NO WAR

[chibithepasserby]

AO3 fanfictions of old, where art thou???

Alright, I give up. I give in. I'll bite the bullet and every other equal well-worn phrase. Just put me outta my misery here, would you. What happened to all the goody oldies?

By all that's holy to you, to any of you, can anybody please explain what's this sudden movement about? I swear that all the awesome angst stories that I remember from about 7-10 years back are suddenly: 1) about half their original length shorter 2) miss grand majority of angst to the point of skipping on the climax (pun so very much intended)/plot twist 3) just die by a sudden, flat and uninteresting happy-end end (i.e. so very much different than what I remember) Now, don't get me wrong. I continue to be the person who'll always say an author is free to do whatever they want with their story and change their mind about it accordingly - of course. I still stand by that.

Having said that, however, that would hardly explain that several different/unrelated authors (even of different fandoms) made this inexplicable creative decision as described above (points 1-3). Which brings me to only one conclusion - or rather a suspicion: Was there a witch hunt (so to speak) going around while I was gone possibly??? Smells like something burning at the stake around here, I swear...

[chibithepasserby]

The world became this surreal place Empty, evacuated space Suddenly void of previous clutter On grand scale, Nothing that’d matter. Everyone shouting Yet streets’re abandoned Heart wildly pounding Another Freedom square for a missile to land on. Yet system is saying to dance On and on and on While people are dying And children are crying And on and on and on With people still lying Whilst odds still defying ... Is Ukraine

[ommanyte]

I’m going to make a new font called Times New Bastard

[ommanyte]

It’s Times New Roman but every seventh letter is jarringly sans serif

[bouquetoftwelve]

[val-ritz]

With one line you activated every bone in my body and all of them are in attack mode

[afloweroutofstone]

Shoutout to the U.S. embassies in Austria, Chile, India, and South Korea who have directly ignored orders from the Trump administration in flying the pride flag

[bendingsignpost]

They’ve found really clever workarounds, as they were banned from flying the pride flag on the flag pole. 

They aren’t ignoring orders: they are obeying the orders to the exact letter.

[purple-beard]

Malicious compliance

[leondaniel]

Also in Mexico City they couldn’t fly the flag but they didn’t said anything about a picture of a flying flag ❤️

[thou-creature-of-the-deep]

THIS IS SOME GOD TIER CHAOTIC LAWFUL EVIL STUFF

[gayvetforlife]

dude you gotta do what you gotta do

[shadow-spires]

Save The Blogs!

Okay, folks. So. Tumblr’s jumped the shark in a big way, and I’m not even just talking about indiscriminately blocking all “adult” content on a platform that IS, in fact, primarily 18+.

Many blogs, like the wonderful @blackkatmagic , that are not especially NSFW have vanished.

(And I for one LIKE being able to go to curated porn blogs run by actual people and have a chance of finding stuff to my taste, it was one of the things that kept me on this hellsite, but that’s another issue entirely.)

I know lots of people are talking about migrating, but none of us are sure to where yet. Pillowfort seems to be an option, some people are talking about Twitter. But for now, it’s a mess, and even if we knew where we were going, it’s often a huge process, and a lot of us have stuff on tumblr that ONLY exists there. One possible quick solution to save your blogs, both NSFW and personal, is to import it to WordPress. I found this solution through from frantic googling on how to save an entire blog, text posts an all. There are several apps for downloading all the pictures from a tumblr, (Plently for Windows, but only a few paid ones for mac, of which Tumbelog Picture Downloader is working for me so far) but this is the only solution I’ve seen so far that allows you to save EVERYTHING. I downloaded my NSFW blog in like 10 min. My regular blog, which is significantly larger, is in the process of importing, but I don’t anticipate any problems. I will, of course, update you if I have any.  

This tutorial I found worked really easily. http://quickguide (.) tumblr (.) com/post/39780378703/backing-up-your-tumblr-blog-to-wordpress

I put parenthesis around the .’s like we’re back in FF-Hell, just in case tumblr’s new thing about outgoing links kicks in. You know what to do.  To break it down, just in case:

 Sign up for a WordPress.com account at wordpress (.) com/start You’ll have to create an account, with your email, a username, and a password. They should send you a confirmation email immediately, check it, activate it, and you’re good to go. On the site, it will ask you for a site name. That page asks you a bunch of other information too, but you only have to fill out the site name.

Then you have to give your site a URL. If you’re lucky, your tumblr URL is still available, if not you’ll have to come up with another one, sorry.

It will tell you if that option is still available for free.

Then it will ask you to pick a plan. Free is really good enough, I swear.

Now you’re set up! You can import your tumblr! The only differences from the linked tutorial are that the Import button is now on the first level menu, not in tools.

Hit Import, then you have to follow the link for “other importers”  at the bottom, to find the option for Tumblr.

