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oh i'm going to cry

tumblr ate my post again and this time ate the ask I was replying to with it

i wrote like 5 or 6 hefty paragraphs on copyright law and the tolkien legendarium. twice.

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[meraxes-of-new-albion]

Sigh. Love it when people on the internet feel entitled to your existence

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[cordeliacordate]

Hello, I'm being harassed.

I've been the target of a whisper network-based harassment campaign for the past few months, and in the past few days, it's escalated to relentless attacks on me, on my friends, and other fandom creatives.

Whoever is behind this is using my name in the comment section of peoples' fics and elsewhere to harass authors and spread rape fantasies about me. Sock puppet accounts claiming to be me are popping up left and right, joining in on the harassment. When I removed 55 works from AO3, they started re-posting them as wholesale plagiarism back to the archive (with a specifically vile twist: using the top!Stiles fics I wrote as a gift for a friend who ships Sterek to force stories I wrote into the archive under the top!Jacaerys tag.)

Please know that these comments, this vile behavior, is not from me. I have always stood behind peoples' right to write whatever they wish, and have always supported all dead dove: do not eat works in every form.

If you are receiving hate comments from someone commenting as 'cordeliacordate', it's not me. I am sorry that you're being dragged into this asinine harassment campaign, and I hope that it ends sooner rather than later with an IP ban from AO3, but until then, I'm sorry for anyone caught up in the crosshairs.

Nobody should ever be treated this way, hard stop. If you want to read more about my decision to take a hiatus and the rest of the story, please check my Twitter, which has far more regular updates, as it's no secret that I don't use Tumblr often.

(Also, sorry if I don't respond on here. Tumblr is unfortunately not a platform I use or even check often.)

[olderthannetfic]

I think something a lot of people don't understand about fair use (re: https://www.tumblr.com/olderthannetfic/742672782138179584/genuine-question-that-maybes-dumb-but-i-just) is that you have to be willing and able to defend your creative expression as fair use in a court of law--and a lot of IP holders, especially the big ones like Disney, have a lot more money to throw at a lot more lawyers than the average fic author or fanartist.

Now, theoretically, making money off of someone else's IP can constitute fair use. This is where you get things like parodies--Weird Al, for example, has his entire brand based off of riffing on other people's music, and he does so in a creative way that ultimately constitutes fair use because parody is explicitly protected. Also, because ideas cannot be copyrighted--only specific expressions of those ideas--you could rip a plot wholesale from a Disney property, and as long as you change the names and specific expressions of characters/etc so that none of Disney's IP remains, that would fall under fair use... but, if Disney decided to come after you anyway, you'd need the money for a decent lawyer in order to prove fair use in court, because it's taken on a case by case basis.

That's why it's easiest to avoid a lot of guff from IP holders by simply not earning any money from your work. If you put your fic on ao3, the OTW is ready and willing to defend your right to do so in court if it comes to that. Most other sites aren't, and that goes especially hard for sites where money is exchanged and it's a lot harder to prove fair use.

Plus, it's much easier for an IP holder to prove infringement if you are making money off of their specific expressions of ideas in writing--using character names, in particular, which are easily searchable and irrefutably linked to copyrighted work.

--

[minervamagicka]

I just wanted to note something publicly since someone privately (but kindly!) alerted me to some folks kicking up a stink over my SSO to TS4 conversions offplatform, and whether they violate the original game's TOS.

The fact of the matter is that they honestly, very likely do violate the TOS — Just as any sort of model conversion/porting/modding violates the TOS of most games. The same way writing fanfiction or making your own merchandise for licensed IPs also violates the TOS/copyright of those works; you don't own the content you're working with in those regards. The same way you actually don't even own the games you buy, according to most standard EULAs — You're effectively renting them.

The fact of the matter is that game modding as a whole, not just TS4 CC, is a gigantic legal grey area. Some companies pay attention more than others and some tolerate it more than others. We operate within that grey area with the knowledge that, at any time, we could get kicked down by the companies who own these spaces.

