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Yunho: Wow, you have a great fashion sense! I love your outfit!

Boa: Thanks, I dress well to distract myself from the fact that my life is falling apart

hackedhearts-deactivated2024111

Bro, it's like 4PM in São Paulo right now and all the smoke made it look like it's already night...city of ashes indeed.

hackedhearts-deactivated2024111

That's POLLUTION for you guys. It's what you get when people burn the Amazon rainforest to make farms.

hackedhearts-deactivated2024111

Ok so, the cloud of smoke over the city is from the burning of Amazon rainforest in Rondonia. Sao Paulo is 3300km (2052 miles) distant from Porto Velho. Athens is closer to London than Sao Paulo is to Porto Velho. Just to give you an idea of the damage they are doing to the forest right now, with the permission from the human trash president. Just so you guys from other countries have an idea of what's happening here in Brazil.

If you can reblog this to make people aware of the situation, I'll be really glad.

hackedhearts-deactivated2024111

Look they've been burning the forest it's been 15 days now and people have died already in the fires. So the least I hope that the media will actually pay attention to Rondônia and the forest now that's affect São Paulo. The media here in Brazil is trying to take the attention away from the fires saying that what covered SP today as fog because of a cold wave, but many people already said: it's not fog, it's smoke. And if you're shocked about São Paulo sky, this is Rondônia where they are burning the forest:

So yeah, they are destroying the biggest ecosystem that is the Amazon right now. And the world must know.

Because if we depend on the media, the death of the Amazon won't be televised.

indiemovies

I’m gonna show you my secret skill.

dont-call-me-handicapable

DOES SHE HAVE EDS?????

notsograndadventures

Yes! She confirmed it recently on her instagram

part-time-pessimist

I CAN BEND WHICH CAUSES EXTREME SEXINESS

glumshoe

oh THAT’s what a dislocation looks like?

toddreu-deactivated20191220

Here’s a picture of my succulent ass

alltimecharlo

me at 2am:

spillywolf-deactivated20190920

If courage isn’t the absence of fear but doing the right thing regardless of it, maybe confidence isn’t the absence of insecurity but knowing you have real worth despite it

oncemylove-deactivated20180625

this is beautiful

randomslasher

By this same token, maybe goodness isn’t the absence of bad thoughts or impulses, but the conscious choice to behave according to your moral ideals in spite of them.

fleurstarker-deactivated2021030

STARKER CONTENT CREATORS WHO CONSTANTLY FEEL LIKE THEY’RE NOT MAKING FREQUENT ENOUGH/GOOD ENOUGH CONTENT LEMME HEAR YOU MAKE SOME NOISE

sthefystarker

I write Starker in Spanish, but I got some help I could publish my first oneshot in English!! ;; <3

oneofthosecrazycatladies

So I’m on AO3 and I see a lot of people who put “I do not own [insert fandom here]” before their story.

Like, I came on this site to read FAN fiction. This is a FAN fiction site. I’m fully aware that you don’t own the fandom or the characters. That’s why it’s called FAN FICTION.

adiwriting

Oh you youngins… How quickly they forget.

Back in the day, before fan fiction was mainstream and even encouraged by creators… This was your “please don’t sue me, I’m poor and just here for a good time” plea.

Cause guess what? That shit used to happen.

ohbeckoh

how soon they forget ann rice’s lawyers.

emma-regina4ever

What happened with her lawyers.

racethewind10

History became legend. Legend became myth…. And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost.

tiger-in-the-flightdeck

I worked with one of the women that got contacted by Rice’s lawyers. Scared the hell out of her and she never touched fandom again. The first time I saw a commission post on tumblr for fanart, I was shocked.

demonicae

One of the reasons I fell out of love with her writing was her treatment of the fans… (that and the opening chapter of Lasher gave me such heebie-jeebies with the whole underage sex thing I felt unclean just reading it.)

I have zero problem with fanart/fic so long as the creators aren’t making money off of it. It is someone else’s intellectual property and people who create fan related works need to respect that (and a solid 98% of them do.)

The remaining 2% are either easily swayed by being gently prompted to not cash in on someone else’s IP. Or they DGAF… and they are the ones who will eventually land themselves in hot water. Either way: this isn’t much of an excuse to persecute your entire fanbase.

