Fishface

bog body in training

[notwiselybuttoowell]

Damn, missed it again

[notwiselybuttoowell]

Happy Bog Day!

[fuckyeahpilesofdirt]

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[fallingnebulae]

smth i'm struggling to understand w tumblr's new post+ is that it seems to at least in some form be directed at like. fandom content creators? bc that's such a big part of content creation on tumblr is fandom

but isn't it like. illegal to monetise fan content? is tumblr telling us to put like. fanfic and art and shit behind a paywall despite copyright? how many people are going to use post+ for that and get so completely fucked by it lmao

[fallingnebulae]

SURELY THIS IS STRAIGHT UP ILLEGAL

[wagamaggot]

tumblr staff rolling out a feature that no one wants or likes and violates basically every copyright law in existence

[musingsofaraven]

Tumblr TOS states that *you*, the poster of shit on your blog, are responsible for the shit you post on your blog. This is in line with Section 230 of the US Communications Decency Act stating that websites themselves are not libel for content their users post.

"No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider"

What they *are* doing with their marketing, is encouraging users to monetize content in a murky Intellectual Property area (since it can sometimes be transformative), one which historically/conventionally has been considered “off limits” for monetization, but if the IP holder decides to sue you, the poster, then tumblr isn’t going to do shit to help you.

[chej23]

Thank you for clarifying! I admit i dont know as much as i should about the legal side of this, but it somehow feels worse! Like once IP violations were pointed out as an aspect i thought “theres no way they could have overlooked this” and i guess they didnt, because they knew they wouldnt be taking the legal fall for it. Makes the whole situation feel less like a stupid idea and more borderline predatory, like yes we will be making money off your content but have no legal responsibility if you face consequences for breaking the laws we kind of encouraged you to.

[nemfrog]

“The meteoric shower of November, 1866.” Nature and art. January 1, 1867. 

[seppohater-deactivated20230613]

me when i see mutuals posts

[spellbound-willow]

Reconstruction of the clothes of women from the Minoan era in Crete (reconstructions made by Dr. Bernice Jones).

The clothes of Minoan women were surprising with their style and variety of patterns. Greek women of later times wore clothes with completely different stylistic solutions. The exposed breasts were a characteristic feature of the dress of Minoan and Mycenaean women. They attached great importance to their attire, wear and used jewelry. They wore a wide and long skirt with a decorative belt tightening the waist and a tight-fitting bra with a metal frame revealing the breasts. They put on coats or capes on cooler days. Hair, intricately combed, was decorated with brown or gold ribbons, beads or headbands. Others wore appropriate headgear. They wore unusual hats. Some were wide, while others were tall, almost completely covering their hair, decorated with feathers or ribbons.

It can be seen at the Hellenistic Museum in Melbourne, Australia. The reconstructions are based on frescoes.

Photos: Tahney Fosdike.

[geniusoflove]

boingo would be the worst band ever if they were british. this is my proivit loife

[geniusoflove]

its loike a dead mans pahrty innit.

[finnieforshort]

Lift Man instead of Elevator Man

[geniusoflove]

this ones making me sick

[zaynmalikeatsass-deactivated201]

i hate this pic bc everyone is staring @ zayn but zayn is only looking at liam

[vodni-deactivated20221111]

he only got two eyes

[dreamsmp3-deactivated20160426]

every day. every single day i think about this post. i’ve been on this website for 5 years and no post has ever changed me the way this post has.

[xiaojaan]

i would pay $10.99 for this post.

[kitsnicket]

My favorite beanie baby is the one ominously named The End and it’s just black void bear with no birthday

[kitsnicket]

[foulserpent]

[porkbuttsandtaters]

The 2017 College Grad Who Got Attacked by a Horde of YA Authors Had No Idea What She Was Getting Into

She spent the weekend deleting her social media accounts because of all the harassment.

grown adult manchildren and womanchildren going apeshit on a college student for not wanting a teen romance story in a college reading program lmfao

[dostoyevsky-official]

“She’s fine for teen girls,” English graduate Brooke Nelson said. “But definitely not up to the level of Common Read. So I became involved simply so I could stop them from ever choosing Sarah Dessen.”

