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For @rad-roche: a scene inspired by her story Imbrium, in which Chronos raises Melinoë as his own daughter. Content warnings: a lot of violence, some foul language, and a lot of father daughter bonding activities. Go read!

rad-roche

compiled grandpas

#hottttt grampa #cant stop loving the sexy old man

rad-roche

i have a little sketch page going where i give that old man funky haircuts because i'm normal and that's a normal thing to do and honestly i gave him the thanatos one as a joke. but

that's... not a bad look, actually.....?

rad-roche

giving away my Gamer Secrets.... use them wisely

my brushes - (x)

rad-roche

i asked you, the people, what you wanted to see, and the answer i got the most was 'legs'

bonus golden age chronos

rad-roche

mel....

rad-roche

i'm really fond of that statue at the end of the hallway where chronos wears modern-for-the-time clothing and then never ever does it again

#hot grampa

myxhul

since apparently im never gonna finish this animatic might as well just post some of the frames here

lilium-hyde

hades memes i made an unnecessarily rigid template for because i may have smth (else) neurodivergent about me

anyways, hadesgame art and stuff masterpost

songsomi

Hades II (2025) dev. Supergiant Games In the name of Hades, let us begin.

rad-roche

TWENTY TRILLION DOLLARS TO JOHN SUPERGIANT

rad-roche

there's a bath scene with heracles in here that is clearly new and i'm not saying anything else has been added on that front. let me put that down here definitively right now. i have no illusions on the chances of this. but i will say if postgame a certain old man appears this would constitute one of potentially two Legendary Posting Events for me

systlin

purge of 2002? of 2012? what ARE those?

Oh, how quickly the past is forgotten.

They are part of the reason A03 is a thing now. Not the whole reason, but part of it.

The Great Purges of 2002 and 2012 are when ff.net got a wild hair up their ass about THINK OF THE CHILDREN and nuked any fic posted on there that was explicit. Thousands upon thousands of nc-17 smutfics were lost.

It’s what led to the creation of alternate hosting sites for smutty fic…AdultFanfiction was the one I went to…but thousands of fics would never be recovered.

systlin

Shit like the Great Purges and the Strikethrough of Livejournal eventually led to fans banding together to create A03, which I would have absolutely KILLED for when I was 15.

persephonebooklover

Back up ao3 was created by fans?

systlin

It’s…right on the main page.

fanfictionanthology

I love this because I will bet you that persefv has read that bit we are all so inundated with hyperbole and advertising that says that the consumer is somehow in charge of whatever product they are shilling that we all just assumed this was another sales tactic.

naryrising

But we’re not even… selling anything… *quiet sobs*

wrangletangle

No ads. No subscriptions. No data selling.

We are the definition of “what it says on the tin.”

elfwreck

Is there any way to spread this info?

THE OTW WAS CREATED BY FANS SO WE’D HAVE AN ARCHIVE THAT WASN’T SUBJECT TO CORPORATE REVIEW.

Nonprofit, so that nobody could ever say, “this isn’t making enough money; it’s getting shut down.” (See: Geocities, Quizilla, Figment, G+.) With lawyers involved and a firm awareness of the legalities of fanfic, so nobody would decide “we’ve gotten a nasty letter from a megacorporation with lawyers, so we’re hiding because we can’t afford to face a lawsuit. (Jedi Hurtaholics, Trevizo’s Millennium site.) With teams, so that an argument between co-mods didn’t result in the destruction of a whole archive. (Gryffindor Tower, Detention.)

AO3 IS OUR SITE.

It is by fans, for fans. Fans do all the coding. All the legal paperwork. All the abuse/tos violation complaints. Fans make all the choices about policies. Fans decide how to run the fundraisers. Fans write the blog posts. All the volunteer staff are fans; all the people who train them are fans. Fans wrangle all the tags.

(And the other OTW projects, too. Fans manage the entries at Fanlore. Fans run the Open Doors project. Fans publish Transformative Works and Cultures.)

EVERYONE WORKING FOR THE OTW LOVES FANDOM. Wants it to survive. Wants it to be awesome for everyone.

(Knows that it can’t be awesome for everyone; some approaches to fandom just clash hard. But they strive to minimize those clashes as much as possible, because they love fandom.)

AO3 is not some company that decided, “we’ll make a site for fanfic and then…” I don’t know what people are thinking is the reason. Money? Data harvesting? Tax shelter? Amusement and pity?

Nope; AO3 was fans saying, “Livejournal sucks; we’re tired of this fucked-up ‘rebuild every three years’ garbage; WE NEED TO OWN THE DAMN SERVERS.”

That’s the “of our own” part of the name. OTW isn’t a “them” running the site “for us.” It’s “us” making places for “us” to share what we love with others of “us.”