#strap yourselves in

[vettesebas]

20 minutes to play three games... this is gonna take a while

[mochalottie]

Tis here!!!!

Enjoy a 10k word chapter full of angst and a little bit of comfort on me! It's my birthday present to you guys because I'm a hobbit at heart and would gladly eat 7 meals a day.

[mamahersh]

MAG 195: Off to a great start, what with playing Jon's trauma at the front gates! Also, really nice and chill ep, tho I'm sure the fandom was on tender hooks waiting to find out more about how Martin was doing.

MAG 196:>"Step into my Parlor".... I see what you did there. Said the spider to the fly, yes very subtle. 

nope. nope do not like that. FUCK the Web. What a reveal on the tapes though, it completely recontextualizes everything.

MAG 197: Well, this is very horrifying. Glad Martin had his chance to be gagged. Now both Jon and Martin have gagging related trauma! 

So Jon, how you enjoying how many strands of the web are attached to you? Fuck. This episode.

For a now more put together reaction: otherwise known as the bits that didn’t quite make it. 

Really enjoyed Basira and Jon meeting up on the way to get Martin. It was actually rather pleasant to see Basira treating Jon better now that she doesn’t view him as something different from herself. Not to say there aren’t still problems there, but that was the nicest episode I’ve gotten to sit through in awhile.

Now, the big ones: MAG 196 and 197. Gotta say, rather amusing listening to Martin’s aggrieved bitching as him and Anabelle went on their merry way to Hill Top Road. What I will say, is that he called Annabelle’s ultimatum “blackmailing”. I’m not quite sure I agree? Or at least, it’s not traditional blackmailing anyways, where the collateral is some secret about the victim. It’s more like she held the information hostage, but then again same difference I guess. 

But yeah, the Web makes me feel so skeevy. Like, most in relation to what Jon had to go through, but also Martin being somewhat web aligned before his descent into the Lonely (well other than his masterful manipulation of Peter before it backfired on him in 159). Mostly, it’s the blatant undertones throughout both these episodes where all the little details are what make it even more horrifying the more you think about it. Like, end of 195 you hear the tape that “greets” Jon and Basira is the one where Jon gave his Statement about his encounter with the Web when he was a child. MAG 196 has all these little references and nods to spiders catching flies and acting like the spider has all the information and that there will be no choices outside of the Web’s purview. 197 is staged on a literal web of Statements related to the Fears. 

Like, ok, that last one is really fucking with me right? I mean, I knew that the Web was in charge of the tapes already. What I somehow hadn’t realized yet was the deeper implications of it. Did Jonah Magnus choose Jon because of the Web Mark? Yes. Why? Because the Web does not Mark people that are not possibly advantageous to it’s plans. Or more likely people that it has the best chance of subtly maneuvering, whatever the reason. THUS, Magnus made the jump in logic that the Web probably knew he was gunning for a successful Ritual, and if it was sending someone his way that wasn’t an Avatar but someone who had already started the supernatural BINGO sheet, then he should take advantage of that. Similarly, the Web probably knew that it’s best bet to survive an apocalypse would be to send a Web Marked individual towards the Institute so it could keep an eye on them through the tapes and begin weaving it’s escape in one fell swoop. It truly could have been anyone web marked honestly, but in this case the first try was the successful one, and Jon played into both Entities perfectly.

But can you imagine? Your boyfriend has wandered off of his own free will with the only person in the entire apocalypse who you cannot actually see what they’re doing and you have no idea what she wants; and then when you get to where he’s being used as bait you find out that almost your entire life was inadvertently used in service to the Web. You find out that your tapes, which have both caused you extreme strife and save the only memories of your lost friends on them, are part of a metaphysical web binding all of the Fears together to your voice; the thing which was used to drag them into the physical world in the first place. You find out that the lighter you keep forgetting about has been subtly manipulating you through your addiction to smoking since the day you got it, and that if you think about it too hard you might start realizing how many things were pressuring you to do things you might not have done if you didn’t have the extra influence. 

You find out that your only “choices” are to either doom your entire world to a faster apocalypse and genocide every last living thing in existence or to potentially doom uncountable other worlds with innumerable numbers of people in them to the same exact “choice” at some point in their own futures. 

