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25 | hot mess? | sidebar not mine currently cophine & orphan black trash - also marvel, always marvel xoxo

[nianeyna]

GitHub - nianeyna/ao3downloader: Utility for downloading fanfiction in bulk from the Archive of Our Own

Utility for downloading fanfiction in bulk from the Archive of Our Own - GitHub - nianeyna/ao3downloader: Utility for downloading fanfiction

Well folks I've been sitting on this little script for ages and finally decided to just go ahead and publish it. What does it do?

you can enter any ao3 link - for example, to your bookmarks or an author's works page - and automatically download all the works and series that are linked from that page in the format of your choice. if there are multiple pages, the script will page through results for you until there are no more fics to download

you can check your fanfic-savin' folder for unfinished fics and automatically update them if there are new chapters. you can also check for new fics in series!

if you're a dinosaur who uses Pinboard, you can back up all the Pinboard bookmarks you have that link to ao3

don't worry about crashing ao3 with this! this baby takes forever to run, guaranteed. anyway ao3 won't let me make more than one request per second even if I wanted to so it's quite safe

I've been working on this for about two years and it's finally in a state where it does everything I want and isn't breaking every two seconds, so I thought it was time to share! I hope y'all get some use out of it.

note: this is a standalone desktop app that DOES NOT DO ANYTHING aside from automate clicking on buttons on the ao3 website. Everything this script does, can be done by hand using ao3's regular features. It is just a utility to facilitate personal backups for offline reading - there's no website or server, I have no access to or indeed interest in the fics other people download using this. No plagiarism is happening here, please don't come after me.

edit: some kind individuals have kicked me a few bucks on ko-fi as thanks for this, for which I am deeply honored and thankful. I've been pondering for a while what I wanted to do with the money, as I felt that given the source, I should put it towards something fandom-related. now with tumblr blaze I feel that I have the perfect answer - use the money to promote the script to more people who might like it! I'm about to put in the blaze application now. As ever, I hope that my efforts can be of some use to you, the fandom community. And if not, I hope I haven't taken up too much of your time!

[beckyloveslife]

I work retail, and have for many years now. I'm not an easily fazed person and have a Talk No Shit, Take No Shit mentality. However, I also have a pretty intense anxiety disorder on top of other mental health issues and when I started 6+ years ago there were some customers who got to me.

So, to all the workers facing Karens and Kens out in the wild, here's my advice - cry.

If you have the type of relationships with your coworkers and managers that will support you, don't try to hold it in. Cry like the overworked, underpaid peon you are.

Nothing terrifies an asshole Karen like the indisputable proof that their actions/words are affecting you as a real live person. They feel perfectly entitled to cuss out a cashier over a wrong order/no cash policy/ face mask mandate but when that person starts to cry and asks them why they'd say such mean things? A whole other story, my friend.

There's no way to make that situation look good to the manager they demanded to speak with, either. My manager literally got a security guard fired for being so verbally abusive he made one of her employees cry.

This strategy has multiple benefits -

1. You're not standing there trying to pen up your emotions, crying is a great physical release for negative emotions and you may very well feel somewhat better afterwards.

2. The person who precipitated the situation is forced to not only see you as a person with feelings, but also has to confront the fact that their abuse has consequences beyond themselves.

3. It can actually give your higher-ups leverage to address these situations. 'They yelled at my employee' is one thing, but 'They yelled at my employee until they were in tears' is a waaaaay worse offense. A good manager can use that. Hell, it can get a security guard fired!

tl;dr: We live in a capitalist hell but we can work the system and cry at work to shame awful customers

[amarguerite]

[xenaslayerofgods]

“There’s nothing I wouldn’t do for my friend. I have no notion of doing things by halves. It’s not my nature.” Can you guess who that is? It is Jane Austen.

[natalia-romanva]

didn’t think anything could bring me back to tumblr in the year of our lord 2020 but cophine sure fucking did... prepare for this to become an orphan black stan account again circa my blog in 2014... very unsorry about it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[alexandriad]

woman yelling at cat meme but make it ancient greek red figure pottery

[natashagifs]

Black Widow (2020) // Black Widow vol. 6 (2016)

[tylerposey]

[just-shower-thoughts]

If gas prices keep going up it will be cheaper to snort cocaine and run everywhere.

[dammitradar]

finally a good fucking shower thought

[twoofcups]

gamora: i identify as a moronsexual. i am only attracted to stupid people

peter: what kind of animal is the pink panther

gamora, shirt already over her head: peter you’re so fucking stupid

[notahammer]

Black Widow

[deadbeatmaker]

All of you straight people asking how you can support gays this pride month smh like the answer is so easy.. whenever you see a gay person you have to give them all your fucking weed

[peteparkr]

looking over your shoulder needs to become second nature.

[queencersei]

Tyrion reflected on the men who had been Hand before him, who had proved no match for his sister’s wiles. How could they be? Men like that… too honest to live, too noble to shit.

[lordsnow]

While you’re our guest here, you might consider asking them what they think of the Mad King’s daughter. for @oberynmartell

[frevin]

i went to the aquarium the other day and this middle aged woman touching the sting rays kept saying they feel like pasta

[marveladdicts]

Like you said, he’s a ghost story.

[divinespairings]

asoiaf meme: [1/5] POV Characters

↳ Sansa Stark

She wondered where this courage had come from, to speak to him so frankly. From Winterfell, she thought. I am stronger within the walls of Winterfell.