"Everything dies. In time, even stars burn out."

Please choose your own favorite way to describe these gifs:

Happy April 25th

this movie is LYING TO YOU can't trust anything hollywood says it's firmly a winter jacket weather

About the AO3 "No Guest Comments for a while" warning

If you're not following any of AO3's social media accounts you might be in the dark as to what kind of "spam comments" have engendered this banner at the top of the site:

These spam comments have been posted about a great deal on the AO3 subreddit for the past couple of days. Initially they comprised a bunch of guest (logged out users) bot comments that insulted authors by suggesting they were using AI and not writing their own fics. Some examples, from the subreddit:

But it then escalated to outright graphic porn images and gifs being posted in comments, again by logged out 'Guest' accounts. Obviously, I'm not going to give examples of those, but between these two bot infestations, AO3 has clearly decided to act and has temporarily closed the ability to post comments for users who are not logged in with an AO3 account.

Unfortunately, this means that genuine readers who don't have an AO3 account won't be able to leave comments on fics that they enjoy.

If you are a genuine reader who doesn't yet have an AO3 account, I strongly suggest getting yourself on the waiting list for one. More and more AO3 authors are now locking their fics down to registered users only - either due to these bot comments or concerns about AI scraping their work - which means you're probably missing out on a lot of great stuff.

Hopefully guest commenting will be enabled again at some point soon, but I suggest not waiting until then. Get yourself on that list.

Wait times are going to be longer than usual at the moment, due to the current Wattpad purge [info on Fanlore | Wattpad subreddit thread], but if you're in line, then your invite will come through eventually.

Update: There's now a Megathread about this on the AO3 subreddit.

Happy Hogswatch

cc: @neil-gaiman :)

A mimir

what if i *remembers that making suicide jokes is not conducive with my goal of improving the wellbeing of myself and everyone around me* transform into an oyster

This is funnier than suicide jokes you did a good job

I’m frothing at the mouth this is my DREAM

#as a professional carnie i gotta say#wlw have a special inate ability at these games i swear to god#there used to be some kind of year#yearly retreat for?? idk what but it was made of almost entirely butch women#and there would be like a whole day the part was just overrun by gay ladies#and when the catering hall let their party out they all wanted nothing more than clean fucking house for their gifriends and wivesa#we all knew it was coming. wed all be like todays the lesbian day guys get everything stocked#and this isnt like the o be weird or something abt butch women being strong or athletic#i mean they would win games of chance way more often than straight couples#gay dudes do not factor in cuz we all suck balls at those games literally they were all awful#one very out gay coworker i had would openly tell them like look from one of us to another keep walking these arent for us they just arent#but girls? girls dating other girls? it was on sight they all won all the time (via @transkeiichi)

"Today's the lesbian day guys get everything stocked" is sending me

official lesbian post

#well, well, well, how the turntables

for my male audience

Some poor beetle down at the bottom like

Follow your dreams

Source

when I was a kid for some reason I thought Lola Bunny's last name was "Rabbit" and that she was actually Jessica and Roger's daughter. And the reason she wasn't in the original Loony Tunes is just that she wasn't born yet

I mean can you blame me. Look them and look at her. She's got a good blend of both of their features.

this is the only good head canon I've ever had tbh

okay but this makes bugs bunny her leonardo dicaprio

as soon as I read "18" and "29" I was like not the asshole.

even if you killed him in broad daylight with a machete.

From a clip from the new quiz show Rob Beckett's Smart TV from the episode containing David Tennant :D (Thursday 18.4. 9pm on Sky Max) Watch the clip here :).

Rob Beckett, reading a question: David, Peter Davison's Fifth Doctor famously wore-

Josh Widdicombe: It's his fucking father-in-law!

David, laughing: Imagine if I get it wrong!

WONDER BAR (1934) | dir. Lloyd Bacon

Here is the actual clip, and let me tell you, Jolson’s delivery does not disappoint: