Peter from Miles’ universe: Oh wow okay I understand if you have reservations but please stick around and let me train you I swear I’ll be the best mentor ever we’ll be a great team I’ll ease you in or hey we can just hang out listen do you–what’s your favorite ice cream I’ll get you ice cream– I’ve never met anyone like me before do you want to meet my wife– Peter Miles actually gets: *trying to hold Miles off with a broom and an air horn like he’s a five-foot-tall raccoon infestation* Is there some sort of chant that will get rid of you. Bippity boppity fuck off
who is old enough to be part of the fanfic.net era where we literally talked to our characters? like, had conversations with them?
cause I do. as a lonely child of 12 who had no friends, it was a favorite pasttime of mine to boot up the dial-up internet and type out imaginary conversations with ouran high school host club characters in the beginning notes before even starting the damn chapter (which was inevitably 500 words long and absolutely awful)
Modern Author’s Note on Ao3: might discuss some possible triggers, thank readers for comments, apologize for a delay in update, etc–talking to reader, essentially.
Author’s Note on FFN back in 2010:
Author: Y’all are gonna love this cahpter!!!! [Character] not sooooo much
Character:…wh–what’s gonna happen?
Author: Don’t worry about it! ^.^
Character: WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO ME??
Author: ;)
Character: D:
those were dark, dark days, man. Today’s Fandom Freshman are sure lucky they missed this.
This when right alongside the detailed disclaimers to avoid lawsuits.
Don’t forget that the author was broken into at least five separate voices, ‘Inside Out’ style.
or where you would have ask blogs for your ocs except it was just in a ff.net story. basically an entire classic authors note except people would ask questions. that was my childhood.
Y'all forgot that sometimes we also appeared in the middle of the text with notes like “(author: noooo >:( character is such a b*tch!!!! character: I’M NOT!!!!)” And it was the crimgiest shit ever but we had fun doing it lmao
I was too young to be writing these but these were the first ones I read. Put me off fan fiction for like three years before someone introduced me to ao3, but I have fun with the old ones now
i used to think that a foot of parchment was a lot and feel bad when harry potter characters were assigned to write that much
but then i realized the paper i write on is 8.5 by 11 inches.
so a foot of parchment is the equivalent of like, a page and a half of paper.
they complained SO MUCH about essays that were like
a page and a half
wtf guys
get your shit together
No wonder Hermione always got onto the boys for not doing their homework.
it’s honestly not even a foot and a half it’s just one sheet of paper. a foot is 12 inches. like dang if i had to only write one page long essays in school about cool magic shit then i would have been ecstatic.
also 12pt times new roman— the standard assigned size and font for a lot of essay assignments— produces significantlysmaller text than a muggleborn teenageer with a pen and ink quill would be able to manage on the regular, no matter how dedicated she was. ron and harry are frequently noted to be using large handwriting on unlined paper. their homework would have been about three short paragraphs if they were feeling studious.
no wonder hermione was so fucking exasperated! muggle students their age would have strangled them.
STEP TWO: Right click the word block. STEP THREE: Click “View Selection Source” STEP FOUR: Something like this should pop up: Highlight the “IP” (the blacked out part). STEP FIVE: Copy the IP address and paste it to this website: http://whatismyipaddress.com/ip-lookup Paste the IP address into there, press enter or “Lookup IP Address” and all the information should come up.
@terf-callout
This might be of some use for your followers!!
SO I tried it out myself with my friends and here is how to do it with the updated Tumblr:
USE FIREFOX FOR THIS!!
1. Right click the anon photo
2. Select the view page source (refresh if it is not clickable)
3. The second page will pop up and you want to hit “Crtl + F” then type “submitted”.
4. It should show you the URL of the person who sent it in blue. (highlight below)