So yeah, I'm not particularly fussed if I break X terms of use, Y EULA or Z copyright, seeing as I'm already doing so just by participating in the act of modding. I don't profit, sell, or wholesale redistribute these assets either; not that, again, it's particularly hard to get your hands on them. Just googling "SSO 3d model download" gives you enough results to give a lawyer a heart attack.

However if you (whomever it may concern) do feel strongly enough about it to be against this kind of content being made and offered, then I kindly encourage you to just not engage. You won't get a medal for defending a gigantic company either to me or other players, to be frank.

o7 that's all, more CC to come!

[popculturebuffet]

Into the Spider-Verse: Spider-Ham (Marvel Tails #1 and Peter Porker, The Spectacular Spider-Ham #15) (Comissioned by WeirdKev15)

Hello all you happy webheads and welcome back to Into the Spider-Verse, my look at the origins of every webslinger from the landmark film in the build up to Across the Spider-Verse. And it's bittersweet to be this close to the end of the web here: i'm proud of myself for this project and kev for having cooked it up as it allowed me to really dig into my love of spider-man, and comics in general, with new ideas and even possible new retrospectives wholesale coming out of this.

But before we can end this ride, we still have one Spidey to cover, who after our previous spider-persons adventures with crackers and milk, their predecesors literal oppisite sex clone, mob goons without fear, rock n roll pop art halluciongens in your giant spider mecha, and giant spiders stripping you naked, one man comes along to say..

Yes it's time for the debut of Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham a

And i'm sure many of you, both those familiar with the comics and those who just watched the movie, are asking the same question: why. The answer is simple. Way way back in the 1980's, Marvel had a new animated arm, Marvel Productions, which was a massive deal, producing both GI Joe and Transformers, which both started as comics first to promote the upcoming toylines, as well as Dungeons and Dragons, My LIttle Pony Tales, Muppet Babies, Jem and the Holograms, Kid N Play and the Biker Mice From Mars. There were also of course marvel cartoons like Spider-Man(the 80s one), Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends, The Incredible Hulk, the more popular Incredible Hulk and the infamous and destined to be covered Pryde of the X-Men Pilot.

So naturally Marvel wanted more ips to feed into the almighty merchandising machine, because shockingly, companies have ALWAYS wanted every dollar they can get out of making more and more adaptations as long s they can afford it. So two writers set to work to spitball this: They were Tom DeFalco, a longtime spider-man editor who would go on to write the guidebook I had as a kid that really got me into the comics and taught me a lot about his rogues gallery and more importantly would write the book himself briefly, being the one to crystalize Mary Jane's tragic Backstory and her knowing Peter Parker is spider-man all along. WIth him was the wonderful Larry Hama, at the time writing GI JOe for marvel.. and at the time of this writing STILL writing his continuation of that continuity for IDW as he should. Hama deserves all the credit for setting the foundations of the GI Joe universe most adaptations follows and for writing one hell of a comic in the process, and not one to rest on his laurels would later have the defining run on Wolverine's solo book.

So as you can imagine when these two legends get together.. they created a simple but enduringly weird joke that has lasted decades. It's a concept that just works: Spider-Man.. but he's a funny animal. Weirdly though Marvel Animation passed on it, not wanting anything to do with it despite the fact that in a time when Garfield was at the peak of his powers and they'd be making muppet babies, funny animals were a VERY easy sell. Seriously why Marvel Animation was so stupid is a riddle for the ages but Marvel liked printing money, so they put Porker in a one shot, Marvel Tails, parodying the marvel reprint mag marvel Tales. That said DeFalco didn't expect much from it and was suprised months later when the higher ups asked for another issue. He explained it was a one shot.. and then they asked when the next issue was and he got the memo. While DeFalco wrote the one shot that launched the character he freely admits he's not the one who made him a star. That honor goes to Steve Skeates. Skeates had been a mainstay in the industry, paticuarlly having a run on Aquaman i've been trying to read for some time that really launched the character to new heights before Superfriends would shove him back to the depths for a while. He was burnt out on the industry and freely admits he wouldn't of done the book for Larry Hama if it was any other book, but felt the format allowed him to do a throwback to the kinds of books he liked writing while still throwing in plenty of comedy to keep it fresh. The result was pretty great, with Skeates wisely having Porker's various foes not be the obvious joke of being the animals they resemble, for instance the Vulture being a possum in a buzzard suit instead of a vulture.

