[loosepuck]

🏒julian, 30s, they/it/he 🏒 very new to hockey please be gentle 🏒 mostly habs and penguins 🏒 rpf friendly, to be cringe is to be free 🏒 aspiring goalie enthusiast

[minotauri]

[louder than everyone] MAN I THINK IT DEPENDS!

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

so strange when people assume 'waking up early' means increased productivity bc no??? im awake so i can read fanfic in bed before breakdown

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

BREAKFAST

[loosepuck]

i am gonna get such a good grade in going to the doctor <- guy who has to structure their day around taking their blood pressure morning and evening for the next two weeks :|

[pjharvey]

we have to start running a massive PSA campaign to young gay people so everyone understands there is a difference between being a dom and being a top and between being a sub and being a bottom. and also that sometimes you are neither a sub nor a bottom and you're just like shy. we need to be handing out flyers we need ads at every train station spreading the word

[viktor-sbor]

Off the coast of Australia Macroctopus caught the shark, wrapped all its tentacles around it and soon released it. Most likely, he scraped all the parasites off her.

[alkthash]

The octopus

[meshugenist]

me when i fucking get u

[schmilsson]

sports arent real

[schmilsson]

sports stands for

S - piss

P - yourself

O - off

R - immediately

T - for

S - free

[valtsv]

wearing two cursed amulets to manipulate them into competing with each other for ownership of my soul and actually improving my life in their attempts to seduce me

[joyflameball]

[wishing so bad to vaguepost but not wanting to send harassment after anyone] i saw a post. and it was bad.

[theforsakenprince]

Bet it feels good as fuckkk to rest your hand on the pommel of your sword when the newcomer steps a little too close to your lord who you’ve sworn to protect with your life

[promptcalender]

Piece of advice to all writers who need a cover but don’t have the money to hire an artist: use the public domain.

Online, you can find quite a lot databases for photography in the public domain that you could use (always check their specific rules regarding commercial use), like Pixabay, Unsplash, or Pexels.

But, even a tad more charming, there are also hundreds of thousands of paintings in the public domain. If the artist has been dead for over 70 years, the image is (typically) in the public domain and can be used however you want it. This is not a new concept, big publishers like Penguin and the Oxford’s World Classics do the same!

When you use such images, always make sure that 1. the painting really is in the public domain (sometimes the art itself may be in the public domain, but the photograph you are using to see it is not!), and 2. that it is an appropriate image. Sometimes, an image may look innocent and fitting, but would actually cause irritation, like accidentally using a painting of siblings for a romance or using a controversial image for different reasons.

Some places you can find art in the public domain (always double check!): National Gallery of Art, Artvee, Public Domain Image Archive, and most websites of bigger museums.

[Prompt Calender: April 23rd, World Book and Copyright Day]

[thebaconsandwichofregret]

Your cover will look so much more professional and interesting if you use public domain imagery rather than AI.

Your hard work deserves thoughtful presentation.

[talvin-muircastle]

Also check the Wikimedia Commons. Alot of Public Domain stuff there!

Wikimedia Commons

[alexseanchai]

a clarification: if something is in the public domain, that means nobody holds the copyright on that thing anymore. this is not the same thing as the thing being available for anyone to use as long as they follow the rules.

the entire reason photographers put their work on places such as Unsplash and Wikimedia Commons is to make the photos available for anyone to use as long as they follow the rules. each photo being helpfully labeled with what the rules are, which on Unsplash is usually either (a) "pay for a license", or (b) "free with attribution for non-commercial use, but for commercial use, pay for a license". note that non-commercial use of a category b photo is still a licensed use, it's just a different license.

on Wikimedia Commons, many photos are in the public domain, thus available for anyone with no rules to follow. the rules on the rest vary, but Wikimedia Commons requires those rules to include that modified versions of these photos must also be available for anyone to use and modify. again, that's licensed use. that's the copyright holder saying it's available for anyone to use, here's the rules. anything in the public domain, there are no rules because there is no copyright holder.

I would be very surprised to learn any images available on Unsplash are in the public domain.

[deslizada]

man sometimes friendship really is just "I saw this and knew it would give you psychic damage. please respond with agony" and then they do. and it's great

[snowflakeeel]

I chime in with a haven’t you people ever heard of

citing a goddamn source??“

[theequeerstrian]

No

It’s much better to face these kinds of things with a sense of

Smug irrationality

[jaynejezebelle]

8/8 teams complete!

I humbly request no more future teams be allowed to use the color blue (you’re on thin ice San Jose).

[yesornopolls]

do you have any friends that are 4x your age or more?

Do you have any friends that are 4x your age or more?

Yes

No

Remaining time: 2 days 7 hours

[crisismoth]

sometimes i be saying im gonna go to bed and then i dont go to bed. frequently in fact. this is because i have the heart of an optimist and the soul of a liar

[daily-nhl-polls]

Do you own an NHL jersey?

Many!

One!

Nope!

Remaining time: 6 days 10 hours