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what’s the rush?
The time will pass anyway
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Haurchefant is so so cute with the lightsticks omg 💙
(Scuffed recording but I left my game on to just have him on the other monitor a few nights ago)
I am not a straight people.
Reblog if you are also not a straight people.
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Training herding dogs side of tumblr, please explain
It's called shedding. Sometimes you need to single out some animals from others in the herd for some reason, this lets you do it in a field relatively quickly and with less stress for the animals compare to other methods (like running them all through a chute or a race).
It's a higher level sheepdog skill, they usually do it in trials too.
There's a cool video on it here
Dogs with jobs are always superb but I'm especially delighted to see that the Mission Impossible theme still has its uses. 💜
Holy crap ok so
You’re probably about to see a lot of crap going round about this because what the hell?? It’s advertised on the playstore as an unofficial AO3 app with free fanfic to read and it’s pretty popular
I downloaded it and yeah… when they say unofficial AO3 app they really mean they’ve ripped a bunch of content off AO3 and it’s just on there to read. Searching my AO3 handle gets me this:
What the hell. That’s my stuff. 144 fics to read. The stats you can see for the ones there are ripped from AO3 too. Beyond obviously, I was never contacted about having my work put up on an app I’ve never heard of. And what makes this better?
There’s an option to go Premium and even to leave a tip. They’re purportedly keeping the app alive with this cash but to call a spade a spade, they’re profiting off fanfic by ripping it from AO3 and asking users to pay for a premium service.
I’m furious. The reviews on this app are all talking about how useful the users did or didn’t find it; no one seems concerned that the app should not exist in the first place. What the hell
As a writer I’m going to be contacting AO3 about this (though things seem to be kicking off to the point that I’m sure they already know). I’m making this post to let any users of the app know: I know having an AO3 app would be great but this is not the answer. To rip content from people on AO3 and try to profit from it is deeply not okay, and flies directly in the face of so many core elements of fandom. We are not for sale.
And just to be clear: the app isn’t just a library that you can use to search for fic and then click through to go to AO3 itself.
This is the text of one of my fics, just ripped and posted on the app.
If you tap on one of the fics from the list I posted a pic of in my first post, you see this
(Notice the ad at the bottom. This is being monetised. I also got a full-screen ad that I had to wait for while taking screenshots. I was getting this person paid for MY OWN FIC but I really want to document this.) Now if I tap that three-dot menu you can see up there, I get this:
“Open in browser” is the link that does take you to the AO3 page of my fic. It’s very unobtrusive. Clearly the app developer doesn’t want you leaving the app to read, and taking away your time viewing their monetised ads. I imagine it’s only there for plausible deniability down the line.
If I try to leave a comment, I get this:
My comment was not successfully added. Maybe the ability to communicate with a robbed AO3 writer is a ~Premium feature? Snark aside, I imagine it’s because I’m not logged in on the app, and so I have no username to post the comment under. But the app tells me my comment’s been posted. It’s broken, it’s lying, it’s one crappy part of this crapshow app that I hope is gone from the playstore before I finish typing this all out.
For the curious, trying to leave kudos gets me this:
And the kudos counter did actually go up, so. Yay for that? Hidden away from where the stolen fic is actually posted, is a way to leave kudos. While another ad scrolls along the bottom of the screen obviously.
Hopefully this clears up further why this app is shady and exploitative, and also gives a bit more info to stop the curious people from downloading to give it a look. That ad revenue isn’t going to taste less sweet because it’s from outrage downloading. I’m uninstalling it right now and won’t be going back.
Having seen a lot more about this app, some more things have come to light. The consensus is
the app is not hosting the fics itself
(which is unsurprising because it costs to host data and I’m sure they want to keep as much of their profits as they can)
it’s more like an AO3 reader, with text hosted on AO3 being displayed on the app
for this reason the app does not violate the letter of copyright law
the monetisation is supposedly for the coding of the app, not the fic itself
What this doesn’t change:
Writers have no control/consent over their full works, which they own the copyrights to, being displayed on the app. Legally there’s nothing to be done but ethically it’s unacceptable to display the entire untransformed product of someone else’s effort and creativity, without asking them, for your own financial gain.
The app is glitchy at best and shady at worst in its practices. People using the app have been signed up to premium without wanting to be, and can’t get out of it. People have used their AO3 credentials to log in to this third-party app, the security of which is unknown. Worryingly, warnings on fics are being left off, author’s notes (with additional warnings) are nowhere to be found, and writers who have orphaned works to make them anonymous have those works showing up under their usernames on the app. (Read the notes on this post for details of all this).
