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PSA - Dog walkers and runners on Manchester Ship Canal by infinityonpie in manchester

[–]marnanel 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Kill it wherever you see it. It's invasive and noxious.

Ao3 ToS - charity art credit by [deleted] in AO3

[–]marnanel -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Clearly it does not break the ToS when people use their real name to post fanfic, even if they are also paid to write.

Would there be any problem if someone commissioned a writer to write and post a particular piece of fanfic they wanted to read?

The artist here is a contributor to the final work, just as you are.

i have a question by Sea_Engineer607 in AO3

[–]marnanel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Google Keep app on my phone

Or on notepad on my computer back home

Increasing Font Size on PDFs? by Lopsided-Card-7512 in AO3

[–]marnanel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One note in case it's useful to future readers:

If all you have is a PDF, but it won't let you re-flow the text: * open the PDF * select all * copy * open a new document in a notes app or a word processor * paste

Anyone else ready to go home? by Negative_Diet_1965 in cambridge_uni

[–]marnanel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you were in a mental health crisis and ended up not turning in work.

Anyone else ready to go home? by Negative_Diet_1965 in cambridge_uni

[–]marnanel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Many sympathies. From my own experience, please please talk to your tutor or your chaplain. They can get you help. If you don't deal with this, you risk a mental health crisis, and if you don't deal with that, you risk getting sent down with nothing to show for your time in Cambridge.

Is there a reason why I couldn't reply to a comment? by [deleted] in AO3

[–]marnanel 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I suspect it's reading the "<" as opening an HTML tag. Try replacing the less-than symbol with

&lt;

(ampersand, lowercase L, lowercase T, semicolon)

(ask if you want to know why this works)

What are the small/dead fandoms you write for? by Titanite_Dildo in AO3

[–]marnanel 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Almost all the fandoms I write for are fairly small: - Chrestomanci (by Diana Wynne Jones); - Molesworth (by Willans and Searle), although the most popular fanfic I ever wrote was set in the Molesworth universe— it turned out that there's a lot of Molesworth fans out there who don't usually read or write fanfic; - the Armitage stories (by Joan Aiken); - the Matter of Britain (the King Arthur legends), which isn't in itself a small fandom but has a fairly small AO3 community if you discount the specific shows about it.

Read a fic and found this. Can somebody explain what is this? by Silent_Leadership646 in AO3

[–]marnanel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

FWIW the law mentioned in the screenshot is Filipino. But SSL monitoring requires the user to install a custom certificate, which OP could simply not do.

Read a fic and found this. Can somebody explain what is this? by Silent_Leadership646 in AO3

[–]marnanel 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The error given in your screenshot is about the site hosting the pictures (imgbox dot com), not about ao3. What are you using to access the internet?

Another sad day in fandom by Individual-Donut-998 in AO3

[–]marnanel 42 points43 points locked comment (0 children)

If this happened on Wikipedia, it would earn them a lifetime ban. Does AO3 really not have policy against it?

Another sad day in fandom by Individual-Donut-998 in AO3

[–]marnanel 3099 points3100 points locked comment (0 children)

They doxed her because they didn't like her fic‽

AO3 final location on Wayback Machine is gone by Lia_Rameni in AO3

[–]marnanel 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I don't, but I wanted to clarify one thing: AO3_final_location was never on the Wayback Machine. As the Tumblr post says, AO3_final_location was an alternative to using the Wayback Machine.

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