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NDHSNHDBDHE

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post-corruption

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Annabeth's character is supposed to represent smart women who have their intelligence and authority devalued and undermined because of their appearance, not specifically blondes lmao please be serious

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it has begun

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AITA FOR ASKING A GIRL IF SHE LOVED ME WHILE I WAS ACTIVELY DYING

I (22M) had known this girl (16F), let’s call her A, since I was 14. I had run away from home when I was 9 years old, and later came across another runway named T (15/20F) who was 12 years old at the time. Together, T and I came across A, and the three of us stuck together as we attempted to find somewhere safe for us to live. The three of us made our way to a camp for kids like us with the help another person named G (16/33M). T unfortunately died before we made it to safety within the camp and was turned into a pine tree by her father.

After 5 years of living at this camp, I grew mad at our neglectful parents and decided to join my great grandfather K (∞M) in his crusade to overthrow them. Around that same time, P (16M) joined camp. P was prophesied to either help or beat K on his 16th birthday, so I was tasked with trying to stop P before then. A became very good friends with P and also tried to stop K and me. The summer before P’s 16th birthday, I joined bodies with K since he was previously cut up to bits and thrown into a pit that served as his jail.

I was very dedicated to my cause and helping K because I thought us kids deserved better. However, on P’s 16th birthday I realized that I may have been the “bad guy”. While my intentions came from a good place, my actions were not. The only way to stop K was for me to die, so I stabbed myself in my armpit with A’s knife that I had given to her when she was 7. While I was bleeding out and waiting to die, I asked A if she loved me. A told me that there was a time in which she thought she did, but ultimately she saw me as a brother and did not love me.

I did end up dying and when awaiting my judgment in the underworld, I was told that asking A if she loved me was one the the many bad things I did in life, and that it made me an asshole. However, I personally don’t think I was an asshole for asking A that question since I was dying and wanted to know for my peace of mind.

AITA?

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hey girl are you from missouri because you're the only miss i'd yuri

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somebody get Chris Pine outta there lmao

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you guys. if you haven't been following the mar a lago fbi raid saga this week you have really been missing out. it came out monday night that the fbi had spent the day collecting boxes of documents from mar a lago and maga world lost it. "this is war", hard right demands to abolish the fbi, insane posturing, every single pundit on the record saying "if this search was for anything short of the nuclear codes, this is going to massively backfire on the biden administration" (foreshadowing!). eventually report comes out that people close to trump are quietly telling the rest of the gop to dial it back just a hair, because things might get worse before they get better. most crucially is that the susan collinses of the world are demanding accountability from the justice department, demanding that they explain why this raid was warranted. (notably, trump himself has the warrant describing exactly what the fbi was there to collect, and is free to share that with the world at any point - the judge/doj is typically barred from making that public at any point, so by hounding the wrong figures for the warrant they're thinking they can control the narrative.)

not so. today, attorney general merrick garland makes a statement saying you know what? you guys are so right. there's actually significant public interest in making the details of this warrant - why a former president was raided by the fbi - public knowledge. so with your blessing, mr trump, i am asking the judge who signed the warrant (he and his synagogue have been getting death threats already btw, rot in hell forever you maga fuckwits) to unseal the warrant. trump, you have until 3pm friday to publicly object to this action. love and light, merrick

and then wapo reported tonight that the warrant was for, among other things, nuclear documents. yeehaw

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There are many new friends on the archive, and many are young and have only known social media, which is why I wanted to say something!

Ao3 does not have an algorithm! It isn't a social media site, it's an archive.

Posting fics on Tumblr isn't the same as posting fics on Ao3

Ao3 is like a giant virtual bookshelf, and everyone is able to add their own stories to the bookshelf, all stored with different tags and different fandoms. Works are automatically sorted by newest to oldest, but filters, looking at bookmarks, and using the search function can change that.

Certain works are not pushed to the top like social media posts. More kudos and reads don't push a single work to more viewers by some algorithm. Unless otherwise filtered, works will be at the top of the page based on how recent it was posted.

Smaller fandoms get less views, less kudos, less bookmarks, and larger fandoms get more simply because of the number of people inside the fandom.

Ao3 is a giant virtual bookshelf- there is no algorithm, and there is no man behind the shelf pushing certain books forward.

Happy reading, and if you'd like to have more people notice a fic, why not share it with them! Send a dm to a fandom friend and it might turn into one of their favorite fics!

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I think it should be illegal to write a good song that’s under three minutes long. What am I supposed to do? Listen to it 84 times in a row?? Well I’m gonna

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My dad is sitting and doodling in a My Little Pony colouring book with my two-year-old kid. He drew a blue sun, and when she coloured over it with her red crayon, he said, “now it’s a red dwarf and it has killed everyone in its solar system.” She nodded solemnly.

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You give a knight a phone with the tumblr app installed and he makes an account and immediately follows the urls king.tumblr.com and queen.tumblr.com and then he accidentally drops the phone in a muddy creek