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sl-walker · 2 days
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As one of the two people who managed to get otw-archive running on the open internet who is not OTW, I'd like you -- the public, the number of people recently saying 'make your own using their software' -- to sit down and try it.
While I strongly appreciate that message, being a firm believer in independent archives and a decentralized fandom umbrella, I can guarantee the people typing that as a 'gotcha' to the antis -- who are reprehensible at the best of times -- are not one of the people who got otw-archive running on a server with actual humans using it because there are only two of us. And again, I'm one of them. @squidgiepdx is the other.
There are only two of us because it's a viciously badly optimized disaster of software involving so many running processes in so many different languages that it took me fifty hours of work just to get it marginally functional and many more dedicated hours since then maintaining it. It constantly runs at 95% RAM usage on our server. I have a beautiful single-fandom archive for the effort, but by god, I am so, so tired of people who know jack shit of what they're talking about pretending like it's as easy as unzipping a package and making it run.
SquidgeWorld took so fucking much work. Walter did that. Ad Astra took so fucking much work. I did that. And we are both willing to help other people do that! We are both incredibly happy to offer our time and expertise to anyone else who wants to help us become more than TWO PEOPLE OUT OF SEVERAL BILLION to make that software run for archives that don't belong to OTW.
But stop pretending it's easy. That casual dismissal diminishes the amount of time, effort, frustration, tears and dedication that Walter and I gave to make our archives happen. I can't stand antis either, but boy, the amount of entitlement in fandom isn't gonna get better by ignoring how hard it is to make and build and maintain communities, especially in this world where you can't even get people go type 'Extra kudos' into a fucking comment box.
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chandra-shekhara · 7 months
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INDIA IS ON THE MOON!!!!!!!!
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pawberri · 1 month
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You can tell Adastra fan base doesn't have fujoshis cuz everyone hates alexios just for being a little silly... if it was a BL game and he looked like this he'd be number one in the popularity poll
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sictransitgloriamvndi · 10 months
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stiffyck · 2 months
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Go read ad Astra by the wonderful @desertduality
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Hand <3
I tried coloring it but it wasn't working out the way I wanted to. I have up fnvjdkgkd
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desertduality · 12 days
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the lonely starling
biggest motivator to attempt to do art is that i get to try to make fanart for my own fic <3
the fic in question - Ao3
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lillyli-74 · 17 days
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Take me my sadness to the stars. To endless darkness, show me the path..
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jackawful · 2 months
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Love when my fellow queers use weird alien petplay porn to explore the deep sociopolitical & philosophical questions
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pizopop · 8 months
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Through hardship, to the stars! 💫🖖 I recreated the Una Ad Astra Per Aspera poster in full from the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds/Lower Decks crossover
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mirkokosmos · 9 months
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by Mirko Lalit Egger
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delta-draws-0w0 · 6 months
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Be my baby
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pawberri · 8 months
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Adastra girlyboy dlc?!
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fellshish · 7 months
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What if you read a fic and it’s beautiful and heartbreaking and beautiful and beautiful
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stiffyck · 4 months
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Still obsessed with this fic :3
(Written by the amazing @/desertduality)
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spockvarietyhour · 3 months
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Vehicles and Stations in Ad Astra: International Space Antenna Virgin Commercial Flight (under the banner of Virgin Atlantic) Lunar Rover Pirate Rover Cepheus Vesta IX Mars Rover Cepheus Pod Lima Project
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punkbarnes2 · 2 months
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Science fiction Stucky Aus are my new Roman Empire, i watched Ad Astra some weeks ago and feel in love with the Neptune sequence.
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