#About Aurorae

[oracleofdiscord]

pulling up these screenshots for no reason whatsoever

[comicaurora]

I’ve repeatedly seen you say that you can’t read any Aurora fanfiction “for legal reasons”. I assumed this was a joke and you’d just resolved to yourself not to read any that might change where you take the story (understandable), but the more I see you say it, the more I wonder if there’s actually a legitimate legal reason. So forgive my inability to pick up on humor sometimes— is that a joke? And if it’s not, could you elaborate a bit on those reasons?

I am not a lawyer so I only have a layman's grasp of this, but as I understand it, if I read a fanfic, think "oh that's a cool idea" and consciously or unconsciously integrate it into my future work, that ensnares me and the fanfic author in a terrible tangle of mutual theft.

Technically, fanfiction exists in an extreme legal gray area, and in the early days of the internet, authors were very litigious towards their fans using their work. In the same way that Disney will get on your ass for putting Mickey Mouse in your work, any author has the same legal ownership of their characters, and they can choose to exercise it. Some famously have, like Anne Rice, but most nowadays do not. Fandom is understood to be a beneficial ecosystem for a creator to cultivate. Most creators Pretend They Do Not See It so it can continue to exist.

But suppose you wrote a fanfic about Aurora where something cool happened, and then a few chapters later, your story showed up in Aurora itself. Maybe even with some lines ripped verbatim, for even less plausible deniability. Oh shit - you've been robbed. But your story was fanfiction to begin with, only loosely permitted to exist with the understanding that you didn't own the setting or characters used. In this scenario, I stole your work, but it was work you made out of MY work in the first place. If you got mad and litigious, the legality of fanfiction itself would immediately take center stage in the argument. Do you have a right to your work when you made it out of MY work without permission? Do I have the right to take work that was made out of my work and use it without credit? The fact that I think fanfiction is a great and fun art form has no bearing on the fact that, technically, it is IP theft. And the fact that it IS IP theft has no bearing on the fact that me seeing a cool idea in a fanfic and going "mine now" would still be a shitty thing to do.

But things can get muddier. Suppose you write an Aurora fanfic where events A, B and C happen, and then over the next several chapters of Aurora, A, B and C happen. Did I steal ideas from your fanfiction? Maybe, but it's also possible that I had A, B and C planned out beforehand, and you put them in your fanfiction because you picked up the foreshadowing and prep I was putting down. You could still be mad about it, but there's a very real possibility that in this scenario the only thing I'd be guilty of was Good Foreshadowing.

In this situation, if you got mad and litigious about it, my best defense would be ignorance. I couldn't have stolen your fanfiction because I never read it. There is absolutely no chance that I was influenced by your work; I've never even laid eyes on it.

And that is why I don't read Aurora fanfiction.

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More Imperatour shenanigans~

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jonny dville,,, worlds babygirlest Absolute Worst Guy Ever i love him

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Regarding the Cherry Wine Incident.

[formulanni]

the new aurora album SLAPS

Tags: @st-leclerc @three-days-time @the-wall-is-my-goal @saviour-of-lord @rubywingsracing

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idk if i’ll ever finish this, but here’s the ghouls having a good old lake day bc i went to the beach when i drew this

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New Eden friend :)

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Anon lives in aotearoa new zealand and was pleasantly surprised to find out they could see the aurora too!! it was very pretty and they're glad they got to see it. Feel free to put your country in the comments but no pressure 👍

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[sisterruthisconcerned]

Alright I’m gonna come on here to help some of y’all understand vocal ranges and mixing cause some of y’all are being absolutely disgusting towards “auroras” singer.

It’s ok if you don’t know how certain things works but the fact y’all are so quick to go after the ghoulettes this year, I’m afraid it’s just plain out misogyny and I’m tired of seeing it in this fandom.

Auroras singer is a POWERHOUSE vocalist. She sings at a very high register that most ears are going to pick up MORE, that’s normal. She is NOT TRYING TO OUTSING EVERYONE. Your ears are going to naturally pick up on those higher registers REGARDLESS.

If anything you need to have an issue with the MIXING not the SINGER.( I don’t feel this way I personally liked the mixing except for respite, I do think that song needs more work.)

If she truly was THAT LOUD like y’all are complaining she is, I TRULY believe Tobias would have never approved the recording. The fact that we HAVE IT means HE LIKED IT ENOUGH TO RELEASE IT. SO TAKE IT UP WITH TOBIAS AND STOP BAD MOUTHING HER.

- No one acted this way during the prequel era when cumulus over powers papas singing on the song per asper ad inferi and faith?

- No one acted this way when phantom and dew messed up their parts REPEATEDLY.

I’m starting to think some of y’all are forgetting these are REAL PERFORMERS AND PEOPLE behind those masks.

Im reading it as straight up misogyny at this point and jealousy over A CERTAIN OTHER GHOUL. Get a grip, educate yourself before you type nonsense, touch some grass and GET OVER YOUR PARASOCIAL RELATIONSHIP ITS NOT REAL!

Please be nicer to each other. You got one life to live, spread love with it not hate.

~A former choir, band and audio tech.

[strigital]

"And that, kids, is how I met your mother"

nothing against the default meet cute with the sparkly boy but it would be better if a cliche fumbling down and falling on top of tav had happened just saying 💁

[comicaurora]

the fact that an ace artist who has mentioned on multiple occasions she doesn't entirely get romance in fiction (at least in a lot of largely cliched forms) appears to be unable to create a single unfuckable character seems like some kind of largely benign but greatly entertaining curse. even the evil slime can't be an exception somehow. is this some kind of chaotic monkey's paw thing you did in exchange for drawing skills?

on the day of my birth my parents neglected to invite the wicked fairy of the forest, so she inflicted upon me a cruel curse such that I will forever craft art and stories laden with pleasures that I myself can never enjoy, and then a separate and unrelated wicked fairy smote me with the curse of Can't Stop Drawing Meme Formats

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will the edge of my sorrow be gone in the morning?

[image ID: a five-page comic featuring Akira and Akechi from Persona 5. It is grayscale aside from occasional pops of red. In the first, Akechi looks up at Akira from where he sits at the bar in Leblanc, dressed in his January outfit, holding a cup of coffee in one hand. Text reads, "If I stay here any longer / I will stay here forever". In the second, the coffee cup is shown from above, reflecting Akechi's face with the faint, blood-red outline of his Loki mask overlaid on top of it. Text reads, "Till the echo of my shadow is gone". In the third, Akechi gazes down into his coffee, his expression weary. A white outline of his Robin Hood mask is overlaid on his face, and white outlines of his cognitive self and his injured real self from the engine room pointing guns at each other are shown on his front. Text reads, "There are heroes within us". In the fourth, Akira looks sadly down at Akechi, who hunches over his coffee, his face in shadow. Text reads, "There are lovers around us". In the fifth, the door to Leblanc is shown from the outside, the darkness split by white light streaming out from inside. Through the door's windows, the pair sitting at the bar can be seen, Akira reaching forwards to put a hand on Akechi's face. Text reads, "Stay right here / Stay in the light, my dear". End ID]

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just a couple of guys having a good time and nothing bad happens to them ever!!

little mid-artfight doodle,, I'm being so serious when I say think about them weekly. my favourite Achilles/Patroclus parallel ever they make me sickkkkkk

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