Queer Amazon. She/they/he pronouns all good. Sailing the fandom seas in multiple ships: Starfighter, The Locked Tomb, Star Trek: DS9, LOZ: Breath of the Wild, Marvel, Doctor Who, etc. My fics tag: #goodyear writes
It gets even more interesting when your players adopt things a little less typical.
Our GM is having way too much fun playing the highly intelligent, ancient alien/demon Entity that has partially merged with the Android player’s consciousness in our game of Mothership. Recently he’s been merging with other shards of himself, thereby growing all manner of extra limbs/appendages and becoming more established, to the point where we sometimes have to make sanity checks when he manifests a part of himself near us. Good times.
The above examples have been provided with the authors’ permission to demonstrate what these look like.
Basic rundown:
They are all 3 sentences long
Perfect grammar, capitalization, and punctuation
Like absolutely flawless English teacher-style writing with only a single exclamation mark, ever
No mentions whatsoever of character names, settings, situations, or anything that could be tied to the story
The usernames may be identical to people who exist on ao3, but the name is not clickable, and no profile is associated with it EXCEPT when you directly search for that name. What this means: the comments come from an unregistered (not logged in) reader, bots scrape the site for real usernames, attach that to the comment, and post
Please spread the word about this so authors can filter comments and report them accordingly
There has been some speculation about why this is happening at all, and the best guess is that this is a feature that AI-training story-scraping tools are implementing to try and make their browsing traffic look legitimate
This comment in the replies has me in absolute hysterics
It’s so specific!!
My partner found this cat’s instagram (@pixelandsophie) a while back and I have been obsessed ever since without knowing exactly why (other than CAT). I figured maybe it was because my uncle used to have Rexes and I missed them. But nope, comment above nailed it.
Pixel is the spiritual merger of my three favourite things:
Cats
Bad taxidermy
Victorian child ghosts (the only good kind of child)