I fucking love portal

1.5M ratings
277k ratings

See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

so, the FF.N website doesn’t seem to be working anymore, but the app is still fine (though it is extremely confusing to navigate and doesn’t have a download to device option, nor does it allow you to copy past more than one word at a time)

I don’t know how long this will be the case though, so if there’s any fic on there that you would miss go get the app, find the fic, and screenshot it (I’m gonna try and find something to help with getting text from an image/screenshot, there’s a lot of portal fic on there that isn’t on ao3)

Pinned Post fanfiction.net FF.N Important
madd-catter
what-even-is-thiss

The time travelers sign language for communicating across time and languages. Who invented it? When was it invented? When did you learn it? Nobody knows but it works pretty much anywhere and any when as long as you can find a time traveler. Will they teach it to you or did you already know it? Don’t think about it too hard.

what-even-is-thiss

The time travelers history book. There is no first edition. It physically will not open to certain pages if learning that information would mess with time and space. Your copy is from the 16th century you think. It’s brand new. You can’t open most of the pages. That’s fairly normal.

what-even-is-thiss

The time travelers bicycle. It’s just a bike with a skirt guard and a basket. It’s not made for off road traveling. Be careful to not lose it before 1920. You might make some poor archeologist’s job a lot harder. Ride in technology fearing societies at your own risk.

what-even-is-thiss

The time travelers inoculation kit. Get your smallpox vaccine or else if you come back carrying the virus into the modern age we will kill your ourselves.

what-even-is-thiss

The time travelers mission statement. It keeps changing because the woman who invented it keeps thinking of better ones and going back in time to stop herself from spreading that one.

what-even-is-thiss

The time travelers compass. There is only one. Wait, you found it? You may, unfortunately, be the chosen one. Sorry about that.

what-even-is-thiss

The time travelers sign… I’ve already told you about that? I’ll just explain it next time. You’ll probably be younger then. Just go out and save the world already and take your bike with you.

lavendroused

TO THOSE MAKING NATIVE OCS

aphromanoo

I see this a lot, no one has actual names, or any reference for names, that are legit Native American, varying among the tribes, for their characters.

Babynames.com and shit like that will give you names made up by white people.

However, I’ve got your solution.

Native-Languages  is a good website to turn to for knowledge on a lot of native things, including native names. If you’re unsure about the names you’ve picked, they even have a list of made up names here!

Please don’t trust names like babynames.com for native names, they’re made up and often quite offensive to the cultures themselves.

shishitsunari

Thank you!

atthelamppost

Native Languages is a great website. I use it for my fact-checking since it always has reliable links to tribal sites.

save for later
transhaunting
mortalityplays

well anyway. the copyright system exists to commodify art and expression and process it into more money for larger companies, and it is actively detrimental to efforts for preservation, open education, and creation. everyone reading this is morally obligated to hoard and share data because we live in a world that is hostile to the idea that books or music or movies or scholarship have inherent value independent of a DRM stamp and ticket price. btw fuck hachette, harpercollins, wiley and penguin random house.

mortalityplays

Learn to torrent

Z Library

12ft.io and alternatives

Get yourself an external hard drive or two and just start saving. The internet is not forever. Things are going to disappear, or (more likely) become harder and harder to search for, and more and more costly to access.

When did you last go looking for an older movie, only to realise it was unavailable on any streaming service and unavailable to buy? Restricted access and false scarcity are the only ways corporations can inflate and justify prices for digital content. In an era when we can carry entire libraries around on a phone, there is no reason to let these for-profit organisations control access to the wealth of human culture.

1TB of storage costs about $30-50 depending on the drive. Let's say an average high quality movie rip is 1.5GB. That's space for nearly 700 movies. The average ebook is around 2MB. That's space for 500,000 books. The Library of Alexandria was generously estimated to house 400,000 manuscripts. You can beat the Library of Alexandria, in your apartment, for $30-50. Start right now.

mortalityplays

if this isn't enough to convince you, consider the satisfaction you will get from being the fucking chad in your group chat who's like "yeah I can get you that" any time anyone is looking for anything. it's real and it gets you maidens, take it from me.

save for later
lavendroused
sleepy-robot

listen i don't care how cozy and cluttered you want your store's atmosphere to be or if you're a seasonal/popup shop. fucking MAKE YOUR AISLES WIDER. if someone using a chair can't navigate without bumping into everything then i hate you for not caring about accessibility. and i doubly hate you for making people feel self conscious or ashamed to be there because they don't fit. it's YOUR FAULT. forgetting or not caring to include us doesn't make us magically disappear.

sleepy-robot

image
image

since i've seen this sentiment multiple times i'm moving my original follow up comment from the tags to the main text to clarify: this applies to fat people (with or without mobility aids) too!! i am gently holding your hand and telling you that you deserve to be part of this conversation, you aren't derailing anything.

lavendroused
prokopetz

You can always tell when an author is trying to "deconstruct" something that they think is stupid or boring or otherwise beneath them because they're unwilling or unable to develop the necessary understanding of the source material to properly rip into it and the end result invariably fucking sucks. You need to love a genre in order to truly do it violence.

sarahreesbrennan

Adaptations, retellings, deconstructions… you always have to love the story first. If you feel contempt it will show, and make you lazy. Nobody fights as passionately as a lover.

cotton-f4ggot
iliterallydecepticanteven

image

Remember kids: if you ever see a package of fresh meat that's puffed up like this do not buy it. Immediately find an employee and tell them. The reason the plastic is puffed up is because of the carbon dioxide being created by bacterial growth on the meat and the bacteria growing there is not the kind you can cook off. If you're gonna buy any meat, chicken, beef, pork, fish, whatever, the plastic needs to be laying flat and not puffed up.

draftingtides
kingofcarrotflowerspt1

if we want to stop the patriarchal concept of surnames being passed down the male line, we have a few options options that i’d be 100% fine with:

  1. children get whichever surname is cooler, to eliminate uncool surnames over the generations
  2. children get whichever surname is rarer, to achieve a utopian future in a few centuries where all surnames are more or less equally common
  3. children’s surnames are randomly generated: say, heads for parent #1’s surname, tails for parent #2’s surname
  4. parents pick the first names first, and then a court decides which surname fits it better. so if a couple named mr. madison and mr. liu want to name their daughter alison, she’ll get the surname liu, because alison madison sounds ridiculous
  5. everyone stops having children right now
lostsometime

6) both parents’ surnames are combined into a new name, in the same vein as portmanteau ship-names

tolkien-feels

7) We adopt elvish naming customs and have upwards of three names for each individual, none of which are surnames and all of which may be translated to any other language for any reason at any point in our lives. This has no advantages but will really annoy every government on earth and I just think it’d be really funny to watch them figure out the paperwork for that

unashamedly-enthusiastic

I once completed a name change for a Miss White, she was getting married to Mr. Black

They both changed their name to Mr and Mrs. Grey

sword-and-nightingale

No one will ever do this better than them.