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james "i never do casual" potter sleeping with someone else every single day after he and regulus break up & regulus "i only do casual" black never daring to touch anyone else after they break up

"Even though their roots don't allow them to move, their faces will always seek the Sun."

This idea has been brewing in my head for months (or maybe more than a year?) but a part of me felt that it wasn't going to turn out well. But, after a lot of mental gymnastics this weekend, I decided to let the freak out and draw it. And surprise! it turned out much better than I expected.

This drawing is quite conceptual, you might find more than one hidden message in there, but I'll leave that to your imagination.

guys I think I found Harry online

i just know sirius told everyone “my brothers are dating”

Regulus Black never lived in a world without Sirius or James

Sirius Black lived in a world without either

Oh okay so you hate me??

Instagram is depressing. I prefer tumblr where everyone is upfront about their misery and constant desire to die

hey ao3 can you like give the extra $38k you made from this month’s funds drive to charity

You know it legally is a charity, right?

If x charity aims for £10, but gets £15, would you expect then to give back the extra five or give it then to another charity? No. Any extra costs go into the “rainy day” fund; sometimes servers crash or break, sometimes false reports are made that require the legal team, sometimes you need to hire coders or what not to implement new features or fix bugs or deal with broken code … 

The money they aimed for is the bare minimum, which goes towards things like basic server costs and domain names and legal advice and so forth, but they don’t just “pocket” the rest (as people claim). It’s not a business. It has no advertisements. It needs some “rainy day” cash to function. 

You can’t ask a charity to give money to another charity. 

It needs what it gets to function and improve. 

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In my experience, people who don’t work in web design and hosting just have no concept of how heavy a load something like AO3 would have. Not only is the traffic absolutely buck wild, but the quantity of data that archive needs to store is fuckoff crazy. I’m talking “more than the library of congress” crazy. The only reason it doesn’t require Netflix levels of data serving is that it’s text based rather than video.

AO3 is in the top 300 websites in the world, and the top 100 in the US. It is the number 2 literature website.

Number 2 in the entire world. JSTOR is 20.

It sees about 6 million people a day. About 250k an hour. Each of those people is loading multiple pages, many are running searches that execute on literally hundreds of potential variables per search. The demands involved are astronomical.

JSTOR, btw, makes 85 million dollars a year.

It’s 18 ranks below AO3′s traffic, and takes in 650 times the amount of money.

But let’s say you think that’s an unfair comparison. Would you say that the Project Gutenberg Literature Archival Group- another text based archive that handles literature operating outside traditional copyright requirements- is more similar?

Because it sees all of 4% of the traffic that AO3 handles.

Care to guess its budget?

Double that of AO3.

AO3 is doing shit on the kind of shoestring budget that I fully, 100% cannot comprehend. And that’s just the archival service.

The 130k also pays for the OTW’s legal team, which they use to defend the right of fandom to fucking exist.

It’s absolutely batshit fucked up that people are fighting to have the OTW defunded and AO3 shut down. They are the only organized group that actually stands directly between fandom- all the art and the fics and the vids and the music and the chats and the memes and everything we love about interactive, transformative work- and an incalculable amount of lawsuits.

This is the most functionally-successful and cost-effective website in the history of EVER. By a wide margin.

naps hit different when ur using them to avoid being alive

Regulus: You're the kindest and goodest person I know.

James: Goodest? That's not a word. The superlative of good is best.

Regulus: Yes, but I don't mean that you're the best person in the world - though in my book, you might be - I mean that you're good. You're a good person and of all of them, you're the most good.

James: ...

James: You break grammar rules for me?

James: You really love me !

Regulus, smiling softly: I do.

Slytherin skittles hear me out cake would go crazy

Barty would put Pandora just to get a reaction out of Evan

Pandora adds house elves and they all panic for a second before they explain the concept to her one more time. She takes it back

Fleamont Potter ends up on there a total of five times (Dorcas, Regulus, Evan, Barty and then Regulus again for emphasis)

Both Barty and Evan put Reg on there and they both throw a fit when the other does and act jealous evem if they’re literally doing the same thing. Regulus fully ignores them

Pandora adds Xeno multiple times

Dorcas adds Butterbeer as the first non-sentient item and all hell breaks loose from there bc nobody had thought to go abstract

Regulus puts the astronomy tower. Nobody is shocked

Barty puts Sirius on there and that one isn’t even for a reaction. Regulus does NOT fully ignore this

Pandora adds Sirius, not the human but the star specifically, and Regulus can’t even argue with that. (Barty calls him a hypocrite)

Dorcas adds James just to see if Regulus will get jealous (James payed her 10 galleons to do it) (it worked) (James had a lovely meeting up that night)

Regulus adds his broom (yes, his specifically) and Dorcas nods solemnly bc Yeah.

Pandora adds her divination magic orb thingy (🔮)

Evan adds ammortientia, Regulus calls it cheating because “that’s not a hear me out, that’s quite literally designed to be attractive to anyone [enter potions rant]”

There’s a total of like 10 gryffindors on the cake by the end of it and they’re disgusted by themselves but nobody takes anything back

Remus ends up being there 5 times, one for each. Nobody says anything about it

do u ever get emotional about the fact that tchaikovsky, a gay man, wrote his Romeo and Juliet overture for his brother and his brother’s gay lover bc I sure as hell do

It’s true!!!

Really??? That’s awesome!! 👏

J.F.P

I have a caffeine deficiency, would you send me one ko-fi? 👀

Regulus always talked about the unfair treatment of house elves to Pandora, who passed on the knowledge to Luna. Which is why Luna calls Dobby sir

Here’s domestic jegulus 🤲 commissioned by the lovely @veryinnovative for their fic Tarte tatin (look below for a tiny snippet eheh ⬇️)