BD Strike aka BeautifulFiction

A screenshot of a long gushing comment on AO3 part 1

Picture of a long gushing comment on king and court (fanfic) part 2.

A reply to the authors "thanks" asking to "share a few ideas on discord and Instagram"

God these AO3 scam comments are getting more believable. All that targeted good commentary and it still turns out to be a "get you to a secondary location to make you commission them" scam 😑 #AO3

Thanks!

Hi babbbbyy!!!! Aw so perfect!!

It was t eve. Their bad opinions, it was their friends!

Thanks. 12 screenshots of a private convo ripping apart my work. It was .. something

I've given them a warning not to do it again. Their response was a bit like "oh okay" I don't think they realised) thought it was a bad thing? They might have genuinely wanted to discuss it but blech.

Nothing quite like walking up to find someone's posted a dozen screenshots of their friend absolutely dragging Sorcerer's Bane in my personal discord.

The person critiquing probably never meant it to be shared with me. But man. Now I feel terrible.

Trying to work out if Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a. my kind of game and b. worth the money.

Spent too much on big games lately only to be disappointed/annoyed/ UTTERLY underwhelmed (Elden Ring and Starfield to name a couple)

Me: I'm going to take a whole month off.
Also me: OMG I could catch up on SO MUCH WORK in my month off!!!

I'll say it: I think its rly annoying and frankly amateurish that writers are constantly told their villains must be understandable or have sympathetic motivation to be interesting or realistic when all our big villains irl are in fact rich, stupid, selfish, trickster dillweeds and always have been

gru meme: the first panel, he is excited about his master plan. It reads "decide to drop 2 chapters in an ongoing fic" panel 2, he is still excited. The plan reads; "write 20k worth of fanfic" panel 3, step three of the plan: "have to edit 20k before posting" panel 4, he looks distressed as reality sets in: "have to edit 20k before posting"

very excited to have come to a stopping point but

Screenshot of BBC news love reporting showing multiple typos and bare comprehensable sentences

Is the BBC having a stroke? "Revealed broke" "after being shot at whils" "heir reations"?
#BBC

I am opposed to AI products and services because of the extra power they require... IN A CLIMATE CRISIS. I am opposed to AI results - texts and illustrations - because they've been created unethically, via theft and non-consensual use of the work of others. Share if you agree.

a close up of a cookie monster 's paw holding a cookie Alt: a close up of a cookie monster 's paw holding a cookie

Trying to lose weight. Intermittent fasting. Delayed my breakfast by two hours and then fell upon my Weetabix like the cookie monster

Subtle bit of linguistic sleight-of-hand from the dogwhistle queen there... from "have a relationship with" to "in a relationship with".

Yeah, that's my thought. Like, I get that you're pledging or whatever, but you don't need to critique the stuff. Just enjoy it!

Maybe I'm old, but i don't feel it's acceptable to critique people's word choice/creative decisions on Patreon.

If I sign up to your subscription email I am expecting to hear from you once a month. Max. Multiple times a Day? Fuck right off.

Thank you 😁

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

I just saw someone describe an author as a "shill for big copyright" because she (the author) wants to be paid for her books instead of having them pirated and I think that's enough internet for today. It's only 8:30 in the morning but the loathing that person expressed for authors was too much.

Yeah it's become very unfriendly to travellers/tourists so I'd rather not take my chances!

Absolutely. It's like, sorry American friends. Your country is a terrifying tin pot dictator shit hole.

Lol, 221bcon has been announced, and once I would have gone in a heartbeat but now I'm like "the usa would charge me $250 on top of all the other expenses, and then I'd be in America and they might arrest me at the airport and have me disappeared"

So no.

the incredible thing about starfield is that even the modders, who have kept every bethesda game alive for years, looked at it and were like, nah

At least I'm not the only one!

Maybe. I tend to suggest one once every few months at most, but if I don't reach out, this friend doesn't reach out to me, which feels a bit... rough?

Like if you're the friend always reaching out for meet ups and stuff, and if you stop no one reaches out to you, does that mean the friendship isn't any good?

A Chrome browser error page displays the familiar “Aw, Snap!” message, indicating that something went wrong while loading a webpage. A pixelated frowning file icon with Xs for eyes appears at the top left. Below, the error code reads “Out of Memory,” suggesting the browser ran out of system resources. The page includes a “Reload” button in blue on the bottom right

behold the "HTML bomb"

It's a counterattack for AI companies that persistently scrape and rescrape your web site, even when you tell them not to

when a scraper grabs it, it becomes a 10-gig HTML page and 💣 goes the scraper

Item #6 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter: buttondown.com/clivethompso...

They tried to get me. NEVER GO TO A SECONDARY LOCATION.