Get like 4 emails in the middle of the night supposedly from AO3 saying someone requested to reset the password?
I got them like all around 1 – 2 in the morning saying someone had requested to reset my password. Obviously I didn’t and didn’t click on any link, but I was curious to see if that just hit me
Spirk (with a small dose of Pinto) 
April 3, 2022 at 9:59 am
I did not. But on Instagram I got someone pretending they are Chris Pine’s personal assistant who wants to follow me. Lol!!
They have 26 followers and are following 163 people. And their account is private. The name they give is robert_pine_john. In their bio, it says “I love pet alot 🙂” !!!
Yikes!!
Hackers!! 🤷🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ ❤️❤️
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April 3, 2022 at 10:06 am
Now that IS funny
Yeah I am afraid someone is trying to get access to me AO3 account sigh
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April 3, 2022 at 10:14 am
Nope, didn’t get any emails.
I’m so behind with reading. I will catch up on your updates soon! 🙂
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April 3, 2022 at 10:47 am
Well, you ARE one of the most popular writers. But I wonder if anyone actually DID try to reset your password, or it was just an automated glitch. Still 4 in a row, I can’t imagine why anyone would want to get access to your fics?
Some jealous wanted to delete them?
I mean, THAT is scary as hell, as you probably don’t have them backed up.
It’s not like they could change them up and ruin your rep. They might write junk on them.
I can’t even imagine. My head doesn’t work that way.
But no, I certainly have never gotten anything from ao3 ever about anyone else trying to change anything, password included.
Heck, I can’t even get access to the 2 I WANT to delete because I left them but took my name off, like an idiot, not realizing you could merely change the author name to anonymous but keep control.
That things I don’t even know that I don’t know. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr
I’m so sorry that happened. I’m glad you ignored them.
Oh and I have changed my passwords more than once and even IIII didn’t get notice I changed it, I don’t think, from ao3. Maybe but I don’t remember it.
Do you want me to put all your fics on a flashdrive(s) and mail it to you so you’ll have it in case someone nefarious really IS trying to mess with ya?
More and more every day I realize how many really crazy people there are out there, lurking around everyone’s stuff.
(I mean, even crazier than ME!)
(I just woke from a dream where Samantha Stevens and I were sitting next to each other on an airliner – like SHE’D ever go anywhere by plane – and I took my shoes off and when it was time to deplane my shoes were gone and she was sitting on the floor crying because she’d been on the wrong plane the whole time. Yeah – crazier than that!)
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April 3, 2022 at 10:49 am
God forbid someone errantly call you a trump supporter. Cause that’ll ruin your life in our world. As I found out. And I hate him more than they do and for years before probably even their parents were born.
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April 3, 2022 at 10:56 am
I know people who literally worship him and think I am evil for being a democrat so it takes all kinds
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April 3, 2022 at 11:02 am
Probably not anyone in our ao3/tumblr world like that though.
(Even though…the dem thing….LOLOLOL!!!) I’m pretty sure I’m the ONLY republican/conservative in this area of ao3/tumblr.)
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April 3, 2022 at 11:05 am
Perhaps 🙂
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April 3, 2022 at 10:55 am
that IS a strange dream indeed
Yeah I have no idea what happened but it was very strange to get so many of them in the middle of the night while I was sleeping. It said if I didn’t request to reset, I should ignore them but now I dunno if I should change the password myself. Decisions decisions.
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April 3, 2022 at 10:58 am
Do what makes you feel most secure.
But since – if it’s true – they tried 4 times and couldn’t access it, sounds like the password you have is pretty solid!!! 🙂
But I’d DEFINITELY contact ao3 – like phone them! One or another, this is a HUGE deal. Even if it was an automated glitch. And if not, that means you personally are under attack by somebody.
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April 3, 2022 at 11:06 am
I filed an abuse report so we shall see what they say
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April 3, 2022 at 10:58 am
I’m not really worried about losing them or having them deleted, I don’t know why I’m not though LOL
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April 3, 2022 at 11:00 am
Is there anything on your tumblr? We all know that name is you too. Wonder if they’d try to access it too?
Or they were just out of their minds drunk?
Or maybe – MAYBE just maybe it was Chris and Zach!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL
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April 3, 2022 at 11:08 am
I don’t really interact much on tumblr and follow almost no one
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April 3, 2022 at 11:05 am
You know, in this world, with the international attacks, I worry about any and everything being lost. If not for the content, we should all have our stuff on flashdrives – even print out a copy of everything and put them in a binder.
R’s friend printed out one of her long fics and had it binded into a book, minus the art. And she can’t take it home because she has no privacy from her mom, even at her age. She can’t have it around. We should all have the Mission/Impossible option – that it would self-destruct at the first sign of tampering!
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April 3, 2022 at 11:07 am
I saw your post on tumblr about that and thought that was super sweet.
Yes agreed, I recommend though that any completed works you cannot live without should be downloaded, I have done that myself with favorite works
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April 3, 2022 at 11:07 am
I guess I’m the only one who refuses to use “the cloud” too. I mean, where given a choice not to. We all know technology breaks down and we all know anything online can be hacked by the people who know how to do that. But our stuff is penny-ante to them, I’m sure.
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April 3, 2022 at 11:09 am
No doubt, but I certainly can’t say I’ve never had an enemy, plenty of people dislike me, so you never know one of them could have tried something lol
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April 3, 2022 at 11:14 am
Yeah, but has anyone called you a “cretin”? Or someone who they hope chokes to death “s&^%$ nazi d&^%”? Or a c&^^%? You got a LOT of catching up to do to reach MY level on tumblr! LOL
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April 3, 2022 at 11:20 am
Not told to choke like you but yep, I have been called names, even on wordpress by a Spuhura fan lol. Ain’t the internet fun? And definitely never on tumblr, that is for sure, but I also block anyone from “asking” me anything there.
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April 3, 2022 at 11:23 am
Well, that spuhura one, we can all wear that as a badge of honor!
Worst ship in the history….well, I don’t KNOW that….but worst ST ship………well, that’s not true either. The aos Khan/Kirk ship is as bad.
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April 3, 2022 at 11:24 am
Both are quite repulsive to me, honestly. LOL
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April 3, 2022 at 11:48 am
Nope. Not me. That’s frustrating as all heck. Jeez.
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April 3, 2022 at 7:53 pm
Maybe it was Chris Pine’s personal assistant (as I mentioned above) that last night wanted to follow me on Instagram? Lol!
Just joking. The internet can be a scary place and hackers are just plain evil! Hope you keep your account safe!
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