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there she goes again, daydreaming about her future house and how sheâll decorate it knowing she canât afford a house in this economy ever. and by she i mean me.
From the weirdly specific au prompt list! âmy best friend owns a restaurant and you wrote a bad review of it in the local paper so it has become my goal to track you down and fight youâ au
ngl this was the most fun i had and the happiest ive been with a fic in a While
[AO3]
âYou!âYuuri shouts, pointing his finger accusingly, voice definitely too loud forsuch a quiet street.
Listen,hereâs the thing. Yuuri isnât a confrontational person. Really, he isnât. Hehas enough anxiety that just thinkingabout confrontation sends him running for the hills.
âYes, you!Gorgeous man with the cute dog!â
Yuuri isnâta loud person, either. He promisesheâs not. No, really! You can ask anyone who has known him for any period oftime. Heâs quiet and non-confrontational and a mess with gorgeous people.
âCome here,and fight me, coward!â
And Yuuriisnât even violent. In the slightest.His parents have raised him to solve his conflicts by talking, with compassion,and critical thinking. He swears they did! And heâs not aggressive. He hasnâteven thrown a single punch in his entire twenty-three years of life.
âGet yourobjectively perfect ass in here!â
Hereâs whatYuuri is right now: drunk on too many beers and upset that Yuukoâs restaurantgot a bad review by an important food critic.
Should hebe doing this? No. Can we stop himself now that he has stomped his way in frontof Victor Nikiforov? Also no. This is out of his hands now. Drunk Yuuri isdriving this car, and Sober Yuuri will have to deal with the wreck when he comesaround.
Keep reading
preview of my collab pieces with @sinkingorswimming for @erosyuurizine!! c: dommi wrote an incredible spicy drama please look forward to it!!
Blackbird - print edition!
Hi everyone- itâs been a while, but unfortunately I have a very busy and tiring job and havenât had much time or inspiration for writing recently. However, I have something pretty important to talk about! This is an idea that Iâve been sitting on for a while, but after recent events in Pittsburgh I feel like itâs something meaningful that I can do to make a difference right now.
I am going to do a print run of Blackbird, with 100% of all profits going to support Jewish charities- the Community Security Trust here in the UK, and Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre, in Israel.
Yes, I do mean actual, physical, printed copies- Iâve had so many commenters say, âI wish I could have a copy of this fic like a real bookâ, so this is your chance! I am still researching the best options so I canât confirm price right now, but itâll be via an online self-publishing and sale platform which should be able to handle international delivery.
Iâll also be looking for an artist to commission to do the cover- nothing super fancy, but if you have commissions open right now and would be interested in working together on this, hit me up!
More details to come once I have more stuff sorted out- in the meantime please spread the word to people who might be interested, and help keep me motivated to get this project out of the door.
đ We are pleased to announce that our store is now OPEN!!đ
Preorder your very own copies from MUJIGAE ON TICTAIL.
And for Philippine orders, please click here!
It has been such a long time coming but we are truly happy, excited and honored to have taken this journey with all our creators, consultants, and of course friends whose support, patience, and creativity have helped formed this truly wonderful project to what it is at this very moment. This is by us, for you.
âMujigaeâ is a fan project dedicated to Seung Gil Lee. So little of him is shown in the series but this project aims to fill in those gaps â put color into a canvas that many often overlook. This is a collection of his life (his alternate lives); his dreams, his goals, even his relationships, told through the colors of the rainbow - the very concept that his (in)famous costume has given rise to.
The book has two parts: the main section being all about Seung Gil, and a second where his âshipsâ come into focus. Whether youâre a fan of one or both, we certainly have something in there for you.
You can find more about this project in our About page, who our Contributors are, and perhaps find more answers in our FAQs.
Thank you so much everyone for your support and patience, BUT WEâRE FINALLY HERE and we really really hope we can give this boy â this beautiful boy â the love and the recognition he deserves through this humble project.
Hi pickle, Iâm a nooby noob artist who wants to sell merch but doesnât know where to start. How did you get into it? Any words of advice?
Hi anon!
Ahhh thatâs so exciting! c: hmmm, in my case I started with stickers and prints since they are relatively cheap to produce! so my advice would be to start small and see how that goes!Â
itâs also important to familiarize yourself with your countryâs postal service! what fair shipping fee should you use for local and intâl orders, what the shipping requirements are (would you need customs form? special envelopes? etc!), and research on how to safely package orders so they wonât be damaged during transport (tougher mailing envelopes could also weigh more so take that into account!). c:Â
if you want to start with producing charms, enamel pins or other high cost merch then thatâs fine too! but you have to understand that these types of merch would need bigger investment from you since they need bigger capital. and you need to prepare yourself to learn to accept when things donât go well. (Iâve had to shell out extra $$$ when samples are wrong and would need adjustments! and some things donât sell as well so losing $$$ and not breaking even happens.) everything is a learning experience! c:Â
I think the most important is to try it out and see if itâs something you would enjoy doing! the whole process is incredibly tiring, from designing to looking for suppliers/manufacturers, to setting up your shop, to advertising your wares, to packing and eventually shipping, but itâs all very rewarding!Â
good luck good luck!! I hope everything goes well for you! c:
I reopened shop!!! will be open until Oct. 31!! c:Â
also holding a twitter giveaway for art.exe enamel pin!
