Two fair men lie in water warm and slow,
As brothers are they joinēd heart to heart;
But Cupid hath not struck them with his bow;
Lest that be thought, they sit five feet apart.
Author: nakasomethingkun
andrew: i’m proud to identify as morosexual. i’m attracted to dumbasses and dumbasses exclusively. neil asked me what the german word for jägermeister was once and now i dream of kissing him under the moonlight
neil: what kind of animal is the raven’s mascot
andrew, already taking off his clothes: neil you’re so fucking stupid
His first year pro someone asks Andrew what it’s like to be the most successful Minyard and his response is “Aaron and his Fiancé both got into one of the most prestigious med schools in the country, if anything I’m the least successful Minyard”
-,’ types of people ,’-
spring: bright smiles, poetry, festivals, keeping a journal, gentle touches, taking polaroid pictures, smiling at strangers
summer: loud music, roadtrips, making friends, sun-kissed skin, trying to make everyone happy, sunrises, one night stands
autumn: moonlight, pale skin, messy hair, rosy cheeks, piercing gaze, ocean waves, rainy days, oversized shirts
winter: making promises, drinking black coffee, midnight conversations, dark hair, writing, sleepy eyes, collecting notebooks, stargazing
hey ao3 can you like give the extra $38k you made from this month’s funds drive to charity
You know it legally is a charity, right?
If x charity aims for £10, but gets £15, would you expect then to give back the extra five or give it then to another charity? No. Any extra costs go into the “rainy day” fund; sometimes servers crash or break, sometimes false reports are made that require the legal team, sometimes you need to hire coders or what not to implement new features or fix bugs or deal with broken code …
The money they aimed for is the bare minimum, which goes towards things like basic server costs and domain names and legal advice and so forth, but they don’t just “pocket” the rest (as people claim). It’s not a business. It has no advertisements. It needs some “rainy day” cash to function.
You can’t ask a charity to give money to another charity.
It needs what it gets to function and improve.
kiena-tesedale replied to this post
They don’t “pocket” excess money. They have a
publicly accessible budget – waaaay more info than most charities, in
fact. In it, you can clearly see where each dollar goes. (Also, you are
vastly underestimating either how much traffic AO3 gets or how much
servers/hosting costs.)In my experience, people who don’t work in web design and hosting just have no concept of how heavy a load something like AO3 would have. Not only is the traffic absolutely buck wild, but the quantity of data that archive needs to store is fuckoff crazy.
I’m talking “more than the library of congress” crazy. The only reason
it doesn’t require Netflix levels of data serving is that it’s text
based rather than video.AO3 is in the top 300 websites in the world, and the top 100 in the US. It is the number 2 literature website.
Number 2 in the entire world. JSTOR is 20.
It sees about 6 million people a day.
About 250k an hour. Each of those people is loading multiple pages, many are running
searches that execute on literally hundreds of potential variables per
search. The demands involved are astronomical.JSTOR, btw, makes 85 million dollars a year.
It’s 18 ranks below AO3′s traffic, and takes in 650 times the amount of money.
But let’s say you think that’s an unfair comparison. Would you say that the Project Gutenberg Literature Archival Group- another text based archive that handles literature operating outside traditional copyright requirements- is more similar?
Because it sees all of 4% of the traffic that AO3 handles.
Care to guess its budget?
Double that of AO3.
AO3 is doing shit on the kind of shoestring budget that I fully, 100% cannot comprehend. And that’s just the archival service.
The 130k also pays for the OTW’s legal team, which they use to defend the right of fandom to fucking exist.
It’s
absolutely batshit fucked up that people are fighting to have the OTW
defunded and AO3 shut down. They are the only organized group that
actually stands directly between fandom- all the art and the fics and
the vids and the music and the chats and the memes and everything we
love about interactive, transformative work- and an incalculable amount of lawsuits.The number of people on this blue hellsite who apparently do not understand how nonprofits work is mind-boggling (pro tip: by definition, THEY DON’T MAKE A PROFIT), as is the number of people with no idea about the cost of running something that gets that much traffic.
Good education here for everyone.
How much whining would there be if there wasn’t a FREE site hosting all that wonderful fanfic without ads? If the other fanfic sites had to shut down because of lawsuits?
How much did they donate to AO3 in the first place? If they’re so worried about the other charities, run some campaigns for them instead of target a site that does a lot of good.
prompts list :)
fluff/general
- “how much did you drink?”
- “aw, you’re so cute.”
- “what did you do?”
- “i asked if you were having a party. i didn’t tell you to have a party.”
- “this is the opposite of what i told you to do.”
- “well, it’s the thought that counts.”
- “wait, no, don’t take kissing away from me.”
- “okay, where are all my jumpers?”
- “oh, you’ve started stealing my socks now?”
- “yeah, okay, but i’m cooler.”
- “you owe me a kiss.”
- “how did you get in here?”
- “for starters, that’s impossible.”
- “how did you fail a survey?”
- “yeah, well, if you weren’t so drunk maybe i would.”
- “that’s not even fair.”
- “you promised me a cookie!”
- “did i ever tell you how beautiful your eyes are?”
- “ew, that is so sappy, i might vomit.”
- “i’m not playing truth or dare.”
- “you’re not very intimidating.”
- “i love you.”
- “well the probability of that is 0, but you go ahead.”
- “that was, by far, the stupidest thing you’ve ever done.”
- “why don’t you take a picture? it’ll last longer.”
- “maybe not.”
- “why the hell is there glitter everywhere?”
- “well, i’m pretty irresistible.”
- “how much money would you give me to flip this table, right here, right now, in the middle of class?”
- “detention? again?”
angst
- “why don’t you just go?”
- “no, it’s not like that.”
- “if you cared about me, you wouldn’t do this.”
- “it doesn’t matter anymore.”
- “what’s the point?”
- “fuck you.”
- “you should’ve said that yesterday.”
- “don’t lie to me.”
- “i swear, if you say another word, i’ll leave.”
- “change in mind or change in heart?”
- “it’s over, it’s done, just leave it be.”
- “why do you keep bringing it up?”
- “we can’t go back in time, so stop trying to reverse what you said.”
- “you say you’ll stop, but then you keep doing it!”
- “maybe in another world.”
- “why are you like this?”
- “stop making empty promises!”
- “what about us?”
- “don’t say that.”
- “i’m done. we’re done.”’
feel free to reblog 🙂
andrew, holding sir: stinky
neil: no! don’t be mean!
andrew, swaying sir back and forth in the air: stinky bastard woman
neil: no!!
kevin, not looking up from what he’s doing: naughty girl. brat cat
neil, distraught: NOOO!!!
Nothing but My Aching Soul 