@pasdecoeur

you remember when louis ck was like “if someone tells you that you hurt them, you don’t get to decide that you didn’t,” and louis ck was like “you know when you say to a friend, ‘you’re being an asshole,’ and they’re like, ‘no i’m not’ — well it’s not up to you! that’s up to everybody else! you don’t get to say no to that!” and then multiple women were like “louis ck sexually assaulted me,” and louis ck was like, and i want to get this right, he was like, “……….no i’m not.” i think about that a lot.

really thought my twenties would involve more nights of anonymous sex with strangers i met in semi-respectable bars and fewer nights of standing in my kitchen, telling myself very sternly, “okay, shut up and drink your tea and then go to bed”

swordshapedleaves:

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ragabond:

third-nature:

guerrillatech:

🔮 like to charge 🔮

🔥 reblog to cast 🔥

🌎 for good news on earth day 🌍

ik we were on a boycott buuut

LETS DO IT

ao3feed-batlantern :

by antithestral

Because xenolinguistics means you get to choose what to do with your tongue.

Words: 1601, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

• Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics)
• Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
• Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
• Categories: M/M
• Characters: Hal Jordan (Green Lantern), Bruce Wayne
• Relationships: Hal Jordan/Bruce Wayne
• Additional Tags: Drabble Fic, Sort Of

unnecessary-database :

Princess Diaries was the best not just because of Mia’s inherent lovability and the queen’s amazingness, but because all the little details and I’d like to take a moment to recognize some of them:

• The Genovian staff’s constant facial expressions
• Charlotte’s die-hard shipping of the queen and joe
• The semi-believable international representation
• All the side characters. The bus drivers and the reporter from the tiger beat magazine commenting on the “wet, sort of grunge loom hair do,” and the author neighbor and her ladies maids and the parliament members and the dudes that bang the stick on the ground and announce people
• The continuity of string cheese
• Running across the grass
• Sandra Oh. Period.
• Paolo. There was no money! Paolo spit on money! …but…there was some money.
• I look like a moose. Yes but a very cute moose. Make all the boy moose go HUAAAA
• the Prettiest giRL is riding in the STANG
• What a pity we missed it at the party
• Andrew Jacoby being such a gem of a human and them showing for like the first time in a major movie that you can have a passionate, hopeful kiss, without feeling anything
• Them also showing that sometimes advice from your mother can suck (even the maids were confused tbh)
• Lilly Moskovitz. Best friend to future queen. I don’t like you. …pleasure.
• Mia with the orphans. I feel guilty having two homes while they have none. (And Lilly there as a professional looking support)
• Lionel. Laughing when Mia slams Nicholas’ foot. I’m doing a background check on Olivia. *other two step back*
• Nicholas’ uncle. All of his lines
• Joe’s protectiveness of his girls
• Mia and her grandmother’s relationships
• The way you can see that while Mia is very much working on her grace and nobility and diplomacy, it’s clear that she is a 21 year old who lived the first fifteen years of her life as a normal American teen
• Fat Louie and Maurice
• The guards dancing
• They’re smitten… while playing badminton…where’s my kitten
• Elsie Kenworthy. I’d like to tell her what she can do with her eggs
• Mia’s clutziness as not being something she grows out of
• Nicholas’ growth throughout the film, especially morally
• You’ll never be bored, Andrew.

smuganimebitch:

smuganimebitch:

smuganimebitch:

imo all movies being some kind of superhero shit paid for by disney is kind of like when every painting and sculpture was some jesus shit comissioned by the catholic church

marvel movies

• enormous collaborative projects that involve hundreds of people
• beloved by the masses
• functions as propaganda for US foreign policy

cathedrals

• enormous collaborative projects that involve hundreds of people
• beloved by the masses
• functions as propaganda for the catholic church

i’ll be honest this was less an attempt to make a serious point and more of an attempt to upset marvel fans and catholics with one post

alternate-fandom :

sambucky as Pylades & Orestes

sebatianstans:

