Non-practicing intellectual.

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

FAQ

Hi! I’m Xiaq or E.L. Massey IRL. You can find me on:

Instagram Here

AO3 Here

Substack Here

[email protected]

My published works are Like Real People Do (Aug 2022), Like You’ve Nothing Left to Prove (May 2023), All Hail the Underdogs (Aug 2023) and Free from Falling (Dec 2024) which started nearly a decade ago as OMGCP fic.

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I’m currently working on an adult fantasy original fiction series as well as Star Trek fanfic on AO3.

If you’re looking for downloaded fic versions of LRPD and AHTU, I can’t send them to you for contract reasons, but I CAN direct you here and here where you may find folks who are willing to assist :)

You can purchase my published work via My Publisher, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or anywhere books are sold in the US.

5% of royalties from my first book, LRPD, goes to a queer charity each month. So far, readers have helped support Out Youth, Austin LGBT Coalition on Aging, The Dru Project, Dallas’ Resource Center and Magic City Acceptance Center. If you want to suggest a charity for future donations, you can do so here via chat or any of the above listed ways to contact me.

Deacon is my 12 yr old, mostly retired, service dog. He’s a Belgian Mal and I do not recommend Mals, as a breed, for service work. He’s a special boy. Feel free to message me if you want to talk about SD stuff.

If you’re looking for student stories/tales from my time in academia, the tags are #shitmystudentssay or #shitmystudentswrite or #academia.

For posts about my partner, the tag is #B

I try to answer all non-anon messages. No promises I’ll answer an anon if you send one.

Pinned Post faq E.L. Massey lrpd lrpd adjacent lynltp ahtu fff mywriting fyi just makin a pinned post don't mind me

Turning off anon asks for a bit. Up until now people have been respectful 99% of the time, but I’ve been getting some really disturbing racist messages recently––to the point where I’m apprehensive when I get an inbox notification––and I just don’t want to deal with that anymore. So, sorry about the change but I gotta do what’s best for my mental health and all that.

someone out there is big mad that i married an Asian man Sigh things i didn’t think id need to worry about in 2024
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I spent my Christmas working on signed author copies for folks that requested doodles as their personalization. My colored pencils got a workout and over 50 doodled books are headed to the post office tomorrow. I have about 50 more left to personalize tomorrow/send Friday and then we’ll be done with this year’s round of author copies. 🎉🎸🏒🌈❤️

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SO HERE IS THE WHOLE STORY (SO FAR).

I am on my knees begging you to reblog this post and to stop reblogging the original ones I sent out yesterday. This is the complete account with all the most recent info; the other one is just sending people down senselessly panicked avenues that no longer lead anywhere.

IN SHORT

Cliff Weitzman, CEO of Speechify and (aspiring?) voice actor, used AI to scrape thousands of popular, finished works off AO3 to list them on his own for-profit website and in his attached app. He did this without getting any kind of permission from the authors of said work or informing AO3. Obviously.

When fandom at large was made aware of his theft and started pushing back, Weitzman issued a non-apology on the original social media posts—using 

  • his dyslexia; 
  • his intent to implement a tip-system for the plagiarized authors; and 
  • a sudden willingness to take down the work of every author who saw my original social media posts and emailed him individually with a ‘valid’ claim,

as reasons we should allow him to continue monetizing fanwork for his own financial gain.

When we less-than-kindly refused, he took down his ‘apologies’ as well as his website (allegedly—it’s possible that our complaints to his web host, the deluge of emails he received or the unanticipated traffic brought it down, since there wasn’t any sort of official statement made about it), and when it came back up several hours later, all of the work formerly listed in the fan fiction category was no longer there. 

THE TAKEAWAYS

1. Cliff Weitzman (aka Ofek Weitzman) is a scumbag with no qualms about taking fanwork without permission, feeding it to AI and monetizing it for his own financial gain; 

2. Fandom can really get things done when it wants to, and 

3. Our fanworks appear to be hidden, but they’re NOT DELETED from Weitzman’s servers, and independently published, original works are still listed without the authors' permission. We need to hold this man responsible for his theft, keep an eye on both his current and future endeavors, and take action immediately when he crosses the line again. 

THE TIMELINE, THE DETAILS, THE SCREENSHOTS (behind the cut)


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it's basically-- in @nikoniclove and @storiesofsvu we trust !!


also i didn’t even read cardigans and converse— pretty positive i just accidentally opened it because it’s in the jemily x reader tags

link to do your own!!

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In case some of the “fics” were comics with zero words, the code repair is this:

word = s.find('dd', attrs={'class':"words"}).text

# Check if word is empty before converting to int

if word:

word = int(word.replace(',',""))

else:

# Handle the case where word count is missing (e.g., set to 0)

word = 0

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Omg HOW MANY WORDS?!? I didn’t finish The Iron Giant, but still…

Thank you, fanfic authors! @xiaq @mhalachai @avesnongrata @slashmarks @singlecrow @beatrice-otter @astolat @lannamichaels @mundungus42 and so many others!

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I started the script over 15 mins ago and it’s still running. I have concerns.

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Jesus Christ.

@plagues-and-pansies and @here-queer-jointpain-severe lets see those deets.

no guilt in my pleasures But like damn Ao3 wrapped

No Dawn No Day Chapter 8 is up!

Jim rests both palms on his sweat-slick hips, fingers overlapping his iliac furrow. The skin on his scarred hands is a dark contrast to the paler gold of his belly and Spock is struck by the inexplicable desire to ascertain if the difference is discernible by touch.

It is a highly inappropriate impulse. 

“You brought me a dessert?” Jim asks blankly.

Spock feels confirmation should be unnecessary, considering the evidence is present, but he gives it nonetheless.

“Yes. It is shelf-stable so you may store it in your room, if desired.”

“You brought me a dessert I can hide from my overprotective daughter.”

Even with a lifetime spent in his Human mother’s company, Spock has no hope of interpreting Jim’s facial expression.

“Have I offended you?“ he asks.

“No, not all. I just––” Jim huffs a small laugh. “It’s thoughtful. Thanks.” 

He tucks the bar in his shorts pocket and reaches one hand up to scratch at the back of his head, simultaneously ducking to avoid Spock’s eyes. It is the same bashful gesture he employed at the health center which Spock found so distracting. Only, this time, Jim’s level of undress means that Spock can view not only the movement of the musculature in Jim’s arm, but also his torso; the way the skin of his flank draws taught, further accentuating his obliques.

Spock’s mouth is dry. Perhaps it is the heat of the room.

“And you said you didn’t know how to be charming,” Jim murmurs.

“Yes,” Spock agrees. He had, indeed, said that.

Jim’s smile widens. ”I’m looking forward to tonight.”

“As am I.”

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one time when I was a barista I was telling my coworker that I suddenly really missed cows. I used to work with cows all the time back home and then I moved away and suddenly it had been four years and nary a cow.

15 minutes later this old guy came up to the counter with his address written on a napkin & he said “me and my wife have a whole herd of dexters and a couple of new calves. come on over any time”

so after work I was like ok fuck it & I drove to the address and I parked at at the gate & I walked down the driveway to the barn and this woman was like “oh my husband told me you might stop by! come see our cows” and she introduced me to every single cow. made my whole week.

thank you cow couple

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I would cry

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One of the sweetest things is when you post a new work on AO3 and then one of your old works gets a comment because it means that somebody read the new thing and liked it so much that they went and checked what other stuff you wrote and they liked that enough to tell you about it and I just think that is so fucking precious!! thank you thank you thank you to the people who do that, keep doing it it's the best feeling as an author