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I always thought Grey’s Anatomy was pretty bad, but now I’m stuck watching the musical episode because of my roomie’s gf and I kinda want to vomit.

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To be a happy fat person in a world that demands fat misery is a powerful statement.

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How to get your body caftan-ready for summer

1. Select a caftan of your chosen gauge and length. Stroke its gauzy fabric and whisper into its folds.

2. Let your flesh settle into the crevices of your comfortable, comfortable caftan.

3. Crumbs? Let them fall where they may, swaddled in your caftan.

4. Throw out your razor.

5. Throw out your bra.

6. Throw out the aloe vera lotion you bought last summer. You will not be getting sunburned this summer.

7. Release your inhibitions. Feel the rain on your skin.

via TrollX

Yes

I’m very glad that movies like Pacific Rim and Fury Road and The Force Awakens are as colorful as they are, because I am really, really tired of desaturated movies.

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I’m glad <insert movie> has blacks people because if it didn’t meet my arbitrary percentage standard I might just have to call someone a bigot

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………you’re an ugly racist, but this is literally talking about the color palette the films used, not who is acting in them.

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“I like the film aesthetics of this movie” “Wow what is this some kind of SJW bullshit??”

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“I like colours lads” “FUCKING POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD”

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Local anti-sjw offended by movie having a color palette and reveals themselves as a racist in the process

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Sponges are weird. They’re artificial now, but in the past people would pluck animals out of the ocean and use them to wash dishes and stuff. That seems like something you’d do in the Flintstones.

#yeah kinda

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Double Divets.

(This one’s for my dad, who’s an advanced amateur competitor at the sand-sculpting competition in Fort Myers, Florida this weekend!)

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This is my summer

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Fav shirt

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Holy crap.

http://www.courtneymilan.com/cc-complaint/1-main.pdf

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“The Dark-Hunter Series and the Shadowhunter Series are so similar that CLARE’S own publisher mistakenly printed 100,000 copies of a Shadowhunter Book referencing the DarkHunter Mark on the cover.”

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#those who don’t know their history are doomed to COPY ENTIRE PARAGRAPHS OF IT WORD FOR WORD (into-the-weeds)

spicandspan89

WOW. an historic day.

for anyone who doesn’t know the history of Cassandra Clare, make yourself a nice big bowl of popcorn and settle in with some light reading

ababelofprose

okay so i’m not really wading in on this, primarily because i’m not well-informed enough - i haven’t read either series in question, and i haven’t read the legal documents in the suit. i am familiar with the history of controversy surrounding cassandra clare, and at one time, i was pretty well-informed about those earlier allegations (and found them pretty credible).

however, i became curious as to why the tumblr posts about this most recent issue were linking to documents hosted on courtney milan’s website, when she didn’t appear to be involved in the case at all. turns out, she’s a romance writer with a very cool twitter presence who is also a former intellectual property law professor. (all so cool!! like the one thing i’m taking away from this, aside from a headache about plagiarism and copyright and fandom and mythmaking, is that courtney milan seems like a really interesting person!)

but, anyways, courtney milan started tweeting about the case on feb 9. when she found the complaint, she tweeted out a link to the file, hosted on her blog, and to the exhibits (here and more here). she also discussed some of her thoughts on the case, which i found really edifying and valuable. when i first saw this post, my mind immediately went to, “here we go again.” i had no problem quickly assuming that clare was at fault. and she might be! but after reading milan’s tweets, this story had gotten more complex, more nuanced, for me. there are really vital questions here, for all of us who tell stories, whether we do it for pay or not.

i don’t have a super efficient way of sharing those with you, other than a screencap that’s out of order, which i’ll put below. but here’s what should be a stable link to the main chunk of thinking she tweeted out. and again, it’s pretty easy to scroll back to february 9 to see all of this on her twitter feed. i’m going to put the screencaps under a read more.

Keep reading

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Whoosh, I’ve read a substantial number of the Dark Hunter novels and all I can say is Sherrilyn Kenyon is getting some VERY BAD legal advice.

Courtney Milan breaks it down pretty well, but I must add that the way the suit currently reads, you could apply it to nearly every urban fantasy/paranormal circulating post 2002. Much of what she’s claiming to be her original thoughts are much too vague to be realistically copyrighted.

