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i-am-a-fish:

elainapoststhings:

i-am-a-fish:

let’s pour one out for all the janitors who clean and never get enough appreciation

Don’t they gotta clean up what we pour out

fuck stop it everyone the post is cancelled everyone please stop fuck what have I done

let’s clean one up for the janitors
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gasp-the-wontons:

thebibliosphere:

peppernine:

thebibliosphere:

axhiiles:

dixiehellcat:

ao3commentoftheday:

For anyone who might be writing fic in order to raise money/donations for a cause, please remember not to mention that anywhere on AO3. It is against the Terms of Service to charge money for fic, even if that money is not going to you, personally. Please don’t mention commissions or donations or fundraising or patreon or kofi etc etc in a fic or on your profile. ❤

I will boost this signal, mostly for myself because my brain is apparently a fucking colander and I can’t remember shit sometimes; and also add, if you’re the one who commissioned a fic, don’t mention that on ao3 either. Not even in your bookmarks! I forget other people can see my notes there. Please don’t get your writing friends in trouble, like I almost did a couple of times :( 

Just say ‘i asked for this pairing/trope/continuation/whatever’ Don’t say ‘i commissioned this’.

i’ve had “if you enjoy my writing, click here” with a link to my kofi in all of my end notes for a couple years and nothing’s happened, so maybe try that

Nope. You’re still breaking their TOS by having a site like ko-fi directly linked, and if anyone finds that out or someone reports you, you can lose your entire account. They have to enforce these rules in order to protect us from copyright laws. It’s why for decades individual fandom creators used to put “I do not own this work or profit from it” at the start of every fic/chapter.

What you can do, is say “follow me on tumblr” and promote your ko-fi on your tumblr. But I’ve seen people do the link to their ko-fi/patreon without explicitly mentioning them and still losing their accounts or getting hit by warnings cause someone reported them. (The one person I knew who outright lost their account just kept doing it repeatedly despite multiple warnings, like a doofus, so that was on them.)

(I think there may be exceptions for certain charity drives, but I don’t think ko-fi and patreon are protected by that)

Hi! Former AO3 Abuse team member here! It’s been a bit, so I’ll admit that my knowledge may be slightly out of date. But generally speaking you cannot:

Link Directly to:

Kofi

Patreon

Amazon

Your private book site where you sell your writing

Any other fundraising site such as gofundme etc

If you link and are reported your work is in danger of being deleted, but you will be given a warning and time to fix any issues.

You also cannot mention that a work was directly commissioned with $$, hide the rest of your work/novel/chapter/ or in any way paywall the remainder of your work. Things like “support my writing here!!” are usually no go.

General phrasings like trade, requested, asked for, etc are OK.

Joy is correct in saying linking to your tumblr which advertises your kofi or fundraiser is ok.

If you are reported, the AO3 team will do their best to let you know EXACTLY what works and what phrasing is not allowed. They do issue a blanket “responsible for the rest of your works” statement so be thorough.

AO3 WILL NOT DELETE YOUR WORK, BAN YOU, OR IN ANY WAY REMOVE ITEMS WITHOUT WARNING. IF YOUR WORK IS DELETED YOU WILL RECEIVE AN EMAIL CONTAINING THE DELETED WORK. KEEP YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS CURRENT. NEVER USE A STUDENT EMAIL ACCOUNT.

Thank you for that 💖

I have contacted the AO3 staff about this January 2020 and have been informed that I can mention a fanfiction has been commissioned, but not that I was paid in money.

Here’s the exact e-mail I’ve gotten.

Thank you for contacting us. You are allowed to mention that the work was commissioned, for example by saying “commissioned by {username]”, but not that you were paid money for the work, or that you are accepting commissions. Linking to a personal website or blog/social network where one is taking donations, posting commissions, or mentioning published works is permitted, but advertising it directly on AO3 is not. For example, you can say something to the effect of “check out my Tumblr if you want to know more about me and my writing” where you include the link to a Patreon site, but you cannot specifically state anything about accepting donations, seeking commisions, selling items, or link directly to a primarily commercial site like Patreon or Ko-Fi on AO3.
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Natives Helping Natives: Please help my kitty

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the-aila-test:

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the-aila-test:

the-aila-test:

Hello everyone. I really hate to ask for this but last night was so terrible.

https://paypal.me/AliNahdee?locale.x=en_US

This is my cat, Pikku. She’s 1 year old and I adopted her back in January when my other cat  Kesä developed a throat tumor that covered his esophagus. He had to be put down. Pikku has brought so much love and happiness into my life over this past five months. 

