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Me @ myself: itâs your fic. You have to write the next chapter yourself
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âWhen I say I love you more, I donât mean I love you more than you love me. I mean I love you more than the bad days ahead of us, I love you more than any fight we will ever have. I love you more than the distance between us, I love you more than any obstacle that could try and come between us. I love you the most.â â (Unknown)

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I justify my impulses by the fact Iâm going to be dead one day and none of it truly matters in the grand scheme of things
itâs that âtreat yo selfâ nihilism
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you know whats wayyyyy easier than writing? scrolling through tumblr for hours and hours and tangentially thinking about your WIPs but not Actually working on them
1918 friends episode
Phoebe and Monica get arrested at a suffragette rally. Rachel goes on a date with H.P. Lovecraft and is not familiar with his work. Ross dies of influenza. Joey and Chandler make love in a World War I foxhole.
Ross dies of influenza
Why would Ross die of influenza? Heâs the only one in the group who has any grasp of science and has a PhD. Heâs incredibly smart and would be the last one to die because he would know how to take care of himself and actually have knowledge about diseases.
im screaming the plague isnât gonna bypass you if you have a degree in paleontology
Why does Ross, the largest friend, not simply eat the other five?
I am so scared right now what the fuck does this terrifying comment have to do with anything else thatâs been discussed on the post at all
i was terrified but then i remembered this episode of futurama
Adulthood is literally just a cycle of spending every waking minute wishing you could go to bed until itâs actually time for bed and then it becomes the absolute LAST thing you want to do because going to bed is the thing that makes tomorrow happen and then you have to do it all over again
what's so great about the mummy 1999?
are you ready for this?Â
it is the most wonderfully made, historically inaccurate, giddily fun, perfectly paced, goofy horror movie romance novel bullshit bonanza that has ever blessed the silver screen.
i mean it is just so beautifully full of every genre without being overwhelming.weâve got: comedy, action, suspense, horror, romance, adventure, ancient aesthetics, and itâs a period piece. all perfectly balanced and blended into one movie.
and the characters are so LIT
we got our main babe, evelyn âmotherfuckingâ carnahan, a super-klutz librarian, total history nerd, and certified badass/damsel in distress. she raises the dead on accident, because she cannot resist books, and has the guts to put that motherfucker back where he came from and literally saves the world.evieâs greatest hits:Â
âwhat is a place like me, doing in a girl like this?!â
*after totally destroying the library*Â âiâve just made a bit of a mess in the library.â
âno harm ever came from reading a book.â
evelyn:Â *upon opening the tomb* âiâve dreamt about this since i was a little girl.ârick: âyou dream about dead guys?â
âoops.â
then weâve got rick âbrendan fraserâ oâconnell, your not-so-typical battle hardened gun slinger with a heart of gold. he seems filthy, rude, and a complete scoundrel at first, but then he turns into a literal puppy, with massive heart eyes, that worships the ground evie walks on.rickâs greatest hits:
*screams at mummy*
*screams at sand*
*screams at things that are illogical to scream at*
*screams*
next is our Comedic Relief Characterâ˘, jonathan carnahan, who also rises above his trope. heâs there for the laugh sure, but is never useless. he actively helps to move the plot along and isnât just there. he also is the farthest thing from brainless and annoying.jonathanâs greatest hits:
evelyn: âhave you no respect for the dead?âjonathan: âof course i do, but sometimes iâd rather like to join them.â same.
oh and that time he was like âIMHOTEPâ and saved his own ass like that was so smooth, yâall know what iâm talking about right??
then there is ardeth BAE. he is the audience rolling his eyes because *sighs* white people. heâs tired of these motherfucking mummies in this motherfucking desert. literally prettier than everyone.(he has a much bigger role in the mummy returns, but is still so fab here)
and of course THE MUMMY. imhotep. actual emo. literally carved some poetry into the back of his sarcophagus when he was buried alive with flesh eating bugs, because he is that Extraâ˘. just wants to bring his girlfriend back to life so he can make out with her without it being treason.Â
and all the side characters are also gr8.