But Anne Rice went off the deep end with this stuff by actively attacking people who were expressing their love for her work and were not profiteering from it.

The Vampire Chronicles was a dangerous fandom to be in back in the day. Most of the works I read/saw were hidden away in the dark recesses of the internet and covered by disclaimers (a lot of them reading like thoroughly researched legal documents.)

And woe betide anyone who was into shipping anyone with ANYONE in that fandom. You were most at risk, it seemed, if your vision of the characters deviated from the creators ‘original intentions.’ (Hypocritical of a woman who made most of her living writing erotica.)

Imagine getting sued over a headcanon…

Put simply: we all lived in fear of her team of highly paid lawyers descending from the heavens and taking us to court over a slashfic less than 500 words long.

pagerunner-j

all of this

fanfichasruinedmylife-deactivat

Reblogging because I can’t believe there are people out there who don’t know the story behind fan fiction disclaimers.

hils79

Yep I used to have disclaimers on all my Buffy fic back in the day. The Buffy creators were mostly pretty chill about fandom but it’s not like it is now. You did NOT talk about fandom with anyone except other fandom people and bringing it up at cons was a massive no no because of stuff like this.

I think Supernatural (and Misha Collins specifically) was when that wall between fandom and creators started to break down. It’s a relatively new thing.

I remember going to a Merlin panel down in London and a girl sitting next to me asked the cast about slash and I thought she was going to get kicked out!

Fandom history is important.

cracktheglasses

Oh, this brings back some not so-awesome ‘90s fandom memories!

griesly

Oh man, let me tell you about the X-Files fandom. Lawyers for FOX sued, threatened, and generally terrified the owners of fan websites on a regular basis. God help you if you wrote or created original art set in their (expansive) universe or worse - dared to write about their characters. Even people who weren’t creating fanworks, just hosting Geocities pages about how much people liked the show would be sent C&D orders or actually fined. When I was first discovering the concept, the first rule of fandom was you do not talk about fandom because the consequences could be devastating.

It was such a strange and uncomfortable experience for me when fans in LOTR and Potter fandoms suddenly started shoving their work in people’s faces speaking publicly about fandom and wanting to engage in dialogue with the creators and actors of the Thing they were into. Fan stuff was supposed to stay online, in archives and list-serves and zines we passed around because it just wasn’t cool to talk about it and it could get you in a boatload of trouble. The freedom we have to create and gather together in a shared space, or actually be acknowledged in any way by people outside the fandom was inconceivable to my fannish, teenaged self. I want fans these days to understand how amazing modern fandom really is, cherish the community, and appreciate what it took to get us here.

oyveyzqueer

“if you found this by googling yourself, hit back now. this means you, pete wentz”

tbqtalks

Oh hey, even more blasts from the past.

I was one of the ones who got a love letter from Anne Rice’s lawyers. Bear in mind that up until that point her publisher had encouraged fanfic and worked with the archive keeper (one of my roommates at the time) to drum up publicity for upcoming books and so on.

I could tell such tales of how much Anne screwed over her fans back then. The tl;dr version is that she and her peeps would use fan projects as free market research and then bring in the lawyers once it was felt Anne could make money off of it herself. (Talismanic Tours being one of the most offensive examples of this.)

But where fanfic is concerned not only did we get nastygrams but one of my friends had Anne’s lawyer trying to fuck up her own privately owned business which had NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYTHING ANNE RELATED. Said friend was a small business owner with health issues who wasn’t exactly rolling in money, so guess how well that went?

On top of that when yours truly tried to speak out about it I discovered that someone in Anne’s camp had been cyber stalking me to the point where they took all the tiny crumbs of personal information I had posted over the course of five years or so and used it to doxx me (before that was even a term and in early enough days of the WWW that this wasn’t an easy task) and post VERY personal information about me on the main fandom message board of the time. Luckily for me the mod was my friend and she took that down post haste, but it was still oodles of fun feeling that violated and why to this day I am very strict about keeping my fandom and personal lives separate online.