The app is built on shoulders of the work of unpaid AO3 volunteers and writers. It is profoundly unfair to monetise an app that relies on their work. Firstly the hosting of the fic is something that donators to AO3 gladly pay for. Secondly the code for producing stats, bookmarks, kudos and the rest of AO3 is created by hours of volunteer work. Thirdly, needless to say the fanfic itself is being written through hours of unpaid work. What I’m saying is, none of this content belongs to the app’s creator, but they’re the only one being paid for it. If the developer truly feels they deserve payment for their app’s coding I encourage them to keep trying to monetise the app’s code while removing everything they didn’t create or find consent to use. I would like to see it.
To the people saying, “it’s fanfic, it’s all pretty much theft anyway, you’ve got no leg to stand on!”
No.
Fanfic on AO3 is transformative. It’s posted to be read for free without ads, and it transforms the original work. Legally and ethically this is its leg to stand on. If this app developer transformed AO3 writers’ work in the same way that AO3 writers transform canon (i.e. same characters, sometimes same universe, sometimes plot parallels, occasional references to canon lines), at that point we wouldn’t have a leg to stand on. As it is, this is a wholly different scenario. There is no parallel here that provides an excuse for this app.
To the people saying “it’s like pirating a movie, most people on here are all for that!”
No.
It’s taking something that was already completely free and unpaid, and running ads under it/offering premium ways to consume it. Entirely different question to that of movie piracy.
To the people saying, “what does it matter? It’s all still there on AO3. The app is just providing a service that people must want if they’re paying for it. And apps like this have been around for a while and things are only just kicking off about them. So what?”
I think this matters because volunteers’ and writers’ gifts to fandom shouldn’t be monetised for someone else’s gain. I think this matters because writers are being treated by this app, and apps like it, as a money-making industry rather than individuals devoting unpaid time and passion to writing with freedom. I think it matters because fandom created an award-winning space to share work for free, and that space is being garnished with glitches and ads before being essentially sold back to the people who already owned it. I think it matters because in a society like ours, things don’t stay free easily. It’s something you can’t take for granted, something you have to fight for.
Going forward, it’s possible for writers to:
Set your fics to only be seen by AO3 users who are logged in, which stops them from being able to be viewed on the app, but also stops any guests to AO3 from being able to see them too. EDIT: it’s possible that setting your fics to private won’t hide them on the app from users who’ve logged in on the app with their AO3 details (link to tweet). there’s no way of knowing what percentage of the app’s users have done this.
Put a notice at the top of your fic - not in the author’s notes, in the fic itself - saying you don’t consent to your work being shared on monetised fanfic apps. This won’t stop them being shared, but it may give users of the app a sense of the shadiness and exploitation of the app they’re using.
Carry on as you were. There’s no moral obligation to be outraged by this and if you don’t care, cool. Please allow those of us who do care the space to talk about it without insisting it doesn’t matter.
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Customer: I have welcomed Jesus into my heart and so I am well today and every day.
Me, a little unnerved: Okay then! Is there something I can help you with?
Customer, digging around in his bag and pulling out an iPhone in a box: Unfortunately, Jesus can't help me with this fucking phone, so I came to the library.
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A CLOUD FELL?
Snow?
that is bubble soap. someone has made a tragic mistake
Let me tell you a story.
My mom had a hot tub, she traded a refrigerator for it. One day the water needed changed, and I went to her, the darling teenager that I was, and said, “Mom, can we put bubble bath in the hot tub?”
She looked at me like I’d lost my damned mind, a look that I got from my mom a lot.
“But, mom, we’re going to be changing the water!,” I insisted.
She told me I could, so I called all of my friends, because dear god I was putting bubble bath in the fucking hot tub, and this might be the best thing I’d done in my entire life. And with a full size bottle of bubble bath in hand we all got in the hot tub, I upended the whole bottle, and turned on the jets.
The bubbles started rising at an alarming rate, soon I could see nothing but bubbles because they’d engulfed my head. There was much laughter as we all got buried in the foam. After awhile I finally stood up. There were three feet of solid bubbles towering above the hot tub, the deck looked about like the picture above, there were bubbles in the trees, and wafting into my neighbors’ lawns. Everything was bubbles, and to date it still might be the best thing I’ve ever done in my life.
I’m adding this to my bucket list
Would anyone like to see pictures of this bird I’m friends with
I love her
i am loving people’s attempts to identify this bird its just an australian magpie, she’s not a chimera, she’s not a fucked up crow, etc. she is just….. a regular run of the mill magpie
She is also a mother…. here is her yelling son who she brought to me one time
HOW THE HELL DID YOU BEFRIEND AN AUSTRALIAN MAGPIE
i give her chips sometimes
From what I’ve heard, australian magpies are actually quite nice if they trust you not to hurt them. Swooping season happens because, as a species, they’ve learned that most humans are Dangerous and so they preemptively attack to protect themselves and their young. If you’ve been nice to a group of magpies, though, they’ll remember you and you won’t be swooped at.
