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Some mcwexler sexytimes because I miss them. Full picture (NSFW) here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/59575318

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IMPORTANT: TUMBLR HAS MADE A DEAL WITH MIDJOURNEY/OPENAI.

YOUR ART AND IMAGES ON TUMBLR ARE BEING USED TO TRAIN AI MODELS.

The opt-in is automatic, but you can turn it off in settings.

Go to "Blog Settings" -> "Visibility" -> "Third-Party Sharing" and turn on "Prevent third-party sharing for [blog]". (This post shows how to do it on browser and on mobile.) You need to do this with every sideblog. (Note: The option in settings might not appear if your app hasn't updated yet. You can still opt out via browser.)

Spread the word. Everyone on Tumblr needs to know about this.

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you’re the kind of lawyer guilty people draw

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screencap redraw to cope with mcwexler depression 💙

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You keep talking about the origins of AO3 as this group effort by an actual group of people who were friends and who spent time discussing this with each other in person. It's kind of blowing my mind. Is there a post or a journal somewhere that specifically keeps record of this?

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I'm dying.

Nonnie, seriously?

No, that's mean, I know you're serious. It's just flabbergasting how much fandom has expanded and how much there isn't a direct link to the past.

Astolat and Cesperanza floated the idea at Vividcon and various places, I think, though I wasn't going to cons in that era. We were all on LJ in those days, and Astolat made a big post nailing her theses to the door. Discussion in the comments was instant and prolonged.

A LJ com was set up to discuss. It was later renamed to otw_news, but if you go all the way back to the beginning, you can see brainstorming mess instead of official news posts.

Fanlore page linking to Astolat's post and giving a little context.

Early brainstorming: https://otw-news.livejournal.com/2007/05/

For example, here I am collecting links to older archives to look at for research when designing AO3.

Fun fact, we never intended to call it AO3. There was a whole call for name suggestions, but nothing was as evocative as astolat's original post title referencing Virginia Woolf. (For those who haven't thought about it, AO3's name is a reference to A Room of One's Own.)

Here's the name discussion

Here's the poll that came out of it

But also notice how many people voted: 562.

That's how many people cared at the time: a few hundred. Maybe a thousand if you count lurkers, but frankly, that community was not as lurkery as now. It wasn't just ten friends. It was a community effort. But what "our" community looked like at the time was vastly different. It was six degrees of Kevin Bacon astolat, not a vast sea of strangers like fic fandom on AO3 is now.

Here's an early post suggesting we ban the under 18s from the site entirely. Pity we didn't do so, given the rise of antis.

Here's the invite to a fundraising party at astolat's in NYC that following Halloween. I dressed as Amanda from Highlander, not very well.

You can tell we knew each other by looking at those comments on astolat's initial post. You can also tell how discussion-based that part of fandom was back in 2007.

The way my tumblr is now with a ton of text, back and forth, and hopping around between threads of conversation, all featuring a consistent set of faces, is very much like LJ. Most of tumblr is not.

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Better Call Saul is just a show about orange cat behaviour

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Happy birthday, Kim!

Destructive lust for life erected, on the verge pricked up like a picket

fearing to respond to the tempting but malevolent call of the other side

Slippin' Kimmy appreciation post. <3

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this is MY emmy winner 🏆 💖

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quick better call saul studies

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i like when i click the author of a mcwexler fic and i see the x-files listed. like yeah that's how it's supposed to be

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It’s her saying: “I see you. And I know you see me.” Which, I think, is the profound connection that they always had—that they felt seen by each other, to their depths. And she’s letting him know: “I see the person you really are, and I always knew you were still in there.” There’s still love there. There’s pain, there’s tragedy. It’s hello, it’s goodbye—to, at least, a chapter of their lives. [...] I wanted that moment to be that she’s saying: “There’s still a connection. There always will be.” [...] I feel like she’s letting him know… I mean, there’s a lot. It’s incredibly painful to leave him there. To not take him in the car with me. But I think she thinks that they do have a future, and that he has a future. Both by the fact that they both decided to unburden themselves and free their conscience and also… You know, I’m a hopeless romantic, so I personally think she’s gonna start trying to figure out how to decrease his sentence. But legally, not in a scam. x

It felt right. The great thing about it is it doesn’t say, "nothing’s changed." It says something else. Because, boy, the circumstances that those two people are in couldn’t be more different. But on the other hand, they’re still… You know, I don’t think they’re ever gonna be finished with each other. I think these are two people who mean a lot to each other. No matter how much they’re seeing of each other, I think that they’re gonna live their lives in relation to each other, until the very end. x

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How to break up with the love of your life.

510 Something Unforgivable / 609 Fun and Games

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Jimmy wanders out of the elevator landing and heads for the parked cars. But when he comes across Kim, he's neither startled nor embarrassed. Instead, he joins her. / There's a CLICK and the heavy door opens. The CO maneuvers Jimmy inside. Jimmy stops in his tracks at the sight of Kim Wexler. She's waiting for him.

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“No matter what the future brings, there’s something between these two that will never end.”

Better Call Saul 6.13 “Saul Gone”

written by Peter Gould

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“This is the guy she fell in love with.”

Better Call Saul 6.13 “Saul Gone”

written by Peter Gould

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There were scenes that I had with Jimmy where I wanted to remember that, no matter what, I know he’s always trying to do the best he can, and the essence that he is, I adore.

I would look down at that loafer that they made, one of them broken and connected with a paper clip, and my heart would break every time, and I would fall in love with him.

Rhea Seehorn, 1x07 Audio Commentary