hey do newer fans these days -- specifically folks who are newer to ao3 -- know that date-bumping your fics to keep them at the top of the first page is frowned upon?

rb and put in the tags your username without using the middle row of the keyboard

I absolutely loved this shot

i must not stir the pot. stirring the pot is the notifications-killer. participation in the discourse is the little-death that brings total activity obliteration. i will face the bad opinions on the internet. i will permit them to pass over me and through me. and when they have gone past, i will turn the block button onto their source. where the discourse has come from there will be nothing. only i will remain.

(for the purposes of this poll, there is no monkey's paw situation: the chore you pick stays the same level of difficulty/grossness/etc. as it normally is for you, and you only have to do it as often as you want to. the chores you don't pick are magically done for you exactly the way you'd want them to be, just with zero effort on your part.)

If your tummy itches when you wear jeans, you have a nickel allergy and should paint the back of the buttion with nail polish. Okay I am going into the woods forever now. I love you.

Saw this on a door at work.

Rereading Artemis fowl is so delightful. That child is committing atrocities but it's okay he has adult supervision

if a piece of media is bad but it’s clear that the people who made it poured their souls into it and were wholeheartedly trying to make something they care about, I will love that a THOUSAND times more than any smooth-polished focus-tested board-room approved $500mil budget movie. those things are just informercials for empire and capital. boring snooze could not care less. unironically we need more bad art made by genuinely earnest people who just wanted to create something

CALLUM KEITH RENNIE as Ray Kowalsky in Due South 3x01, Burning Down The House

save me undead cowboy...

Walton Goggins as Cooper Howard in Fallout (2024 -) Season 1

"Isn't it weird that [thing humans commonly eat] is poisonous to literally every domesticated animal" I mean, there's a pretty good chance that [thing humans commonly eat] is at least mildly poisonous to humans, too. One of our quirks as a species is that we think our food is bland if it doesn't have enough poison in it.