#i'm sure this has been done before

[mere-technicality]

hey everyone, i'm playing a game of chess and we've been stuck in this stalemate for an eternity, does anyone have any suggestions for how to evolve the game?

[phoenixspencer]

I understand your hesitance, but what I do now must be done.

[thelaurenshippen]

ao3 wrapped simulator

you read for 67,680 minutes. that's 47 days straight.

you read 812 fics total, but you read 76 of them more than 4 times.

for a total of 35 million words.

you showed the love by leaving 704 comments on 297 fics. your most common comment was "AKLDDASKFJLKSDFJHAJSHFIUELNAKDCNAGKDH!!!!!!"

you love to revisit. you hit the "kudos" button not realizing you'd already left kudos there 1,304 times

your top tags were:

pining

slowburn

hate sex

fluff

major character death

you're a night owl. your reading peaked between 11pm and 4am

you were an explorer! this year you read 4 tags for the first time: A/B/O, gen fic, praise kink, crush at first sight

there was one ship you loved most of all: for the ninth year in a row, your top ship was hannigram

but you're not monogamous. you also read a lot of stucky, scully/mulder, and animorphs

and you were in the top .01% of readers in The Expanse (TV) tag

and you were in the top .001% of writers for a ship our automated system can't even find because it doesn't have enough tagged fics

you wrote 17 fics this year, for a total of 1.4 million words. 16 of those fics were explicit.

wow! you're passionate! you created 85 bookmarks with the book mark tag "i wanna die"

your fic town is nome, alaska. no, we're not going to explain this.

thank you for spending another year on ao3 <3

[thelightreflects]

GILMORE GIRLS

2.10 | THE BRACEBRIDGE DINNER

[duke-daemon]

DONT FUCK WITH ME. I HAVE THE POWER OF GOD AND ANIME ON MY SIDE.

[bitcrushed scream]

[sadiegirl2021]

[solaradastra]

So many tropes and tags...

[feneku]

I've been seeing this meme going around twitter so I doodled this real quick lol

[oranges-for-calico]

[swati-art]

[kissme-withyour-cherrylipstick]

[vorekody]

Thinking about a hard vore pred that gets paid an undeniable amount of money to do soft vore instead.

The urge to bite down is immense, but their need for the money is greater, and so they take the head and shoulders of the prey into their maw without any crushing force.

But when they try to swallow they realize that their instincts to rip and tear are the least of their issues in this session- swallowing a whole person is not the same as swallowing bite sized chunks of carnage.

The next few gulps are painful, their mouth dried from the prey's clothes, which are especially uncomfortable to get down.

Midway they have to pull the prey right back out - gagging all the while- because they're going so slowly that they've started choking.

Eventually they manage, with one last thick swallow their prey is sealed away, sitting heavily in their stomach.

Ending probably the most embarrassing meal of their life.

[soupsandstars]

not sure if I'll ever get around to finishing this, but I had been listening to the frost on repeat

[catflowerqueen]

In Stars and Time AU where it literally is just a stageplay. The "loops" are just them having to redo scenes over and over because someone forgot their lines. Or the director wanted to take things in a "new direction." Or it turns out that the "script" they were working with was actually just different unfinished drafts of some larger work that are being stitched together in an attempt to be "avant garde."

The actor playing Loop was originally going to play Siffrin, but then they literally broke their leg and the character was basically made up on the spot by rewriting a few of the monologue scenes Siffrin was supposed to have so that they could still participate. So their bitterness and the understudy now playing Siffrin's feelings of inadequacy are totally real, and just adds to their "performance" and makes everyone think they are "just really good at method acting."

The Isabeau and Siffrin actors are pining madly for each other, but don't dare try and act on it "for the sake of professionality" and also because of the aforementioned "they're just really good at method acting!" issue.

Speaking of Isabeau, this is his first big break as an actor--previously he worked in the costuming department.

The actor playing Mirabelle is the daughter of a famous movie star, and worries about living up to her mother's fame/that she only got the role due to some sort of nepotism deal, especially since her mom is doing a small cameo as Euphrasie.

The actor playing Odile originally thought she was auditioning for a role in an improv comedy performance since she is still learning the local language and got the street address mixed up with a completely different theater.

As a slight irony, the character playing Bonnie is actually allergic to pineapple while it the favorite food of both the Loop and Siffrin actors. Obviously, they only use fake pineapple slices during the show itself.

The entire cast of Dormont is just played by, like, three people who are just really good at quick changes.

The guy playing the king was literally just picked because he had the most fabulous hair out of all the people who came to audition. Even though in actuality he is in the same boat as Odile and, in fact, the two are a foreign comedy duo. He usually plays the straight man.

[cursed-and-haunted]

[clockwayswrites]

Dick collects the worst (affectionate) knock-off batmerch clothing he can find.

"I got punched by Batman and all I got was this lousy t-shirt."

"Backup Robin"

"Backup backup Robin"

“BATMAN” but it’s just a picture of a guy with a bat*

“BATMAN” but it’s just a picture of a bat with a smiley face emoji over it

“BATMAN” but it’s stolen furry art of a sexy batsona

“BATMAN” but it’s just the Count from Sesame Street

“I went to Gotham and didn’t even see Batman”

The Batsignal with “Here Batty Bat”

Sweatpants with “the butts match” over the butt*

Booty shorts with ‘bat’ on one cheek and ‘man’ on the other

“Winging it.” with Nightwing’s logo

Bruce hates them. Dick “has no shame” Grayson claims that it wold be insane for a vigilante to wear their own merch so it actually helps their alibi that he does. Most of the other kids are amused (several buy their own).

Then Jason shows up with a “Nightwing is a traitor” shirt from when Gotham was pissed at his move to Blüdhaven. Dick burns it. Joke’s on Dick, Jason has several versions of that shirt. Even Bruce wears one under a blazer one day.

It makes headlines.

(*these two are fully credited to @mokulule‘s genius)