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[amnesiaguy]

why is it always the fancylad boy-king type whos the bottom. maybe his tough loyal knight who uses his body to protect and defend him and lives to serve him wants to get railed

[amnesiaguy]

maybe i just like it when masc dudes with scars and calluses and a devotion complex bigger than the moon get topped by troubled prettyboys with hands thatve never worked a day in their life. who said that

[wehavekookies]

i can’t stop thinking about Regis’ eyes doing this in the dark:

just gotta put it out here for You to think about it too because ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[solarsyrup]

always some kind of fucking temperature

[outofmymindbebacklater]

Me: ok I’m gonna read actual books now, time to take a break from fanfiction

Me two hours later, still on ao3: can’t stop won’t stop

[thestovetops]

(Congratulations everyone!!! 🎉🎈🎊)

[balamist]

staff: our bot is very reliable

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[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.

[catscenter]

[vladtheunfollower]

yes I do the cooking yes I do the cleaning

[ganondorfs-pocket-pussy-deactiv]

It looks like he’s just screaming at the overwhelming amount of dishes.

[korroz]

Ignoreme

[nauticalradical]

i slowed down the audio of this vine and it now seems like the dog turned of the lights and freaked out the camera man

[sonypraystation]

this man is being murdered and you cowards just sit and watch

[cutekittensarefun]

My roommate came home to witness my cat being summoned by her new shrine

[princesstigerbelle]

I love this

[from-armin-to-z]

@korroz mentioned how great hockey goalie Reiner would be and I 1000% agree 🏒

[markv5]

“Технически, я не ходил по столу”…

[overachieversloth]

I’m gonna shit a brick.

[lovethebadguy]

The demise of Vine is drawing closer. I couldn’t stand the thought of all those cat videos out there being lost to the abyss, so I gathered a few (i.e. nearly 50) of my favourites.

I hope you enjoy this compilation of cats and kittens being funny, silly, or just plain adorable.

[disgustinganimals]

Grab a tall whatever of your favorite beverage before you watch this. Best to be sitting down already.

[shiroskeith-blog]

Next time antis are being, well, antis, show them this:

[asspostate]

miss me with that ‘weapon accuracy’ shit. im shooting everything. im laying down cover fire. im shooting the walls. im shooting my teammates. im shooting myself. my accuracy is 100% yall just dont know what im aiming at

[00000000000000000001111-deactiv]

[korroz]

Chapters: 3/? Fandom: Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Reiner Braun/Porco Galliard, Porco Galliard/Reiner Braun/Bertolt Hoover Characters: Reiner Braun, Porco Galliard, Marcel Galliard | Berwick, Bertolt Hoover Additional Tags: Spanking, Hand Jobs, Exhibitionism, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Alternate Universe - High School, Double Penetration in One Hole Summary:

Just porn, not exactly drabbles but close enough, featuring Gallirei.