If any one of my posts is to break containment, make it this one.
Before January 2025, download your favorite fics, especially those with smut or queer content.
If Project 2025 goes into effect (which it very likely will now that we have three red branches of government in the US), they may attempt to restrict the use/sharing of media on sites like ao3.
This particularly applies to fics with smut or any type of queer content, because the official Project 2025 document states, “Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children, for instance… has no claim to First Amendment protection… Pornography should be outlawed.”
Now, I don’t expect ao3 to disappear or go anywhere without a fight, but it’s best to be on the safe side these days.
To download your favorite fics:
Go to archiveofourown.org and open the fic you want to download.
At the top right corner, to the right of the ‘subscribe’ button, is a button that says 'download’. Click it.
A drop-down menu will give you the option to choose the format of your download. Choose your preferred format (.epub and .pdf are my personal favorites – .epub lets you open a fic in the apple books app and .pdf is compatible with like every device and program out there).
When you click the button for your preferred format, a pop-up window appears confirming your choices. The title of the document will default to the title of the fic, so be aware of that and consider changing conspicuous titles to something ignorable, especially if you share the computer.
You’re done! Now do this with all your favorite fics!
Stay safe out there, your favorite characters are rooting for you <3
If you’re like me and looking at your decade plus of history, bookmarks, works, and subs makes you want to cry at the thought of trying to download them all individually, check out this link.
This will help you download all your stuff from AO3 quickly and easily. You will have to download Python, but don’t panic. The instructions and the application itself walk you through everything.
If you keep the fics in the folder, it even has the ability to check for duplicates and not download something it’s downloaded before, OR check WIPs for new chapters and download an updated copy. It’s fucking amazing.
“After that first incident, the thing kept coming back. It’s looking for something, and I don’t want it here.
We went down and asked the retired fishing mech on the other end of town to play as bait for us. All they have to do is rest in the yard while we wait. They’re about the same size as this ‘Crusader’, I figured with how damaged it is, it must be looking to repair itself. Should be easy, right?
I don’t know why I thought that. Took a few days of waiting before it showed up.
Everything was set up. It wasn’t even that long of a wait after nightfall. But our ambush failed.
It saw us immediately.”
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Crusader would be a terrifying thing from the perspective of an average dragon. There’s not quite anything like him, and that’s probably a good thing. After all there’s no need for more space entities to make a mess.
Last art post of the year! Kept forgetting to get this one up.
The real problem with the Hasbro monolith re-defining “indie RPG” to mean “literally any tabletop RPG that isn’t Dungeons & Dragons” is that now when you ask somebody what their favourite obscure indie RPG is, that twelve page zine game about robot catgirls having sex with each other is competing for oxygen with, like, Vampire: The Masquerade, and that’s just not good for the ecosystem.
it does still make me insane specifically how many queer people lovingly embrace astrology. I went to a poetry workshop yesterday that was genuinely quite good but also included an option to disclose astrology designations during introductions and so many people broke out some variation of “I’m a [x] sum but I have a [y] placement and it SHOWS” girl no it doesn’t. that’s meaningless correlation you completely invented the causation
I’d say that rejecting biological determinism in favor of space gas determinism isn’t the slay the astrology queers think it is but if I’m being completely honest I fear that many members of our community haven’t even really rejected biological determinism so much as sprinkled a layer of glitter on it
sorry for exposing your tags but this is hilarious
OP, I hope you don’t mind me making an addition:
When I turned 17, we ordered a cake at the grocery store for my party, as we’d done many times before. If you wanted something written on the cake you’d write it into a section of the order form. We requested, very simply, “Happy Birthday Courtney”. When we went to pick it up the day of the party, this is what we got.
The bakery employees had absolutely no explanation for this. The order form, attached to the box, very clearly did not contain any of those extra names. Whomever had done the writing was no longer in, so there was no one to ask how this had happened. The fact that the name ‘Juan’ is misspelled bewilders me to this day. (I’ve never seen ‘Miley’ without the E, either, but it’s believable that someone might spell it that way.) Did this cake slip in from an alternate universe where I’m one quarter of a set of Hispanic quadruplets? Dyslexic Hispanic quadruplets, maybe?
This cake became the focal point of my party. At least two of my friends regularly called me ‘Courtney Mily Jaun Pablo’ for years to come. My siblings and I still reference it sometimes, eleven years later. It is probably the funniest thing ever to occur at any birthday celebration of my life, and may well remain so for the rest of my days.
