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opening the fic tab to see ao3 down is like coming home to get a snack from the fridge but the whole fridge is missing :(

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tumblr users when ao3 goes down for 5 minutes

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agh

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dude. i’m going to a baseball game and my whole plan was to read ao3 while i’m there. my day is ruined and my life is meaningless.

#ao3 #ao3 down #and like i literally just updated my fic #i think i single handedly broke ao3 #sorry to everyone #narumitsu is far too powerful i fear

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my own post because I've seen a lot of other heartbroken artists:

please don't delete your works or cut all creativity related to wilburs works. he is not his characters. you liked a character he made years ago, and thats okay. you are not supporting him by keeping up old fanfic and posts you've made.

personally, lovejoy has inspired a lot of my own creative work and I can't bring myself to remove them from the many many playlist's ive made. (and honestly i don't want to get into music artist discourse about endorsing them by listening to them, because thats a whole ballpark)

i will not be watching or following anything to do with him in the future, and i feel upset about how so much of my work has been influenced by his. but I can't just throw it all out to make myself feel better. please be kind to yourself in this time

i wish nothing but positivity and good people for shelby.

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good morning ace attorney community

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woe, attorneys be upon ye

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ADHD pro tip: Use psychological warfare on yourself.

For example, in order to do long tasks, like folding laundry, I put on the Mario Hat:

The main feature of the Mario hat is that my headset does not fit over it, so when The Bees™ try to put me back in front of the screen, the headset issue forces me to remember why I put the Mario hat on, and back to the task I go

As a bonus, the Mario hat is also a very clear indicator to my housemates that business is getting done, and they have learned not to distract me when I'm wearing the "goofy-ass cosplay hat"

It's not stupid if it works.

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i dont know if this has been posted before. i'm sure it has. but when i did a search for "jerma dick" and "dick jerma" and "ultraviolet dick jerma" i didnt get any results so i'm just gonna post it anyway

[x]

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running from an owlbear / stepping into Aura of Death range

Sly belongs to me

Anne the cleric belongs to @artbytesslyn

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one of my favorite things in the whole world that makes me so happy is the behind the name popularity chart which shows the name “mabel” fade into obscurity and then rally in the early 2010’s right after gravity falls came out. it’s so dear to me

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Every character in the FNAF movie is autistic. Sorry I don't make the rules I just enforce them.

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Y'ALL READY TO GO GET FUCKING WASTED AT FREDDY FAZBEAR'S

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To be clear, unless staff trips over the trail of extension cords keeping the servers running, Tumblr likely isn't going anywhere any time soon.

What the info we've seen suggests is that updates are going to slow down, maintenance is maybe going to get a little shaky, and we're going to see more glitches as time goes on and the remaining staff gets further behind their workload.

Is this a good thing? No, absolutely not.

Should you be panicking, jumping overboard, running for the hills, etc? Also no.

So what does it mean?

Well, for myself and several other creatives you all saw tagged in that post, it means we're looking around trying to figure out what to do in the long run. We're not running for the lifeboats. We're just eyeing the iceberg in the distance and getting our shit together in the event that the worst comes to pass.

Speaking for myself, I intend to crawl through the walls of Tumblr until they pry me out of the air vents armed with a broom and oven mitts. I'm not going anywhere until the lights go out, and even then, I'll be chewing on the wires.

But that doesn't mean I'm not looking around for somewhere to land when the time comes.

Myself and several others are not panicking about this, but we are trying to be organized about it.

I'm just old enough to remember when fandom websites being nuked overnight was a very real thing. You'd go to bed one night and wake up the next day to find friends you'd known for years were just gone with no means of contacting them because the site you'd been using got wiped. Entire collections of fandom history were just destroyed in the blink of an eye.

We don't want that again. And the good news is, we have time. We have time to back up our shit, time to swap contact info with our friends, and time to find a new place to exist within our communities while also staying here because Tumblr ain't dead yet.

She's just slowly going to wind down over time.

Unless, of course, they trip over the cables. Then we're fucked.