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anasabdin

The power of limited palettes in pixel art: each section uses the same animation but different 4 colors.

#pixel #art

allthingswhumpyandangsty

#writing problems

allthingswhumpyandangsty

#writing problems

alphonse-mucha-paintings

-The Moon-

#art #beautiful #art nouveau

[video by soupygarbagejuice. original caption: stuie]

bitemeilovewaffles

"I guess I would scream too if I knew a God could hear me" is too much of a raw line to come from a tik tok about a cat

theshitpostcalligrapher

vibes tbh

sailor-moon-rei

by bad_angelab

art republished with artist’s permission // not allowed for AI training

#sailor moon #art #cute

twoheartsoneclara

#pretty

maureen2musings

Lena, our host in Santorini, Greece

bradflowerss

#cat #cute

damnhotpocket

Gema.piano on instagram

Why are all music teachers like this 😭😭😭

communeist

THEY ARE

crematedequally

when i was 8 i had a very intimidating russian woman as a music teacher- she was both my opera instructor and piano teacher. about a month into piano, she sat me down and said to my mother and i "this child- very beautiful voice, good for singing. i will not allow this child to continue piano. god did not want this child to play an instrument. he told me this in dreams. that is all."

my mom had it written down on a slip so we could remember the exact words because it was so funny. i HATED playing piano and i was definitely not good at it (i did end up having a good 5 years of opera training and ended up being a pretty accomplished choir singer though) and the idea of god sending my incredibly severe and serious russian piano teacher a dream begging her to stop teaching me piano was probably the funniest way it could have gone.

#lmaooo #piano #funny

olderthannetfic

No, no, and NO.

AO3 does not live in “the cloud” because that is other people’s computers, and other people’s computers are vulnerable to censorship.

AO3 is on its own computers. It does still have to be housed somewhere, and I suppose a determined enough hater could try to find that place and go after it, but it’s a lot harder than sending spurious complaints to Amazon or whomever going “BadWrong things are hosted on your cloud service!”

Owning the servers is a core tenet of OTW/AO3.

zz9pzza

Warming up a new database server….

elfwreck

When people involved with AO3 talk about “the cost of servers” they don’t mean “the cost to pay Amazon for space on their servers.” They mean, like, the cost to physically own them, and eventually replace them with new ones. And the operating costs to run them.

AO3 is not “in the cloud.” AO3 is stored on physical machines that the OTW owns.

While this is not a solution that can work for everyone who wants to deal with controversial content, it is why AO3ple sneer at alt-righters who complain about getting thrown off hosting platforms.

crowns-of-violets-and-roses

I Want Us to Own the Goddamned Servers

Because I want us to own the goddamned servers, ok? Because I want a place where we can’t be TOSed and where no one can turn the lights off or try to dictate to us what kind of stories we can tell each other.

lierdumoa

AO3 is what a website looks like when you seize the means of production.

auxphono

Absolutely!

AO3 was established because of fic being thrown off website hosts, fic being censored and/removed, and fic writers and archivists being sued by IP owners and authors.

The only way AO3 could ever exist without those daily threats is by owning their own servers and domain (and awesome lawyers and everyone else involved).

That is why there are no ads. That is why it is (typically) stable. That is why there are strict tagging rules.

We Can Actually Have Nice Things.

They set out to ensure we could for future generations, and past generations and current generations. They are fighting the good fight, so you don’t have to.

The Organization for Transformative Works (who created AO3) are an actual non-profit organization, not a company.

#ao3