Sailing the Shipping Seas

Artwork above by the talented @aisatsaa. Thank you for letting us use this gorgeous piece! ✨🌙

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Sweet @slowdissolve made me a drawing to cheer me up one night. We started talking about it, and this happened:

The heels were killing her.

Here she was, wearing stupid fragile high heels that took her away from good contact with the earth. A fancy dress she paid damn good money for. No armor. No backup.

How the flameo did she let this happen?

An early Yuletide gift for @nyamadermont, @watercaressesearth, and all my other Kyalin fan compatriots.

I saw a post of fan art earlier this week featuring the Gaang, but which didn't include Suki. I seek to correct this oversight with my own art dedicated to one of the most badass feminist characters in ATLA.

Morocco. Chechaouen - 1995.

Because AO3 is that site. Because AO3 was that site long before you decided AO3 was better than the sites you bullied us off of before, and I can promise you if someone somehow comes up with a fanfic site you like better specifically for the 'gross stuff' you'll try to bully us off that too so you can benefit from it.

AO3's specific core purpose is to preserve fanfiction, yes, but it was also instigated as a host site for the fanfiction that kept getting yeeted off other platforms like Wattpad. Its designed to preserve all fanfiction, not just the fanfiction you, personally, think is 'allowed' to be written.

AO3 is the site for all the gross stuff the freaks make. We've been there just as long as you. We've been funding it just as long as you have. AO3 has specifically said you have a place here. The timeline was literally:

Wattpad/FF.net/LiveJournal purge fanfics > AO3 is born > The people who's fics got purged moved over to AO3 > AO3 gains popularity as the best functioning site > The people who pushed for the fics to be purged off Wattpad move to AO3 > The same people try to push for AO3 to purge fics.

Wish i saw more of tophs end credits jig

Bonus:

But from what i can gather thats Crystal Thierry, also known as page73girl. Who seems to have been a model for the now defunct biggestletdown.com…

to Immanentize the Eschaton means to bring about utopian conditions and create heaven on Earth

the phrase is first cited in the Discordian religious text, Principia Discordia (1963), for whom Discord (aka Eris) is goddess:

the first line of Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea’s 1975 The Illuminatus! trilogy: “It was the year when they finally immanentized the Eschaton.”

in Frederik Pohl’s The Eschaton Sequence (1997 - 1999), the human race is caught up in a galactic war between two alien races attempting to immanentize the eschaton

in Ken Macleod's The Stone Canal (1997), one of the chapters is “Another crack at Immanentising the Eschaton”