now i wanna take a moment to talk about the romance. because it is so BEAUTIFUL. like usually in action movies itâs macho man undermines girl and they bone. not here. no time for that shit.Â
rick and evie have such a great relationship based on mutual respect and affection. they both cater to each otherâs strengths and cover each otherâs weaknesses. they are the literally definition of:Â âthose two. in a fight, theyâre lethal. around each other, they meltâ
what else, i could literally talk about this movie all day.
the special effects have held up pretty well.the music score is GORGEOUS.the costumes are amazing.the makeup, especially for anck su namun, OH WOW.the george of the jungle era brendan fraser sign me the fuck up.rachel weisz.
so many good things.
itâs just great.
#i secretly rate every action movie from 0 to the mummy
itâs a beautiful mess of a movie that can be enjoyed by people of all ages and transcends time and posterity as the alpha mummy movie, and to those who disagree i beseech you:
There is hardly a thing I can say in its favor, except that I was cheered by nearly every minute of it. I cannot argue for the script, the direction, the acting or even the mummy, but I can say that I was not bored and sometimes I was unreasonably pleased. - Roger Ebert
âŚyes but - how could you forget about the cat?
anyone: the seven deadly sins? you know? from the bible? me: oh yeah.. me, under my breath, twice: full metal alchemistÂ

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every time I see more of the âao3 is evilâ crap circulating I think, âwell, tumblr is evil too and I donât see you stop using itâ
You know, the more I think about this, the more I think the real complaint isnât that AO3 hosts âevilâ content, itâs that it doesnât allow harassment/dogpiling of âevilâ creators as easily as Tumblr. Abuse wonât remove or even re-tag a work except in a handful of very specific cases, but they will suspend or ban users for harassment, including filing repeated unfounded Abuse reports. Authors also have at least some ability to screen/block comments on works, and thereâs no direct messaging system outside of commenting on works through which to pursue harassment. You can follow a creator but you canât block them (much less encourage others to do the same). Tumblr, by contrast, generally ignores any abuse report that doesnât involve the DMCA, and aggressive anons can and have driven bloggers off the site entirely. The fact that the same tactics are used by social justice bloggers and neo-Nazis (for instance) doesnât matter â theyâre the affordances of the site, by accident or design, and an entire fannish generation have gotten very used to performing their fannish (and moral) identity in this fashion. (I thinks itâs relevant that AO3 was designed by fandomâs LJ generation and in some respect mirrors the affordances of LJ circa 2010. Tumblr is a very different site and that, moreso than age differences, seems to be at the root of this â though of course age intersect with site experience in a non-trivial way.)
ding ding ding ding.
Ao3 requires you to police your own consumption of content. Ao3 wonât let you destroy someoneâs online presence simply because you donât like it.  Ao3 wonât let you impose your own morality on other without cause. If you have issues with this, and the fact that Ao3 requires you to have responsibility and agency, then you seriously need to sit down and have a damned good long hard look at yourself.
The question I usually fail to see being answered when people bitch about the content on AO3 is - so who gets to decide?
You? Me? A committee of my friends? Of yours? Of those who have the most kudos? Of those who have no interest in fandom, but want to protect other people from dangerous content, whatever it may be? Who gets that power, and how long will they have it?
Who are you comfortable with giving the power of regulating all the content? What happens in grey areas? What happens when something you like isnât liked by the Decider? Is there an appeal? Who gets to make the arguments for and against something?
The world is complex and there are no easy answers.
The impossibility of creating a censorship board that curates based on content is a great reason why those things donât exist, and shouldnât.
Certain people are screaming that AO3 is bad because itâs not a âsafe space.â The real problem they have, though, is that AO3 was created to be a safe space - for writers. And it does a pretty good job of that. It was designed to be a place where writers are safe from arbitrary content rule changes, random and unwarned deletions, and abuse-report abuse (which is common on ff.net). The Four Big Warnings + CNTW system is beautiful in its fairness and simplicity.
