At The Risk Of Sounding Anti-intellectual, I Think That College Should Be Free And Also Not A Requirement

Gifts for the king

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My favorite comments from Dream's "I'm sorry... but not to tommyinnit" vid:

ctommy is a pigeon. We took them out of the wild, and domesticated them. Trained them to be our messengers, used them to fight our wars. And when we didn't need them anymore, what did we do? We left them, abandoned them. Now we look at them with annoyance and anger, treat them as pests as an object of blame for our problems. They didn't want to change. They've only adapted because we made them.

NOOOOO CHARLIE!!!

"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.

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

i love when characters lie to themselves in the complete privacy of their own minds

I randomly remembered that one thing of someone asking Techno why he dressed like he was part of the bourgeoise and hie reason was "because styleee"

so uhh, new au where Techno is an anarchist and routinly goes around murdering tyrannical governments. But he dresses like a noble (because he steals stuff from the tyrants he kills). And because he's generally bad at talking to people he ends up at like noble gatherings a lot because people see how he's dressed and assume he was invited.

Which is great sometimes, maybe there's someone at the party he's been meaning to murder. Or it's shit because there's no one at the party but leaving too early would insult the host or something. He doesn't know, he doesn't care to learn the rules of noble society. So he ends up stuck, trying to make sure people realize his cape was the pride and joy of the Tyrant of the North two months ago and his crown and jewels are all pieces missing after assassinations of various political figures.

Took a photo and edited it multiple times, what kind of vibes or theme, maybe even scenarios go with each individual photo?

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.