#they have no legal legs.

[quinloki]

I'm going to oversimplify here, because I'm tired and I don't give a shit.

But I remember writing fanfic back when FF.net started, and I remember consuming every scrap of legalese regarding copyrights and trademarks, and anything else even slightly related.

Not just because I wanted to write fanfic but also because I wanted to write some OG stuff and I wanted to know what my legal rights were. I was fuckin' nobody and had no money for a lawyer.

Long story short because I don't want to get all nitpicky - if fan fiction was truly illegal Ao3 wouldn't have lasted a year without being buried in litigation.

Disney alone would've buried them.

Every author quoted as saying it's illegal is a fucking numpty and a troglodyte.

Authors Convinced Fanfic is Illegal/Requires Permission

Terry Goodkind: “Copyright law dictates that in order for me to protect my copyright, when I find such things, I must go out and hire lawyers to threaten these people to make them stop, and to sue them if they don’t.”

John Scalzi: “Let's remember one fundamental thing about fanfic: Almost all of it is entirely illegal to begin with. It's the wild and wanton misappropriation of copyrighted material”

Diana Gabaldon: “OK, my position on fan-fic is pretty clear: I think it’s immoral, I know it’s illegal, and it makes me want to barf whenever I’ve inadvertently encountered some of it involving my characters.”

Robin Hobb: “Fan fiction is like any other form of identity theft. It injures the name of the party whose identity is stolen.”

Anne Rice: “I do not allow fan fiction. The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan fiction with my characters. I advise my readers to write your own original stories with your own characters. It is absolutely essential that you respect my wishes.”

Anne McCaffrey: “there can be no adventure/stories set on Pern at all!!!!! That's infringing on my copyright and can bear heavy penalties…indiscriminate usage of our characters, worlds, and concepts on a 'public' media like electronic mail constitute copyright infringement AND, which many fans disregard, is ACTIONABLE!”

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro: “No. Absolutely not. It is also against federal law.”

Lynn Flewelling: “Whether you are writing about Seregil or Fox Mulder or Sherlock Holmes, if you do not have legal permission from the author, their estate, or publisher, then you are violating US copyright law. It is creative piracy. Doesn't matter how many disclaimers you put on, or if you're being paid. It. Is. Illegal.”

Someone Else, elaborated in the notes

[clownsuu]

"KIRYU-CHAAAAN" Yakuza Wally shouts as he pops out of a giant traffic cone.

Is it a comically large cone? Or is it just a regular cone cause of how short Wally is smhhhh

Few more yakuza au doodles- dumb joke au is fun to think about, but a pain to draw smhhh

also them twos- Dusty looks exactly the same as regular mob except with a party hat on

[narwhalsarefalling]

i got a seizure from watching Avatar 2 and now I can’t drive for six months

[didnt-hear-cold-as-you-live]

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[pletoric0]

P.E. funtimes

[syrenki]

post depressive episode clarity like what the fuck do you mean they'll never disappear, just fade.

[dark-orca-dynasty]

Here we go, the three core members of the Dark Orca's crew for this AU (Dannyboy is far more important than Tallulah for the actual running of the vessel, but he's more of a side character for the narrative).

In this AU, Finn has spent the better part of a decade growing up in a village in the Yorkshire dales, living with his maternal uncle while his mother systematically hunted down Proteus, the man behind the deaths of his father and paternal aunt.

Finn was nine when his mother left him in Heckmondwhite, and befriended some of the local boys whose mother had walked out on them too, particularly Cain because they were the closest in age at a little less than a year apart. That friendship tended to run hot and cold though, as Finn's mother came back every Christmas to spend the holidays with her kids and Cain's mother did not.

As teenagers, Finn and Tallulah bonded over having complicated relationships with mothers they barely get to see, and were surprised but pleased to see each other at Tom and Narayana's wedding. That family connection, no matter how tenuous it was, is why Tallulah ended up joining the Dark Orca's crew when her mother pulled her out of Dother Hall following the second gun incident.

[moonchild-in-blue]

Darya I need you to know that every time you call out Vessel’s naan ass I laugh so hard I’m basically immobilised for half an hour. I love naan but now I can ever look at one the same way. Our poor flat boy 😭

YELLING 😭😭😭

I'm so sorry!!! But also not!!!!

Our boy can't have it all tbh, it's only fair. I mean, he's already ridiculously talented and a genius really. He's l o n g (i mean his HEIGHT smh 👀), he's got them chocolate bar abs. HANDS HANDS HANDS. The most delectable thighs ever. Surely something had to balance it out a little right?

My cute pancake boy 😌 roti looking ass 🫓

[enfinizatics]

kate truly fighting for her life while trying to make oscar set off that damn train LMFAO

[dirt-nerd]

[puppytoast]

Oh to be a creature that sits down to look something up real quick and does not fall down a rabbit hole for over an hour learning about migratory birds and local wildlife rehab laws.

[milkywayscap-blog]

When the world caves in

Jiànhóng gasps for air as he brings himself and the kids' heads back above the surface. He doesn't hear the hunting party anywhere near their location. He climbs out of the water and makes sure all the children are okay before climbing to a hidden cave. He steps into the cave and travels to the deepest part of the dark cave. Jiànhóng huffs as he hides in the cave with the snakelets still in his arms. Sweat and water run down his face as he leans his head against the cool stone of the cave with the chilling air blowing into the cave. He holds the snakelets closer as the small children nuzzle in his embrace. The fluff of his coat warmed the children. Jiànhóng didn't care if he had just betrayed 'The Immortals' Demise'; these children did not deserve to be slain. However, there is a chilling irony to it: a man who has killed so many immortals is laying his life down for those very same beings. "I'll protect you three, I promise," Jiànhóng whispers as he moves to cover the snakelets from the harsh wind. A bounty would most likely be on his head by tomorrow morning at the latest and late this very night at the earliest. But he was dead set on keeping these children safe.

