Not gonna specifically tag anyone...but reblog if you feel like it and put yours in the tags.
W.L. Cherrytree: The Beige Essays of Susan Sontag
Z. S. Pinetree: The Grey Pillow
A.S. Angeloak: the black book
G.L. Olive: the blue scrunchie
“Grump with a heart of gold” is a classic, but also consider:
Sterek ranch preview
Its called the Death Waltz, and was written as a joke but people have attempted it on piano.
Saxes move downstage.
SWEET JESUS CLICK THAT
the added directions are great. ‘insert peanuts’ ‘gradually become irritated’ ‘cresc., or not’ ‘untie slip knot’ ‘bow real fast, slippage may occur’
Release the penguins
Oh I got a shirt with this on it, and people would endlessly stare at it
duck
boss stage music
I know the link above isn’t the real death waltz, but I found of vid of people actually attempting that version and I am amazed?!?
IT TOOK 14 PEOPLE TO PLAY THAT MONSTROSITY
watched it and i’m just
it sounds so fucking cool
but really???????? really??????????????????? 14 fucking people??????????????? 28 hands to play this absolute banger
That song is a bop
Also, how much did they have to practice that omg
castlevania boss music
This is what plays if you try to fight dearh
I was gonna make a joke like “someone find me two pianos and four octopi, I’ve got a concert to plan.”
Then I saw the video and now realise I underestimated the number of octopi I’d need.
when you decide to compose music without having to worry about this pesky ‘limitations of human anatomy’ bullshit you get some impressive pieces
“what a bunch of fucking idiots!” I say, delighted, as I click on yet another fanfiction about a bunch of fucking idiots
“Look I don’t know if I’m going to have a career after this but, fuck that.” - John Boyega
Would also be really annoying if they wore heat resistant gloves to throw back the hot tear gas canisters and if this got shared to all those protesting…
Would be a further shame if people started covering cameras (as seen in Hong Kong, with protestors using poles and rakes to lift cardboard boxes over security cameras), blinding drone optics with laser pointers, and flooding police-run reporting apps with junk data.
It would be a shame if the protesters noted that plainclothes cops can be identified a number of ways, such as wearing steel-toed boots; an armband or wristband of a particular color; driving white, black, or dark blue cars with concealed lights; or having the outline of cuffs visible in the back pocket or the bumps of an armor vest’s shoulder straps under their shirt.
It would be a shame if the protesters began making their signs out of inch-thick plywood to stop rubber bullets, forming a tight shield wall to prevent police from singling out and mobbing individual protesters. It would be a shame if the people behind the shield wall held up umbrellas so that tear gas canisters fired over the heads of the front line will be bounced away. It would be a shame if protesters began constructing improvised armor vests out of duct tape, hardback books, and ceramic tiles.
It would be a shame if protesters started wearing safety glasses, hard hats, respirators, and gardening gloves, all of which can be found at the same hardware stores as the plywood. It would be a shame if they started using traffic cones (the kind without the hole in the top) upside-down buckets, or other improvised lids to contain tear gas by placing them over the canisters.
It would be a shame if protesters learned that police scanners are legal to own in the US, allowing them to learn where police are moving and what routes they intend to take. It would be a shame if they discovered that these scanners can be used to send as well as receive, allowing them to flood the scanner frequencies with noise.
All this would be a terrible, terrible shame.
Queer is the label we used when we weren’t sure. Queer is the label we used when we were sure no other label would do. Queer is a gender that is my own and only my own. Queer is a sexuality that defies definition.
Queer is the label which became genderqueer, and from which non-binary and genderfluid sprung. Queer is the label which is the un-box, in which everyone who is not cishet (including ace people!!) fits. Queer is community.
Queer is activist. Queer is in the streets screaming ‘we’re here, we’re queer, get used to it!’ Queer is not ashamed.
Queer was ours from the beginning. Queer was ours a century ago. Queer was used against us, and we said ‘fuck you,’ and we took it BACK. Queer is butches and bears with bats, protecting our community.
Queer is blue-collar. Queer is working-class. Queer is poor. Queer is people who can’t afford to sit out Stonewall quietly and then go fight for marriage equality when the tax bills come due. Queer is a distinct identity, and queer is the un-box.