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lanzhan taking the entirety of his yearning back homeÂ
lwj lovingly looking at wwx in every lifetime ;;v;;
just cross-posting from twitter! I drew this before episode 15 came out I think?? ahh I really like wwxâs yiling patriarch look!!
Stunning is simply an understatement.
@ Mo Dao Zu Shi donghua backgrounds.
On the AO3 all these years later
The tenth anniversary of the OTW and all the AO3 discussion going around this week inspired me to go look at astolatâs original post about creating an An Archive Of Our Own, and found my comment on it:
âI think this is needed and long past needed.
There are of course huge fanfic archives out there like ff.net, but the bigger and more public the site, the more restrictive it is, the more stuff around the edges gets cut off. I donât WANT the public face of fanfic to be only the most easily palatable stuff, with the smut and the kink and the controversial subjects marginalized and hidden under the table.
And I particularly donât want to see us all sitting around feeling frustrated while this fabulous community is commodified out from underneath us.
Iâm not fit to be a project manager, but Iâm great with details and general organizational work. If someone takes this and runs with it, Iâd love to help.â
Eleven years and rather a lot of volunteer-hours later, I stand by every single word.
And then I found my original post on the idea that became the OTW/AO3, which says in part:
âHowever, as I was reading the comments over there, I noticed a frustrating, but not surprising number of comments along the lines of âwell, itâs a good idea, but itâs way too ambitiousâ
Iâm not talking about the really useful and practical comments bringing up pitfalls and difficulties to be aware of from the get go with something this massive and complex, Iâm talking about all the comments that go something like this:
â
Amen. I want a site like that. Iâd pay money for an archive like that, and Iâd invest time and effort to make sure itâs as great as it can be. [âŚ] But then I hit the realism switch in my brain and it goes âsplodey. Because sadly itâs not a very realistic concept.
And this:
â
In a perfect world it could be an amazing thing and a great way to ârally the troopsâ so to speak and provide a sort-of one-stop shop for fan-fiction readers and writers. I see a couple potential problems, though.
Or this:
â
Oh god. I like what youâre saying, I really do, but I think itâs actually impossible to achieve.
and all the various comments that start with
âIt sounds like a cool ideaâŚbutâ
or words to that effect.
Taken separately, these comments donât seem like much, but every time a new one showed up I couldnât help but be reminded of
this post by commodorified, and her oh so brilliant and beautiful rant therein:
âWOMEN NEED TO LEARN TO ASK FOR EVERY DAMN THING THEY WANT.
And here are some notes:
Yes, you. Yes, everything. Yes, even that.
All of it. Because itâs true. Weâre mostly raised to live on table scraps, to wait and see whatâs going when everyone else has been served and then choose from whatâs left. And thatâs crap, and itâll get you crap.
Forget the limited menu of things that you automatically assume is all thatâs available given your (gender, looks, social class, education, financial position, reputation, family, damage level, etc etc etc), and start reading the whole menu instead.
Then figure out what you want. Then check what youâve got and figure out how to get it. And then go after it baldheaded till either you make it happen or you decide that its real cost is more than itâs worth to you.â
And THAT is what Astolatâs post is about. Itâs about saying âTHIS is what we want, letâs make it happen.â Itâs about aiming for the ideal, not for some artificially imposed, more ârealisticâ option.
And I think thatâs fabulous. And I think we CAN do this, we CAN make this amazing, complicated idea happen. But in order to do so weâre going to have to be careful about those little voices inside our heads saying âwell, itâs a nice idea, butâ and âthereâs no point in trying for that impossible thing, letâs aim for this âmore realisticâ goal instead.â
Because, damn it, why shouldn't we ask for every damn thing we want. And why shouldn't we go out there and get it?â
I am so pleased to have been proved correct.Â
(And also, in the category of âwomen need to ask for every damn thing they wantâ? I took those words to heart, which is one of many reasons Marna/commodorified and I have been married for going on eight years.)
ETA: I know some of the links are broken, they copied over from my original post and I didnât have the energy to either delete them or track them down elsewhere.
Asking for it and doing it!!!
So inspiring. And yes - at the time this seemed such a pipedream, but look at it now!
Yup. I remember saying Iâd support it regardless, but it would only really be useful to me as a poster if it allowed every kind of content. Heh.
God this brings it back. People saying we couldnât do it, that we would never be able to do it, etc. And then there was the sort of six months later moment where people were like, but where is it? (!) Dudes, we had to found a nonprofit company first! so we could be legal and raise money and pay taxes and have a bank account and enter contracts - and moreover, the archive was written from scratch: from a single blinking cursor on the screen, custom-designed from the ground up. I remember that I had the job of tracking wireframes in the early days as the real designers figured out how the flow of pages in the archive were going to go. Amazing.
