Twirlybumblevee

Vee, she/her, long-time enjoyer of many fandoms. *** What did this player dream? This player dreamed of sunlight and trees. Of fire and water. It dreamed it created. And it dreamed it destroyed. It dreamed it hunted, and was hunted. It dreamed of shelter. And the player was a new story, never told before, written in letters of DNA. And the player was a new program, never run before, generated by a sourcecode a billion years old. And the player was a new human, never alive before, made from nothing but milk and love. You are the player. The story. The program. The human. Made from nothing but milk and love. You. You. You are alive.

[baldcaraz]

sincaraz

[belladonnabedlam]

Okay. I was on my beloved AO3 and I saw something that made me do a double take. So, now I really want to know…

What is your AO3 user ID?

I’m an OG user 5 digits or less

Six figures baby!

I’m in the millions…

Remaining time: 1 day 14 hours

I’m so curious to see how long people have been on AO3! I know some people have been on there since beta/invite only, but I would love to see what the number is on tumblr!

[guardian-angle22]

baby capybara named Tupi via san antonio zoo

[luzxxii]

[tvmusiclife]

AND THAT WAS FOR CABO VERDE, EGYPT, AND JUDE BELLINGHAM

[runawaymarbles]

The midjourney stuff just reminds of when we were trying to find a new platform to host the ao3 donation form, and companies kept trying to tell me about all their "ai" features that would track donor engagement, and figure out the optimal pattern to email individual donors asking for follow up donations, and all the ways they suggest we manipulate people into staying on our websites. It was a great way to filter out who either wasn't listening to us when we described our ethics and donor base, or just didn't believe us.

Now granted ao3 is a unique case based on a) the amount of page views we get in any given time period and b) the fact that most donors absolutely do Not want to be identified as such anywhere, (the default "list of recent donors" module got nuked Immediately) but it surprised me some that the concept of "donors who value their privacy and would be furious at even the whiff of AI" is unique. Some of us really are just existing in different worlds.

[zz9pzza]

Op's tags

#I just started dropping '2.5 Billion page views a month'#into conversations as early as possible bc they would Not believe me otherwise#it was right up there with having to say 'csam attacks' to get them to take my compartmentalization of information concerns seriously#turns out those are the magic words#otw#op

[runawaymarbles]

The last part was kind of insane, honestly. When we started changing platforms for the donor database, I kept telling them that yes I was aware we already had an account for the volunteer database, and no that could not be connected to the donor database. And they said yes fine sure and then connected them anyway. And I called them back and said, excuse me, I'm confused, I can see both databases. And they said, well, yeah, but it's only you, someone has to be able to see both databases to give other users access. The other users can't see both. And I said, no, we have been asking for a completely separate database. I should not be able to see both. And they said, you are one organization, one organization can't have two databases. And I said, last year someone used our volunteer email list to commit approximately one thousand felonies. Please feel free to imagine how much worse it could have been had they had a way to use volunteers' email addresses to get their legal names. We do not want this to be something anyone can do no matter how much we trust them. Let me describe those felonies to you in more detail. And they emailed me two hours later and said, you can have two separate databases.

[kyraneko]

This post feels like watching an iceberg go by in clear water. The amount of stuff going on beneath the surface of AO3 just astonishes.

[jeffsatyr]

(ID in alt)

[elodieunderglass]

Approximately one THOUSAND felonies

[honeyblisss]

xdnf is so good..... imagine being a literal god manipulating a shell of a man only to STILL be his second choice because his homeboy is in prison. u are an all-powerful god and your boytoy is hung up on his boybestfriend.

[honeyblisss]

xdnf is so good. you have lost everything and a deity tortures you with the face of your lover and showers you with gifts as if it will fill the void in your chest. you dream of a world where you are no longer powerless and you get the wrath of a god as punishment. you are mocked while you sleep and while you are awake. you were promised a kingdom that even the most powerful being will not deliver to you.

[beardedmrbean]

Rick Rolled a entire stadium full of people, epic.

[bisexualbaker]

[Image: Post by Time Capsule Tales: "Rick Astley &the Foo Fighters perform "Never Gonna Give You Up" in the style of "Smells Like Teen Spirit", after Dave Grohl spotted Rick on the side of the stage aand just pulled him up to do the song." Video is as described by the post.]

[blazeismissingg]

More of 404 love letters by @uf2pia cause I feel so insane about them

[h3lian]

𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞— 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤. ٠࣪⭑

— PWYW Sketch Commission for @landrovaling ✎ᝰ.

