I recently renamed my Discord server to SW Creatives originally SW Writers. When I first made it, it was a place so I could connect with fellow writers and readers beyond just fic comments and tumblr reblogs. I’m happy the server has continued and has brought in other creative people as well. So to reflect that, I decided to change the name so it was more inclusive. Really it’s a place for people who like Star Wars to hang out (especially if you like the OT and PT and Dad Vader), and if you’re creative or not! But it’s become a great place to share ideas, WIPs, get suggestions, provide ideas, encourage, talk, chat, and all that good stuff. 

https://discord.gg/Z3fgVMx

(If the link doesn’t work, let me know.)

Across the Stars: An Anidala / Vaderdala SW Discord Server

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https://discord.gg/9rq5KqgxEE

The Clone Wars || A New Hope

I think takes about Padmé in RotS would be notably less weird if the fact that Padmé was right re: 'there's still good him' was accepted, instead of it being considered basically a joke.

Whether you like it or not, what Luke does in RotJ is exactly what Padmé attempts in RotS. It's frustrating, to say the least, to see the difference in reactions to their actions.

I've said it before, but Luke bringing back Vader is just as much Padmé's victory and vindication as it is Luke's.

popular holotuber spacebomberguy has uploaded a new five hour video essay! it starts as a critique of the new “dress like a senator” fashion line and it’s place in pro-republic clone wars propaganda, before spiraling into a discovery that chancellor palpatine is a sith lord!! reactions on the holonet are mixed, with macewinduofficial declaring the video “necessary viewing for all of coruscant” while anakinskyyyy3534 replied to a link with “TLDW”

…..i wrote it

literally going to think of this 4ever

tag yourself im outerimjob

I saw a post about tumblr user ages...

Reblogs are welcomed for that sweet, sweet increased data pool (aka getting more than 20 responses 😅)

So today I got a rather unkind comment on AO3 (one could call it hate), but I believe it to be a bot for several reasons:

I'm curious, did anyone else get comments like this? Let me know.

And to those who have gotten rude comments and are now worried/upset: Maybe it was just a bot too. Either way: You're awesome for putting your writing out there for others to enjoy and you don't deserve to get rude comments for it. If you want feel free to message me to compare cases and discuss details :)

For comparison, this is the one I received.

Here are some more examples fellow writers allowed me to share:

As you can see, these comments all the match the description above. Also they seem to be weirdly obsessed with AI and this entire operation may be an attempt to promote writing AI - which, if true, is disgusting on several levels.

(If any of the people with the AO3 usernames in question happen to see this: Don't worry, we're all sure it wasn't you, no hard feelings and sorry that a bot stole your name for hate comments. The names are only shown as proof that they are indeed stolen)

Oh I was just wondering why I got a weird comment today!

This is mine. Looking at the pattern, it is definitely a bot. Stealing usernames and posting as guests under that.

I was upset for a hot minute, replied asking what did they mean... Turns out I shouldn't have bothered.

Thank you for the addition! This certainly paints a picture - they're claiming that the work of actual human authors is subpar (the toddler comment on mine and the human comment on yours) and/or bring up AI.

Sorry this happened and I hope you're feeling better now💕 personally, I do believe this work was written by a human being and a lovely too!🫂💗

I don't think they're so much trying to get people to use AI to write fics - there seems to be some sort of a scam where the bots encourage commenters to put a fic through their 'AI scanner' to check if it was written by a robot.

They're literally trying to get readers to do the work of scraping fics for them.

I'm sure other folks have added this already in different reblog chains, but AO3 has disabled guest comments for now.

Just in case, I would recommend not going to any of the AI writing sites these comments mention since it's possible they have malware on them. Or maybe the comments are just intended to get people searching for the terms and then that might make them pop up in google search's autofill?? I have no idea 😑

Locking your fics and comments to registered users eliminates this issue-- and hopefully limits bot scraping of the works themselves.

