#i've seen this before

[syoddeye]

y'all are very sweet but after working in higher ed and teaching 101s, i have advantage against $2 words and Discourse™

[touchoffleece]

We've heard this song and seen this dance before

With season 2 of Wednesday confirmed, and all the promo interviews being said, older sapphic fans are hearing the beginnings of a tune and dance we've seen before. "Not writing out the possibility of (x female ship)" all the while giving more promo to the het ship; personally reminding me of Supergirl using queer fans for views all the while having a good majority of air time be spent dragging Lena and Kara's relationship through the ringer. And yet despite that, Supercorp fans who were there from the start managing to keep creating wonderful works of fanart to keep the ship alive, despite the show itself desperately trying to make heterosexual relationships the ship(s) to "root" for despite the people making the show knowing people wanted the sapphic ship over a hetero ship. Wednesday and Enid's relationship may follow along like Kara and Lena's or maybe in an unexpected twist Netflix allows the showrunners to make it happen; regardless I think that as long as fans don't let questionable decisions about the show and their characters kill the want to create fan-works for WenClair, Wenclair shippers and the ship will be fine. (once again look at Supercorp as an example, it might not have been canon, but the fan-works are still happening, and it's hard to deny how close Lena and Kara were at the end of the series.) Canon may be one thing, but it's not like Fanon is less valid now a days. So whatever is headed towards Sapphic Wednesday fans, keep creating that good sapphic juice.

[crehador]

hmm

[that-bi-bitch-writes]

all the fake tweets and ship edits for jjk and opla on my fyp...

[the-blathermouth]

I see no difference

[specterthief]

humbling

[confessxcrush4tcc]

I want adam lanza to sit on my face while he’s on his computer. use my face like a chair Lanza.

Confession #624

[spikewriter]

Case in point: JMS had to delay "Passing Through Gethsemane" from S2 to S3 of Babylon 5 because a fan happened to mention the central idea on a forum where JMS saw it. It wasn't until he was able to contact the person and get them to sign a paper saying they understood JMS already had the idea and no, he wasn't steeling something from the guy, that he could actually put the script into process. Because, if they'd just gone ahead, the guy could have sued the production company for taking his idea and possibly won.

That's not an apocryphal story, either. I was at the LosCon where JMS first showed Passing Through Gethsemane and he told the story by way of introducing it.

You can't sell the story you wrote about someone else's IP, but they in turn can't just take the ideas contained it your story which are original to you without compensating you.

But back up to the original ask, this is just a new iteration of the jerks who say "I don't have to respect your rights to the work you created." Now it's "I can feed this to AI because you have no rights and you know it." Used to be, we'd see things like people taking a fic, rewriting the ending to way they wanted it--or finishing an unfinished fic--and presenting it as "their" work.

You don’t own fanfics. They’re inherently public domain because they aren’t your IP. Agree or disagree with AI, there are no grounds for “protection” from AI because it isn’t your IP to begin with. That’s what you chose when you chose this medium

Oh dear.

Okay, you get an answer, because at least you took the effort to write your ask out properly, even if you are hiding behind the grey, sunglassed circle.

Do I, or any fanfic author for that matter, have any legal claims to our work? No, not really, no. (Although if someone took a fic, filed off the serial number–deleted the fandom specific elements–, and then had it published for financial gain, yeah, that would be a case.)

BUT

Fandoms are built on a social contract that says we respect each others work, the effort people put into their art. We don’t steal or disrespect the work of our peers. By feeding people’s fanworks to AI you both steal and disprect it, and we need to make people realize that before it’s too late–before fandom falls apart, because there will be no more real, actual fanworks.

Disrepectfully,

Orlissa

(i can’t believe I have to say this)

[cherpupz]

utmv meme dump pt. 1 / ?

credit :3

killer - rahafwabas horror - sour apple studios cross - jakei95 dream + nightmare - jokublog swap - p0pcornpr1nce / au community error - loverofpiggies ink - comyet dust - ask-dusttale

[pinktinselmonstrosity]

an underrated psych bit imo

[fireheartedpup]

I like how you pick the scent.

Guys wtf

[flawlessflesh]

thistle's too short for this scheme to work...

[kooldewd123]

i think mumbo/grian/skizz is one of the best teamups we could have gotten for this season specifically, because if this first session is anything to go by, then watching skizz "least observant minecraft player ever" skizzleman and mumbo "third least observant minecraft player ever" jumbo (scar is number two) try to figure out what the wild card is each episode while grian knows but doesn't give them any hints is gonna be glorious

[akanemnon]

FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!

FIRST - PREVIOUS - NEXT

MASTERPOST (for the full series / FAQ / reference sheets)

[strawberries-are-my-life]

Francesc Jubany (Spanish, 1787 - 1852) Saint Magdalene, ca. 1849 - 50 Museu Nacional D'art de Catalunya

[hanamakis]

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