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Also Happy May the Fourth Be With You!

Also don't remember if I said this before or not. I used to think I was bi, I learned more about myself since, I'm demiromantic heteroromantic asexual, which still means I am queer and I will fight you on that, blah blah blah, yeah that's a thing

Spreading more info about Ao3 because I can and it's possible some of you are also on there.
          Comments from bots are unfortunately a problem, and lately there's been a new one that is just awful. As a recap if you didn't see my last announcement, Ao3 was recently scraped by AI and people are pissed. Many are locking their fics for only Ao3 users so that they don't get scraped for a plagiarizing AI again (go make an account if you are reading any fics there! There's a fair chance that the writer is locking it!). And almost immediately after everyone on Ao3 got pissed off about the AI stunt (not just the users, the site itself is looking into taking action I heard), it seems that someone(s) have made a new type of spam bot. Basically it comments something along the lines of "ChatGPT says this is 70% from AI, I'm putting you on the Discord blacklist. You should be ashamed of yourself for using AI instead of being a real writer." Which of course is very offensive to anyone to be told that their hard work was done by AI. Not only that, it is saying that AI is just like anyone's work, and that there's no difference. It's meant to scare us after we got all pissed off at AI being used on Ao3. So if anyone gets a comment like that or sees one like it, it's spam. Report it. Also a side note, the supposed AI detection sites aren't amazing and assume that you don't know what a semicolon is so don't worry about trying to see if your fic looks like AI (which will also scrape your fic) because it's not accurate. 
          I doubt that this will affect Wattpad because it's limited to Ao3 because of backlash, but I figured some of you might post there/read there and that you should know.

Hey guys, this isn't applicable to y'all but just letting you know in case you also post on AO3. It was recently scraped by a bit to feed AI. This is not the first time. AO3 is taking legal action from what I've heard. But many of us are going to lock our rice so that only AO3 members see them. That's one way to prevent AI from stealing our work to spit out some lame generated fic with stolen ideas. So if you read anything on AO3, you should sign up for an account. It takes a bit for you to get one since AO3 processes it differently apparently (idk I'm not into tech idk why it's different) but it's not hard. But lots of authors are locking their fics, do get an AO3 account if you read anything there. And consider locking your fics if you publish on AO3. I will eventually. I will update new chapters, warn my readers, and after 48 hours I will lock that fic. Also, if you've never used AO3, you should check it out! There are tons of good fics, and I'd say it's the best formatted site for fanfiction. It was designed specifically for fics. Someday I'll talk a bit about the history. But make an account, it's not hard. Read there, publish there, and have fun! If you have any questions, let me know! I just thought I'd spread the word in case this affects anyone. 

I'm mostly writing this because I've found that telling people has helped me process it. But I can announce that I'm part of the bi to ace pipeline as some people like to call it. Basically it's not uncommon for someone on the aspec to at first think they're bi. Basically we know something is different about us, and we try to convince ourselves we do have crushes or whatever, and sometimes we confuse strong platonic feelings and aesthetic attraction for sexual or romantic attraction. Which I did for years. After lots of personal pondering I've concluded that I have never had romantic attraction for a girl. For years I considered myself to be biromantic and asexual. But I'm now realizing and have worked through amatonormativity enough to see what was happening. And I can't imagine myself in a relationship with a woman. So yeah, I'm demiromantic heteroromantic asexual. I'm still trying to get used to this, it was less than a week ago that I took biromantic off my profile description and have started telling people. It's still weird, I considered myself bi for 7 years. But every time I tell someone I accept it more and more. So thanks for the support! If you have questions, feel free to ask. Only thing I will say is that I'm still queer, asexuals and aromantics are queer.

Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, Happy Anything Else I'm forgetting!

happy thanksgiving to those that celebrate

just an fyi in case anyone cares: so right now i'm putting warning labels up at the beginning of every chapters. honestly, i forget to do it half the time and put it up the next day, or it's literally the same warnings as 90% of the other chapters, or whatever. so i'm going to start doing warnings only at the beginning of the fic (if you ever notice that i'm forgetting to do stuff, let me know). i'll put warnings for individual chapters if it's something that's not common and big. something like self harm or along those lines, really big stuff. the other stuff that are common throughout the whole or not all that huge (restraints) will only be at the beginning. just to make life simpler. hope y'all understand!
          
          (will slowly be updating)

Hello! I left a comment on Let Me Help on Quotev, but saw that you aren't super active on there anymore so I figured I'd shoot you a message over here as well. One of your readers nominated your story for a Quotev awards, if that's something you're interested in participating in! Nominations have to be approved before you're entered, so just let me know either way. Congratulations! :)

just posted my first entry in whumptober (i'm doing tesseroki :D)