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other people have said this but elon musk might actually be the dumbest person alive for thinking it’s a good idea to limit views on a website that makes money through advertising

a bunch of ppl who run websites have pointed out that the first thing that platforms/hosts will do if u don't pay your bills is to rate limit you, the limiting views thing is just elon's PR copefest in my opinion

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

(eyeroll)

Is it just me, or is it astonishing that a guy so (on paper, anyway) fecking rich is such a cheapskate??

Rich people are famously cheapskates, how are they supposed to hoard wealth if they're spending money on things that aren't for their own pleasure?

Happy disability pride month, remember to use THIS flag and NOT the one with zigzags because it’s a seizure hazard. v

it's disability pride month! disability is broader than most people think, it can be physical, mental, visible, or invisible. i'm disabled invisibly, and have struggled with shame about that fact for years. both psychiatric illness and neurodivergence have shaped my life, and it's been alienating to feel held back or like i've failed. but the truth is that i am a success, i have survived and thrived to the best of my ability, and i'm proud of what i've accomplished and who i've become.

to my followers who are also disabled, whether it is physical or mental, visible or invisible, i hope you can find pride and solidarity this month in our collective strength and survival in the face of many challenges. i'm proud of you and proud to be in a community with so many kind, creative, and generous people. you are enough. you don't have to do anything other than be yourself, i need you to know you're so worthy of love and praise exactly as you are.

happy pride <3

Movie adaptation cartesian plane where x axis is "good/enjoyable film" to "dogshit" and y axis is "faithful to the source material" to "an entirely different story"

am I making sense

Some additions from the notes

To everyone who has reminded me that the Percy Jackson movies exist, I hate you, thanks.

Rool

all tumbrlinas come from a common ancestor

favorite type of steam review

this disability pride month please remember to keep ur posts accessible. describe ur images/videos/gifs/audios, keep ur posts in easy to read plaintext (no colors, no funky effects, just plain), and tag things like flashing and eyestrain.

if u dont know much about how to go about this, this is a good opportunity to learn more about visual accessibility! if u need a place to start, u can join the peoples accessibility server for tons of resources and help with descriptions (link)

obviously dietary requirements aren't a joke but my grandma sometimes runs errands for her church and i asked her what she's up to today and she said extremely seriously "ive got to track down the body of the gluten free christ, julia"

Emotional extremes horseshoe theory where both ends are a long walk

it’s really not that hard to make a popular blog on tumblr. what you’re gonna wanna do is put the words “evil” and “wizard” in the url somewhere

Target audience

my beautifal children

we need to free the nipple so bad im so serious we should be so far past the point where girl children are told they have to keep their shirt on while their brothers and cousins get to run around shirtless or women shamed for breastfeeding or trans men needing top surgery to go outside shirtless without getting judged at best and arrested at worst or girls getting taken out of class for not wearing a bra like this should be a priority

i just hope dykes like me. thats what its all about really

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. 

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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.

Can I also add that apart from running a legal team and the best online library around, they also run a free, peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to fan studies called Transformative Works and Cultures.. They incorporate studies of fandoms from all around the world, and are able to follow very closely with fandom trends. Studies found in TWC are leagues better than those cringey ‘I heard about this fan-dom thing from my teenage niece’ essays. 

Just reblogging this to remind everyone that AO3 is fucking incredible and it has singularly transformed fandom.

Antis trying to literally destroy any form of freedom & happiness in the world.

I’m so thankful for AO3. It makes such a difference to my quality of life, and the lives of millions of others. And, yes, it needs monetary contributions to continue doing its thing. But mostly… it runs on love.

Something I love from the book is that when Crowley traps Hastur in the answering machine, he genuinely considers taking the tape and leaving it in his car so that it turns into Queen.

He decides this is too cruel a fate. This is right after he has killed Ligur with a bucket of holy water. Agonisingly melting? That's cool, but becoming a Queen track is too far.

No but wait, this shows the brilliance of Crowley! And demonstrates why when pressed Neil Gaiman says that Crowley isn't nearly as bad as Heaven thinks but not nearly as good as he'd like us to believe. And it shows the wonderfulness of choice and what I like to call the Crowley Code.

You see, the bucket of water is no different than the apple and knowledge. It's a consequence to YOUR (Ligur's) action. Crowley has done nothing to guarantee the safety of Ligur and Hastur as they enter his domain. He has put a bucket of holy water on a door. If Ligur and Hastur have any reason to not trust him, they'll check for booby traps. If they don't check, that's on them. Crowley didn't toss a bucket of water on them. They walked under it. Sure he threatens with a mister, but it's a bluff. He could've filled that with holy water too. Enough to get the job done. But that would make his role active, and he doesn't actively murder or actively torture unlike his demonic counterparts are implied to do. He just asks questions and leads people to temptation (doom/demise)

Similarly, Hastur doesn't have to follow him in the telephone lines, but he does. And in doing so he gets trapped. But when given the choice on how to then deal with the tape, Crowley decides that HE isn't going to be responsible directly for doing harm to Hastur. So he doesn't.

This is mirrored in how he encourages Aziraphale to kill the antichrist, not him. Never Crowley pulling the trigger. It's against his very nature. He's not the do-er. His job is to lead folks to their undoing. Not to do it for them.

Seeing and knowing

This is why.

This is why the flags and shirts and pins and parades are important.

Makr it public and make it obvious so people know they aren't alone and shouldn't feel ashamed.

I have a black tee shirt that says 'I Identify As A Unicorn' in rainbow lettering. I've had it since my late thirties. I've been wearing it in public more in the last month than ever.

you all hate the position i sleep in because you haven’t advanced to my level and you’re jealous of my mental acuity and caustic wit as well as being extremely good at sleeping

So I am treating myself to a day at Dashcon. Thing is I can only go one day and both Friday/Saturday have really cool things planned. Which day should I go? Please help me out.

Saturday has a ball pit and meet-ups soooooooo. ;D

Welcome to Night Vale having the representative of a giant mega corporation say that they would fix a disabled girl by curing her of her disability in order to increase her productivity and that girl’s dad immediately punching him in the face changed me as a person tbh

What's better is that this is the first and only time we see Steve angry and the man is so Strong he could lift a whole other guy up and just yeet him. He's not even her dad. He's her stepdad. Talk about the dad who stepped up.

one of my students downloaded an image for a project today and named it, before my eyes, "PNG.jpg"