Put Domhnall in the fridge.

I used to do rec lists but now I just kind of exist. Icon by sparrowlicious

[huxblush]

Is it just me that’s still mad that Hux never got his own spotify playlist during the TFA marketing? If they could make a playlist for fucking Boba Fett, then they could have made one for Hux. 

[huxblush]

you know what fuck spotify, I made my own.

[jeusus]

Might as well share mine

[huxblush]

It does make me smile that people are still re blogging these stupid posts like 7 years later lmao

[chernozemm]

I need Aziraphale learning very quickly that being kind and considerate gets him nowhere in Heaven, so he tucks away his goofy, big-hearted nature and just turns into a maliciously compliant Bitch™.

This is a man who canonically has "discouraged" multiple mobster groups threatening to burn his bookshop, who has successfully scared hundreds of customers away by being just unpleasant enough and who dropped down three octaves to correct Furfur when he messed up his name.

He swallows his pride, puts on a power suit and starts executing a Corporate Nightmare upon upper management in Heaven.

[huxblush]

Sort of rediscovered this blog and I’ve been reading through all my old discourse posts. I still stand by like 99% of what I said, but it’s so sad looking back at how toxic the culture of 2016 Star Wars tumblr was.

I have no idea what the point of this post is.

Anyway, annual reminder that I’m not dead. I’m alive and well over on Twitter @huxblush. I don’t post about Star Wars much but feel free to send me a follow request.

[elfboi]

[theundergroundwoman]

for the love of god please let the gays run away together at least once successfully

[nbpsiioniic]

"you can't ship that, it'll never be canon!"

look, when I was your age, we shipped characters who never even met in canon. uphill. both ways. in the snow.

[zoya-nazyalenskys-archive]

Yennefer & Jaskier being soft™

[izzy-hands]

Jaskier using ‘artist’ as a term for queer

[new-anon]

[ORIGINAL WORDS BY @ewanmcgregorismyhomeboy12]

EDIT: this is a quote from the movie KUNG-FU PANDA 2. This is just a fun joke, and is not intended to be taken seriously.

[partywithponies]

I love that in the ten years I've been on tumblr, tumblr users' attitude towards tumblr has come full circle, now we're back where we started at "tumblr is our beloved home, no other social media can compare, no other website has what we have, do not trust other websites, do not tell the outsiders about us", only this time we're like. Really exhausted and with a sense of irony about it.

[postmodernmulticoloredcloak]

you know what, we should organize a tumblr convention

[beaft]

[archivezinc]

maybe this fandom is awful to YOU. im having a lovely time looking nowhere but my little corner and curating my online experience

[tuskenraidermemes]

I hear there's this old wizard who lives on the edge of the jundland wastes, you know anything about him?

Yeah... uhhhh.... nice guy......

[lesbianralzarek]

"i could fix him" yeah? well i could accept him as he is. you don't like the murder? grow up. the atrocities are part of him and ive decided they're funny

[huxblush]

aesthetic: pastel halloween

Boy, I wanna taste you, I wanna skin you with my tongue I’m gonna kill you, I’m gonna lay you in the ground

[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.

[turing-tested]

a fandom can just be you and the ten people you haven't blocked yet

[robertmitchum]