I’ve recently gained a bunch of new followers, so I guess it’s time for one of these posts!
This is a multi-fandom blog that cycles through hyperfixations. You can find my tags list here. Faves are in bold; former interests are crossed out.
Current hyperfixation is the Silmarillion. Very heavy on Mairon (Sauron), Melkor, Maedhros. Eol, Maglor and Maeglin also feature prominently.
This is also a personal blog, so you’ll get a few random daily life thoughts, opinions, and/or venting. If you don’t care for that sort of thing, blacklist ‘withoutwords’.
I always have a queue running; it’s usually 2-3 months long.
My about section is here, though it doesn’t really say anything important that’s not in this post.
There is occasional gore/nsfw; I am very bad at determining what necessitates a content warning, please use your own judgement.
If I’ve liked your art/writing but haven’t reblogged it yet, chances are it’s either in my queue or waiting in my drafts for me to type up some thoughts in the tags first!
I’m very picky about what ends up on my dash and a firm believer in curating one’s own experience; it takes me forever to decide to follow/follow back, so you may see me poking about your blog for a while.
Everything is religiously tagged, so feel free to blacklist away!
For my Tolkien fandom followers: I’m not a fan of Rings of Power. There’s not too much talk about it and it’s all tagged as 'rop negativity’ so it’s pretty easy to avoid seeing, but definitely unfollow if you prefer.
The above examples have been provided with the authors’ permission to demonstrate what these look like.
Basic rundown:
They are all 3 sentences long
Perfect grammar, capitalization, and punctuation
Like absolutely flawless English teacher-style writing with only a single exclamation mark, ever
No mentions whatsoever of character names, settings, situations, or anything that could be tied to the story
The usernames may be identical to people who exist on ao3, but the name is not clickable, and no profile is associated with it EXCEPT when you directly search for that name. What this means: the comments come from an unregistered (not logged in) reader, bots scrape the site for real usernames, attach that to the comment, and post
Please spread the word about this so authors can filter comments and report them accordingly
There has been some speculation about why this is happening at all, and the best guess is that this is a feature that AI-training story-scraping tools are implementing to try and make their browsing traffic look legitimate
