Obsessive Geek Grrl

Things I think about. Reblogs of art and fannishness and general coolness. Basaltgrrl on LJ and AO3; you can find my fanworks in those places.

[basaltgrrl]

RM and Suga.

[evilwriter37]

IMPORTANT

@flurbejurbvondurp

[nanasamantha-deactivated2025020]

This is so fucking stupid. Why can’t artists and writers even give the option of pay? It’s not like anybody is holding a gun to reader’s heads forcing them to donate. It’s donated money! You’re telling me Article 13 removes people’s option to even donate???

[thebibliosphere]

Article 13 is causing all sorts of bullshit, but this is nothing new for Ao3 and it’s important for folk to know. Writers or anyone hosting content on Ao3 should never ever link back to a ko-fi or patreon or even mention needing donations due to legal restrictions placed on Ao3 in order to exist. If you are found out or reported, they can delete your account.

So the way Ao3 works? Is that the only way they can protect us from content creators and their legal teams, is to be like “hey, look, this is transformative work for fun! It earns no money!” And that’s how they get around what many authors still in this day and age think of as plagiarism and defemataion.

It’s actually in Ao3′s Terms of Services, not because they are monsters who don’t want you to thrive, but because it’s the only way to protect fan creators from the proverbial wolf at the door. I’m just old enough to remember when Anne Rice and Star Wars were going after people and filing official take downs for fan works and threatening to sue people. I know actual people who got real letters telling them to take down their fanzine or else.

And every time I see someone creating a patreon or ko-fi for the fanfic, my heart jumps up into my mouth. Like sure, let people know you have those things? But don’t have tiers that say things like “fanfic updates”. And for the love of god never post links to them in your Ao3. @deadcatwithaflamethrower nearly lost their account some years ago because they mentioned having a donation drive on their tumblr and someone reported them.

[joshs-clown-ass-page]

i dont use ao3 but in case this helps anyone im reblogging

[loop-as-in-timeloop]

OMG I’m gonna boost this

[basaltgrrl]

Bacon and avocado, together forever!

[basaltgrrl]

Sette Frummagem! I’m enjoying the web comic Unsounded so much I got art inspired.

[beckettmariner-deactivated20200]

[altmode]

[sapphicstartrek]

requested by anonymous

[catbirdseat4u]

➣ NATIONWIDE TRACTION, PLEASE!

[liberalsarecool]

Keep up the energy. Inspire the youth vote.

[krishnath]

VOTE LIKE YOUR FUTURE DEPENDED ON IT, BECAUSE IT DOES!

[cheskamouse]

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

<3 ALL OF THIS <3

Get out and vote regardless of whether it seems like its a “Sure thing” or seems “Hopeless”…there’s no such thing as a sure thing and there is always ALWAYS a chance that your vote can make a difference no matter how hopeless it might seem…

[onfirewhenifoundit]

Just to be clear: I dislike the Democrats. I don’t feel that they reflect my values, and I find them mostly ineffectual. BUT The Republican party is a complete dumpster fire right now. I’m voting to keep white supremacists, transphobes, social Darwinists, and fascists out of places of power. I’m voting like lives depend on it, because they literally do. I don’t like the Democrats, but you can be damned sure I’m voting for them this week, every chance I get. You should too.

[sandandglass]

The Daily Show, November 1, 2016

[profeminist]

[stream]

[machine-dove]

[machine-dove]

Other cartoons that the publisher refused to print before firing Rogers:

[thranakin]

[basaltgrrl]

Gorgeous

[chickensaredoodling]

The whole set compiled in one post. TNG characters in portrait styles inspired by their personalities. Click images for art style/artist names. You can come to your own conclusions but my explanations are on my blog posts. :)

[basaltgrrl]

Love this!

[mapsontheweb]

The flags of every U.S. state made out of their county lines.

[wip-abandoned]

Each state has a flag?????

[kingjaffejoffer]

Reading the last reply made me realize that some people have said the name “United States” their entire lives but not understood the literal description of the name and how it applies to how the government works.

[madlori]

Quick primer for the non-USians.

Each state in the US is mostly a self-governing entity. It has an executive (the governor), a legislative body, a supreme court, a state police force, and its own economy (it’s often said that California is the 8th largest economy in the world although I think I heard recently that it actually moved up a peg). Each state sets its own budget, tax structure, and laws (most laws are state-level). Each state has its own educational system, park system, big fancy Capitol building (well most do - a few states have Capitol buildings that look like office parks), and States vary in terms of things like what age you can drink, gun regulations, death penalty statutes, income taxes (a few states have no income tax, for example).

Most of the governing that really affects people here is done at the state level, or the local/municipality level. Even things that ARE federal (like Medicaid) can be affected by how various states implement them.

In theory, the federal government exists for two reasons:

National defense

International relations

In other words, the states handle how we deal with ourselves, the federal government handles how we deal with other countries. Theory is not practice, obviously. The federal government does a lot more things, and federal laws and SCOTUS rulings supersede state-level laws. But in many ways the states are where the real, concrete governing happens. And yet we pay waaaaaaaay more attention to national elections than state ones. Go figure.

[basaltgrrl]

Han Solo hair appreciation post.

[cthene]

“You might wanna buckle up, baby.”

[basaltgrrl]

Sweet art!