#DON'T LET ME DOWN

[copperbadge]

From the looks of things, AO3 is back up this morning! I’ve seen a few reports that the DDOS attack has been successfully circumvented, though I’m not an insider or anything.

Now, what I’m about to say is pure speculation. But given the relative certainty that this was a Russian hacker collective and the rumors that it might be connected to Putin, and given the reporting that AO3 essentially, and primarily with volunteer staff, pasted them to the fucking wall....I think the funniest possible outcome of this would be if the attack on AO3 led to an authority of some kind tracking down the hackers, who roll on their boss, and Putin’s regime falls because of the robustness of AO3′s DDOS response. 

I’m not saying it should happen, I’m not even saying it could happen, I’m just saying it would be the funniest of all outcomes if it did happen.

[hey-jac]

Tumblr, can you do something for me? Can you please leave a flower for my cousin, who died by suicide a year ago?

You can do this one of three ways:

Leave a flower on his Find a Grave page. (This link will take you to an external website. Note that in order to leave a flower this way, you must have an account with Find a Grave.)

Reblog this post with with a flower in your tags.

Reply to this post with a flower.

Here are some flowers you can copy/paste: ✿❀❁🌸🌺🌻🌼🌷🌹

If you are reblogging or replying, please feel free to also use one or more of the additional emojis beneath the Keep reading cut. (They represent some of the good memories from our childhood together.)

Any kind messages are also appreciated. It has been a year ago today (September 9, 2024), and I am struggling.

Activities

🎮 Playing Video Games 🚲 Riding Bikes 🐸 Catching Toads; Raising Frogs 🌌 Visiting the Planetarium 🎡 Visiting the Amusement Park 🎢 Riding Roller-coasters 🛟 Visiting the Water Park 🏊 Taking Swimming Lessons; Going to the Pool 🛼 Visiting the Skating Rink 🚂 Visiting the Train Museum; Living Near the Railroad Tracks 🛝 Visiting the Park 🏸 Playing Badminton (But Making it Up) 🎯 Playing Darts (The Very Pointy Kind) 🚚 Using Everything as a Playground (Including the Moving Trucks)

Video Games

👾 Arcade Games; Atari; Space Invaders 🧩 Banjo-Kazooie (N64) 🍔 Burgertime (NES) 🦍 Diddy Kong Racing (N64); Donkey Kong Country (SNES) 🐲 Dragon Warrior (NES) 🍖 The Legend of Zelda (NES) 🍞 Quest 64 (N64) 🍄 Super Mario Bros 1 & 2 (NES); Mario 64 (N64)

TV & Movies

💭 Animaniacs (1993-1998) 🦆 Darkwing Duck (1991-1992); DuckTales (1987-1990) 💔 Dragonheart (1996) 🐳 Free Willy (1993) 🧚 Hook (1991) 💋 Indiana Jones (original movies, 1981-1989) 🏺 Jason and the Argonauts (1963) 🦖 Jurassic Park (1993) 🦁 The Lion King (1994); Timon & Pumbaa (1995-1999) 👽 Men in Black (1997) 💥 Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1993-1996) 🐁 Pinky and the Brain (1995-1998) 🔮 Sinbad (movies by Columbia Pictures, 1958-1977) 🌟 Star Wars (original trilogy, 1977-1983) 🐻 TaleSpin (1990-1991) 🐢 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987-1996) 🧨 Tiny Toon Adventures (1990-1995) 🤠 They Call Me Trinity (1970); Trinity Is Still My Name (1971) 🍫 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) 🐬 Zeus and Roxanne (1997)

[cat-cosplay]

Spending way too much time contemplating my own mortality.

If something ever happens and we suddenly go quiet, Promise me you'll repost our stuff.

Make new memes, share our stuff.

Just keep brightening days.

Making smiles.

As long as it makes the smallest of differences.

[barbthebuilder]

Dear mutuals, followers, and random strangers: I have something to ask from you

18th to 25th February 2024 there will be a global strike for Palestine.

I understand things have been extremly depressing and you feel hopeless and so do I. But we cannot stop. I will not be silent and neither should you. Please, fight. Fight for our fellow human beings in need.

