of the fog people

being kind and having fun post 30 - London/Helsinki

[historicalsnail]

I wish someone would draw the Ghosts in the style of the Horrible Histories cartoons that showed up in between sketches.

The cartoon Captain introducing the next scene “During WW2 it was ill-advised to, ahem, go against the grain“, cut to sketch where the Captain has to share a cramped bomb shelter with the cute new guy and it’s like involuntary “Seven Minutes in Heaven”, except they’re trying to not kiss.

[hug-me-brutha]

I knew I had this saved to my pintrest somewhere!

Ghosts Poster in 2021 | History cartoon, Horrible histories, Cartoon art styles

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[bawdiestrhymester]

RENT. FREE.

⁽ᴛʜᴇsᴇ ᴀʀᴇ ᴊᴜsᴛ ᴍɪɴᴇ, ᴏꜰ ᴄᴏᴜʀsᴇ. I’ᴍ sᴜʀᴇ ʏᴏᴜ ᴀʟʟ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴅɪꜰꜰᴇʀᴇɴᴛ ᴏɴᴇs⁾

[solitarelee]

sir that is my beloved mutual with whom i have not shared a fandom since 2013

[aniseandspearmint]

SIR that is my- okay, look i can't actually remember why i followed them or why they followed me, but I LOVE THEM, it would be WEIRD not to see them reblogging gifsets of shows i have no interest in!

[dailywillbond]

13/02

[bawdiestrhymester]

I can never see this without thinking about Jim’s ESB reference.

[galileosballs]

Assuming you are no longer in high school: what was your primary mode of conveyance between your home and high school?

Car driven by parent/guardian

Car driven by elder sibling (also in high school)

Car driven by self

Public Transit

School-sponsored transit

Walking (<30min)

Walking (>30min)

Jet (private)

Bicycle

I think that's exhaustive so I'll just make this 'show results'

Voting ended onFeb 19, 2024

There's no agenda here. I was just thinking about how I used to walk 45 minutes to school and 45 minutes back every day (eg. I could listen to two full LP albums of music every day) and that I have no idea how common of an experience that is.

[sixidiotsdavidtennantfan]

3 years ago… I miss all the BTS stuff!

[katestewartt]

Nine and Donna would have had the most unhinged, uncensored and completely bonkers adventures. Villains would run for the hills at any mention of their names, the Master would try to avoid them at any cost, their faces would be on every WANTED poster across the universe. No one would be safe from the Oncoming Sass of Nine and Donna.

[spuffygifs]

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER | S6E4: Flooded

[lackadaisycal-art]

Ghosts scribblin

[jackwolfes]

thinking about that post of people assuming ao3 has an algorithm and also about how bonkers persistent the view is that ao3 is social media lite. like with startling regularity I get comments saying something along the lines of "it's probably weird to comment on a fic this old--" no it isn't!!!! this is an archive I am literally just assuming you searched for a selection of specific tags or sorted by kudos or looked back on my pseud or any other number of completely normal ways to use an archive site ?? kill the tiktok ghost in your brain and comment on old stuff it's NOT weird

[naryrising]

Guess how many people contact us regularly to ASK for us to have an algorithm, go ahead. Because it's many. And I always take a little bit of enjoyment in explaining that no, we're not going to build a system to recommend fics to you based on your kudos, because for one thing that would be extra work, and for another thing that would require us to be tracking and using a lot more of your data than we want to. We actually do not want to monitor that people who liked Fic A also liked Fic B, or that people who like the tag "butt plugs" might also enjoy the tag "anal fisting", or whatever other nonsense seems to be the expectation these days. I already know enough (more than I'd love, in a perfect world!) about people's reading habits, and I don't want to have that knowledge deployed via algorithms on the Archive just because someone really wants an automated conveyer belt of content being streamed directly into their feed based on us extrapolating from their most commonly used tags or their most frequently visited works or whatever.

(I also do not want to imagine how many people would contact us to yell at us the second they got a 'bad' recommended fic. "I can't believe that you recommended this to me, you monsters!")

Anyway here's my favourite sentence to include in my answers: "We hope instead that users will take control of their own experience using the Archive, and choose for themselves what works they wish to view or not view." Apparently a novel view in this day and age.

[sainamoonshine]

Good lord there are so few places left on the internet that function the way websites were originally supposed to work -- that is, a tool that shows me specifically the things I asked it to show me, with the unsaid but implicitly understood related concept that if I didn't ask to see something, I neither expect nor want it shoved at me. (There can be an option to see random things, but choosing to use that option is still something I need to choose, on purpose.)

Otherwise the website becomes a tool that does not do exactly and only what I asked it to do -- therefore, a defective tool. One that is not under my control and is not particularly useful to me, or fun to use, or even safe.

Like legit I've had people laugh at me for being upset that social media feeds no longer show me only the stuff of people I've followed. Most times it doesn't even show me that stuff at all, even mixed in with the "recommendations". Either I need to mega-super-follow them, or I need to block everyone else. Like, what the fuck. When did social media become opt-out. When did "follow" stop meaning "I would like to see this person's posts or the posts in this tag or the posts about this subject" ???

what the fuck is "follow" even supposed to mean, or to do, now??? If the button no longer serves a purpose, then at least be honest about it!

Anyway this is why AO3 is a place of solace because it's one of the only rare places left where I can open up a menu, choose an option, and then the websites does the thing I asked it to do and no other fuckery.

[emma-ofnormandy]

SAS: Rogue Heroes 1.01

[captain-rickbond]

Catholics can't put on muscle mass because God hates them!

[i-do-fun-polls]

Are you from these countries?

Thailand

Botswana

Luxembourg

Italy

Finland

Canada

multiple

none

Voting ended onFeb 22, 2024

Used a random country generator to make it fair

Reblog for sample size!

[finalproblem]

When Sherlock dreams, does floaty text appear around his head?

[barachiki-deactivated20150525]

Yeah but it kind of spoils the fun… 

(Unless he’s proving a point)

[barachiki-deactivated20150525]

“This situation is ridiculous, I’m clearly dreaming.  I’ll just walk away.”

“Sherlock Holmes, you are not dreaming!!  Now for God’s sake put your clothes on!”

[destinationtoast]

@notagarroter ’s tags:

[marinella-ela]

[contact-guy]

“His hands were invariably blotted with ink and stained with chemicals, yet he was possessed of extraordinary delicacy of touch, as I frequently had occasion to observe.”

[cloudyfacewithjam]

You were always on my mind You were always on my mind