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wovi

#beautiful words #poetry #this is the sort of piece i have to suggest be read aloud its so pretty and wonderful

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Ferdinand Oger - Cat lying down basking (ca. 1900)

#me

buttpoems

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Exactlly!!

@hopepunk-humanity

ao3commentoftheday

Did you know that AO3 allows fics with homicide in them? There’s a whole tag for Major Character Death and even more tags so you can find exactly what kind of character death you want to read.

Don’t they know that murder is illegal? You just know there are a bunch of homicidal maniacs out there who love to read those stories. They write them, too, in between killing people.

Anyone can read the stories on AO3! Kids can read them! They’re getting exposed to stabbing, poisoning, even guns! And they’re writing the heroes doing the killing, too! That’s basically telling kids it’s okay to go out and murder their families. It’s promoting violence and encouraging homicide and if we don’t do something about it soon, you’ll be murdered next!

zoanzon

ao3commentoftheday

The devil came to my house and tried to burn it down, which is why this post exists in the first place.

leadoodles

I can’t believe that tumblr user ao3commentoftheday is telling KIDS to go out knocking on doors asking for the devil! /s

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but only *after* they piss on the poor! /s

#this made me giggle

abbey-abdominal

I was born in the early 2000s and I was my moms first child and she was extremely selective w/ the content I was allowed to watch—she’s a teacher for younger kids and was particular and interested in cartoons (still is) that’s all to say my Mom, my Sister, and I just sat down to watch the Little Bear movie just for funnies but ended up sitting through the entire thing in this peaceful, wonderful 2000s low stimulation kids cartoon trance . We barely talked, we didn’t have snacks . Just sat there staring at the screen until it was over and laughed at each other (and laughed at me for taking this plot seriously)

I remembered literally EVERYTHING about Little Bear bro . The owl the hen the cat the duck, Father bear , Mother bear , Grandfather bear ….. Basically my mom used to slap this show on and apparently I REALLY used to like it

Today I decide to go watch some episodes because Depression and easy to digest, calm, cute things relieve me a bit . I keep telling Mom “dude Little Bear has a human friend” “dude I remember there’s a girl with a blue dress named Emily” “IM NOT CONFUSING THIS WITH FRANKLIN”

Emily does not show up in the movie. In fact she doesn’t show up until I’m halfway through my idle searching and I am half asleep in Bed Rot Mode . Then she and Little Bear are playing on the swings and I fucking FLY out of bed and shove the phone in Mom’s face . “look—LOOOK. THERE SHE IS! IM NOT CRAZY! BLUE DRESS! EMILY!”

#this is my side art blog #these words are personal and cute and I want to share them here too #I love my family #I’m very grateful for them #maybe one day I’ll string together a little book about my family and friends. we’ll see what happens.#personal #blog writing

Imagine I publish my rubycole stuff only to reveal my massive and girlish crush on Ruby. What then

#rubycole fandom I am just about ready to feed you .#this just in: writing take a long time #herc went on too long #Herc is gay

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YURI FOREVER!!!!!!!

nic0altine-sh0ts

my vision of ruby from bistro huddy

#ruby bistro huddy #ruby...

granolatheft

Happy pride month

#when i say i am crying actual fucking tears ...#RUBYCOLE #bistro huddy

petaltexturedskies

It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.

Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy-Tacy and Tib

the feeling of improving as a writer on a technical scale, and rereading old work that used to make my proud and watching myself in real time becoming aware of where things could have been totally different/improved by the new standard

#its a feeling that i believe all writers should experience on a yearly basis... yearly because i feel that is the amount of time it takes #to allow “work blindless” to wear off from one's eyes.#though this is just my experience #rereading old writing right now is like pinching my nails from my skin #its great! i love it here! (masochist rambling btw)#joking not joking #herc went on too long

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

ao3commentoftheday

This post is going around again (with an unfortunate syntax error on it - this version is correct), so I thought I'd add some information that folks have mentioned wanting in the notes.

Any time you want help with how to use AO3, look for the question mark bubbles. Clicking or tapping on those bubbles will open up a pop up window with information on that specific part of AO3. For example, here's the information for Include filters.

2. When you log into AO3 for the first time, you'll have a banner on your dashboard that gives you a ton of links and information that's useful for new users. A lot of people will dismiss this banner without ever reading it, but you can get it back at any time.

Go to your Preferences, scroll down to Misc. and check the box next to Turn the new user help banner back on. Update your preferences, and the banner will return.

3. When you first tap or click into the search in the header bar, a little popup tip appears below the text box. This is showing you an example of a search that you can do.

4. If you've never seen the filters before, click or tap on any tag that you're interested in. On a wide screen like a laptop, the filters will appear on the right hand side of the screen. On a narrow screen like a phone, you can tap on the Filters button for the menu to appear.

5. The FAQ has a series of questions related to Searching and Browsing on the Archive. You can find the FAQ in the dropdown under the word About in the header.

6. You can also just click on stuff and see what happens. For example, if you're wondering what the four icons at the top corner of each fic blurb mean, you can just click on them and get a popup with the key. Same thing if you're wondering about the icons at the top right of a bookmark.

7. I almost forgot ☝️If you want to see fics based on the primary pairing but you're okay with additional ships being in the fic (so otp:true won't work for you) - there's a script for that! AO3 Only Show Primary Pairing.

This post is extremely long now, but if you're wondering about other things just drop them in the notes.

'the hill we climb'

goddamn i really liked this. gotta share with the gang. spoken word about the States.

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#beautiful words #art sharing #the hill we climb #amanda gorman