#let me see the light pls

[screampied]

*snifle* Vegas is secretly a furry🦊🐶😽🐻🐼🐰

STOPTHIS

#ᰔᩚಎ : 𝑨𝑵𝑶𝑵𝑺. #let me see the light pls #the sniffle goodbye

[yaralulu]

Lucien’s care and protectiveness over tamlin is something that has been so evident and obvious throughout this entire series that if sjm tries to change that narrative once we get lucien’s pov and we’re inside his head, I’ll actually blow myself up.I see some bullshit line about how tamlin has always sucked and I’m out of hereeeee.I know sjm hates tamlin and will take every opportunity to shit on him but at this point there is no need to obliterate their friendship/tamlin’s character any further.Let us have this one thing woman 😭.

Lucien’s inner monologue about tamlin should be less “i actually hate this man” and more “damn he looks like shit rn i kinda wanna hug him”.Get the vibe right sjm.

#by us i mean me #let me have this one thing pls #tamlin from lucien’s pov needs to be so different from tamlin from feyre/nesta’s pov #lucien already sees tamlin in a very different light than most and I need that to stay #acotar #a court of thorns and roses #lucien vanserra #tamlin acotar #pro lucien vanserra #pro tamlin #pro tamcien #lucien and tamlin

[singharit]

Now, I’m not a fella to pass a quick judgement, but I’ve been around long enough to know you don’t hire a saint to catch a sinner. RED DEAD REDEMPTION II ► Good, Honest, Snake Oil

#red dead redemption 2 #rdredit #rdr2edit #gamingedit #vgedit #arthur morgan #*g #vg #rdr #every time i see that red shirt in a cutscene i'm just like. god. it's so good. #thx to user acecroft for showing me the light #also...if anyone spots any problems w my captions pls let me know.. #i'm playing it w/o subs for gif reasons but my ears are Not friends with my brain rip

[wander-wren]

every once in a while i like to poke my head into "anti [x]" tags just to see what the other side thinks. recently i was looking through "anti ao3" and found a really funny post claiming that ao3 is not anticapitalist, but actually the Definition Of Capitalism, bc it relies on volunteer labor while supposedly having the money to pay a staff.

oh, honey.

but i am not going to make unsubstantiated claims on the internet, no, and this gives me an excuse to look at ao3's whole budget myself, which i've been meaning to do for a while. these numbers are taken from the 2022 budget post and budget spreadsheet.

ao3's total income for 2022, from the two donation drives, regular donations, donation matching programs, interest, and royalties was $1,012,543.42. less than $300 of that was from interest and royalties, so it's almost all donations. and that's a lot, right? surely an organization making a million dollars a year can afford to pay some staff, right?

well, let's look at expenses. first of all, they lose almost $37,000 to transaction fees right away. ao3 and fanlore (~$341k and ~$18k, respectively) take up the biggest chunks of the budget by far. that money pays for, to quote the 2022 budget post, "server expenses—both new purchases and ongoing colocation and maintenance—website performance monitoring tools, and various systems-related licenses."

in some years, otw also pays external contractors to perform audits for security issues, and for more servers to handle the growing userbase. servers are expensive as hell, guys. in 2022, new server costs alone were $203k.

each of their other programs only cost around $3,000 or less, and otw paid around $78k for fundraising and development. wait, how do you lose so much money on your fundraising?? from the 2022 budget post: "Our fundraising and development expenses consist of transaction fees charged by our third-party payment processors for each donation, thank-you gift purchases and shipping, and the tools used to host the OTW’s membership database and track communications with donors and potential donors."

then the otw paid an additional $74k in administration expenses, which covers "hosting for our website, trademarks, domains, insurance, tax filing, and annual financial statement audits, as well as communication, management, and accounting tools."

in case you weren't following all of that math, the total expenses for 2022 come out to $518,978.48. woah! that's a lot! but it's still only a little over half of their net revenue. weird. i wonder what they do with that extra $494k?

well, $400k of it goes to the reserves, which i'll get to in a second. the last $93k, near as i can tell, gets rolled over to the next year. i'll admit this part i'm a little unsure about, as it's not clear on the spreadsheet, but that's the only thing that makes sense.

the reserves, though are clear. the most recent post i could find on the otw site about it were in the board meeting minutes from april 2, 2022: "We’re holding about $1million in operating cash that is about twice the amount of our annual operating costs. There is another $1million in reserves due to highly successful fundraisers in the past. The current plan for the reserves is to hold the money for paid staff in the future. It’s been talked about before in the past and we’re still working out the details, but it’s a rather expensive undertaking that will result in large annual expenses in addition to the initial cost of implementation."

