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PSA: bot comments are taking over ao3

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Basic rundown:

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There has been some speculation about why this is happening at all, and the best guess is that this is a feature that AI-training story-scraping tools are implementing to try and make their browsing traffic look legitimate

what fresh hell is this?

EDIT: holy shit 19k notes in 24 hours on an original post never happened before in my 10 years on here I love you all

isnt it insane how one day a fan woke up and said they didn’t want to have their fanfic reading experience be interrupted by capitalism and then decided to create ao3 and change millions of lives? like damn, you absolute legend.

Ao3 is back up!! Enjoy your fics and don’t forget to show your support to the volunteers working through the DDOS attack!

i woke up and ao3 is still down and i saw a volunteer say what keeps them going is knowing how important their work is to so many people and let me just say

IT IS SO IMPORTANT

do you know how many people rely on this site to get a bit of happy feelings and delighted laughter and other wonderful emotions every day

ao3 volunteers you rock, pls take care of yourselves and eat and drink and sleep enough, we adore you

Some Good News and Bad News

The good news is, Ao3 is now recommending we go on the site again. The bad news is, things will be a bit slower than usual for a little bit, and it might not be perfect for everyone for a brief time. That hacking really took a lot out of them.

Don't mind me I'm just marveling at the list of the most popular cow names in Estonia

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In vatnik clownland, protecting yourself against Russian aggression is a provocation…. RUSSIA: repeatedly invades its neighbours for hundreds of years. RUSSIA’S NEIGHBOURS: why can’t you just leave us alone? RUSSIA: WoW - sUcH rUsSoPhObIa!!!!! RUSSIA’S NEIGHBOURS: let’s join an alliance to protect ourselves from this evil…. RUSSIA: sToP pRoVoKiNg Me!!!!! RUSSIA’S USEFUL IDIOTS: sToP bEiNg So MeAn To RuSsIa!!!!!

R(ule)emember these words of wisdom, in these trying times

Estonian folk dance tradition

Estonian dance traditions have mostly survived to this day thanks to the actions of Jakob Hurt, who in 1888 released a call for the Estonians to start collecting and writing down their traditions. And today, Estonia has one of the biggest written-down collection of original dances.

The dance culture has mostly been influenced by our neighbours Russians and Latvians, especially in Seto- and Võromaa by the borders. The Northen Estonia shares some dances with Finns and the Swedish.

Back in the day, dance nights called Simman, were the best place for teenagers to hang out and have a good time, so the parties were mainly for the youth. What differs Estonian dance traditions from many other European countries is that it was most common to dance in pairs on a circle, like in this suite of polkas. 

A good example of Slavic influences in dance is Kadrel that originates from Setomaa.

Newer dances that are only around 150-200 years old are notably more complicated than the old dances that might have only been based around one step and it’s variations (Labajalg was one of the more popular ones). On of these kinds of dances is Kangakudumine, that tells the story of weaving and is accompanied with a song.

A separate category of dances were so called “joke dances” that usually mocked or imitated what old Estonians found weird, like Juudipolka (a Jew’s Polka, doesn’t actually have anything to do with the Jewish people) that made fun of marriage or Kirburaputamine that imitates “shaking off the fleas”.

Today the biggest celebration of Estonian Folk Dance is the Dance Festival Tantsupidu that is held in Tallinn every 2 or 3 years. while most of the dances are slightly changed to fit onto the big stadium, Oige ja Vasemba (Right and Left) is a traditional dance that finishes every Youth Festival. Annual festivals for traditonal dance include Sabatants and also Viljandi Folk, however small workshops and dance nights are held almost weekly in Tallinn and Tartu.

Seen a couple posts on the dashboard lately about writing with ADHD. So, for the ADHD and neurodivergent folks who like writing but struggle sometimes… check out StimuWrite.

You can set it to make little sounds as you type (or leave them off), and emojis pop up in the corner. You can change the background, dark and light themes, set your word goal, and it gives you a percentage and total word count at the bottom. Though it’s more meant for getting a draft written up, so it doesn’t have spell check or anything like that. You’re meant to just copy and past what you write here into Google Docs or Word or Scrivener or whatever else you use and go from there. Honestly love it when I’m struggling to get words down, though. And apparently there’s an update now for StimuWrite 2?👀

Anyways, give it a try if it looks like it may help. It’s currently name-your-own-price.

Yo I just downloaded this thing and hammered out 3000 words????? Which is more than I’ve written in years????????

Hey I’ve accidentally written 20,000 words in six days.

ah yes my favourite doomsday show aktuaalne kaamera

ESTONIA HAS LEGALISED MARRIAGE EQUALITY ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜

I wonder if disabled folks can get married there and still receive assistance.

YES!!!

YES!!!

YES!!!

WE ARE NOT THE US!!!!

YOUR DISABILITY BENEFITS ARE YOUR OWN AND YOUR MARRIED STATUS DOES NOT MATTER WHEN IT COMES TO DISABILITY BENEFITS IN THE REPUBLIC OF ESTONIA!!!!!

reblog the money pigeon for a financially stable future

I reblog  the money pigeon because I love him.

Jller by Benjamin Maus and Prokop Bartonicek - a kinetic artwork that sorts thousands of random river stones by age

they made an autistic robot

Printing this and hanging it up in the laundry room ☺

tumblr has taught me more about real life than real life ever has

did i just learn a second language

I’ve been waiting for this for ages.

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