In reference to the Shadow Hunter symbol simply being a simplified version of the Dark Hunter Symbol… I read maybe the first 17 books in the series as well as a few of the CoN books and the only symbols I remember were the two bows and an arrow for Artemis and the weird sun thing for Acheron. Did I miss something? Because I’m not seeing anything similar to the Shadow Hunter symbol on any of the old covers.

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Read a few more details of the suit and it's just so... bad. Just as Courtney Milan stated, TMI actually predates many of the details Sherrilyn Kenyon alleges were lifted from some of her later Dark Hunter novels. The woman needs to fire her lawyers.

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Holy crap.

http://www.courtneymilan.com/cc-complaint/1-main.pdf

into-the-weeds

“The Dark-Hunter Series and the Shadowhunter Series are so similar that CLARE’S own publisher mistakenly printed 100,000 copies of a Shadowhunter Book referencing the DarkHunter Mark on the cover.”

little-brisk-archive

#those who don’t know their history are doomed to COPY ENTIRE PARAGRAPHS OF IT WORD FOR WORD (into-the-weeds)

spicandspan89

WOW. an historic day.

for anyone who doesn’t know the history of Cassandra Clare, make yourself a nice big bowl of popcorn and settle in with some light reading

ababelofprose

okay so i’m not really wading in on this, primarily because i’m not well-informed enough - i haven’t read either series in question, and i haven’t read the legal documents in the suit. i am familiar with the history of controversy surrounding cassandra clare, and at one time, i was pretty well-informed about those earlier allegations (and found them pretty credible).

however, i became curious as to why the tumblr posts about this most recent issue were linking to documents hosted on courtney milan’s website, when she didn’t appear to be involved in the case at all. turns out, she’s a romance writer with a very cool twitter presence who is also a former intellectual property law professor. (all so cool!! like the one thing i’m taking away from this, aside from a headache about plagiarism and copyright and fandom and mythmaking, is that courtney milan seems like a really interesting person!)

but, anyways, courtney milan started tweeting about the case on feb 9. when she found the complaint, she tweeted out a link to the file, hosted on her blog, and to the exhibits (here and more here). she also discussed some of her thoughts on the case, which i found really edifying and valuable. when i first saw this post, my mind immediately went to, “here we go again.” i had no problem quickly assuming that clare was at fault. and she might be! but after reading milan’s tweets, this story had gotten more complex, more nuanced, for me. there are really vital questions here, for all of us who tell stories, whether we do it for pay or not.

i don’t have a super efficient way of sharing those with you, other than a screencap that’s out of order, which i’ll put below. but here’s what should be a stable link to the main chunk of thinking she tweeted out. and again, it’s pretty easy to scroll back to february 9 to see all of this on her twitter feed. i’m going to put the screencaps under a read more.

Keep reading

librarymadness

Whoosh, I’ve read a substantial number of the Dark Hunter novels and all I can say is Sherrilyn Kenyon is getting some VERY BAD legal advice.

Courtney Milan breaks it down pretty well, but I must add that the way the suit currently reads, you could apply it to nearly every urban fantasy/paranormal circulating post 2002. Much of what she’s claiming to be her original thoughts are much too vague to be realistically copyrighted.

In reference to the Shadow Hunter symbol simply being a simplified version of the Dark Hunter Symbol… I read maybe the first 17 books in the series as well as a few of the CoN books and the only symbols I remember were the two bows and an arrow for Artemis and the weird sun thing for Acheron. Did I miss something? Because I’m not seeing anything similar to the Shadow Hunter symbol on any of the old covers.

#dark hunter lawsuit #shadowhunter lawsuit #cassandra clare #sherrilyn kenyon

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in case anyone had any ideas about poe being a dashing space rogue or something because he is nothing but a kind-hearted nerd who loves to follow the rules

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Winter is objectively the best time to see movies because your big coat makes smuggling in food that much easier & since you’re already in layers you won’t get cold in the theatre

#truth

cityelf

Everyone’s favourite space mom, Carrie Fisher. Rockin’ it.

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shoutydwarf

I was sick last week and started binging Finding Carter… and maybe I’m just getting old, but what the fuck is going on with these kids? These parents? Is nobody capable of making good decisions?