Remember kids

childhood emotion of wanting a dragon that is your friend so bad that it feels like there is a vacuum in your soul that only a dragon who is your friend can fill

From someone who’s survived MySpace, livejournal, deviantart, and fanfiction.nets’ content purges and bad policy updates, here’s some advice on how to get through tumblr’s recent bullshit:

- don’t knee jerk delete. I know it’s tempting to peace out immediately but hang on and do the other steps first. Out right ghosting and erasing everything is how fandoms die.

- archive everything on your blog you want to keep

- tell your followers how they can archive and keep your work too. A lot of fic and art were only saved from ff.net and lj because other people saved it first. If you’re cool with other people saving your work for them to personally keep, let them know this. You can absolutely discourage reposting but I really do highly recommend you allow people to personally save fic and art they like and are worried will disappear forever. Digital Dark Ages are a real thing.

- tell people where you’re jumping ship to. Give links. Keep that info up, even if you’ve left the site.

- go through who you follow and find out where else you can follow them. Save their work if they’ll allow it. It’s tedious as hell but if you want to keep up with people on here clicking on their page to check in is the best way to do it.

- support places like ao3. This is exactly why ao3 asks for donations a few times a year. They are a 100% anti-purging, judgement free, ad free non profit run by an elected board and protected by lawyers. Places like ao3 literally save fandom so please continue to support them and other similar archives. This is exactly why ao3 is so important.

Gonna ride historic

appreciation post for skinks and their tiny legs

that is all, thank you

Nominate your favourite MMFR fic from the past year for an award! Why? Because we love fic! Let’s get the chromest and shiniest witnessed. Submit your nominations (you can even self-nominate) by Jan 10th. All genres and ships are welcome.

Now open to earlier fics as well!

SUP YOU FILTH if you ever read any of my fic and thought it was good enough to warrant it, I'd appreciate some lovin' here.

❤, the lizard king

*nervously calls crush bro*

PLEASE TURN YOUR SOUND ON

MOTHER LET ME FIGHT

I am fucking crying

@tenzen

I’m not sorry at all

roguewarboy

I don’t think y'all appreciated this enough when I made it a year ago

hewwo?

femt0: hewwo? show us yuor switties? uwu /*~ switties?? pwease?? ouo

welding is going pretty ok! took my certification test last wednesday, and now i get to do self-directed projects. unfortunately the bandsaw is broke this week, so i can’t cut precise plates to DO any of those projects, and ive mostly been killing time.

i keep wondering if it would be useful for (fanfic) writers if i were to put together some kind of quick ‘what is welding and how would you write a character who welds’ guide. because i’ve already seen a character ‘weld’ another character’s handcuffs OFF and like, no. nnnnope.

there’s a number of characters from different fandoms i can think of offhand that do machine work– tony stark, dirk strider, furiosa…. it could be cool for there to be a reference blog for writers to check up on how to write someone with a skill they didn’t have! though im not sure if i could organize something THAT big… hmm.

As a representative of the Mad Max Fandom I say give us the secret knowledge so that we may ride shiny, chrome and professionally welded.

A few War Boy clusterfucks, and a pack of War Pups. 

2 dudes, chillin in open graves, 5 feet apart cause they’re not gay