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i miss him

#anders #mage birb #actual feathermage #long live the queue

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Dream - art by Audrey Benjaminsen

#dream of the endless #the sandman #long live the queue

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#lego #legos #long live the queue

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TOM STURRIDGE as Morpheus/Dream of the Endless THE SANDMAN (2022—) — “Calliope” (1.11)

#dream of the endless #the sandman #sandman gifset #gotta love the sad wet cat eyes #long live the queue

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Thank you to @sleepnoises for making the original poll & for giving us the idea to to this :)

Sorry if we couldn’t get your favorite on here, we were limited to only 12 options (11 if you don’t include the “other” option).

#there's also this AMAZING bloodweave fic by pepgold #it's called turn on the laugh track #and it's a complete fic! #with a happy ending #but there's lots of sad and violent things in between #but it's sooo good I promise

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So, there's a lot of USians around who are very clearly fucking fed up with their political choices this election cycle, and planning to sit it out.

And I get it! What's the point of voting if there's no one to vote for?

The thing is, I'm Australian. In Australia, voting is compulsory. We don't get to sit out our elections, and I'll be real honest with you - we don't exactly get better choices than you lot. So how do you vote if there's no one to vote for? You find someone to vote against. And there's always someone to vote against.

Now, we have the pleasure of preferential voting in Australia - We get to rank every candidate from 1 to X, and I'll tell you, there's something so cathartic about putting the biggest bastard of the lot at the very bottom of your preferences. I understand that USians don't get that option - you get to mark one person, and that's it.

That means that you get one shot, so aim it at the biggest bastard of the lot. The candidate you most utterly detest. Put your vote in the worst possible place for them. Don't even think about who that vote's going towards, that's not the point. Remember, every vote is a vote against someone. Make sure you fuck up that someone's election day!

#this #like I don't really want to vote for Biden #but I remember going to uni the morning after the angry orange was declared the winner #and I was absolutely WRECKED that whole day #and I remember the 4 years that followed #the past 4 years haven't been the solution I hoped for #not at all #but I would rather have 4 more years of that than 4 more years of turnip hell #might not even just be 4 years if that monster has his way #and I don't even want to THINK about fucking with that possibility #it's why I'm so angry with that one Kennedy running as an independent #if he costs Biden the election I'm gonna scream into the void until I have no voice #because if I give away my voice to the void #it'll be better than having it taken away from me by that cheeto faced ballsack of a man #us politics

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"Hope/Atlas"

I know you need a friend or you will lose it all I know you need my helping hand to get it all Say you want me Say you need me Alone you cannot hold The weight of the world I'm the one who makes you strong Alone you cannot hold The weight of the world [x]

#hob gadling #hope of the endless #the sandman #long live the queue

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some of my favorite tiny love stories

#short stories #to read later #long live the queue

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✨Gale!!✨

#gale #gale dekarios #baldur's gate 3. bg3 #long live the queue

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💜🧡 || Tip Jar

#caleb #caleb widogast #essek #essek thelyss #shadowhand essek thelyss #shadowgast #critical role #long live the queue

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the devotion

nsfw version here

Reference: Idylle by Bouguereau

#dream of the endless #hob gadling #dreamling #the sandman #SOOOO pretty OP #long live the queue

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You keep talking about the origins of AO3 as this group effort by an actual group of people who were friends and who spent time discussing this with each other in person. It's kind of blowing my mind. Is there a post or a journal somewhere that specifically keeps record of this?

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I'm dying.

Nonnie, seriously?

No, that's mean, I know you're serious. It's just flabbergasting how much fandom has expanded and how much there isn't a direct link to the past.

Astolat and Cesperanza floated the idea at Vividcon and various places, I think, though I wasn't going to cons in that era. We were all on LJ in those days, and Astolat made a big post nailing her theses to the door. Discussion in the comments was instant and prolonged.

A LJ com was set up to discuss. It was later renamed to otw_news, but if you go all the way back to the beginning, you can see brainstorming mess instead of official news posts.

Fanlore page linking to Astolat's post and giving a little context.

Early brainstorming: https://otw-news.livejournal.com/2007/05/

For example, here I am collecting links to older archives to look at for research when designing AO3.

Fun fact, we never intended to call it AO3. There was a whole call for name suggestions, but nothing was as evocative as astolat's original post title referencing Virginia Woolf. (For those who haven't thought about it, AO3's name is a reference to A Room of One's Own.)

Here's the name discussion

Here's the poll that came out of it

But also notice how many people voted: 562.

That's how many people cared at the time: a few hundred. Maybe a thousand if you count lurkers, but frankly, that community was not as lurkery as now. It wasn't just ten friends. It was a community effort. But what "our" community looked like at the time was vastly different. It was six degrees of Kevin Bacon astolat, not a vast sea of strangers like fic fandom on AO3 is now.

Here's an early post suggesting we ban the under 18s from the site entirely. Pity we didn't do so, given the rise of antis.

Here's the invite to a fundraising party at astolat's in NYC that following Halloween. I dressed as Amanda from Highlander, not very well.

You can tell we knew each other by looking at those comments on astolat's initial post. You can also tell how discussion-based that part of fandom was back in 2007.

The way my tumblr is now with a ton of text, back and forth, and hopping around between threads of conversation, all featuring a consistent set of faces, is very much like LJ. Most of tumblr is not.

#fandom history #fanfic #fanfiction #ao3 #archive of our own #long live the queue

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I missed drawing in black and white (manga style), so have some more aizawa ✨ ( + ref )

#aizawa #shouta aizawa #mha #bnha #long live the queue

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*siiiiighs*

when i was three or four years old i whacked a fellow preschooler in the head with a half-full plastic mini bucket of sand. (he was fine)

we were playing in the sandbox and in my young child lack of emotional regulation i didn't like how he had decided to play with me. so i hit him with a sandy bucket. i was put in timeout and informed by my teacher that we all had chosen to play together, that this was another variant on the dreaded sharing where you couldn't just control how people played, how you had to make it a fun space for everyone even if someone was playing differently than how i would prefer it. you had to work together, not brain people with buckets.

true story.

anyway when you're an adult and you're in a fandom space and the goal is peace harmony and everyone having fun, you sometimes have to take a step back and remind yourself that you are an adult, this is all for fun, and we. do. not. brain. people. with. buckets.

even if that bucket is looking MIGHTY tempting.

#I love the anecdote here #it's such a good segue for the analogy #perfect form OP #fandom #long live the queue

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it’s time to trace~!

heads up. the charts in the middle are very rough guides. everything about copying is super grey, you need to use your own judgement…also I have more notes

Keep reading

#art #tracing #reference material #honestly a good read #very informative for new/younger artists #sometimes tracing is good! #you just need to know where the limits are #long live the queue

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#*shrugs* #this is why we can't have nice things #ao3

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There is revenge in his eyes

There's an unintelligible delirium in his head

#anders #mage birb #actual feathermage #long live the queue