Hence why those of us in the fandom at the time who still gave enough of a shit to want to keep writing fic DID keep writing fic, but shoved it so far underground and slapped it with so many disclaimers they could’ve outweighed the word count of War & Peace. It wasn’t just for the purpose of protecting fic but for trying to protect our personal lives as well.

(Also would love to know who @tiger-in-the-flightdeck knew. Life paths crossing after so many years….)

dubiousculturalartifact

Lucasfilm also sent cease-and-desist letters to Star Wars fanzines publishing slash.

My favourite bit I read from one included the idea that you weren’t allowed to have any explicit content, of which anything queer, no matter how tame, was included, to “preserve that innocence even Imperial crew members must be imagined to have”.

Yeah. The same Imperial crew members who helped build the Death Star to commit planetary genocide.

(It’s one reason Sinjir Velus, while I still have some issues with him, feels like such a delicious ‘f*** you’.)

Later on, they were apparently persuaded to ‘allow’ fans to write slash, provided in ‘remained within the nebulous bounds of good taste’.

(On a related note, if I wasn’t quite so attached to my URL, I would 100% change it to ‘Nebulous Bounds’, because that’s just downright catchy)

thepioden

Anne McCaffrey had this huge long set of rules about how exactly you were allowed to play in her sandbox. Dragonriders of Pern was my first online fandom, and I was big into the Pern RP scene - and just about every fan-Weyr had a copy of these lists of rules McCaffrey wanted enforced. One of which was ‘no porn’ and another was basically ‘it can’t be gay’ (and for a while ‘no fanfiction posted online’? which??? anyway.)

She relaxed a little as time went on, but still.

mikkeneko

Let’s not forget: the reason AO3 is called ‘Archive of our own’ is because it was created in response to some bullshit that assholes were trying to play with fan creators. Basically (if I remember the fiasco correctly) trying to mine fandom creators for content which they could then use to generate ad profit on their shitty websites. When the series creators objected, the fans tried to pull their content, only to find that the website hoster resisted, claiming their content was all his now.

That wasn’t even all that long ago…

bebopsisyphus

fandom history class

lazaefair

To this day, *talking* about writing or reading fanfiction - just acknowledging that it exists - to anyone other than people I know are in fandom as well, feels like a dangerous act. The strict separation I maintained between my real life identity, my online identity, and my fandom identity (yes, they were separate, because some of the most vicious and mocking people were fellow nerds) has broken down a bit these days, but I don’t think I’ll ever be able to integrate them as freely as some younger fans do.

theglintoftherail

Everybody should know that AO3 is just one project of the Organization for Transformative Works. Their mission is much broader than just hosting a (very good) fanfic site. They do all kinds of fandom history archiving and publish an academic journal, but most importantly, they perform legal advocacy to protect the fair use rights of people who make fanfic or fanart.

The OTW Legal Committee’s mission includes education, assistance, and advocacy.

We create and post educational materials about developments in fandom-related law on transformativeworks.org and on archiveofourown.org.

We assist individual fans when their fanworks are challenged, we answer fans’ questions about law relevant to fanworks, and we help fans find legal representation.

We partner with other advocacy organizations and coalitions in the U.S. and around the world.

We advocate for laws and policies that promote balance and protect fanworks and fandom.

And much more!

I haven’t been involved in fandom stuff all that long, but I find this stuff so fascinating!

hoenursey

whew, i feel old, but that’s mostly bc i was on forums way way waaaaay too young. but this? yes. all the way. people had password protected forums on the weirdest, most unconventional websites. before you could even be approved by the mods they would search your blog, your other accounts, question you, everything, all because we were broke teens and preteens trying to do something for fun and if someone got in who could doxx you or send your work over to a lawyer? that was it, you were OVER. that’s also part of where fandom wars and the defense of fandom came from: quote unquote “enemy” fandoms would infiltrate just to hurt you. @theglintoftherail makes a very good point: ao3 is a goddamn haven. and they’re a great team of lawyers and people dedicated to protecting fanworks! part of the reason it’s so great is because they know there’s no one like them out there. they also go to the ends of the damned earth to protect you and to be inclusive, which is why there’s shit like tentacle porn and underage and dubcon. because they’re dedicated to protecting readers and creators to the death. they don’t advocate for it and they have the extensive rating and tagging system because of that (legit the best tagging system i’ve ever seen) but they don’t know if you’re dealing with trauma or if you need to get something out. do not forget your fandom, kids. jesus

breadwinnnerz

blvck-mermaid

Maybe if I reblog it it will become the truth

thesavingera

i reblog this everytime

antthonystark

“It started off with someone who is absolutely self-centred, has more money than they could ever spend, is spiritually dead—and has no idea that they are about to go through a crucible that is going to put them in a position to be of service to their community. […] And by the end, you’re willing to give the ultimate sacrifice, your life, despite your family and your grounded-ness and your desire to not want to do that —so that the community can thrive.”

