*snore*

[telophase]

It's been a mildly eventful few weeks, mostly because I ended up with a cold for a week and a half. Other than that, nothing too hairy happening.

I did get baby's first AO3 scam comment! It enthused over my story, especially the way I brought the world and the characters to life, making it real and immersive, pulling the reader in. And, of course, sparked creative ideas of their own and they wanted me to talk to them on Telegram or whatnot, presumably to try to scam me out of money for fanart that'll never arrive. Blocked, deleted, reported.

This, uh, is the work that they loved so much. You can see the GLARING PROBLEM with the bot's comment about my...story. XD

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[trobadora]

You can see the GLARING PROBLEM with the bot's comment about my...story. XD

LOL! Frustrating as it is that this stuff is happening on AO3, it is a bit hilarious that this is what they picked.

[telophase]

You'd think they'd program the bot to avoid anything with a word count of 0, but nope!

[umadoshi]

You'd think they'd program the bot to avoid anything with a word count of 0, but nope!

*infinite facepalm*

[larryhammer]

I just got one of those today.

[telophase]

There's another one going around that negs your work, with a variant that claims AO3 is going to be deleting older works, both trying to get you to delete your work from the archive. The best theory about that one is that it's AI bros trying to get people to delete their works because claiming copyright is harder if it's not published. Haven't got one of those yet, though!

[larryhammer]

🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼🤦🏼‍♀️

[larryhammer]

Oh now this is interesting -- I just got verrrry similar spam on prettygoodword, talking about word definitions as if they are stories, also wanting to connect on another platform.

[telophase]

Wow, so they actually tailored it to you!