multi-collection

he/they 🏳️‍🌈 #BLM #Transrightsarshumanrights #Newdeal4animation

[fromriches-tosin]

Stand by Me

status: 1/1 (completed)

ship: Reiner Braun/Jean Kirschtein

warnings: Jean’s crude language

summary: Jean doesn’t know they are dating. Reiner wants to take things a little further. Written for ReiJean Week 2024.

prompts chosen: post-Rumbling, marriage proposal

sneak peek:

“You’re disgusting.”

“Excuse me?”

“What was that? With that letter? It’s a shame she didn’t send us her used panties, right? I’m sure you’d gladly sniff them, too.”

“What crawled up your ass and died, all of the sudden? Is our Jeanbo jealous?”

“Fuck off, Reibear.”

It took them some time to get back to that level of banter. At the very beginning, Reiner had been so stressed by the idea of insulting him in any way, Jean had to work hard to get him to relax and to talk back like a regular human being.

Jean knew Braun felt indebted to him after the Rumbling; felt like he had to make up for the sorrow he had caused. So, he followed Jean wherever he went, usually as a completely mute companion who only chose to grunt in agreement whenever Jean actually asked for his opinion.

He became Jean’s shadow during the ambassador meetings, shopping trips and late night walks — as well as during the months spent working at refugee camps; taking care of the survivors, contributing to the dream of a peaceful future, planting trees and picking up whatever human remains they came across in the areas destroyed by the Rumbling.

Reiner’s sorrowful expression, puppy eyes and extremely annoying tendency to apologize for every little thing pissed Jean off even more than his recklessness and complete lack of regard for his own well-being. The number of times he had yelled at Reiner for hurting himself by accident, equaled the number of times he yelled at him for apologizing for hurting himself by accident.

continue reading: AO3

[valmendy]

Day 3: Only One Bed

[valmendy]

Some other comms I like! ♡♡♡♡

[jean-kirschtussy]

Rewatching S1 made me realize that S4 is where the animation team really started emphasizing Mikasa's "emotionally neglected rescue dog" eyes

[casualaruanienjoyer]

It's so true😭

[swagpescado]

FEM JEANNN! (pls no weird comments about her as i am not comfortable w that since i personally believe 19 is still a teenager)

this panel?…🏳️‍🌈

junior high babies

+ silly hange based on twitter post

[slygirlboy]

my favorite genre of alien picture is little grey aliens just naked in the woods like why the fuck are you here. you have a spaceship. why did you come to earth to just stand in the woods and look at us with no clothes

[slygirlboy]

this is like top tier comedy to me. what the fuck are you DOING man

[waifuarts]

[nea-dot-im]

So Ross Scott has been trying to build a strategy for how to combat the Games as a Service model where games you bought can be unceremoniously stolen from you by shutting down some servers. I feel this is somewhat important, and here's the video shared on Tumblr!

[catchymemes]

[catgirlcadaver-deactivated20241]

hard to believe there are actually people out there who think that big noses are ugly and unattractive … like what the fuck is wrong with you ?

[catgirlcadaver-deactivated20241]

I need you specifically to kill yourself. choose a slow and painful method also

[castrotophic]

BIG NOSE WOMEN SUPREMACY 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

literally how can anyone not find these women the hottest people ALIVE

[valtsv]

it really is insane how waking up early will grant you access to some of the most beautiful sights and sensations in the world that will make you want to live forever, but only if you overcome the gauntlet of a thousand razors that is getting out of bed early. truly one of life's little saw traps.

[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.

[mushroomwriter]

Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

[liberalsarecool]

This, this, and this.

Christofascism is a failure of ideas, devoid of rational thought. It's an ideology of ignorance.

[vvujiarchive]

why’d he say it so happily

[chilpilled]

his smile and optimism…….gone………

[huh-enheim]

[misogynistcatgirl]

I loved when AI art could never be anything but AI art. the dreams of a computer. now it's all boobs and photorealistic women doing bad kink. but I remember you. I miss you. I love you, Secret Horses.

[misogynistcatgirl]

remember what they took from you