Soapbox Time!

Soapbox time!

Vegan leather kills more animals than actual leather. If your actual goal with vegan leather products is to save animals, then please understand that it doesn’t work that way.

Non-plastic vegan leather isn’t viable for manufacturing yet. Studies are being done on cork oak or pineapple options, but the stuff you’re buying isn’t on that list. You can either buy plastic leather or buy real leather, and as unfortunate as it is, the latter is killing less animals.

(It’s also cheaper, so obviously err on the side of what isn’t going to break the bank, but if you can afford a good pair of genuine leather shoes, then that will last you years or decades longer than the vegan leather, and in doing so it’s going to save you money in the long run. Unfortunately, most people aren’t being paid living wages right now, so first step is ALWAYS ‘what can I afford?’)

how to block a work from your search results on AO3

Every work that gets posted on the Archive has a unique identifying number. That number appears in the url for the work. I’m going to use one of my own works as an example. This is the url for my multi-chaptered fic describing tags and tagging:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/25584613/chapters/62091004

The number that I’ve bolded in the middle, the one that comes right after works/ is the ID number for that work. We’re going to use that number to create (or edit) a site skin that will block that work ID from appearing in search results. 

Step 1: open the work that you want to avoid and grab that number. 

Step 2: either go to https://archiveofourown.org/skins and tap on the Create Site Skin. Give your new skin a name and description so that you’ll know what it is later. 

Step 3: this is the CSS code that you’ll want to use:

.blurb#work_25584613 { display: none;}

Note that the number I’m using there is the number from my example work. You’ll want to enter the number of whatever work it is that you’re trying to block. 

Repeat step three for as many works as you want to block. 

Step 4: save the skin and then hit the Use button to use it  on the site. 

If you’re already using a skin, you can add this code to the end. So for example, if you’re using Reversi in order to have dark mode, you can copy the Reversi CSS code into your new skin and add this line of code to the end of it, and you’ll have dark mode with the work blocked at the same time. 

Step 5: enjoy your AO3 experience that much more! Because this is a site skin, you can set it once and never think of it again (unless you change skins or log out)

Girl Genius AU where they're in fandom

1. they’re in the Heterodyne Boys fandom.

2. Gil and Tarvek are battling it out for the Most Kudosed story on AO3 but only Tarvek knows that. Gil is writing a really epic adventure/discovery gen story with lots of found family fluff and he once mentioned casually that he wasn’t super into dramatic love quintangles and politics and period-appropriate clothing and kinky erotica. Tarvek took it super personally.

3. out of nowhere this dingbot_heterodyne person shows up with ONE (1) fic and it’s 1. long 2. super well researched 3. badassly actionny 4. politically super sharp yet easy to follow 5. IT UPDATES UNFAILINGLY EVERY THREE DAYS and it takes the top spot from them both in three weeks.

4. tarvek falls in love with the plotline but is still kinda seeting with jealousy a bit so he takes to writing “missing scenes” that are all the sinful porn dingbot isn’t writing. dingbot writes him thanks and mentions how embarrassed they are and it’s totally a failing of their part as a writer but they just Can Not write the porn and they really admire his deft hand in balancing characterization and sizzling hotness. tarvek turns into their n°1 fan and starts chatting them up on discord

5. but. gil notices the email address and it’s his university and meets dingbot in PERSON and they bond on fandom glee but also general fandommy and courses tastes and two weeks later out of nowhere tarvek has to read, with his own eyes, that dingbot is DATING HIS RIVAL. they’ve been sort of co-writing porn scenes for her fic, he was guiding them through it and was so proud of their progress and they were getting to be such intimate friends and BAM. this is super unfair ;__;

6. then gil’s sister lols because hey your gf is writing porn with someone else does that count as sexting and gil is like ??? uhhh *reads the porn* *… dang* do you think your friend could also teach me the ways of writing … well not even porn just. romantic stuff.

7. tarvek ends up tutoring his two rivalcrushes in the art of erotica. how is this his life. but it’s all he will get so he accepts it, very bitterly. and ofc the more they all three talk and the more his crush on agatha grows until he realizes he’s also crushing on gil, and even WORSE he’s crushing on their romantic bond with each other. they’re such a fucking cute couple jfc how can he not ;__;

8. so he writes a modern AU bill/lu/klaus or maybe it’s a lu/bill/klaus where he’s klaus sublimating his attraction to bill into lu until he can’t lie to himself anymore and gently steps away from them both. he writes two endings. one is “lu figures it out and decides both is good” and the the next one is “that was klaus’ dream but then he wakes up to go be best man at their wedding and never says a thing.”

9. agatha isn’t even the one who figures it out first, GIL is. because that lu was way nicer than she’s ever been in canon and usually tarvek is way more deft at juggling bare-bones canon characteristics with emotional fanon filling-out.

10. it’s suddenly hard to catch tarvek to have long conversations because Real Life (or so he says) so gil and agatha decide to co-author a fan sequel where lu and bill come back from their honeymoon and were bored as sin and decide to go get them some klaus.

it’s bar none their least kudosed story ever, because oh man the Bashful does not work well with sensual OT3 seduction and also it’s not what either of their fanbases follow them for, but it does net them a reply.

the first ten lines are bitching gil out about anachronistic pantaloons. but he does get back on discord so they can ask him out properly.

So um, yes, I have heard that this is the place to ask for an invite to the Girl Genius Discord? I've tried some of the other links you're posted but it said that they were all expired. I just reread the entire comic in...3-4 days I need help and/or others to go crazy with.

here you go: https://discord.gg/nAvEa7w - NOW PERMANENT!

@gigglinggoggles and @trust-me-i-dare-you as well. Welcome to the madness place!

if u are feeling sad pls look at this cute duck 

Okay okay, there’s a story behind this. I really like the idea that sometimes Chat has a little too much cat in him from the suit. Sometimes he can’t help but do silly cat things.

So my cat has access to an enclosed area outside on the deck, but the top is open, so leaves fall in. During the night she brings leaves inside into the bedroom like she’s bringing in presents? And she’s like “wow these are great I have to share these with the human.”

And the two ideas kind of mingled and I thought it would be really cute if Chat runs up to Marinette or Ladybug and is like “look what I found for you isn’t it great?” And she’s super confused but still kind of touched. And later Adrien is just like “What was I thinking.”

Do not repost/reupload/edit