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the baroque period is so weird because you have the catholics reinforcing their ideology of austerity, tradition and chastity, and the protestants fucking and divorcing and making money, but meanwhile the catholics were making sexy exaggerated art about pleasures of the flesh and the prods were like. Here is a painting of a sad dude standing in a room

ok this got a couple notes outside my circle of mutuals so I just wanna say that the catholics also painted their large share of sad dudes in rooms, okay, please don't take it too seriously as art history

it's just that you know the catholics also made this

I was mentally arguing about whether or not Ivan's monologue in Brothers Karamazov counts as fan fiction and now I'm just thinking about the brothers karamazov again

god what a good book. What a GOOD BOOK

anyway no I don't think it counts as fanfiction any more than any of plato's dialogues do but I would call it self-insert fanfiction to his face because Ivan would hate it

historical accuracy in fics is so funny to me. googling if they had grapefruit spoons in 1845 but also letting two men get married. fuck homophobia, tell me about cutlery.

You should be starting a recipe book. I don't give a shit if you're only 20-years-old. The modern web is rotting away bit by bit before our very eyes. You have no idea when that indie mom blog is going down or when Pinterest will remove that recipe. Copy it down in a notebook, physically or digitally. Save it somewhere only you can remove it. Trust me, looking for a recipe only to find out it's been wiped off the internet is so fucking sad. I've learned my lesson one too many times.

If you want a good object lesson about what we can and can't know about the past, we don't know Ea-Nasir was a dishonest merchant selling shoddy goods.

What we know is we have found a cache of complaint tablets about him selling low quality copper as high quality, in a site that was probably his own residence. We know multiple people complained he was a cheat. It's entirely possible they were right. It's also entirely possible that he kept these complaint letters as records of people he would no longer do business with, because they had made accusations and threats in order to bully him into giving them free copper. That is an equally valid interpretation of the evidence.

My point is not that we have maligned Ea-Nasir, my point is that thousands of years later, we do not and cannot know.

Actually he wrote all the complaints himself with various sock puppet accounts to drum up sympathy subscribers to his Claytreon

nobody:

the most obnoxious idiot on the planet: "what if we replaced the buttons with a touch interface"

Yet another AO3 bot situation - please spread the word!

Hi, it's me again, the person who wrote that viral post about fanfiction plagiarism! Today I'm here to warn you about abuse perpetrated by bots who have stolen AO3 usernames.

There's currently an epidemic of bots going around leaving (apparently random) horrible, hateful comments on people's fics. This isn't the first time bots have invaded AO3, but the big problem with this wave is that they're using real AO3 usernames to do it.

I learned about this when another writer contacted me after receiving the following comment on their story:

Now, while that is my username, I DEFINITELY did not leave this comment (and anyone who would leave something like that on a fic should be slapped! What an awful thing to post). This fic is in a completely unrelated fandom that I have never participated in, nor has that author participated in any of my fandoms, so the probability of it being some intentional fandom drama thing to make me look bad is also low.

The writer whose fic the comment was left on enlisted the aid of some friends and tracked down other guest comments with unrelated usernames attached, which is pretty strong evidence that they are being left by bots at random.

The TL;DR: If you receive a cruel comment from a (Guest) with an actual AO3 username attached, it's most likely from a bot. Please do not lash out at or dogpile the AO3 user who owns that name, and who in all likelihood has no idea that their name has been hijacked for evil.

If finding this kind of comment on a fic, even left by a bot, is likely to upset you, I would recommend changing your comment settings so that only users who are logged in can leave comments. To do this, edit your story settings, and under "Privacy," select the radio button that says "Only registered users can comment," as shown below.

Please spread the word to other AO3 users! And if you see mean guest comments on other fics, maybe let the author know that it's probably from a bot and not a real person who thinks their writing is bad.

yknow it's kinda crazy that ive only really been on here for a bit over a year it feels like this website is my parent

process of drawing an OC: - you design them - you get attached to them - their hair gets bigger without you realizing it

well low key foucault kinda obliterated chomsky on that debate

I do agree obviously that human knowledge is limited by the biological structures of our brains. Obviously. You can't create something new when your brain chemistry doesn't work in a way that would enable that. We can't even conceive of what that would look like.

I just mean that Foucault won cause he's better at debate

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