In Determination Friendship

30/f/gay ace | Avatar by nagunkgunk | Sidebar by pidoodle | Agent California by aromanticyork

[nagunkgunk]

a cat!

[nickygenovas]

[of-scythia]

#this is the nicolo thesis right here! right here!!!#the sharpness of his gaze his quiet rancor the curl of his mouth around a hiss#and then the rage. you see it twice in the movie both times because joe is hurt#i know it’s The Racismé but it is just BAFFLING to me that people think JOE is the aggressively protective one#joe kills keane with resigned exhaustion. he kills keane for himself. because keane made him crawl over to nicky’s unmoving body#made him consider even for a minute that nicky was dead. after hours of watching him strapped to a gurney. out of reach#while someone carved pieces of him and joe could only watch#but nicky’s anger when joe is hurt or in danger is so immediate and reflexive#when merrick stabs joe nicky THROWS himself towards them. would put his body between joe and the blade if he wasn’t restrained#just as he does every night when he puts himself and his gun between joe and the door#on the kill floor he is so ANGRY and until his eyes meet joe’s that anger is ALL there is#only after nonverbal confirmation that joe is with him again does he melt back into the cold composed warrior he is#all this to say! still to this day! after 900 years! knowing most things cannot hurt joe - at least not physically not lastingly#it is in nicky’s PROGRAMMING to not let any harm come to him#<shakes fist at the sky> PROTECTOOORRRRR#yeah i feel insane now#nicky feral garbage cat theory <3  @lgbtmazight

[ladymacbethslover]

These two make me sick

I love it

[ao3skin]

Highlight comments left by your favourite users!

You might have seen that ao3 is rolling out the first part of the blocking feature (blocking users from commenting on your works) but they have also added user-IDs to comments and that sent me in a complete and utter spiral! 

So, You know that user? the one that leaves you the best comments? the close friend you have? :D you can now color their comments to make them stand out amongst them all!!

I’ve made 5 basic skins (the one you can see above) but in the work itself you’ll find the explaination on how to change the images and the colors and a few other details.

Go get the skin here

(credits for the image backgrounds to Patternico.com, and to J Lee and Daria Kraplak on Unsplash)

[ao3skin]

VAPORWAVE IS DEAD LONG LIVE VAPORWAVE

I just updated this as well. it brings no new features but really, I couldn’t stop myself. Same link as before.

[ao3commentoftheday]

Dracula's Castle AO3 site skin

Video description: a logged in user navigating AO3. The site is in dark mode with an image of a castle on a rocky outcrop, surrounded by clouds and with a full moon shining in the sky. The lighting is a teal blue rather than white or yellow.

As the user navigates the site, the image background stays in place. Areas with text have a semi-transparent background that allows the user to both read the pale-blue text and also see the dark image behind it. Headers, boxes, and buttons have glow effects on them.

On the homepage, the users favourite tags are each contained in a box with rounded corners and a glow behind it. Each tag is preceded by either a 🌙 or a 💫, recoloured to match the text. The site header and footer both have a black background.

When browsing works, there is a ▫️(also recoloured to match the text) that indicates when the tag type switches from warnings to relationships, from relationships to characters, and from characters to additionals. Warning tags have a solid teal background. Relationships have a semi-transparent teal background. Character and Additional tags have a black background. All tags are separated by being in boxes and each box has a glow effect. The icons at the top left of the fic blurb are desaturated in colour and also glow.

The search form has a transparent background and all of the text and lines are teal. There are glow effects on the outer box of the form as well as on the text entry areas.

On the user's dashboard, work blurbs have a transparent background and a glowing border around them. The dashboard has a semi-transparent blue background and is outlined in glowing teal. The current page is indicated by a more opaque background on the page's link. Works that have been visited have a grey title. End description.

If you want to visit Dracula's Castle while browsing AO3, head on over to github and grab this skin. Instructions are available at the link.

This site skin looks better on a landscape screen rather than a portrait screen, but I might do a variation that looks better on mobile (or maybe it looks fine? you tell me) Editing to add: I posted a video of how it looks on mobile, if you wanted to see that perspective.

[xhcoffee]

made a green AO3 skin

if u wanna use it, here is the code

based on this pretty skin

[fluentisonus]

they're trying to get me to do something called ""my job"" instead of reading about medieval english poaching laws

[mankillercalledbunny]

The answer to "How did these Ancient People do this????" is basically always

1. A lot of dudes. Just a ton of fucking people from beginning to end of the process.

2. Ancient people weren't stupid, they just figured shit out the same way we do: fuck around until you find out.

3. We're gonna plan this out and it's gonna take ten fucking years, and you will cope.

4. Sticks and string are surprisingly versatile and can be used for a variety of purposes, like moving stuff and making sure things are even and go in the spot you wanted to put them in!

