but-the-library-of-alexandria:

an underrated detail in pride and prejudice is that elizabeth bennett was home alone on the day darcy proposed because she had a headache. can you imagine. this was in the pre-painkillers era. you’re at home with a headache and then this asshole walks into the room and tells you he loves you and wants to marry you even though he hates your whole family and you’re beneath him. imagine having to deal with that while also having a headache. she doesn’t even have ibuprofen

thelilnan:

carlosmarcosapproved:

even wilder is that adding a spouse onto your plan isn’t like discounted or anything. it’s not even twice what you were already paying. many times it’s at least 3 times more expensive than each partner paying for their own insurance

when we say the medical insurance game is fucked, we mean on Every level

thememedaddy:

cacodaemonia:

valoisfulcanellideux:

About the AO3 “No Guest Comments for a while” warning

If you’re not following any of AO3’s social media accounts you might be in the dark as to what kind of “spam comments” have engendered this banner at the top of the site:

These spam comments have been posted about a great deal on the AO3 subreddit for the past couple of days. Initially they comprised a bunch of guest (logged out users) bot comments that insulted authors by suggesting they were using AI and not writing their own fics. Some examples, from the subreddit:

But it then escalated to outright graphic porn images and gifs being posted in comments, again by logged out ‘Guest’ accounts. Obviously, I’m not going to give examples of those, but between these two bot infestations, AO3 has clearly decided to act and has temporarily closed the ability to post comments for users who are not logged in with an AO3 account.

Unfortunately, this means that genuine readers who don’t have an AO3 account won’t be able to leave comments on fics that they enjoy.

If you are a genuine reader who doesn’t yet have an AO3 account, I strongly suggest getting yourself on the waiting list for one. More and more AO3 authors are now locking their fics down to registered users only - either due to these bot comments or concerns about AI scraping their work - which means you’re probably missing out on a lot of great stuff.

Hopefully guest commenting will be enabled again at some point soon, but I suggest not waiting until then. Get yourself on that list.

Wait times are going to be longer than usual at the moment, due to the current Wattpad purge [info on Fanlore | Wattpad subreddit thread], but if you’re in line, then your invite will come through eventually.

Update: There’s now a Megathread about this on the AO3 subreddit.

Apparently, I have 9 invitations available, and I think I’ve used one of them ever, so if anyone out there wants to make an AO3 account, just DM me and I’ll send you an invite. ✌️

awinkie13:

ao3cassandraic:

zillyblog:

apollos-boyfriend:

apollos-boyfriend:

nothing pisses me off more than when i see a fic on ao3 talking about reach. “this ship isn’t here but i added them for reach” “this fandom tag isn’t necessary but i’m adding it for reach” “reposting for reach” STOP IT!!!! this is not tiktok this is not twitter this is an ARCHIVE this is not how it works!!!

i will not deal!!!! that is not how any of this works!!!!

Please report fics that do this!

This is against the ToS, and shitty users will only stop doing this when their fics (or accounts) get deleted. Every report helps to keep this behavior from spreading!

This is metadata spamming and it’s gross and offends my librarian soul and yes please report it when you see it.

I’m guessing that all four people who are going to see this already understand how ao3 tagging works, but just in case this reaches someone who doesn’t and is curious, here’s why this is bad:

Keep reading

lacetulle:

Rabanne | Spring/Summer 2024

(Source: theimpression.com)

fuckyeahchinesefashion:

By Mr. Fan

not-so-rosyyy:

“Have you ever received a speeding ticket?”
“I have not! But I’ve gotten close.”

ZENDAYA on Jimmy Kimmel Live, 18 April 2024
TOM, ZENDAYA, and her mum at a spin gym in LA, 07 July 2017

weaselle:

headspace-hotel:

soaringsparrows:

phantomrose96:

what-even-is-thiss:

queenwhiskey:

Twitter users will not survive the winter

What do they mean it’s impossible to have conversations there’s at least three different ways to do so here

“It’s impossible to have conversations there” -person coming from a website where DM'ing is now paywalled behind Twitter Blue.

“Your timeline hasn’t moved in 45 minutes” Then follow people?????

skill issue