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Happy birthday to AO3 🎂🎉
Happy birthday to a platform that has contributed to so many positive aspects of my life: real life friends, online friends, global understanding, mental health, writing inspiration, career objectives, joy in a favorite hobby, self-esteem as a writer, and license to WRITE WHATEVER THE FUCK I WANT.
Today in my personal theatre of ye olde me yelling at clouds:
I enter a shoe shop. Said shoe shop also has a website which lacks an option of checking availability of shoes in their physical shops. Imagine: a huge empty space with minimalistic cushions, lots of touch screen monitors/big tablets, and in the background, behind a strange metal contraption, a bunch of shoe boxes.
One of the sales people approaches and asks if I need help. I don't, but sure, tap the screen for me, why not, you're getting paid for that. In the meantime, I mention the site doesn't let people check the shoe availability. To which the sales person helpfully answers:
"But the app does!"
I implode.
I'd have much rather preferred to explode, but I wouldn't take out my rage on a shop employee who's not responsible for website maintenance. And so I shall explode here instead.
If it's possible to look up product availability in one access channel, it means the database accepts such a query and returns a result. That means it's a simple matter of adding a button to the website with an API call that would run the same query and return the same result.
Not adding it to the website has been someone's conscious choice.
Fuck that person.
If something is possible in one access channel, it should possible in all access channels. Simple as that. I want a fully functional website, for fuck's sake.
May I add to this the following hell. Web sites that provide special discounts, coupons, delivery discounts and other things if you "only download their app". How to make sure I never download your app and avoid your web site like the black plague...mission accomplished.
Part 2/? Part 1
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The Noldor are the Americans of middle earth and you cannot change my mind.
Thank you for the compliment.
Illustrations for Yukio Mishima's The Sound of Waves | Shiosai | 潮騒, by Lâm Tùng Nguyễn.
*slowly reaches for the popcorn*
I tried a new design for him, but I think I like my other better but now I have tried this too for him :)
Actually this looks a lot more like my Numenor design for him, but with a Noldor second age clothing style instead
Mandos knew dealing with Fëanor would be more complicated than others when the elf was confronted by the elves who had died crossing the Helcaraxë.
To the victims at Alqualondë, Fëanor had offered nothing but sorrow, humility, and genuine apologies. When confronted by those who died on Helcaraxë, Fëanor listened to their stories, cried with them...and then said, "My brother has always been unreasonable."
Absolutely nothing anyone could say (or, more accurately, yell) could convince Fëanor he shared even the slightest blame when it came to people crossing the Helcaraxë.
Within a week, Fëanor had managed to find the areas of the hall that humans were kept in. Then dwarves. Even though that should have been physically impossible.
In another week, Mandos was preparing an argument for why Fëanor should be released back into Middle Earth. Because he knew that the truth, that dealing with Fëanor was giving Mandos high levels of anxiety, would be humiliating to admit.
If you have the time and flexibility, you can also try out libreoffice.
Just did this on November 14th, 2024, so this is very current!
That one post that’s like “The line The Devil Went Down to Georgia implies that Georgia is lower than Hell” is so funny. ‘Down’ means further south in southern dialects, such as “I was down in Louisiana” so the implication was actually that Hell is located north of Georgia.
Hell is, of course, located in Michigan so the song makes total grammatical since.
I would argue that Hell is located in Washington, DC.
Glorfindel
Oropher’s elfling is very good at becoming dirty. (Naughty baby Thrandy)
Hemlock and Niphredil by @thescrapwitch is my roman empire, by which I mean it literally lives rent free in my brain — my absolute favourite LOTR fic ever, both stark and gentle in its unpacking of Elrond and Thingol sharing grief and a love for gardening in Valinor, so I did a little illustration of a scene from it ❤️
- xoxo Balrog "can never be normal about Elrond and Arwen even for a single minute" Balls
OMG this is gorgeous! Thank you so much! I am just in awe of all the details: the tear running down Elrond’s face, the flowers in both their hands representing their lost daughters, their clothes (!!) and the background garden. Absolutely stunning thank you so much!!!
Lovely art for a story that I agree is among the best our fandom has to offer and so perceptive about grief. ❤️❤️❤️
A wonderful drawing of #Elrond and #Thingol inspired by @thescrapwitch's fic about them in Valinor and mourning their daughters.
oh no it's "tumblr user balrog 'can never be normal about celebrìan' balls writing monologues for her favourite character and getting melancholic hours again" 🥲❤️
