to food bank, extra help, anything. we are entirely isolated here.

with the money we will have by then from school funds to pay our rent and the last post, we would be able to live here for another full year if we somehow made a total of 850. I don’t expect the full amount and am working on other means right now, but if any one could help, spare even a few cents, or reblog, it would really help. if half of my followers sent a dollar i would have more than enough not to get kicked out, so it really doesnt need to be much to mean a lot. it is really devastating to have to see this happen again after having tried to build a sense of stability again, so it really matters a lot to me everyone who has cared, even reached out, and thank you if you got this far.

feel free to msg me if theres anything else you need to know. spaces so no shadow ban, bold to make this easier to read. I’ll try to follow everyone who reblogs (I hit follow limit often but will keep going through notes and following)

timestamp: 6/18/2022

p a y p a l: ptcustomcomp @ yahoo . com

c a s h a p p: $ tobler707

v e n m o: @ tobler707

total as of 6/25/22 12PM MST: 297 / 850

the Guardian

Elon Musk reportedly forced Twitter algorithm to boost his tweets after Super Bowl flop

A tweet from Joe Biden garnered triple the impressions than Musk’s game time post, sending Twitter engineers scrambling to boost their boss

Like, I know we just discussed this, but I hadn’t heard all the details and they are just so much:

Twitter chief executive Elon Musk rallied a team of roughly 80 engineers to reconfigure the platform’s algorithm so his tweets would be more widely viewed, tech news site Platformer has reported.

A disgruntled Musk called for an emergency effort after a tweet he sent during Sunday’s Super Bowl game failed to achieve as much engagement as a tweet from Joe Biden, interviews and internal documents reviewed by Platformer have revealed.

The effort was sparked when a tweet from the president, who has 37m followers, generated nearly 29m impressions while a similar tweet from Musk – who has 128m followers – generated little more than 9.1m impressions.

A Twitter employee and cousin of Elon Musk, James Musk, posted urgently in the company Slack at 2.30am the following Monday morning, asking all employees who can code to participate. “Any people who can make dashboards and write software please can you help solve this problem,” he wrote. “This is high urgency.”

Bonus: “Musk seemed to publicly confirm the move, in his own way, posting a meme about forcing followers to read his tweets” [I just saw it, it’s extravagantly misogynistic and gross in a way I should have expected and yet did not].

From Reddit: “Musk kept showing up in my feed, so I also blocked him. That fucker unblocked himself and started showing up in my feed again. This happened twice.”

I saw a discussion on—also Reddit, maybe? About how there needs to be a non-body-shaming phrase for “small dick energy,” and I feel like Elon Musk Energy would be a strong contender.

8,999 bananas tall or basically 9 bananas

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Stop reposting art from Japanese artists

and stop reblogging reposted art from Japanese artists. Stop spreading it around. This gives reposters (as well as regular fans) the impression that reposting art is acceptable. It’s not. It’s harmful to both the original artist and the fanbase.

First off, it’s against pixiv’s terms of service (Act 13, article 2). If you can’t read Japanese, a simple run through Google translate will do the work. It’s also right at the top of the help page in English. Because it’s literally only Western fans who do this. Outside of pixiv, on their private websites, most Japanese artists say clearly in English to not repost their work. This screenshot is just one example of many. I don’t want to link to some actual websites for obvious reasons.

Fanart— especially nsfw/R18 fanart— is on shaky legal ground in Japan. Copyright holders are generally willing to turn a blind eye to private websites and pixiv, but are not always able to if a certain fanart gets spread around too much.  The most common example is how popular fanart makes its way to unofficial bootleg merch. You see it all the time at anime cons, where fanart gets mass-produced for profit and promoted as official merch. The original fanartists can get sued (or otherwise punished) for stuff like this, despite not having anything to do with it. Many fanartists are also professional manga artists, and they run the risk of losing their job due to copyright issues and out of fear for their publisher’s reputation.

But even besides legal issues, it’s plainly disrespectful. 

Art you find on the internet does not belong to you. You have no right to take and edit and redistribute someone else’s work.

Common excuses I see are:

“But I always source!!!” GREAT… BUT YOU’RE STILL REPOSTING ART WITHOUT PERMISSION. Crediting the artist doesn’t suddenly make it alright to do whatever you want with their work.

“I can’t speak Japanese so I can’t ask permission!!” There’s Google translate and many websites that offer Japanese lessons. Language barriers should not be a problem.

“They put it online, so it’s their fault it’s getting stolen/edited.” Nice victim-blaming. Artists put their stuff online for their own enjoyment, not for other people to do with it as they please. Artists have deleted entire galleries because of this. Artists have even stopped drawing completely because of this.

…There is no excuse for being disrespectful. Stop trying to defend your rude behaviour and instead just respect artists.

If you absolutely must repost art, this blog has a lot of tutorials for non-Japanese speakers on how to ask for permission.

This is directed toward people who reblog reposted art just as much as it is toward reposters. When you reblog reposted art, you are perpetuating the problem. If you absolutely must reblog reposted art, don’t reblog it unless it clearly says that it was reposted with permission!! Not to mention the fact that many pixiv artists also have blogs on tumblr if you cared to look.