a wind had blown away the sun

Writer. Reader. Procrastinator. This is a fannnish blog with some rare exceptions. *** *** Fanfic: for Supernatural for Peaky Blinders *** *** I'm on twitter as Veneredirimmel

[shelbv]

peaky blinders → 1.06

[incidentalcomics]

Lonely Cloud

Poetry Comics Month, Day 8

[veneredirimmel]

i’m going to make a bit of a followers check, i have lost track with many on my list, in this passing time, so i’m going to try an curate it a bit.

for those who remember me, feel free to say hello lol

[veneredirimmel]

okay maybe it’s time i get back to tumblr if I want to retain some of my social activity

[romeoquinns]

Sir Oswald, this is my wife Elizabeth. Lizzie, Sir Oswald Mosley.

[silverlessly]

I know that a part of the fandom finds Lizzie annoying in S5 and yes she had her moments of inconsistency, but bits like this make a lot of sense and feel cathartic for a reason

The first scene where she’s mentionned, she’s mocked and belittled and in S5 she pulls this right after Mosley dared to breathe words in her direction

Her pride and confidence that some may see as entiltement and arrogance are a direct devlopment of personality, and while they may play this specific scene as humoristic, she has other more serious parts where we see her overcome critics, moralists who act like women who are prostitutes basically have not feelings so let’s trash them more

[veneredirimmel]

Reblogging for commentary.

I also never found Lizzie annoying, or arrogant, or anything else. In fact I do love her character trajectory and I believe it closely follows Tommy’s raise to power from abject misery and powerlessness in a way that can be precisely tracked. I love where she is now, and the pain and effort it took to get there. I love this moment of power in the face of the epithome of institutionalized power embodied in Mosley. 

[nevver]

[sowhatifiliveinkyushu]

Residents view the first iceberg of the season as it passes the South Shore, near Ferryland Newfoundland, Canada by Jody Martin

[antique-scarecrow]

it…did not occur to me that icebergs just…pass by people’s houses

[portraitdelajeunefilleenfeu]

i used to live in st. john’s, nl, and, in late spring to early summer, it was not uncommon for a giant iceberg to float slowly by just outside the harbor. they would mention it on the news and radio. they took hours or, sometimes, days to go by. and, when it happened, it would make the whole town colder.. like ice in a glass of water. and, sometimes,… they would groan. as they passed.

[mistress-gif-deactivated2023111]

♡ Beautiful ♡

[veneredirimmel]

It appears that my tumblr account had been hacked by some porno bot. I have deleted the incriminated posts and will try to re-secure my account. Apologies to everybody, I have no idea how this happened, but maybe it was my constant inactivity here that opened it up to the haking, IDK. 

I hope you all are well, as well as the times allow. <3

[violetfolgi]

Little sketch of sad Tommy hugging sobbing Ada, once again inspired by @veneredirimmel 's brilliant fic:

Spit Blood, with Blue Steely Grey , concretely by this part:

“He blocked the view from Ada when she ran downstairs, she too awoken by the noise, held her against his shoulder and his shirt soaked her tears and hiccups.”

— Spit Blood, with Blue Steely Grey on AO3, by @veneredirimmel ; go read it if you haven't yet! This fic keeps inspiring me, and summoning me back to it over and over again. I love it!!

[veneredirimmel]

I dont deserve this but you all deserve to see the art and give it the love it deserves.

[violetfolgi]

WWI Thomas Shelby.

I did this drawing for the 2019 InkTober prompt "Pattern"; becuase there's a pattern in the voices that he hears, crawling up from the shadows. And it's that they're all dead.

///

Also, this was highly inspired by @veneredirimmel 's mind-blowing fic:

Spit Blood, with Blue Steely Grey

by Veneredirimmel (Smilla) on AO3.

if any of you want to read it (which I suggest you do! it's a great Tommy Shelby character study in some way but also gives so many rich clue moments from him childhood and time at war, and it's just– brilliant!) you can find it here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/20687426

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[veneredirimmel]

I'm in shock. The art is fantastic and I am so emotional right now I know I'm missing details. So here you go, take a look.

[scenesandscreens]

Peaky Blinders, Season Three (2017)

[unrealunearths]

i wish for this everyday

[florencepsource]

Not enough to earn a living, or to support my family. And if I had my own money, which I don’t, that money would belong to my husband the moment we got married. And if we had children, they would be his,not mine. They would be his property, so don’t sit there and tell me that marriage isn’t an economic proposition because it is . It may not be for you, but it most certainly is for me .

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

“There is a fascinating constant exchange between Crow’s natural self and his civilised self, between the scavenger and the philosopher, the goddess of complete being and the black stain, between Crow and his birdness. It seems to me to be the self-same exchange between mourning and living, then and now. I could learn a lot from him.”

— Max Porter, from Grief is the Thing with Feathers (Graywolf Press, 2015)

[unexplained-events]

The Sad Hour

This rare and early example of decorative coffin plaque includes a clock which was typically set to display the exact time of the individual’s passing.

[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.

[tesb]

There are people out there worth saving.

A QUIET PLACE: PART II (2020) dir. John Krasinski