About As Edgy As a Satsuma

21| Pansexual | Female | I write fanfiction, along with other sorts of fiction, draw things, and sometimes I try my hand at other activities. Please do message me, if you want to talk, I'm not great at it, but I love making new friends. I have a sideblog, purely for reblogging all the wonderful things I find here, so please check that out and support some of my favourite creators. (@bluebellreblogsstuff).

[slipknut]

it’s the titematic universe

[cielsoleil]

Gonna tell my kids this is Hamilton

[dear-ao3]

[inactive5790]

So, uhm. Guess what my new obsession is.

[jewish-tutter]

someone explain the jewish holidays to me like i'm 5 years old

[rizaoftheowls]

Purim: They tried to kill us, we survived. Let’s tell the story, wear silly costumes, and get wasted. (Optional: have a carnival or a play!)

Passover: They enslaved us, God freed us. Remember this via a big ceremony/feast and then don’t eat bread for a week. This is a big one; you’re going to have to clean your house and host all your relatives.

Tu B'Shevat: It’s Earth Day, let’s eat some fruit.

Simchas Torah: We read the entire Torah every year, and we got to the end! Let’s have a dance party and then start all over again!

Tisha B'Av: They destroyed our temples. That sucked.

Rosh HaShanah: Happy New Year! It’s time to ask (and grant) forgiveness for the wrongs done in the past year, pledge to do better, and wish for a sweet new year. And go to synagogue for HOURS.

Yom Kippur: Rosh HaShanah’s somber counterpart. God decides on this day your fate for the next year. Repent your sins, hope for forgiveness, and fast. (And go to synagogue for HOURS.)

Yom HaShoah: Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Sukkot: Harvest festival! Sleep in a hut under the stars.

Shemini Atzeret: Man, I don’t even know?

Shavuot: God gave us the Torah! That was pretty nice of him.

Chanukah: They busted up our temple and tried to forcibly convert us. We responded with guerilla warfare. Let’s eat some fried food. Candles!

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

So basically the entire Jewish holiday calendar is giving the middle finger to death and high-fiving, with or without various combinations of prayer and foods.

[rizaoftheowls]

Yup. Or as we say, “They tried to kill us, we survived, let’s eat.”

[galaxy-of-great-possibilities]

thank you for the desc’s bcs they are beautiful and i am now educated

[above-d-clouds]

A handy table for everyone:

[cityglowing]

Y’all have no idea how happy it makes me to see my goyim followers reblogging this. Really. It means the world to me.

[hermajestyimher]

The way he ended the incels was so attractive to me

[bakwaaas]

I can’t stand american recipes what is a cup... WHICH cup bestie?? Which cup do I use

[bakwaaas]

[saltwaffle]

full offense but none of you would have ever survived fanfiction.net in 2009

[jetru]

remember when writers had to be all like: “omg omg lemon starts HERE” y’all are lucky that ao3 has tags and filters you can set

[domicileensnared]

Sometimes shit was marked “lemon” and it’d just be them making out, and sometimes they’d just start pissing on each other

No rules, no laws, you took your life into your hands opening fics

[frostyemma]

A/N: this contains SLASH, that means TWO MEN, if that makes you uncomfy, DON’T READ!

A/N: please don’t sue me, o anime overlords, I’m not making any money off of this! I’m just a broke student! I don’t have any money!

A/N: I totally wrote this while high off 10 Red Bulls wheeeeeee!!!!!

A/N: COMMENT if you want me to continue the next chappy!!!

[raimagnolia]

No, no, no

remember when there’d be interactions with the author and the characters?

InuYasha: I don’t get why I have to be here for this

A/N: Because it was in your contract!!1!1 *revs chainsaw*

[janekfan]

god those were lawless times. 

[inactive5790]

Honestly, even the first mention of “fantiction.net” activated my fight or flight response and it only got worse from there... ao3 is too good to us.

[leoreturns-deactivated20110811]

[tumboner]

omg

[merspers]

This has been in my queue for months.

[mcgooglykins]

I missed it last year and I vowed that would NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN.

[dxitydoo]

I finally managed to get this on my dash on the actual day!!

