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Have you heard of the upcoming social media platform "Fanexus"? I was wondering what are your thoughts on it! Do you think it's gonna be good?

I’ve heard of it, but I haven’t done much of a deep dive on what it is or what it hopes to be. From my understanding, it’s going to be a combination social media platform and fan wiki? I’m curious how they’ll manage it. 

It could be a great thing. There’s definitely demand in fandom for more and better social media tools than we have now. I’ve seen posts that they’ll have a broadly accepting policy along the lines of AO3, so that makes me wonder where they’re going to base their servers and how they’re going to moderate content (if at all).

Another concern I have is around cyberbullying. Social media platforms all have downfalls in this area, and I don’t personally know enough about how to set one up to protect against that sort of thing. I think we’ve all seen or heard of cases where fans have bullied other fans, and I worry about how that sort of interaction will be handled and what their terms of service and privacy policies will be like. 

Also, how will they be paying for things? If I decide to put some of my fanart or writing on there, will I retain the copyright? Will there be advertisements next to it? Will I have any say in which advertisers are and are not allowed to have ads next to my works? Will I be able to disallow ads if I pay a subscription fee? What would that fee be?

The more I think about it, the more questions I have. There might be documentation about these things that I haven’t seen, but I haven’t really looked into it very much. Answering this ask is probably the most time I’ve spent on it to date.

At this point, I’m curious but I’m not going to be an early adopter. I’ll see how it works for other people before I dip my toe in. 

What about the rest of you? Have you heard of Fanexus? What are your thoughts?

Opinion: writing for fanfiction.net and writing for ao3 cultivate different sets of skills

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The AO3 Tag of the Day is: A slight detour

fun fact: wound fucking isn't specific to niche fanfics on the internet! crash (1996) has a scene where a man fucks a gaping bloody cut in a woman's leg and the movie won a prize at cannes :)

You know, I of all people ought to know that, for every subject in the world, there is at least one person who's a goddam nerd about it. And yet, somehow the fact that someone knows the history of wound-fucking in pop culture off the top of their head is....

Shit, I don't know. There's a lot of world out there.

that’s enough emotions for a whole year. ciao

dick: i came out to have a good time and i'm honestly feeling so attacked right now

jason: i came out to attack people and i'm honestly having such a good time right now

tim: i came out

damian: attack people

someone I follow on the bird app just announced they're starting a very exclusive private fic server because they and a bunch of other people want to talk about how much they love the fics they're reading, and as an author can I just say that a really great place to talk about a fic you love is in the comments for that fic

I understand that people are trying to create safe spaces, but as the number of comments that I get on my fics dwindles with each passing year, knowing these spaces exist where my fics are being discussed, places that I am excluded from, makes me want to write fic LESS

I mean I guess who cares, right, because if I stop writing, there's 10,000 other people that will continue...but if you participate in a fic "book club" server and you say nice things there about a fic you loved, maybe copy and paste that into a comment on AO3?

the only thing fanfic writers are asking for in return for hours of hard work is attention. please don't rob us of the one thing that we hope for when we hit "post"

Dick is the kid who stubbornly leaves Bruce on read for months if his dad says ONE thing he doesn't like. Jason is the kid who'll obsessively check his phone to see if Bruce returned his " Morning, fuckface" text with his usual " Good morning, son. Love you" and WILL freak out if he doesn't get the ❤️ attached to it

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The AO3 Tag of the Day is: An ace lesbian

Shout out to all your internet friends who are gone.

Those messenger screen names that haven’t logged on in ages, some before detailed profiles were a thing on those services.

Those emails that are long since abandoned, some with domains that no longer exist.

Those online friends you knew years ago and who then helped shaped you in some way, who you just can’t FIND anymore.

Those people who once were, and hopefully still exist IRL, that seem to have no known internet life anymore.

And those who have actually passed on, and their online lives are now a memorial to them.

I miss you all. I hope life is/was kind to you, and maybe one day, we’ll somehow connect again.