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cutest thing i saw today...

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"my parents wanted me to have a better life and they succeeded even if they no longer want to be a part of it" ; - ;

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i was at a little park fest thing today and someone was there with their cats who were trained to hang out in a stroller?? like they were SO chill it was amazing. the cats were obviously enjoying themselves and were very well trained to stay right in or under their catmobile.

until, that is, i rolled up in my wheelchair and one of them turned and saw my vaguely stroller-like contraption and *immediately* jumped out of his cat-approved-stroller to climb around on my chair like OH WOW WHEN DID WE GET ANOTHER WHEELEY THING YAY! :D

i was like sir you are not supposed to be here and he just looked up at me like oh yes i am ! i must stay in wheeled contraption !!! and he was wearing a lil bowtie so i could not argue with him

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There are some characters where giving them therapy and cleaning them up is the fanfiction equivalent of buying antique furniture and painting it white

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there's been plenty of pushback against youtube's plan to age-check users by using an AI to analyze everyone's watching habits, but amidst that, i spotted this playlist circulating among some teens:

(picture is a reconstruction to protect the kids identity)

interesting! they're trying to trick the AI by watching videos that have a primarily adult viewer demographic? well im a curious fella so naturally i have to take a look-see, and

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a bad show? that's nothing? a good show? sure. but a bad show that, for a brief moment, becomes very good, and then never is again? that'll drive a person to madness

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absolutely stellar

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You ever just wanna fuck?

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Perhaps I'm too tired to write right now

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mythbusters is really good at being extremely timeless but occasionally kari wears something that violently reminds me that this show was filmed in the 2000’s.

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> looking at a new popular collectible

> ask the people if it's objects or gambling

> they don't understand

> pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is objects and what is gambling

> they laugh and say "it's a good collectible sir"

> look up how to buy a collectible

> its gambling

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Nobody asked me but at the end of the day I think that “facial recognition government ID age verification to access the website to protect the children” is sort of like if we mandated an 18+ government-issued licensing exam to remain horizontal for excess of 5 seconds in public back during the planking trend of 2011

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This is your semi frequent reminder that there is no official AO3 app

All those are unofficial and available on the Google play store as of August 13th 2025. They mirror AO3's content and insert ads, for which the developer gets paid by page impression (that's every time the ad appears in the fic you're reading) not just clicks.

No money goes to AO3, nor to the fic writer. It goes to the person who did the bare minimum.

Many of these apps have poorly worded or non existent privacy policies, so they may also be mining as much data as possible and selling that on to unknown third parties.

Please, just use the official AO3 site and the browser.

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I'm curious about what books people consider apart of the canon for tumblr users? not just popular but also that you associate specifically from discussions on this site

like, dracula daily emails ensured a lot of people here read dracula, and i will always associate not just sherlock holmes but the pastiche hound of the D'Urbervilles with my time on tumblr. but i wanna know what other books, old, new, whatever, that people associate with tumblr

i feel like there's a big overlap with early 2010s booktubers favourites, and i would be interested in any genre and style contrasts with booktok too.