nianeyna replied to your photo “IMPORTANT @flurbejurbvondurp This is so fucking stupid. Why can’t...”

yeah I’ll be honest even if it was all fine and legal I still don’t want ads on ao3

Right?!

The thing that a lot of people miss is that the whole reason they want to put ads on AO3 is that AO3 is insanely successful at appealing to a certain demographic. It is AO3, not the individual fic that has done 90% of the work.

So why should AO3 allow them to profit off of that work?

More than that, why should AO3 allow them to profit when AO3 was paid for by donations from people who are paying to not see ads and whose experience on the archive is materially harmed by ads?

@nianeyna replied to your post “Adventures in Animal Crossing”

it’s basically a crafting and gathering game. collect things to sell or turn in or craft into other things to sell or use, and doing this will unlock new things to craft and collect. if you don’t like collecting things it may not be for you, lol. but good luck!

I miss your baboon comparisons during the week

slightly tipsy and going to take this opportunity to wax on about a baboonish topic. cw the joyful infliction of violence by children against other children

When I was in elementary and early middle school, I used to get into fights – mostly boys, a girl once or twice. Children I hated, who hated me. And occasionally our enmity would explode into hair pulling, kicking, punching, pinching. I was a great pincher, I’d use the tipmost (distal interphalangeal) joints of all my fingers on someone’s arm.

And these fights, they are some of the most viscerally alive, joyous moments in my memory. I would only dimly register that someone was inflicting pain on me – the sheer joy of hurting someone I hated made every bit of me feel awake. It takes a lot for me now to really remember how that felt – I don’t hate like that anymore. But when I’m in the right frame of mind, I remember being thirteen, having someone play a mean spirited prank on me and look smug about it, feeling all my restraint evaporate, and headbutting them so hard that they yelled, not feeling any pain myself. And my blood shivers in longing, remembering that moment when all of my body and mind was in alignment with itself. I can’t get that in a nice civilized martial arts program for adults. It was only possible for me as a child, when I and my opponent were too weak to inflict serious harm on each other.

U SURE THO

nianeyna replied to your post “essentiallyimmortal replied to your post “so there are like five...”

I mean, I would be okay with this, just saying

IS HE GETTING ERAN FIRE BLANKETS IM CRY

  seriously rethinking going through the rest of the...

what the hell there’s so many of these

i only made it back to june 2017 before the fatigue kicked in. i have to scroll through my archive looking for instances of a very muted placeholder image and then manually plug the post code into dashboard view just to see the flagged posts at all to appeal them.

who i will protect at all costs:

Alphinaud, my beloved and precious son. If SE hurts you, I riot.

who deserves better:

Emmanellain. Look, he had good character development and I’m still salty when people don’t recognize it.

who was killed off too early:

MOENBRYDA WE HARDLY KNEW YE. She was so cool and she went out like a champ but I wish she’d stuck around more.

who i used to hate but now i love:

Alphinaud at the start of ARR: “oh my gods, you annoying little prick.”

Alphinaud now: “BELOVED SON.”

who i used to love but now i hate:

Usually it’s the other way around for me, but I admit I used to be more fond of Thancred before HW gave him the Angst Bucket.

who needs to be killed off asap:

Why is Zenos still alive, and how many times do we have to stab him for it to stick?

who is unfairly hated:

Lyse. Look, her character hasn’t always been handled well, but she’s good! She’s cool! She’s trying her best.

who is unfairly loved:

Edmont de Fortemps is an awful father. His family is held together by Haurchefant and sticky tape, and I still cringe when I remember the time he told Aymeric “I could not bear to lose another son” while Artoirel who’d just also risked his life the same way was standing right there.

who needs to sort out their priorities:

Nanamo, are you Sultana or not? Punch Lolorito some more.

who needs a hug:

SO MANY CHARACTERS but if I had to pick? Honoroit. Hug The Smol.

who needs to get out of their current relationship:

Huh, I don’t think anyone canonically has one? But Estinien/Brooding needs to become Estinien/Friendship imo. (look SE all I want is for him to see Alphy again and just one hug plz I beg.)

who the writers love:

Thancred, for reasons which escape me entirely. Please just...why. Why. I don’t see the appeal.

who needs a better storyline:

Minfilia. I always wanted to like her, but god she was just so badly written. SE, if you wanted us to feel bad for her, you should have given her an arc in 2.0 instead of leaving all our bonding in 1.0.

who has an amazing redemption arc:

Exhibit A: Emmanellain de Fortemps. RECOGNIZE. (Fordola is cool but I can’t in good conscience call her arc redemption.)

who is hot af:

Too many fucking characters tbh, but if I had to pick one it’d be Aymeric.

who belongs in jail:

Varis. Please Go Away. thanks.

who needs to be revived from the dead: