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'Touched'


Fan Fiction II: Great story! Where's the sequel?

This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.


Sophia Brooks - Dec 28, 2022 2:19:09 am PST #10382 of 10424
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I’ve watched Abbott Elementary AND Do Revenge! Thanks!


JZ - May 18, 2023 4:52:17 pm PDT #10383 of 10424
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

I wrote another story!


Laga - Jun 02, 2023 11:57:01 am PDT #10384 of 10424
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I'm so glad I finally read it! Headcanon accepted


askye - Jun 03, 2023 12:20:12 pm PDT #10385 of 10424
Thrive to spite them

I saw this via reddit and I wondered if anyone had any info about what is going on:

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Where there is a call for all volunteers of OTW to resign because of how OTW is handling multiple things, including the CSEM spam attack that happened. I really don't know the details of what is going on and was wondering if anyone could shed some light.


Dana - Jun 03, 2023 12:56:42 pm PDT #10386 of 10424
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

There's A LOT going on. Things that OTW has messed up:

  • The org's initial response to the protests around George Floyd's death (i.e., none)
  • The org's lack of progress on any features to protect people from racial harassment, except blocking and muting, which were already in the works
  • The org's lack of transparency as to what steps they were taking towards those goals
  • The timeline for these steps, since at one point they said they planned to hire a Diversity Consultant "within the next five years"
  • The chair of Legal gave an interview a couple of months ago in which she said that AO3 would host AI-generated fanworks, since they see their mandate as archiving all fanworks
  • When people freaked out about the AI thing, the org put out a weasely statement saying that something "a volunteer" said didn't reflect the org's position
  • The failure to respond to a two-week action called End OTW Racism, which was meant to bring the issue to people's notice and had a pretty clear and reasonable list of requests
  • The generalized bitching boiled over when more people kept coming forward to talk about how AO3 burned out volunteers, failed to protect them from exposure to CSEM, seems to have targeted one volunteer as the culprit without providing any evidence


askye - Jun 03, 2023 2:05:19 pm PDT #10387 of 10424
Thrive to spite them

Ok that is a lot of work they need to do to fix things.


erikaj - Jun 03, 2023 4:34:10 pm PDT #10388 of 10424
If Scooby Doo taught me anything, it's that the only thing to fear is real-estate developers.Lisa Simpson

yeah...what a mess...


Sophia Brooks - Jul 11, 2023 8:51:02 am PDT #10389 of 10424
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Yikes again! However is there anywhere to find fic right now? I am desperate because that is what I do for three hours a day on the bus! I think I might still have a binder with some Spike/Buffy and Pacey/Joey…


Steph L. - Jul 11, 2023 8:59:15 am PDT #10390 of 10424
Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.

Sophia, AO3 is up for me right now -- maybe you might be able to log in and download some fic to read on the bus?


Sophia Brooks - Jul 11, 2023 2:53:16 pm PDT #10391 of 10424
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Yay! I snagged the one I was in the middle of reading when AO3 went down. It seems a little dangerous to me know that the community as a whole has all of its eggs in this one basket. It is a great basket, but between the problems with the board response and this attack it seems like we could potentially lose a whole bunch of fic!