arlo

they/them | 20 | queer | autistic | welcome to my twisted mind | naruto and things i find to be funny

[wordcubed]

[juniper-sunny]

[jam-art]

don’t ask questions just take it

[leafcrunch]

they’re called. th. they’re called responsibilities bechause theyh keep fucking respawnjng

[everythingbutlarry-deactivated2]

AU: President Obama falls for part white house intern part rockstar Harry Styles. Obama surprises Harry in the audience of one of his shows and the affair blossoms from there.

[tsarcasm-deactivated20180922]

Please get this off my dashboard right now immediately

[airframeextender]

this is the best post on this website

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

This is fantastic because it makes every type of person upset in a different way

[napalmskye]

Some people don’t respect the classics

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Sometimes old things don’t become classics they just go rancid

[eternally-eepy]

i love this image (not sure who made it but god bless them)

[fishing-lesbian-princess]

It’s absurd how many communication mediums have been ruined by advertising, spam, and scams. Most of the mail you get is junk, most of the emails you get are junk, most of the phone calls you get are from bots, even a good portion of the text messages I receive are spam of some kind. If they ever invent a way to transmit thoughts directly between persons (not something I would even want) it would immediately be used to beam advertising into your brain. Hell companies are already researching to see if it’s possible to put ads in our dreams. Nothing is free from capitalism and nothing is sacred

[rosethornewrites]

Lots of Reddit threads on FFN recently having trouble.

Last May there were posts about FFN being abandoned. Anyone have links to those?

[into-september]

Sometime last year there was someone on tumblr dot come going “I’ve seen this before, folks, FFN is going down”, but I think it’s been nearly a year since that

[alexseanchai]

so FFN could have been abandoned for two years at this point, as long as they paid for hosting and domain name in big enough lumps, and it'll go down in a dramatic fireball when one of those prepayments runs out

[into-september]

The official twitter account went pretty abruptly silent a year ago, huh

[trainsinanime]

The fun thing is that at least for me, the tweets that both FFN and FictionPress list on their front page have timestamps that are like “10h ago”, but if you look actually through their twitter thread, those are actually from January 2021. I don’t know if the thing is actually actively dying, but it certainly isn’t very alive right now.

(As always: Always make sure you have a local backup of all your fanfics. You never know what might happen, to this or indeed any other fanfic site.)

[flightfoot]

I just hope that if it’s dying, the people in charge make sure to contact ArchiveOfOurOwn staff before it goes under, so that they can perform a mass fanfic rescue. I’m sure there are already plans drawn up for that eventuality, as ambitious as it would be.

[beatrice-otter]

Fanfictiondownloader.net will download any story from fanfiction.net into whatever format you like (PDF, epub, mobi, rtf, and several others). It won’t be an online archive available to fandom as a whole, but it means you can at least keep a personal copy for yourself.

I recommend doing this for any fic you like on ff.net.

Just in case.

As a Fandom Old, I can tell you that it really really sucks when an archive just disappears and you can’t find your favorite fic anywhere else.

[prismatic-bell]

So I know someone who’s trying to perform the fanfic rescue flightfoot is talking about.

IT IS NOT POSSIBLE due to the way ff.net is coded. EVERYTHING HAS TO BE SAVED BY HAND. Which means actively retyping it. Word by word.

IF YOU WANT TO ASSIST WITH THE PRESERVATION OF FANFICTION HISTORY, NOW IS THE TIME TO DO IT.

Pick a fandom. Any fandom. I’d honestly recommend starting with the ones with very small amounts of fic because those are most at risk for complete fandom loss. Start saving. Do it by screenshots, if you have to. Do it comprehensively—start on the last page and save every. Single. One. Make sure you include the header and any author’s notes. EDIT NOTHING, ONLY DOCUMENT. Yes, if that means someone misspelled something or you spot a misnamed character, you need to keep that error. If you can form a “network” with friends to save all of a fandom’s works, DO IT.

Do not skip any fics. We are not the arbiters of what “should” be saved. If you can get access to the forums in any way, save whatever you can access. I know some of that has been saved by the Wayback Machine, but not all. I can already tell you research into My Immortal has been rendered uncompleteable by the loss of the forums. That’s going to be true for ALL fics. Save whatever you can reach.