Anyway, I want to say that the group that came together around the OTW /AO3 in those first years had a track record like WHOA: so many of those people had been archivists, web-admins, fannish fest-runners, newsletter compilers, community moderators, listmoms (kiddies, you wonât know what this is) or had other fannish roles that gave them enormous experience in working collaboratively in fandom and keeping something great going year after year. And OTW continues to attract great peopleâand so also, while Iâm blathering, let me say that volunteering for the OTW also provides great, real world experience that you can put on your resume, because AO3 is one of the top sites in the world and TWC has been publishing on time for ten years and Fanlore is cited in books and journalism all the time and Open Doors has relationships with many meatspace university libraries and archives etc. so if you think you have something to bring to the table, please do think about volunteering somewhere. Itâs work, believe me, but itâs also pretty g-d awesome.
And THAT is what Astolatâs post is about. Itâs about saying âTHIS is what we want, letâs make it happen.â Itâs about aiming for the ideal, not for some artificially imposed, more ârealisticâ option.
I want to pull this out for a second because I have in fact generally spent much of my life aiming for big unrealistic goals, very few of which Iâve actually achieved, and many of which I didnât actually want by the time I got close to them.Â
The thing about aiming for âunrealisticâ goals is that the work you do to achieve those goals doesnât disappear even if you donât achieve the goal. We still havenât accomplished everything on our giant AO3 wishlist. There remains plenty of work to be done (and the OTW and the amazing current team working on the AO3 can always use more help, as Cesperanza says!)Â
But because we collectively threw ourselves at this project, there is an archive, and itâs not just good, itâs better than anything else out there. <3
Good morning Wei Ying~
extra:
jiang cheng + wei wuxian for xie-lian (x)
I reopened shop!!! will be open until Oct. 31!! c:Â
also holding a twitter giveaway for art.exe enamel pin!
store: picklethings.tictail.com
hey ao3 can you like give the extra $38k you made from this monthâs funds drive to charity
You know it legally is a charity, right?
If x charity aims for ÂŁ10, but gets ÂŁ15, would you expect then to give back the extra five or give it then to another charity? No. Any extra costs go into the ârainy dayâ fund; sometimes servers crash or break, sometimes false reports are made that require the legal team, sometimes you need to hire coders or what not to implement new features or fix bugs or deal with broken code âŚÂ
The money they aimed for is the bare minimum, which goes towards things like basic server costs and domain names and legal advice and so forth, but they donât just âpocketâ the rest (as people claim). Itâs not a business. It has no advertisements. It needs some ârainy dayâ cash to function.Â
You canât ask a charity to give money to another charity.Â
It needs what it gets to function and improve.Â
kiena-tesedale replied to this post
They donât âpocketâ excess money. They have a publicly accessible budget - waaaay more info than most charities, in fact. In it, you can clearly see where each dollar goes. (Also, you are vastly underestimating either how much traffic AO3 gets or how much servers/hosting costs.) Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
In my experience, people who donât work in web design and hosting just have no concept of how heavy a load something like AO3 would have. Not only is the traffic absolutely buck wild, but the quantity of data that archive needs to store is fuckoff crazy. Iâm talking âmore than the library of congressâ crazy. The only reason it doesnât require Netflix levels of data serving is that itâs text based rather than video.
AO3 is in the top 300 websites in the world, and the top 100 in the US. It is the number 2 literature website.
Number 2 in the entire world. JSTOR is 20.
It sees about 6 million people a day. About 250k an hour. Each of those people is loading multiple pages, many are running searches that execute on literally hundreds of potential variables per search. The demands involved are astronomical.
JSTOR, btw, makes 85 million dollars a year.
Itâs 18 ranks below AO3â˛s traffic, and takes in 650 times the amount of money.
But letâs say you think thatâs an unfair comparison. Would you say that the Project Gutenberg Literature Archival Group- another text based archive that handles literature operating outside traditional copyright requirements- is more similar?
Because it sees all of 4% of the traffic that AO3 handles.
Care to guess its budget?
Double that of AO3.
AO3 is doing shit on the kind of shoestring budget that I fully, 100% cannot comprehend. And thatâs just the archival service.
The 130k also pays for the OTWâs legal team, which they use to defend the right of fandom to fucking exist.
Itâs absolutely batshit fucked up that people are fighting to have the OTW defunded and AO3 shut down. They are the only organized group that actually stands directly between fandom- all the art and the fics and the vids and the music and the chats and the memes and everything we love about interactive, transformative work- and an incalculable amount of lawsuits.
I just discovered there is a small subreddit dedicated to google-translating (and actually dubbing, very professionally!!) the Star Wars movies and occasional SWR episodes from english into chinese and back into english again, making the subtitles change ridiculously, and itâs positively the most hilarious thing Iâve ever come across since I saw the LotR post about a similar thing, here are some highlights:
itâs not an x-men movie unless charles says âdonât do thisâ to erik