And we'll be seeing that contrast between Porker's humble one shot joke beginings and evolved more nuanced parody as unlike most of the characters featured... Porker didn't get his origin story for a while. While most of the spider-persons got there's in their very first appearance or arc, Porker's origin didn't come about till late in his solo books run. So today we'll be looking at both his first appearance in Marvel Tails, and his origin story in Peter Porker the Spectacular Spider-Ham #15 under the cut!

Spider-Ham begins his career in a typical spider-man setting: stopping a typical gang of thugs with ease and some quips. But it's not long before we get into one of the weird things about this story, something that just dosen't really work with it: Captain Americat. Cap is pictured here as Peter's steadfast partner and a reporter at his paper and none of this works. Now this is an AU, it COULD work and the idea of steve and peter being closer partners and steve mentoring him is great, just as the idea of Tony mentoring him was a brilliant one the movies captalized on. But here it's just treated as a normal thing without really being used for a joke that this is so unusual. A large part of this is something that's easy to forget as it hasn't been true about the character since the early 2000's. Spidey.. used to be a bit of a loner when it came to the rest of the Marvel Universe. Granted he was the kind of loaner who had an entire ongoing dedicated to him teaming up with other heroes and a tv show where he had two super college roomies he'd fight crime with, but when it came to consistant teamups his only real super friends were the fantastic four and in a few years Daredevil. Spider-Woman existed, but Jessica was largely her own thing by design, with only the name in common and wouldn't really become an ally or even friend of peter's till they were in the avengers together. Peter would have team ups but he really wasn't super close with the rest of the marvel universe. This changed in the early 2000's as his joining the new avengers gave him a lot of new allies in the marvel universe: He'd be on the new avengers until Brian Micheal Bendis left the book, he joined HIckman's avengers for the first arc, with Doc Ock taking his place, and joined the Mighty Avengers and Mark Waid's avengers afterwords, only in the last few years taking a break from the group entirely, ironically as his MCU counterpart became heavily associated with them himself. Not only that the dawn of the spider-verse and miles migrating to become the 616's second spider-man, meant peter soon had a spider-family.

Even now in his current tirefire of a solo i've been purposfully avoiding but suspect i'l lhave to confront some day, he has Ms Marvel, soon to be thrown in the fridge, Norman Osborn, long story, and his current girlfriend the black cat. Peter's no longer the solo operator he once was.. but back then it's very weird fo ra parody of the character to just.. casually hang out with Captain America regularly and this angle was wisely dropped.

This isn't the only weird thing in this issue either. For some reason rather than pulling from peter's many rogues, the issue has him face the Masked Marauder, some punk ripping off a super high tech arcade. It comes off more like a Scooby Doo Mystery complete with various red herings and the actual culprit showing up early on. He's not even the main threat as the everlovin hulk is also shoved into this issue. His origin is a little neat, with Bruce Bunny being an arcade game maker who gets shoved into a cabinet.

The result though just isn't that funny. Ther'es a good joke about steve stashing his shield in his coat

But otherwise i'ts just kinda.. there and didn't leave the best first impression back when I first read it. It's nicely drawn, but dosen't have much actually to say or any really satire of the character. It's clear they had the name but no idea what to do with it. THe backup is pretty funny though, the weird Goose Rider, take a while guess, who just.. spends it riding around, thinking about grabbing a burger, and dealing iwth shouty civlians and some random doofus called chainsaw. This satire.. actually works as from what I can tell Ghost Rider's early rogues gallery before his reinvention in the 90's wasn't all that impressive with few exceptions. It's more what I wanted. Thankfully when Peter got his title shot, things perked up and by the time we get to his origin... we get something delightful.

As you can tell both by the cover used for this review and from the title, this one's a parody of spider-man no more. Even if you haven't read the story (I've only read the iconic issue iwth the cover), you've doubtlessly seen it's cover, and the various homages to both that and the shot of peter throwing his costume in the trash and walking away, both by spider-heroes and the rest of the marvel. It helps that Sam Rami choose it as the backbone of Spider-Man 2 and ended up making an even BETTER version of the story in the process. Even Miles had his own version of it after his mom died and he blamed himself for it since the second ultimate venom was the reason she died. If you've read more recent comics and seen Rio alive and well that's because Miles befriended the Molocule Man, a very shy man with the power to control molocules... which shockingly for comics has been treated every bit as horrifyingly powerful as it should since his introduction, with MM's only real wekaness being his crippling neurosis. So when the universe died and was put back, Molocule brought her back as a thank you present. I had a point here.. ah yes.. I love the Molocule Man and feel he's a highly underated character. Oh that with the severe stress and sacrifice of being a spider-man, it's not a huge leap to have that moment of doubt. And it's an even shorter leap to take that moment and parody it and Peter's angst for all it's worth. We open with J Jonah Jackal hooking himself up to an idea machine while his three young wards, the junior newsboys watch. They are Jermiah Jackal, JJJ's snooty nephew, Bunson Bunny, our resident nerd who talks in big snetences and Upton Adam Stray, a combination of a black sterotype and

If your getting some deja vu from a rich magnate having three young sidekicks who both acompany him and try to steer away his worse instincts, one of whom is jonah's literal nephew.. GOOD. It means you have good taste and also get the bit. Spider-Ham has a bit of the old Scrooge McDuck stories in it's dna, simply adding spider-man and his rogues to the mix, and really JJJ is such a perfect fit for scrooge and Peter for Donald, that I can't blame both writers for dipping into this formula when it fits spider-man shockingly well now he's a pig.

This issue is written by steven Mellor, who took over the title later in his run, but like Skeates does a really fun job with it.

With Jonah having peter come to the clubhouse to view an idea he came up with that involves the kids

Peter deals with typical spider-man things. That is trying to get a date with his ex Betty Bat. It goes about usual for peter

Also as you might have noticed, hilariously, Peter Porker looks a LOT like John Mulaney, despite having been created only one year after John was born. I mean he's also a talking pig but the hair is distractingly like his future voice actors and I love it.

Baby P decides to handle this like a mature, rational young swine

Before bemoaning that he's still single.. what I like is that Mellor both really gets how Peter Parker Mopey Rants work, and milks it with everyone starring not sure what to do as peter ineternally rants and the janitor eventually asking him to leave as he's getting his tears on the floor. Peter then reflects back to his origin, the reason we're here. And even for a talking pig.. peter's origin is hilaroiusly bizzare. It's my kind of weird shenanigans. Okay so in this version Peter.. was a spider, which is clever enough.. but May was a mad scientest who befriended peter and showed him her new invention: a fission powered hairdryer. It made her radoactive, it wasn't good.. and well... I can't say what happens next and have most of you belivie it actually happened so here's photographic evdience.

This.. this is comedy gold, and clever as all hell. Just deciding to have may be radioactive nad bite peter. It's as nuts as it is brilliant and I love it. So we get the standard origin moments of Peter testing out his powers.. and we also get a nice gag out of him bending a pipe in the original amazing fantasy #15

Peter returns to find may basically the dodering old lady sterotype she was in earlier spider-man comics, and decides to look after her and not tell her the truth, as well as put his powers to use. Peter's genius in this version is also from the bite and thus Spider-Ham is born

After running into flash thompsons counterpart, who sadly isn't named flash beagle, we get jonah's meeting where he's dressed himself and the boys up in superhero outfits and ...

To become Black Beagle and his beagle brigadeers. Peter is dragged along for this and this.. is easily the weakest part of the issue. While the idea of Jonah becoming a hero himself is great and has been used well, here it's just kinda there and is mostly a setup for them to befriend "Andy Warthog" and see a bunch of celebrity pastiches. It's a boring page or two

Thankfully it picks up with a delightful parody of one of my faviorite spider-man rogue as the Hobgobbler crashes the party! God bless this pun. He kidnaps one of the celebrties and we get a ncie character moment. Despite how silly this character and his origin are... it's still neat to see the core of spider-man.. is still present.

No matter the universe, no matter who wears the mask... they can't turn down responsiblity. Try as he might.. Peter just can't let someone else get hurt if he can help it and that's what makes spider-man the hero we love so much: that drive to help people no matter what it takes. It's what makes a spider-person what they are wethere they be man, woman, ham or nb.

