we didn't start the fire

Star Trek, Hannibal, Star Wars, Marvel, DCU, other assorted crap...anything that tickles my fancy basically.

[stanleyraymondkowalski]

thor is a problematic loki apologist remember when Loki was dead in the comics so Thor was like “im gonna bring him back” and everyone was like “umm thor is that a good idea remember all the murder he did” and Thor was like “yea……but I miss him”

[jaaneymann]

he’s his fucking brother,,,,let him bring him back,,,,jfc,,,,y'all really on here judging thor for wanting to bring loki back when y'all want to fuck venom in the same breath,,,,just let my problematic child BE smh

[stanleyraymondkowalski]

#like excuse me#they’re brothers#so what if loki fucked up a little

I don’t think you understand how literally my post was just Facts™. Thor is an embarrassing Loki stan and here’s Balder calling him out bc Loki destroyed Asgard like, yesterday

[garnetrod]

#thor: i wish i had a brother here to share this burden with #balder: dude. (via @stanleyraymondkowalski)

[naewitchcraftinvolved]

#balder: what the fuck is this targaryen nonsense im out @thunderbisexuals

[lokisergi]

Thor: I miss my bro Loki ;_;

Thors biological bro Balder: Must we do this? again???

[iamnmbr3]

Thor: it’s so sad not having a sibling anymore

Balder: im right here

Thor: … noted. anyway im tired of being an only child. time to get loki back

[eirianerisdar]

POLITICALLY AMBITIOUS ELVEN LEADER??

ELROND??? POLITICALLY AMBITIOUS???

HE WHO REFUSED THE CROWN OVER THE NOLDOR AFTER GIL-GALAD DIED DESPITE BEING HEIR TO ALL THREE HOUSES OF THE SONS OF FINWË BY BIRTH, ADOPTION, AND LATER MARRIAGE????? SPENT AN AGE AS GIL-GALAD’S SECOND WHILE HIS BROTHER’S LINE WERE KINGS??? WHO RAISED A HOMELY HOUSE INSTEAD OF A CITADEL??? WHO CHOSE THE PATH OF HEALING DESPITE GROWING UP IN A SERIES OF WAR CAMPS??? WISE AS A WIZARD?? KIND AS SUMMER????

[eirianerisdar]

ALSO WHAT IS THIS

LAST I HEARD GALADRIEL HAD GONE OVER THE MISTY MOUNTAINS TO FOUND LOTHLORIEN BECAUSE OF QUARRELING WITH CELEBRIMBOR OVER EREGION

AND CELEBRIMBOR AND THE DWARVES OF KHAZAD-DÛM HAD AN EXCELLENT RELATIONSHIP (looks pointedly at Narvi and a literally friendly door) WHETHER ELROND WAS A PART OF THAT IS DEBATABLE GIVEN ANNATAR BUT STILL-

[eirianerisdar]

It gets worse

[southfarthing]

20 YEARS WITH THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (19 DEC 2001)

[omnipotentlovers]

why did q not simply appear on the bridge as a horse if he wanted picard’s attention 

[marlinspirkhall]

Bonjour

Oh, mon dieu! C'est un cheval!

Oui. Chevauche moi, Picard, chevauche moi!

Pardo?

Euh… Chevauche moi? *le clip clop*

Q?!

Oh, mon capitaine! You see right through me.

[marlinspirkhall]

Horse: Hello

Picard: Omg, a horse

Horse: Yes. Ride me, Picard, ride me.

Picard: Pardon?

Horse: Uhh… Ride me? *le clippety cloppety*

Picard: Q?!

[vulcanrise]

local francophone reblogging just to add that “chevauche-moi” doesn’t exactly translate to “ride me”, it translates to “mount me” which i believe is much more cursed

[marlinspirkhall]

Absolutemont suplerblymont

[bowie-star-trekking]

Hi i fuckin hate this and im about to throw hands. also im horny,

[marlinspirkhall]

- Q every time he appears on the bridge in TNG

[anais-ninja-bitch]

i don’t even fucking go here, but i need to spread the blight

[dunhamsolivia]

PATRICK STEWART AND JOHN DE LANCIE IN THE PICARD SEASON 2 TRAILER

[scaryassclowns]

STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES 2.03 “The Changeling”

[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.

[nuttersinc]

This.

[milfmaekar]

RIKER????

[milfmaekar]

In the last 2 weeks i have seen Riker appear in 4 seperate star trek shows, NONE OF WHICH WERE TNG

he is everywhere

[milfmaekar]

There is no escape from the Riker

[milfmaekar]

Mr Frakes we need to talk

[the-randomness-and-fandomness]

[quasi-normalcy]

It’s important that everyone understand that, when I say that I “like” a villainous character, what I in fact mean is that I consider them to be both cool and morally praiseworthy, as well as correct in their aims and methods and worthy of emulation by people in the real world. Just in case there was any ambiguity on this point.

[quasi-normalcy]

I further elaborate that I consider them to be An Excellent Role-Model for Impressionable Children.

[quasi-normalcy]

I almost neglected to mention that they are a worthy sexual partner and that I am aroused by everything that they do.

[will-ruadh]

#Spock, no

[moviehub]

Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983) | dir. Richard Marquand

[so-kafkaesque]

thinking about how jonathan frakes thought riker should have kissed a man in the no gender alien episode. and andrew robinson playing garak so gay they had to write less scenes with him and dr bashir. and multiple other instances of cast/crew/writers wanting to have gay characters and stories and repeatedly being told no by showrunners and producers. it makes me so sad for everyone who missed out on telling or seeing lgbt stories on a show that was supposed to push boundaries. im just thinking about it.

[boyd-stevens]

The Avengers (2012)   |   Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

[ao3org]

Behold, the Archive of Our Own!

After moving our little collection of servers to their own rack close to six years ago, and then expanding to a second rack in August 2018, your donations have now paid for three racks total! (The pictures were taken in December, while work on the third rack was happening, which explains the extra cables and things.) We now maintain over 30 servers just to power the Archive, and we’re sure we’ll be adding more soon. 🥳

[hjbender]

Behold the living, beating heart of fandom ❤️

[itstartswithbloodshed]

dean, befriending people: some of you are going to have to die for sam.... that’s a sacrifice i’m willing to make

[elivanto]

Return of the Jedi | The Mandalorian Chapter 16: The Rescue | The Force Awakens

[medusaceratops-deactivated20210]

i’ll say it til the cows come home but as undeniably strange as the star wars prequels are, george lucas’ direction with anakin was downright fucking inspired. people were waiting for whatever badass backstory lucas was sure to give them, awaiting a naturally intimidating actor with rogueish charm to be cast, waiting for this masterpiece of badass villainy or whatever, and george lucas is like no, no, i’ve got you. and then he finds the one man on the planet who looked babier than baby mark hamill and says, “his main personality trait will be being weird and awkward, secondary personality trait loving his wife, tertiary personality trait being incredibly good at murder, and all of these traits will do battle on the silver screen for three movies until they all win in possibly the worst way.” that fucking rules. george lucas could’ve done anything with darth vader and he willingly, enthusiastically chose mentally unstable college student who is somehow married but his only friend is his kind-of dad. that fucking rules, top down, that’s fucking exquisite. if you don’t think that premise is inherently entertaining you’ve got no taste