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I mean.. did this not actually happen

(Source: wrongrogers on Twitter)

LITERATURE SERIES: J.K Rowling (Harry Potter)

“Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you’d expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn’t hold with such nonsense."

It's a lot healthier to go for a daily walk than to sign up for a gym membership you won't be using because you hate that kind of exercise. It's a lot healthier to eat a frozen meal than to skip a meal because you were too tired to cook something healthy. It's a lot healthier to take a quick shower than to procrastinate an elaborate routine for days. Don't aim so high that you won't be hitting anything!

this is actually really helpful and affirming thanks

Tom Hiddleston gives Jeremy Renner a standing ovation after he returns to the stage a year after his accident 

Can’t risk it

The duck of creativity. I waited so long for it.

I have to

FUCK

shit

please duck of creativity all i have in my brain is walmart brand ghostbur bruh

please duck of creativity give me your wise words

PLEASE GIVE ME TWOMP FANART IDEA

Oh duck, Please grant me Ur Wisdom- 🤲 /jk

I NEED MOTIVATION NOWWW

i need doodle ideas so uhh

I’ve gained, a lot form the duck of creativity.

I ain’t risking it 😭

STAR WARS: EPISODE II - ATTACK OF THE CLONES (Deleted Scene)

Never forget that Luke and Leia have living relatives on Naboo and all the new post-RotJ content pretty much decided to do nothing with that. 🙃

i got bored

When my time comes around

Lay me gently in the cold, dark earth

No grave can hold my body down

I'll crawl home to her

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I know this will flop bc i never do sw art and its not why yall probably here but i got comissoned todo this one and i love it sm myself that i just had to share it, i love them sm 🫶🏻

Snape did many things wrong. But kudos to him for actually being horrified by Dumbledore casually dropping that he's been planning to have Harry die this whole time and for calling him out for it. For all that Snape dislikes Harry he still has an emotional reaction to this and points out that it's pretty messed up. This contrasts sharply with Dumbledore's cool and detached tone.

It also occurs to me that by withholding the facts about how James mistreated Snape, Dumbledore help exacerbate the tensions between Harry and Snape from day one (since Harry naturally believed that Snape had no legitimate grievances and was constantly telling nasty petty lies about his father).

This made it virtually impossible that they would ever reach any kind of understanding or that Snape would ever see how much more like Lily than James Harry is. If he had, and if they had gotten close, perhaps Snape would've been less willing to go along with this plan. Which sure would've been inconvenient for Dumbledore...

TW: Animal Death / Death

Senior pets have a hard time getting adopted. The likelihood of adoption is only 25% compared to 60% for a younger dog. Unfortunately, this is often due to prejudice. I want to raise awareness with this comic (and also get back to my roots, which I haven't really managed to do yet). But I want to start uploading more regularly again. Thank you for your patience so far.

Loki and Tesseract 🧊 ↪ Request by anonymous

thinking about that post of people assuming ao3 has an algorithm and also about how bonkers persistent the view is that ao3 is social media lite. like with startling regularity I get comments saying something along the lines of "it's probably weird to comment on a fic this old--" no it isn't!!!! this is an archive I am literally just assuming you searched for a selection of specific tags or sorted by kudos or looked back on my pseud or any other number of completely normal ways to use an archive site ?? kill the tiktok ghost in your brain and comment on old stuff it's NOT weird

Guess how many people contact us regularly to ASK for us to have an algorithm, go ahead. Because it's many. And I always take a little bit of enjoyment in explaining that no, we're not going to build a system to recommend fics to you based on your kudos, because for one thing that would be extra work, and for another thing that would require us to be tracking and using a lot more of your data than we want to. We actually do not want to monitor that people who liked Fic A also liked Fic B, or that people who like the tag "butt plugs" might also enjoy the tag "anal fisting", or whatever other nonsense seems to be the expectation these days. I already know enough (more than I'd love, in a perfect world!) about people's reading habits, and I don't want to have that knowledge deployed via algorithms on the Archive just because someone really wants an automated conveyer belt of content being streamed directly into their feed based on us extrapolating from their most commonly used tags or their most frequently visited works or whatever.

(I also do not want to imagine how many people would contact us to yell at us the second they got a 'bad' recommended fic. "I can't believe that you recommended this to me, you monsters!")

Anyway here's my favourite sentence to include in my answers: "We hope instead that users will take control of their own experience using the Archive, and choose for themselves what works they wish to view or not view." Apparently a novel view in this day and age.

The thing that's become clear to me over the past few years is that many people are not good at constructing searches. Recently, someone in a fandom I don't even know was trying to find a particular thing and coming up with no fic; in less than 20 seconds I was able to hand over a list of more than 100 of that thing. This is not a stupid person! this is someone without a particular skill that I have, probably because for me it's a job skill -- it's something I do a lot. Not on ao3, obviously, but constructing effective searches is transferable.

