Reading Between the Lines Podcast

A Podcast BY 🏴‍☠️ Fandom Nerds FOR Fandom Nerds: A Show dedicated to Black Sails fan fiction and the writers who create it.

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Missing Black Sails? Dealing with brain rot? Need some fanfic therapy? I gotchu! Every month, I fully narrate a story and then chat with the author about their story, their process, and the show. Listen while you work! https://t.co/LY2Mo2Fa25

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[Evie @catacalamity]

The discourse following the Ao3 shutdown had some valid disagreements at first but it’s literally devolved into people talking to authors like a girl who just refused to give a red pilled guy nudes

Like “fuck you ugly whore no one wants to see your tits (fics) anyway��

[Kelly Quinn Chiu @kellyqute]

how the current ao3 discourse sounds to me: "if I have to acknowledge there are fellow human beings behind the stories I read I will literally die"

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@IndieBAMWalker @Jminor81 @RollingStone The implication then being that you’re too stupid to compose your own misogynistic tweet and you have to use AI to do it. I think that’s probably worse, don’t you? You being a bot would be less embarrassing.

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@IndieBAMWalker @Jminor81 @RollingStone Oh yeah. For sure. 🙄

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@bangtanagan The discourse coming out in the vacuum left by AO3 is truly wild, like…what do you mean you don’t have favorite authors? And if you like a fic, you don’t even bother to look at the author’s name??

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@IndieBAMWalker @Jminor81 @RollingStone That response makes zero sense.😆

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@IndieBAMWalker @Jminor81 @RollingStone Bots gonna bot.

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@sevrinn_ My longest chapter was 25k. My shortest was 2k. As long as you have only one complete narrative arc per chapter, it’s not too long or too short.

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@roallanna @heygriesly Some of my best friends have been formed via the archive. I started a podcast to showcase my favorite stories and interview those authors and it was the most rewarding experience I’ve ever had and formed life-long friendships.

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@avantgardeyap There’s the Ellipsus discord server for writers. Ellipsus, itself, is a platform for drafting and collaboration.

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@avantgardeyap @ellipsus_writes Ummmm…that’s not…

Ellipsus isn’t supposed to be a publicly searchable archive.

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@archivelearning @Dylexa 😑😑😑😑😑😑😑 Perhaps the person who blew this up to begin with shouldn’t have posted that the fics get saved TO THE SITE, then. It’s confusing as all hell.

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@archivelearning @Bambihjp @Dylexa As long as the work isn’t saved TO the app. Is that what you’re saying?

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@archivelearning @Bambihjp @Dylexa The issue is, writers who upload to AO3 make that tacit agreement with OTW and AO3 specifically, not with other sites or apps. The work isn’t protected outside of AO3 if posted publicly. You need authors’ permission to publicly post their work rather than download privately.

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@balfeschild This is literally all writers, not just fan fiction, but yeah. My tabs are wild.

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I may get hate for this, but I’ve never considered myself a part of a fandom I wasn’t contributing to in some way. Fandom is a community. If you’re only taking and not adding to it, you aren’t really a member of that community.

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@MartinLaGrang10 @vrilantean Toby Stephens hates AI, so there’s that.