Random Ramblings

Brianne •Late 20s • She/Her • Florida

[pinkiemachine]

I made a thing….

[caats]

[koschei-the-ginger]

When I person I don't know from a country I don't live in wins in a sport I don't know the rules of and starts crying with joy

[hillaryisaboss]

[susiephone]

Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, 11x14

[scavengedluxury]

Milkshaked on the first day of his election campaign. We love to see it.

[scavengedluxury]

Look at that arc. Impeccable technique, 10/10 milkshaking

[so-many-ocs]

[on the verge of having a complete breakdown] i need to make some kind of list or perhaps sort things into categories

[anexperimentallife]

[mistbornthief]

in fucking tears rn

[tauforged]

one of my favorite things about my job that i can say to people that sounds utterly ridiculous but is technically 100% true is that one of our sea turtles keeps trying to get me to commit a felony on her behalf and gets SUPER cranky when i won’t do it

[tauforged]

this is because she is spoiled rotten and LOVES head and shell scritches. every time i go to the tank she’s in to collect water samples while she happens to be awake and swimming near the surface, she sees my hand enter the water and immediately comes over to try and get my attention, headbutting the dive platform and splashing water at me and generally making a huge fuss.

unfortunately, because she is also a ~100yr old green sea turtle, i legally cannot touch her. she’s a protected species, and a fairly prominent individual at that, and im not one of the aquarists who dives into that tank NOR am i a vet, so i’m not among the handful of people who are ALLOWED to give her scratchies. she knows all of the divers personally, and knows that i am not one of them. she doesn’t care. she wants attention and because she’s the specialest princess in the entire universe she will do anything in her power to get it.

she also throws a big ol tantrum when i end up not petting her. she’ll stick up her head to snort water at me, slap at the platform and ladder with her fins, and then swim under the dive platform and bump her shell against the bottom — she’s a 500lb turtle, which is a lot of weight for her to be throwing around. i usually have to move pretty quick to get off the platform and onto solid ground cuz there have been times where i’ve genuinely felt like i was about to lose my balance and REALLY didn’t want to end up falling into the tank.

^ myrtle, throwing a tantrum because she was unsuccessful at peer pressuring me into violating the endangered species act

[sheryl-lee]

A Charlie Brown Christmas 1965 dir. Bill Melendez

[in-a-mellow-tone]

it's the holidays, you know what that means

[teethands]

[evilwizard]

Leslie’s Sinister Concoction

[catchymemes]

[indiegamesource]

Sea of Stars by Sabotage Studio; Coming August 29, 2023!

[prokopetz]

I need to live another twenty years purely to see what kind of bullshit the Tolkien estate gets up to with respect to The Silmarillion in 2044.

[prokopetz]

Context for non-dweebs: Unlike Tolkien's other well known works, The Silmarillion was published posthumously; Tolkien died in 1973, and The Silmarillion first saw print in 1977.

Though Tolkien had shown drafts of The Silmarillion to publishers during his lifetime, there are substantial differences between those drafts and the book that was actually published. It's been a matter of great interest – read: nerd drama – in the Tolkien fandom exactly how much of the published Silmarillion is really the work of J R R Tolkien, and how much of it is original authorship by his son Christopher.

The Tolkien estate has historically maintained that The Silmarllion is all J R R Tolkien, and that Christopher merely acted as a editor, because "by J R R Tolkien (edited by Christopher Tolkien)" is going to sell better than "by Christopher Tolkien (based on the work of J R R Tolkien)".

If The Silmarillion really is 100% J R R Tolkien's work, and Christopher Tolkien was merely an editor, then – since J R R Tolkien died in 1973 – the whole thing will enter the public domain on January 1st, 2044 in all life-plus-70 jurisdictions (i.e., most of the big ones, including the US).

If, however, any major part of the published Silmarillion constitutes original authorship by Christoper Tolkien, then the term of copyright would instead be calculated based on his date of death in 2020 instead, pushing its earliest possible entry into the public domain back to January 1st, 2091.

Thus, there exists the possibility that the Tolkien estate might be able to preserve their ownership of The Silmarillion by arguing that they've been lying the whole time about Christopher Tolkien not contributing any original authorship to the published work.

Would it work? Probably not – but it'd be fun to see them try!

[atrusofmyst]

That depends on whether the copyright offices consider curatorial work to be original authorship or not, because the texts included in the Silmarillion have been chosen and arranged among the many, many variants in order to create a singular, cohesive narrative. While each individual chapter may be all 100% JRR, he never put them together in that specific order and said "this is a book", which would suggest that Christopher did contribute something in the way of creative work even if he didn't write a single word of it. But that's a battle for the lawyers to fight.

(and incidentally this also explains why the volumes of the HoME are more commentary than actual text - try and say that Christopher didn't contribute to those...)

[prokopetz]

See, that's where it gets really fun. Were the Tolkien estate to put forth an argument that the curatorial dimension of The Silmarillion's publication is sufficient to establish co-authorship regardless of who composed the actual text, they'd need to figure out a way to frame it such that Christopher Tolkien qualifies as a co-author, but Guy Gavriel Kay doesn't, and I'd love to see what that argument looks like.

[tvandfilm]

THE OFFICE (2005 - 2013) Season 2 | Episode 10 "Christmas Party"

[gandalf-the-fool]