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@rantingrambles
i love the horrors of love i love it when love transforms people and changes them for the worse as much as for the better i love it when people do things for love that they never would have even allowed themselves to consider otherwise i love it when we see a loving relationship from an outside perspective and it's terrible and frightening i love it when love makes monsters of people
Sims 4 page on Steam. Not to be controversial but I think the CEO of EA should be beheaded for this
if anyone got the game from origin heres an unlocker for dlc + links to the dlc files to download that an anon sent me a while back :] its worked perfectly for my game but jus make sure u have enough storage for the packs
AND REMEMBER, DO NOT SEARCH ANADIUS REPACK SIMS 4 DOWNLOAD ON GOOGLE, BECAUSE THEN YOU WILL FIND AN EASY WAY TO DOWNLOAD THE SIMS 4 WITH EVERY DLC FOR FREE. VERY EASY TO INSTALL.
THAT’S ILLEGAL AND WE DO NOT WANT YOU TO PIRATE THIS GAME, DESPITE BEING SO INCREDIBLY PRICEY. NOPE. WE DO NOT WANT THAT. WINK. WINK.
I loved the original The Sims when it came out, and I remember very keenly when this bullshit started. That was back in 2000, and I would have been 14 years old; I bought it and played the shit out of it for hundreds (or more likely thousands) of hours, so naturally, when the expansion packs started coming out, I couldn’t get my hands on them quickly enough. Soon enough they were coming out twice or three times a year and I was struggling to keep up, and it was around the time when I went into my local game shop one day and saw that their display for these fucking expansion packs covered a whole wall just by itself that I gave up trying.
It is now 20 years later and the situation has not improved.
I know patreon and ko-fi links are banned on AO3 but how will / will the archive be updating at all to accommodate for fandoms like Genshin Impact that allow profiting off of fanficition?
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Why would it change for Genshin Impact? Jane Austen's work is out of copyright, and you still can't post your ko-fi links on your Jane Austen fic.
The issue isn't that profiting off of fic is illegal. That wasn't always true when AO3 was founded either.
The issue is that AO3 was built to protect a type of fandom that is a gift economy.
If my friend shows up to my dinner party expecting me to let them turn it into a sales pitch for their multilevel marketing garbage, I will be annoyed. They have violated the social contract. They have taken a space I did the lion's share of the work to build and attempted to monetize it in a gross way. Let them host their own dinner party if they want to do that!
Similarly, those of us who gave years of unpaid labor to build an archive where our style of fandom—a not-for-profit kind—could be safe are not interested in that space being warped into etsy or a dealers' room at a convention. If other fans have other styles of fandom, that's fine: they can build other archives for them.
Personally, I find that the introduction of a profit motive turns fic spaces from a place of peers sharing into a place of Audience vs. Content Creators, and I get enough of that hustle culture on every other site, thank you.
AO3's popularity is likely partly due to how much it isn't full of desperate shilling and begging. The fact that there's no incentive to post chapter 1 and paywall the rest is incentive for readers to trust and like AO3.
The legality of Genshin Impact fic is irrelevant. AO3 bans commercial spam because it wants to.
honestly if they were in desperate need of money then they could just link their twitter or smth where they could talk about it more
okay so i could accept the monsterfucker fandom on this site because 1) most of them are dumping over venom and (understandable have a good day) and 2) this site is just a hell hole but it’s my hell hole and we’re all welcome here, BUT why tf am i seeing monsterfuckers on tiktok
#he’s just mad because of the gay panic he went through
 #second gif: BUT PING I THOUGHT YOU WERE A DUDE I THOUGHT I LIKED DICK #YOU PUT ME THROUGH A LOT YOU SAUCY MINX #YOU DIDN’T MEAN FOR IT TO GO THIS FAR? #IT WENT FAR ENOUGH FOR ME TO START WRITING A COMING OUT SPEECH
is everyone who reblogged this okay?
no
been howling at these for half an hour
And then May and June flew by even faster than the speed of light
The Rest of Our Lives - Part 3 In which Aziraphale and Crowley attempts to dance to a rather raspy old tune only for it to end… suprisingly well. This is the last part of our (@eamikkir) collab animations, completed after a very long hiatus skdnv. Thank you so much for supporting us all throughout. Enjoy this little completed piece from the past! Hope you are all keeping healthy! Part 1 | Part 2 | Xmas Patreon | Ko-Fi
The Rest of their Lives - Part 2
In which Crowley likes to spoil his angel, and Aziraphale indulges it every chance he gets.