I think a LOT of people don't have this skill. I always boost ao3 search tutorials when I see them for this reason! And if you DON'T have this skill, The Algorithm is so helpful. It's doing a lot of the heavy lifting for you. I get the appeal of that.

But ao3 is never gonna be that place, so instead I shall recommend: find some ao3 search tutorials, bookmark them, they will save your reading life many times. Also bookmark your favorite searches.

Speaking of people not knowing how to use AO3, take a look at this post I reblogged a little while ago: https://www.tumblr.com/lierdumoa/741225032412512256/

The OP posted this poll:

To be blunt, If you are looking for fic on AO3 using these tags ... you probably aren't very good at finding fic.

99% of AO3 authors who write romance do not put a #romance tag on their fanfic. They will instead tag it with the ship and with the specific romantic tropes that appear in the fic. If you search for romance this way, you are missing out on the vast majority of the romance fic on the archive.

99.9% of AO3 authors who write sports fic do not put a #Sports tag on their fanfic. They will put the name of the specific sport, in the context of an AU tag like #Alternate Universe - Football, or you will find sports fic under a specific sports fandom like #Hockey RPF. Maybe this has changed, but last I checked, the AO3 tag wranglers have not made #Sports an umbrella tag that shows results for all sports related tags.

If this is how you search for fic, you're missing out on a lot of great fic that fits these categories, but doesn't use these tagging conventions.

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Upon seeing this, I decided to add my own poll to the post, that I think better reflects how AO3's tagging system actually works.

As you can see, I listed the kind of tags that I've actually seen authors reliably use.

I don't just assume that all the romance fic will have a romance tag on it. I look through a ship tag. When I find stories I like, I pay attention to what kinds of tags authors are actually using, and I use those tags to find similar fic.

Some fandoms have tagging conventions that only exist within those fandoms. For example, virtually every AO3 BtVS fanfic author who writes a fic set in season 6 puts a #Season/Series 6 tag on the fic. That's just BtVS. In other fandom communities, authors don't consider this a thing worth tagging. You just have to read fic summaries looking for phrases like "right after Dean got pulled out of hell" to figure out what season the story takes place in.

In the Transformers fandom, all most of the smut authors tag their smut #Sticky Sexual Interfacing, or sometimes just #Sticky (for sex between robots; I don't know how sex between a robot and a human is tagged in that fandom as it's a lot less common/popular than sex between robots). I have no idea why they call it that. All I know is you'll find more Transformers porn using this tag than you will using a tag like #porn or #smut.

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TL&DR You can't assume that people will categorize things the way you like to categorize things.

You have to actually learn a fandom community's preferred method of categorization, and then search according to their method, not your own. Otherwise, you're going to have a really hard time finding what you're looking for.

Truth!

Once you start harassing people over their tastes in fiction, you've gone too far.

You should not be sending anon hate.

You should not be telling people to kill themselves.

You should not be contacting people's family members, job, or school.

You should not be sending people gore.

You should not be telling people that they deserve their trauma.

You should not be attacking people over liking something fictional. At that point, you're the problem. Not the person making things you don't like, YOU. Harassment is never acceptable.

Going to (try) to tag all the ppl so its easier to find their blogs for those who want to explore

I keep seeing people making fun of using growled, hissed, roared, snarled etc in writing and it’s like.

have you never heard someone speak with the gravel in their voice when they get angry? Because that’s what a growl is.

Have you never heard someone sharply whisper something through the thin space of their teeth? Or when your mother sharply told you to stop it in public as a kid when you were acting up/being too loud? Because that’s what a hiss is.

Have you never heard a man get so blackout angry that their voice BOOMS through the house? Because that’s what a roar is.

Have you never seen someone bare their teeth while talking to accentuate their frustration or anger while speaking with a vicious tone? Because that’s what snarling is.

It’s not meant to be a literal animal noise. For the love of god, not every description is literal. I get some people are genuinely confused, but also some of these people are genuinely unimaginative as fuck.

a horror movie about making a horror movie. wait, don't walk away. a horror movie about one of those grueling seventies productions that broke every OSHA rule—long, exhausting shoots in the middle of the woods, presided over by one of those directors convinced of his own genius and certain the only way to get the performances he needs is to relentlessly isolate and gaslight his female lead. the crew are terrified of the director's outbursts and so are going along with it. there's one other woman in the cast but she plays the one who takes her shirt off earlier in the film and then dies, and the director has done everything in his power to turn these two people against each other, the better to keep his female lead unbalanced and unsure, and when the deeply disquieting scary stuff starts happening for real, the female lead has nobody to confide in and assumes it is the director very characteristically going out of his way to fuck with her. one of the camera operators gets possessed and is being flung around the trees, head spinning as he oozes an acidic black liquid and the female lead is like, "i can't let fucking jerry think he's getting to me." and then—this may be too much, idk—the only way the two actresses can figure out what's really going on is to acknowledge that they've been pitted against each other and that they really don't have any reason beyond this not to trust each other, so they compare notes and that's how they discover that hey, this production actually is cursed.