woah....they're PLANNING to have paid staff eventually! wild!

so let's assume, for easy numbers, that the otw currently has $1.5 million in reserves. before we even get to how to use that money, let's look at the issues with implementing paid staff:

deciding which positions are going to be paid, because it can't be all of them

deciding how much to pay them, bc minimum wage sure as hell isn't enough, and cost of living is different everywhere, and volunteers come from all over the world

hiring staff and implementing new systems/tools to handle things like payroll and accounting

making sure you continue to earn enough money both to pay all of the staff and have some in reserves for emergencies or leaner donation drives

probably even more stuff than that! i don't run a nonprofit, that's just what i can think of off the top of my head.

okay, okay, okay. for the sake of argument, let's assume there is a best-case scenario where the otw starts paying some staff tomorrow. how much should they be paid? i'm picking $15 an hour, since that's what we fought for the minimum wage to be. by now, it should be closer to $20 or $25, but i'm trying to give "ao3 is capitalism" the fairest shot it can get here, okay?

ideally, if someone is being paid to help run ao3, they shouldn't need a second job. every job should pay enough to live off of. and running a nonprofit is hard work that leads to a lot of burnout--two board members JUST resigned before their terms were up. what i'm saying is, i'm going to assume a paid otw staff is getting paid for 40 hours of work a week, minimum. that's $31,200.

at $400,000 per year, the otw can afford to pay 12 people. that's WITHOUT taking into account the new systems, tools, software, etc they would have to pay for, any kind of fees, etc, etc.

oh, and btw, if you're an american you're still making barely enough to survive in most places, AND you don't have universal healthcare, vision, or dental. want otw to give people insurance, too? the number of people they can pay goes down.

it's. not. possible.

a million dollars is a lot of money on the face of it, but once you realize how MUCH goes into running something like the otw, it goes away fast.

just for reference, wikipedia also has donation drives every year. wikipedia, as of 2021, has $86.8 million in cash reserves and $137.4 million in investments. sure, wikipedia and ao3 are very different entities, but that disparity is massive. and i should note that if you give $10 to wikipedia they don't give you voting rights, i'm just saying.

by the way, you may have noticed that i didn't mention legal costs at all here. isn't one of otw's big Things about how they do legal advocacy?

yes, it is. they have a whole page about that work. and i can't for the life of me find a source on otw's website (and i'm running out of time to write this post, i'll look harder later), but i am 90% sure i learned before that most, if not all, of otw's legal work/advice/etc is done pro bono. i've also seen an anti-ao3 person claim their legal budget is only $5k or so, but they didn't have a source. but keep in mind that if they don't have a legal budget, all the numbers above stay the same, and if they do, there is even less money available for paid staff.

you can criticize ao3 and the otw all you want! there are many valid reasons to criticize them, and i do not think they're perfect either. but if you're going to do so, you should at least make sure you can back up your claims, bc otherwise you just look silly.

#ao3 #otw #anti ao3 #bc i want them to see this #otw board #ao3 discourse #ao3 donations #wren wrambles #that post was so unserious i died #if it was more recent (its from mid-july) i wouldve replied directly maybe #but i didnt want to drag the body of a 6-note post into the light OR attack the op directly so #also! if i misunderstood something pls let me know im doing my best

[obikinetic]

Practicing painting w/ Mr Kenobi 🖤

#star wars #star wars fanart #obi wan kenobi #obi wan #kenobi series #art #fanart #I hate doing individual beard hairs but I’ll do it for Him #rest assured that I cannot do a good painting without a bangin reference to copy though 💀 #trying to work on that…understanding how colors and light work irl without just straight copying what I see #so then maybe I can get better at creating original art using references as help rather than a ctl-c ctl-v ya know #I’m sure practicing more will help #if anyone has practice tips pls let me know!! 🖤

[m-kyunie]

The hit band HUMANOID TYPHOON (known for their hit single "H.T") releases their first album $$60,000,000. Read our exclusive interview with each member inside!

- Bernardelli Music Society

#trigun #trigun maximum #trimax #i didnt actually intend this to be a Band AU but it ended up making no sense if it.....wasn't lmao #also ik the lighting is horrendous ok but I didn't wanna finish coloring so I'm hiding the messy/laziness behind the strobe lights #wokr smarter not harder el oh el #drawing 4 ppl is so brutal my stamina needs a power up #but i said that once for 3 ppl but dgm beat that outta me so lets go queers lets go #anything for Trigun. i will persevere! #go on Insta for the other versions of this pic....i don't like tumblr formating for multiple images soooo #insta @mkyunie btw #theyre polyam so peep the lip lipstick marks Meryl left on everyone #MILLYS IS SO HARD TO SEE PLS its on her neck.... #Vash his lips r red smeared....WW its all over his cheek #damn the lighting is killing me actually #trigun band AU #h4some

[lawlightcore]

what are your favourite headcanons/tropes/scenarios for lawlight? from fics, the manga, anime, literally anything

#death note #lawlight #l lawliet #light yagami #questions #headcanon #tropes #pls let me know literally whatever it is im super curious #like #i love seeing them do completely random stuff #going to the beach or to a shop or smoking #those are completely normal things lmao but they just feel different when combined with lawlight???