“i also choose this guy’s dead wife” was easily the #1 funniest thing to ever be written on the internet.
you can know the punchline but you can’t stop it from punching you.
i do also feel the need to add that phil8248 really liked the joke. he said his wife had always had a dark sense of humour, even about her illness and death, and seeing the joke made him feel like he was laughing with her one last time.
“I also choose this guy’s wife” is a Goncharov-level meme on reddit.
The fact the guy with the dead wife loved the joke and it reminded him of said dead wife’s sense of humour makes it so much better. I didn’t think it was possible to love this post more.
i don’t know why but i’m really amused by the winner of some ‘new kanji’ contest:
compare with the real kanji
座 (seat/gathering), but the two 人 (person) radicals have been moved from next to each other within the 土 (earth) radical to diagonally from each other, making this “social distance(d seating/gathering)”
This is hilarious, but to further the hilarity, I’d like to point to the fact that half of the “A rank” (runners up) for this contest also are related to 2020 epidemic jokes
First up we have:
Compare with
太
The original kanji means “to gain weight”. But it adds the
コ “ko” and ロ “ro” katakana symbols at the top to represent the weight you gain while staying home due to the corona virus.
Then we have:
Compare with
会
The original kanjij means “meeting”, but the lower radical is changed to look more like a “Z” to represent Zoom meetings. Thus, the new kanji means “web meetings” or “zoom calls”
And of course another social distancing one:
Compare with
話
This means “to talk” or “chat”, but it’s changed simply to show the two radicals social distancing from one another as we should also while holding conversations nowadays.
At least we can have some fun language humor despite all of this!
they need .ore public spaces where you can fuck someone. not even a horny post but its true. you cant even jerk off on a hiking trail these days. because of the woke mind virus 🦠🏀oh fuck hes kinda ballin
“Smartphone” this, “superpowers” that, I want to see an isekai where the protagonist is one of those young women with an incredibly cluttered purse and that’s what she takes with her into the world she’s been swept off to. And then she uses her purse’s contents to her advantage, and not in a stereotypical way or anything like that, I want this to be Lady MacGyver and her purse of resources. I want to see a pair of nail-clippers with a file on it be used as the multi-purpose tool they can be. I want lipstick war paint. I want to see something really clever done with that handfull of grocery receipts she never threw out. And the title would be something like “I’m Going to Save the World by Cleaning Out My Purse.” And the show’s emphasis is on her being cool, clever, and creative, not on getting as much fanservice in as possible.
Bonus points: During the final confrontation with whatever the Big Bad is, our heroine finally runs out of stuff in her purse, it’s completely empty. The villain gloats about her being out of ammo and stuff, and while the villain is busy doing this the heroine grabs a sizeable rock, shoves it in her purse, and starts using the whole thing as a flail-style weapon against them. The purse and its contents aren’t the source of her power, it’s how good she is at making do with whatever she has to hand.
(…look, regardless of anything else about it, the movie ‘The Gods Must Be Crazy II’ had a lasting effect on me in regards to the effectiveness of a purse full of rocks as a blunt-force weapon.)
Also, when her friends arrive to help her finish off the confrontation, they get in because of all the intuitiveness and creative problem-solving the heroine has taught them, not just through brute force. I want a cool, badass final battle that would also make Jackie Chan nod approvingly at the clever use of environment and items at hand.
Oh! And at the very end, after the final fight’s over and the Big Bad is defeated, our heroine takes a moment to go sit by herself and go, “Well, I guess I finally got my purse cleaned out… empty counts as clean, right? …I need to replace some of that stuff, but they don’t make all of it here…” :/
And then her friends and associates start showing up a few at a time, and one of them hands her a ball of string, because she’s been mentioning the whole series that she really ought to be carrying one at this point. And another one tells her that the alchemist she gave it to managed to replicate that awesome, water-proof war-paint she showed them and sent her a couple tubes of it. Someone else pays her back for a meal she helped them get.
Someone even found and returns her nail-clippers.
And it’s one of those really fun, touching scenes that makes you feel good just to watch it, with lots of acknowledgement of the kindness that has been shown and the bonds that have been made, and it ends with her going, “Huh, my purse is a total mess again… I guess I’d better go on another adventure to clean it out!” And everything feels good and nothing hurts and it’s great!
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