Jace's Great Escape

This is a personal blog, so most of the things here are fandoms that I follow, with a funny little tidbit here and there. Some of my fandoms right now are Sleepy Hollow, Once Upon a Time, Sense8, Dark Matter, NCIS:LA, Supernatural....

[gwenstrophyhusband]

we deserved an episode that follows arthurs point of view but still had a magical threat merlin has to take care of just to see how utterly unhinged merlin looks from literally anyone elses point of view

[bilosan]

[tsundereslasher]

#ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

[glasspudding]

wait i’m sorry

but does anyone else notice how in the second gif, they are so busy staring into each others eyes that merlin doesn’t notice the jug being taken from him?

[onigi]

I’m not in this fandom but I am the guy on the right in the second gif

Other people came here to eat dinner, your highness

#WHERE IS THE HETEROSEXUALITY HERE#PLEASE#SHOW ME

it was never here. literally. in the first episode the gay subtext was unbelievable. 

#I bet the other knights have just got used to this#like#oh look Merlin and Arthur are having a moment again#it’s your turn to take the tray and finish serving the food Percival#no it’s not I did it last time#get Leon to do it it’s his turn#oh damn it’s not even worth the argument now they’re making out and he’s dropped the tray#that’s the second time today#right#who’s going down to the kitchen to get more food then?

[jimmysea]

#right in front of my salad coffe?

[chandlebing]

Maybe we should just let the adults handle it.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[dollopheads]

There’s something about you, Merlin.

[dbahh]

Surprise! I’m gay～

[whyactlikeahuman]

[safeinpeetasarms]

#i literally crack up everytime #at least ten of the notes are from me

[taraljc]

if I ever don’t reblog Obi-Wan’s complete lack of fucks, assume I have perished and have been et by my cat.

[o-wise-corvid]

Look how tickled about it he is. 

[ladyandthelotus]

Me, picking* a character to obsess over

*being picked by

[incorrectmerlinquotes]

Merlin: I seem to have fooled everyone, including me, into thinking I’m an idiot

[blumineck]

Well, I've been asked to come back on tumblr, so I'll start by posting some of my recent (ish) videos while I try to remember how to tumbl again!

[nudityandnerdery]

This is exactly like watching a cat run around, that's precisely what a Tabaxi should look like, I think, well done.

[elodieunderglass]

I know nothing about D&D but I support all of this activity

[elishamanning]

has anything ever delivered better content than nfl mic’ed up

[elishamanning]

this conversation... absolutely wonderful

[chalkandearth]

[xanadontit]

Attn @deargooftroop and other interested parties

[deargooftroop]

Yay!

[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.

[dollopheads]

There’s something about you, Merlin.

[ghostcitymaster]

[manicrussiansoul]

[abonent-nedostupen-navsegda]

[505nametheenchantedboy]

[virginwhoredichotomy]

stop comparing other characters to castiel the gay angel. castiel the gay angel laid one hand on his love in hell and was lost, castiel the gay angel had a conversion therapy arc, castiel the gay angel has passively killed straight people and stolen their children to raise them with his husband as their own TWICE, castiel the gay angel is canonically so deeply in love that he is the only being in existence who evades god's control and has true free will. stop comparing other characters to him it's frankly embarrassing

[tikkety-tok]

Life imitating art.

[loverspond-remade]

[coolfrogdude]

original thread by @pukicho and several other users

[plausiblyren]

I always love seeing this comic because it interprets Tumblr as a gigantic theater ruled by absolute chaos where sometimes somebody just stands up on their chair and shouts and we all pay attention

[adulthoodisokay]

this post is from THIS YEAR

[glowzoul]

had to fact check and holy shit 2020 really has been 3 years long.

[thirteenth-king]

0_________0

Impossible

[averruncusho]

WHAT THE FUCK

[demoniccheese83]

that was from tHIS YEAR??