I won’t post the pictures but proceed with care, there’s a pretty violent description coming up:

So yesterday, my two year old nephew opened the front door and Pikku ran outside. We tried to get her but she was too fast and we lost track of her. She was outside for about 45 minutes or so. 

It was getting dark so I went out in the backyard and was calling her. When I came back to the front of the house, she was there in the driveway and looked like she was getting ready to jump up on the porch to come in. But she didn’t jump up. She was all bunched up, ready to jump, but just didn’t. 

So I came over to pick her up and she has a MASSIVE gash on her belly. It literally looked like someone disemboweled her. It was a big gaping, open wound (we later found out the skin was pulled off the abdominal wall). There was no blood or organs hanging out or anything but it scared the actual hell out of me. We called an emergency vet and dropped her off last night. She’s going to be in there for a couple days. Last time I heard from them they said that she’s stable and they’re going to begin surgery. That was around 7:45 am this morning. Still waiting for them to call when they’re done. 

The estimated cost of all of this is $4000, and that cost can double if she needs additional surgeries. Last night we needed to make a $2300 deposit just for them to begin the X-Rays and surgery prep. We have to pay the rest when we pick her up at the vet. 

They said she’s very sweet and has been getting lots of pets and love. I’m still so devastated by all of this. She’s such a sweet cat and she’s so good and I hated seeing her like that. I cried for hours last night. They said it’s going to be a long process to get her all healed up. My poor baby.

If anybody can help me cover these vet fees I would really appreciate this. 

Here’s my paypal. Any donation would be deeply appreciated. I love my kitty so much. I can’t imagine what we would’ve done if we didn’t have the down payment. 

https://paypal.me/AliNahdee?locale.x=en_US

Thank you so much. Please help my sweet girl.

My friend is doing a fundraiser today and tomorrow on her Twitch stream. If you want to attend and contribute, follow the link here: https://www.twitch.tv/St3phL0v3sGam1ng

Thank you to everybody who has donated and shared this post on Tumblr, Facebook and Twitter. You have been such a wonderful help. I can’t thank you enough. 

#SavePikku

Here is a GoFundMe if you’re more comfortable with that method of donation over PayPal:

https://gf.me/u/x63ky2

I’ve never used GoFundMe before (the one for my mom was run by one of my cousins whom I’m not on speaking terms with). But please try to boost it the best that you can. 

They’re keeping her in the vet for another night, which is an additional $500. All of this money is making my head spin. And then the potential additional costs of skin grafts and more surgery is making me a nervous wreck. I just want her to come home and heal and give her all the love in the world. 

An update:

The vet contacted me. They said Pikku was ready to come home and be cared for at home today, but there was an issue with one of the drains they put in her during surgery. I think it moved out of place, so they’re going to have to fix it. They seem confident that this can be done without any issue. She also needed to change one of her antibiotics.

They shifted her pain medication from liquid IV to oral supplements. Said that she’s back to being a sweet baby. 

I don’t know how much this additional procedure and new medicine is going to cost. And as I said before, her skin is tight because of the loss of so much skin so the possibility of skin grafts and additional surgeries is something that’s always in the back of my mind. 

Thank you so much for everybody who has donated and shared this. This is the second time the Aila Test and the love and kindness of my friends and strangers have pulled through when I asked for help. You all got me back home when my mother needed me and now you’re helping me bring my sweet baby girl back home. Thank you, a thousand times thank you. 

Bringing this back because she had to go back in to the vet for additional care. The GoFundMe and Paypal are still available but if you’re more comfortable sending money directly to the vet, she’s at the Southgate Animal Hospital. Their number is (734) 284-9122.
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aspiringwarriorlibrarian:

gvnkin:

500daysofbased:

people are capable of beautiful things

i thought this was going in a bad direction

“I earned more money than I knew what to do with, and I didn’t want to forget my roots. So I paid back the people who helped me and my family.” He’s also giving elderly and low income people three free meals a day.

Past a certain point, extra money doesn’t really benefit you, so give it those that would benefit. Quit letting people hoard ludicrous amounts of money out of vanity when others need it so much more.
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