Okiastar

Megan // Bi

[fishfortress]

kabru: if i could take over the dungeon i could stop another tragedy from happening again

mickbell and kuro:

[sheerakk]

[astradyke]

fifteen years of dan and phil | a web weave

i take you to be my husband, // we were put, two little boys from Reading and Rawtenstall

to have and to hold from this day forward, // i think the universe would rip in half, let’s not try that

for better or for worse, // the future: the knight of wands

for richer or for poorer, // without the internet, we never would have met

in sickness and in health, // ring phil

to love and to cherish, // secondly, i just wanted to say how proud i am of dan

(to be cont., check the rb)

[rottenwormies]

[ Pussy Willow ]

idea based on a few drawings i found online, but especially the wonderful art by Margaret Ely Webb

[spicymochi]

choose your fav puppy

[pigeon-cave]

Diagrams are helpful to me

[brightlotusmoon]

[ovur]

How it feels to want a snack at night but you've already brushed your teeth

[daily-weasel]

[mammalidentifier]

Mountain weasel (Mustela altaica)

[professorsparklepants]

#it fucken sumny (via @mindfulwrath)

[feminist-space]

[blade-liger-4ever]

@supreme-leader-stoat

[cookietastic]

We need to bring back the athletics body type post

[cookietastic]

This one

[cookietastic]

Tumblr has 10+ image limit had to add these on too

[superchat]

[karlovycross]

Summer Berry Mix 🍓🫐 ♡⊹˚₊

[deandraxon]

Made the mistake of bringing up that needing glasses is a disability on tiktok and people got real mad.

“You can fix it with glasses” yeah, cuz they’re a disability aid? But like, I still have to pay 160 bucks to use my own fucking eyes?

Like, by definition, if your eyes do not work without aid, you have a disability to see.

Having a disability doesn’t automatically put you in what people consider the “disabled” category, but that doesn’t change the fact that it is in fact, a disability.

[deandraxon]

Thank you to the person who brought this post back into my notifs because I just recently got a new pair of glasses!

And it only cost me $305!! What a steal!! A perfectly acceptable price to pay to be able to properly function in society! (Internal screaming)

[antiterfbutch]

Please always remember that glasses are a disability aid. Some of us literally cannot function without them.

[antiterfbutch]

Extremely good addition

When I talk about how important it is to remember that glasses are a disability aid, it's not because I want to put people with glasses at the forefront of disability justice, nor am I requiring everyone with glasses to identify as disabled

But the fact that it's so controversial to say that people with glasses are disabled is kind of why it's important to remember that glasses are a disability aid... Because the only reason this factual statement gets any pushback at all is specifically because glasses are so normalized.

And the reality is - all disability aids should be normalized. They should be easy to obtain. They should be remembered and designed around.

It's really not that difficult. We've done it with glasses. Let's keep going.

[queen-mihai]

Signal boost

[titsay]

[serializing]

Fantasia (1940) - The Pastoral Symphony

[danielhowell]

we are sorry

[memewhore]

[myfandomrealitea]

"Why can't the freaks on AO3 just go and make a site for all the gross stuff and leave AO3 alone."

Because AO3 is that site. Because AO3 was that site long before you decided AO3 was better than the sites you bullied us off of before, and I can promise you if someone somehow comes up with a fanfic site you like better specifically for the 'gross stuff' you'll try to bully us off that too so you can benefit from it.

AO3's specific core purpose is to preserve fanfiction, yes, but it was also instigated as a host site for the fanfiction that kept getting yeeted off other platforms like Wattpad. Its designed to preserve all fanfiction, not just the fanfiction you, personally, think is 'allowed' to be written.

AO3 is the site for all the gross stuff the freaks make. We've been there just as long as you. We've been funding it just as long as you have. AO3 has specifically said you have a place here. The timeline was literally:

Wattpad/FF.net/LiveJournal purge fanfics > AO3 is born > The people who's fics got purged moved over to AO3 > AO3 gains popularity as the best functioning site > The people who pushed for the fics to be purged off Wattpad move to AO3 > The same people try to push for AO3 to purge fics.

AO3's source coding is open-access. You go make a polished, strict, rigid site where nothing 'icky' is allowed. You go make a site where you can control what is hosted. We already have our space.

[octopuscato]

[elfwreck]

AO3 was specifically made for the stuff likely to be purged from other sites.

It was built around "we need to own the servers" so we wouldn't have to deal with anyone else's judgment calls about what was acceptable in fanfic: Not corporate sponsors, not evangelical religious groups, not "save the children" activists... and not other fans who think that The Gross Stuff should be banned from public view, only shared via private email after you've sent in a request heavily laden with special keywords.

Some of the founders remembered when slash fanfic was kept under the table at the dealer's room, distributed with brown paper wrappers only to people who knew to ask for it specifically.

And they said: Fuck that. Our art is not a crime and we're not going to be ashamed of it. If you are ashamed to have your art next to it - there's a whole wide internet that's ready to host your G-rated genfic.

AO3 was built for the stuff that was unwelcome elsewhere.