The Crank Palace

Follow me. And remember, if any body parts become detached due to an unfortunate encounter with a crank, I highly advise you leave said body part behind and run like hell. Unless it's a leg, of course (tmr trilogies).

[marz-rm]

hey abc if you looking to hire I'm here

two other pages on patreon

[ao3commentoftheday]

Work in Progress Wednesday Thursday

I don't remember the last time I was quite this excited about a skin that I'm making. I have no idea if all of this will end up in the final version, but I'm just having so much fun with seeing what I can actually do that I wanted to share some work in progress shots.

(honestly? the hardest part has been finding the images. any tips on where to get medieval illuminated artwork would be much appreciated!)

In the first image, the AO3 title and the lady/dragon are separate images so on a desktop monitor the AO3 part is on the left and the dragon piece is on the right.

Editing to add the github link: get the skin here!

[randomisedmongoose]

Been using this skin for a while and it's lovely! But lately there seems to be a problem with an element on the work page. There's the picture of the scribe in the stats/tag box that gets repeated below in the work text, and I can't figure out how to remove him without removing the stats/tag box image as well. Unfortunately he's obscuring the text... Any pointers? (Screenshot to illustrate.)

[ao3commentoftheday]

I have no idea why this happened, but here's the fix. Find this part of the code:

.works-show.region div.wrapper dl.meta { border: none; box-shadow: none; background: url("https://64.media.tumblr.com/6fdc92a6e98b450d03f65bb1538acb0e/7fa12c05ca858dab-83/s500x750/86dae0593b29adb575c45a9a2cbfb7c763a6d8bb.png"); background-position-x: right; background-position-y: top; background-size: 30%; background-repeat: no-repeat; }

and add that dl.meta to the end of the first line. That'll restrict the background image to just the metadata area.

[cuppachar]

AO3: Tartt's Truth by Cuppa_Char

“This is breach of contract,” Marcus blustered, waving papers. “Jamie’s obligated. The reunion is gold — ratings will be through the roof. He can’t just walk off set because he’s having a diva moment.”

Roy was on his feet in an instant, chair scraping back. “Diva? You fucking listen to me.” His voice was low, dangerous, the kind that used to clear dressing rooms. “Your show pressured him. Ignored every red flag. Coerced him into shit that wasn’t right. You turned a blind eye for ‘good TV.’ That’s not a contract — that’s exploitation.”

---

After the Amsterdam revelations, Jamie Tartt is forced to confront his past when the Lust Conquers All reunion starts filming at Nelson Road thanks to Jamie's original contract. As old memories surface and his carefully rebuilt life at Richmond begins to crack, the team rallies around him—especially Roy. With Roy, Ted, Rebecca, Keeley, Higgins and the Greyhounds at his back, Jamie finally faces the truth about what really happened on the show.

[animentality]

[this-is-fandom-joy]

How to do picture comments on Ao3; a Tutorial

Has a fic ever absolutely devastated you to the point you can’t form a coherent thought? That’s okay! That’s where picture comments come in! Here’s how!

Go to https://postimages.org

Upload your image 

Copy the direct link

paste this text into the comment box <img src="link">

Paste your link onto the quotes 

Post!

The result should look something like this! I recommend saving the text to your notes app so you can copy and paste them

happy commenting!

[kondensaduhhh]

i love when fics mention, or when people talk about Jamie's flinch when Roy approached him after he punched Tartt Sr. Those few seconds of maybe Roy Kent was on his father's side, seconds of maybe Roy Kent came to finish what his father started, seconds of maybe Jamie Tartt really was that easy to hurt, seconds of maybe Jamie deserves all that hurt.

and then Roy hugged him. and it felt like the world corrected itself, or maybe it turned on its axis?

Jamie doesn't know which way is right anymore. but at least Roy Kent's holding him down.

[pixie-hood]

Nobody messes with his boy.

Carl Morck and his (step)son Jasper Stewart (and the creep) Unhinged cop at it again, modeling how to tell a creep not to fuck with him.

Dept. Q - 1x06

[lady-of-the-spirit]

Jamie is friendly with exactly one of his neighbours and it's a young teenage girl who likes to bother him about anything and everything she happens to think of and he thinks she's absolutely annoying but in the funniest way. He pays her way too much to come and water his plants when he's away for too long.

[lady-of-the-spirit]

Roy seeing them interact for the first time: holy shit, there's two of them.

[lady-of-the-spirit]

Also I think it would be funny if this girl does not give a fuck about football and Jamie is Appalled but he's willing to forgive her for it and then she starts looking up football stuff only to give him shit.

[whump-polls]

spin the whump trope wheel

opinion on the trope you got?

