《Demesne》376 - Honey Is Very Thankful
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So, because of certain websites scraping RR and therefore hosting my stories without my permission, I've decided to resort to this. In case you're one of my readers who's listening to this with a TTS app, the story proper is up in the pre-chapter author's notes. If you wait a little, once I'm sure that certain websites have scraped only this, the actual chapter will be moved here, and I'll use the chapter edit notification thing to inform you.
This will go on until I decide there's it's too much effort and go back to how I did things or the stupid website dies. Hopefully the latter.
I'm not the only one with this problem, as I'm fairly certain they're scrapping ALL of RR, and this might be a futile gesture, but it's the principle of the thing.
I don't think they're even really getting anything out of it! The pages don't even seem to have advertisements on the pages for advertisements, so one can only hope they run out of money and they are unable to pay for hosting.
And if you're one of souls reading this message on that blighted website, come and read the real stuff on https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/40290
Also, to my regular readers, could I trouble you to add to Demesne's TVTropes page? Please and thank you! Ratings and reviews would be nice too...
Anyway, once more, apologies to the TTS reader's. It also seems I can't notify you of chapter changes so... just come back in 12 hours? Sorry.
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