Now at long last, I have commissions open! It’s been a rough while, and I’m going to need some help to pay for new hearing aids and extras, so if you can help out, that’s wonderful!
Slots available: 3
Kofi: https://ko-fi.com/forestfairyunicorn
Comes with a simple bust sketch!
Art tumblr: forestfairyunicorn-art.tumblr.com
Will do: OCs, FanOCs, Fanfic scenes
Will Not Do: NSFW, Animation, Complex backgrounds
Under the cut has full information, including pricing and all.
This is a heads up to those who haven’t the chance to make a registered account on ao3:
As you’ve may have seen by now, bots are harvesting from ao3 works, so to prevent that, fics are under lock; only registered users can read them.
However! There’s hope: getting an account on ao3 requires patience: on the Ao3 site, there’s a FAQ about invitations and user invitations. No paywall, just patience.
To those who’ve been following along in my works, thank you~
ICYMI, there was fear that companies were scraping public AO3 fics to train their AI without the consent of AO3 or its users. That fear has been confirmed.
AO3 has written about what they’re doing (and what they’re not able to do), and they recommend restricting your work to AO3 registered users only. [Instructions here]
This gross misuse of the archive by techbros is why I’ve locked down my fics for the foreseeable future. I recommend the rest of you do the same.
I just locked all my stories, even the ones I’ve basically abandoned.
@baggebythesea @solcaeruleus @bishonenrockmysocks @maze-zen @tippenfunkaport @dirt-apple-productions @soranis-sunshadow @dortodoost @cruelfeline
Thank you for the heads up. I hate that I had to do this, but all my fics are now locked, too. To any unregistered readers who might be following my blog here: I am so sorry for doing this, but there is little choice at this point.
I got so excited when I sorted my bookmarks by most recently updated and saw so many of my favorites at the top of the list. Then I realized they were at the top of the list because locking your fics counts as an update. It is a way to keep fics safe and annoy readers at the same time. Congratulations on the new level of power, authors.
Back to patiently waiting for updates because I refuse to ask authors for updates.
Oh trust me, authors aren’t locking fics for fun or to annoy readers, we’re doing it in the hopes of decreasing the chance of getting our work stolen by techies with no respect for art and writing.
We’ll be losing audience and it feels awful to basically put a brick wall between our fics, that we lovingly share online, and readers who enjoy them just because they happen to not be registered users.
I hate that it’s come to this and I know many others feel the same way.
FYI, I have also locked all my fanfics down to registered users only because of the AI scraping on AO3. I'm one of many fan creators doing this right now and I know it stinks for users without an AO3 account, but it's the only option writers have available to us at the moment to stop our work from being scraped and stolen.
If this makes you mad, the Federal Register is currently open to comments on AI accountability until June 20th, 2023.
It only takes a second to leave a comment to ask for legislation that works used in AI creations or training MUST secure the express consent of the original creator before they can be used. If we can get protections for artists, writers, musicians and everyone who creates that their work cannot be used in AI without their permission, we can go back to making fanworks freely available without fear of them being misused. Until then, we're stuck playing defense until the courts catch up.
(If you're a fan creator looking to do this as well, AO3 has a tool to let you do all your fics at the same time in seconds. On your dashboard, go to Edit Works and you'll be able to change the status on everything at once.)
If you missed the context, AO3 recently found that the archive was scraped for use in AI services like ChatGPT and Sudowrite. While they put in protections in December 2022 to try to stop it from happening in the future, it's not foolproof and there is nothing they can do about works already swiped prior to that date. The archive is recommending fan creators restrict their works to registered users only to prevent against additional large scale scraping in the future.
being a pepper plant has to be so weird.
Imagine evolving capsaicin specifically to stop mammals from eating your fruits, and then a mammal comes along that not only will eat your fruits, but likes them specifically because of the capsaicin, so much that it starts using its weird paws to distribute and care for your seeds, which turns into a strong selective force that literally starts evolving you into producing MORE capsaicin and makes you a WAY more successful and wider ranged species than you ever were before
simply because this mammal LOVES Pain Chemical. that evolved specifically to produce pain in mammals. It's not that the capsaicin isn't WORKING. It's just that these freaks like it.
This is the same mammal with social instincts so goddamn strong that they literally try to form social bonds with their predators, and end up evolving the predators into a new species that fits into their social communities as a form of mutualistic symbiosis, and exists in several different forms with unique morphology and behaviors based on the function they perform.
Instead of, I don't know, EVOLVING TO BE FASTER, this animal finds a faster animal and sits on it. Which shouldn't even work because the faster animal is a prey animal and this animal is a predator, but SOMEHOW they FORM A SOCIAL BOND WITH THE PREY. So they can sit on it while it runs fast. And somehow the prey animal?? is cool with this?? and benefits from this relationship???
Literally how can you hate humans. Humans are possibly the most hilarious thing evolution has ever done.
other things humans have done
humans worldwide looking up into the celestial vault of stars a million light years away, separated from Earth by the deadly cold and emptiness of space: I bet there are guys up there to form social bonds with
I’m pretty sure that the “humans are space orcs” mini-sci-fi-genre quite literally originated from a collaborative tumblr post on the “isn’t it funny that humans eat capsaicin” prompt!
There have been about 3 major collaborative tumblr posts about it being funny that humans eat capsaicin (one relatively popular one actually written from the perspective of “it must be weird to be a pepper plant evolving capsaicin,” with people writing about other plants inventing compounds and going 😡 when humans like them - it’s cute, see if you can find it) but I’m fairly sure that capsaicin tolerance was where the “humans are space orcs” term was actually coined. Today it’s several subreddits, a TikTok genre, an ao3 tag, and perennial story prompt, with everyone apparently thinking they invented it, but I was there, Gandalf.
Ahh I love that this is a thing. What genre will those peppers prompt next! (And wait! What genres were promoted by other plants??)
Being 6ft and
having a very small kitten form a bond with you and
watching this very small kitten follow you everywhere and
having to look directly down all the time
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Please take a picture show us your perspective
POV: you’re 6ft trying not to step on a very small cat that follows you.
Ask any Ai "artist" to actually draw something for you on paper and watch them choke and gasp because they can't do shit on their own
Little bit of both inspiration and call-back to this with @fiddlezips lad Macker, only Violence is telling her siblings about the Best Features of this Guy: The Scruff~, the Biteable Torso~, and the Butt~ There’s also smell, but kinda hard to translate that into visual format |D
As always, Zed is confused and Keen is cracking up.
Zed: “That’s seriously your type?”
Keen: “THAT’S YOUR TYPE, OMG THAT’S HILARIOUS!”
I just checked the notes, apparently this is the fursona of the author's autistic daughter. Huge props, mad respect.
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