I hate this so much because some of the best recurrent readers and consistent commenters I've ever had have been anons.

Oh.

To call WT's actions "antics" would be reducing the severity of what they're doing to creators. This is unacceptable behavior and it should be all the more reason for creators to start exploring other career paths outside of WT. For years they've been meticulously crafting an environment where people believe that WT is the only path to success, where WT controls the degree of success creators can achieve, from the manipulation of the promotional system to the lack of tagging and proper search functions on the app. Now that they've boiled the frog to this point, they're cashing out by flooding the platform with cheap imports, implementing AI tools, and of course, trying to use their contracts as a way to trap creators and keep them from owning their own IP's and maximizing on their own success.

I said it before and I'll say it again - Webtoons is planning to go public with their IPO this summer, so it would be a real shame if creators spoke up about the underhanded tactics used by WT to keep them from finding success in their own works. At the very least, it should serve as a reminder to all of us that companies like these can't amass billions without exploiting people along the way.

We can't even use "they're creating jobs for comic creators" as a reason to want to see WT succeed in spite of their flaws anymore because they're literally ruining people's careers, cutting them off before they've even started. That's not the platform being "flawed", that's the platform and the system it's built on being broken, full stop.

About the AO3 "No Guest Comments for a while" warning

If you're not following any of AO3's social media accounts you might be in the dark as to what kind of "spam comments" have engendered this banner at the top of the site:

These spam comments have been posted about a great deal on the AO3 subreddit for the past couple of days. Initially they comprised a bunch of guest (logged out users) bot comments that insulted authors by suggesting they were using AI and not writing their own fics. Some examples, from the subreddit:

But it then escalated to outright graphic porn images and gifs being posted in comments, again by logged out 'Guest' accounts. Obviously, I'm not going to give examples of those, but between these two bot infestations, AO3 has clearly decided to act and has temporarily closed the ability to post comments for users who are not logged in with an AO3 account.

Unfortunately, this means that genuine readers who don't have an AO3 account won't be able to leave comments on fics that they enjoy.

If you are a genuine reader who doesn't yet have an AO3 account, I strongly suggest getting yourself on the waiting list for one. More and more AO3 authors are now locking their fics down to registered users only - either due to these bot comments or concerns about AI scraping their work - which means you're probably missing out on a lot of great stuff.

Hopefully guest commenting will be enabled again at some point soon, but I suggest not waiting until then. Get yourself on that list.

Wait times are going to be longer than usual at the moment, due to the current Wattpad purge [info on Fanlore | Wattpad subreddit thread], but if you're in line, then your invite will come through eventually.

Update: There's now a Megathread about this on the AO3 subreddit.

Happy birthday Hayden ! 💫

ani ⋆｡°✩

There is something about Anakin's face that makes me want to shower him with kisses until he laughs breathlessly.

pretty boy deserves all the kisses in the world !!!

modern linecook anakin (very much inspired by hanasnx, weixuldo, and princessbrunette's linecook ani ♡)

and blood black nothingness began to spin

within cells

interlinked.

anakin babe ur NOT getting that bonus

blade runner x star wars crossover au continuation bc i’m bananas like that

(and bc obi wan and anakin would definitely brood in the cold streets of coruscant)

practicing lightsaber techniques…

… or at least trying to lol 🤼‍♂️🤼‍♂️🤼‍♂️

i also made an art insta @corukant so hmu there as well awesome nice cool fantastic

anakin’s “incorrect” haunts my mind 🧎‍♀️🧎‍♀️🧎‍♀️

random wip that i probably won’t finish… there was supposed to be a horse :00

art insta @corukant

mourn them do not…

…miss them do not

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sketch for my lil headcanon that anakin had a pre mustafar moment on naboo as well,, knowing this might be the last time he remembers it like this…. i am insane

rlly taking yoda’s speech to heart 🥲

then and now

i am here with you

in the palms of my soiled hands

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anakin & obi wan’s padawan braids bound together

art insta @corukant