— robert downey jr. on tony stark’s journey

eucalyptus-sage

i find it really intresting how he refers to tony in IM1 as “me,” and “I’m” as if it’s literally him, RDJ. but then talking about tony in endgame it’s “him” and “he,” completly objective.

it really shows how much rdj saw himself in Tony’s story in the beginning, especially in the phrasing “the calvary can come and bring me back to my stupid life.”

you can sense the undertones of anger and regret. you can tell that this means so much more than a character to him. that line, coupled with the fact that he says I genuinely, as if it’s him, that matters. and then he says “is spiritually dead, and has no idea that they’re about to go through a crucible that is going to put them in a position of service to their community.”

that’s almost all applicable to rdj. tony stark matters this much to all of us, to me, because rdj could always relate to tony in a way very few people could. he made tony accessible. i have very little in common with people like tony, I’m not a tech genius, I’m not a billionare, I don’t live in a mansion. but almost every human being who’s ever lived can relate to emotions like fear. the want to protect the people we love. and most of all, the fact that people change.

that’s why tony is so beloved, and that’s why rdj’s portrayal of him over the years matters so much. because it mattered to him.

deehellcat

I maintain nobody loves Tony more than RDJ.

(and if you really want to weep a bit, a good case can be made for IM1 being a huge allegory of RDJ’s own journey)

communicants

La batalla de Chile: La lucha de un pueblo sin armas - Tercera parte: El poder popular (Patricio Guzman, 1979)

kushandwizdom

So much can happen in a year..

The saying “start now and thank yourself later” is so important.

I’m thankful for the past version of me, making the conscious decision to love herself deeply and work hard for what’s hers.

The rewards this year have been remarkable and it all began by simply putting myself first and manifesting greatness.

“Self love saves lives”

I wish the same for everyone reading this.

banananuts-stuff

Tadano

I really liked this new character. He is the only one so far to fundamentally challenge Retsuko on the traditional ideas instilled in her surroundings - something that the other men in her lives, Haida included, could not do. Tadano also cared about Retsuko enough to give up when he realized he would not be able to give her what she wanted the most from him.

In terms of romance, Retsuko’s relationship with him is also her best one so far. Although the dominant cultural norms prevailed over the progressives ideas which their coupling would have represented, that is by no means a failure for either side. Retsuko had to chance to choose her values in the face of the opportunity to consider other possible alternatives.

I hope they bring him back next season.

duskjackalope

“Go and change the world already, Tadano”

submalevolentgrace

dear Americans very concerned and angry about the concentration camps your government is running:

you should be angry, you should be furious, you should do everything and anything you can to shut them down.

but here in Australia, we've had concentration camps for refugees for nearly 25 years. we've protested and petitioned and yelled, but the government was 'clever' and put them offshore, away from the mainland where we can't reach them, can't storm them. then they banned journalists from going. then they banned doctors.

the only time mainstream news tends to report on the "offshore detention centres" is when yet another group of children try to commit suicide.

yes, the Australian government has concentration camps for people fleeing warzones, and the people in those camps are tortured so bad that the children try to kill themselves.

Americans, I hope you manage to close your governments camps, by law or by force. maybe when you're done, you can turn your attention to us? we could use some loud international outrage from a western ally, the government might care. the public has spent 20 years trying and failing.

non-Australians, please spread this information. I don't think many people know internationally, except the island nations we pay to host our camps and keep quiet.

kirammedarda

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wisteriafield

i’ll kick anyone’s ass. i’ll kick your ass. i’ll kick your dog’s ass. i’ll kick my own ass

sexylibrarian1

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