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Katie | 26 | she/who knows this blog is a gay mess

[thee-rat-king]

Sweetie Pie’s feels borderline like a Stefon bit

[jadeinretrogrde]

I turn to my imaginary audience like this every time I hear about someone born in the 2000s

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

It's a lot healthier to go for a daily walk than to sign up for a gym membership you won't be using because you hate that kind of exercise. It's a lot healthier to eat a frozen meal than to skip a meal because you were too tired to cook something healthy. It's a lot healthier to take a quick shower than to procrastinate an elaborate routine for days. Don't aim so high that you won't be hitting anything!

[creamypancakebatter]

this is actually really helpful and affirming thanks

[breelandwalker]

[flipocrite]

there is no such thing as the perfect steppy

only the next steppy

[nariarts]

Longtime readers may be aware of how much I relish an excuse to bully a company, so I'm sharing the wealth;

Clothing company Patagonia is currently sueing drag queen Pattie Gonia for "irreparable” harm to their brand.

To be clear; Pattie named herself after the region in South America.

So Pattie is asking people to politely ask Patagonia to drop the lawsuit.

I'm extending the invitation to all of you, because sueing a drag queen for 'infringement' in the current political cultural landscape is vile. Especially a drag queen who has raised millions of dollars for non-profits, uses her platform to raise awareness for climate activism, and fully aligns with Patagonia's apparent climate-conscious mission statement.

They're claiming they're sueing for $1. They're actually asking her to stop using her name, and pay over $1 million in legal fees. They're straight up harassing her.

In contrast, drag queen Jan Sport has a Jansport bag line. It's that easy to just... work with a queen.

Anyway. Be respectful(ish), but feel free to be annoying on Patagnoia's socials, asking them to 'DROP THE LAWSUIT'

I think they have a twitter and tiktok too!

[shadow-manor]

This is being discussed heavily on Bluesky, such as here.

Patagonia is suing specifically for trademark infringement, and they're suing for the sum of $1. If they don't sue, then that means they could lose the trademark. They aren't trying to "silence" them or prevent them from using the name, they're specifically protecting their company trademark. They'd have to sue *anyone* who was using such an obvious knockoff of their logo; in this case it happens to be a drag queen.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

you'll have to forgive me for not weeping for a billion dollar company's trademark being violated

[shadow-manor]

Go nuts. The point is that this isn't a company trying to dogpile on a drag queen, it's a company following a standard legal practice to protect its trademark. Disney does it all the time.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

... yes, and I also hate Disney? I don't understand what you think you're selling me on here

[shadow-manor]

If you get a soda out of a vending machine and it has a Coca-Cola label but it's actually a knockoff made with ditchwater, that's obviously okay because Coca-Cola is a huge corporation and it's thus fine for someone to violate their trademark.

You can hate Patagonia all you want, but the lawsuit is about anodyne trademark law, not specifically that a drag queen is involved.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

and what part of Miss Gonia's schtick is doing the harm equivalent of tricking someone into drinking ditchwater exactly?

[shadow-manor]

...the trademark part.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

right, okay, I forgot that she's singlehandedly putting Patagonia out of business by using a silly joke name

[netherator]

if Patagonia loses their trademark, which they would if they didn't sue and win (again for one dollar), there would be no assurance against people putting a Patagonia label on amy dogshit

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

well I hope Amy Dogshit enjoys wearing the label I think she'll look very nice

[jessbadger]

Absolutely insane to see this shit playing out like this. It is not bootlicking to say laws are specifically for a purpose and they protect not only large companies but small companies and small creators and the general public from harm and confusion. Patagonia was literally turned into a special trust and non-profit to fund environmental protection and climate change work.

Meanwhile Pattie Gonia has been called out and criticized about their misappropriation of indigenous peoples work and not giving credit to those in those spaces when she’s used their work as part of her “brand” because let’s be real. In both of Patagonia and Pattie Gonia’s situations this is brand. If we’re going to play purity politics then be genuine about it and hold everyone to their word, because Pattie Gonia is making money on their brand and that’s partly why their releasing this statement and being so public. It’s a PR push.

This is like the opposite of the McDonald’s coffee case playing out and it’s going to be studied in law school as an absolute insane PR thing that had nothing to do with the real facts of the case, the law, or reality of the situation.

[secretbraintwin]

Can someone explain to me why companies *have* to sue any small fry doing a parody to protect their trademark instead of just choosing to sue when they feel there is an actual risk to their brand?

[fresh-bag-of-ham]

Patagonia is not suing because of parody -- they seem to have had friendly communication for years with Pattie and supported her work.