Queer makes TERFs and exclusionists angry, because it doesn’t let them define people by gold stars and terms like ‘SGA’ that come from conversion therapy. Queer doesn’t give a shit about historical revision to exclude members of the community who have always been here, because queer has always been here and always will be.
Queer is the life raft onto which we climb. Queer is community. Queer is important, and people will have to pry it from my cold dead hands. I’ve been queer for thirty years. My community is queer, and it is opt-in.
If you tag my fucking posts ‘q slur’ or any variant thereof I will immediately fucking block you. Don’t fucking do it. If you feel obligated to tag my posts ‘q slur,’ don’t interact with them. My identity is not a bad word and does not require censoring.
If you’re ever like “but what do fic writers even WANT.”
a book report
They want a book report.
They want you to get 9th grade English up in their shit.
Remember having to write ad nauseam about the symbolism of that stupid conch in Lord of the Flies? They want you to do that about Steve Roger’s shield and Emma Swan’s jacket.
WHoa seriously?? People WANT this? Holy crap, I always thought I’d be really rude to leave an overly long comment on something, or it’d just be super creepy for me to babble a load of emotional attatchment I had to their product, or all my wild fan theories which are probably wrong… I mean.. I know if I ever created something I’d wanna see comments like that, but I’m a weirdo and I haven’t even created anything anyway so what do I know? Umm.. yeah.. so… at my followers and friends and stuff: does anyone agree with this? Do I have permission to really ramble embarrassingly and honestly when I like your stuff, or would you prefer short and semi-rational comments?
I agree! I really like to read people toughts on my stuff, no matter the writing style.
I always LOVE knowing that readers understand why I chose certain ways of getting things across! I also love seeing which bits OTHER PEOPLE liked best! Since I’m the author, I’m biased. I either think my work is brilliant or I have crushing doubts.
So - whichever you want, or feel comfortable with!
Long comments and rambles make my day so much you don’t even know
PLEASE DO THIS WITH ANYTHING I WRITE I CRAVE FEEDBACK AND I WANT TO KNOW HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT THE THING
Yep, co-signed. I try to drop a lot of symbolism and deliberate symmetry and I always wonder if people catch them.
Not that I don’t appreciate all the OMG YOU MONSTER YOU MADE ME CRY’s because it’s real privilege to make people feel something with nothing but words.
But I love it when you tell me your discoveries.
Abso-fucking-lutely! Long comments about symbols and meaning give me stupid grins for days. :D
YES!
Haha, in relation to my latest post here haha,,,
Absolutely yes that is the best thing.
If you want to, absolutely leave comments if you like what I write! Comments, even the long incoherent rambly ones, make my day EVERY single time and it’s like getting a hug from a reader :D
I legit wait to respond to long comments simply because they make my day so much that I want to savor them and be sure that I address things in the right order when I respond. Deliver me a thesis, friends.
As a writer yes please share your thoughts on my stories. What was interesting what was confusing. What did you like? What theories are you coming up with? Please let me know as I love the interactions.
Book report.
Absolutely, and with the emotional stuff too. Someone once told me that they had been having a really hard day and my story really helped them and I nearly bawled
The are the best kinds of comments, and the people that leave me book reports typically become great friends, bc they Get It. They pick up on all the little bits of symbolism and details I pepper into my fics, and it’s so gratifying to have someone point them out!
Of course, comments of outrage that I made you Feel Something are also top quality >:)
I love it when readers discover the Deep and Meaningful things I put into my fic, totally on purpose and not at all ever by accident or incident. Plot twists and connections and what have you that totally inspired me through the creative process that most likely didn’t involve cursing a lot, and tears.
Grapes, 1943, Martiros Sarian
like, six of those “grapes” are dicks
I always wondered about this room. Where is it?
Whenever you notice something like that, a wizard did it.
behind the garage
And that’s the end of that mystery
why the simpsons got a bigger house than my parents
Homer is a nuclear engineer
This post made me realize that Homer is in fact a Nuclear engineer…
*nuculer engineer
And that's that on that.