Part 2 of my collab with @gemennair!
Part 1
The Rest of their Lives - Part 1 Set after the notpocalypse, we like to think Crowley brings Aziraphale flowers and chocolate during every anniversary of his bookshop, and for some reason, Aziraphale is delightedly surprised every time.
Art collab with @eamikkir, this is going to be one out of three animations we’re planning in this style for them. Look out for it!
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How I look eating my first meal of the day at 3 in the afternoon while wondering if life is really worth living
AO3 Search Modes
1. Newbie Find fandom on AO3. Skim down the most recent fics in the fandom. Downside: Overwhelming, much chaff.
2. Old School Go to specific fandom. Sort by kudos. Start at the top. Downside: Oldest fics tend to have the most kudos, also things that update a lot or crossover with more popular fandoms. Newer stuff gets lost.
3. Rebel Go to specific fandom. Sort by kudos. Start at the end. (Note: some actual gems can be found this way, but it requires much patience.)
4. Ravenous Go to specific fandom. Read everything. Not recommended for Very Large Fandoms. Can be done with newer, smaller fandoms. Downside: lots of mediocre fic in many fandoms.
5. Specialist Go to specific fandom. Search for a specific pairing. Exclude every pairing you don’t like. Exclude keywords that you dislike. Exclude all crossovers in general or specific crossovers if your fandom has a natural crossover (i.e. Doctor Who/Torchwood, Stargate SG1/Atlantis). Sort by bookmarks. Downsides: you miss some newer good stuff, but starting from the top the first chunk of fics are likely to be very good and exactly what you want.
6. Goblin Click on a tag you like in a fic you just read. Go to the exclude section and start eliminating fandoms you’re not interested in, saying in a squeaky goblin voice, “Not you! Not you! Not you!”. Filter. Repeat until the top fandoms are all things you like and there are no more than a handful of fics in other fandoms represented. Back up when AO3 balks. It takes a while, so if you’re in Very Large Fandoms, this is a great method, and if you like obscure fandoms, not so much. Exclude pairings and tags you don’t like. Eliminate all unfinished fic. Sort by bookmarks. Start reading. Downside: Periodically get thrown by a random fandom you’re not in showing up anyway. Get jarred by switching fandoms constantly. Upside: Variety of really good fics that people liked enough to bookmark. What’s your method?
A goblin. I’m a freaking goblin. And I’m howling because I’ve never felt so personally attacked in my life. What the actual. This is culture, my dudes.
i…do none of these things
i work entirely by relying on other people’s bookmarks, and then i read everything that looks good by anyone whose bookmarked fic was good, including stuff in fandoms i am absolutely not in.
and then i go through their bookmarks. relying on other people’s judgment 100% so everything has been placed through a quality sieve before i look at it.
never visiting the main tag of anything ever.
i am some kind of crawlspace gremlin.
oh yah a crawlspace gremlin goblin That’s Me,
See also (not me):
7. 90s Kid Using the advanced search pageÂ
8. Creature of Habit Bookmarking the URL for your finished Specialist-style search to return to later time and time again, or alter to taste on each visit.
9. A Real Professional, Hot Damn Visiting this page (https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/10851) and using those, as well as the number codes for various fandom, pairing, and freeform tags (tags DO have numerical ids; I do not know how to use them), WITH a complex web of AND and OR operators, to create a custom search string of exactly the character limit of the “Search Within Results” box.
I’m usually a specialist but this is leaving out one of the many important search techniques
Find someone who has written good fic of a pairing I like
Read all of their works for that fandom
Read all of their works for everything, thus getting introduced to new pairings that I like
Find other people who have written fic of that pairing, and repeat.
i’m a mix of all of these depending on what mood i’m in
This isn’t surreal this is high school
And college
and zoom
cat: mines