Antis canât take control of it. And because control-freakdom is at the heart of their âmovement,â this drives them into frenzies. Good. It motivated me to dig a little deeper into my pocket to donate on the last drive. For all the pleasure AO3 has given me over the years, thatâs money well spent.
The real problem they have, though, is that AO3 was created to be a safe space - for writers.Â
Preach it loud and hard!
Iâm a member of the LJ generation, and when I first came to Tumblr (grudgingly and out of desperation, I might add, since it tragically seems to be the only place to really connect with other fandom peeps) I was horrified at how people here had established this sort of fucked up bully culture, where nobody is responsible for monitoring their own consumption, and rather they expect everyone else to custom tailor content to the whims and desires of the Shrieking Banshee Masses. And woe be to the person who doesnât bend and break! âIâm going to bully you while accusing you and your Big Mean Poopie Content of being the actual bully, so I can hopefully distract you and others from realizing Iâm being a royal intrusive asshat who failed Astronomy 101 b/c I clearly believe the world revolves around me.â
The irony here is that this in itself is an abuse tactic - victim blaming with a side of gaslighting. Pot, meet kettle.
And itâs the exact same mentality that drives right-wing lunatics to kick up a fuss about the existence of icky cootie gay people in media because we need to âprotect family valuesâ, or who take to screeching at Starbucks because their particular religious symbolism isnât portrayed on the winter holiday cups and OMG WAR ON CHRISTMAS, STARBUCKS STOP OPPRESSING ME BY NOT CATERING TO MY PERSONAL TASTE.
The mentality is one and the same - âCater to ME ME ME or FACE MY DIVINE WRATH even if it means taking away other peopleâs freedom!â while hiding behind a flimsy-ass shield of faux righteous anger. Â
And when these bozos find an environment or situation where theyâre unable or not allowed to bully people into silence and submission, they stomp their feet and pitch a tantrum and claim that theyâre the ones being oppressed. Identical shit, different pile, and itâs the exact same infantile, schoolyard rubbish no matter which side itâs coming from.
This was a really interesting read. The last poster in particular but all of it.
Okay, so I find the history behind this discussion really interesting, because there are two things that stand out to me. One is the thought AO3â˛s culture is equivalent to LJ circa 2010. This is almost true, except you actually have to go back further. Ao3 and Dreamwidth are both specifically trying to recreate the fan culture of Livejournal from 1999-2007, and I can say that with some authority because A) I was there (olllld) and B) both were founded in 2008/09 as a direct response to the shit happening on LiveJournal and Fanlib. The other thing is the idea that anon-harassment culture started with Tumblr. Because, kiddos, did it ever not. Tumblr is very much Fanfiction.net circa 1998-forward. (Thatâs right, FF.N was basically always awful.) But how we got from there to here is actually really interesting And tangly. And long.
Up to the late 1990s, fan communities were often small and decentralized because there was a huge fear that fans would be targeted by content creators if they drew too much attention. Since several authors (Anne Rice, Mercedes Lackey, Anne McCaffery) actually DID issue cease&desists to fan creators, itâs kind of understandable where the fear came from. Itâs also why you still see fanfic floating around with disclaimers, something young!tumblr loves to mock.
Harry Potter changed *everything*. Like, I really canât emphasize how much. Fanfiction was always there, being shared on email lists or privately hosted or literally mailed cross country. But Harry Potter hit BIG in 1997. It had a massive crossover appeal that hadnât been seen since probably the original Star Trek, and the baby Internet was all. over. it. If you werenât there, imagine Twilight. But bigger. And J.K. Rowling stood out from other creators by condoning fanfiction in her very early interviews. Not to mention there was a lot of down time between books and, as you might know, the fans do not do well unpoliced.Â
This led to, Iâm not kidding, an explosion of sites like FF.N. I donât think a lot of younger users get how revolutionary AO3 is: not just because it created a safe space, but because of how much itâs done to centralize fanfiction on the internet. We used to get our fix through webrings and e-serves, so in the late 90s/early 00s we thought nothing of having dozens of scattered fanfic sites.
