when will these people give up

[omaewokorosu]

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Subject: Proposing an Art Collaboration

Hello Hikaru Yuy It's Liana! I'm a huge fan of your story Maybe He's Born With It I'd love to create some artwork inspired by it in my own style What do you think?

People complain about getting these all the fucking time on AO3 in their comments and I only get them in my FFN PMs lmao

(There are plenty of people getting them on FFN too.)

It's like these people are getting closer to Big Brain and even Galaxy Brain shit with these... I guess so that they come across as more believeable? But they're still not lmao they are still very much not.

Here are some things that just jump out at me okay

You have your "introduction": Hello Hikaru Yuy It's Liana!
I feel like this is a bit too...informal? Like an introduction to a Youtube video ("Hey guys, it's me!") like we are not friends we are not buddies I have never met you before in my life and you've never met me either so like. We are off to a janky start I feel.

We have for the first time ever a story title drop (!): I'm a huge fan of your story Maybe He's Born With It
Okay I wish I could say I was flattered but I know for a fact you've never even touched that story and just picked the most recent thing listed on my FFN profile which is something from August of 2015 and whilst yes I know there are plenty of people who read people's old and crusty things (I still get story alerts and favourite alerts for things on FFN and I get kudos for some old crusty Fire Emblem fics I wrote over a decade ago), in the fandom this particular fic is part of...you usually don't reach out to an author personally to tell them "hey I love this mouldy block of cheese you have here on a shelf!" you just...leave a comment maybe.

Which if you're actually such a huge fan of said story, you would've done, I would think. But you have not.

And instead of telling me why you're such a huge fan of the fic or idk telling me why you love it so much you...awkwardly segue right into the reason why you're really here in my Fanfiction.net private messages: ✨the sales pitch✨! *angelic choir*

It's always the same fucking pitch too: I'd love to create some artwork inspired by it in my own style.
As opposed to...Michelangelo's style? Like I don't get that part. I am not even prolific enough in any fandoms I run in these days to get people showering my messages with PLS CAN I CREATE ART FOR UR MASTERPIECE FANFIC OMGWTFBBQ?!?!?!?!?!?!111

(Wow you can tell how old I am.)

(Some random muscle I didn't know existed now aches.)

If I wanted art of my fics I have artists I can commission. Why would I accept some fucking rando in my PMs on a website I don't even visit anymore??

Aaaaand then let's end it with: What do you think?

I want to make it clear that I don't reply to any of these PMs they just rot in my inbox lol because they're not worth my time to respond to going "thanks but no thanks" considering how often I get things like this. I don't understand the point of bombarding a fuckton of writers like a goddamn spam email in the hopes of...what exactly? I wonder how many people actually legit respond to these...

And you and I both know it's probably not even actual art but some AI slop. If I wanted AI slop I could figure out how to do that myself no problem lol.

Anyway I would be more likely to believe these things if, you know, they actually told me things about the fic, what scenes they liked, etc. But they can't do that and I bet if they get closer to that Big Brain they will just either use some ChatGPT shit or go for something really, really, really generic. Which I would be even more insulted by tbh because I've gotten reviews on AO3 basically like that.

Funny enough only on my Gundam Wing fanfics. Hm. Wonder why that is.

OH WELL. It is a mystery to all and sundry I guess???

Maybe one day I will respond just like "okay so first of all why are you asking me this and second of all why did you pick me and my fic out of the gajillion on this hellsite I am just curious what your thought process is."

Comments

[sarajayechan]

I keep getting these, too. Normally I love the idea of transformative work based on my fics, but I just don't trust these "offers".

And you and I both know it's probably not even actual art but some AI slop. If I wanted AI slop I could figure out how to do that myself no problem lol.

I didn't think of that, but it very well could be, given the feel these messages give off I wouldn't put it past them.

[omaewokorosu]

I mean if we could have like, an Actual Dialogue or something before going into some kind of sales pitch (so organic conversation) that would be one thing! But to just be like "hi Full Pen Name I'm Me I love Most Recent Fic Name and would love to do Art!" is just. Even if it IS real it's just very disingenuous imo like. Don't you want to tell me what you like or love about the fic you want to do art for? Don't you want to have a discussion??

[sarajayechan]

Yeah, really. Like I remember getting an AO3 comment asking if they could podfic one of my Ashe/Dedue stories and they were already a known podficcer so I said yes. IIRC these ff.net bots don't even have any work under their names.

[omaewokorosu]

Funny enough a lot of them do have art on their Instagram accounts but for all I know it could be stolen or AI generated and not actual art. So I'm not really sure what the goal is. It's such a weird way to advertise your work tbh like it makes people less inclined.

[shamanicshaymin]

I got the one Squidgeworld review on my LISA fic, and it turned out the guy wasn't even familiar with LISA, let alone read my fic. It felt like he just wanted to add to his resume. God it was so fucking disappointing.

[omaewokorosu]

It's as disappointing as getting one of those AI generated fic reviews that's basically "wowee what a great fic! the premise was fantastic, I really loved the [details completely unrelated to the fic]! The emotions of the characters brought tears to my eyes. Loved it!" Which I've gotten a bunch of on various fics I've posted on AO3...also in GW fandom.

(And then there are those AI "adverts" where the comments are all "hurr hurr this is so poorly written it's obvious it was done by [insert AI service here] like try harder lulz" which...I don't know how that would make anyone want to use KoboldAI/ChatGPT/whatever the fuck but also...how fucking dare you??)

It's to the point where I literally don't trust any comments I get for this fandom. At least SDV commenters sound human I guess? But also why are you hitting up some old and very crusty anime fandom for this???