ROLLING THUNDER!!!

30 // my fics keep your eyes forward. { i follow from blueraspberrycoolatta }

[kings-highway]

okay visualize a scene with me. shiratorizawa gym. someone is making fun of shirabu for being short. ha ha ha. tendou makes a joke. "'thats why you gotta grow taller. nobody can pick up me!" ha ha. ushijima picks him up. not gracefully. hands under his arms just up off the floor a foot. understandably, tendous brain shuts off a bit. he does nothing. ushijima does nothing. the rest of shiratorizawa is silent. ushijima begins to realize he might have misread the social situation. was that not a challenge? tendou should probably say something but his executive function is gone. he is in the air. ushijimas arms are getting sore. why has this happened? what folly of human nature have they stumbled into that has led to this? when will the nightmare end? Semi spots them as he is coming out of the locker room. "oh my god, put him down!" he declares, not unlike someone scolding a pet who has eaten something it should not eat. ushijima panics and drops tendou. tendou is unprepared and fully hits the floor. ushijima stares at him. someone should say something. "you are wrong" ushjima says. someone should have said something that isnt that. tendou is on the floor.

[sunriseverse]

can’t go wrong with pining while fucking as a trope. truly it has it all. pining. awkward sexual situations. weapons grade insecurity for all parties involved. the desperation as they inevitably fall further and further while hating themselves for being unable to stick to the contract of no strings attached. etc. you understand

[eurydicees]

do you ever think about how oikawa shares a birthday with alexander the great and iwaizumi’s birthday is the day alexander the great died or are you, like. normal

[eurydicees]

completely imaginary scenarios that i made up in my head which i simultaneously crave and also can never survive happening. i am at a trivia night at the bar with my respectable friends who are prepared for things like pop culture and music and movies and whatever. i am not prepared but i show up. “what day did alexander the great die?” is the question. my moment has come. we consult with our teams and they don’t really know but i am so fucking sure guys you have to trust me i fucking KNOW THIS he was born july 20 and died june 10 i know this i KNOW this. we answer june 10 and i am of course correct. how did you know that my team asks. they are impressed. i bask in their impressed-ness because it is about to go away. “well there’s a haikyuu character” i start. they groan and jeer so loud we are docked five points.

[sophistired18]

dumb ass and smarter ass

[lightningstrikes-art]

[lightningstrikes-art]

original version

[pasta-lovaa]

“ao3 should have recommendation features!”

That’s what community is for! Ao3 doesn’t owe you shit. Ao3 is but a filing cabinet in the big beautiful office of tumblr. You all need to clock in and start engaging in fandom culture again and then you’ll get those sweet sweet fanfiction recs.

[kedreeva]

It literally has a recommendation feature.

The heart icon is a recommendation rather than just a bookmark. It's literally there already. The feature exists.

What they don't - and shouldn't - have is an algorithm that shoves fics you might like into your face. That's not a recommendation, that's an algorithmic advertisement devoid of heart or soul or mind.

If you would like to find recs for fics you might like, go into the comments or bookmarks of a fic you like, click on the usernames of people who have commented or bookmarked it, and look at their bookmarks and recommendations. Chances are good if you both liked this fic, they will have read other things you will like, too. If they've bookmarked/recommended the fic you both liked, chances are good they have bookmarked/recommended other fics you might like.

I'm not saying don't engage with the community. You should definitely do that and people who cross platforms and write detailed recs for fics or make rec lists are part of the lifeblood of fandom. I'm just saying that there are multiple ways to engage with the community, and one of them is using AO3's recommendation feature. Recmark those fics and leave a comment so other readers can find fics they might like. Then go make a post with a link- there's even a button for doing that effortlessly if you just want to generate a simple post with the fic info!

[forestgreenandgray]

source

[gooberjam]

call your representatives to urge them to vote against further funding for ice. this is a very easy process through 5calls and it takes 2-3 minutes. you are almost guaranteed to leave a voicemail so please don’t feel nervous or stressed about it, this is something that could make a difference. all you need to do is put in your zip code and the site will provide a script and the numbers for your representatives.