5. I want to make this easier and more efficient to move. If I put this on the round thing and push, it will move. If I put this in water, it will move. If I get some animals and rope and have a whole bunch of them drag it, it will move. All of these things are a better option than one guy trying to pick the whole fucking thing up.

[ralfmaximus]

No safety regulations

No weekends

Child labor

Slave labor

"The king said to do it"

History does not record the stupid megaprojects that failed

[ariaste]

History absolutely does record the stupid megaprojects that failed. Here are just a few of them:

Fidenae Stadium Disaster of 27AD. A huge gladitorial stadium, built fast and cheap, collapsed and killed 20,000 people, as well as injuring many more out of the total audience of 50,000.

The Sagrada Familia was started in 1882. It is still not finished.

Mingun Pahtodawgyi was started in 1790 but a prophecy said the king who commissioned it would die when it was finished, so he stopped building it.

The Pyramid of Neferefre was never finished because Neferefre died early and his successor didn't bother.

Alai Minar was supposed to be twice the diameter and twice the height of Qutb Minar. Didn't get past the first storey, abandoned in 1316.

Bara Kaman, abandoned in 1672.

The Basilica of San Petronio was started in 1390. The main facade was never finished. In 1514, they hired a guy to construct the dome, but the pope ordered the "megalomaniac dream" halted.

Arguably every empire that has ever fallen counts as a stupid megaproject that failed.

[wetorturedsomefolks]

love island should introduce a "scheming eunuch" islander who is like a smart and completely asexual islander exempt from being kicked off or being made to participate in any challenges and they're just there to provide advice and be a sort of sounding board for the other islanders when they need a disinterested party to talk things through with. but the scheming eunuch has secret goals unbeknownst to anyone e.g. a cash prize for talking a certain couple into breaking up etc.

[vibrantstarfire]

more women whump. more women pushing themselves and passing out from sleep deprivation and exhaustion. more women training until their knuckles bleed and their legs give out from under them. more women being held prisoner and remaining stoic until the very end or perhaps when they’re rescued. more women under truth serum and terrifying hallucinogens. more women waking up in a pool of blood, their own and others’ and not knowing what happened but that something is terribly wrong with them. more women falling apart o ly when rescued. more women pushed to their breaking point. more women whump.

[eatsleepandsing]

another great ship dynamic is "characters who are deeply traumatized and haunted by nightmares are finally able to get a peaceful night of sleep in each other's arms"

[pilvimarja]

[afloweroutofstone]

Got a great ad encouraging people to dismantle surveillance equipment and then sell the guts at a pawn shop

[sylenth-l]

Nothing Ends

[wrenhavenriver]

dishonored 1 is literally 2 dollars on steam right now blease do yourself a favor and acquire/play it if you haven't already

[versegm]

No joke you guys NEED to get more comfortable blocking people. No more insulting people in public over different blorbo opinions no more making 2k long posts on how whatever ship you don't like shouldn't exist we've grown past that shit. Consistent posts about shit that make you uncomfortable? Block. Rancid blorbo opinions? Block. Is mildly annoying in your replies? Block. Pisses you off for reasons so petty you could never admit it publicly? Block. YOUR mental health will improve from not being upset 24/7, THEIR mental health will not be at risk of you lashing out because you happened to catch their posts on a bad day, and EVERYONE ELSE will benefit from not seeing the most embarrassing arguments known to man on their dash. "Oooh but they didn't deserve it-" dude you're presumably running a personal blog as a hobby not a public service. Who fucking cares.

[wumblr]

all of the numbers that are divisible by 17 sound so absurd. 51? 68? 85? ridiculous. 102? absolutely not. and don't even get me started on 119

[wumblr]

34 and 136 i can believe, but i feel like i shouldn’t. it’s 102 in a trench coat

[red-swimmerz-deactivated2021082]

did we just run out of posts to make

[wumblr]

no, i haven't made a post about every number yet

[swinginsportscutebasketball]

I'm sorry to let you know that 100,000,001 (one hundred million and one) is divisible by 17 and because of that, so is every 16-digit number that is four digits repeated four times e.g. 1234123412341234

[wumblr]

[psyduckscience]

[energyprison]

Having a job is an awesome way to stay hydrated because you get so bored you start drinking water just for a little excitement