Then you’ll have to sign in with tumblr, using your normal tumblr credentials. You’ll be redirected there automatically. You’ll have to allow Wordpress permissions on your blog.

Then your blogs, including all your sideblogs, will show up in wordpress.

Hit import, wait a WHILE depending on the size of your blog, and you’re done!

ALSO!!

I made my NSFW blog private for now, since I don’t know WP’s policy on NSFW.

This means that to access it, someone has to have an account and request access. But hey, part of our problem on this hellsite has been people going places they aren’t wanted, so I don’t personally see this as a bad thing. They can send a request from the landing site on your blog, you get an email, click a link in the email, and PRESTO, they have access. To make it private, go to Settings > Reading > Site Visibility. Go back and check, it took me changing the setting twice for it to actually stick. tl;dr, you can import your entire blog to wordpress in just a few steps.  I’m going to tag the hell out of this, in no particular order. PLEASE reblog this and spread the word so people know it’s an option. If you’re having trouble, PM me, and I’m happy to help.

@gallusrostromegalus @kaciart @lena221bee @deadcatwithaflamethrower

@norcumi @deandraws @morn-art, @thebisexualmandalorian @kristsune @marloviandevil @punsbulletsandpointythings @protagonistically @cris-art @elfda @fish-ghost @godtierwonder @heartslogos @haekass @iesika @incogneat-oh @itispossibleihaveissues @jaegervega @jhaernyl @the-last-hair-bender @kleine-aster @latenightcornerstore @lectorel @medievalpoc @mgnemesi @me-ya-ri @myurbandream @peskylilcritter @cywscross ,@cheshiresense @varevare @victoriousscarf @whatsmeantobe @swpromptsandasks @gabriel4sam @stonefreeak @brighteyedbadwolf @pumpkin-lith @puzzleshipper @suzukiblu @myurbandream @lacefedora @jademerien

There are a whole bunch more, but that’s a start. Please reblog the hell out of this, so people are aware of this one simple option.

[gallusrostromegalus]

For people asking how to backup thier blog

[adulthoodisokay]

Export your blog

You can export of all of the content you’ve created for your blog, and we’ll package it up into a convenient ZIP file for you to download. To start the process, go to your account settings on the w...

if you run a NSFW blog or post NSFW content, here’s how to export your blog 

[mysharona1987]

These people are, in fact, actually evil and completely lacking in any sort of empathy for their fellow humans.

This is not an exaggeration. 

Literally laughing at young children. Being tear-gassed.

There are Disney cartoon villains who wouldn’t even do that.  

[thepeoplesmanifesto]

I know people like to say “nazis are people” but they’re fucking not, they’re daemons, and they want to create a literal Hell on Earth

[arcaneloquence]

Don’t look away from this. Don’t be silent. Hold them accountable, hold their supporters accountable. Make it clear that this is not right, not welcome, and that it is answerable. Force acquaintances and relatives who prop these people up to look at this, make them explain it to you. Demand they tell you why they’re okay with it so they have to say it out loud. Make them uncomfortable. Make them see it. Make them answer.

[oldmanyellsatcloud]

United States President Denies Tear Gas Used Against Children At Border Despite Pictures/Video

[the-privateer]

they make captain planet villains look subtle and like masterminds

[sarcastic-pasta-games]

Article 13 & Youtubers

Youtube has made a response to this subject, which you can read here. 

“Article 13 threatens hundreds of thousands of jobs, European creators, businesses, artists and everyone they employ. The proposal could force platforms, like YouTube, to allow only content from a small number of large companies.“

There are dozens of videos and other resources out there that can help you understand exactly what content would be limited, or even prohibited completely, if this article were to pass. We’ve also linked below a petition for you guys, which you can sign even if you’re not from Europe.

Youtube’s twitter thread: Click here

Website: saveyourinternet.eu

Change.org Petition: Click here

Feel free to reblog this post and link to other resources not mentioned here.

A lot of posts on this article may seem a bit overwhelming, but the least we can do is try to provide you guys some starting resources so you can learn what may happen to your favorite creators. 

If people like us speak up and take proper action, we can continue to enjoy content from creators all around the world. So, we hope you can consider taking some time to fight against Article 13. Thank you for reading.

[phoenixislost]

This is super important, everyone. Even if you are not European, this will still have an immense impact on you and your internet use. Please help take action and spread awareness.