Apparently I wasn't done 🤔
“detective decker!!” 😈
hey ao3 can you like give the extra $38k you made from this month’s funds drive to charity
You know it legally is a charity, right?
If x charity aims for £10, but gets £15, would you expect then to give back the extra five or give it then to another charity? No. Any extra costs go into the “rainy day” fund; sometimes servers crash or break, sometimes false reports are made that require the legal team, sometimes you need to hire coders or what not to implement new features or fix bugs or deal with broken code …
The money they aimed for is the bare minimum, which goes towards things like basic server costs and domain names and legal advice and so forth, but they don’t just “pocket” the rest (as people claim). It’s not a business. It has no advertisements. It needs some “rainy day” cash to function.
You can’t ask a charity to give money to another charity.
It needs what it gets to function and improve.
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They don’t “pocket” excess money. They have a publicly accessible budget - waaaay more info than most charities, in fact. In it, you can clearly see where each dollar goes. (Also, you are vastly underestimating either how much traffic AO3 gets or how much servers/hosting costs.)
In my experience, people who don’t work in web design and hosting just have no concept of how heavy a load something like AO3 would have. Not only is the traffic absolutely buck wild, but the quantity of data that archive needs to store is fuckoff crazy. I’m talking “more than the library of congress” crazy. The only reason it doesn’t require Netflix levels of data serving is that it’s text based rather than video.
AO3 is in the top 300 websites in the world, and the top 100 in the US. It is the number 2 literature website.
Number 2 in the entire world. JSTOR is 20.
It sees about 6 million people a day. About 250k an hour. Each of those people is loading multiple pages, many are running searches that execute on literally hundreds of potential variables per search. The demands involved are astronomical.
JSTOR, btw, makes 85 million dollars a year.
It’s 18 ranks below AO3′s traffic, and takes in 650 times the amount of money.
But let’s say you think that’s an unfair comparison. Would you say that the Project Gutenberg Literature Archival Group- another text based archive that handles literature operating outside traditional copyright requirements- is more similar?
Because it sees all of 4% of the traffic that AO3 handles.
Care to guess its budget?
Double that of AO3.
AO3 is doing shit on the kind of shoestring budget that I fully, 100% cannot comprehend. And that’s just the archival service.
The 130k also pays for the OTW’s legal team, which they use to defend the right of fandom to fucking exist.
It’s absolutely batshit fucked up that people are fighting to have the OTW defunded and AO3 shut down. They are the only organized group that actually stands directly between fandom- all the art and the fics and the vids and the music and the chats and the memes and everything we love about interactive, transformative work- and an incalculable amount of lawsuits.
Can I also add that apart from running a legal team and the best online library around, they also run a free, peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to fan studies called Transformative Works and Cultures.. They incorporate studies of fandoms from all around the world, and are able to follow very closely with fandom trends. Studies found in TWC are leagues better than those cringey ‘I heard about this fan-dom thing from my teenage niece’ essays.
Just reblogging this to remind everyone that AO3 is fucking incredible and it has singularly transformed fandom.
speaking as someone who works in cloud, I’ve had some variation of this conversation so many times:
boss: that can’t be done. me: AO3 does it, and for 1/100th what you’re suggesting it’d cost. boss: they’re using blood magic. it’s the only explanation.
bill hader is baby, yes you heard me, a 41 year old divorcee with three small children IS baby!
I just spent the last week on something of a journey watching what has to be one of THE worst tv shows in existence and I refuse to name it but I feel like it’s broken me in a way
It was such complete garbage in that it had just enough potential to reel me in and keep me going, through the terrible writing, the questionable acting, the absolute DRUGGED OUT ‘WHO CAME UP WITH THIS AND WHO APPROVED IT’ PLOTS, because I let myself be TRICKED into thinking SOMEWHERE, SOMEHOW, I would get CLOSURE. Some sort of SATISFACTORY RESOLUTION to what the characters WENT THROUGH, actual EVIDENCE of their RELATIONSHIPS WITH EACH OTHER having SOME KIND OF EFFECT to the EVENTS OF THE GODDAMN SHOW.
I WAS WRONG. I WAS WRONG AND I AM NEVER GOING TO BE THE SAME.
Fun game: tag your fandom!
