@theartofmadeline
One Nice Bug Per Day
if i look back, i am lost
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sheepfilms
noise dept.
PR's Tumblrdome
Jules of Nature
#extradirty
Janaina Medeiros
occasionally subtle
Mike Driver
Origami Around
Keni
I'd rather be in outer space šø
blake kathryn
Three Goblin Art
YOU ARE THE REASON
Game of Thrones Daily
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@jadziana
Now look what I got here, dear Royal Pains community. Some nice Hankmed fridge magnets made by one of my lovely geek friends. Yes, I know, Hank's got the wrong titles on the card and it should probably be "Henry Lawson, M.D." and not "Hank Lawson, M.D." but given the fact that there is literally zero RP merchandise out there, I love it!
9 Years on Tumblr, incredible š„³
Donald Trump as a forest fiend on a sculpture trail featuring bronze statues of unfriendly world leaders near Klein Strƶmkendorf at the Baltic Sea coast, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
Other statues depict George W. Bush, Nikita Khrushchev, Recep Tayyip ErdoÄan, Erich Honecker, and Vladimir Lenin.
Responding to a thread on Twitter reminded me of this version of Hamlet
I had to learn the 'to be or not to be' soliloquy in AP English my senior year of high school and deliver it in front of the principal and everything.
I dug this version up from the local library. Made me fall in love with Shakespeare. My AP English teacher (who was a legend to us! She was feared for how hard her class was but the 'smart kids' all desperately wanted her class!) was impressed cause she'd never heard of a version with a Black actress playing Ophelia. But really, Campbell Scott was phenomenal, in my opinion, and that's why you should watch!
Also lol, to get in the right headspace for this performance and while memorizing it, I listened to "I Never Told You What I Do for a Living" by My Chemical Romance on repeat. If that ain't the most 2004 thing you've ever heard....
das Auge des Gesetzes
literally: the eye of law
the police
Origin: The phrase āthe eye of law is watchingā can be found in Friedrich Schillerās Song of the Bell.
'Am Boden zerstƶrt' is honestly such a good saying and I'm kinda sad that we don't use it much in german. 'Destroyed on the floor' to express how you're feeling? Like yes indeed I am fully destoyed lying on the floor because I can't keep going anymore. Sometimes it does feel like that
Aufhocker
An Aufhocker (top sitter), also called Huckup, is a pressure spirit and shapeshifter in German folklore. It is a kind of goblin, who jumps onto the shoulders or backs of hikers who are still out at night, becoming heavier with each step.
The hiker is paralyzed, suffers from feelings of oppression and anxiety and is unable to turn around. The Aufhocker remains sitting on the hiker until he is released by the approaching light, a prayer or the ringing of a bell.
The nightmarish experience often takes place in three phases. The hiker is first approached or accompanied by a sinister being, then the demonic companion grows to supernatural size and finally jumps onto the back of the victim. The HackestĆ¼pp from DĆ¼ren is one such Aufhocker, who initially accompanies the victims as a playful little dog, then jumps onto their backs, cannot be shaken off and becomes heavier with each step.
Typical haunted places such as streams, bridges, lakes, forests, ditches, crossroads, ravines, churchyards and sites where murders or executions happened are the usual places for an encounter with an Aufhocker, which can result in physical and mental illness and sometimes even death for the hiker. The Bahkauv ("stream calf") of Aachen is an Aufhocker who is said to frighten drunken men at night and ask them to carry him on their shoulders.
Sometimes an Aufhocker first appears as pitiful old women; but they can also take on animal forms such as a bear, a calf (as in the Bahkauv), a werewolf (as in the StĆ¼pp of the Western Rhineland) or a dog (as in the SĆ¼rthgens Mossel of the HĆ¼rtgenwald forest). Elemental beings such as mermen or will-o'-the-wisps also act as Aufhockers. What is important is not the shape of the Aufhocker, but the oppressiveness of the situation. Aufhockers are not limited to German folklore. An Aufhocker in the shape of an old man is also mentioned in the oriental fairy tale collection One Thousand and One Nights, in which he meets "Sinbad the Sailor" on a deserted island.
The figure of the Aufhocker has its origins in the fear of the revenant, the undead. The oldest reports of Aufhockers clearly speak of "haunting corpses" and not of goblins or ghosts. Unlike Nachzehrers, who did not have to leave their grave if they wanted to harm the living, other undead, like vampires, rose from the grave and stole people's vital force. This could happen in a tangible way by sucking out blood, but also in a more abstract form. As recent research has shown, this also applies to vampires, who are said in the oldest reports to have a damaging effect through "strangling" and "emaciating", but not through bloodsucking. In the western Rhineland, the Aufhocker merges with the werewolf to form the StĆ¼pp, a dangerous monster that unexpectedly jumps on people's shoulders and forces the victims to carry him around, causing trepidations, anxiety, feelings of oppression and panic attacks until they die of exhaustion.
