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Loquarocoeur info:
Firstly: Obligatory mature content warning
Hi, my name is Alex and this is mostly an F1 blog you may know me from my Ao3, most likely either Yours Verse or Casual
I also have a discord server, which is an 18+ space, please read the rules and guidelines!
Also note that I don't accept requests. This blog is mostly me answering asks, but I am a full time student, so when the ask box is randomly off, I don't hate you, I'm just busy<3
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Omg!!!! This is so beautiful, I'm so honoured🥹 Thank you so much for reading and drawing this, it means so much to me❤️❤️❤️
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reblog if you love archive of our own and how they firmly refuse to let censorship have any place on their platform
hey ao3 can you like give the extra $38k you made from this month’s funds drive to charity
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.
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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.
This is the most functionally-successful and cost-effective website in the history of EVER. By a wide margin.
why must a fic be "finished" is it not enough for it to be lovingly daydreamed over a period of 6 months.
what i need people who are not in the intersection of genuine hockey fan/queer community/gen z 1.0 is that heated rivalry literally could not have happened any sooner than now.
when scott brings kip onto the ice at the 2017 stanley cup, that is two years after gay marriage is legalized in the US. it’s one year after the Pulse shooting. there were maybe three openly gay professional athletes at the time, none of whom were in the NHL. the NHL actually has never had any openly gay players actively on the roster.
i’m the same age as hudson williams; we were 16 when the scott+kip kiss would have happened. i remember big youtuber coming out videos still being news worthy at 16. if you wanted queer representation back then, your options were Will & Grace, The L Word, and Drag Race. and that’s not nothing! i remember Love, Simon being fucking revolutionary. i also remember knowing people personally who were told not to bring their partners to prom.
it was a completely different era for queer acceptance. we were still having to settle for “hate the sin, love the sinner” tolerance. and you know what? queer people in their 20s and 30s and older were telling us we were LUCKY!!! AND WE WERE!! WE HAD IT BETTER THAN THEM!!! THE BAR WAS IN HELL!!!!
i can’t remember what my point was supposed to be but i guess the point now is that we need to get better at appreciating how far we’ve come and what it took to get here. losing hope is how we lose our progress. a low budget tv show about queer athletes has the second highest rated episode of television ever. 16 year old me could not fathom that.
The lion lowkey concerns himself a little bit
i do not “delete sentences” when they start “hindering the plot” i COPY PASTE THEM into a SEPARATE DOC made just for keeping all my USELESS LINES that i will also NEVER USE so therefore i should JUST DELETE THEM but i DONT because id FEEL BAD if i did
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happy new year and a late merriest christmas to u!!!! I wish you all the peace and love and easy, precedented times this year 💖💖💖 thank u for being a wonderful partner in fandom this year <33
Thank you!! <333 A happy new year and a thousand blessings for you too, thank you for your friendship and companionship, may we have a wonderful new year together in this hellscape <3
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