At the same time, the Digital Millennium Copywrite Act was coming down. The legality of fanworks was getting more and more complex. And no one knew how to handle these questions, because they had literally never come up before. When it was just authors going after individual fans, things usually went quick and brutal. Fans had neither the money nor the legal teams to stand up to creators, even if (as we were slowly beginning to realize) we had a strong case to create and share fanworks. So, if you got hit with a takedown notice, you took your fic down and laid low, hoping to avoid any further interest. But now the legal burden was shifting from individuals to well-funded corporations. Fanfic.net and LJ didnât want to shut down their fan-contributors, who were creating a huge stream of free content and bringing in advertising revenue. At the same time, they didnât want to get shut down by a lawsuit if Lucasfilm found Han/Chewie smut and decided to go after the real money. The next 10 years were basically all of us â authors, fan creators, website executives â stumbling through brand new legal territory and figuring it out by trial and error. FF.N erred on the side of caution by becoming more and more restrictive. They shut down the entire Anne McCaffrey and Anne Rice sections, and eventually banned âpornographicâ fanfiction from the site in an attempt to cover their legal rears. (It backfired, unsurprisingly, because say what you will about fandom: we like our smut. Also, FF.N had other issues that we wonât get into here will discuss shortly.) A bunch of other sites folded or waned in popularity as fandom wars divided the fan population. Authors scattered to the winds, and a lot of them ended up on LJ. LJ started out very user friendly. Weâre talking an open source code, an almost entirely volunteer staff. Even after it was sold to 6Apart in 2005, LJ was pretty permissive. A lot of that had to do with the aforementioned DMCA, which protected ISPs and hosting corporations. Like I mentioned above, a lot of the migration from FF.N to LJ (as a place for fanfiction SPECIFICALLY) came when FF.N started banning explicit fanworks. Why? Because FF.N targeted these fanworks based entirely on user reports. âTell us if you find porn,â FF.N said, âAnd weâll take care of it.â Backup real quick. LJ, in many ways, set the standard for online privacy in a way that was far ahead of its time. Friendslocked journals were the norm rather than the exception and many, many communities disallowed anonymous commenting. (Iâm not saying LJ wasnât toxic as fuck, by the way. It is 2017 and letâs all have a moment of acknowledgement for how terrible LJ culture actually could be.) But LJ, on the whole, was much, much better at self-policing than FF.N. On FF.N, all of your stuff was out in the open. It was just there. Anyone could read it, anyone could report it. And these two sites coexisted. All BNFs had a private journal and a public FF.N page. So if I hated someone and I wanted to harass them off the internet, on LJ, Iâd have to make multiple sock puppets and concoct elaborate multi-journal ruses to do it on LJ (haha, who would do THAT?). What am I to do? Simple: Head off to FF.N and anonymously flame them there! FF.N became synonymous with anonymous hate long before the anti-smut censorship came down. But once those rules were in place, the system was rife for abuse by the Purity Police or grudgewankers. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaay before it was cool to dm âkill urselfâ to someone on tumblr, it was happening on FF.N. All you, the early internet user, had to do was post a report link for your rivalâs FF.N account on your LJ. Hate a pairing? A kink? Why not post a scathing rant, link included, to this captive audience of ALL YOUR FRIENDS. Yeah, this system had no room for abuse. So. FF.N opened the door and fandom came rushing through like the raging assholes we are. Certain Fandoms Alluded To Previously got so deeply divided that they split and formed their own fanfiction archives that occasionally rained hate on each other. Everyone else slowly withdrew to LJ, where locked communities offered some level of protection. Then, irony of ironies, fandom as a whole got targeted by the purity wankers. And of course, of course, it came back to Harry Potter. Itâs 2007. Things have quieted down since 2001, when certain unnamed peopleâs fics were targeted for plagiarism and deleted from FF.N even though, just to be clear, they actually were plagiarized and, while there was an element of mob persecution, the actual fact remains that the work in question was legitimately in violation of FF.Nâs TOS. Ahem. Itâs 2007. And everyoneâs fairly chill. Creators are far more comfortable with fanfiction and fan creators are confident in posting their work so long as they arenât profiting directly from it. Hosting sites, meanwhile, are profiting from fanworks, but theyâve got the legal shield of the DMCA to hide behind, so theyâre feeling A-OKAY. And then Warriors for Innocence appears. WfI existed before strikethrough, and they existed after, but they made their mark on fandom when they reported upwards of 500 journals, most of them fan journals and communities, to LJ. The theory runs as follows: 6A, the company whoâd bought LJ 2 years prior, realizes that the DMCA didnât protect them if the fan works in question are âindecentâ. Compounding this, 6A is already trying to clean up the famdomier aspects of LJ. Either theyâre looking for a sale, or sites like ONTD are bringing in massive amounts of hits. WfI brings 6A a perfect hit list, and 6A goes to work. So one morning we all wake up and find that hundreds of journals, including the pornish_pixies community and several BNFâs personal journals, have been deleted. Literally gone: a lot of the media stored on these communities has been purged forever. Hope you had backups. Also gone: large swaths of the Pretty Gothic Lolita community, Lolita book discussion groups, and rape survivor communities.Â
In a quest to rid LJ of âpedophilia,â 6A wiped out a large swath of ethically questionable fanfic, and woke a beast. Again: We like our porn. 6A took a step back and restored some of the deleted journals, but the damage had been done. AO3 was already being discussed as a response to Fanlib, a hosting site that wanted to charge for access to fanfiction. (Yes, if youâve been following along, that was a terrible idea. But thatâs a post for another day.) But as AO3 began to change and grow, creators specifically wrote provisions into the TOS that guaranteed a strikethrough-esque event could never happen on the site. A specific kink or pairing would never be considered a violation of the TOS. The onus was on the reader, not the author, to protect themselves with the information given. Basically, AO3 took the early fandom nugget âDonât like, donât readâ and made it policy. When peole say AO3 grew out of Livejournal, theyâre specifically referencing this. One event that proved ALL OF OUR LONGSEATED FEARS WERE TRUUUUUUUUUE. Rising from the ashes of LJ, you also had Dreamwidth. Iâm actually kind of surprised DW wasnât mentioned in the OP, since it grew out of the same ideology as AO3. Run by fans, for fans, because LJ (which at this point had been sold to SUP Media) had no idea what it was doing. Also like AO3, DW went to extreme lengths to make a safe fan culture inherent to the structure the site. Stay within the law, and DW and AO3 will back you up. Itâs worth noting that Tumblr actually predates Strikethrough. But Tumblr, unlike DW and AO3, wasnât designed for fans. It didnât carry the legacy of Strikethrough with it the way AO3 and DW did. So I guessâ I have no evidence, but Iâm surmising â thatâs how it fell into the role of Natural Successor to Fanfic.net and Livejournal. Itâs kind of inevitable, actually, that since neither LJ nor Tumblr was made for fans, they ended up falling into the same black hole of fandom collision. Kinkshaming people off the internet for literally as long as thereâs been an internet. And then, on the other hand, youâve got DW and AO3, whoâve watched fandom rip itself apart AT LEAST 3 times and are determined not to let it happen again. DW and AO3: We havenât cared about the filthy shit youâre into since 2008. Thatâs it, folks. Fandom mom wrote almost 2k words on early fandom and now she needs a nap.
Had a dream where I was sitting in a dark office and reality felt really altered and strange and there was just a fishtank illuminating the room and then this fuckin fish looked at me and grinned with human teeth and in this super deep voice said âyouâve been here awhile, better wake up before you forget how toâ and I fuckin woke up in a cold sweat
Dude I think you went to hell