Pronounced Moo-ees :)

[auckie]

[doomsday-dj]

There was recently a copyright infringement case in YA and I need everyone to know that the following sentence was in the legal decision:

“Hot, sexy, dangerous boys, central to virtually all young adult romance novels, cannot be copyrighted.”

[kuttithevangu]

“Regarding setting, the court held that both works taking place in Alaska high schools was not protectable because Alaska is a public place and setting a teen novel in a high school is a common genre convention.”

Freeman v. Deebs-Elkenaney | Loeb & Loeb LLP

Freeman v. Deebs-Elkenaney | Loeb & Loeb LLP

[kogiopsis]

I've read the entire decision (skimming over the purely legal precedent/definitions bit) and here are some of my favorite bits:

[bemusedlybespectacled]

“indeed, it seems that the Pacific Northwest (Twilight) is a common locale for finding vampires and werewolves at a high school” oh my god

[mooys1]

I love law because, most of the time, judges are just trying their best to apply their common sense. Ideally, rulings are supposed to affirm how a person would expect things to work, rather than running counter to it. I would consider a ruling that a person would not expect, like, “boneless wings is a cooking style and can contain bones” to be a very poor ruling.

I’m glad to hear the judges were well informed here and made a good decision (maybe a little too informed, according to them).

[do-you-have-a-flag]

[mooys1]

I’d be so down to do some private readings for people. That sounds like fun.

[semiohazard]

a word to the furthest denizens of the Earth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 17776 day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mooys1]

17776 was one of the works that had a big effect on me. I had the pleasure of reading it while it was still coming out. At the time, I was 13. I don’t think I knew then that today, nine years later, I’d still remember it so fondly.

Something about the passion stuck with me. It’s clear to me that Jon Bois loves football so much. In everything he’s ever done, he’s shown that he loves football, not in spite of its flaws, but for them.

I’ve never cared much about football, but that passion shined through every aspect of the story. Game 27 might be one of the strongest examples of this. It’s always stuck with me, and I think the reason why is because it stuck with JUICE. He shared something he loved just because he loved it. It’s beautiful to me, I think one of the strongest messages is that external value is not necessary for something to have value.

I see myself in that. I love things that are silly, I care greatly about things that others don’t, I think many of us can relate to that- being tumblr users on the internet. I like to think that’s what makes us human. It’s comforting to think that even in ten thousand plus years, I’ll still love silly things. We’ll all be loving silly things. We won’t lose what makes us human.

[mooys1]

I’ve never enjoyed football but I think I’m gonna have a couple thousand years to get used to it.

Happy 17776 day everyone.

[thebugautistic]

I like to think I'm funny

[anothergayghoul]

I neeeeeedddd an Adam's apple like now

[mooys1]

me after forgetting many key details of the story of Adam and Eve

[omghotmemes]

[fintan-pyren]

[excited about an aro friend getting a boyfriend] congratulations! [remembers that presenting romantic relationships as a universal goal to be achieved perpetuates amatonormativity] I don't care about your relationship at all [trying to reaffirm that I am supportive of aromanticism] and I hope you break up

[nematodeneedles]

Gaming Webcomic

[nematodeneedles]

[kiriska]

I love this stupid animal.

[samreich]

one of my all-time favorite weird and wonderful shows - DON'T HUG ME I'M SCARED - is now on dropout! full web series now; TV series (which less people have seen) over the course of the next few months. big thanks to blink industries, becky, and joe for their faith in us. is dropout getting into licensing content? yes, maybe, carefully. as with anything we do, this is experimental -- driven by my love for the show as well as a great relationship with its creators. but if it works, we might do more things like it... ...by which i mean put more shows on dropout that we think are... (a) uniquely great (b) perhaps even underexposed shows like SUITS LA (kidding, i didn't watch it, though i did watch literally all of og SUITS) have or know a show you think we should consider? get in touch! does this mean less original dropout content? of course not! we have a record number of new dropout shows right now in development, the fruits of which you'll begin to see this year. stay tuned for this, that, and more! 📺

[mooys1]

Yet another dub for Dropout. Long live the Reich empire.

[biocrafthero]

Yeah that's exactly what it's like

[mooys1]

I wanted this defect since before the game even came out. I think Edmund said “your cats can be autistic, and the autism is good for mages” or something like that, and I said “I neeeeeed my autistic cat now.” I haven’t gotten it yet!

[peerkartosh]

tasty legs and crispy thighs... on my mind... i'm so hungry now i could... chase this particular garbage boy trash man of a rat

[mooys1]

My first run ended in my last unit trekking across a wall of flames to punch this guy for the last of his health. It felt metal as hell, great moment. It’s probably not gonna happen again, since now I know to attack the bombs.

[gonzos-humansona]

my hips don't lie but they will exaggerate details, misrepresent the facts, and on occasion deceive via omission of crucial information

[memecucker]

Chuck Jones is the best counterexample to “the curtains are just blue” because you would not believe the amount of thought and art theory he put into his silly little cartoons

[memecucker]

I need to dig out my Chuck Jones books but one time he was talking about the Wile E Coyote gag where he runs off a cliff and continues running for a little bit before noticing there’s no ground underneath him and then turns to the camera and holds up a sign saying “Help!” before plummeting and Jones said the reason Coyote does that instead of immediately trying to get back to the cliff edge is bc Coyote embodies anxiety and in that particular moment represents the fear and worry about the judgement of others over and above the desire for self-preservation.

Like, if someone was told that interpretation without knowing any better they’d think it came from some pretentious academic or whatever but nope! It’s literally the creator like those are the thoughts he had in his head when he was creating the cartoons

[candyspider-deactivated20230731]

the Nine Rules of the Roadrunner cartoons always sticks with me. Rule 3 especially

[party-gilmore]