[doomcheese]

Giveaway Time \o/

To celebrate hitting 5k followers I’m doing a little giveaway with two prizes:

The first winner will receive an art commission, up to two characters and (so long as you’re happy to give me your address) a snack goodie box - I’m in the UK so this may be less exciting for my fellow Brits, but: snacks!  (and art)

The second will receive a sketch card, up to two characters :)

Only for people who are following me - reblog to enter.  I’ll be randomly picking a winner on Nov 29th to also celebrate getting older :B  

[fairysharkmother]

Shae was recently physically assaulted by her brother, and in the fallout she’s ended up at a homeless shelter that’s not safe for about a month now. Her phone was stolen on Halloween while she was at work, and she relies on her phone for work schedule, doctor’s appointments, important phone numbers like for her case manager and therapist, her map to get around, banking information; everything. Any donations would go to food, transportation, phone (it will cost roughly $200 to replace since she hasn’t finished paying it off yet), laundry tokens, medications, toiletries, credit card bills, and hopefully rent. She has an upcoming rental interview but it will cost another $300 for first month’s rent.

Here’s her donation link: https://cash.me/$glitterfuse

Thank you for helping. Shae misses you and hopes to return as soon as she’s physically safe and able to.

-Eliford

[fairysharkmother]

donation link is back online

small update: i was targeted by/preyed upon a few people at the shelter so i’ve been dissociating a lot more lately (i might make a post about that later just to vent). i’m out of there now as of wednesday and moved into program housing. i just shelled out $160 for prorated november rent; moving forward monthly rent will be $300. i need to buy food soon and i also just spent $56 on a medication run. at least i have my phone back now, i didn’t have one for about a week and it was hellish trying to figure out bus schedules in a new area without it

thank you so much for boosting this post and a special thank you to anyone who donates. i sincerely appreciate it. i draw traditionally and digitally so i could try to do a small doodle for anyone who donates

i’m sorry i’ve been quiet for so long, thank you all for putting up with me. i’ll try to be more active once i get my computer back

~shae the siren

[memewhore]

[timothechallamet]

[swedit]

bonus: HAYDENS SMILE OMG 

[catslock-deactivated20250510]

Can I just–? For a minute? I know this has probably been said before, but like… DUDE. For the longest time I seriously thought he was carrying some kind of prop, because why would they have their actor actually haul around a full grown ass man, right? Comparatively, Hayden is way slimmer. Ewan is a good thicc boy. So when I saw all the behind the scene stuff and realized that ANAKIN-YEA I WORK OUT-SKYWALKER CAN JUST FUCKING DEAD LIFT OBIWAN??!1! 

I WAS JUST– LIKE I FUCKING CAN NOT. I’M DONE.

[amidalascouture]

Boi is a good strong boi.

[petite-ursus]

Somewhere between (งಠ_ಠ)ง and  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  every day.

[jasmerripen]

Ah the ever elusive ¯\_( ಠ_ಠ)_/¯

[no-i-know-her]

I’m more like (งツ)ง tbh.

[paquim]

[annerocious]

Dear Men Writers

Lesser known facts when writing women:

High heeled shoes don’t become flats if you break the heels off.

The posts of earrings aren’t sharp.

Nail polish takes a long time to dry and smudges when wet.

You can’t hold in a period like pee.

Inserting a tampon is not arousing or sexual in any way, ever.

Feel free to add your own.

[deliciouspineapple]

- Bras leave red marks on the skin under and around boobs and it is a magical experience when taken off.

- Make up can take anywhere from 5 to 25 minutes depending on how skilled you are.

- Taking hair out of a ponytail after wearing it for hours does not make it perfectly straight when it comes down.

- Hair when wet sticks to the skin it no longer flows, idiot.

-When women with long hair kiss, turn around, do anything, their hair falls in the way.

- Stockings are itchy and tear like wet paper bags.

[ivegotthetriforce]

- Pantyhose, tights, leggings, and stockings are each different. - Waxing hurts and leaves red skin for a while afterwards while shaving leaves stubble - Most can’t run in heels unless they have been VERY worn - Insecurity in appearance doesn’t mean “buy me a drink” - EVERYONE HAS DIFFERENT TASTES IN EVERYTHING

[drmistytang]

-Having large breasts sucks. It sucks beyond belief.  If a garment happens to fit your large chest, odds are it won’t fit the rest of you. Underboob sweat is real and terrible. Bending over for extended periods of time will tweak your back out. Running can be painful due to boob turbulence. Bras are hella expensive. Big breasts are not fun.

[angryschnauzer]

Putting a tampon in isnt a quick bend-poke-done kinda deal. It involves cubicle yoga, messy hands, numerous curse words as you realise it isnt in correctly and have to take it out and start again with a new one.

[cassiopeiassky]

Yes to all of this.  But also:

If her hair is in an updo, one does not simply remove a hairpin to send her hair cascading down her back.  No.  If her hair is an updo, it will take at least an hour and an extra set of hands to remove the 137 bobby pins that are holding her hair in place.  Furthermore, there’s probably a can’s worth of hairspray in there, intended to withstand category 2 hurricane winds.  There’s no cascading happening here - the best you can hope for is a misshapen nest of hair to clump and poof unattractively in the back while it still remains flat against her scalp.

