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Hello, Delicious Tea
So far, I've been a baker, a bookseller, a publishing intern, an English conversation teacher, a high school English teacher, and a practitioner of the art of making stuff up. You may find books, baking, photography, and Entertainment. Looking forward to my son's first birthday. Tumblr Old.
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I've been ordered by my lord to escort his ladies to Edo.
I'm sorry, but without a permit, no lord or his retinue may leave Osaka Castle.
It is Lord Ishido's order.
You leave me no choice.
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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.
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nobuddy feels like they have a sharp attention span these days, right? and we all just click “agree on terms of service” because its hard to love yourself sometimes, well
enter Terms of Service, Didn’t Read: a website and a browser addon that streamlines the terms of service of many popular web services to be read by the tech sunday drivers.
It’s graded from A (great) to E (awful) and if you have the addon you have access to the info about the website on your bar
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My friend just made me feel weird for asking so now i gotta know.
If you do have a favorite bird please please tell me in the tags, i want to see some Birds!!
#I really like birds#chickadees are of course great#but so are Carolina wrens!#sp are those dumb parrots all over Wiesbaden!
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okay what did i miss
(yes some of these overlap and some are suppositions. for example if parchment is always used for ephemera, rough drafts, notes, and never re-used or re-purposed, we can also assume that the author is unaware of wax tablets as a concept)
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If you are watching a TV show, it can be live action or animated.
But not when you're reading a book. Much to think about.
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Hate being sick. Hate it so much. Body woke up at 3am like yes I am in pain
Great what do you want me to do about it? I can’t put medicine in you you can’t keep WATER down
Yes I’m aware the heating is running and dehydrating you further but sadly that again is not something I can really help you with at this point in time unless you are willing to try water and crackers to support the anti headache medicine
Headache continues. Everything hurts.
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okay americans i gotta ask because as an European i grew up with lots of american shows and cartoons and in a lot of them there was an episode where they give the protags a doll or an egg or a bag of flour or whatever and told them pretend to be its parents or something
#oh yeah I’d forgotten about that#man our brother did some dumb stuff in high school#every time my mother was called in#admin had to try real hard not to laugh
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he's fighting a beautiful buff lady. her shirt gets ripped and she's left in her slutty little tank top. "come on," you think. "why is the woman always wearing sexier things than her male counterparts." but fear not. now HE takes off his shirt and he's left in HIS slutty little tank top. equality. and then they kiss
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Things I’m learning about All For the Game fans: a lot of y’all didn’t grow up with a cheese drawer in your fridge and it shows
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The old school lack of transparency on tumblr is amazing because you assume the people you follow must all be equivalent to you and then you see someone write “I brought my youngest to college today” and someone else write “my mom wouldn’t let me listen to Ariana Grande when I was a kid” and then your head explodes
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if you don‘t personally own one but your roommates/parents do and you are allowed to use it, that counts as yes
#I have both but I don’t iron my clothes#for craft projects and occasionally MrTea will be inspired#to iron his own shirts
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