TEAM UP FOR SPECIAL ATTACK

Plants vs. Zombies: Game of the Year

[guerrillatech]

[lemoncat101]

[datura-inoxia]

Nature is healing

[drudg30n]

[guerrillatech]

[stage-props]

I will never be able to live up to this Letterboxd review

[olderthannetfic]

No, no, and NO.

AO3 does not live in “the cloud” because that is other people’s computers, and other people’s computers are vulnerable to censorship.

AO3 is on its own computers. It does still have to be housed somewhere, and I suppose a determined enough hater could try to find that place and go after it, but it’s a lot harder than sending spurious complaints to Amazon or whomever going “BadWrong things are hosted on your cloud service!”

Owning the servers is a core tenet of OTW/AO3.

[zz9pzza]

Warming up a new database server….

[elfwreck]

When people involved with AO3 talk about “the cost of servers” they don’t mean “the cost to pay Amazon for space on their servers.” They mean, like, the cost to physically own them, and eventually replace them with new ones. And the operating costs to run them.

AO3 is not “in the cloud.” AO3 is stored on physical machines that the OTW owns.

While this is not a solution that can work for everyone who wants to deal with controversial content, it is why AO3ple sneer at alt-righters who complain about getting thrown off hosting platforms.

[crowns-of-violets-and-roses]

I Want Us to Own the Goddamned Servers

Because I want us to own the goddamned servers, ok? Because I want a place where we can’t be TOSed and where no one can turn the lights off or try to dictate to us what kind of stories we can tell each other.

[lierdumoa]

AO3 is what a website looks like when you seize the means of production.

[oneheadtoanother]

[omegaversereloaded]

Im not reading the rest of this i think you should beat him and then leave him

[greelin]

“when i was little” brother you are 5’3. so you must mean yesterday. or five minutes ago.

[segamascott]

“i'll be there shortly” yeah. we know.

[captain-price-returns]

All time great.

[greenlabcoat]

can you let me in pleeeeeaase. i promise i wont use my raptorial limbs to attack and kill you

[iwilleatyourenglish]

sorry what was that

oh okay

[boymounter]

just ask that person out, the worst thing they can say is an esoteric incantation that topologically inverts your body

[segamascott]

[fullmetalfisting]

I know that “fwiw” means “for what it’s worth.” I know that. But every time I read it, my brain translates it to “fwom what I wemembew”

[elmyraerased]

[cybervom1t]

new compliment just dropped

[depsidase]

[vicholas]

I love thinking about “lost episode” creepypastas from a production pipeline POV. I wanna be the guy who gets handed a script about a main character brutally dying with no actual plot and is like “Yeah sure. Greenlighted.”

[greelin]

not a day goes by that i don’t think of this