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Groundhog Day (1993) dir. Harold Ramis

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the fact that this isn't even all of the times he died i had to cut out a few (incl. the one i do not legally recognize)

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Me checking on one of my beloved ao3 fics that hasn't been updated since 2017

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I am so deeply frustrated that the Humans Are Space Orcs tag has 45 pages of fics on ao3, and 78 pages of bookmarks on ao3, and it's *still* not marked common and can't be filtered on, even though I KNOW I'm not the only one who reads these fics across fandoms. It's like a cross fandom fandom. People even write original works on ao3 and tumblr and reddit as Humans Are Space Orcs. That's not even accounting for synonym tags like Humans are Space Velocirators, Earth is a Deathworld, Humans Are Deathworlders, Earth is Space Australia, etc. None of which are treated as synonyms or grouped together, and none of which are marked common. Some people even made a freeform Humans Are Space Orcs - Fandom tag, and that's not grouped in with the others or filterable or an officially findable/usable fandom tag either. What other fandom/trope has THIS MANY TAGS to describe it, and so many places they're used, and yet... Nope, the tags aren't marked common, and you can't apply filters to them? I've never seen any others that were quite this ignored. (Maybe they exist nonetheless though - feel free to reblog and gripe about your fav "uncommon" tags if so.) I even contacted ao3 support and asked for help with this once, literal years ago, and here we are years later, and still no. Even though there are many much less popular/much less often used tags that *are* marked common. I feel like this is an anvil weighing down what could have been/could be a vibrant fandom. People can't search for and find the fic properly if we can't filter it and sort it or see all the synonymous tags together! It's hard to even search and find if there are any new ones I haven't read already, because I can't even do a filter "sort by new" search! Let alone sort by kudos or use time ranges or etc. Call me dramatic, but having to fight all this every time I want to engage with this cross-fandom fandom/trope/whatever-you-wanna-call-it kinda makes me wanna cry sometimes. It's been like this for years now! And I'm still wanting to read these fics, and I still can't search for them properly because of this problem that is still here! Help! Filtering on an individual other fandom tag, with Humans are Space Orcs as an additional tag, doesn't work either, because Humans are Space Orcs fics are too spread out between various other fandoms. You can only find a sliver of the existing fics that way, and only if you try it on, like, every fandom under the sun. We shouldn't have to do that.

I think this must also be part of why there's so many Humans Are Space Orcs originals that get posted everywhere BUT ao3. Here on tumblr, and even on reddit - there's a whole subreddit for it - and peoples' own websites. Which is fine, people are allowed to do that, but it means all that writing is more vulnerable to potentially getting taken down or lost than if it could be easily shared on the archive as well. And it's hard to find, let alone search through for the best stuff. I dare say it's hidden from new people who might want to discover it, too. Please mark at least some of these tags common and group their synonyms, ao3. I'm begging here.

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No thanks.

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emperor kuzco was clearly gay

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Trump will let China do whatever they want. Look out, Taiwan.

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dear people with OCD: the next time you have spiraling & intrusive thoughts, what-ifs, or catastrophizing scenarios, I am sending a cardigan-wearing 46-year old NYU professor directly into your brain and he says "Aaaaand scene!!!" and he claps his hands slowly. and he says "Wow. Wow. Powerful stuff. Evocative imagery. A little bit post-modern, a little bit hysterical realism in the vein of Don Delilo but let's pause right here." and you will recognize your thoughts as a perplexing avant-garde film shown to an audience of 15 liberal arts students who are now trying to get a good grade and sleep with their professor.

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For any relocated TikTok users

you can say sex and kill its fine

If you don't have a profile picture people will assume you're a bot

theres barely an algorithm, if you want to see cool shit reblog things instead of just liking them

follower count doesnt matter

tumblr fame gets you one thing and it is Yelled At

no one knows what the fuck the nsfw policy is

block anyone that annoys you even a little bit

And most importantly:

post cringe

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AO3 IS DOWN ! AO3 IS DOWN !

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not to be dramatic but I genuinely cannot picture my life without AO3

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LITERALLY DECLARING HIS BIG CRUSH ON MISHA