[…] The fracas this week began when Dessen herself somehow found the South Dakota story and mournfully tweeted a screenshot to her 268,000 followers. “Authors are real people,” she wrote. “I’m having a really hard time right now and this is just mean and cruel. I hope it made you feel good.” [Update, Nov. 15, 2019, at 4:02 p.m.: Sarah Dessen posted an apology for her initial tweet on Friday afternoon. “I want to apologize to the person who was quoted,” she wrote, adding that hearing from people who don’t like her work is “part of the job.” “With a platform and a following, I have a responsibility to be aware of what I put out there,” she wrote. “I am truly sorry. Moving forward, I’ll do better.”]

Dessen scratched out Nelson’s name in her screenshot, but the story was easy to find, and Dessen’s many influential fans and followers quickly piled on their sympathy—and rage. Roxane Gay tweeted that Dessen now has a “nemesis” and suggested that Nelson had an “inflated idea” of her own “taste level.” (Gay has since apologized for these tweets.) In a since-deleted tweet, YA author Siobhan Vivian replied, “Fuck that fucking bitch.” (“I love you,” Dessen replied.) Fellow YA writer Dhonielle Clayton chimed in: “Can I add a few more choice words for Siobhan’s brilliance … fuck that RAGGEDY ASS fucking bitch.” Vivian replied with the clapping, cigarette, and nail-painting emoji. (Dessen, Vivian, and Clayton have since deleted their tweets. A request for comment sent through a website associated with Dessen did not receive a reply. Clayton did not reply to a request for comment, but Vivian expressed regret by email: “I tweeted something I should have DMed. I was hurt because my friend was hurt and now I’ve hurt someone else. I’m truly sorry for my part.”)

Author Jennifer Weiner, who has made a career of defending so-called chick lit from misogynist criticism, elaborated. “When we tell teenage girls that their stories matter less—or not at all—there are real-world consequences,” she tweeted. She added the hashtag #MeToo and linked to a Vox story about why it took so long for the teenage victims of gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar to be heard. Incredibly, the implication seemed to be that there was a connection between sexual assault and the literary taste of one committee member of a small college’s common reading program.

Nelson, for her part, emailed me on Thursday night: “In 2017, I was a college junior who joined a committee because I wanted to have a voice in what text was selected for a college reading program. I was only one vote on a large committee of college students, faculty, staff, and community members.” After spending the week deactivating her social media accounts in response to harassment, she had agonized over whether to make any statement at all. She was worried the episode could “torpedo” her career—she’s in graduate school—and she was too skittish to talk to a journalist by phone after her last experience doing so.

The fracas kept snowballing. Someone using the name Jennifer Weiner also left a comment on the Aberdeen News story that read:

“It’s hard to know what’s sadder: that Brooke Nelson has internalized misogyny to the extent that she can see nothing of worth in books beloved by “teen girls” but is presumably impressed with the merits of a book centered around video game culture that is beloved by teenage boys; that Nelson joined the committee not to champion a book or a genre but to keep a specific author’s work out of contention; that she bragged about her actions, as if she’s done some great service to literature, or that Nelson graduated with an English degree, is pursuing graduate work in English, and will someday be foisting her sexism and elitism on the next generation of readers.”

[…] Northern State University responded by swiftly issuing an apology—to Dessen. “We are very sorry to @SarahDessen for the comments made in a news article by one of our alums,” the school wrote. “They do not reflect the views of the university or Common Read Committee.” In other words, the university publicly apologized for one of its English students having an opinion on—and joining a committee to work for—its college-wide reading program.

[phoneticfrenetic]

Heaven forbid an adult woman consider literature written for high-schoolers not measuring up to a collegiate literature course.

[3liza]

you wake up in a cold sweat. someone was in your room. you can almost smell the lingering traces of their breath. sitting up in your kicked sheets, lit only by the dim LED of your tv, you try to recall what was said, what woke you up in stark terror. vaguely, an echo: “17776 is homestuck for jocks”

[magictransistor]

Edmund Weiss. Bilderatlas der Sternenwelt (Stellar Atlas). 1888-1892.

[viktor-vasnetsov]

Princess Eudoxia, 1893, Viktor Vasnetsov

[ancientegyptdaily]

Modern papyrus makers. [source]

[elexecution]

this is his etsy store. he’s selling prints and also the papyrus paper !