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like it

neutral, depends

not really my thing

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nuance

results

Voting ended onJun 1

[centrumlumina]

I’m not sure whether you know the answer to this, or whether or not there’s a way to find out, but I’d like to ask:

In all of AO3’s history, how many instances has there been in which a fandom with over 100 or over 1000 fics has had a platonic relationship be the most written one, appearing at the top of the dropdown list?

Because I can only think of one (2 if you count both book and movie): Project Hail Mary.

And I’d really like to know whether there’s any others.

This isn't necessarily an exhaustive list (especially if the same pairing appears in multiple fandom tags, which many of these do), but I used my AO3 Ship Stats data to try to find a few of the largest fandoms where the largest relationship tag is a platonic one:

Batman - All Media Types - 194,603 works - top relationship Dick Grayson & Jason Todd

Minecraft (Video Game) - 115,828 works - top relationship Wilbur Soot & Technoblade & TommyInnit & Phil Watson | Philza

Dream SMP - 93,420 works - top relationship Wilbur Soot & TommyInnit

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - All Media Types - 39,556 works - top relationship Donatello & Leonardo & Michelangelo & Raphael (TMNT)

Danny Phantom - 28,996 works - top relationship Danny Fenton & Tucker Foley & Sam Manson

The Last of Us (Video Games) - 14,208 works - top relationship Ellie & Joel (The Last of Us)

White Collar (TV 2009) - 13,819 works - top relationship Peter Burke & Neal Caffrey

Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon) - 13,537 works - top relationship CT-9901 | Hunter & Omega (Star Wars: The Bad Batch)

The Outsiders - S. E. Hinton - 10,432 works - top relationship Darrel "Darry" Curtis Jr. & Ponyboy Curtis & Sodapop Curtis

Linked Universe - jojo56830 (Webcomic) - 10,327 works - top relationship Four & Hyrule & Legend & Sky & Time & Twilight & Warriors & Wild & Wind (Linked Universe)

[destinationtoast]

Nice! I found a couple others by looking through the fandoms that showed up in my Gen analysis from 2024, and I added those to the above set and visualized them -- along with PHM! (There are almost certainly some other fandoms missing that are bigger than Project Hail Mary is but are under 10K works, though.)

I've tagged the relationship as the top-line item, with the fandoms right below -- so you'll see Peter Parker & Tony Stark twice, for both the Spider-Man and Iron Man fandoms (I thought it was interesting to compare the size of the ship in each fandom) and similar for the two PHM fandoms. I also split the number of works into those that have the Gen category and those that do not; I figured that the platonic ship might be a background ship in the ones that aren't tagged Gen:

If we look at this graph (and the underlying data), the main ship from Project Hail Mary looks relatively tiny -- which makes sense, given that that fandom is new and the others have all had much longer to grow! But what's particularly interesting is what happens when we look at the same ships as percentages of their fandoms:

I've once again sorted the data by the number of works that are Gen and therefore likely to actually be platonic. (I also showed how much of the rest of the fanworks in the fandom are tagged Gen outside of the biggest relationship.) In this view, PHM leads the pack -- both book and movie! It'll be really interesting to see if anything changes as the fandom grows.

Side note: I also noticed when looking at some past data that Gravity Falls has sometimes had Ford Pines & Stan Pines ship heading its list, but currently Bill Cipher/Dipper Pines is juuuust ahead of that one.

[wolfram-blorbos]

having a resting bitchface is so funny because i'll be doing something relaxing, and really enjoying myself and my face will look like this

[myheartflutters]

I Need This Pin (VIA AVAILABLE HERE)

[zerockzeslaughter]

YOOOOU DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW BADLY I NEED THIS

[just-a-person-on-earth]

... Holy crap, that-... That's me. They turned my brain into a pin... & I want it.

[legacyxcrew]

Me in a nutshell 💀

[moonvenusearth]

system overload lmao

[eri-cheshire]

But seriously, where IS the music coming from? It's stuck in my brainnn!!! 😂😂

[swearphil]

@pscentral​ event 41: heroes [insp]

SHAWN: The Mantis can't even fly or activate into half of something you just happen to need in the moment. GUS: He's clearly emulating the every man superheroes like Batman and Iron Man. Besides you shouldn't criticize the guy without knowing his origin story.

[jamesrodayrodriguezpresents]

Happy National Superhero Day!

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[avspidvr]

AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH — spider socorro, jake sully, kiri, neytiri, lo’ak, tuktirey

“where’s his spare mask?!”

[broughtchaburger]

we will find another way

[avspidvr]

AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH — miles quaritch, jake sully, spider socorro

“you have a choice.”