I Need Sleep

. she/her, let’s have fun yeah?

[joaniejustwokeup]

I’ll admit, I’m going to miss the little wizard guy. However I do like this thing where they completely change their logo randomly every few months.

I’ve started a collection:

[joaniejustwokeup]

Hey a new guy!

[susiej1118]

And another

[susiej1118]

[c-c2224]

One of my favourite tropes in fanfic is the clones trying to get their Jedi to wear some armour. My friend however, suggested a very fun solution to the clones their issue.

Paint ball guns.

The clones start carrying around paint ball guns and try to hit their General’s and Jedi Commanders wherever they are exposed.

But just imagine they are in the middle of a meeting, and one of the clones just whips out a paint ball gun and tries to shoot their commanding officer.

“This wouldn’t have happened if you were wearing armour, sir.”

[muffinlance]

This trains Jedi of all ages to instinctively dodge shots from their troopers

AKA: AU where Order 66 fails because of paintball

Or, from a certain point of view: AU where the Jedi are saved precisely because they don't wear armor, and in retrospective conclusion, were correct not to :heart: :shootingstar: :rainbow:

Cody: ...Was it necessary to create an entire Space Power Point on this topic, sir.

Obi-Smug Kenobi: Well we wouldn't want the Senate's final war software funding to go to waste

Cody: And the Space Emoticons. Sir.

Obi: Ahsoka has been teaching me :handclap: :eggplant:

Cody: SIR.

[dawen]

Anakin: AHSOKA WHAT DID YOU TELL HIM EGGPLANT MEANT AHSOKA GET BACK HERE AU where Anakin is too busy staring in horror at Obi-Wan's text history to call back Palpatine Really going to have to put you on hold Sheev it's an emergency AHSOKA I SWEAR IF HE EGGPLANTS MY WIFE ONE MORE TIME Obi: Your who Anakin: uh Obi: ...Obi: :wedding ring: :eggplant: Star Wars Palps meanwhile found dead of a... live paintball round? Commander Fox quoted as saying Wonder how that got in there Commander Fox deserves a little barely disguised murder in every AU as a treat

@muffinlance 's peer reviewed tags

[wisecloudnightmare]

[epicsause-official]

i recently found out what the * * * that sometimes separates parts of a text is called and youre never gonna fucking believe it

[ailithnight]

Sounds like the name of a plinko horse

[mumbo-isthemoonbig]

i was so naive in thinking that spirk shippers were exaggerating. what the fuck is wrong with these two.

[queens-of-spirits]

I love seeing people watching TOS for the first time and learning that our foremothers were definitely on to something

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[1lluminae-files]

UNMUTE!!

[teaboot]

POV u are delicious

[arcticjaguar]

Shots I’ve taken over the years, from jaguars, arctic foxes, snowy owls, white tailed eagles, wild mustangs, polar bears, to mountain lions.

Photographed all over our planet from North to South America, high Arctic of Svalbard, Iceland, Greenland, and Scandinavia.

[feldfrog]

Imagine being one of the parents for the kids in the Magic School Bus class. Getting those field trip permission slips home every single night.

Like what, another one? Doesn’t she teach? This just says Inside a Dog

[asimovsideburns]

Ms Frizzle sending you one (1) permission slip at the beginning of the year to cover all the field trips and you’re like huh that’s a little unusual but I guess it’s efficient at least and then you open it and it’s written like This

[waveoftheocean]

here's the full 2 page comic i did for @batfamilyzine ft. little richard sneaking away from a boring gala!! 🤸‍♂️

[litpathechoes]

exploring the coast

[alexandriaocasiocortez]

Being a flop changed my life. The world is not my oyster, I am glowing. I walked into a pole this morning. There's very little I wouldn't do for $1,000

[partywithponies]

Fascinating how what's considered feminine and what's considered masculine can change over time. The rebranding of being a horse girl into being a stereotypical feminine girly trait needs to be studied.

[partywithponies]

Look at classic children's novels. As recently as the 50s and early 60s, being obsessed with horses as a girl was depicted as strange and tomboyish, and the very concept of being obsessed with horses from early childhood and loving toy horses and desperately wanting your own horse being a "little girl thing" and not a "little boy thing" would send someone from the 1800s and earlier into a coma.

[partywithponies]

There's maybe a point to be made here somewhere about how when keeping and riding horses stopped being necessary to the functioning of society and became a more "frivolous" thing, it was rapidly rebranded as silly and girly and for women, but what do I know.

[dizzyghoast]

i wrote a paper in my masculinity studies class in college about this exact phenomenon, specifically about how high heeled shoes started as a practical way for Persian cavalry to keep their feet on their stirrups, then likely due to that association, became a popular fashion item and status symbol among the upper classes of Europe, before the Great Male Renunciation of the 18th-19th centuries, when men started shunning opulence in favor of utility, leaving them as a fashion item for women instead.

I've joked that the two genders are Aesthetic and Utility before but thats just kinda the case

[teaboot]

*Sprays u with a can of "Serious String"* [you are gently covered by a loose, aerisolized tangle of high-tensile polymer weave]

[teaboot]

Fuck my baka life

[shadow-manor]

The rest of the thread is here.

tl;dr: Don’t monetize AO3, kids.  You won’t like what happens next.

