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sbeep:

very hasty graphics aside here i did not expect to wake up to 3000 followers today, so, thank you all a lot!! Before I open my next round of commissions, here’s little giveaway to win some art instead!

  • Please be a follower, and REBLOG to enter, only 1 reblog per person will count. 
  • I will draw the winners at midday/12pm on Tuesday 30th (which is 2 days from now. 

Congrats to all 3010 of you anyway for enduring my ping-pong like bouncing from 1 thing to the next since i made this blog in 2015.You’re all good eggs.

scmnzbook:

“Stop head canoning everyone as gay.”

“blocke-”

“The lgbt experience is so much more varied than that, reducing it to ‘everyone is now gay’ ignores other identities and their importance. You need to have ace head canons, bi, pan, aro, and lesbian head canons. Trans, non binary, genderqueer head canons! Demi head canons! ALL THE HEAD CANONS. And yes, gay headcanons as well,

but stop head canoning everyone as purely gay. START head canoning everyone as queer.”

“… followed”

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Half of being trans is being hypervigilant against transphobes. Like, I spent 15 minutes scrolling down on a blog that I would be super interested in just to make sure that it wasn’t going to start reblogging stuff from my favorite transmisogynists. Turns out that my hypervigilance was right again.

Things to look for:

  • References to “vagina envy.” This is what initially got me scrolling. This alone isn’t a sure indicator.
  • Andrea Dworkin quotes without criticism
  • Reblogging from troll accounts like confirmed-/-terf

Most cis wlw on Tumblr are, in fact, supportive of trans people. Most cis wlw who mention “hating men” are not using this as an attack on trans women. However, because of my experience with the small, insular, and vitriolic trans-exclusionary feminists on Tumblr, I have learned to be hypervigilant and it Really Fucking Sucks and Really Fucking Hurts when I am right.

I am a lesbian. This kind of blog would have been My Shit. But I’ve been taught to distrust the very women I connect with the most. I’ve been taught to feel afraid in my own home.

Being a transgender lesbian is constantly walking on eggshells to not prove them right. And their standards are ever changing so it’s inevitable that you’ll prove them right. Righteous anger will be taken as “male propensity towards violence,” which closely mirrors the way men see outspoken women as “shrill.” If we do anything to fight back outside of debate within their terms, we are immediately casted as “violent men.” They will not be satisfied until we shut up, lie down, and die.

Cis wlw can and should reblog this. Help me remember my allies.

drgaellon:

brolinskeep:

queerlyalex:

nonegenderwithleftbees:

bihet-dragonize:

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synclaires:

witchythirteen:

Looking at this makes me so tired.

Every year, multiple times a year, they convince ppl to fork out thousands of dollars and….literally nothing changes. There’s no doubt in my mind they’re pocketing most of this money lol

Yep

That’s what’s so wild to me. They’ve made exactly 0 changes other than adding the ‘Exclude’ tags and that def doesn’t take 130k.

You know if any of you actually bothered to click the link it’ll take you to their budget update and break down exactly what the spend the money on, over 70% of which is spent on server expenses, monitoring tools and system licences.

They also spent a good amount of the rest of the 30% budget on significant server overhaul costs. 

AO3 is literally a service you get for free and the audacity you’d have to not bother reading the very open budget plan they have, but to then bitch and whine about people donating to keep the site running is wild. 

https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/11192

reminder that AO3 

  • hosts millions and millions of fanfiction at no cost to site users
  • hosts millions and millions user accounts at no cost to site users
  • is an extremely high traffic site that rarely, if ever, experiences crashes
  • is an extremely high traffic site that could profit immensely off ads, but keeps the entire site free of ads
  • maintains a consistent and elaborate tagging system that allows users easy navigation through fanworks
  • maintains a simple layout structure so the entire site is easy to read, easy to navigate, and easy to understand making it highly accessible to users – especially disabled users
  • maintains and updates the budget for users to know exactly where their donations are going to be used in the future and have been used in the past
  • works with the legal aspects of fanworks in order to keep their site and their users completely legal, and therefore not at risk of being shut down, or sued, or manipulated by large media/companies
  • works with users when it comes to decision making, includes members in voting processes, etc.
  • literally hosts millions of fanfiction at no cost whatsoever and doesn’t subject you to ads, honestly those are the only two points you need but the other ones are there to show how much they’re doing 
  • y’all need to appreciate that – donations are completely optional and if you don’t want to donate then don’t, but spreading posts about how Archive doesn’t do anything for anyone and doesn’t do anything with all this money they’re getting is completely unnecessary and outright false.
  • anyway, donate to Archive of Our Own

   2018-07-20

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1.569.000 users

by asking for 130k dollar 2-3 times a year, that means they ask each account holding user for about 0,08 dollar 2-3 times a year -> 0,25 dollar altogether. this doesn’t even factor in the millions of users who don’t have an account but visit ao3, cos if they pitch in as well, it’ll be even less for everyone who enjoys the access ao3 provides to 4.000.000 fanworks and to create more every day!

queerlyalex above has already listed all or most of the terrific services ao3 provides, but right now the legal advocacy efforts they maintain cannot be emphasized enough: european copyright reform article 13 anyone? same for canada and australia? or fighting for net neutrality since 2014?

so yeah you fucking bet i send them at least 50bucks or more a year for all of that. and if out of the 130k they use my 50 bucks to buy themselves some coffee for all the work hours they dedicate to ao3 running as smoothly as it does, keeping it free of harassment and adds without selling my data for it, and fighting for fanworks to remain accessible for everyone now and in future, then be my guest!

AO3 is entirely volunteer-run. Every dollar they collect goes to a) expenses of operation or b) advocacy. I’ve contributed at various levels over the years as my finances have waxed and waned, but I’ve never been less than a $10/year voting member. This year, I’m fortunate enough to be able to be a $10/MONTH contributor.

I am UTTERLY FLABBERGASTED that anyone thinks that running a site hosting millions of fanworks, transferring literally BILLIONS of bytes of data for millions of users could be done for as little as $130K/year. The sense of entitlement is staggering.

No changes? Well, all their code is written by volunteers. Want change to happen faster? Volunteer to join the coding team.

Basically – put up (money or time) or shut up.