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The internet could change next week, and not in a good way

You may have heard about the efforts in Europe to reform copyright law. The debate has been ongoing in the European Parliament for months. If approved next week, these new regulations would require us to automatically filter and block content that you upload without meaningful consideration of your right to free expression.

We respect the copyrights and trademarks of others, and we take all reports seriously to ensure that your creative expression is protected. We make this clear in our Community Guidelines. There’s already a legal framework that works and is fair: Today we take down posts and media that contain allegedly infringing content when we receive a valid DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown request. We also provide clear-cut ways for people to fight back if they believe their removed content was not a true violation. These instances are monitored and reported and live in our biannual transparency report.

The suggestion to use automated filters for issues of copyright is short-sighted at best and harmful at worst. Automated filters are unable to determine whether a use should be considered “fair use” under the law and are unable to determine whether a use is authorized by a license agreement. They are unable to distinguish legitimate parody, satire, or even your own personal pictures that could be matched with similar photographs that have been protected by someone else. We don’t believe that technology should replace human judgment. Tumblr is and always has been a place for creative expression, and these new regulations would only make it harder for you to express yourself with the freedom and clarity you do so now.

If you access Tumblr from Europe and want to act, you can find more information on saveyourinternet.eu.

arawynn

Please reblog this as much as you reblogged the posts about Net Neutrality.

If Article 13 is approved, European People might be basically banned from uploading any fan content.

You won’t get new fanfics from people in Europe.

You won’t get new gifs from people in Europe.

You won’t get new fanart from people in Europe.

Because they’ll be automatically filtered and blocked!

We might leave Tumblr and other fandom pages.

And if we’re getting all our content blocked?

You might lose some of your favourite followers/mutuals.

You might not get to read the rest of that fic you’re dying to read - simply because the writer lives in the wrong country.

So do whatever you can to help us stop this.

Reblog this.

CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES TO TELL THEM YOU DON’T WANT ARTICLE 13 TO BE APPROVED IF YOU’RE EUROPEAN! DO IT VIA THE HOMEPAGE

shungieshrieks

Shungie’s 700 Follower Giveaway!

I know I haven’t been posting as much as I used to, but I appreciate ya’ll for supporting my blog! All 700 of you! To show ya’ll how much I appreciate ya, I’ll be throwin’ a giveaway!

Winners will receive:

1st Place - Their full-body character in color

2nd Place - Waist up, B&W

3rd Place - Lined bust

Rules:

1.) Must follow me by the end of the giveaway

2.) You can reblog more than once (not necessary but greatly appreciated :D)

3.) Winners have up to 24 hours to send me a note on Tumblr to claim their prize. If they don’t send me a note, I’ll randomly select someone else.

WILL NOT:

- Draw anything offensive/crude

- Very sexual things

GIVEAWAY ENDS ON DECEMBER 5th AT 11:59PM EST.

pumpkincalico

stop letting Kris eat moss 2k18

otherwindow

Sakurai and his team did it. They really fixed Snake’s ass. Legends.

pramanixx

klapollo

guy fieri’s flagship show is all about him going to underappreciated family-owned restaurants, praising their work and bringing them nationwide positive attention and business. he openly supports lgbt people like his sister and frequently has gay chefs on his grocery games competition, including ones revolving around relationships and family. he donates all of the non-perishable food from grocery games to food banks and advocates for fighting hunger. he goes to parts of the country where natural disasters have hit and hosts big events where he cooks for and feeds the victims. he has a legitimately funny sense of humor on his shows and is generally said to be a really nice person. he loves his son and has done whole television specials about taking him along on trips having once-in-a-lifetime experiences together. he might look goofy but that man does things that nourish the SOUL and u cant put frosted spikes on THAT

catwithbenefits

I’m glad we got this universe’s Guy Fieri and not the Homestuck one

velvetvetiver

Too many of you are comfortable dealing with sociopolitical issues solely from an arms length distance.

Instead of educating yourself about ways to actively combat community problems you settle on lecturing entire groups of people for not voting, ignoring that many of these groups are actively prevented from doing so and have rarely, if ever, been helped after checking that ballot. You assure yourself that the candidate was the lesser evil who will at least not legislate to kill you right away, settling into a weary self-satisfaction.