So Peter naturally wins, in a nicely drawn fight, cooks the turkey and drive sJonah home. He WANTS to just get some deserved sleep but Aunt May has other plans.. thankfully said plans give our hero his much deserved happy ending. Action is already his reward.

As you can probably figure, this issue is a massive improvment and it's clear even with two diffrent writers, the full ongoing got the concept better and more importantly had more fun with it. The result.. is fucking great. Also the puns. Dear lord the puns. And that's not getting into the backup which has the scavengers fight kangaroo the conquerer. Who damn well better be among the council of kangs. At any rate this issue was greatr and even with the brief slowdown, is a great issue, not only getting me reintrested in this run, but also showing off just what you can do with a parody: have it be both heartfelt and clearly get what it's making fun of while still being great.

Next Time: The web ends as we look at the movie itself. Anyone can wear the mask but is one Miles Morales up to the task? Can he fill peter's shoes? Well yeah, I mean there's even a sequel, but it's still one hell of a ride.

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[setaripendragon]

To preface this, I am not trying to start drama or belittle anyone's personal tastes just trying to get others opinions. I personally do not like when people have Bilbo be called little one from a romantic partner and I was wondering if it's just me or maybe if it's authors whose first language is not English. To me it reads as a term of endearment for a child, first and only language is American English. How do you feel about that term? Is English your first language? What's your favorite term of endearment for Bilbo or do you not like any?

*Asks are sent for fun, no pressure to answer.

Heh. I'm with you on this one. I think I could be... interested in it if someone did something interesting with it linguistically. Like how 'cabbage' is an endearment in... I can't actually remember which language, but not english XD So if someone was playing with how Khuzdul translates (or doesn't) into Westron, making 'little one' an endearment that works in Khuzdul, but less well in Westron would be fun, I think.

However, they'd have to do it really well, because otherwise... I have a pet peeve about Hobbits being called 'little' or 'halfling' or anything like that, which mainly comes from, ironically, D&D.

Because I am so mad - so mad - that hobbits are called 'halflings' because oh, hobbit is Tolkien's IP (if I'm wrong about this, someone please tell me, but this is all I was able to find about it), but the orcs are called orcs when orc is the Sindarin word for goblin, you know, that language Tolkien made up wholesale?! Whereas Hobs are, in fact, a real life folklorish creature?!

-deep breath- So I vent this outrage into all the hobbits I write being very 'Excuse me, we're not half of anything, thank you very much' and that definitely extends to them being called 'little' anything.

But yeah, my first language is English, and I'm not fluent in anything, though I've tried to learn a couple of languages (I don't have any real opportunities for immersion, though, so it's a bit hard ^^"), because I'm a linguistics nerd.

Favourite endearments for Bilbo? Khuzdul ones ^^" Ghivashê, or Amrâlimê, or Marlel, or Sanze'uh, or Mudtê. I don't have a specific favourite, though I think Thorin would probably stick to one favourite endearment as a nickname, and only pull out the others if he was apologising for something. Probably Sanze or Sanze'uh, because it's the most overdramatic of the lot XD

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[zombolouge]

Okay I’m not entirely sure how to word this well so please bear with me.

You’ve written and published both fanfic and original fiction. What happens in your brain to determine if an idea should be fanfic or og? Some of your fanfics feature OC protagonists living through (mostly unchanged) canonical events, but some feature canon protagonists in non-canon events (though you usually seem to not change the canon setting too wildly? I haven’t read through your whole portfolio on ao3 though so correct me if I’m wrong lol). But you could just as easily write canon blorbos in hugely AU settings or plots, and there are other authors who have done so very successfully. So can you speak to where the line is, for you, or what sort of things influence that?

hehehehe I have finally arrived at this question, and I've been pondering it ever since you sent it because I love it, it gave me big thinky thoughts.

I think my process on this can get pretty complicated as I sort of weigh things out. Some of it has to do with how much plot I'm crafting wholesale, but not always. For instance, the entirety of the plot for Indefensible (Ace Attorney fic) was constructed wholesale, because it takes place post-canon, so I had to come up with mystery cases and character arcs on my own and didn't have canon to guide them. Others, I'm using canon as the guide, and even if I'm completely changing canon, that guide was still the starting point.

