“The 2023 Attack on AO3” is absolutely gonna join the legion of annual tumblr events we celebrate/commemorate respectfully
reblog if you survived The 2023 Attack on AO3 july 10-11, 2023
Walk into the apartment and my roommate says “Mike Wazowski only has one eye??” and I say, “WHAT are you talking about, of course he only has one eye. Only having one eye is like his whole fucking thing. Why would you think he has more than one eye” and she flips her phone around and shows me this
Isn’t that how he looks like
Girl… Google Mike Wazowski right now
please tell me there is a complete image, because you can see the other guy standing next to him and you know what we’re gonna find
Sadly, a quick and half awake google search suggests that whoever made this shop job, they did not complete the joke.
there IS a COMPLETE IMAGE ive SEEN IT before

i looked away from your blog for who knows how long and just noticed that you're fired!? do you have a post explaining why?
jv:
I have a post about it in my WordPress blog but it was written mostly for my coworkers and I’ve made it private now (it was getting semiviral in certain circles, it was kind of emotional, and I don’t want to get that kind of attention right now). The thing in a nutshell:
- about a month ago, out of the blue, HR asked me to join a call with them and told me to fuck off.
- the only reason I got was “lack of alignment with the company direction”, with no further explanation when I tried to dig further.
- no one in my team, nor me, had any idea this was going to happen (my performance reviews had always been superb), everyone was pretty shocked. My team leads (both of them, my team recently changed lead and we were kind of in transition) found about it when they tried to ping me about something in slack and saw my account was disabled.
- while I can’t talk about the severance, the company acknowledged publicly it was an “unfair dismissal”, and firing someone with a 8 years tenure like that isn’t exactly cheap under Spanish laws, so money-wise I’m going to be good for a long while.
And that’s it.
(To be honest, I’m not sure “lack of alignment” has to do with me not agreeing with the CEO in the overall direction of Tumblr, because I wasn’t the only one to disagree on that. I think it probably has more to be more with me being too vocally against certain labor-related decisions of the company, but who knows)
every year I post this meme and every year people get more mad at me than they did the previous year

remember to give kudos, leave comments, and generally show your appreciation to the fic writers who produce the content we so dearly missed yesterday when ao3 went down
“we need to make it easier to discover new blogs and creators”
ok then. fix the search. you know, the search function that has been notoriously broken for YEARS. that ppl have complained abt FOR YEARS
make it easier to follow tags, allow ppl to filter out other tags when searching thru them, or to search multiple tags at once, and make these functions EASY TO USE and widely known
give a clear guide on HOW tagging works! what will exclude a tag, etc