[ratherembarrassing]

read this thread. this is by far the most concise explanation of a lot of different issues that i’ve seen in fandom spaces in a while. cosigning both the linked thread and the thread about aus/uk/can law that’s linked in-thread.

[billybluboy]

AHDHXHEBSG TWITTER WRITERS DID WHAT NOW???? AND PEOPLE PAID THEM????

[prof-grace-aspen]

If someone has never taken a class that includes copyright law, they may not know this stuff, so I don’t necessarily blame random people for not knowing what copyright is, but like… maybe just maybe it’s something that should be taught????

[antifa-stray]

[mercurywells]

Just another reminder, because this always drives me crazy, but even if monetizing your fic was 100% unambiguously legal and protected, AO3 would still not let you do it because AO3 was founded and is supported by people like me who want a fandom community that is completely divested from making money off of fic.

[naryrising]

Yes, this. Lots of fanworks on AO3 are unambiguously legal. Fics based on Shakespeare plays and fairy tales and Greek mythology and The Great Gatsby and your original character from your D&D game are not violations of copyright, because no copyright applies to those things.

AO3 still doesn’t let you monetize those things on the site, because we don’t want the site to be commercial! Because that’s not what it’s for!

It’s not there for you (generic you) to make money off the efforts of the people who build and maintain the site for free! We aren’t getting paid for the work we do to give you a nice site to use, just like you aren’t getting paid for the work you do to create whatever art you share there. Because fandom is supposed to be a community where we share with each other, and therefore we all benefit.

The deal is, we give you a free, stable, safe platform to host your works. In exchange, you get a site that isn’t covered in ads and tip jars and links to gofundme and “read the next chapter at my patreon”. You get one goddamn place on the internet that isn’t trying to make money off you. And we will defend that space and keep it non-commercial.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

If you want to make money off your fics, you can instead post them somewhere like royal Road. “Oh, but Royal Road’s culture is so much more negative and stressful and lacks the supportive norms of AO3!” Yeah, because people are trying to make money there. Half the userbase is treating it as a storefront and hustling is the natural social consequence of that. AO3’s culture can only exist because it’s not commercial.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

weighted blanket's not enough i need to be compressed by a hydraulic press

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

this website gets me

[yuumei-art]

The natural conclusion to my berrymania is blueberry pie!🫐✨🥧

I also realized that I've accidentally made a short comic about the fate of these blueberries with my 3 paintings haha

Painting process! The full hours long video will be DMed on Patreon.com/Yuumei on August 5th!

[mxlabradorite]

My brain wouldn't shut up until I made this.

[dcxdpdabbles]

Bruce: Who are you?

Danny: Your worst nightmare

Bruce: Alfred getting married!?

Danny: .... I was going to say, I'm the boy you failed to save coming back to haunt you, but you know what? I'll do that instead.

Bruce: Do what?

Danny: Get your butler married

Bruce: Alfred would never marry a child

Danny: True, but he might be tempted by someone's rabid 25-year-old son!

Bruce: What?

Danny is making a quick phone call: Dan! I need you to come seduce a silver fox as an act of vengeance.

Dan: How silver are we talking?

Danny: If someone found this silver in a yard sale, they would make twenty million off of two dollars.

Dan: HOT DAMN THAT'S SOME GOOD SILVER. I'LL BE THERE SOON

Danny hanging up: You have a few days to make peace with this, Wayne. Soon, my brother will be your stepfather

Bruce: You absolute monster

[cryptidstatusbreached]

[hdgnj]

How much of an age gap? Enough to make Vlad cringe.

Dan is living the dream.

[hdgnj]

I need Dan bringing his A game. Not showering him in expensive fancy gifts. No no no. Dan rocking up with rare roses in a pot Sam grew. Special own blend teas. interesting new recipes with all the ingredients to try. Alfred expecting some sort of young, rich idiot who would do what Bruce does, throw money at problems. But no, what he actually is faced with is a handsome young man who puts so much care and thought into the gifts.

[thatrandomsarahchick]

He helps out around the house, and is an excellent chef.

He has gentle hands to rub in arthritis cream with, but also an extensive knowledge of firearms and the willingness to use them.

[hdgnj]

@somestorythoughts

Jul 31

What Alfred expects: a rich young idiot who thinks the best way to woo someone is by buying expensive things without thought to anything but the price tag

What Alfred gets: a rich young man who puts THOUGHT into gifts, respects his gun collection (is in fact very impressed) and considers messing with Bruce (who is as loved as he is frustrating) a bonus not the main goal

Dan sweeping Alfred off his feet by being the perfect suitor. Alfred tried to resist Master Bruce, but he sourced a blend of tea I have not drank since the war. He blended the leaves himself to replicate it from my description. How was he meant to NOT fall for his handsome young suitor.

Batkids are amazed, appalled, that's their GRAMPS! Get your filthy old man fondling hands off their Grandad!!!

But also, Go Alfie, you still got it, it seems. Given he is young, attractive, strong, thoughtful, protective.... Actually he's a pretty good suitor, but like, COME ON not their GRAMPS!!!