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this is the last part of her story, if anyone is interested!

here's an equally insane story from the comments:

There are always amazing things to do outside of comic con that you don’t need a comic con badge for

AO3 is specifically relies on donations, rather than ad revenue, because it is the Archive Of Our Own, and is not answerable to any political agenda other than protecting and maintaining, again, all the fanfiction uploaded to it. there are checks and balances, and there’s a governing board, and they’re all dead serious about making sure that the archive endures any attempts by outside parties to censor or remove its content, no matter how abhorrent that content is.

the archive is an archive, not a social network or a platform. it hosts content and it serves that content to users in an efficient way–hence the phenomenal tag system–but it is meant to safeguard writers and their writing, not to profit from its users. it literally can’t profit off of its users or monetize their interactions in any way, just by virtue of its own structure: all money given to a nonprofit goes towards furthering that organization’s mission.

see, when a company or corporation makes money, it pays for labor and upkeep and then the guys that own the company keep the rest of the money, and that’s profit. when a nonprofit makes money, it pays for labor and upkeep and then if it has extra, it reinvests in various ways, like building new things or improving old things, or it saves the money for future labor and upkeep it might need.

the archive cares that users are able to control their own experiences of it, and filter out the stuff they don’t want to see. they care that users are protected from harassment. but they don’t profit from users’ engagement with the site, so they don’t do anything to encourage traffic the way a for-profit site that’s monetized engagement has.

hopefully this explanation helps someone.

doctor who has an underlying racism problem, and nobody (nobody meaning both fans and the actual writers) has really done anything to stop it. yes, we've had a black doctor... who was immediately sidelined by a white woman. yes, we've had a brown master... who was sold out to the nazis by the same white woman.

the show has been racist since it began. it's had blackface and yellowface in some of the earlier serials. a lot of the earlier serials also have throwaway racist lines, and the famously racist mess that is "talons of weng-chiang." leela is a racist stereotype. (very few people bother to acknowledge this. stop calling leela a s*vage. it's a slur.)

martha's treatment is famously racist. hey, rtd? having a black woman repeatedly sidelined and traumatised in favour of a white woman who isn't even there is not a very good look. mickey is also treated badly by the doctor (being repeatedly called "stupid" and at one point blamed for rose's disappearance for no good reason).

making the first south asian companion a cop is also not a great look. but whenever i talk about this and ask fans to think critically about the show (or, god forbid, call out its racism), i get ignored and shut down.

tl;dr: your show is racist. the bare minimum you can do is acknowledge that.

The search engine calculates a score that aggressively favors text-heavy websites, and punishes those that have too many modern web design features.

If you are looking for fact, this is almost certainly the wrong tool. If you are looking for serendipity, you’re on the right track. When was the last time you just stumbled onto something interesting, by the way?

It’s all fuck terfs until you’re asked to stop making merch for a 23-year-old book series.

In middle school biology, we did an experiment. We were given yams, which we would sprout in cups of water. We then had to make hypotheses about how the yams would grow, based on descriptions of yam plants in our books, and make notes of our observations as they grew.

Here’s what was supposed to happen: we were supposed to see that the actual growth of the plant did not resemble our hypotheses. We were then supposed to figure out that these were, in fact, sweet potatoes.

What actually happened was that every single student in every single class lied in their notes so that their observations perfectly matched their hypotheses. See, everyone assumed the mismatch meant they had done something wrong in the process of growing the plant or that they had misunderstood the dichotomous key or the plant identification terminology. And, thanks to the wonders of a public school education, everyone assumed the wrong results would get us a failing grade. We were trying to pass. We didn’t want to get bitched out by the teacher. Curiosity, learning, science - that had nothing to do with why we were sitting in that classroom. So we all lied.

The teacher was furious. She tried to fail every student, but the administration stepped in and told her she wasn’t allowed to because a 100% fail rate is recognized as a failure of the teacher, not the class. It wasn’t even her fault, really, though her being a notorious hard-ass didn’t help. It was a failure of the entire educational system.