[nifrequerne]

I often wonder what happened to authors of unfinished fanfictions.

[everyoneinspaceisgay]

I hope they’re having a nice life

[ts-virgil-angst]

we absolutely are not and that unfinished fic haunts us to this day

[sensiblereblogifposts]

Reblog if that unfinished fic haunts you to this day

[inactive5790]

I swear like a quarter of my WIPs right now are the second or third chapters of things I wrote years ago. Will I get them done? I dunno. Maybe. Maybe when I die someone will find a shit ton of embarrassing half-finished fics on my laptop.

[starsandskiees]

This is the only tiktok you'll ever need, I've made about 13 of these and I'm not stopping anytime soon

[starsandskiees]

These are how mine are looking so far😌😌

[olderthannetfic]

Every year… Every damn year…

[fighterkimburgess]

Tags like this are the reason I tend to donate extra to AO3 when I can afford to.

[olderthannetfic]

Honestly, I don’t even care if people I know donate. AO3 is designed so that a few generous patrons can make a nice thing exist for everyone… But holy shit do I wish tumblr would learn how websites and companies work because it is important to know what motivates them.

On AO3, MORE TRAFFIC IS NOT BETTER HOLYFUCK. That’s only true when traffic = more ad revenue or a better pitch to venture capitalists or something.

[azcrowleyfell]

Ao3 is literally a nonprofit, kids.

[roach-works]

to clarify, rather than scold: The Archive Of Our Own is a nonprofit organization that runs an archive of fanfiction, specifically for the purposes of recording and maintaining all fanfics uploaded to it. it was founded after livejournal and fanfiction.net repeatedly deleted queer and ‘problematic’ fanfics in order to please advertisers and keep getting ad revenue. for decades, fandom was at the mercy of corporations who repeatedly deleted–with little warning and no mercy–whatever platforms were used to host fanfiction, especially dark, queer, kinky, and immoral fanfiction that would annoy corporate interests or scare off investors or offend advertisers.

AO3 is specifically relies on donations, rather than ad revenue, because it is the Archive Of Our Own, and is not answerable to any political agenda other than protecting and maintaining, again, all the fanfiction uploaded to it. there are checks and balances, and there’s a governing board, and they’re all dead serious about making sure that the archive endures any attempts by outside parties to censor or remove its content, no matter how abhorrent that content is.

the archive is an archive, not a social network or a platform. it hosts content and it serves that content to users in an efficient way–hence the phenomenal tag system–but it is meant to safeguard writers and their writing, not to profit from its users. it literally can’t profit off of its users or monetize their interactions in any way, just by virtue of its own structure: all money given to a nonprofit goes towards furthering that organization’s mission.

see, when a company or corporation makes money, it pays for labor and upkeep and then the guys that own the company keep the rest of the money, and that’s profit. when a nonprofit makes money, it pays for labor and upkeep and then if it has extra, it reinvests in various ways, like building new things or improving old things, or it saves the money for future labor and upkeep it might need.

the archive cares that users are able to control their own experiences of it, and filter out the stuff they don’t want to see. they care that users are protected from harassment. but they don’t profit from users’ engagement with the site, so they don’t do anything to encourage traffic the way a for-profit site that’s monetized engagement has.

hopefully this explanation helps someone.

tl;dr, a non-profit archive can’t profit from traffic the way for-profit social networks do, so it doesn’t care about you in a completely different way.

[olderthannetfic]

#i know this may be revealing a bit#but doea anyone remember asian fanfics?#i posted there back when#but not long after i faded from writing there#shit went down#they started editing people’s published works#entire sections deleted#even swear words were edited#so many works just destroyed#because their financial backer left and they were trying to appeal to new investors#and they needed to scrub it#i imagine a lot of my stories and tons i enjoyed are lost forever#and this was around 2014#not ancient history#support ao3

That’s interesting. People have mentioned an issue with Asianfanfics before, but I’ve never spent enough time there to really be familiar with its history.

[lolawashere-deactivated20240904]

[dechart]

@jared-wormsboy i am crying uncontrollably

[t-i-g-g-s]

I reference this in conversation sometimes assuming everyone knows about the Owl Attack Sex Playlist and i look fucking unhinged

[awenravena]

What is going on with the world??

[dinodaddy-deactivated20221014]

Jesus…

In a move that has sparked outcry from archaeologists, historians and locals, the Peruvian government has approved a multi-billion international airport near the famed site of Machu Picchu, Peru’s single most important tourist destination. Bulldozers have begun to clear millions of tons of earth for the project, which will be located in Chinchero, a picturesque Inca town.

Building the airport in this location will destroy an ancient landscape, one shaped by the Incan people with terraces and routes.

Critics also suggest that planes flying low over the nearby village of Ollantaytambo and its archaeological park filled with ruins and a massive Inca fortress with large stone terraces, would cause incalculable damage to fragile Inca ruins there and destroy the peace and beauty of the area.

The new airport will make access to the site much easier, and thus encourage greater numbers than ever before to visit.

But Machu Picchu is already overwhelmed by almost double the limit of tourists as recommended by UNESCO. [see also India’s Taj Mahal - an incredible site simply reeling under a relentless, ineffectively managed tourist, both domestic and international, onslaught]

It’s the constant battle between protecting the past and profiteering from it.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/may/15/archaeologists-outraged-over-plans-for-machu-picchu-airport-chinchero

[whitebear-ofthe-watertribe]

What the actual fuck

[onesinnerzerostandards]

how about NO

[strangelingincarnate]

The Uphill Battle to Stop Peru From Building a New Airport Near Machu Picchu

Opinions are divided in the agrarian town of Chinchero, where the airport is slated to open in 2025

[fericide]

PLEASE REBLOG!

hey! peruvian here

to be completely honest, there is probably nothing anyone can do about this at this point because it has been in the works since the 90’s. as you can most likely tell, our government is a fucking joke. still, this needs international attention. a lot of it. this is my country’s history, culture and one of the most beautiful things we have to offer at risk.

our best bet is at the very least causing somewhat global outrage to spread awareness and perhaps make this into something bigger amongst the middle and upper class people in the central cities as sadly the lower class and indigenous citizens (the majority of the country’s population) go widely ignored by the government and the former (middle and upper class) tend to also ignore shit unless they perceive it as affecting them directly

[wlwvintage]

Gay Freedom Day Parade, San Francisco, 1979.  

[stjepan-sejic]

yesterday was a funny day on twitter XD

https://twitter.com/GailSimone/status/1061786484028596224

[summeryewberry]

There’s been an update:

[summeryewberry]

Aaand another update:

[summeryewberry]

Update #3:

[summeryewberry]

Update #4:

[summeryewberry]

Update #5:

[summeryewberry]

Update #6:

[ruffboi-mags]

oh good we finally got there

[physibear]

THIS IS MY FAVORITE THING EVER

[moku-youbi]

It got better!!!

[iguanamouth]

ive been real sad the last bunch of days so i drew some dragons except i didnt want to draw the whole body so theyre just heads. theyre just the heads

[iguanamouth]

i made these three years ago but recently was commissioned by kit to make 2 more …! a whole swarm of em

[brainstatic]

Everyone’s like “those Germans have a word for everything” but English has a word for tricking someone into watching the music video for Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up.

[queenrinacat]

English has a lot more words created for very specific phenomena! It’s not just rick-rolling. Language is always evolving and it’s super interesting! Here’s a list of hyper-specific/untranslatable words in English.

[edweeirdo]

Some of these are fucking wild.

[tiredproblemchild]

I deadass forgot some of these existed

[chiksey-deactivated20210301]

I thought this was a rickroll but?? It’s an actual list?? Holy shit dude

[lichrelly]

wow, i didnt know craptacular was even a fucking word in english.

[four-hargreaves-deactivated2022]

This list : is super useful

Hotel : trivago

[theoneandonlyredrobin]

This is actually super cool

[pisshandkerchief-deactivated202]

Holy fuck, this is neat. I thought some of these were just slang terms

[inactive5790]

Holy shit, I need to start using some of these.