[gooberjam]

the deadline is january 30th and it’s good to call frequently if you can

[livesuffer]

sorry about all the mean things i said when i was right

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i'm begging you guys to start pirating shit from streaming platforms. there are so many websites where you can stream that shit for free, here's a quick HOW TO:

1) Search for: watch TITLE OF WORK free online

2) Scroll to the bottom of results. Click any of the "Complaint" links

3) You will be taken to a long list of links that were removed for copyright infringement. Use the 'find' function to search for the name of the show/movie you were originally searching for. You will get something like this (specifics removed because if you love an illegal streaming site you don't post its url on social media)

4) each of these links is to a website where you can stream shit for free. go to the individual websites and search for your show/movie. you might have to copy-paste a few before you find exactly what you're looking, but the whole process only takes a minute. the speed/quality is usually the same as on netflix/whatever, and they even have subtitles! (make sure to use an adblocker though, these sites are funded by annoying popups)

In conclusion, if you do this often enough you will start recognizing the most dependable websites, and you can just bookmark those instead. (note: this is completely separate from torrenting, which is also a beautiful thing but requires different software and a vpn)

you can also download the media in question (look for a "download" button built into the video window, or use a browser extension such as Video DownloadHelper.)

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

if the "Complaint" links are not visible for you:

Option 1: try the DuckDuckGo search engine instead (bonus: dedicated to privacy! doesn't track your data!)

Option 2: go directly to LumenDatabase.org (the website that collects the complaints--and therefore the removed links) and search for the title you want. look for results titled "DMCA (Copyright) Complaint to Google" featuring the media you're looking for. Proceed to Step 3 (above).

[awkwardinnocent]

personally, i'm a huge fan of r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH. they keep their links up to date and they also rank them, basically. they also have all kinds of little pages explaining how to safely pirate shit.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

^^^^what they said. I'm surprised people are still reblogging this post now that google's flushed itself down the toilet. so here is your

2026 UPDATE:

just go to r/FreeMediaHeckYeah and r/Piracy. it's easier, more reliable, and will take care of all your piracy needs!

[forgetful-nerd]

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

I hate how bot comments on ao3 are making more and more writers disable their comments and lock their works so that only people with registered accounts can access their works (because while some of these bots are from registered accounts and therefore locking your fics won’t guarantee that you will be safe from them, a lot of them are commenting as guest users so locking fics helps a little), because there are so many genuine readers who read and comment on fics without having their own registered accounts.

these bots are not only annoying and harmful (if you fell for their lies and gave them money, an access to your personal informations), they’re also keeping artists and art from genuine audiences and destroying the community artists built with their audiences.

this is a post to say fuck you every bot out there.

WITH EVERY REBLOG THIS POST GETS, A BOT WILL DIE

also here’s how to spot and deal with bot comments

[dorkishdorkish1905]

my most precious boy, forever ( insp )

[001x456]

fanfic writers and fan artists are carrying fandoms. they are the backbone of fandoms.

thank you fanfic writers and fan artists

[luulapants]

If you're in the US, now is a great time to talk to the young people in your life about the US military:

The recruiter is not your friend. The military employs child psychologists to learn how to make you think the recruiter is your friend.

The recruiter is allowed to lie to you and makes more money if they do.

The recruiter is paid a commission to groom children into cannon fodder.

The recruiter will tell you you're special and will go into special smart soldier programs instead of combat. They're lying.

The recruiter may tell you they can tell if someone can get PTSD or not and only recruit people like you, who won't. They're lying.

The recruiter may tell you you'll be too busy attending free college (!!) to go overseas. They're lying.

The recruiter may ask what countries you want to travel to and promise you bougie placements on military bases in those countries. They're lying.

Even "It's just four years!" is a lie - the government is allowed to hold you past your enlistment period with a stop-loss order.

The recruiter actually has zero power to decide anything that happens to you after you enlist and they more importantly don't care what happens to you.

If you enlist, you will be brainwashed to make you willing to do things to other humans that you would never be willing to do today.

You will be ordered to do things that will kill children. And you'll do them.

The military is not the only way or even the best way for you to go to college or start a career.

Military brainwashing will actually make you into a terrible university student because it degrades your ability to think critically and question your sources.

Having PTSD and/or a TBI will make it harder to be a student and keep a job.

Veterans' benefits suck these days.

Being a veteran drastically increases your risk of homelessness, suicide, alcohol and drug dependence, prison time, and becoming an abuser to your loved ones.

The military will expose you to chemicals that will drastically increase your chances of developing cancer.

The military will withhold information about your rights to conscientiously object after enlisting.

A lot can change in four years.

[sulkybender-retired04042026]

Your comments mean something even when the author never replies.

Sometimes your comments mean something especially when the author never replies.

[sulkybender-retired04042026]

exactly this

[b1cr1ptic]

SEND HELP I AM ON BOKUAKA HELL