The devil works hard, but the volunteers who run Ao3 work so much harder

internet censorship bill about to pass congress:

ao3 is facing a ddos attack from an overseas right-wing anonymous group because it contains "degeneracy and disgusting things like LGBT and NSFW".

they're not the only right-wing group that is attacking fanfiction sites because of queer & nsfw content. the Heritage foundation, the US right wing think tank that writes laws for republicans, wrote an article about how "big tech turns kids trans" in which they're advocating for the Kid's Online Safety Act to pass because it will give state attorney generals power to sue websites for "potentially harmful content towards minors". in this article they point out websites like wattpad, tumblr, tiktok, twitter as sites that GOP attorney generals can and will target for censorship if this bill passes. all places where fandom, that's mostly queer, hangs out.

if you think this bill has no chance of passing because of all the red flags it poses, think again. it currently has 38 cosponsors in the senate, and is being pushed by the democrats as a "protecting the children!!" type bill.

there are left-aligned orgs in congress rn lobbying for this bill to pass. july is extremely decisive, because if KOSA goes through to markup it'll be bundled with the Earn It act, Restrict, and all the other bad internet bills and passed as a package, completely censoring the internet forever.

if you want to learn more about the bill, go here. also sign the open letter against it here

it's ESSENTIAL that you call your members of congress, specifically Maria Cantwell (you can call from out of state) and tell them DO NOT PASS KOSA. this site here connects you to your members of congress and gives you a short simple script to read off of! super easy and doesn't take much out of your day! please do this now!!

Dear Reddit and Twitter refugees:

You've probably already been told to change your icon, post and reblog stuff you like, Tumblr has holidays, etc.

But in case you weren't aware before....

When AO3 (Archive of Our Own) goes down for any reason, Tumblr flips the fuck out and panics. AO3 starts trending almost immediately.

Do NOT try to calm your neighbors down! Panicking with them until AO3 goes back up is the correct course of action.

Thank you and have a day.

Excuse me?!?

JOSEPH MORGAN Taylor Miller ph. for Numéro Netherlands (2023)

Gold. Absolute gold.

It’s different. He’s different.

keep seeing Temu ads on here so just to share cause idk if people are widely aware

Sounds like those screenshots actually refer to a sister app from the same shady parent company, however Temu does seem to fall into the "steals designs from artists them has them produced in a country with cheap labor to exploit to rip the actual owner of the design off and make money from people" category. I'd also simply not trust any app that offers things for the price they do (never any way to ethically produce things at those prices) and is from a company with an app that's being described in the above screenshots so. Yeah steer clear.

shoutout to all the protagonists that are under appreciated because apparently its too mainstream to like the main character

Yeah sorry we put your boyfriend in the corner. Yeah, he’s in the spotlight, losing his religion. Yeah he’s trying to keep up with you :/ oh no I’ve said too much

The hoes are unimpressed with your sarcastic detachment, and are enchanted with my sincere wonder. Writhe like the worm you are.

love when fanfic writers are like “I love this character” & proceed to put them through shit even God has blacklisted, baby the middle ages called they want to hear your ideas

please my fandom, it's very sick, it needs media literacy, please

FUCK hogwarts houses. Which Cartoon Network FusionFall guide you picking?