Hewwo?

A) there are literally So Many Things going on all the time and people have diverse interests and concerns to talk about and even if you feel your thing is so important everyone should care about it, you can’t expect whatever number of people you consider appropriate to already be talking about it, cripes, if it’s important then just START TALKING ABOUT IT without the snotty rhetorical question

First take a standard rectangular piece of paper (I used one from a small notebook which I ripped out then cut the holes off)

Then fold in half touching the shorter side to the opposite shorter side.

Fold again making the new shorter side touch the other new shorter side

I did this one more time, but this time I unfolded it right after to get back to where it was only folded twice. It should have left a crease in the paper.

Using this crease, fold the corners up alongside it to look like this

This are also going to be unfolded, but this time you’re going to push in alongside the triangular folds you just made and undid.

Doing this once will result in this

Do the other side of you haven’t already to get this

You’ll open these newly created flap to change which parts are touching

Leaving you with this

Then you start pulling the top “tabs” down

Do both sides to get the final folded form

Decorate as desired.

Because fake marble was actually more expensive than the real deal. Because it was painstakingly hand-painted to look similar.

Nintendo of Europe answered every question, so I can canonically tell you that Princess Peach is so rich that she owns two castles, one for furniture and one for all her artwork.

“So this guy walks into the diner. I say ‘guy’ because I had no idea how old he was, he was either a very tall child or a babyfaced grandpa. He’s wearing a bright pink varsity jacket and flip-flops, and when he’s done breakfast he gives me a fifty-dollar tip on a five dollar breakfast. So now I’m thinking, ‘Oh, I gotta know more about this guy,’ and I ask him what he does for work.

So we start talking about CBF. It felt real good to talk about something that you thought only you cared about with someobdy else and we really got along. And the kid used to be a superfan, used to make reaction videos and fanart and roleplayed with his breakfast, even made breakfast OCs. The last thing he didn’t really want to talk about, because he got real quiet all of sudden. How can breakfast hurt you that bad? But I managed to cheer him up by saying I’m gonna make more CBF pins and would send him some. He was super grateful and told me to send it to the beach of his city. I wanted a real address but he said the postwoman there would know what it meant.

And just as he leaves he say “My therapist said I should reconnect with the things that make me happy to combat my PTSD and existential dread, so thanks, you really saved me here” boy you’re 16, ur welcome but what the hell?

UPDATE: I found his tubetube account and yeah, there’s all the reaction videos but also he apparently used to be part of SADIE KILLER AND THE SUSPECTS like he played a bit of guitar with them and documented their sessions and uploaded them AND HIS DAD WAS THE MANAGER THAT LAUNCHED THEM BECAUSE HE ASKED HIM TO DO IT wat? I have so many questions. Like did the rockstar life give him PTSD before they even got big? Does he have a dad and two moms? was his dad his mom? is this a trans thing? who is that sweet boy?

SECOND UPDATE: Apparently his dad is an underground rock legend and a millionaire cause his song appeared in a sprite commercial. I’m done. How are people real”

true ending under the cut

• they are non-profit

• they have a living kelp forest!

• it focuses on local ocean wildlife

• they were the first aquarium to get a great white shark to eat and they are the only public aquarium to display a great white shark for more than sixteen days

• they have a seafood watch program where they promote sustainable seafood

• they are actively fighting against ocean pollution

there’s m-

Y’all, I’m 32. I’ve been reading fanfiction since I was a teenager. I’ve also been reading a metric fuck ton of original content, creating my own, working, going to school, having a whole life—most people who engage in fandom also do all that shit. We would be devastated if anything happened to Ao3 for a multitude of reasons, and for the vast majority of us, none of those reasons would be “because we don’t know who we are without it.” Do…do they realize that what they see of someone on tumblr is not actually their whole life and self?

As for the whole Ao3 being a cesspool for kiddie porn, that is…not only untrue but also, 99% of the people arguing on behalf of Ao3 on this issue aren’t fucking saying that child porn is good or morally acceptable. All that’s being said is, “The purpose of this site is to be an ARCHIVE of all kinds of works. There are tags to assist with weeding out what you don’t want to see.” Because when purges happen, it is frequently marginalized people and/or content representing marginalized people that is in the line of fire. It ALWAYS is! Do they genuinely not realize that fandom as we know it exists because it was the only place so many people could see the stories they wanted to see, to feel a sense of representation?

No one saying Ao3 is perfect and that there are elements that really should have been fixed a long time ago—the racism and racist content is a v real fucking issue. But it’s also super weird to me that some people feel so entitled to dictate exactly what does or doesn’t belong there in terms of like, romantic and sexual content, while completely ignoring its original purpose. Especially as a librarian, because…oof. If they think Ao3 is bad for allowing offensive works to exist, I’d hate for them to learn about libraries! Which, in the US, their tax dollars actually DO pay for—unlike Ao3!

Also, the whole “quit telling us to learn fandom history it’s not important and we don’t care, y’all are just old and too attached to media lol” is gonna bite these folks in the ass so fucking hard when they realize that fandom does not exist in a vacuum and that art and stories and the fans who consume them have informed one another since the beginning of fucking time?? And that saying “fuck fandom history actually because I think this is a silly topic” is like…wildly shortsighted at best?