Instead of weeding out racism, sexism, transphobia, ableism, etc within your own circles you settle on ranting about representation within mainstream media. You assure yourself that as long as you maintain an outraged social media presence it will be enough, laughing all the while at the funny stories online of people being aghast at their bigoted relatives.

Instead of questioning your own beliefs and thought patterns you settle on superficially absorbing those of the people around you online. You do not question yourself critically about deeply held beliefs or things you had always been told growing up because you do not need to. You know all the right words, you know all the wrong behaviors. So surely you will never become one of those people on the receiving end of a call out post.

The political is personal. That means you. Not them, not her, not him, you. And would you settle for less? No, of course not. You would want to be protected, to be given opportunity, to have what is right to be right and wrong to be wrong. Settling is not an option for you. So why should it be for someone else?

deadcatwithaflamethrower

people I still want to stab over a decade later:

Creative Writing Professor at a former college: Welcome to creative writing! By the way, you will not write fantasy, ghost stories, pranormal, or science fiction in this class, as this is a creative writing course.”

morgynleri

What the ever loving fuck is with “creative” writing professors who think that speculative fiction of any stripe ISN’T CREATIVE?

thebibliosphere

I still remember my own creative writing teacher telling me this because he saw the Terry Pratchett book on my desk and got this smug smirk on his face like “aha, gotcha”. He had the nerve to pick it up and call it “popularist fiction”, like somehow being popular and easily accessible made it less inherent in intellectual value.

I had it in my back pack because I did my final thesis on the evolution of mythology and folk tails into fantasy and sci-fi and the societal importance of telling stories (before anyone asks, no I don’t have it, I lost it when I moved continents), and I used Terry Pratchett because there wasn’t a single humanitarian issue the man did not touch on.

Which I told him. And then he kind of floundered and went “ah, well but, it’s…well I mean it’s not exactly high brow”, like neither the fuck was Shakespeare or Dickens you self-important turnip. Dickens was literally selling his stories by the chapter. He was the popular author of his time. Shakespeare was too, he fucking made up words and phrases all the time because the language he needed to express himself didn’t exist in the way he needed it too.

Intellectual elitism is nothing more than a hold over from class warfare and the belief that only certain people should get to be truly educated. And it needs to be smashed.

vocifersaurus

neither the fuck was Shakespeare or Dickens you self-important turnip

dragonspet

Anybody that exists in a writing course that’d disparage Sir Terry Prachett should be forced into a sensory deprivation tank for a week so they may reflect on the choices that led them into the wrong profession when it is clear they were meant to be an art snob. Prachetts writing is masterful in several ways, not least of which is the creative aspect of his world and his storytelling. He handles heavy themes and sweeping themes and small, personal themes with the same finesse one might expect from a surgeon. And his takes on, and deconstructions of tropes both new and old are some of the best in writing in general.

In short, FUCK your former creative writing teacher. May they be cursed to stub their toe whenever they have a good day and they least expect it

middry

here’s a sequel!

Part 1

dragonspet

Oh no, it got hotter

middry

haha whoops

dragonspet

Yanno, outright porn and horrible smuttery does not phase me in the slightest. This though? This right here? This is fucking weaponised fucking cute and at the same time the single lewdest (and best) piece of fanart I’ve seen so far

#Deltarune #Pure smut #Fucking awesome

eightspartans

Dammit Alec you’re supposed to be working on commissions.

In case you guys are worried, I’m still in the army. That’s why my comms work and other stuff on both my FA and here are currently on break. But since I’ve been away for WAYYYYYY too long, here’s a warmup.

I have a shitton of overdue pieces so bear with me :U

sleepcircle

Upon being asked by toby fox not to publically post stuff about delta rune for 24 hours—to give everyone a chance to experience it fresh—north america goes out of its way to flood the internet with liveblogging stuff, data-mining results, and videos with jam-packed thumbnails called “ALL SECRETS. UNDERTALE 2?????? HIDDEN THING!!! WOW!!!! IS X CHARACTER Y? WHAT ABOUT Z BIG REVEAL???” meanwhile in japan. None of the thumbnails reveal anything, and 80-90% of videos about it are locked until the 24-hour period elapses. thus: