1. If you see this post, highly recommend taking it as an opportunity to set a timer for 15 minutes and switch over to ACTIVITY YOU ENJOY. if after those 15 minutes, you want to go back to scrolling, that's okay!

2. Huge shout out to this popping up in my notifs often, bc I do go back to activity.

Whilst it's correct that tumblr has no control over the ID thing, what they do have control over is their mature content filters. If you weren't before, now is the time to get really fucking insistent that they fix their extremely broken mature content filters.

Politely.

"Dear tumblr,

The combination of the new ID verification requirements, and the extremely janky mature content filters, means that tumblr is now unusable for me. Any posts that get tagged in error as mature will be completely blocked out, and I won't be able to see them.

It would be helpful if you had a function that allows the userbase to report incorrectly applied maturity filters for staff to remove, so that I can continue to enjoy my favourite site. Otherwise, I will be forced to leave the site until the ID legislation in my country is repealed/reversed."

Ta-da! That easy. Feel free to copy that text if you want. Feel free to mention you won't be going through ID verification due to concerns about the security of your data. Expand on it however you want, I'm not your parent.

But this is an opportunity to present a solution to something that's been pissing us off for a while now, and it gives us, the userbase, a better opportunity to combat report bombing of trans folks and black folks. I think we're morally obligated to push for this.

1) he dumped a milkshake, that he paid the library for, on the ground.

2) he lit a PERSONAL copy of Paper Towns on fire. It's not even a library book! He went out and bought this book and then brought it to the place where they have free books to burn it?

They hopped off the plane at LAX

With a dream and a card deck

Welcome to the land of challenges (whoa)

Is Queen Amy gonna win?

Jumped in the cab

Gotta win it on the first try

Look to their right and they see an ominous sign

This is all so crazy

Does being YouTubers make them famous?

Their feet are hurting

And they gotta find a good trick

Too much pressure and Adam’s nervous

That's when the taxi man turned on the radio

And the Snack Zone song was on

And the Snack Zone song was on

And the Snack Zone song was on

So they put their hands up

They're playing the game

Ben’s fit is always hella slay

They’re filming the vids like yeah

Running for the train like yeah

They got their score up

They're playing the game

They know they’re gonna be okay

Yeah, it's a Jet Lag in the USA

Yeah, it's a Jet Lag in the USA

Get to the spot in their taxi cab

Everybody's looking at them now

Like "Who are the twinks asking for weird sh*t?

They gotta be from out of town"

So hard with the team not around them

It's definitely not a Wendover party

'Cause all they get are rejections

Are they gonna miss their connections?

Their backs are aching

And they’ve gotta be quick

With polling the public

That's when the challenge deck cards align

And the game was so back on

And the game was so back on

And the game was so back on

So they put their hands up

They're playing the game

They gotta fly fly away

They’re begging the TSA agent like yeah

Begging the agent like yeah

They got their hands up

They're playing the game

They know they’re gonna be okay

Yeah, it's a Jet Lag in the USA!

Yeah, it's a Jet Lag in the USA!

Feel like hopping on a flight (on a flight)

Back to claim a state tonight  (state tonight)

Sam tries to stop them every time (every time)

Then the challenge cards align and they feel alright (yeah)

So they put their hands up

They're playing the game

They gotta go claim more states

They're timing their moves like yeah

Using vetos like yeah

They got their hands up

They're playing the game

They know they’re gonna be okay

Yeah, it's a Jet Lag in the USA

Yeah, it's a Jet Lag in the USA

So we put our hands up

We’re watching along

We know we’re gonna hit replay

We’re tracking the scores like yeah

Writing comments like yeah

We got our hands up

Our theories were wrong

Which team is gonna be okay?

Yeah, it's a Jet Lag in the USA!

Tissue Series

These pieces are made of Japanese mulberry paper and the gilded edges of old books. They are constructed by a technique of rolling and shaping narrow strips of paper called quilling or paper filigree. Quilling was first practiced by Renaissance nuns and monks who are said to have made artistic use of the gilded edges of worn out bibles, and later by 18th century ladies who made artistic use of lots of free time.

hey all! i've built a new ao3 fork called fanfiction.lol 🤙🏽 key differences:

🚫 no invite queue: sign up and start posting immediately. no waiting, no velvet rope.

