aran

i've been afraid of tumblr since 2007 he/him

[angelsdean]

like i'm sorry but we as a fandom have to stay firm on our anti-AI values. we cannot suddenly start giving AI a pass when it's something we "want to see" like destiel kisses. it's not suddenly fine. we're not going to start using AI to make fanfic scenes come to life or audio AI to make characters "say" stuff we want to hear. you have GOT to be firm on your anti-AI stance. if you start making exceptions then suddenly anything will fly. fandom is for real art and creations made by real people. no AI fanfics. no AI art. no AI rendered "bonus" scenes. no AI audio. none of it has a place here.

[cicadabeats]

YEAH!! :D

[littleskrib]

It's alright | 26122023

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Based on a scene of @asterbae's story "Perfect Slaughter". I already did some simple character art before, but this particular scene in chapter 10 just hit differently and I wanted to bring this to paper since the first time I read it. reader discretion is advised, pls read the tags before checking it out

[tinytonestar]

Astarion vs Cazador animation I did for fun!! 🩸

[tonythepizzaguy]

a crooked touch part 30 - like a wounded animal

[aranoanor]

i'm the one who's like a wounded animal, thank you very much

[majiil]

tease.

full part 2 on bsky and poipiku

[poreyneel]

Just a Dark Urge romance in a nutshell

[tadfools]

So there is this mod called better dark urge settings (I can’t imagine a durge play through without it anymore) but one of the options for it is called dark whispers and basically it makes it so every time you hit an enemy there’s a role being made that if fail you get possessed by the dark urge for a round and turn hostile to the rest of the tadfools and ohhhh I’ve killed Gale like 8 times

[hatlesshatter]

Solace has targeted Astarion nearly every time the urges takes over. Have I worked this into the fic I wrote? Yes, but I should have done it more.

Story time; so heading into the underground for the temple, you face the ghost dude with power word kill, and Karlach and Solace had fly on them so they hustled over and started whailing on him, but solace crit failed and that means automatically the urges takes over.

So Gale and Astarion have been running along the ground. And Astarion is faster because rogue, so he's on the bridge, but Solace is under the urges control, so they Misty stepped over to their boyfriend and third level critical hit smote him.

He dropped in one hit. And Solace hit him again, another critical hit because he was downed. Two death saves.

And then the round kept going and it was Solace's turn again before Astarion's next save. So they take their action to dump 50ish hit points into him. I like to imagine they were sobbing.

Better Dark Urge is incredible and larian should hire the modder to implement it.

[alexsrandomramblings]

The number of times I've used command spells on my durges, or otherwise just had Astarion stab them in the gut. Not to mention learning to cast sanctuary on npcs I'm trying to keep alive. Really does make for very interesting gameplay.

[maleficore]

OH COMMAND SPELLS that's honestly even funnier than hold person

Just Durge getting a bit to excited so someone points a finger at them and casts what is basically a "go in time out" spell agshdjfk

HUMILIATING

[cornflowersisblue]

Kar'niss laughs and makes other strange sounds, and talks about a blessing 😈👀

Visit Original Link

[charlieism]

Internet friend: says ily for the first time

Me:

[charlieism]

Internet friend: says ily for the thousandth time

Me:

[charlieism]

Internet friend: literally just calls me by my name for the first time

Me:

[creatoranimator]

internet friend: *exists*

me:

[at-saeyounq]

i want someone to be very, very g a y with

[kaijuno]

‪Kill the rich. Overthrow the government. Believe in science. Be gay. ‬

[art-woonz]

Art By IG: @gudim_public

Instagram: @artwoonz

[dingoat]

Still hurts, but enough time’s passed for me to get out this bit of catharsis. I miss my kitty.

[khymeera]

I’m not crying, you’re crying

[flashedarrow]

I’m crying at this. This is so beautiful. Some nights I wake up and I swear I can feel the weight of my passed kitty on me.

Thank you for this.

[aranoanor]

this hurts so bad

[ninenine-brooklyn]

[tshifty]

when i say “unfollow me if you support trump” im not saying it ironically. no, seriously, if you support trump then i dont want your disgraceful ass to be in any way associated with my blog. get out.

[viudanegraaa]

Why are people still up in arms about AO3 needing donations to run? Their budget is publicly available. You can go onto the website, right now, and read it. If you donate more than a certain amount (pretty sure it’s more than $10), you can vote in their elections, because you’re considered a member, and that’s how memberships work.

It’s a free site to use, but not to run or to maintain, especially not with all these net neutrality battles.

[viudanegraaa]

Here’s a list of the OTW’s projects.

Here’s its Terms of Service.

Y’all gotta understand that it’s not just fanworks, there’s a lot more that goes into archiving.

[gitwrecked]

Signal boosting this because it’s important af. OTW is a nonprofit organization, specifically a public charity as classified by the US tax code. That means they file a 990 tax report each year that lets you see all of their finances – what they’re spending money on, where their money comes from, etc. You can see their 2016 990 here if you’re so inclined.

And if you’re not sure about how OTW is using their donations? Ask questions. Get involved. Even if you’re not comfortable with or not in a position to donate, there are lots of opportunities to give your time; it’s an all-volunteer organization that recruits regularly. I know for a fact that I get more value out of what OTW provides than most, if not all, my other paid services combined, so $10 to be a member is more than worth it.

[propinquitous]

ao3 is routinely used as an example of an excellent digital archive in library and information schools - they’re not just a fansite; they’re held in high regard by people across the industry. they run initiatives to preserve old fansites and groups, in addition to the day to day work of hosting all of our work ad-free to ensure maximum creative freedom. ao3 is not just a place to post your fic; it catalogues and preserves our history and culture.

[smalltall]

$130,000 a year though?

[pandagnomeium-deactivated201812]

Dude, I don’t know if anyone’s gotten to you yet, but as someone who used to work for a server hosting company, that is NOT a lot of money. It feels like it, especially if you’re a part-time, paid-by-the-hour employee, but when it comes to tech services, that’s incredibly cheap. With the amount of content that AO3 has to host, they’re not dealing with one or two $1000 rackmount servers from Newegg.

Their facilities are going to look closer to this:

Or if they have nice ones, they may have a shelf of these:

They spend about $102,000 a year for server space, I’m rounding down to make the math a little nicer. That’s about $8,500 per month. That’s really, really not a lot.

Now, to be fair, I was on the documentation side of things and mostly wrote instructions on how to perform operations on servers, so I don’t actually know how many servers AO3 needs to house all their data. I also don’t know the exact volume of data AO3 has to handle, but $8,500 a month sounds like an entirely reasonable amount based on what I do know.

[mikkeneko]

I already reblogged a different version of this post, but reblogging this one for some reference to how many server resources go into a project like this. Lots.

[lynati]

Given the sheer tonnage of material they host, I’m surprised their server budget is *only* $8,500 a month.

[talvin-muircastle]

Guys, that’s cheap.