How do you support the stirke?

1. No purchasing of any kind. Online, irl, local shops, supermarkets - nothing. Make sure to gather necessities before the strike like food or higene products.

2. Don't go to work/school.

3. Speak up about Palestine and for the following week talk ONLY about it. Use your voice to support palestine people, artists, journalists etc. Don't engage in any other content and use social media only to talk about Palestine.

4. Educate yourself on palestine culture, make food and art related to palestine and post it online. Don't let Palestine die.

5. Donate. This is incredibly important.

6. Call/send letters/email your representatives about the Palestine.

7. Educate others. Organise meeting in your local library or school to talk about palestine culture.

8. Put up flyers that will inform others about situation in Palestine and encourage others to fight.

9. Go to a protest (make sure to read throughly how to do it proprly)

10. Stay safe. Don't do anything that will put you in a dangerous situation. You are important too. Take care of yourself.

11. Reblog this post. The more people know, the more can help.

There are probably more I am missing. You can do something. Please consider joining us.

[allhailthemightyquattro]

While I am not a fan of the "they're inside a television show" theory, if it turns out to be true, I really hope the explanation for Susan Twist showing up everywhere is simply a variation of the "BBC only has 12 actors" joke.

[respectthepetty]

How to Hurt Me with Colors

Let me list all the ways Only Boo's color-coded boys in love hurt me in episode ten.

Episode nine left me feeling GREAT since Moo doubled down on loving Kang no matter what with the background lights in their yellow/orange x blue colors.

And even though Kang was adamant that Moo delete the video, he was highlighted by their combined green color.

So when he showed up in red (for passion) to Moo's place, who was in yellow surrounded by Kang's blue, determined to delete the tape, I still had faith everything was safe.

Because even though the tape was deleted, these color-coded boys' love was still alive and stronger than ever!

When Moo questioned signing the contract, I was confident he would pick his relation because Kang sat there in his color, LITERALLY, and Moo's heart was covered by a blue and yellow flower with pops of red on his outfits.

Kang was committed to his Yellow Yal and Moo's heart clearly belonged with Kang!

So when Moo signed the contract with a pink pen, I knew he picked love!

Which was why them wearing their combined green color in the next scene was so important to me.

Moo is always going to be yellow, but he loves his Blue Boy so much that Kang was always going to be a part of Moo living his dream.

Their plan to use (green) tea to communicate seat numbers at the yellow movie theater was adorable!

And them surrounded by red in a sea of their love was even better.

Because they were on the same page in Kang's blue locked in by Moo's yellow/orange.

Even when Kang left in Moo's yellow/orange, he left Moo enveloped by his blue.

And the very next shot was their safe place, green nature.

When the show focused on the competition, there were their colors on full display!

And we watched Moo rise in the ranks with their colors present and a blinding light (of love).

Moo's yellow/orange sun was winning, but he was always going to win since his competition was the blue moon.

And Kang had already showed Moo he was committed to supporting Moo even if that meant hiding his red love in plain sight.

So I truly believed that when Kang sat there in his blue chair with the green lighting talking to Moo's mom that he would still pick their relationship because he wore the same shirt that he wore on the rooftop when he declared he would always stay by Moo's side.

And when he met Moo with the blue containers of Moo's favorite meal, he was supported by the red wall to reinforce his love for Moo.

BUT IT WAS ALL A LIE!

Moo, in his red, was always going to pick Kang over his dream, but Kang left Moo on those yellow seats, just so he could sit in that red movie theater, which showed that Kang still very still loves Moo, BUT HE STILL HURT US BEING THE FUCKING EPITOME OF A BLUE BOY BY SACRIFICING HIS HAPPINESS FOR WHAT HE BELIEVED WOULD MAKE MOO HAPPIER!

So one year later, Moo no longer sits in the red because his passion is gone. He no longer hangs in the green because his Blue Boy blocked him and ran away. Moo is now firmly in his yellow.

But the second he realizes where Kang his, he will venture back out into green nature in his color.

He will step back into his passion and moves toward the green.

And he will sing into the blue crowd.

To Kang.