🏳️‍🌈 expanded content warnings: added ableism, homophobia/transphobia, racism, rpf and more. plus relationship tags for aro/ace spectrum, qpr, non-binary/genderqueer focus, poly/ensemble, and more.

🏷️ all tags are canonical: everything you tag goes into the searchable record. no volunteer wrangling bottleneck.

💜 fandom-agnostic moderation: i care about the writing, not fandom politics or discourse. write whatever you want, tag it honestly.

it's a small personal project but fan communities deserve independent infrastructure.

if you enjoy fandom, i'd love for you to sign up and poke around. tell me what breaks. the source code is at source.tube/brennan/fanfiction.lol.

find me at brennan.day/accounts or email [email protected].

Hi, I wanted to add some more info about fanfic.lol based on some replies. I was trying to keep the original post short and have done write-ups elsewhere but I'll reiterate here.

The admin/webmaster: I'm Brennan! I'm a Queer Red River Métis writer and webdev and huge advocate for the IndieWeb. You can get to know to me on my site, brennan.day

I made this for fun, and it's running using a homelab server in my basement. I don't make money or anything else. I'm just doing it for the love of ball.

fanfic.lol is meant to be a small, independent alternative for fanfic and fandom that prioritizes joy and fun. No aims at trying to replace AO3!

I am anti-genAI and so is the site. You can read more about my stance on AI here.

Archive warnings, like everything else, are under construction! I do have to adhere to the laws of my country (Canada). Please be patient.

I am pushing straight to production, which is to say the entire site could explode at anytime, so please do not use it as the only place you put things! :)

I forsee only a handful of people using this site, it def isn't for everyone. If you don't like it that's okay! Whether you want to give me input or just ignore it entirely.

I was there for the start of AO3, and we really did think we were going to usher in the next age of archives a la eFiction. It took too long for AO3's code to be in that kind of shape and the internet changed radically around us. We did not mean to create a behemoth. We just wanted venture capital bros to stop disrespecting us.

As a side note, all the comments you're getting like "There already is a fanfiction website. Wtf" are exactly what people said about AO3/OTW in 2007. There was a ton of bitching about us stealing FFN's idea. (Never mind that there were older archives.) There were frequent complaints about how there was already "an archive" and we didn't need another. Most of that discussion got deleted when FFN decided to nuke all of its inactive social spaces one Thanksgiving weekend while nobody was around to object or save their data. But I was there and I remember it and it sounded exactly like these comments now.

The oldschool core of AO3 was into the age of archives. We liked there being lots of different little spaces run by different fans. It's nice to see that energy floating around in 2026. Go indieweb!

canadian laws are very different then most countries, ergo, if you want to post underage/gruesome stuff, it would be safer for op if you posted on that on ao3 instead. obscenity laws do in fact exist here and op get in legal trouble depending on what you post. so you know, be nice to op.

someone already asked op "is dead dove and proship content allowed here" and he said "yes if its legal" but didn't clarify what that meant, but basically in canada its

"if it can be interpreted as obscene, you can get in trouble"

so while you can get away with sfw content of lets say an adult/minor, it can bring things into outright illegal territories if you make it nsfw. but its not JUST that. our obscenity laws ALSO apply to violent sexual horror. so if your kink is lets say, woundfucking, a person can get op in legal trouble for hosting it, even if everything is all consensual.

people don't often get in trouble for obscenity laws because its So Much Effort, but from a hosting perspective thats different. a user posting content on ao3 isn't really gonna get tracked down, but a canadian hosting a website could be.

A return to an Age of Archives means reading the rules of each more carefully. There used to be a lot more variability, not just because of laws but also in terms of focus.

In general, if you post a lot of underage, violent kink or noncon, AO3 is probably going to remain the right choice for hosting. A number of countries, not just Canada, go after a lot of things in text that the US does not.

I imagine that any suit over what's published on this site would name both OP and the author of the work.

I would also add some stuff about copyright.