Hold on, hold on. I have to protest. Do you think I would choose to live without you?
― Anne Carson, Euripides insp.

ijaazat:

therealtrampstamps:

YES we are girls. Tumblr girls. We have been here since 2012. We saw mishapocalypse, we survived when One Direction broke up, we cried over the Dr Who premiers, and we stood together as one. Now you’re going to kick us out? Your internalized misogyny is showing

pack your bags our misogyny is about to get external

lesboedgeworth:

Lesbian flag pretty like the sunrise/sunset… Bi flag pretty like the sunrise/sunset… Sun friends <3

dietchilli:

anonymousalchemist :

being 25 is like: im dying. im living my best life. im a failure. my life hasnt started. everything interesting has already happened to me. im achieving my dreams. im cutting my hair with kitchen scissors. im starting a skincare routine. im a corporate professional. im a sellout. im out of groceries. i have too many groceries. i am never going to be successful. i am going to win a hugo award before im 30. im crazy. im boring. i need to finish this essay. i need to finish this story. i need to start a newsletter. i need to start tweeting more. i need to stop tweeting. i need to ghost all my friends. i need to tell my friends i love them. i need to find a new apartment. i need to take out the trash. i am the trash that needs to be taken out. 

You can't just say things like catboy heat fuck or die fic and then not provide da linky

i think it’s this one?? possibly????? look this is one of those 3am fics you read before you fall asleep, you know. not a choice i wanted to examine too closely. but i’m pretty sure it involves both cat….people and knotting so i didn’t. specifically lie. or exaggerate.

ur blog is pretty cool, ive been having The Big Sad™ recently and scrolling through ur nonsense (lovingly) has cheered me up some. hope u have a nice day 💛

as a nearly lifelong veteran of the Big Sad, i cannot tell you how immeasurably happy this makes me 🥺🥺💕✨✨😔😭 i won’t say it gets better, but i will say you get better at it, which i think counts for a lot more. happy scrolling!

ok hear me out

starting to watch voltron these days. and as a dc fan I've found that

sh.eith = superbat

k.lance = batlantern

ok i just wanna say how COMPLETELY offended i am that you think I of ALL people would watch VOLTRON?? VOLTRON????????? ME??

unfortunately since i have watched at least three episodes of voltron plus that one time i read that catboy klance abo fuckordie heatfic, i will admit you are……….😞😞😞 sadly very correct.

caemidraws :

it’s all about the low quality buttons

captain-flint :

fellas is it ga-

callese:

tarantula-teeth:

Edit: Ok I did not think this screenshot would leave my blog so this is from this just so we are all on the same page

tickingtrauma :

pasdecoeur :

every good sitcom since the office has just been someone pretending they aren’t remaking the office. look:

• parks and rec? the office but in us government
• community? the office but in college
• brooklyn nine nine? the office but in a police precinct
• the good place? the office but in the afterlife
• the office (us)? the office BUT IN THE US

there are no good new concepts for sitcoms anymore okay we’re all just garbage possums suckling at the hairy teat of ricky gervais’ immortal genius

if you could fuck an opinion, this is readily available.

ur absolutely right pal all my opinions are insanely fuckable

olderthannetfic :

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gladnis :

hey ao3 can you like give the extra $38k you made from this month’s funds drive to charity

You know it legally is a charity, right?

If x charity aims for £10, but gets £15, would you expect then to give back the extra five or give it then to another charity? No. Any extra costs go into the “rainy day” fund; sometimes servers crash or break, sometimes false reports are made that require the legal team, sometimes you need to hire coders or what not to implement new features or fix bugs or deal with broken code … 

The money they aimed for is the bare minimum, which goes towards things like basic server costs and domain names and legal advice and so forth, but they don’t just “pocket” the rest (as people claim). It’s not a business. It has no advertisements. It needs some “rainy day” cash to function. 

You can’t ask a charity to give money to another charity. 

It needs what it gets to function and improve. 

kiena-tesedale replied to this post

They don’t “pocket” excess money. They have a publicly accessible budget - waaaay more info than most charities, in fact. In it, you can clearly see where each dollar goes. (Also, you are vastly underestimating either how much traffic AO3 gets or how much servers/hosting costs.)                    

In my experience, people who don’t work in web design and hosting just have no concept of how heavy a load something like AO3 would have. Not only is the traffic absolutely buck wild, but the quantity of data that archive needs to store is fuckoff crazy. I’m talking “more than the library of congress” crazy. The only reason it doesn’t require Netflix levels of data serving is that it’s text based rather than video.

AO3 is in the top 300 websites in the world, and the top 100 in the US. It is the number 2 literature website.

Number 2 in the entire world. JSTOR is 20.

It sees about 6 million people a day. About 250k an hour. Each of those people is loading multiple pages, many are running searches that execute on literally hundreds of potential variables per search. The demands involved are astronomical.

JSTOR, btw, makes 85 million dollars a year.

It’s 18 ranks below AO3′s traffic, and takes in 650 times the amount of money.

But let’s say you think that’s an unfair comparison. Would you say that the Project Gutenberg Literature Archival Group- another text based archive that handles literature operating outside traditional copyright requirements- is more similar?

Because it sees all of 4% of the traffic that AO3 handles.

Care to guess its budget?

Double that of AO3.

AO3 is doing shit on the kind of shoestring budget that I fully, 100% cannot comprehend. And that’s just the archival service.

The 130k also pays for the OTW’s legal team, which they use to defend the right of fandom to fucking exist.

It’s absolutely batshit fucked up that people are fighting to have the OTW defunded and AO3 shut down. They are the only organized group that actually stands directly between fandom- all the art and the fics and the vids and the music and the chats and the memes and everything we love about interactive, transformative work- and an incalculable amount of lawsuits.

This.

The load on AO3’s servers has been astronomical during the pandemic, something like twice or three times what it was before. Five days ago the AO3 Status Twitter said that the previous week hit new highs for usage - 68.6 million views Sunday alone (the new daily record) with 448 million views over the preceding week, up by 140 million from the year before.

The tweet ended “Are you all okay?” and of course we aren’t. Plague stalks the land, people have been sick, lost their jobs, worked insane hours if they kept them, and locked in their homes for a year. “Apologies for bringing it up” said the next tweet.

Imagine going through this without AO3. Without fic to read to distract us, without the comment function to remind us we’re not alone at our keyboard. (I started writing again for the first time in decades in the hopes of making the slightest connection, of one comment or kudo to tell me I had not vanished. We are a social species that has been cut off from society for a full turn around the sun.)

The purists hate it because they cannot control it, cannot bluster or threaten or shout it to heel, and their inability to define its limits lead to libel against it, its finances, and its users. And I notice that they’re trying to topple it with the same accusation that is being used to try to topple everything from Waverly Furniture to the entire US Democratic party - QAnon’s favorite war cry of “PEDOS, PEDOS, PEDOS!”

“I saw Goodie Pelosi and Goodie YurionIceFan in the woooooods messin’ with a little helpless chiiiiiild! Break in ‘n’ hang all the Democrats! Shut down AO3!!!”

In the meantime, none of the purists howling over the archive of fandom’s very own hosting fiction about fictional characters fictionally touching each other’s fictional junk have one little peep to make about the latest evangelical mega-minister or conservative politician linked to ACTUAL crimes against ACTUAL children.

Ah, a beautiful classic is going around again, I see.

OP is from the October 2018 drive. I imagine we’ll see tumblr’s greatest hits from many other Octobers and Aprils go past as we head into OTW fundraising month.

I’m looking forward to new outrage. Let’s see how stupid the arguments get this time :P Imho, it’s gonna be hard to top the “Why don’t you give the money to people like ME instead???” whining.

