Why couldn't it be follow the butterflies?

Kristy 29, introvert, Gryffindor, asexual, chronic migraineur These days I think a lot of what I reblog is mostly social justice, mixed with a bunch of fandoms and anything I find hilarious or adorable. Currently watching: Elementary, Hawaii 5-0, Quantico, How to Get Away With Murder, Supergirl, SVU, Chicago PD, Agents of Shield, The Librarians Planning to watch: Currently reading: Mockingjay Other fandoms you are likely to find: Doctor who (series 1-4 as well as anything 8th doctor), Veronica Mars, Once Upon a Time, Disney, Merlin, Harry Potter, Gilmore Girls, Leverage, movies, Golden Girls, as well as non-fandom things like feminism, social justice, etc.

[paper-mario-wiki]

scrolling twitter today and then coming over here is like walking out of a burning building and then walking into the calm remains of a building that burnt down 5 years ago and has been reclaimed by nature.

[badwolfstitch]

I carried him up the stairs earlier, because it was about to storm pretty badly. He slept through most of it, and finally when it was quiet, went to use the litterbox. I didn’t expect him to come back to my bed, I figured he’d find a place to hide after. Instead a ball of snot, anger, and fur comes flying onto my bed. 😭 he looks mad but he was insistent I make room for him immediately. I jumped to obey him of course lol.

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Above Timestamp May 22, 2019 2:54AM

Found this in my drafts and my description of Cinnamon is cracking me up I have to share it with you guys. Just know that it’s a month old lol. He is currently laying on my lap like this right now though lol

[badwolfstitch]

Oh my god, I’d forgotten I used to tell y’all stories, but this one made me laugh out loud. I have no memory of this.

Unfortunately, we had to say goodbye to Cinnamon last Wednesday, august 25th, after 17 years together. I’m understandably devastated, but it was sort of expected. The last few months haven’t been easy, but I’m grateful for the time all the same.

Take all the pictures and videos of your pets while you can. They don’t make it any easier, but it can bring some comfort. At least it is for me. It’s nice to be able to hear his purring meow whenever I need it. <3

[bluebandana]

in honor of the shitshow that was supernatural, tag this with the tv show that had the best ending you’ve ever seen, and the tv show that had the worst ending you’ve ever seen

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

obsessed with the car getting to go to heaven but not Cas

[annebonnydyke]

they really sent dean to super heaven for being straight and cas to super hell for being gay i could not imagine a more homophobic or hysterical ending I Am Dying

[slowspinningredemption]

now as you can see the rusty nail is a metaphor for a penis and dean dying by getting stabbed by it is a metaphor for how homosexual activity will damn your soul to hell and hahahaha i cannot go on you get the idea

[badwolfstitch]

What the fuck is wrong with y'all and the tweets to misha? Now I remember why I left this godforsaken site. Sayonara.

[dear-andre]

damn the horse really IS in the hospital

[starfoozle]

[ruinedchildhood]

[maliciousindungeon]

if you could delete one piece of media from your memory and experience it for the first time again, what would it be? mine would be fallout: new vegas (2010)

[smilecapsules-deactivated202106]

I’M SCREAMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[deez-no-relation]

Aaaahahhahaha!

 honestly I’m kind of curious about the boots now

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[jenroses]

important for AO3 writers

So a while ago I asked staff at AO3 why it was that I could post a work, update it with chapters, and have it appear no higher than tenth, ever, even with new chapters, on a busy fandom. I finally got an explanation. 

“If, however, your work is appearing below works that were already visible, it’s possible you’re running into an issue that occurs when a work is posted between 12:00 AM and 5 AM UTC - works posted during this time frame cause the system to believe the work has had a posting date set manually. (Normally you would do this by ticking “Set a different publication date” in the posting form.) This also applies to works that were initially saved as a draft on a date previous to the day they are posted. Works that have been backdated are assigned a default time of day, which may be earlier than the actual time you posted the work.”

So don’t post during that time. It just HAPPENS to be between 5 pm and 10 pm Pacific time so posting things after dinner is RIGHT OUT if you happen to live on the west coast of the US. That’s between 8 pm and 1 am east coast time.

