RB for the largest sample size this site has ever seen

Oh so like. Twitter is DEAD dead ok

Crazy how this man could have literally done absolutely, 100% nothing and been fine and yet decided to become the dude on stage everyone throws tomatoes at on purpose

Batshit Auspol Moment #5: Deputy Opposition Leader Sussan Ley turns up to parliament dressed as Tina Turner (2023)

@coca-cola give us $30 and we'll take this down

Boss is asleep, cannot stop me from frogposting

My cartoon for yesterday’s @guardian books.

character playlists aren’t for songs a character would listen to they are for songs that remind me of the character

anyone else feeling real split on how the finale’s gonna go

juno temple saying she was shocked when she found out roy and keeley didn’t end up together in the finale and she always thought keeley would end up with roy

me:

It really made no sense. They spend a good portion of S2 with them actively figuring out how to make their relationship work as part of the show. It’s literally a plot point in several episodes, them learning how to be together. Then things get super wobbly in like the very last episode for no discernable reason (after Nate assaults her, let’s not forget that bit). 

Then they break up off screen (like so many things that happened in S3 that just occur off screen despite being supposedly important, except Colin’s coming out which we didn’t need to see). And it’s Roy who dumps her, and he dumps her right as she’s trying to start her own business so in addition to being just regular hurtful he abandons her at a critical moment when she really needed his support so fixing that was going to take a lot of work and possibly a miracle and then Roy... never did any of that work. Like it took until nearly the end of S3 for him to admit he wants her back. 

So many bad decisions in S3. I have to wonder how much interference was happening from Apple. It seems like they’re hoping to keep milking this and do a spin off without Ted himself, and in addition to making the episodes way longer than they needed to be, they just reset a bunch of the characters with no explanation other than “we gotta make up shit for the possible spin off.” 

It’’s painful to see compared to how incredibly well written S1 is. 

S3 feels like the fourth act only they forgot to show us the third.

2 genres of fanfiction:

1) put that guy into situations

2) take that guy OUT of situations for the love of GOD let them REST 

#3) dip him in and out like an Oreo in a tall glass of sufferings milk (via @curiosity-killed)

ZEKE LANDON & MICHAELA STONE

MANIFEST (2018-2023) | 02.01 ➝ 04.20

Requested by @tastethesetears

ICYMI, there was fear that companies were scraping public AO3 fics to train their AI without the consent of AO3 or its users. That fear has been confirmed.

AO3 has written about what they’re doing (and what they’re not able to do), and they recommend restricting your work to AO3 registered users only. [Instructions here]

This gross misuse of the archive by techbros is why I’ve locked down my fics for the foreseeable future. I recommend the rest of you do the same.

@lordoftherazzles made a quick guide for ao3 authors to lock all their works at once for registered users only here!

Someone recently messaged me worried I’d deleted all my fic - it’s all still there, it’s just locked to A03 because of this and other skimming instances.

Please note that many fanfic authors are locking their stories so that they are only accessible to registered Ao3 users.

They’re still there at Ao3. The authors have made this choice to protect their work from misuse/AI scanning.

ZEKE LANDON & MICHAELA STONE

MANIFEST (2018-2023) | 04.20 “Final Boarding”

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