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AO3 and Tumblr can never go down for maintenance at the same time because there would be no one to watch their children (us, the users) and there’s too many of us to hire a babysitter

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"you're a child"

"im YOUR child"

me:

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oh my shaylas☹️

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Give me summer 16 for the littles.

Give me Will at 16 falling in love with one of the staff, learning how cruel people can be, the same way Cady did from Gat. Give me Will trying as hard as he can to be a better person for the love of his life. Give me Will becoming even more of a sweetheart then he already is. Give me Will trying to be the perfect son for his mom now that Johnny is gone and struggling to live up to the expectations of all of that Harris is putting on him.

Give me Liberty at 16 being a lesbian or bisexual or honestly just figuring it out and struggling because how could she ever be excepted into the family if she doesn't marry the perfect man. Give me Liberty getting close to her mom but then learning about the things she's done and the things her dads done and not knowing how to cope with it. Give me Liberty try to be the perfect granddaughter while also trying to be the perfect daughter because she's to afraid to let her mom down.

Give me Bonnie at 16 finding out the family secrets. Give me Bonnie not being afraid to confront her grandfather about them. Give me Bonnie growing up and doing her best to keep everything from her sister and her favorite cousin and not being able to protect them. Give me Bonnie fighting Harris at every opportunity because she is so tired of being second place in her moms life when her and her sister should be first. Give me Bonnie not being afraid to break the rules, and some priceless pieces of art, in order to get her points across.

Give me Ed and Carrie finally getting to have their own child. Doesn't matter if its a boy or a girl. Just let them be happy for once.

And finally, give me Cady, coming to Beechwood for the first time in literal years. Give me Cady walking in and being greeted by all her cousins, being confronted by her past again. Give me Cady, admitting to all of it, telling them the truth because they deserve to know it. Give me Cady, whose been to India and traveled so much of the world in her pursuit to be different and better than before.

Give me Cady who walks up to Harris at his death bed and demands that the island, the houses, the money, be split four ways. That each of his grandchildren, other than her, get a piece of the island to have for themselves and their families in the future.

Give me Cady passing down her spark for change into all her four younger cousins.

Give me the four of them never having to worry about losing one of their own because they are better then the generations before them.

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ao3 is chronically ill/disabled and whenever ao3 is down or having maintenance it’s a flare up (n tumblr helps them/helps take care of them)

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oops I accidentally separated myself emotionally from everyone to avoid feeling any bad feelings & it worked but at the expense of my sense of connectedness and belonging

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Tumblr being so invested in it’s relationship with AO3 is not what I imagine for 2025 but here we are 🤸- you know what to do people, make it to No 1!!!

14/07/2025

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If you use Tumblr but not AO3, congrats on the new step-parent site! AO3 would like to play catch with you in hopes of bonding, they keep talking about “found family tropes”

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who wants to go to the aquarium with me i want to stand in cold rooms for two hours straight and look at jellyfish and maybe pet a small stingray

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“I've been trying to go home my whole life”

-Chelsea Dingman

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So, you know how AO3 is a non-profit

And Tumblr is owned

Do you think that in lore this translates to Tumblr being bound by the gods and AO3 resisting them

Imagine AO3 promising Tumblr that she'll free him one day

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"I'm your child. I didn't ask for you to waste your life on me. And neither did the twins. You chose to be a mother. ... It's not our fault that you decided to hate it."

-Mirren Sinclair, We Were Liars

Holy mother wound Batman. And...this is why I leave people alone when they say they never want children and side-eye people who have them for aesthetic purposes. It's hell for everyone.

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oh Mirren, you sweet girl. I saw you. we all saw you. we'll always see you. you're as light as air now.

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"Endlessly, I sustain the discourse of the beloved's absence; actually, a preposterous situation; the other is absent as referent, present as allocutory. The singular distortion generates a kind of insupportable present; I am wedged between two tenses, that of the reference and that of the allocution: you have gone (which I lament), you are here (since I am addressing you). Whereupon I know what the present, that difficult tense is: a pure portion of anxiety."

-- " A Lover's Discourse: Fragments" by Roland Barthes