[yucca-moth]

I'm doing a new playthrough and it's getting me thinking about stuff. I find it incredibly harrowing that Victor basically has a dead guy's brain copied into him and has to do whatever House tells him to do.

Trudy is telling me how 'it's' hiding something, and doesn't trust Victor at all. Easy Pete telling me how he's harmless and "a broken down relic with no place to be."

Got me thinking again about how Victor's just been rolling around every so often in Goodsprings (while I'm assuming every so often switching consciousness to another robot). Why? Why keep watch over Goodsprings? It's not like it's instrumental to the strip or House at all to hang around there for 10 years.

Which leads me to the deeper questions like how much humanity remains in him? How much of the person he's based on remains specifically? Does he still think like a human, or are all the processes now... hmm filtered through machine like reasoning?

What got me thinking about Victor in this way again was suddenlyremembering how I asked him to help us defend Goodsprings in my first playthrough, and he didn't show up. Feeling disappointed. Then I think I used science skill when I next saw him to determine 'someone' (obv House in retrospect) had shut him down to prevent him showing up to help.

Incredibly horrifying to think that someone who owns you could shut you down like that, no matter their relationship when he was human. If House can shut him down, and gets him to do things like follow me around but not get involved, then how much free will does he have over his actions? Has Victor changed in the last 200 years? Or is he stuck exactly as he was when his brain was scanned, except that he has no choice in what he does now if House doesn't like it. Does he get to die if he wants to? Or is he too useful to House to be allowed that? Can House mess around with his artificial brain or just simply manipulate him into doing what he wants the old fashioned way? Is his compliance with House out of habit from when he was human, choice because he still agrees with House's ideas, or is there no choice for him?

I vaguely remember the explanations he gave me in the Lucky 38 in a previous playthrough making me sad. I can't even remember what he said exactly about himself, but I remember lots of questions feeling left unanswered. Which is part of the fnv experience of course... But, in this case I just couldn't even look at Victor standing outside the Lucky 38 without feeling bad. And now seeing him rolling around Goodsprings it's bringing back some of the sadness

I know part of the fun of FNV is creating your own ideas, roleplaying, deciding how to take situations where it isn't fully fleshed out or the constraints of the game are showing. So idk, I hope maybe I'm thinking about it all in a certain way, and maybe I come across or reason out another way to think about these Victor questions in my current playthrough. But for now he's a bunch of unanswered questions to me.

#fallout new vegas #fnv #if any of this gets a very specific answer in game pls just let me discover it myself. I'm sure I've misremembered some details but maybe #when I replay it this time I'll learn something new and it'll put a different light on it all. maybe less sad #uhhh #fnv spoilers #in case someone who just started the game is excitedly looking through the tag. bc that realization of why Victor dug courier out of the #grave is something you gotta experience firsthand imo. not see it in the fnv tags #i'll make a fnv rambles tag at some point but for now. eh

[thefrogdalorian]

My therapist just cancelled ANOTHER appointment with me on very short notice.... feeling an overwhelming urge to go as feral as Din Djarin in The Prisoner rn.... complete with red lights......

#just a bit of light destruction to get my rage out you know #she's cancelled as many appointments with me as appointments we've actually had hsvdhdjdjdhhdndndn #my autism cannot cope with last minute change of plans so i'm taking this well #luckily i have a very amazing friend who is coming to pick me up so we can go for coffee and vent a bit but please universe give me a break #i know life happens and it sucks but let me see someone else theN????? #i need to give some aliens a good kicking like din pls #spud rants #just autism things

[skitskatdacat63]

