#DON'T FUCK THIS UP

[short-wooloo]

It's pride month, so I think now is a good time to remind all my fellow Queers...

THE REPUBLICANS WANT US ALL DEAD!!

This is not a secret, they are very much open about it, our lives (along with so many others) are very much on the line this election, if trump and the republicans win the presidency-or worse, the presidency and one or both of the houses of congress, WE WILL BE IN DANGER!!

And that's (just one reason) why we need to be voting for not just Joe Biden, but every Democrat in every election, vote blue down the ballot, because if you aren't, if you vote third party, if you don't vote at all, that only helps trump!! We know this!! We already went through this 8 years ago!!

Trump and the republicans want us dead

Biden and the Democrats do not

It's a simple choice

(And anyone commenting/reblogging something to the effect of "Biden/ Democrats don't rEeEeAaAaLlLlYyYy care about us/aren't doing enough, you can fuck right the hell off)

[holyblanchett]

Happy Agatha Wednesday to all those that celebrate!

I swear Jac Schaffer you have one job and if the last two episodes aren't atleast 45 minutes to an hour each I'm really gonna crash out

[suckmyarschkarte]

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[ineffablecabbage]

Today's John Truman Carter III mood for the U.S. Elections:

[ray935sworld]

My life could have been so much easier BUT NO! I NEEDED TO GOOGLE THAT OLD MAN [vale] AND NOW I'M HAVING A MENTAL NERVOUS BREAKDOWN BECAUSE OF THIS SHIT

[toggle1-mrfipp]

Kiss #1: Himeno gets super drunk and vomits down Denji’s throat.

Kiss #2: Reze bites Denji’s tongue off, and then tries to kill him in a intense fight that crosses like half the city.

Kiss #3: Asa says she hates him, leaving him confused why she is even here and ends up doubting himself, before Yoru surprises him with a kiss with the intention of killing him. Nayuta shows up and shoots a chain through Yoru’s head on sight.

Fourth times the charm, right?

Right?

[thegoodmorningman]

I'm rooting for the home team!!! Good Morning!!!

[kalibabysworld]

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Bro. Bro. Im counting down the days already I'm so thrilled!!!!!!

[crocvnts]

translation: Croatia is playing today

[oscar-isaac]

@thewintersoldier, @after-glow, @keanurevees if indiana jones and the dial of destiny sucks, we storm the disney headquarters at dawn on opening day 😤✊🏻

[thesocklesswonder]

[Image ID: This is a meme template with four panels, stacked vertically on top of one another. The panels are black and white with no other colors. The second and fourth panels have a blanked-out area where the original words were. New words have been inserted in their place.

In the first panel, a fuzzy, wolf-like anthropomorphic character with large eyes and a smiling mouth full of sharp teeth wearing a black business suit and white fedora asks, "So, what are we going to do?" In the second panel, there are three anthropomorphic characters wearing black suits. The first, on the left side, looks like a small insect with two bulging eyes on either side of its head. The second character, in the middle, is a bit larger and looks like a preying mantis with an inverted triangular head and eyes at both of the two top corners. The third, on the right and much larger, looks like a great white shark with many teeth protruding from a frowning mouth. They all have half-lidded expressions of resignation on their faces. They answer simultaneously, "Be prepared. Be professional. Convict Trump." In the third panel, the wolf man, eyes still large, but whose mouth has become a small scowl with two fangs jutting from the lower lip, asks, "What are we NOT going to do?" In the fourth panel, the anthropomorphic characters, with the same expressions of resignation, answer simultaneously, "Fuck this up." /.End ID]

[mystical-blaise]

Not ONLY this, but people are also creating typeset epub files and selling those too. 🙄

Fanfiction is based on a gift economy. We work for FREE to provide you content for FREE which you are then FREE to read. You can also download for FREE and then bind for PERSONAL use or create an epub for PERSONAL use via AO3.

Selling these bind copies and epubs online is bullshit. You don't get to make money on what the authors' wrote knowingly for FREE and put hundreds of hours into. Nope.

We're protected by AO3 in regards to the creation of derivative works, but that doesn't mean that if someone selling for-profit binds that they can't try to go after us. And believe me, there are entire law firms built around copyright who go looking for cases online.

So here's my stance as a fic author:

✔️binding for personal use

✔️ not necessary, but asking an author's permission to bind *mostly because, selfishly, I want to see the result, but it's also nice to know and be asked.

✔️Sharing typesets for free for those personal binds

❌ binding for profit

❌ selling typesets of fanfics and epubs online either on Etsy or behind a paywall like Patreon (now the epub thing is becoming a big problem. *I just saw Divine Rivals, in full, on Etsy the other day from a seller who was clearly not Rebecca Ross. Obviously reported their dumb ass.)

So let's remember, fanfic is a gift to the fandom, and the more people exploit it by being complete assholes, the more you're going to see it disppear.

Fellas, fellas

Why on earth are you BUYING PHYSICAL BOOKBOUND COPIES OF FANFICTION????

ACTUALLY WHY ARE YOU EVEN BOOKBINDING FANFICTION TO SELL?!?!?!

IF ANY OF YOU DO EITHER OF THESE THINGS, GET OUT!! I AM NEVER SPEAKING TO YOU AGAIN.

In all seriousness though, authors on AO3 have begun to pull their works off of the site to avoid getting sued by people stealing their works to make a pretty bound book for profit. Entire accounts could be shut down as well.

Listen, I’m all for saving favorite works by printing them out and putting them in a binder, or learning how to make a fancy book for a fanfic, but making books with actual fanfiction in it to sell is where I draw the line.