Authors Convinced Fanfic is Illegal/Requires Permission
Terry Goodkind: āCopyright law dictates that in order for me to protect my copyright, when I find such things, I must go out and hire lawyers to threaten these people to make them stop, and to sue them if they donāt.ā
John Scalzi: āLet's remember one fundamental thing about fanfic: Almost all of it is entirely illegal to begin with. It's the wild and wanton misappropriation of copyrighted materialā
Diana Gabaldon: āOK, my position on fan-fic is pretty clear: I think itās immoral, I know itās illegal, and it makes me want to barf whenever Iāve inadvertently encountered some of it involving my characters.ā
Robin Hobb: āFan fiction is like any other form of identity theft. It injures the name of the party whose identity is stolen.ā
Anne Rice: āI do not allow fan fiction. The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan fiction with my characters. I advise my readers to write your own original stories with your own characters. It is absolutely essential that you respect my wishes.ā
Anne McCaffrey: āthere can be no adventure/stories set on Pern at all!!!!! That's infringing on my copyright and can bear heavy penaltiesā¦indiscriminate usage of our characters, worlds, and concepts on a 'public' media like electronic mail constitute copyright infringement AND, which many fans disregard, is ACTIONABLE!ā
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro: āNo. Absolutely not. It is also against federal law.ā
Lynn Flewelling: āWhether you are writing about Seregil or Fox Mulder or Sherlock Holmes, if you do not have legal permission from the author, their estate, or publisher, then you are violating US copyright law. It is creative piracy. Doesn't matter how many disclaimers you put on, or if you're being paid. It. Is. Illegal.ā
Someone Else, elaborated in the notes
Which one is the Funniest/Worst case?
1. Terry Goodkind
2. John Scalzi
3. Diana Gabaldon
4. Robin Hobb
5. Anne Rice
6. Anne McCaffrey
7. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
8. Lynn Flewelling
9. Someone Else
Dishonorable mention to:
Lee Goldberg, who enjoys organizing harassment campaigns against individual fic authors, is shocked and bewildered by the OTW, and who once tried to convince people that Naomi Novik had changed her mind about fanfic,
Jo Walton, who compared fanfic to rape and said that ā(her) urge isnāt to sue people who do it, it's to rend them limb from limbā
Archie Comics, which sent cease and desist letters to individual fan creators for years because they were afraid fanworks might taint their wholesome, family friendly image before coming out with Riverdale. (No word on a fanwork policy change)
And anyone who cites Marion Zimmer Bradley as an example of poor, innocent authors being hurt by fanfic.
@adobedragon Haha, yeah...
I couldn't find a good quote from him and I got tired of slogging through his dozens of posts on the topic, but this post by Naomi Novik points out some of his hypocrisy. I guess the one where he cited an equally confused lawyer about the OTW was pretty funny too. (They thought the OTW was proposing changes to copyright law. As Rebecca Tushnet points out, it wasn't a proposal. It was a statement of fact about the law that currently exists.)
Shadow Pond, The Hamptons ist heute 8 geworden!
Die klare Meinung eines Geologen kann nur eine felsenfeste Ćberzeugung sein.
āWinter Expressā by | Steffi Menzel
Harz Mountains, Brocken, Germany
Nicht geschimpft ist genug gelobt.
No scolding is enough praise.
Wolfgang SchƤuble (1942 ā 2023), German politician
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German Embassy London
Ćberraschung an der Windschutzscheibe: Wer im schwƤbischen Giengen an der Brenz derzeit ordnungsgemĆ¤Ć parkt, hat Chancen auf ein besonderes
Two background informations first:
When you are parking incorrectly in Germany, the officers of the public order office will put a slip of paper behind your windshield wiper announcing that you will be fined.
During the advent time (the four weeks before Christmas), and particularly on December 6 (St. Nicholas day), children (and sometimes adults at work) get sweets.
The city of Giengen an der Brenz thought of another means to educate car drivers and incentivize them for better parking habits: Instead of fining those who were parking incorrectly, they rewarded the correctly parking drivers by putting a piece of chocolate behind the windshield wipers during the week around St. Nicholas day. The feedback from the public was extremely positive, saying that the campaign should be repeated more often. However, the officers of the public order office say that once a year is enough, otherwise people should just stick to the rules: "Not being fined is enough reward." The city administration cannot say whether there is an improvement in the parking habits since they haven't done any statistics.
Ich habe so viele Leichen seziert und nie eine Seele gefunden.
I've dissected so many corpses and never found a soul.
Rudolf Virchow (1821 ā 1902), German physician, archeologist, and politician, founder of modern, science-based pathology
āTis the season again
The pine tree will provide nourishment for him as he slumbers in his nylon cocoon, ready to emerge next winter and rebuild his christmas tree hoard. Nature is so beautiful!
I thought it was a wood chipper for one horrible second
Please return us to a world where Notp and squick are used for a ship you donāt like instead of just making up a load of bullshit about how immoral it is or w/e lolĀ
a short selection of concepts and phrases that used to be commonplace in fandom and weād really benefit from making that a thing again:
NOTP: the opposite of an OTP (One True Pairing). It is a ship a fan strongly dislikes. The word is a portmanteau of ānoā and āOTPā and thus is not a contraction of any particular phrase.
Squick: anything that is a deep-seated, visceral turn-off. Squicks may be shared by many fans or be specific to one; one personās kink may be another personās squick.
YKINMKATO, or kink-tomato: Your Kink Is Not My Kink, And Thatās Okay: used to indicate support for fannish diversity and to distinguish between disapproval or kink shaming and simply having different taste.
DLDR: Donāt Like, Donāt Read: a phrase used to warn against complaints about an aspect of fic or meta. A ālive and let liveā philosophy of fandom, which places the responsability for avoiding content one doesnāt want to see on the side of the fanwork consumer, rather that on the creatorās.
SALS: Ship And Let Ship: similar to the above specifically about shipping tastes.
YMMV: Your Mileage May Vary: a phrase used to acknowledge that any given individualās personal opinion on the topic at hand may differ due to their own tastes, standards, values, experiences, etc.
As the OP points out, all of these crucially imply no moral judgment of what theyāre designing.
(definitions lifted more or less wholesale from fanloreās relevant pages)
bring the healthy fun back to fandom!
If ever a time comes when I donāt reblog this when it appears on my dash, assume Iām dead
*smashes reblog button*
