AO3 has been scraped, once again.

As of the time of this post, AO3 has been scraped by yet another shady individual looking to make a quick buck off the backs of hardworking hobby writers. This Reddit post here has all the details and the most current information. In short, if your fic URL ends in a number between 1 and 63,200,000 (inclusive), AND is not archive locked, your fic has been scraped and added to this database.

I have been trying to hold off on archive locking my fics for as long as possible, and I've managed to get by unscathed up to now. Unfortunately, my luck has run out and I am archive locking all of my current and future stories. I'm sorry to my lovelies who read and comment without an account; I love you all. But I have to do what is best for me and my work. Thank you for your understanding.

(sigh) This again.

Time to lock your stuff up, folks...

HOW TO LOCK YOUR STORIES ON AO3:

• Open your story • Choose EDIT at the top of the screen • Scroll down to the 'privacy' option and select "Only show your work to registered users" • Press POST at the bottom of the screen

You're done!

subscribing to a fic isn’t enough I need the author to blast a bat signal into the night sky whenever they update

I LOVE THIS

@calaisreno someone was reading my mind

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Casual reminder that this would have been Jeremy Brett's 'Young Holmes'.

This.

I will forever reblog this every time it’s on my dash because it should be this loud and simple. 💖

*Holding my own tits for support*

Not everyone knows this so im gonna tell you. Countries that speak the same spoken language will not necessarily use the same sign language.

For example, American Sign Language and French Sign Language are related and I’ve known ASL users who have said they could stumble through communication with people who use LSF.

British sign language is completely unrelated to ASL however. The two languages have almost nothing in common. BSL is related to Australian sign language but Auslan and BSL still aren’t the same language.

Mexico from what I gather has at least three completely unrelated sign languages, though LSM is the most widely used. Mainland China and Taiwan use completely different unrelated sign languages despite both countries using Mandarin. Portuguese sign language is influenced by Swedish sign language while Brazilian sign language is influenced by LSF. In most of Canada they use ASL but in Quebec they have their own unique sign language that’s still related to ASL and LSF. Nicaraguan sign language is a unique language naturally developed by children in a school for the deaf and is completely unrelated to the sign languages around it in other Spanish speaking countries.

I could go on and on and on. There’s hundreds of sign languages out there and they don’t follow the same geographic lines that spoken ones do. Keep that in mind.

IT JUST KEEPS GOING IM HYSTERICAL

blame the angel. those were very clear instructions, after all.

now 2 beanie baby dragons are crossing your dash together :3

reblog if you also sat and waited for them to fully cross before scrolling / reblogging

one of two sketches that turned into full-on drawings that i’ve been working on little bits at a time as i could/between other things. just going to post them so i stop tinkering with them.

Benedict Cumberbatch at Sky Arts, graphite pencils 10H-8B in my spiral sketchbook, very slowly. open pics in new tab for better view, if you like. I’ll post the other drawing later. [now posted!]

[my art tag]

i love that we have an informal consensus that sherlock never uses any pet names for john but he calls him "his john" or "my john".

Get you a man who talks about you the way John Watson talks about Sherlock Homes.

Favorite thing about renaissance faires is that they have fuck all to to with the renaissance. This thang is not about historical anything this is about dressing up like a fairy and watching a joust

#a samurai with a flintlock pistol sitting next to a guy dressed as a caveman drinking a styrofoam cup of dr pepper#and it fucks severely

It's a "Renaissance" Faire the same way D&D or Pathfinder is "medieval fantasy "

HELLO?? AM I SUPPOSED TO JUST ACCEPT THIS