a They Deserve Each Other shipping scale where on one end of the axis you have the “no one else is good enough for them” ships, and on the other end you have the ships that need to be together monogamously forever as a quarantine measure. whatever the fuck is wrong with both of them must be contained for the greater good.
as we get closer to the holiday season remember that the holidays are not just about spending time with loved ones. it is also about grocery store employees being legally allowed to kill one customer per day
i must not get takeout. takeout is the wallet-killer. takeout is the little-death that brings total obliteration. i will face the kitchen, fridge, and pantry. i will make choices about what to cook and then execute them. when hunger is gone there will be nothing. only i will remain.
I understand that you’re 22 and corporate internet is all you’ve ever known, but you need to know that users COST sites money.
The sole case when users do not cost sites money is when 1) users are constantly shown ads, 2) users’ private data is being harvested and sold to advertisers.
AO3 does not do either of those things. It was its mission upon being founded to not do either of those things. And thus, we have twice-yearly donation drives. Every year. Yes, every year. Even that year. Even the April and October of the pandemic, even the Aprils and the Octobers of mass BLM movements, even the April after Ukraine was invaded, and yes, even this October. It’s not “failing to read the room”. It’s called maintenance costs and being an ad-free NGO that doesn’t monetise its users.
I genuinely hops this helps.
I need young people to realize that when you say “AO3 should just make money like social media sites do rather than running donation drives” what you are actually suggesting is “AO3 should sell detailed and privacy-violating data on the porn consumption habits of its users to ad companies in order to make a quick and easy buck.” That’s what you’re suggesting when you push for that.
This is like if you looked at Wikipedia and said “Why are they asking for donations? They could just charge people and companies money to be able to rewrite their Wikipedia pages to say whatever they want about their brands!”
I mean, yeah? They could sell out their fundamental mission and all of their core userbase in order to squeeze some money out of advertising and general enshittification. They could do that. Do you really want them to? Really? Is the little donation banner (which I assume you never bother to click on anyway) really so annoying to you that you’d rather the site just sucks forever (but without needing donations, I guess)? Call me out of touch, but somehow I doubt that any of you advocating for that sort of thing would actually want the inevitable results.
I understand where you’re coming from, but no. Regardless of what’s going on in the world, bills still need to be paid.
Could AO3 afford to push back their donation drive from it’s usual pre-scheduled time? Maybe, but if they did, then by the time it’s “acceptable” to run the donation drive, they’d be in a much worse place financially than they are now.
I don’t know how much money AO3 takes in from these donation drives, I’d imagine there probably is enough of a buffer to fall back on if they don’t meet their goal, but that buffer can only stretch so far.
Nobody is saying that AO3 is more important than the Isreal/Palestine conflict. Just as nobody was saying that AO3 was more important than the Russia/Ukraine conflict last year, which also happened to coincide with a donation drive.
I think sometimes cbt is a load of bullshit but once in a while you’ll just effortlessly parry a thought that’s trying to make you spiral and it feels so good. I’ve done it like 4 times tonight.
Did you mean CBD or are you talking about cock and ball torture
Yes if you beat the shit out of your nutsack you won’t ever feel sad again. This is medical advice.
its really cool that we discovered glass which is the material that doesnt have any chemical reactions with anything in the universe very useful for doing chemistry due to being able to put things in it to contain chemical reactions and never having it react with the things that are in it due to it being completely and entirely unreactive to every chemical
Posts from a 17th century chymist who’s about to have their bones dissolved by hydrofluoric acid.
*jigsaw voice* hello lock picking lawyer. you’ve made a name for yourself showing people how to break the law. but today it is you that will be- hey. HEY. KNOCK THAT OFF
You’ve heard of protagonists who are genre-savvy. Now get ready for protagonists who are outright genre-saboteurs.
[ID: A TikTok by @ astroauroran featuring a blond, blue-eyed person wearing a white headscarf and a navy blue shirt, talking into the camera. Lowercase subtitles are provided throughout. Transcript is as below:
I’m not here to criticize the younger generation, I’m just saying they’re not making laundresses like they used to. New girl joined our team last week, accidentally forgot she had to spot clean wool and started crying over it. Listen, when I first started I accidentally put a silk sheet in with the linens.
Did I lose myself in sorrow? No. I simply found a visiting knight who was getting a little too handsy with everyone around here, I led him into the laundry room, and then I pushed him into the boiling linen water. I swore before the local clergy that he threw himself in and took the silk with him. His estate paid for the silk and the girls and I had one less problem to deal with.
Listen, if you’re gonna be a laundress at the lord’s house, you just gotta make problems disappear.
