I’m just very happy for him, ok?? ❤︎

Thank you for being our safe space @danielhowell

Being in this community theres been nothing but an outpour of love and support, time after time i was always educated and so loved by the queer community, and i have never been more proud of dan, for being himself and for finally living his truth, thank you dan for providing this warm supportive community for us, thank you for being here, and im so glad to see that youve grown to be the exact person you needed when you were younger.

It must have taken so much out of dan to put himself out there like he did. He really went for it, just decided to share his whole life story, so that he could help somebody who might be in the same position as he is. As someone who’s been watching since 2010, the growth ive seen in him is immense. Ive never felt closer to dan in all the 9 years ive been by him and i feel like i understand him so much more. Hes been through so much and came out so strong, and he addressed so many issues that are important, esp during pride month. Hell, even in the kpop community, EVERYONE was talking about him and congratulating him. The power that dan has, the way that hes opened himself up to millions of people, is so strong and inspiring.

I hope that he is happy with himself and feels like a burden has been taken off his shoulders. This aint even about phan anymore, this is about the two of them being happy and living their best lives in any way that they can. Im so excited to see where they go from here and how much more they grow. I want to thank dan for exposing himself and being so extremely strong. And thank you phil for being there for him and helping him through his demons.

This post is a mess but ive been thinking about this video the whole day and i cant even put my thoughts into words anymore. Im just so proud. I feel like my kids have grown up and gone to college or something.

DANIEL. MOTHERFECKIN. HOWELL. I’m so happy for him aaaaaaa <3 <3

Happy 32nd Birthday, @amazingphil

Mr. @amazingphil in colour <3

Ridiculously small kitten: “Myam myam myam. Njam njam njam njam njam njam njam! Myam myam myam nyam nyam myam. Mmmam. Mrrrrram. Meep!”

inktober day 10 | STAR

i’ve had a couple bad days mental health wise so that’s why i’m late on inktober, but i’ll catch up this weekend!

reblogs are appreciated <3

Mukbang Lads

They also spent a good amount of the rest of the 30% budget on significant server overhaul costs. 

AO3 is literally a service you get for free and the audacity you’d have to not bother reading the very open budget plan they have, but to then bitch and whine about people donating to keep the site running is wild. 

hosts millions and millions of fanfiction at no cost to site users

hosts millions and millions user accounts at no cost to site users

is an extremely high traffic site that rarely, if ever, experiences crashes

is an extremely high traffic site that could profit immensely off ads, but keeps the entire site free of ads

maintains a consistent and elaborate tagging system that allows users easy navigation through fanworks

maintains a simple layout structure so the entire site is easy to read, easy to navigate, and easy to understand making it highly accessible to users – especially disabled users

maintains and updates the budget for users to know exactly where their donations are going to be used in the future and have been used in the past

works with the legal aspects of fanworks in order to keep their site and their users completely legal, and therefore not at risk of being shut down, or sued, or manipulated by large media/companies

works with users when it comes to decision making, includes members in voting processes, etc.

literally hosts millions of fanfiction at no cost whatsoever and doesn’t subject you to ads, honestly those are the only two points you need but the other ones are there to show how much they’re doing 

y’all need to appreciate that – donations are completely optional and if you don’t want to donate then don’t, but spreading posts about how Archive doesn’t do anything for anyone and doesn’t do anything with all this money they’re getting is completely unnecessary and outright false.

1.569.000 users

by asking for 130k dollar 2-3 times a year, that means they ask each account holding user for about 0,08 dollar 2-3 times a year -> 0,25 dollar altogether. this doesn’t even factor in the millions of users who don’t have an account but visit ao3, cos if they pitch in as well, it’ll be even less for everyone who enjoys the access ao3 provides to 4.000.000 fanworks and to create more every day!

queerlyalex above has already listed all or most of the terrific services ao3 provides, but right now the legal advocacy efforts they maintain cannot be emphasized enough: european copyright reform article 13 anyone? same for canada and australia? or fighting for net neutrality since 2014?