[red-garden]

“Do dishes” and “take out trash” both require the use of a spell slot, vs “use phone” is a cantrip, and brother, I am a level one wizard

[littleskrib]

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[sophsun1]

Fleetwood Mac | Silver Springs Live (1997)

During a taping of a Fleetwood Mac reunion show later released as The Dance, shit once again got very real. Midway through the bridge of a non-album rarity called “Silver Springs,” Nicks turned and faced her former flame as she sang the song’s rueful bridge: “Time cast a spell on you, but you won’t forget me/ I know I could have loved you but you would not let me.” The pair locked eyes, and Nicks gradually built to a cathartic howl – “I’ll follow you down ’til the sound of my voice will haunt you/ You’ll never get away from the sound of the woman that loves you” indicating that, for her at least, resolution had never really come.

Suddenly, “Silver Springs,” a song written for Rumours but left off the finished album and relegated to B-side status, seemed like the key to the entire messy and enthralling saga of Fleetwood Mac’s most beloved lineup. 

Rumours became a theatrical affair, with the exes addressing one another’s faults, their own pain and a storm of other topics related to their respective heartbreaks. “Silver Springs” was Nicks’ tribute to the fairy-tale ending that never was. The title came from Silver Spring, Maryland: While passing through the town on tour, Nicks romanticised the name. “It sounded like a pretty fabulous place to me, it’s a whole symbolic thing of what [Lindsey] could have been to me.”

The track’s primary exposure was as a B side to “Go Your Own Way” Buckingham’s own expression of anger and revenge against Nicks, where he claimed that “packin’ up, shackin’ up is all you wanna do.”

"He knew it wasn’t true. It was just an angry thing that he said,” Nicks told of the “packin’ up, shackin’ up” line. “Every time those words would come onstage, I wanted to go over and kill him. He knew it. He really pushed my buttons through that. It was like, ‘I’ll make you suffer for leaving me.’ And I did.”

Of course, Nicks had the exact same motivation when she wrote “Silver Springs.” She explained the song’s message as “I’m so angry with you. You will listen to me on the radio for the rest of your life, and it will bug you. I hope it bugs you.”

[highball66]

I feel like I should make a list of a bunch of less-known things about Leon because there's a lotttt of lore in the series beyond what's shown in the games and CGI movies that's canon, but people usually don't know that, and Capcom isn't exactly doing us any favors since most of this ends up becoming lost media anyway.

He takes selfies and him and Hunnigan are seemingly fairly close, close enough that Leon is texting her selfies of him in the field and trying to convince him to become a field agent with him

He's a supervisor for the Sentinel Nine project at the DSO's R&D department-- a weapons development program

He really likes movies to the point where he often unironically quotes them or brings them up in casual conversation. He tells Chris the Lanshiang mission reminds him of a "zombie version of Black Hawk Down," and quoted Casablanca in the Vendetta movie as well. He also quoted Pulp Fiction in RE4R.

It looks like he enjoys reading as well as he's read Don Quixote, but we don't really get any other book references from him that I'm aware of.

He's ambidextrous to some extent, we see him dual-wield the wingshooters in RE6

According to the Inside Biohazard: Darkside Chronicles book, Claire told Leon about everything that happened with the Ashfords sometime prior to him leaving for Operation Javier. It's not really shown in the games, but there's subtle hints that they're more in-communication than a lot of people think. They have each other's cell phone numbers (something that wasn't a thing when they originally met), Claire has his email address memorized, and she invited him to the TerraSave anniversary event too, so they talk more than we see them talk.

He can't sleep on planes, seemingly because he's had a lot of bad experiences. He mentions this in RE6.

Getting to keep his hair long during his military days was special and unique for him since hair was far from military regulation and thus he was granted a special exception. It's likely that this wasn't just something handed to him, rather it was something he had to fight/push for, and considering he's had pretty much the same haircut for 17 years now, I think it's safe to assume he probably cares about his hair to some extent, more specifically that he likes having longer hair.

It appears he did have some connection with his mother and grandmother at one point. In the Damnation novel, he briefly thinks about a story his grandmother had told him and mentions that his mother taught him to be kind to others. We don't get any details or any elaborations-- that's all we've got to work with.

[shuohuahenlei]

三百六十度旋转拍战损小分头

真是个色彩丰富的人类，上一次让我发出这种感慨的还是星际迷航3里的克里斯派恩

[alicantealicia]

🥹

[brilcrist]

Let's do abit of detour from the comic.

Here's art exchange for @/nubenivalis on twitter

Chreon smexy time, based on their request!

Bon Appétit🔥🥰