ThatNerdyWriterEmma

I can write Iplier and Septiceye Ego, Natemare, Sanders Sides, Jacksepticeye, Teamiplier, NWTB, Star Trek, Young Justice, and Maurauders. Requests Open.

[lizartgurl]

Get That Nightwing Fanfiction Out Of The Kaldur Tag

An autobiography by me

[glorious-idiocy]

My dearest love(AO3) has gone of to war(server maintenance), and I fear I shall never see them again(it’ll be up again in a few hours)

[glorious-idiocy]

My dearest love(AO3) has gone of to war(server maintenance), and I fear I shall never see them again(it’ll be up again in a few hours)

[themadkatter13]

when the meds (ao3) stop working (down for maintenance)

[bisexualshakespeare]

Listen, you cannot write a full screenplay for Goncharov because the whole conceit of this is that this movie is the GREATEST MAFIA MOVIE EVER and as such it cannot actually exist in any concrete form because perfection can only survive in a thought. It is about the collaboration of being inspired by your fellow fans. It's the ability to not be right or wrong because there is no one true source! It's not about filling in the gaps its revelling in them! Living in them! Creating more of them! Goncharov is a dream you cannot nail it down

[funnytwittertweets]

[tanzanitedepths]

Fanfiction Club: The Rules

This idea came to me when I woke up first thing this morning.

[madlori]

This is gold.

[jumpingjacktrash]

i do not see a flaw

[mrchalamet-mrstyles]

Always reblog. This should be carved in stone, on display in public offices.

[worshipcircle01]

I will add a ninth rule: fanfiction is not going to respect canon, it’s fanfiction, if you’re in one: do not ask for canon.

And totally encourage the RB, fav and commenting XD!

[chrisflemingslegs]

hey kids who read fic, listen up

it’s annoying to me as a Fanfic Elder that y’all don’t understand how consent works in regards to reading fanfic

last night I saw a fic that had EIGHT of my favorite tags included and a great summary BUT it also contained a tag for a topic that bothers me. I weighed the pros/cons and decided NOT to read the fic because the ONE tag I disliked was something that could trigger a panic attack if the scene went into any sort of detail - it wasn’t worth risking the eight good tags.

from the first moment I noticed the fic to the moment I decided not to read it, the entire experience was MY RESPONSIBILITY. the author tagged the fic correctly, I knew what my limits were, and I respected them.

if you find a fic with tags you don’t like, JUST DON’T READ IT 

don’t harass the author, don’t post a big whiny rant about it on Tumblr, just keep scrolling

that is your job as a reader. 

[musashigouda-deactivated2019032]

hey ao3 can you like give the extra $38k you made from this month’s funds drive to charity

[blooming-wilting]

You know it legally is a charity, right?

If x charity aims for £10, but gets £15, would you expect then to give back the extra five or give it then to another charity? No. Any extra costs go into the “rainy day” 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 … 

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 don’t just “pocket” the rest (as people claim). It’s not a business. It has no advertisements. It needs some “rainy day” cash to function. 

You can’t ask a charity to give money to another charity. 

It needs what it gets to function and improve. 

[fangasmagorical]

kiena-tesedale replied to this post

They don’t “pocket” 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.)                    

In my experience, people who don’t 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. I’m talking “more than the library of congress” crazy. The only reason it doesn’t require Netflix levels of data serving is that it’s 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.

It’s 18 ranks below AO3′s traffic, and takes in 650 times the amount of money.

But let’s say you think that’s 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 that’s just the archival service.

The 130k also pays for the OTW’s legal team, which they use to defend the right of fandom to fucking exist.

It’s 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.

[redvanillabee]

Can I also add that apart from running a legal team and the best online library around, they also run a free, peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to fan studies called Transformative Works and Cultures.. They incorporate studies of fandoms from all around the world, and are able to follow very closely with fandom trends. Studies found in TWC are leagues better than those cringey ‘I heard about this fan-dom thing from my teenage niece’ essays. 

[superhumandisasters]

Just reblogging this to remind everyone that AO3 is fucking incredible and it has singularly transformed fandom.

[sol1056]

speaking as someone who works in cloud, I’ve had some variation of this conversation so many times:

boss: that can’t be done. me: AO3 does it, and for 1/100th what you’re suggesting it’d cost. boss: they’re using blood magic. it’s the only explanation.

[dogposts]

Little Rosie wanted to get up on the bed with her owners, so they built her a puppy ramp. (via)

[idontgettechnology]

[dear-ao3]

[paparoachd-deactivated20240229]

reblog this post to give the person you reblogged from a fruit gummy

🍇🍈🍉🍊🍋🍓🍍🥭🍎🍏🍐🍑🍒🍓🫐🥝

[ittybittytatertot]

Hello, pause for a sec.

Many places are removing masking requirements. And I’m here to ask, if you are young and able-bodied, please keep wearing a mask anyways. We’ve known for two years that masks protect others more than they protect yourself, and that masks work when most people are wearing them. If only at-risk individuals are masking, they’re more at risk.

Protect others. Help disabled people exist safely in public. Wear a mask.

[jewishjon]

Oh god oh fuck oh no

[image description: a screenshot of an article from the Financial Times where the headline reads ‘Tumblr picks itself up again after years of struggle’ and the excerpt underneath reads ‘Creative, chaotic and anonymous, the blogging platform has lots of appeal for Gen Z.’ End ID.]

[rudolphsboyfriend]

[raeloganthesonic06fangirl]

Yo, have y'all seen these adorable Valentine's Day cards posted by Steel Wool on thier website??

Happy Valentines Day from Steel Wool — Steel Wool Studios

Hi everyone, The season of love is here and we wanted to share some of our love for you . The studio came together to create something

I can't pick a favorite!

[tokenducks]

Ain’t gonna lie young justice should of never had a time skip. Send tweet.

[canariesarchive-blog-deactivate]

HELLO I JUST FOUND THE BEST FUCKING WEBSITE FOR WORKING ON CHARACTERS AND WORLD BUILDING YEET FUCKERS SEE YOU IN 8 YEARS

[canariesarchive-blog-deactivate]

If you have been struggling with world building and finding a way to keep track of everything PLEASE GOD LOOK AT NOTEBOOK.AI

Notebook.ai has different categories for different things:

And then once you make something each category has different questions for you to answer about your world:

This website is literally a blessing

[theladymagician]

@artimadare @mrverymello

[vass-junk]

@shirleythespiderstar

[abraxasrinbalt]

@nyannationdoesdoodles

[jasthelazyelf]

What pissed me off is that for a lot of features you need to pay (and it’s a lot for someone who can’t afford anything) The primary set consists of only universes, characters, locations and items.

For this purpose, I like to use WORLDANVIL.COM

Look what you have there for FREE

Yep, I kid you not, this is all for free.

And when you are making a new caracter, you get a nice list of things you can fill out!

You can get a similar list to other things, though it depends what it is. Some categories have only one page ^^

I am trying to describe Broken-World universe in this and it’s coming handy!

Of course there are some things you can pay for, such as being able to hace co-workers from other accounts, but those features are not that important (at least to me) c:

[thewolvenchimera]

Since people are still reblogging the posts that stop at notebook ai I feel like we need to circulate this again.