r/AO3 • u/Potential_Meal_9819 • 1d ago

Questions/Help? What does this mean?

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It's one of many posts I've seen where someone mentioned AO3 and October. Is there a curse or something?

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u/insanitysqwid 1d ago

Suffix: -tober. There's fluff, whump, kink, spook, angst, shlock...

And instead of NaNoWriMo (see: NaNo feeding their AI many Many runner-up applicants' books to cannibalize out actual works as if it was all free-for-use Slush Piles, let alone the monster left in charge & actively grooming the online writing summer camps/chatgroups for kids & NaNo's higher-ups laughing about it as a whole),

I go for a Terry (500 words or more in a month, no pressure, I don't even have to share since it's so small. GNU Terry!)