But I've also shied away a bit from that level of work and didn't turn it into fic. For instance, when I played ME: Andromeda, I toyed with the idea of making a fic, but the work I'd have had to do on the baseline plot was so great that I felt as though I'd have been better served creating original fiction out of that idea rather than a fic. I may return to an Andromeda fic with a slightly different concept at some point, but it didn't vibe with me at that time.

I think the real deciding factor is whether or not I think the story's soul, or heart, relies on something in the IP that's inspiring it. For instance, Indefensible relies on the history the characters already have together and playing on that history. The story wouldn't have worked without Phoenix and Edgeworth and their respective backstories. If I were changing it to original fiction, I'd have needed to lift those backstories, explain them, try to change them to make them original, and then after doing all that I don't think the story would have had the same heart and soul to it. It would have changed the spirit of the thing.

I'm not personally a big fan of just filing off the serial numbers and calling it original, I'm pretty honest with myself about whether or not I'm really relying on someone else's IP to tell a story. So when that IP is really part of the story I'm trying to tell and I'm leaving enough of it unchanged that I feel it's still firmly in the fic category, I keep it as fic. If I feel like I'm changing it so that it's unrecognizable or no longer needs to pull from the source to keep the soul of the story, I start reworking it even more into original fiction.

It can get a lot more complex than that as I weigh each individual part of the whole and decide if it needs the IP or not, but that's the gist of it. It's a lot of kicking at the supports from canon to see if they're load-bearing or not lol

Hopefully that answers your question! <3

[nothorses]

definitely agree with your ai art post. i've seen people taking a wholesale "ai bad" stance on the topic, and it's really rather frustrating. thanks for being nuanced :]

It's taken me a hot minute to arrive at that specific conclusion tbh and I have also gone through some "AI art bad" stages to get there, so like. I get it!

but also I'm increasingly frustrated to see the conversation become "lol you think IP is real" when like... yeah it is though? Like it is bad when people's work is stolen and profited from without consent.

What makes things like pirating big movie releases a non-issue is that, like, pirating isn't generating profit for a third party who's only contribution to the work was stealing it, and the actual creators of the work aren't the ones who own it by that point anyway. But if you ran ads on a YouTube upload of some little indie team's movie the creators themselves are trying to sell & made a bunch of money off that, I do actually think that'd be bad!

It's just such a big and complicated topic that honestly, I don't know enough about to get into the nitty-gritty of, particularly when it comes to legalities. I just feel like it shouldn't be all that controversial to say "it's bad when people profit from the stolen work of unconsenting artists" and I don't think the people arguing that exact point are helping much when they instead say shit like "AI art is bad because you shouldn't be able to make art that way".

Anyway yes and agree and thank you 💙

[drachonia]

Alright it’s 7:30 in the morning and I’m up early, let’s analyze some lore because I love doing that shit.

Now I see these as plot holes, not anything serious or game ruining. (Honestly that should go without saying, the story in this game is great, I love spins on classic fairytales that can flow well in their own way without taking wholesale from an old IP.) A lot of this content is plot exposition and I get that. Even so I see 2 things (that I honestly prefer to see as my own headcanons) that really kind of stand out.

I adore this lore as much as I do any fandom I’m in at the moment, I hope my for-fun dumbassery analysis was a lil entertaining.

This is apparently set in a non-fantasy world. Which…how? Where we at? The Bermuda Triangle? I feel like you’re given far more freedom and can avoid more plot holes by being its own world. It just seems more logical that way. (especially given the fact me and my friend had an ‘aha’ moment learning that all the countries are named after gemstones, even Benitoite and Rhodolite.)

Ikepri is apparently set in the Middle Ages. The 1400-1500s. Literally the earliest fashion choices I see are from ~1700s and that’s when technology seemed to sort of kick off, I feel like that would fit much better.

Anywho, that’s about all I can think for now and I’ve spent about 22 mins writing this shit so imma go browse. Hope this was entertaining for some people out there, lmao.