woof!

Fox/Eddie, he/they, 20. jpegDaedalus on ao3 what’s this button do?

[queer-as-city-folk]

Trans people deserve to grow old.

[halfsizehellboy]

goodness gravy. new fic up!

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[estro-boi]

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

[estro-boi]

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

[macleod]

How to Use Torrents (with Pictures) - wikiHow

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bitorrent or utorrent.

[azaablue]

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

[halfsizehellboy]

i've gone the wrong shagging way, austin thought to himself, groovily

[halfsizehellboy]

got around to pirating one last kill and i gotta say. massively underwhelmed and i can't take him seriously anymore. i appreciate gratuitous gore as much as the next freak but everything else was just eh

[jauntylittlefrillyboy]

I think the solution to kids on the Internet is to have specific, kid friendly spaces on the Internet. Kids wouldn't come across "adult content" on YouTube if barbie dot com still had flash games and this is a hill I will die on.

[aetherograph]

Oh! Then I know the EXACT person you should be mad at! Michael O'Rielly! He's the one that gutted the Children's Programming Rules, which covered internet as well as television.

[jauntylittlefrillyboy]

HELLO?

[aetherograph]

#so the death of the Saturday morning cartoon is THIS motherfuckers fault?????

Indeed it is! The FCC controls how much of broadcasting has to cater to children and that includes how educational that programming has to be, and exactly how much and in what way you are allowed to advertise to kids. That's why for the entire 90s and up to the early 00s, kids shows had shorter commercial breaks, and ads that talked about a website had to say "ask your parents before going online", and those websites had to be non-commercial--i.e. they could not be shops, and could not have any way you could spend money or were encouraged to spend money. That's why Barbie.com was flash games, and O'Rielly LIFTING that ban is why Barbie.com now takes you directly to a storefront instead.

If you're mad about Saturday Morning Cartoons, dark patterns in ads targeted at children, online protections for kids, or wondering why educational children's shows aren't as much of a thing as they used to be, get mad at the FCC and the person in charge of it who is gutting the Children's Brodcasting Rules (sometimes called the Kid Vid Rules), because those rules control all of that!

While O'Rielly is responsible for gutting the rules in 2019, he was replaced in 2020 by Nathan Simington as head of the FCC, and Simington resigned in June of this year. The post remains vacant as of the time of this writing (August 31, 2025).

And a side note: Things like KOSA and SCREEN and all those other censorship bills that use "think of the children" are not going to protect children at all; if you want to protect kids online, there is already a way to do that it's called the Kid Vid Rules and the FCC is the one that can update and change them to keep up with the times! It doesn't need a congress vote, it already got voted on in 1990!

[halfsizehellboy]

the amount of male authors in these scientific articles about afab/women's health and hormonal contraceptives is not giving me great confidence... I don't trust them and I will be making sure as many of my references as possible are authored at least in part by women/femmes

[halfsizehellboy]

saved so many pics of dex in the devil suit to my bullseye pinterest board it can't tell who's who anymore, which is the real goal here

[phierecycled]

“And during the darkest days of the AIDS crisis we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced all night, and it was the dance that kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for.” — Dan Savage

keep dancing. keep finding joy. keep fighting.

[sodomit]

I was looking for photos of one physical condition that happens to penises and came across this photoset.

[mckitterick]

[rip-quizilla]

[halfsizehellboy]

*watching my bowl of frozen peas spin in the microwave* treat yo self…

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

[halfsizehellboy]

just got my wisdom teeth out and i spent the night before sorely overestimating the energy it takes to remember things and be funny coming out of anesthesia. so here’s a couple things i thought would be hilarious for me to say but didn’t because i was busy spitting up blood and pushing the gauze out of my mouth:

in response to opiates/prescription painkiller offer: no thanks i’m not built to survive a substance use disorder

you guys only took the teeth right

is it normal to feel the IV this much (could feel the tube in my arm and i now have a gnarly bruise from it)

i did end up apparently getting a list of what they gave me because i have a drug history paper due in a couple weeks.

[halfsizehellboy]

everybody who’s really into heated rivalry needs to watch blades of glory

[fluentisonus]

people are like you just need to apply to 10 jobs a day meanwhile each of the jobs want you to write them 1500 words of uniquely tailored sycophancy & then manually input your cv into their custom application form 3 different times