And all of this is dumped on you after you’ve found out the only person you believe you can trust has “betrayed” you and gone to the enemy on his own to get gift wrapped and used as leverage while you find out your entire life was a lie. Do y’all understand why I’m foaming at the mouth rn? I’m going insane and rabid and I’m fucking finishing this damn podcast tomorrow and I dunno if I’m going to survive.

[superrabbittank]

HAPPY EASTER, RAMADAN MUBARAK, CHAG PESACH SAMEACH, HERE'S ANOTHER CHAPTER

[dkettchen]

she would've told them unlike her canon! version who decided not to be an ally smh

[zootopiathingz]

Tis the season?

[rainbowsky]

Formed Police Unit to be released in Australia, New Zealand, UK and Ireland on 31 May.

[afterlife-2004]

TODAY’S THE DAYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!

🦔💨💙💥🦔⚡️🖤❤️

[quartersety-of-a-holsety]

Okay, I've been keeping tabs on the shitfest with AO3 and I'm getting tired of repeating myself in reply sections

First and foremost, to the people panicking, please breathe. Panicking helps nobody

Next, please keep track of updates via their Tumblr and status Twitter. They're more reliable than some rando shouting "OMG IT'S BACK!"

To the people who apparently have no idea what to do with themselves due to AO3 being down, please either go to sleep, go outside, read a book, do literally anything to occupy yourself until this all comes to an end. This ain't site maintenance that's unexpectedly hit several hiccups, this is a malicious attack on the site's servers. This could very well take a considerably long time to resolve, ranging from several more hours to days or even weeks. Treat it like a power outage and just wait until service is restored -- ON A MORE LONGTERM STABLE BASIS!

Y'all, just cos the site comes up and stays up after a few minutes does not mean service has been fully restored. Please wait until the all clear is given before you start refreshing any pages -- the sysadmins having to directly deal with this would greatly appreciate it. Also I would personally recommend that when the site does come back up, please be easy with it and don't spam open a bunch of fics at once. The last thing the site needs is being severely strained after just coming back cos you're that desperate for your fic fix. Slow down and be easy

To the people spreading misinformation about the attackers and where the attacks are coming from, just stop. We know what the group is supposedly called and we know what their supposed reasons are. However, AO3 themselves have stated that this may not necessarily be true. For all we know, whatever group this is could be lying about their motives, hell they could be lying about being behind the attack entirely just to get their fifteen minutes of fame -- please follow the golden rule: don't feed the trolls. This also means that again, for all we know, the real culprit could be some asshat in his mama's basement with no real reason to do this beyond for shits and giggles -- remember that ancient phrase "I did it for teh lulz"?

Regardless of what this person/group is calling themselves and regardless of what they say their reasons are, please do not take anything they say at face value. Take their comments with a huge grain of salt

Furthermore, enough with the Islamophobia. Your bigotry is showing

To the shitposters making light of the situation, glad to know we can always count on y'all to add some levity to an otherwise stressful time. Just please remember to not take the jokes too far

And finally, to the people unnecessarily spouting hate for AO3 and OTW, please find something better to do with your time

[fantasticgothicpeachsludge]

Obi-Wan Kenobi whenever shit gets weird: This might as well happen.

[goldenpinof]

I want to know everything now though! I wanna know why, how and when they decided it was time to come back and I wanna see their reactions to us losing our minds over it

i hope they touch this during videos like they always touch random topics. i hope we get some answers and just laugh or cry together. i'm so ready for banter and stupid shit coming out of their mouths!

[cuffmeinblack]

Garreth: *exists*

Andrew: *exists*

Me:

[aqpippin]

the goodecox party drug wip is DONE 🙂‍↕️ she just needs a title and it’ll be up sometime next week 🫶🏼✨

[habits-white-rabbit]

Zionism brainworms are making me understand why my friend started avoiding social media like the plague

[kivaember]

Title: knives in hand, we're innocent lambs Rating: M Pairing: Sulla/Walter Tags/CW: Pre-Canon, Slow Burn, Medical Trauma, Human Experimentation, Child Neglect, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Implied/Referenced Character Death, Complicated Relationships, Childhood Trauma, Unreliable Narrator, Morally Ambiguous Character, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Time Skips, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Summary: The augmentation trials violently changed the trajectory of Sulla’s life, this was true… …but meeting Walter Kohler was just as fateful. or; Sulla and Walter's relationship, from their first meeting to their very last. Current Chapter: 1

[adamscopeland]

We’re getting Adam vs Christian until the wheels fall off baby!!!!