I strongly recommend using the following format for whatever you save, so it can be indexed later: fandom_fictitle_author_datefirstposted.fileextension. So for example (I’m making this fic up for demonstration purposes, don’t bother looking for it), naruto_blessing_ichigo98_07192009 would be Blessing, by ichigo98, posted in the Naruto fandom on 19 July 2009. This provides all the information needed to see if a fic has been cross posted to the AO3, and to run a search engine to see if it’s archived elsewhere.

We may not be able to save it all, but we need to save as much as possible. I can start a Google spreadsheet or something if people want to have a database to keep from getting the same three fandoms over and over.

If we’re going to rescue it, THE TIME IS NOW.

[comradesepsis]

As of today, September 17, 2022, fanfictiondownloader.net does not work to archive things from fanfiction.net. However, retyping everything by hand isn't the only option - copy and paste is still working for me in Firefox operating on Windows 10.

As previous people in the chain have stated, the fact that the writing has been on the wall for FF.net for more than a year does NOT mean we were wrong - it means we are running out of time. The administration really does appear to have abandoned the site. So whenever the bill comes due for the hosting (and you can indeed buy hosting and domain names etc in large chunks - like decade-long chunks, in some cases) or whatever, and that doesn't get paid? The site is going down.

There is no FF.net lead mission to archive or save it. There is no "I hope FF.net's staff contacts AO3 so the fic can be archived." If we want it saved, it is up to US to do it, and the time to do it is NOW.

Even if you literally go in there and pick a fic at random, EVERYTHING HELPS. Small fandoms, large fandoms, fandoms you're sure somebody else has already covered - doesn't matter. Do it anyway.

Please help. This isn't a huge and co-ordinated effort. There's no phone tree. If you are reading this, I am begging you personally to help. Even if you only archive ten things - THAT HELPS!

Start in the fandoms you love or start in a fandom you've never heard of! Just please!! Help us save this stuff before it's lost forever!

[draconic-cuddles]

So, uh... if there's any stories you like on FanFiction.net and you want to be able to read those in the future, NOW is the time to back that shit up.

[anannua]

this is like watching the titanic go down

everyone toss a life ring, even if it's just one

[sheepwizard]

each piece comes from a different store that can be found at my local mall and possibly yours!! one question is timed. one result image features alcohol/smoking.

let’s see paul allen’s mall-based outfit

[grad-school-fool]

I want to be angry but it’s 1) right and 2) with the state of academia right now likely the closest I will get to true tenure

[bunjywunjy]

okay but please tell me where you found the yellow flamingo shorts because I need them IRL

[bemusedlybespectacled]

[stares at entire wardrobe] yeah no shit

[gaymergal]

[galateagalvanized]

[konanpleasekissme]

this is very very accurate… i have magenta and neon yellow hair and my glasses are heart shaped…

[teathattast]

[official-josh]

Likes charge reblogs cast 🥳🥳🥳

[femalepope]

I have no perception of time. I will be like "I have class in 2 hours... Do I have time to shower 🤔🤔"

[tsunflowers]

I feel bad for people who’ve never experienced a corn maze bc it’s not even fun but you just have to do it

[tsunflowers]

I'd like to reblog this with some tags and comments bc I've really appreciated reading them

people who get what I mean:

people who have found a way to have fun in the corn maze but who I'm a little worried about:

person who we are going to put in the corn:

[theartofangirling]

I’ve been waiting a year to post this

[theartofangirling]

it’s that time of year again

[shivorce]

snoopy goes grocery shopping at . at the snoopermarket

[konanpleasekissme]

i’m finally able to get new milk tomorrow bc i finally have a car in order to drive and get it. but i made an appointment to go and curbside pick it up and i’m super nervous i won’t be on time. i’m also nervous they’ll take my card and it’ll decline or like randomly stop working and i would feel so embarrassed

[eebie]

girls love him for his poor posture and pathetic demeanor

[totallynormalmountain]

geologists talking about shield volcanoes

[eebie]

i love you. this post is only about shield volcanoes 🌋 now. everyone else fuck of❌