Magpies are extremely cool birds, and very intelligent… which means that they know that humans are the biggest threat around and that we can be good friends. Thus, swooping, and also not swooping humans who have proven themselves to be trustworthy sources of food.
The funniest interaction I ever had with some magpies was when one of my former workplaces had our Christmas lunch as a picnic in a park. A pair of magpies were teaching their fledgeling how to beg for food from humans. First one would approach, crouch down and coo at us; someone threw them a bit of cheese. Then the other adult approached, crouched down and cooed at us; someone threw a piece of cabanossi. Both tidbits were picked up, taken back and shared with the offspring… then the adults were standing there looking at the fledgeling and then at us, obviously going “Go on, then, you try it!”
Fledgeling magpie nervously walked closer to us, looked back at its parents, then half-crouched and yelled “RAWK!” in our direction. We cracked up laughing, startling the poor baby, but he or she got over it pretty quickly when a HAIL of bits of cheese and sausage landed all around.
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I’m fascinated with the concept of baby animals being TAUGHT, complete with focus-drawing behaviors, followed by demonstration, about how to interact with humans.
So yeah, baby can have some chips.
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Emitting a recogniseable call is key with magpies. I lived just down the street from a park with a huge swooping problem for about 20 years, so I had time to run a lot of experiments. The conclusion I came to is that magpies don’t recognise humans visually, but aurally. If you make a friendly noise every time you see them (mine is a cooing ‘hello birdie’), don’t startle them or try to get too close, and politely go around them when they’re on the ground, they’ll soon remember you as a Polite Human and you’ll be exempt from the swooping as soon as you make the right noise.
Which is why I routinely crossed that park in swooping season, greeting the first magpie I saw in my usual fashion, and then strolled across the park in safety while assorted people in business attire ran past me screaming with their briefcases or handbags over their heads. The filthy looks I used to get when I stopped to speak to a magpie and then it went off to attack someone else were really pretty funny. Was it my fault they weren’t being polite?
We moved into a new swooping zone a few years ago, and I immediately began the campaign again. I got swooped a couple of times the first year, but never since. it really does work!
This is gonna be quite long… and funny, hopefully.
I was rewatching my favorite duels on the tube, this morning, and this thought occurred to me.
Ewan McGregor is the Ginger Rogers of Star Wars.
Yeah, I know, listen. This is our beloved Obi-Wan Kenobi, jedi master, the Master of Soresu, great lightsaber duelist, amazing fighter and all, look at him. How fast, and powerful, and lethal, yeah. I love him, right. We all do, I know.
He was amazing from the start, so good that he’s the first jedi and padawan to kill a sith in a thousand years, and he’s the master of Soresu, so good that he gives way, against Anakin, hoping to get him so tired to talk to him out of the dark side. What a jedi, what a warrior.
Fine.
Then, we have Ewan McGregor, so good at it that they had to slow down the duel with amazing Ray Park because it was so fast that nobody would believe it. Look at them.
Let’s not forget that Ray Park is an actual martial artist, and he was in his prime during this film, and they were so good and fast that the fight is perfectly believable. A choreography, but a perfect one. Two dancers in synch.
And with Hayden? Look at them. Fast, precise, and Ewan is always walking backwards.
the most amazing thing to me is that is Ewan actually deciding the pace, because Hayden can’t be too fast or he’ll risk to hurt Ewan, and can’t be too slow, or he’ll miss the beat. And in all this, Ewan is walking backwards, without ever looking, and without missing a beat.
Ginger Rogers would have been so proud of Ewan.
Deadass if you knew nothing about Yu Yu Hakusho looking at the promotional art you would think it was an anime about a male idol group hanging out.
i mean it’s true but there’s also not a 90′s anime in the world this statement doesn’t apply to.
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wow that last one is gayer than the entire recorded history of gundam wing fanart combined
gayer than the hot cops?
Oh Gundam Wing, never change.
Don’t forget Samurai Troopers / Ronin Warriors
Also bonus Western AU or whatever this is
Let’s not forget Weiß Kreuz with those boys in the flowershop
God I kinda miss the 90s lol
Weiss on my dash!
I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY
FEAST YOUR EYES
@caveat-monstrum War flashbacks? War flashbacks.
Deadass if you knew nothing about Yu Yu Hakusho looking at the promotional art you would think it was an anime about a male idol group hanging out.
i mean it’s true but there’s also not a 90′s anime in the world this statement doesn’t apply to.
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wow that last one is gayer than the entire recorded history of gundam wing fanart combined
gayer than the hot cops?
Oh Gundam Wing, never change.
Don’t forget Samurai Troopers / Ronin Warriors
Also bonus Western AU or whatever this is
Let’s not forget Weiß Kreuz with those boys in the flowershop
God I kinda miss the 90s lol
Weiss on my dash!
I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY
FEAST YOUR EYES
@caveat-monstrum War flashbacks? War flashbacks.