2009 Malaysian Grand Prix - Jenson Button(ft. Nick Heidfeld & Timo Glock)

#gifing jenson podiums is just me frantically saying to myself over and over: #'WHY IS HE SO PRETTYYYYYYY' #his wet messed up hair in all of these....i am unwell... #i have a love hate relationship with wet races #i like them as a race bcs they add an extra element of unpredicatableness #BUT THEY MAKE THE LIGHTING OF THE PODIUMS ABSOLUTE SHIT(at least in this era) #this and the next race(china 2009) are plagued with the worst lighting known to man #and it pains me so much cause theyre both great podiums but the lighting makes everyone look so bad LMAO #like yes ty for letting me see my drivers sopping wet but my god why do you make them look like smeagol(sry thats so out of pocket) #but its impossible to completely ruin jenson's handsomeness so no worries #there were so many cute shots of him peeking out of the car I LOVE HIMMMMM SOB SOB #i really gotta stop making gifsets right before i need to sleep it makes me keep pushing my sleepy time later #hahaha me quickly posting these mere hours before the first event of miami #PLS! ITS NOT THE RACE WKND JUST YET I SWEAR I SWEAR #jenson button #jb22 #timo glock #nick heidfeld #brawn #f1 #formula 1 #formula one #we do a little bit of f1 #2009 malaysian grand prix #2009 malaysian gp #(2009: 2/17 races watched)

[prowerprojects]

It's interesting to see that people think that Amy had given up on Sonic, or even stopped having such strong feelings for for Sonic at all, but I actually have a completely opposite view on this. (Especially since rewatching that Sonic Station Live bit with Amy and after seeing something that made me recontextualize her (Japanese) arc in Frontiers. And I have to stress that it's about the way her arc plays out, not the way she and Sonic interact)

I actually think nowadays Amy acts as if she and Sonic are already together. She's more chill not because she's given up, but because she's already got what she wanted, and now she's content. (Maybe what she wanted changed overtime though, I'll give that) There's always been this bit of mystery in Sonic and Amy's relationship – does Sonic like Amy back? It's always written deliberately in a way that Sonic doesn't give a straight answer when confronted with it outright, to keep this mystery going. And now it also has a bit of a "What are they already together or something?" on top of it.

I actually enjoy this kind of dynamic a lot. And I think it's especially interesting with Sonic and Amy being (in canon) a mlw couple. Because usually this type of dynamic I associate with same gender relationships that are only coded as romantic, and the writers wanted to write them this way (romantically, I mean), but couldn't due to censorship.

Though I will admit it's not like this dynamic doesn't exist in mlw relationships (and it's probably more prominent in shonen too), but it is more likely that they will eventually end up together and go full romo with all the kisses and dates and possible plans for a white picket fence, and lose their interesting dynamic to "well they're dating now". And even with a same gender relationship you know writers would make them outright romantic if they only could. (Which is great, it's always nice to have more open and undeniable representation) But also it lowkey makes me feel weird for enjoying this type of dynamic with those, because I know this is not the kind of relationship the writers wanted to portray, they just didn't have a lot of alternatives.

Which is why I really like the fact that Sonic and Amy's relationship is written this way deliberately, this tethering on the verge of romantic and non-romantic is very appealing to me.

#I'm aro btw if you couldn't tell #I wouldn't call this an analysis though it's more of a personal opinion piece #now if I started explaining why I think she acts as if they're already together that would probably be an analysis #and pls don't come at me with 'this idiot hasn't seen x-files' or something #I did already say that this dynamic does exist but I always love to see more of it is all #amy rose #blue blur #sonic #project.txt #sonic the hedgehog #sonamy #also the difference with sonamy is that even if they did get together (and they might already be together I don't know) #I don't think their dynamic would change drastically from what they already have (which is what lets me theorize that they might #already be together) #it's gonna stay this feather-light tightrope balance thing because this is what makes sense for the characters AND for the game they're in

[pebblezone]

I don’t want a manga reprint I want him

#hellsing #hellsing ultimate #alucard hellsing #a #give us what we REALLY want 😡😡😡😡😡 #this came to me in a vision (Econ quiz) #I need to find one of these fuckers give him the ol reigen treatment put him in a medieval torture device or maybe a bath and body works #both are like Equally bad I think the bath and body works may be worse being within 10 miles of one gives you a lethal headache with no cure #spent too much time invested in econ and now I am paying the price maybe this will give me tboyswag2 pls being a tenor will increase my swag #maybe by like 100. 200. 300. maybe even 400. holy shit maybe even 500 wooooah crazy #i am incredibly sleepy and tired farewell my loves I shan’t see the light of day for an eternity #honkshoomimimimi time o clock for Realsies af 100% #going to ignore the potential doom of the literal bomb just chilling in my room I shoved it in my hamper maybe that will let things Not burn

[leafith]

People have many ideas for Descendants and Sky kids that have a friendship or something with the Elders. I've got this dude 🫰

And, well, I guess he kinda changed during the fanfiction I wrote.

And, again, I guess that he's the only character that actually dislikes being related to the Elders and that managed to change himself?

