The number of people I've seen run red lights directly in front of me (where if I hadn't been paying attention, would have been disastrous for me) these past two weeks alone is more than I can recall seeing all year. It's terrifying.

As a fellow ace and explicit writer, my orientation has nothing to do with what I read or write? I highly doubt anything published right now would phase me. Like it? ...eh.

My mother read the most explicit harlequin novels in our living room all the time. I'm sure I've read it before, folks.

You got this! Best of luck.

Ads are the absolute worst. I will do anything and everything I can to block them.

It it helps, I used uBlock on Firefox and blocked the box that shows ads, so it's easy to hide those on a computer at least without paying. I don't use mobile at all for it, so I can't speak to that.

I feel that one a little too much. XD

Always happy to see your art. And love this (they definitely are perfect for it). 💙❤️

But please also remember to always take care of yourself first, hun. 💙

I’ll have to take a look, maybe add them to the Christmas list for the kids. Thank you!

If an author does abandon/delete the work, it's much harder to claim any copyright, leaving it completely open for the people behind the bots to steal the writing to train whatever GenAI system they're building without consequence.

I don't know if anyone else has said something about this, but it reads as a specific attack to get writers to abandon their work or delete it entirely off AO3.

Same! I've been digging all over to find anything comprehensive for my toddlers, getting really tired of the same episodes on PBS kids. But also sad that it's YouTube with all their recent bad decisions.

I have a couple Klance zine pieces I've been meaning to post since about the time I was laid off, too...just...my heart hasn't been in it. I hope to get those up soon to share with folks.

If anyone is willing/able to connect/network with me professionally, or could give me a rec for a job as a knowledge content admin/tech writer, please DM me.

I appreciate each and every one of you in the branching communities I've found myself part of. Seeing little creative joys helps every day.

Also, like, if you don't have a second person, aren't you just screwed if you ever need to take a bathroom break?

...that honestly sounds like burnout. Like, complete burnout.

There are a few people I want to follow, but I haven't until the feature is in place, whenever that may be. Only because I like their posts on things, but...just don't care as much for the stuff they're sharing.

Please! That's the one feature I'm waiting on.

...and I guess we're completely screwing over those that can't stand for very long/at all in one place.

Both, probably. The first breaks, and then the other person ends up laughing so hard that they fall and break theirs, too.