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[aphrostiel]

I watched Our Man Bashir and, giving I wanted to make a drawing immediately afterwards, I really liked it

[iiumz]

[ao3commentoftheday]

For anyone who hasn't seen them before, Hidden Search Operators are handy tricks you can use when you're either searching or filtering AO3.

summary: string is a generic way of explaining that you can search AO3 for a specific word that appears in a summary. You can do this from the search bar in the header, from the Any Field box at the top of the Advanced Search form, or from the Search Within Results box at the bottom of the filter menu.

Examples:

summary: Bruce

summary: "Bruce Banner"

summary: Bruce OR summary: Banner OR summary: Hulk

You need to put quotation marks around your search term if it is more than one word. The quotes make sure that the site searches for those two words together.

The other two operators listed work best in the Search Within Results box.

expected_number_of_chapters: 1 will return results where every fic has only 1 chapter currently posted.

You can use expected_number_of_chapters: -1 if you want results where every fic has more than 1 chapter currently posted.

otp:true will return results where there is only 1 relationship tag on the fic. If you want results where there are 2+ relationship tags (and no fics with only 1 relationship tag) then you can use otp:false

[katri-24]

This page is so beautiful and honestly I hope it reaches and helps any new people that are just starting out on Ao3 because it's helping me and I’ve been using the site for 5+ years now

[bmasiac]

Richard Nadler

[salmon-n-hazel]

Dandelions

My print shop: INPRNT

[antoniabishop]

make a wish

[msburgundy-but-worser-deactivat]

whoever said diamonds are a girl's best friend clearly has never met ibuprofen

[luimnigh]

Actually literally accurate. The song originates in the 1949 musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, while ibuprofen was invented in 1961.

[borgbot]

Do you think other cultures in Star Trek ever make fun of Starfleet for their uniforms?

Like, “Oh look boys, here comes the color wheel”

[jennelikejennay]

One alien: now don't be judgemental, probably humans just can't see colors very well. To them those colors are classy and muted

Random telepath: oh no, those colors are actually MORE garish to humans 😅

[bajuuuu]

You laugh until the ship is on fire you can’t see a damn thing and searching for a bright red or bright yellow uniform is what saved your life!

[jennelikejennay]

Nice to think that someday we outgrow the nervous cringefear that caused the epidemic of drabness in the 1800s which is still going on today. Someday we will no longer feel stupid being the brightest colored bird in the forest.

[verynearherequeer]

Bugs when you lift up a rock:

[futchlings]

"incurious" still GOAT insult. You could be better but you're not. You could learn but you won't, and for no good reason, just a base dispositional apathy. Get fucked

[beastliness]

after extensive trial-and-error testing, I'm beginning to suspect that there may be some material correlation between staying up super late at night and how I feel when my alarm goes off the next morning

[airinyourtires]

If you’re pining you need to stop and pick a different tree. You know, spruce it up a little

[airinyourtires]

I’m still proud of this post. It’s evergreen

[emotional-fandom-soup]

I just love how curious star trek is.

The media is filled with so much "omg we discovered extraterrestrial life there what if it wants to harm us" but in Star Trek the response to finding new life is always like wow. What do you think they are like?

How do you think they feel right now? Do you think they know of this conflict? Should we ask them for the way? Should we offer them our help? Open a channel. Let's say hello.

And when they're met with suspicion or hostility their response is never to assume badly of an entire species. It's almost always "How do I show them that I'm a friend?"

[darksideofthecoffeebean]

🥹

[banchie]

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

[eldr1tch-cr0w]

number one rule! never believe ur thoughts after 10 pm . unless its about The Character then believe all of your thoughts wholeheartedly

[cuunos]

being a kid and hearing adults say stuff like "woah 2011 was 4 years ago haha" didn't really convey the fucking horror of a youtube video crossing my recommended labelled "9 years ago" and it's from 2017. that's not true. 9 years ago is 2010 or something. don't lie.

[ellynneversweet]

Listened to a podcast on historical attitudes towards privacy yesterday that reminded me that the corridor is a relatively recent architectural feature, and it just blows my mind every time to imagine how different the way I navigate the world and imagine built environments as a 21st century westerner is from basically most of the human experience for all of history.

Obviously I’m not alone in this difference, but it is fascinating to look at media made by people who are culturally like me who take as a given things like ‘everyone in this story has a bedroom that is for their exclusive use, and they experience other people entering it uninvited (even family or people they share a home with) as a violation.’ That’s a huge aberration from the norm.

[ellynneversweet]

One point that I hadn’t picked up on before but made perfect sense in light of this setting is that a lot of historical artefacts have locks on them. Cabinets, chests, travelling desks, wardrobes, books — instead of the boundary of ‘all my things I don’t want other people to access go in a locked and closed room’ you had ‘all my things I don’t want other people to access go in their own individual locked boxes in a room everyone in my household can access.’