"Why can't the freaks on AO3 just go and make a site for all the gross stuff and leave AO3 alone."
Because AO3 is that site. Because AO3 was that site long before you decided AO3 was better than the sites you bullied us off of before, and I can promise you if someone somehow comes up with a fanfic site you like better specifically for the 'gross stuff' you'll try to bully us off that too so you can benefit from it.
AO3's specific core purpose is to preserve fanfiction, yes, but it was also instigated as a host site for the fanfiction that kept getting yeeted off other platforms like Wattpad. Its designed to preserve all fanfiction, not just the fanfiction you, personally, think is 'allowed' to be written.
AO3 is the site for all the gross stuff the freaks make. We've been there just as long as you. We've been funding it just as long as you have. AO3 has specifically said you have a place here. The timeline was literally:
Wattpad/FF.net/LiveJournal purge fanfics > AO3 is born > The people who's fics got purged moved over to AO3 > AO3 gains popularity as the best functioning site > The people who pushed for the fics to be purged off Wattpad move to AO3 > The same people try to push for AO3 to purge fics.
AO3's source coding is open-access. You go make a polished, strict, rigid site where nothing 'icky' is allowed. You go make a site where you can control what is hosted. We already have our space.
Rest in peace Technoblade, you would have hated the minecraft movie but you would have loved the free promo they gave you.
new techno pig photos <33
Not socialist in a “I won’t have to work” type of way but socialist in a “I’ll still be working but I won’t be worried I won’t make the rent” type of way. In a “billions won’t be hoarded by one person” type of way. In a “janitors, fast-food workers, child care workers, preschool teachers, hotel clerks, personal care and home health aides, and grocery store cashiers, will live comfortably” type of way. In a “the sick and elderly will be cared for” type of way. In a “no child should work” type of way.
punkpool and spiderpunk inspired by this post
Introducing Lush Cave Crows! Glowy little cave friends and trusty companions for miners everywhere 💛
ALSO IM SO SORRYYYYYYY!!!!! I literally finished these guys MONTHS ago but kept forgetting to post them to Tumblr so I’m sorry for depriving you of the silly glowy bois,,,, it shan’t happen again
Enjoy the silly Bois <333
And as always! Transcription and closeups are below! 💛💛💛
LUSH CAVE CROWS
A guide by: Philza Minecraft
PHYSICAL NOTES:
cave-dwelling corvids
not blind ——> have more sensitive eyes because of low light levels
spore blossom effect?
bioluminescent feathers??? ——> result of their diet maybe???
“Canary in a coal mine” ——> have strong lungs & are more resistant to toxic underground gases
BEHAVIORAL NOTES:
diet: tropical fish and glow berries!
nest on ground in mossy nests
playful! (Drip leaf water slide….)
Can detect the presence of toxic gases & will swarm travelers to urge them to leave if levels become too high.
OTHER NOTES:
little guys!
glowy feathers
covered in spores from spore blossoms
mossy nests!
soft
do you know where "no beta we die like x" comes from and how it is used?
The term "beta" in this context is short for "beta reader" - a person who reads a fic while it's still in the editing stage and helps the writer get it ready to post. Some betas check grammar. Some check canon compliance. Some are sensitivity readers. There are lots of things that betas can do.
So functionally, saying "no beta" means that the writer didn't get this checked by a second person before they posted it. It's a warning that there might be errors or typos etc. It's mostly used when an author has written something quickly and is posting without doing a lot of (or any) edits first.
As for where it comes from? It all started with a bumper sticker.
This image was an internet meme at one point, and it got meme'd on in the form of "no ___ we ___ like men"
Here on tumblr, one of the versions that got really popular was from now-deleted user @grec1a who created this version:
From there, it migrated to AO3 as the "no beta we die like men" tag, and very often the word men is replaced by the name of a character who dies in canon.
Pfft Nellie!
Write it shitty, write it scared, write it without a clue but don't you be so spineless and have an AI write fanfic for you.
They should block chatgpt on uni WiFi the way they used to block coolmathgames
2am
Inspired by the latest SUIT episode where Mr Technodad says Technoblade used to swing around a minecraft sword irl at like 2am and recite video lines