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“I don’t care about dumb weed jokes,” I said naively, before I saw this

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Neil Banged out his tunes today, on a train you have the comfort and relaxation to bang out your own tunes

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Hi! This is a rickroll. Please visit youtube dot com, type "never gonna give you up" in the search bar, then click on the first video that comes up. Thank you for your consideration.

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Happy Julius Caesar gets stabbed day! Here’s a Les Mis take on the subject, courtesy of Grantaire’s Drunken Rambles:

Whom do you admire, the slain or the slayer, Cæsar or Brutus? Generally men are in favor of the slayer. Long live Brutus, he has slain! There lies the virtue. Virtue, granted, but madness also. There are queer spots on those great men. The Brutus who killed Cæsar was in love with the statue of a little boy. This statue was from the hand of the Greek sculptor Strongylion, who also carved that figure of an Amazon known as the Beautiful Leg, Eucnemos, which Nero carried with him in his travels. This Strongylion left but two statues which placed Nero and Brutus in accord. Brutus was in love with the one, Nero with the other. All history is nothing but wearisome repetition. One century is the plagiarist of the other. The battle of Marengo copies the battle of Pydna; the Tolbiac of Clovis and the Austerlitz of Napoleon are as like each other as two drops of water. I don’t attach much importance to victory. Nothing is so stupid as to conquer; true glory lies in convincing. But try to prove something! If you are content with success, what mediocrity, and with conquering, what wretchedness! Alas, vanity and cowardice everywhere. Everything obeys success, even grammar. Si volet usus, says Horace. Therefore I disdain the human race.

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As always, on this, the anniversary of his passing, GNU Terry Pratchett

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i’d better be seeing cousin oskaar on my dash this morning

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pratchett will write an entire book about the grim reaper pretending to be santa claus while the grim reaper’s granddaughter goes about hunting down the dumbass who decided to kill santa, and then right when you think you’re done and the oddly pointed shenanigans are winding down he hits you with “humans need fantasy to be human. to be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape,” and knocks you into next wednesday

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Gnu - Question for native speakers

Guys, why do you call Terry Pratchett either a type of antelope or an astroid?

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Not policy and abuse, but unless things have changed since the last time I talked to them:

If something's a TOS violation, don't hesitate to report it just because it seems small. Catching small things early is good for P&A's workload, and having small simple things you can easily take care of is really great in between the big frustrating problems.

That said, telling people the right way to tag is not really P&A's job, and they are not usually going to make a call on whether a tag is "correct" or not, except in a few specific cases:

If an archive-required warning is clearly missing (i.e. it has a rape scene and isn't warned for noncon), or the rating is definitely too low (it has explicit sex and is tagged General Audience) they will add the Choose Not To Warn tag or change the rating to Not Rated.

If the fandom is clearly wrong, they will fix the fandom tag: if it's RPF in the FPF tag or vice versa, definitely report it, or it's a Steve/Tony fic in the The Avengers (TV 1961) tag, or it's in the BNHA tag but the author's note said "this is an original story but I put it in this tag so people will see it", report it. However they're probably not going to do anything about a fic in the MDZS tag where LWH and WWX are hunting yin iron, or a Spiderverse fic tagged Marvel Cinematic Universe, or stuff like that.

If it's got the wrong language tag, they'll fix the language. Feel free to report English fic in the Chinese tag or Russian fic in the English tag or whatever.

However, they're almost never going to do anything about tags in the other categories. If an author says their fic is A/B ship, AO3 is not going to argue with them even if A and B insist they're just friends the whole time. If C is listed as a character and there's no plans for C to appear, oh well. If it's tagged "fluff" and somebody gets horribly murdered, people have different definitions of fluff and P&A isn't going to tell them they're wrong. If it's tagged F/F and has no female characters in it, hey, stranger things have happened. So I wouldn't bother going to P&A if it's just someone who's consistently using a pairing tag on something you consider gen or whatever.

They will, however, yell at people for spam, so if someone is blatantly and consistently overtagging for spam reasons and admitting it, that's worth reporting.

If someone's tagging wrong it's also always OK to leave them a polite comment letting them know, especially if it seems likely to be a mistake or misunderstanding ("I think you may have missed adding the Major Character Death warning" or "I don't know if you realized that / always means romance on AO3" or "I know you're used to other sites, but on AO3 people get upset if you deliberately tag things that aren't in the story, and I wouldn't want you to make a bad first impression".) Most of the time this works and it's much faster and friendlier than going through P&A, and AO3 is designed for a lot of things like this to be handled via users sharing their own norms, not official TOS enforcement. (Of course, if you have reason to feel unsafe commenting directly, you absolutely should not.)

nothing pisses me off more than when i see a fic on ao3 talking about reach. "this ship isn't here but i added them for reach" "this fandom tag isn't necessary but i'm adding it for reach" "reposting for reach" STOP IT!!!! this is not tiktok this is not twitter this is an ARCHIVE this is not how it works!!!

#ao3 #why do I always want to call them T&A

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the fight is harder each year.

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Me n the boys heading into 2024

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every time i ask people if they do any new years resolutions its all ooooo i dont like making them bc i fail or ohhhhh no i couldnt keep up wiht that and then when they ask me and i tell them about Pasta Quest (i am eating as many different pasta shapes as possible in the space of a year) or when i did Fruit Adventures (every time i saw a fruit i had never eaten before id get one and eat it and read the wikipedia article about it) theyre like hang on i forgot you can make Fun Ones i want a fun one

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it's the last day you can rb this

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i fucking love tumblr on new years i scroll past a glittertext gif wishing me a happy 2002 i scroll past my mutual wishing me a happy 2018 i scroll past a gifset wishing me a happy 2013 i scroll p

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I would like to wish everyone an uneventful new year