Literally the entire point of AO3 is that you can read it FOR FREE.

It is DISRESPECTFUL for people to make money off of hardbound copies because guess what, the original creators of these fics get nothing. We are literally only writing fanfiction for our own pleasure.

Buying and selling book-bound fanfiction is also ILLEGAL YOU DUMB SHITS. It’s an immediate violation of copyright law. The original fan work will get erased from the internet.

Fanfiction is already a legal grey zone since they are works being written about are protected by copyright. Copyright holders can in fact go after writers as well as the person who sold the fanfiction.

This also goes for people who steal fanart and, claim it as theirs, and put a price on it.

Don’t make it worse.

Bookbinding fanfiction for profit is literally ruining things for everyone. DON’T.

[mayhemchicken-artblog]

in the hour or so it took me to draw this op turned reblogs off

EDIT: reblogs are STAYING OFF. op was right and correct and i have never regretted making a post as much as this one. if you want to reblog my art you can reblog something else from my blog. or commission me, lord knows i deserve financial compensation for the nightmare this post has put me through

[aleppothemushroom]

Please have an actual reason to exist

Please have an actual reason to exist

PLEASE have an actual reason to exist

[inkskinned]

i got rickrolled today but it didn't work because i have adblocker installed, so youtube just told me i violated the terms of service. yesterday i was trying to edit a picture as a joke for my girlfriend, and google made me check a box to prove i'm human because i wasn't "searching normally".

it isn't just that capitalism is killing fun and whimsy, it is that any element of entertainment or joy is being fed upon by this mosquito body, one that will suck you dry at any vulnerability.

do you want to meet new friends in your city? download this app, visit our website, sign up for our email list. pay for this class on making a terrarium, on candlemaking, on cooking. it will be 90 dollars a session. you can go to group fitness, but only under our specific gym membership. solve the puzzle, sign up for our puzzle-of-the-month-club. what is a club if not just a paid opportunity - you are all paying for the same thing, which makes you a community.

but you're like me, i know it - you're careful, you try the library meetings and the stuff at the local school and all of that. the problem is that you kind of want really specific opportunities that used to exist. you are so grateful for libraries and the publicly-funded things: they are, however, an exception - and everything they have, they've fought tooth-and-nail to protect. you read a headline about how in many other states, libraries have virtually nothing left.

do you want to meet up with your friends afterwards? gift your friends the discord app. you can choose to go to a cafe (buy a coffee, at least), a bar (money, alcohol) or you can all stay in and catch a movie (streaming) or you can all stay in bed (rent. don't get me started) and scream (noise complaint. ticket at least).

you want to read a new book, but the book has to have 124 buzzwords from tiktok readers that are, like, weirdly horny. you can purchase this audiobook on audible! your podcast isn't on spotify, it's on its own server, pay for a different site. fuck, at least you're supporting artists you like. the art museum just raised their ticket price. once, they had a temporary exhibit that acknowledged that ~85% of their permanent art galleries were from cis white men, and that they had thousands of works by women (even famous women, like frida! georgia o'keefe!) just rotting in their basement. that exhibit lasted for 3 months and then they put everything away again.

walmart proudly supports this strip of land by the street! here are some flowers with wilting leaves. its employees have to pay out-of-pocket for their uniforms. my friend once got fined by the city because she organized a community pick-up of the riverfront, which was technically private property.

no, you cannot afford to take that dance class, neither can i. by the way - i'm a teacher. i'm absolutely not saying "educators shouldn't be paid fairly." i'm saying that when i taught classes, renting a studio went from 20 bucks an hour to 180 in the span of 6 months. no significant changes to the studio were made, except they now list the place as updated and friendly. the heat still doesn't work in the building. i have literally never seen the landlord who ignores my emails. recently they've been renting it out at night as an "unusual nightclub; a once-in-a-lifetime close-knit party." they spent some of those 180 dollars on LEDs and called it renovating. the high heels they invite in have been ruining the marley.

do you want to experience the old internet? do you want to play flash games or get back the temporary joy of club penguin? you can, you just need to pay for it. i have a weird, neurodivergent obsession with occasionally checking in to watch the downfall and NFT-ification of neopets. if i'm honest with you all - i never got into webkins, my family didn't have the money to buy me a pointless elephant. people forget that "being poor" can mean literally "if i buy you that toy, i can't afford rent."

you and i don't have time to make good food, and we don't have the budget for it. we are not gonna be able to host dinner parties, we're not made of money, kid. do you want some kind of 3rd space? a space that isn't home or work or school? you could try being online, but - what places actually exist for you? tiktok counts as social media because you see other people on it, not because they actually talk to you.

there was a local winter tradition of sledding down the hill at my school. kids would use pizza boxes and jackets and whatever worked, howling and laughing. back in september, they made a big announcement that this time, rules were changing, and everyone must pay 10 dollars to participate. when im not scared shitless, i kind of appreciate the environmental irony - it hasn't gone below 40. so much for snow & joyriding.

i saw a bulletin for a local dogwalking group and, nervous about making a good first impression, showed up early. the first guy there grimaced at me. "sorry," he said. "there's a 30-dollar buy-in fee." i thought he was joking. wait. for what? the group doesn't offer anything except friendship and people with whom to walk around the city.

he didn't know the answer. just shrugged at me. "you know," he said. "these days, everything costs money."

[holyblanchett]

I am personally leading the prayer circle she has to be talking about agathario.

"It will be a gay explosion by the end of it." — Aubrey Plaza