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reblog and put in the tags if you use the filtering options when looking for fic on AO3, and if so, what you filter in/out

Guys, guys, let’s get back into Animorphs!!!

Fanfiction Authors: HEADS UP

(Non-authors, please RB to signal boost to your author friends!)

An astute reader informed me this morning that one of my fics (Children of the Future Age) had been pirated and was being sold as a novel on Amazon:

(And they weren't even creative with their cover design. If you're going to pirate something that I spent a full year of my life writing, at least give me a pretty screenshot to brag about later. Seriously.)

I promptly filed a DMCA complaint to have it removed, but I checked out the company that put it up -- Plush Books -- and it looks like A LOT of their books are pirated fic. They are by no means the only ones doing this, either -- the fact that """publishers""" can download stories from AO3 in ebook format and then reupload them to Amazon in just a few clicks makes fic piracy a common problem. There are a whole host of reasons why letting this continue is bad -- including actual legal risk to fanfiction archives -- but basically:

IF YOU ARE A FANFIC AUTHOR WITH LONG AND/OR POPULAR WORKS, PLEASE CHECK AMAZON TO SEE IF YOUR STORIES HAVE BEEN PIRATED.

You can search for your fics by title, or by text from the description (which is often just copied wholesale from AO3 as well). If you find that someone has stolen your work and is selling it as their own, you can lodge a DMCA complaint (Amazon.com/USA site; other countries have different systems). If you haven't done this before, it's easy! Here's a tutorial:

HOW TO FILE A COPYRIGHT COMPLAINT FOR STOLEN WORK ON AMAZON.COM:

First, go to this form. You'll need to be signed into your Amazon account.

Select the radio buttons/dropdown options (shown below) to indicate that you are the legal Rights Owner, you have a copyright concern, and it is about a pirated product.

Enter the name of your story in the Name of Brand field.

In the Link to the Copyrighted Work box, enter a link to the story on AO3 or whatever site your work is posted on.

In the Additional Information box, explain that you are the author of the work and it is being sold without your permission. That's all you really need. If you want, you can include additional information that might be helpful in establishing the validity of your claim, but you don't have to go into great detail. You can simply write something like this:

I am the author of this work, which is being sold by [publisher] without my permission. I originally published this story in [date/year] on [name of site], and have provided a link to the original above. On request, I can provide documentation proving that I am the owner of the account that originally posted this story.

In the ASIN/ISBN-10 field, copy and paste the ID number from the pirated copy's URL. You'll find this ten-digit number in the Amazon URL after the word "product," as in the screenshot below. (If the URL extends beyond this number, you can ignore everything from the question mark on.) Once this number has been added, Amazon will pull the product information automatically and add it to the complaint form, so you can check the listing title and make sure it's correct.

Finally, add your contact information to the relevant fields, check the "I have read and accept the statements" box, and then click Submit. You should receive an email confirmation that Amazon has received the form.

Please share this information with your writer friends, keep an eye out for/report pirated works, and help us keep fanfiction free and legally protected!

NOTE: All of the above also applies to Amazon products featuring stolen artwork, etc., so fan artists should check too!

I think if you want to make an argument wrt homestucks quality the best argument you can make is Karkat. Cause Karkat's entire meta-theme is that he's infectiously likable even though he comes across like an asshole, and it not only works in the story but like. on a real-world level.

Karkat first appears 1353 pages in as a rando calling the sweetest main character an idiot and by the time he's properly introduced 600 pages later people are so on board with him being the deuteragonist of the story it becomes common to tell people just to skip right to his part. For all Homestuck can stumble while making its convoluted meta-meme as gnostic reimagined thematic hypertext bullshit stick the landing, boy howdy, when it tells you you will love this shouty boy despite yourself, it fucking delivers.

love this shouty boi

MANFRED VON KARMA? STUPID IDIOT MOTHERFUCKING MANFRED VON KARMA GOD DAMN FOOL ABUSE DISTRIBUTING DUST EATING RAT OLD BASTARD SHITHEAD IDIOT PROSECUTOR OF THE WHORE BIGGEST CLOWN IN THE CIRCUS LAUGHED OUT OF THE COURTROOM COWBOY MOTHERFUCKING MANFRED VON KARMA STOP PINNING ME WHEN I TALK ABOUT MANFRED VON KARMA I HATE HIM SO MUCH WHY DOES HE HAVE SO MUCH FORGED EVIDENCE WHY DID HE DECIDE TO FUCK UP HIS KIDS JUST SET THEM LOOSE IS HE DEAD IS HE A BASTARD MAN HE HAS SUCH A VISCERAL AFFECT ON ME NOT EVEN IN THE ROOM NEVER SEEN THIS MANS FACE AND I KNOW HE HAS THE WORLDS SHITTIEST HAIR GET AWAY FROM ME if i have to deal with Manfred Von Karma speaking one word in person on voice in Court not only will i close the game i will delete my save file out of spite and have to replay the entire series again for the experience of being able to skip all the times when he is mentioned or alive i dont even know why i hate him so much. he’s just a stupid old man but i am just mad because i am angy he better have some fucked up backstory to explain this if hes just some rich shithead whos a fan of perfection and wanted to achieve it ill go ham BETTER have had a case make him kill a man cuz if he didnt Im going to make him paypal.com/IFuckingHateManfredVonKarma case not even about him. vaguely mentioned what is supposed to maybe be his legacy and I lost it where the fuck is Manfred Von Karma if hes still alive im going to so deeply wish he wasnt crusty old man ill punch Von Karma and his sad frail old man twig bones will simply flake apart under my epic huge meat fist and he will disintegrate until all thats left is one final piece of evidence he kept on him at all times simply titled Now You Fucked Up in ancient Germanic im not breathing im hyperventilating at this point i hope theres a date given for when Von karma died or will die so i can make it a reminder on my phone everyday once a year i will see it and do anything but pay respects to the man who had so many fucked up if true cases

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