#this is our savior

[luyo-mi]

BELOVED LUYO-MI LULU, TUMBLR HAS BEEN KEEPING YOUR ART FROM MY FEED AND IM SAD

taking a look at your last posts... omg so pretty 😩😩😩😩😩😩

-hypmic anon (bringing some flowers for u)

HYPMIC ANON MY LOVE YOUR RE BACK AHHHHHHH H HH

[armageddidnt]

Best of Neil's stage directions/commentary in the good omens s1 script book

I went back and read this to help me cope after s2, as one does

[starcurtain]

I think this is how the conversation in the dev room went.

[misaothewitch]

[fiercynn]

on ao3's current fundraiser

apparently it’s time for ao3’s biannual donation drive, which means it’s time for me to remind you all, that regardless of how much you love ao3, you shouldn’t donate to them because they HAVE TOO MUCH MONEY AND NO IDEA WHAT TO DO WITH IT.

we’ve known for years that ao3 – or, more specifically, the organization for transformative works (@transformativeworks on tumblr), or otw, who runs ao3 and other fandom projects – has a lot of money in their “reserves” that they had no plans for. but in 2023, @manogirl and i did some research on this, and now, after looking at their more recent financial statements, i’ve determined that at the beginning of 2024, they had almost $2.8 MILLION US DOLLARS IN SURPLUS.

our full post last year goes over the principles of how we determined this, even though the numbers are for 2023, but the key points still stand (with the updated numbers):

when we say “surplus”, we are not including money that they estimate they need to spend in 2024 for their regular expenses. just the extra that they have no plan for

yes, nonprofits do need to keep some money in reserves for emergencies; typically, nonprofits registered in the u.s. tend to keep enough to cover between six months and two years of their regular operating expenses (meaning, the rough amount they need each month to keep their services going). $2.8 million USD is enough to keep otw running for almost FIVE YEARS WITHOUT NEW DONATIONS

they always overshoot their fundraisers: as i’m posting this, they’ve already raised $104,751.62 USD from their current donation drive, which is over double what they’ve asked for! on day two of the fundraiser!!

no, we are not trying to claim they are embezzling this money or that it is a scam. we believe they are just super incompetent with their money. case in point: that surplus that they have? only earned them $146 USD in interest in 2022, because only about $10,000 USD of their money invested in an interest-bearing account. that’s the interest they earn off of MILLIONS. at the very least they should be using this extra money to generate new revenue – which would also help with their long-term financial security – but they can’t even do that

no, they do not need this money to use if they are sued. you can read more about this in the full post, but essentially, they get most of their legal services donated, and they have not, themselves, said this money is for that purpose

i'm not going to go through my process for determining the updated 2024 numbers because i want to get this post out quickly, and otw actually had not updated the sources i needed to get these numbers until the last couple days (seriously, i've been checking), but you can easily recreate the process that @manogirl and i outlined last year with these documents:

otw’s 2022 audited financial statement, to determine how much money they had at the end of 2022

otw’s 2024 budget spreadsheet, to determine their net income in 2023 and how much they transferred to and from reserves at the beginning of 2024

otw’s 2022 form 990 (also available on propublica), which is a tax document, and shows how much interest they earned in 2022 (search “interest” and you’ll find it in several places)  

also, otw has not been accountable to answering questions about their surplus. typically, they hold a public meeting with their finance committee every year in september or october so people can ask questions directly to their treasurer and other committee members; as you can imagine, after doing this deep dive last summer, i was looking forward to getting some answers at that meeting!

but they cancelled that meeting in 2023, and instead asked people to write to the finance committee through their contact us form online. fun fact: i wrote a one-line message to the finance committee on may 11, 2023 through that form, when @manogirl and i were doing this research, asking them for clarification on how much they have in their reserves. i have still not received a response.

so yeah. please spend your money on people who actually need it, like on mutual aid requests! anyone who wants to share their mutual aid requests, please do so in the replies and i’ll share them out – i didn’t want to link directly to individual requests without permission in case this leads to anyone getting harassed, but i would love to share your requests. to start with, here's operation olive branch and their ongoing spreadsheet sharing palestinian folks who need money to escape genocide.

oh, and if you want to write to otw and tell them why you are not donating, i'm not sure it’ll get any results, but it can’t hurt lol. here's their contact us form – just don’t expect a response! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[smokbeast]

they like to draw for each other

[rocketbirdie]

zakkura propaganda, exhibit A

[boatemboys]

THANK U CLEO FOR THIS CLIP 🫡🫡

transcript:

Cleo: Monument or statue of... what.

Joel: So I was thinking, something involving me, and Jimmy, but then (Cleo starts laughing) you have creative range. How about that. How does that sound to you.

Cleo: Oh no, oh n- I- (starts laughing again)

Joel: Don't make it weird. Why are you making it weird. Why are you saying oh no like that. It's nothing weird.

Cleo: It's n- it's nothing weird, okay, um-

Joel: It's nothing romantic, it's just two good friends.

Cleo: (pauses) Okay, yeah, like two good friends on one singular block. Together. Uh.

Joel: Yeah well- You can, you can move the, like, you can do them off the block. You can do them on the floor if you want. Or like, if you need any more gold I've got another- gold block. It's up to you.

Cleo: No no no, I can do this. I can do this. It won't involve neck kisses or anything. It'll be less- (laughing)

Joel: Please don't make it involve- please. No. They're ded- they're left specially for Etho and I'm not willing to...

Cleo: You're not willing to share. (Joel: Nope.) Aw, okay.

[heartsings77]

[vault--of--amber]

Rewatched the 'Dinner with the Devil' Caduceus-Trent massacre again and god. it hits harder every time you watch it. It's such a perfect scene. The way Caduceus is the only one to not be outwardly hostile throughout the course of the dinner, helping Eodwulf with his seat and joking with him about the vegetarian food, watching as his friends' insults slide off Trent's back. I imagine him coming into the dinner with a genuinely open mind, ready to finally understand the mind behind his friend's torture and hoping to help him heal, and then getting gradually more disappointed as the dinner goes on. Trent's entire philosophy is built around going to unspeakable measures for the greater good of himself and his proteges, so any insult from Caleb/ Bren or associates will automatically compute to him as jealous rage from people too weak to reap the rewards of his 'program'. But Caduceus' speech, in a very short amount of words, manages not only to imply that he has no real impact on the world, but also that he is worth pity. Ikithon can't brush it off as a meaningless insult because it's not an insult. It's genuine. Someone is giving him advice. Someone considers him stupid enough to not understand the fundamentals of how the world works, and that someone wishes him well. I know this bitch was SEETHING in his fuckass lab

[leodoodlesstuff]

so much of the living, love, is the being unknown

[ladyverdance]

Hugh Jackman as Logan Howlett / Wolverine XMEN Franchise (2000 - )

[anyataylorjoys]

Katherine Pierce in Season 1, episode 13: Children of the Damned 

[kayyabread]

Will we forever dwell in the depths of this hell?

[gothwineaunts]

"Another Cog in the Murder Machine" New season, new RNF art. ~