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Andulka
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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
shark vs the universe
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
RMH
almost home
Show & Tell
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occasionally subtle
taylor price
KIROKAZE
Origami Around
Sweet Seals For You, Always
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Love Begins
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Keni
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possibly one of the most hilarious exchanges on doctor who
Honestly all the conversations between the Daleks and Cybermen in this episode were fucking gold
I know nothing about Doctor Who lore but I feel like the Cybermen and the Daleks are both the descendents of two exes who both designed robots.
You haven’t even seen the best one yet (or at least, it wasn’t in this reblog chain):
purge of 2002? of 2012? what ARE those?
Oh, how quickly the past is forgotten.
They are part of the reason A03 is a thing now. Not the whole reason, but part of it.
The Great Purges of 2002 and 2012 are when ff.net got a wild hair up their ass about THINK OF THE CHILDREN and nuked any fic posted on there that was explicit. Thousands upon thousands of nc-17 smutfics were lost.
It’s what led to the creation of alternate hosting sites for smutty fic…AdultFanfiction was the one I went to…but thousands of fics would never be recovered.
Shit like the Great Purges and the Strikethrough of Livejournal eventually led to fans banding together to create A03, which I would have absolutely KILLED for when I was 15.
Back up ao3 was created by fans?
It’s…right on the main page.
I love this because I will bet you that persefv has read that bit we are all so inundated with hyperbole and advertising that says that the consumer is somehow in charge of whatever product they are shilling that we all just assumed this was another sales tactic.
But we’re not even… selling anything… *quiet sobs*
No ads. No subscriptions. No data selling.
We are the definition of “what it says on the tin.”
Is there any way to spread this info?
THE OTW WAS CREATED BY FANS SO WE’D HAVE AN ARCHIVE THAT WASN’T SUBJECT TO CORPORATE REVIEW.
Nonprofit, so that nobody could ever say, “this isn’t making enough money; it’s getting shut down.” (See: Geocities, Quizilla, Figment, G+.) With lawyers involved and a firm awareness of the legalities of fanfic, so nobody would decide “we’ve gotten a nasty letter from a megacorporation with lawyers, so we’re hiding because we can’t afford to face a lawsuit. (Jedi Hurtaholics, Trevizo’s Millennium site.) With teams, so that an argument between co-mods didn’t result in the destruction of a whole archive. (Gryffindor Tower, Detention.)
AO3 IS OUR SITE.
It is by fans, for fans. Fans do all the coding. All the legal paperwork. All the abuse/tos violation complaints. Fans make all the choices about policies. Fans decide how to run the fundraisers. Fans write the blog posts. All the volunteer staff are fans; all the people who train them are fans. Fans wrangle all the tags.
(And the other OTW projects, too. Fans manage the entries at Fanlore. Fans run the Open Doors project. Fans publish Transformative Works and Cultures.)
EVERYONE WORKING FOR THE OTW LOVES FANDOM. Wants it to survive. Wants it to be awesome for everyone.
(Knows that it can’t be awesome for everyone; some approaches to fandom just clash hard. But they strive to minimize those clashes as much as possible, because they love fandom.)
AO3 is not some company that decided, “we’ll make a site for fanfic and then…” I don’t know what people are thinking is the reason. Money? Data harvesting? Tax shelter? Amusement and pity?
Nope; AO3 was fans saying, “Livejournal sucks; we’re tired of this fucked-up ‘rebuild every three years’ garbage; WE NEED TO OWN THE DAMN SERVERS.”
That’s the “of our own” part of the name. OTW isn’t a “them” running the site “for us.” It’s “us” making places for “us” to share what we love with others of “us.”
This this this.
I was there for all of that shit, and AO3 is a godsend. If you enjoy or create fanworks, support AO3, donate if you can, and remember why it’s there in the first place!!
Fandom history really does get lost quickly. For current 20-something fans, AO3 has always been there.
I am 1000% sure that THIS lack of information is behind the “AO3 is Teh Evil” backlash among…some.
Those unaware of it see the site, the design, the functionality, and just Assume that it must be a corporate creation and they are therefore duty-bound to rebel against it and deem it problematic.
Flirting
David/Patrick + intimate lil touches | for @qilliananderson
Noah’s living room session for iheartradioca
CISHETS 👏 ARE 👏 CISGENDER 👏 HETEROMANTIC 👏 HETEROSEXUALS 👏
CISGENDER 👏 AROMANTIC 👏 HETEROSEXUALS 👏 ARE 👏 NOT 👏 CISHET 👏
CISGENDER 👏 HETEROMANTIC 👏 ASEXUALS 👏 ARE 👏 NOT 👏 CISHET 👏
Your arophobia and acephobia are unwelcome 🥰🥰
BEING ASEXUAL AND/OR AROMANTIC ARE INHERENTLY QUEER EXPERIENCES
No, I don’t mind explaining if anyone asks, just as long as you genuinely mean to learn
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Schitt’s Creek Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Patrick Brewer/David Rose Characters: David Rose (Schitt’s Creek), Patrick Brewer, Stevie Budd Additional Tags: livestream, Social Media, Patrick is a YouTuber, David is mysterious, Online fandom, Online chatter, fandoms - Freeform Series: Part 2 of How, Patrick Summary:
Sequel to “How, Patrick?” You really should read that one first.
Patrick, whose Mysterious Husband has long entranced the viewers of his long-running how-to YouTube channel, is finally doing a livestream to answer fan questions and introduce them to David. Will the subscribers survive? Will the fan reaction overwhelm David?
This fic added 5 years to my life.
“It’s pathetic, I knew I did from that first moment we met. It was…not love at first sight exactly, but - familiarity. Like: oh, hello, it’s you. It’s going to be you. Game over.“ ― Mhairi McFarlane (insp.)
all fanfiction is funnier and sexier and vastly better-written when you read it at three in the morning, in the dark, lying on your side, tucked into bed, with screen rotate turned off. that’s just how it works. that’s just facts.
terrible years really make you understand the point of a new year. i know nothing much will have changed between dec 31 and jan 1, but we need to be able to partition off everything that’s happened to us, we need a moment to say, ‘that’s done, we’re done with it, it’s over’ and have a little hope that the future will be different. we need to be able to stop and take a breath and sing, in the middle of winter, and prepare ourselves for spring.
#humans live life as a story#it doesn’t have real endings and beginnings so we make them ourselves#we need them to make sense of things
Safe. requested by anonymous
on the validity of recognizing emotions
My friends(don’t have tumblr): have u seen this meme lol, it was on the ‘best of tumblr’ facebook page, tumblr is so funny
Me, a tumblr gremlin: haha yeah lol, think i’ve seen that one before lol
Me (what I really mean): you fools. I am plugged into the mainframe, wired to the primary source. Of course have seen that meme, and all 5000 of it’s variants, 3 and a half months ago. I have seen the rise and fall of that meme, the boom and bust, the drama, the pain, the shitposting, oh god, the shitposting. I have seen this meme in it’s rawest, freshest, unpasturised, most primal state. Do not insult me with these rank, stale puddles, that sit at the very base of the meme trickle down economy.
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