Soot tags gather after fires in areas with low circulation. They are not, as commonly believed, ash covered spider webs.
oh, well then what the FUCK are they???
They’re made of sticky particles from a polymer or petroleum based fire, like burning carpet, drapes, upholstery, and clothes. Due to a static charge, they chain together and naturally gather near ceiling corners because the rising hot air pushes them into the cool spots by convection.
Because they’re formed by static electricity, they can only be removed with professional chemicals and equipment. Attempting to remove them improperly will only break the chain before all the soot can be captured, leaving the remaining soot to spontaneously reform the webs later. Even worse, trying to wipe or wash them away can firmly adhere the soot to your wall or ceiling, which will permanently stain it.
A natural phenomena that only coincidentally resembles the damned webs of transdimensional ghost spiders.
Pre-Canon SVSSS AU / interpretation where Su Xiyan has honeypotted several shittier demon lords before meeting Tianlang-Jun. Like, oh, no! I’ve been kidnapped into your harem! Help! However shall I murder my way out of here?
And then she finally meets the dreaded Demon Emperor himself, having heard the most terrible things about Heavenly Demons, and here he is getting himself kicked out of plays for heckling the actors for not getting the ROMANCE right and somehow managing to be charming about it. And she’s like, “Oh, no, he’s both incredibly powerful and kind of pathetic. ❤️”
And Tianlang-Jun meets this beautiful woman who’s probably going to kill him, and he’s kind of jokingly like, “Well, I think I have to tap that! 😍” Which becomes, “Oh, shit, this was supposed to be ironic flirtation, but I think I’m in love and I’m going to die. ❤️”
Man i really hope that nothing bad happens to AO3.
I know that it is silly to be attached to a fucking fanfiction website, but seeing all the bullshit happening to other places this year (twitter being twitter, Threads and instagram being a mess, Tumblr threatening to become worse just to appease people that don't even use it) it makes me worry for a nonprofit place with a actually good tagging system.
Also, the only other fanfic site i really go to besides it and reaallyy old sites for older fandoms i'm into is Fanfiction.net, and it is annoying as fuck to use it nowdays, especially on mobile (you have to do captcha sooo many times, and you can't really download a fic nor read it all in one page...)
That’s what a lot of people either don’t understand or refuse to acknowledge when it comes to AO3.
From its ground up, its core purpose is an Archive for transformative works. It’s not some Hypnosis Engine to convince people that preying on children is okay; it’s not some sort of propaganda machine. It’s an Archive for fanfic (and, to an extension, fanart).
But also in its core purpose is the element of self-agency. ‘Our Own’. AO3 has one of the best, most comprehensive filtering systems on the internet. That is a fact that can’t be denied. And the reason for this filtering system is, of course, for people to be able to see what they want and avoid what they don’t.
So, yes, it is just a silly fanfiction site at the end of the day, but the fact that it’s one of the few sites on the internet that has stuck to its initial mission statement come hell or high water is why it’s so important in the current internet scape. It’s also why, whenever the donation drive rolls around, it’s so fucking exhausting to see Jimmy and Sally Don'tknowshit making posts about 'oh, why don’t people donate to real causes’ or 'AO3 really makes a living scamming people’.
“silly fanfiction site” is bullshit, it’s an important archive
we’re taught by contempt culture that the only things adults do are play (not watch) football and sit in chairs talking about Faulkner, and everything else is stupid baby things for babies we have to apologize for and denigrate
an archive of so many people’s creative input they put their hearts and souls into is actually fucking important and recognizing it as such is not silly. even a site that is just one you use all the time for things you can’t get anywhere else is important even if it wasn’t such an archive.
Ao3 is debatably the largest repository of ‘unique’ works in existence; Google Books and whatever is great and all but it is cataloging existing works that were made elsewhere, its not load-bearing and a source of creativity the way Ao3 is. Through the metric of creative human effort inputted, Ao3 is one of the most valuable institutions that has ever existed. Whether or not any given individual values that creativity is immaterial to the historical reality.
She’s been defending the Earth since the early 90s and she’s very tired.
My name is Tominaga Haruka. I was chosen by a magical talking animal, and for the last 29 years I’ve been Earth’s one and only… Wonder-Sparkle Princess.
she’s been fighting the same villains for three decades and they are also tired of it. Most of them aren’t giving it their all. Half of them are in a groupchat they’ve added her to where they schedule their evil plans to make sure they don’t interfere with each other, or more importantly, with *her*
Xalkrax the space demon from outer space decided to attack the city when she was taking her vacation time once, and now he’s dead, because even the power of friendship and redemption can’t save you if you interrupt her rare vacations
Demon Queen Eluria: Gonna fill the city people’s hearts with hatred on thursday to cause mayhem and discord.
Wonder-Sparkle Princess: Can’t, got a PTA meeting.
Demon Queen Eluria: Friday?
Wonder-Sparkle Princess: A birthday party.
Demon Queen Eluria: Damn. How about I fill just the mayor’s heart with hatred then?
Wonder-Sparkle Princess: That’d be redundant, lol. Maybe fill his heart with a desire to fix the fucking potholes?!
Demon Queen Eluria: LMFAO love you, bitch. Stay strong.
Wonder-Sparkle Princess: You too, gurl. How’s the husband? Still dead?
Demon Queen Eluria: Yep. Thanks for that, btw.
Wonder-Sparkle Princess: Don’t mess with my time off :p
Thinking about su xiyan in the context of “execute the mother to elevate the man” and how she only existed to check off the dead mom criteria on binghe’s tragic protagonist backstory but she was her own person with thoughts and feelings and she loved and loved and loved and yet all of that could be taken away and erased by a single man who felt entitled to her and
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