Bonus because I was wondering how he was going to discover about the many things that happened in the past when I did this:

Don't mind him in the back, he's having his Disney Dramatic Song time •_•

#sky cotl #sky children of the light #sky: children of the light #sky: cotl #that sky game #that sky art #fly until you see the light #fuystl #phewstel #forest elder #vault elder #yea uhm forgive me for the bad elders sketch - they look OUTRAGEOUS - #I just wanted to try to use my memory only #sky fanfiction #;-; I'm tired bai #pls don't let this flop ;-; love y'all

[sameteeth]

[ image description:

3 screenshots of max and anne's conversation in the cave in black sails season 3 episode 3. all screenshots show anne, standing in the dark with only a single beam of light across the frame, and closed captions along the bottom. she moves from the dark on the left to further to the right with each screenshot, with the first screenshot being her completely consumed by darkness and the final screenshot showing her silhouette outlined by the beam of light.

the first screenshot's closed captions are of max speaking - she says "you should stay...". the second screenshot continues max's statement: "To see it be divided evenly". the third screenshot is of anne speaking - the closed captions read "I trust you." end image description ]

something something in the dark there is possibility

#this is the ONLY. TIME. anne ever says she trusts someone explicitly. THE WHOLE SHWO. THE ONLY TIME #sorry but the lighting in this episode makws me HHHHHHHH #max also speaks very frankly in this scene - its one of if not the only time she talks about her past #basically there are like a handful of themes in black sails and if u look closely u can see them in every episode #because this show is awork of fucking art #also! new to doing image descriptions - if i missed anything/made a mistake pls let me know! #canis watches black sails #black sails #also. formatting on mobile and ive never done huge imageposts before so they mighr be wonky - might try 2 fix em tomorrow #anne bonny #max black sails

[italictext]

I desperately need to befriend a Death Note fan irl who likes Death Note the way I do.. The only DN fans I've met irl are anime only Near haters :'(

#I NEED someone to shake while I rant to them about Death Note pls pls pls #I JUST WANT SOMEONE TO GIGGLE WITH WHILE WE STARE AT DEATH NOTE PANELS PLS PLS PLS #My sister has seen Death Note but she's not really into it + anime only + Near hater </3 #It sucks to remember that the Death Note fandom isn't just my mutuals.. Some people genuinely hate Near :(( #I LOVE the anime the animation is beautiful the soundtrack is beautiful and OOOOO THE COLOR CODING EEEE but #It butchered the 2nd half soo so badly and changed Near's personality and I'm not a fan of the ending :( #THE MANGA ENDING IS SOOO SO GOOD AND BEAUTIFUL #OMGGGG when Light admits to being Kira and gives them his speech and calls himself god of the new world AND EEEE NEAR SAYS “NO YOURE JUST A #MASS MURDERER“ #LIKE EEEE THAT ALWAYS ALWAYS MAKES ME GIGGLE NEAR WAS SOOO SO COOL FOR THAT LIKE HE'S LITERALLY FACE TO FACE WITH KIRA THE GUY WHO KILLED L #And Near REPEATS IT. HE CALLS HIM “JUST A MURDERER” TWICE. #Sorry but the anime made Near so stupid “lol just let him run away it's not like he'll survive” #I love Near and Light's dynamic so much they're so funny. They have the prettiest panels too #Maybe an unpopular opinion but Near vs Light was wayyy more entertaining that L vs Light #And it hurts me to see people say that it should've ended at the 1st half. I know people can have their own opinions or whatever but THEYRE #WRONG!! DN is SOOO much better with the 2nd half + if it ended at L's death that would've sucked. So glad L died midway #I wish I had a friend I could talk about DN to :( I'll just hope one of my friends decide to watch it because idk how to make new friends #Discord servers scare me and while I love my mutuals if any of you tried to message me I think I'd cry out of nervousness lol #Gosh this is long shoukd I even post this

[anglerfishenthusiast]

okay question for anyone who follows me slash is mutuals with me slash maybe somehow sees this in the wild who happens to collect figures: what is the optimal way to un-dust them...

#ive eben working on like getting my room revamped and getting like a shelf for my books and stuff and i want to have a dedicated spot for #figure collecting and such specifically for one figure to really make a pretty setup around but im worried abt how to keep her pristine #ive heard NO water but ive also heard light water and ive heard NOOO air cans it can ruin the paint but ive also heard air cans are the bes #etc etc so anyone whos like. idk. got experience or knows this rlly well pls let me know if you happen to exist around me and see this... #lemon squeezy.txt #i keep forgetting i need to post this during the day when ppl are awake so im queueing it #q