I just want to know what’s the no 1 literature site

Maybe Wattpad at the time? IDK. Various services that try to track website popularity provide lists like this. Here’s what one of the Similarweb ones looks like right now:

Here’s what their listing for all arts/entertainment looks like right now:

Different companies that analyze this shit come up with slightly different answers, but this gives a sense. AO3 is somewhere in the vicinity of Spotify and its for-profit ilk and many ranks above a lot of the popular webnovel sites.

pasdecoeur :

that time john stewart said “Hal Jordan was the man without fear. And what is Batman when you’re not afraid of him? Just a man,” directly to bruce’s face will haunt me til the day i die. 

batlantern shippers looked at that panel and were like, “Hal Jordan is the man without fear. And what is Batman when you’re not afraid of him? Your husband!! 🥳🥳💕💕👑✌🏽😭😭✨✨” love that about us.

loveinterestcas:

jensen “dean would hate heaven” ackles my beloved

internerdionality :

pasdecoeur:

pasdecoeur:

tfatws really driving home the fact that catws had the most insanely fuckable cast of the entire marvel cinematic universe. name another movie in the mcu where you would happily fuck literally ANYONE in the cast. like three of you are thinking black panther but that one had that martin watson guy in it. society has evolved past the need for martin watson. ragnarok? who would fuck bruce banner? you? yeah i didn’t THINK SO. but you would fuck bucky barnes. you would fuck sam wilson. you would fuck natasha romanov. you would fuck nick fury. you would fuck steve rogers. you would fuck maria hill. you would. you know you would. tfatws. what a gift truly.

well twist my arm sugar i’ll get right on it 🤤✌🏽

Robert Redford is a Nazi????? No he's too pretty

HE IS!!!!!!!!!!! HE IS TOO PRETTY. BUT BECAUSE HE PLAYED A NAZI IN A MOVIE ONE TIME AND THIS WEBSITE IS PACKED TO THE RAFTERS WITH DEMENTED, UNBALANCED LUNATIC ASYLUM ESCAPEES, ME SAYING I’D FUCK THE SUNDANCE KID SOMEHOW MAKES ME THIRSTY FOR—— NAZI DICK. 

would i fuck GP?? prolly not. would i fuck Pepper Potts?? ABSOLUTELY

YEAH OK U WIN THAT ONE 😔😔😔 WHO WOULDNT FUCK PEPPER POTTS 😔😔😔😔😔😔

princesshamlet :

found this in my notes. am speechless

bob-belcher :

Supernatural (2005-2020)

pasdecoeur:

tfatws really driving home the fact that catws had the most insanely fuckable cast of the entire marvel cinematic universe. name another movie in the mcu where you would happily fuck literally ANYONE in the cast. like three of you are thinking black panther but that one had that martin watson guy in it. society has evolved past the need for martin watson. ragnarok? who would fuck bruce banner? you? yeah i didn’t THINK SO. but you would fuck bucky barnes. you would fuck sam wilson. you would fuck natasha romanov. you would fuck nick fury. you would fuck steve rogers. you would fuck maria hill. you would. you know you would. tfatws. what a gift truly.

look me in the eye and tell me you would fuck gwyneth paltrow 🤢 i dare you i double dog dare you

pasdecoeur:

tfatws really driving home the fact that catws had the most insanely fuckable cast of the entire marvel cinematic universe. name another movie in the mcu where you would happily fuck literally ANYONE in the cast. like three of you are thinking black panther but that one had that martin watson guy in it. society has evolved past the need for martin watson. ragnarok? who would fuck bruce banner? you? yeah i didn’t THINK SO. but you would fuck bucky barnes. you would fuck sam wilson. you would fuck natasha romanov. you would fuck nick fury. you would fuck steve rogers. you would fuck maria hill. you would. you know you would. tfatws. what a gift truly.

well twist my arm sugar i’ll get right on it 🤤✌🏽