[marvel-lucy]

This is one of the funniest posts I’ve seen in a while (especially if you read all the comments), but also really depressing because at 42 I still judge myself as having failed for not matching up to all these mythical stereotypes despite knowing they’re impossible

[valeria2067]

^^^This though

[musicalhell]

The odds of a woman having smoothly shaved legs and armpits are directly proportional to the amount of skin her clothing bares and/or the amount of fucks she gives at that particular moment.

GLASSES ARE NOT COSMETIC.  If we whip them off, we do not become gorgeous fashion models.  We become squinty.

[thatsnicebutimmarried]

-most women wear bras. Yes, even when they are trying to dress sexy. Because bras make boobs look perkier and rounder, which is something men apparently find sexy, so being a seductress or femme fatale is not an automatic reason for a female character to not be wearing a bra.

-a good bra will hide headlights, or at the very least drastically reduce their noticeability. A women with enough pointy nipple issues will opt for a padded or molded bra to hide them.

-women’s nipples do not automatically become hard pyramids visible through any and all layers of clothing the second they become even slightly aroused. They are not the female equivalent of boners. And even if their nipples do get hard, the bras they are almost certainly wearing (because even a goddamn succubus with big, honkin’ knockers for seducing men is gonna have those painful puppies in some kind of boob sling) should keep those pointy nipples from being visible to every other character in the scene, JIM BUTCHER. YES, EVEN LARA RAITH WOULD WEAR A BRA ONCE IN A GODDAMN WHILE.

[eldriitchmurmurs]

if you’re being tied up and tortured in a freezing underground dungeon, then you probably have more important things to pay attention to than how hard somebody’s nipples are, jim butcher

[jabberwockypie]

- Wearing a bra that doesn’t fit HURTS.  It’s not sexy to wear a bra that’s “two sizes too small”, it’d make your clothes hang oddly and you’d have a weird, uncomfortable “quad-boob” effect and your back would hurt, BEN AARONOVITCH.

[phantoms-lair]

Also, after removing a too small bra, there’s gonne be angry red lines on the boobs and ribs and the lady is not going to want them to be touched by anyone for a good long while

[everystarstorm]

-Not all women wear heels. Those things hurt and are hard to balance in. They can also mess up your feet and back pretty bad.

[hattedhedgehog]

-Lips aren’t just naturally red “as if she’d been drinking wine but they were just like that without makeup cause she’s so perfect,” my dear little Kvothe from ‘Name of the Wind’. Also, girls do not naturally smell like fruit or flowers, it’s either perfume or something she’d been eating recently.

[generalistherbalist]

I’ve been appreciating this post but now it’s back very specifically calling out my problematic faves and I don’t think those male authors realize how much it totally takes me out of the story for a moment when they commit these errors. It does nothing useful for the plot and is annoying for half of the audience

[lmorasey-deactivated20230917]

Is it weird that I’m female and wasn’t aware of a solid third of these?

[infinitelyblankpage]

I mean, all writes take note. I basically live in man land when it comes to protagonists so I don’t know half these things despite being a woman

[furryarbiterangel]

(Most) Women do not look at themselves in the mirror and compare their breasts to fruit. Any sort of fruit. Especially melons. Please save us from the melons.

Also we are not aware of our breasts at all times. I do not walk down a flight of stairs and think “oh golly my breasts are bouncing so much right now”. They are as much as natural part of our bodies as arms. Do you constantly think about how your arms are moving? Sure you may be aware of them, but paying full attention? Doubtful.

[dukeofbookingham-deactivated202]

Also: women working out are almost never sexy. They’re not glowing or glistening or (kill me) *sparkling*. They are red and sweaty and gross just like all the dudebros doing their time with the dumbbells. Stop ogling fictional women at the gym, TOM WOLFE.

[ruby-white-rabbit]

So i went on a date to a haunted house and made friends with the girls behind us. As we’re going through, one of them is holding my hand and a guy leaps out and separates us. I panic as my date is pulling me along, I reach back for her and grab her hand in a group of three other performers and start getting out if there. After a bit I look back to check on her and I discover I’m holding the hand of a six foot tall zombie creature and not a 5'2" girl.

Cue the most terrifying realization of my life.

I had basically kidnapped this performer from his section and abandoned the girl and her friend behind us.

[ruby-white-rabbit]

Yes, I screamed. My date thought it was Hilarious.

Yes, we found the girls. Turns out when I grabbed the performers hand, he grabbed theirs so our group wouldn’t be separated. So there was just this zombie in the middle of our group line for like fifty feet

[kyuubinu-deactivated20190226]

This is like a Scooby Doo bit I love it

[musashigouda-deactivated2019032]

hey ao3 can you like give the extra $38k you made from this month’s funds drive to charity

[blooming-wilting]

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. 

[fangasmagorical]

kiena-tesedale replied to this post

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.