I want so desperately to finish this one, but life has other plans for me this month. I learned a ton while working on it, so fingers crossed I can pick the momentum back up in the future

sakura, from my fic series the slug & the stars

Fandom friends, we have won the battle (although we definitely did not win the war).

Yesterday, I wrote this post about lore.fm, an AI scraping app that was being marketed as an accessibility tool. Now, the person that has been promoting this app decided, in the light of plenty of backlash, to backtrack and pull it down, as they "feel uncomfortable" with how authors reacted to it.

Of this video, it's very important to highlight a couple of things:

At this point of the conversation, I think it's clear that the entirety of the project was relying on the perceived naïveté of fanfic readers and writers, who are oftentimes seen and stereotyped as being silly teens and not adults with real jobs and real knowledge of the law. When they saw dozens, if not hundreds, of authors contacting them to ask their works to not be featured, some of them threatening legal consequences, they had no other choice but to backtrack.

For now, the issue is closed, but don't think it'll be forever. Know your rights, even if you're "just" a fic author, and defend yourself and your works too from these scummy companies that see us as nothing but machines that churn out material for them to steal and profit off of with no consequences.

COLLEGE AU - KakaSaku

i saw genderbent fanart of sakura and literally swooned. so indrew the two of them in boxing outfits and i thought, huh they lewk too good for it to not be acknowledged. i like to think their club likes using them to promote their club bc theyre literally the deadliest commercial duo cuz gawd…theyre tew fine. since im also in college and club rush happened a few months ago, i thought abt combining the two and having them promote it in their gear like half naked. saku is super shy and so having sakura do it with him gives him enough courage. i thought it was fitting that kakashi joined the photography club based on sukea lol and i just feel like it fits his observant personality. and whew, hes OBSERVING quite a bakery😏 everyones around the same age btw

The comic at the end i just felt the need to add. its a lil pattern in my posts here where i add smthn small or cute as an addon but it began like taking too long so i half assed the coloring. woobs….anyway enjoy my annual tumblr post🥹

when chidori got out of control:

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Sakura as sensei with Shisui & Obito

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hey now...

Couldn't have nailed me any harder to the floor if you had a fucking hammer.

tagging: @sakuradeservedbetter91, @fountainpenscribbles, @twofortea, @goldfishlover73, @xylazine, @heartensoul & whoever else wants to participate! 💕

this is so funny to me bc I rarely write/read dead dove fics bc I know my limits 😂😂😂

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<morning stretches>

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Fic update: hey cowboy with that look in your eyes

Pairing: Sakura/Shisui

Rating: E, for explicit

Chapter: 3/3, completed

Tags: cowboys au, explicit sexual content, light bondage, add slapping, dirty talk, just a dash of possessiveness

Summary: Sakura moves to a new town and goes to the local dive bar on her first night, only she catches sight of a handsome cowboy who immediately captures her attention. So, she does what any self-respecting woman does when she sees something she wants—she claims him as hers.

Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/47686996/chapters/141435640#workskin

you say it's because of my age, girl. but age ain't nothin' but a number

art by @sso_s__ on X!