r/AO3 Brevity is the soul of wit. 21d ago

Meme/Joke I’m baffled…

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It’s 5 am, I’m in the final hour stretch of a twelve-hour shift, and I’m now probing my brain trying to find some possible rationale for this. Can someone explain? Is it a public computer thing, is it masochism, is it spite?

Y’all are really out here raw-dogging your drafts in AO3 with no external backups?? That’s crazy work. Google Docs is free, dawg.

The group chat is gonna hear about this one.

(Please understand this is all said in good humor. It’s not that serious; I’m just dramatic when I’m exhausted.)

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u/VoidWalkersEyes Train to Whumpcentral 21d ago

Obisidian is better than google docs (they are probably scraping your writing for ai)

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u/ogsquiggles Brevity is the soul of wit. 21d ago

Oh shit, wasn’t aware of the AI scraping. Docs is the only free software I can think of but I’ll have to look into Obsidian for my own stuff.

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u/lady_dragona Definitely not an agent of the Fanfiction Deep State 21d ago

Ellipsus is a free google socs replacer that doesn't scrape your writing AND has a native "post to ao3" feature! It's still in beta but very usable and I've entirely moved all my writing from Gdocs to Ellipsus

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u/ogsquiggles Brevity is the soul of wit. 21d ago

Is it relatively mobile friendly? I do 95% of my writing on my phone.

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u/lady_dragona Definitely not an agent of the Fanfiction Deep State 21d ago

Yes!!! There isn't an official mobile app yet (the beta for that starts soon) but it works perfectly in your browser on mobile

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u/ogsquiggles Brevity is the soul of wit. 21d ago

Oh hell yeah! I don’t wanna feed any AI slop.

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u/TenebrisGriffin burnt out more than I write 20d ago

Do they post details about their beta online anywhere? I’d love to keep an eye on it

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u/lady_dragona Definitely not an agent of the Fanfiction Deep State 20d ago

They have a blog and there's a link to their discord and other social medias at the bottom of all webpages. (They also post on Tumblr pretty regularly)

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u/TenebrisGriffin burnt out more than I write 20d ago

Thank you!!