The gods above must have graced him as he, and the snakelets whom he finally learned the names of, had gone undetected for weeks at the time. Bai Tian, Bai Yu, and Bai Lian were their names. The three were triplets and the hunting party had slaughtered their village. When they had told him this he couldn't help the guilt that ate him up inside... One of the women he had slain had begged and screamed for him not to as she had children to take care of. But he had simply beheaded the woman without even a second thought for her or her offspring. He had a look of guilt on his visage as he froze, "I'm sorry for your loss kiddos..." Jiànhóng mutters as he ruffles the hair of the youngest triplet, Bai Lan. Bai Tian frowned as she watched the older human man she noticed his hesitance and the way he froze slightly at the mention of their mother. Not wanting to think about it she busied herself with another book Jiànhóng had gotten. He had been taking care of the snakelets since that night but he knew it was only a matter of time before the other hunters came and finally caught up to them. "How about I teach you kids how to handle some weapons, eh? I'd feel better knowing you all know how to defend yourselves and each other." Jiànhóng says as that sentence grabs all of the adolescents' attention.

Jiànhóng rasped as he felt the weight of Zhìmíng's dao as she and him clashed once again. Memories flashed through both of their minds of distant memories. But one especially stood out... It was their practice spar from when they were children. It flashed through their minds as the two sliced and parried at the other. Only one thing was on their minds. This battle was only ending with one as the victor and that was set in stone. Jiànhóng had the snakelets hide as soon as he noticed signs of 'The Immortals' Demise' in the area. The kids were in way shape or form ready to fight off the group let alone Zhìmíng. Zhìmíng noticed that Jiànhóng kept glancing over at a certain place in the home. She immediately changed her intentions toward the possible hiding spot. Zhìmíng was just about to slice through the wooden door when Jiànhóng lunged in front of her. Her twin daos sliced through his right arm like a knife through butter. Jiànhóng shrieked as he felt the blades go through his right arm. Blood splattered across the swords and the wooden closet door as his arm fell to the ground. He heaved out gasps and cries as the wound continued to bleed out but he did not drop his other emeici. He clenched the emeici in his left hand as he tried to strike the woman in the side. He didn't care if he was going to die he wanted to keep those kids safe. Zhìmíng gave Jiànhóng a disgusted look at the fact that he would lay down his life for those monsters. Bai Tian covered her little sister's eyes as her younger brother looked on in horror. They saw the scene from just the crack in the floor as they looked up. Blood seeped into the floor, though it was not Zhìmíng's, it was Jiànhóng's blood that seeped into and painted the floors red. Bai Yu covered his mouth as he and his older sister looked on in horror. Bai Tian had covered Bai Lan's eyes and ears. The older duo heard their adoptive father's screams of pain as they heard a squelch and a yell of pain, "My eye... My fucking eye...!," Jiànhóng holds his right eye socket with his left hand as he shakes from the pain and he feels his body start to lose the ability to hold itself up. He steeled himself as he waited for Zhìmíng to come closer. She was always a cocky bitch, she felt the need to gloat in the face of her enemies even if their master had always told her doing so was dangerous. But it seemed like she forgot as she leaned closer to Jiànhóng's face. Jiànhóng huffed as he drove the emeici into the woman's neck. She let out a startled gasp as she dropped one of her dao in shock, in turn, to quickly hold onto her neck wound. Zhìmíng snarls as she finally slays Jiànhóng. His lifeless body crashes to the floor. As the triplets keep themselves from screaming or gasping all they can do is listen. "To think he would lay his life down for them..." Zhìmíng scoffs as she feels the emeici in her neck. "He really has fallen." She mutters as she walks out of the house. The woman snaps off the rest of the emeici as she heads back to her party for medical attention.

The children sit there quietly. Still in shock, they see their father's lifeless body gazing at them from above the floorboards. The house is now eerily quiet as Bai Lan lets out a sob. She buries herself in Bai Tian's chest as the older girl looks at Bai Yu... tears glistening in her eyes...

[sonsband]

got called "the beast of the night" by the coach for how intense I was during a couple rounds of straight boxing and got the boys to admit how scary it was to fight me. this is the way of the hampster.

[yantao-enthusiast]

cart? full of slutty clothes. order up? i’m hot to go. mentally? worst i’ve ever been

[cahootings]

okay I did in fact open the page to appeal the removal but it IS asking me to consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court and supply personal identity info so. not a battle I feel like fighting

[wolfishturk]

ASDFGHJKL, the day I've had.... 🤣 got an hour bus to the other side of the city, my counsellor and I went on a power walk up in the hills for an hour in the sun, then I got the bus back which takes an hour and a half, spent most of it with two neds behind me kicking my seat, kept shoving me and talking really loud to each other, then discovered the route has been diverted where I wanted to get off the bus so had to get off at the next stop and walk half a mile back ( again, in the scorching sun with no shade ) went to the supermarket, did my shopping, the live timetable said I'd missed the bus home so would have to stand and wait 20 minutes, was going to get one that stops a wee bit away but still far closer than walking the whole way, at 5 mins due, it vanished from the timetable BUT luckily the bus that I wanted in the first place appeared so I was able to get that to just across the street from where I live. My feet are literally burning and hot holy crap I'm so tired. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