So even though the colors hurt me this episode, I still have faith in one boy to turn this all around.

Because although Tae lost his glasses, he gained a color.

Don't let me down.

[bitacrytic]

A Power-balanced Enemies to Lovers BL that ends happily, 2024

When TDJ came out, I was enamored by the idea of the evil, possessive boss who was obsessed with his "good boy" employee and I prayed for the day when I'd watch that dynamic in an action bl.

And then KP came out with the same trope, setting Kinn up as the perfect mix of Yohan's possessiveness, anger issues and violent nature. Played against Porsche's "I'll never be a gangster... unless I fall in love with one," which reminded me of Gaon going undercover only to change his mind and join Yohan in the end.

While that was great, I wondered how awesome it would be if, for once, the Porsche/Gaon "good boy" character had more agency. If he was just as strong and just as aware as the Yohan/Kinn character. I knew I'd love it and given how many times Yohan/Kinn abused, lied to and manipulated Porsche/Gaon, I really wanted to see things be flipped with the good boy being the one with all the facts and manipulating his evil boss.

And do you know what the cosmos did????

THEY GAVE US THE WORST OF EVIL.

Like, it just keeps getting better. 2021 gave us TDJ, 2022 gave us KP and 2023 gave us TWOE. So 2024, I'm looking at you with a new addition to my requests.

Please give us a proper enemies to lovers arc where they end up together... HAPPILY!!!

Not and ending like the distant relationship in TDJ. Not an ending like the emotional imprisonment in KP and definitely not with one of them dying like in TWOE.

A proper happy ending, 2024. Please. That's not too much to ask, is it?

[jt1674]

[maraguanabana]

Okay, "short-term memory + ADHD brain" time

But does someone else has read this great Lestappen fic with a name I cannot fucking remember that was a Enemies to Lovers where Charles absolutely loathed Max but he has some kind of humiliation kink or something like that (so he decided that the best way to motivate himself into winning was, ermmm using Max’s little thing as a popsickle) alonside a really worrying denial problem. Or did I pretty much dreamed about it. Question.

Because I cannot seem to fucking find it as my ao3 history is a fucking mess, I don't remember who was the author, when it was last updated or anything at all about it besides the whole plot (in the last chapter Max finally kissed Charles) and I don't know what to do with my life because I woke up with an agonizing urge to read it. Besides the fact that I'm sure as hell I recommended it to someone but I don't know if I actually did it or if I was ranting about it to my roomie (also he doesn't aswer his phone, let's ignore that it's 1 am. go insomnia!) And if I'm crazy, because this has not been the first time this happens to me, please let me know.

edit: I found it, thanks lestappies or readers or anyone in general. now I can finally be in peace. 🙌🏼 (let's ignore that the author last updated on October. I wanna cry) and please remember that spam is not nice!

edit2: they updated! I'm the happiest woman on earth.

[kasumingo]

Generally great animations come in waves, so I have high hopes for the second half of 2020s

[lichenid]

Wait, Mayonaka punch actually yuri??

[violetmuses]

Just Saying...... ⚠️

If "Thunderbolts" actually comes out next year and I DON'T see this man escaping The Raft, shut everything down! 😠

[anotherferalrat]

HAZBIN NATION.

HOW WE FEELIN TONIGHT????

[not-so-mundane-after-all]

THE SOFT LOOK???!! THE CHUCKLE???!!! THE HANDS?!?!! (yes he's holding her hand but the editors hate me and they fucking cut it out of the frame I am about to fight someone)

I am still processing. My favorite father-daughter duo came back to me full force today and I am struggling to get off the ground.

[dwaekki-bee]

Okay okay okay

In my mind I'm pretty sure the eye transplant is not going to work because y'know episode 11, but I think that it not working is going to be that push that Day's mom needs to realize that Day is never going to be "normal" again and he can not be fixed. And I think that Day has already come to terms with his blindness and he knows he can do things on his own so I don't think that Day will be all too upset about it not working. And I'm hoping we get to see Day's mom apologize to Day, Night, and Mhok. I doubt it because p'aof seems to love forgiving characters that shouldn't be forgiven but 🤷🏻‍♀️