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sablingart

Kimono Girl Stamps

console-pokeballs-rupees

Penny and her eeveelutions

credit: mikripkm on X

karroana

more vaporeon x fish variations ! i finally got time to make some new ones traditionally (you can find the old digital vaporeons x fish here)

from top to bottom there is :

Coelacanth vaporeon : water x rock

Angelfish vaporeon : water x psychic

Koi vaporeon : water x fire

Dojo loach vaporeon : water x ground

If you want to get your own fishy vaporeon, you can commission me on Ko-Fi :)

elierlick

Support butch trans women.

carrion-art

"All animals taking the Coruscant Transit Authority must fit within a handheld bag or carrier"

edgygospel

I believe this is the canonical way which the primarchs were made.

olderthannetfic

No, no, and NO.

AO3 does not live in “the cloud” because that is other people’s computers, and other people’s computers are vulnerable to censorship.

AO3 is on its own computers. It does still have to be housed somewhere, and I suppose a determined enough hater could try to find that place and go after it, but it’s a lot harder than sending spurious complaints to Amazon or whomever going “BadWrong things are hosted on your cloud service!”

Owning the servers is a core tenet of OTW/AO3.

zz9pzza

Warming up a new database server….

elfwreck

When people involved with AO3 talk about “the cost of servers” they don’t mean “the cost to pay Amazon for space on their servers.” They mean, like, the cost to physically own them, and eventually replace them with new ones. And the operating costs to run them.

AO3 is not “in the cloud.” AO3 is stored on physical machines that the OTW owns.

While this is not a solution that can work for everyone who wants to deal with controversial content, it is why AO3ple sneer at alt-righters who complain about getting thrown off hosting platforms.

crowns-of-violets-and-roses

I Want Us to Own the Goddamned Servers

Because I want us to own the goddamned servers, ok? Because I want a place where we can’t be TOSed and where no one can turn the lights off or try to dictate to us what kind of stories we can tell each other.

lierdumoa

AO3 is what a website looks like when you seize the means of production.

alex51324

Exactly. When I was growing up, pre-internet, they used to say, “Freedom of the press is for those that own one.”

The early internet was like everyone owned a press. Those days are gone; owning the servers is the new owning the press.

olderthannetfic

TBH, I kind of want to get a printing press.

kabewski

Goff Gobbo Gal!

autumnarchfeyartwork

Good Guy Farseer

peterturbosfavorite

We were all happy when Yarrick returned

kabewski

If I had more time and passive income, I'd make a comic about an unfortunate imperial diplomat who becomes an unwilling hostage to a band of goffs because their boss finds him very handsome.