So until they fix this (and it’s been going on a LONG time, they’re working on it but it’s a massive code overhaul, apparently) I’ll be posting fics OTHER times.  This means if you’re posting a long, multichapter work, posting the first chapter in the evening can screw up the entire rest of your posting. Posting a draft before posting for reals will also keep you from being at the top of the list. And this probably explains why some of my fics have done better than others.  What does this look like? Someone posts at, say, 4 in the afternoon my time. I come along and post around 8 pm, which is pretty typical for me, but it gets marked as “set manually” and given a time much earlier in the day, and thus appears behind everything posted that day. So it’s never on top, people start reading down the list, think they’ve seen everything that’s at the top, and don’t poke any farther.  So for writers, DO NOT POST BETWEEN  12:00 AM and 5 AM UTC. Google will translate, just plug in 12 am UTC and it will pop up your local time in most places.  For readers, realize this exists and that you’re probably missing something. Scroll back if it’s between those hours, and after those hours. 

And at some point they’ll fix this to something less arcane.

[jenroses]

Update and summary of responses reblog:

For those asking if this is real and current, yes, it is real, and yes, it is current as of July 2020.  I asked staff:

So if I ever first post a fic in the evening Pacific time, it will forever act as if it were manually posted? And they responded:  Hi again: That is correct, unfortunately. You will have to manually change the Date Published every time you add a chapter. We appreciate the frustration, but our coders have not found all of the causes of the bug yet, so we can’t say when it might be resolved.

Best CJ AO3 Support

For those who suggested “just date it to the day after”… that doesn’t actually work the way you think it should. I don’t remember what happens, but I do know there’s a *waves hand* thing that makes that not work.

Correcting the date manually does not pop you to the top of the list, even with new chapters.  Posting drafts… Just don’t do it that way. I know, you should be able to use that function in order to have a perfectly crafted lovely work. But if you get everything that can be done done before posting, don’t post to draft first, post it, and then proof it, most of the people who see it will see it after you finish. I hate it, too. It helps if you change your font in your word processing program, and then reread, to catch the kind of things that show up after you post. I use Google Docs, and have a tutorial with screenshots describing how to beat Google Docs into submission so that you can paste cleanly into AO3′s rich text editor most of the time without too many italics and spacing issues cropping up.

What does this bug mean for posting?

Posting in the hours before the 5-hour no-post window is probably optimal. Posting during that window for a new fic will screw you up forever for that fic. If you ARE posting new chapters for a fic that was initially posted during the 12 am UTC-5 am UTC window and it’s not showing up in the list, consider manually correcting the posting date. This won’t bring you to the top of the list but it will bring you higher than you were in most cases. 

I believe but don’t have proof that it may be possible to check the manual date on one of those already-borked fics and then uncheck it, and then post a new chapter. Someone should see if that helps. 

What does this bug mean for reading?

If you tend to sort by kudos or bookmarks or whatever, remember that you are relying on the responses of the “read everything” crowd, and that the “read everything” crowd may have missed chunks of fics that were subject to this bug. That doesn’t mean you have an obligation to go stick your face in the firehose of a big fandom, but just… be aware.

If you want to know that you’ve seen everything in your fandom systematically, go farther back than you think when you’re reloading. This bug can, if I’m reading things right, bump things down about 19 hours down the list. I may be mathing that wrong, but we don’t get hourly timestamps on things, so it’s hard to say. If you go through once a day, you’ll probably catch most stuff. 

DO subscribe to authors, stories, and series. 

Consider taking some time to look at the “low hit” end of the fandom pool. You can filter your results by date range, so this might look like grabbing everything between a week ago and today, for example, and looking for the things that haven’t gotten a lot of hits. It should be pretty easy at that point to find the things that got lost in the shuffle. 

[unicornfan]

i think a more interesting question than “when did you ‘join’ the internet” is “what was the first username you ever used”

my very first ever username (that i remember) was HunterKiller75 cause i thought starcraft was the coolest shit in elementary school & hydralisks were my fav unit, and 75 was my fav number

[badwolfstitch]

Yikes I did have a deletion to make on Facebook after all. Good thing it's a friend of a friend, so honestly I don't care. I barely knew her anyway.

[everythingfox]

Hello

Tod