Patagonia is suing because Pattie has filed for her own trademark of "Pattie Gonia" to sell clothing.

Patagonia does not own the name Patagonia forever and ever amen, but they specifically maintain the exclusive right to sell clothing labeled "Patagonia" so long as they continuously ask the courts to prevent anyone else who asks from using the name "Patagonia" or names similar enough to it to be confusing... TO SELL CLOTHING.

Pattie framing this as "a corporation trying to erase an activist" when Patagonia the company has done more to support the environment than Pattie by orders of magnitude and seemed honestly committed to supporting her work until she, to be clear, filed a conflicting trademark application so that she could make brand deals with North Face and HydroFlask to sell "Pattie Gonia"-branded merch via Patagonia's main direct competitors actually pisses me off. This lawsuit was filed in January but only on the eve of Pride month are we "breaking our silence" to goad fans into pointlessly harassing an outdoor gear company's socials to drop a lawsuit that they clearly wouldn't have filed if they'd had any other option (no really, go read it)? Uh huh. I'm sure. Either Pattie Gonia's team doesn't understand trademark law or this was a cynical self-promotional exercise from the beginning.

You can be a drag queen named after a clothing brand, you can playfully parody a clothing brand, but you can't be shocked when that clothing brand doesn't let you also become a clothing brand...

[secretbraintwin]

Still genuinely asking, here:

How is this different from Weird Al making money selling music that is a parody of other music? This seems different than the sweatshops pushing out Guci purses trying to FOOL people that it’s Gucci. Isn’t a parody different than a rip off?

[fresh-bag-of-ham]

Because you're comparing fair use of copyright (allowed for parody, criticism, etc etc) vs. trademark.

Copyright = who has the "right" to make "copies" to sell, for books/music/movies/creative works.

Trademark = who can "trade" under that "mark", i.e. branding, including name and other unique characteristics of the product that you register.

Imagine if Weird Al tried to get a level of legal protection for his parodies that would allow him to sue the original artists for sounding too much like him. That is what Pattie Gonia has asked for by applying for the trademark. If Patagonia doesn't sue and Pattie Gonia gets her trademark, Pattie could potentially sue Patagonia for infringement, which is why they obviously won't let this happen. The two names are too close, they can't both be protected by trademark in the same market space.*

*probably. the courts decide this ultimately, and i'm not a lawyer

[miidniite]

live footage of me and my s/o when im on my period:

[haleyusesherwords]

[epicscizor]

[leftbeeftheory]

Sometimes a dual income male partnership is four men and two women

[wizard-loving-wizard]

every purpee citizen that meets darkness man:

[dorothylarouge]

[funfey]

You are not staying in the tags

[ask-cloverfield]

[fagcrisis]

i hate the word spicy can we bring back calling things erotic

[maryoliveoil]

rolling up to Wendy's to get an erotic chicken sandwich

[haleyusesherwords]

[nochoirsinging]

One of my favorite things about City Council of Darkness is that this town of 18k has multiple locations of the same fast food place. In my experience, a city that small feel lucky if they get one

[themaidenofwords]

Allegations? No, baby, they're married

[themaidenofwords]

#they got married and called it a merger

prev these tags make me want to have a merger with you

[milanesa42]

“The employees need a larger salary” “hmmmm large celery”

[flower-of-the-desert]

Love thinking about an AU where the relationship reveal with Yuna and David happens because something overwhelms Shane into a panic attack/breakdown, maybe they're at some NHL show or event, maybe it's just been a really long fucking day, maybe suddenly Shane feels just completely overwhelmed by the lights and the noise and all the fucking people wanting to shake his hand or slap his back or tell him how much they like his fucking play.

Yuna notices something is wrong because of course she does and together with David they herd Shane into some private empty side room hoping it will help him calm down. But it doesn't. He wont stop shaking and his breathing is too fast and he flinches at their voices even tho nobody is speaking loudly. Won't let Yuna come close to hug him or rub his arm.

Maybe Yuna is starting to panic a little herself, her heart aching as she watches Shane wrap his own arms around himself, hates that she cant do anything when her son is so clearly in distress, hates that she can't seem to think of anything that will work-

When suddenly the door bangs open and Ilya Fucking Rozanov??? strides into the room with quick steps, makes a beeline directly for her son, eyes locked on him like he doesnt even register her and David in the room as well and Yuna opens her mouth to cuss him out, tell him to fuck off and not bother Shane right now, she can feel her body moving already to stand in front of Shane protectively when David grabs her arm because-

Because Rozanov is pulling Shane into his arms, one hand on the back of Shane's neck, guiding his head to press into the crook of Rozanov's neck and Shane isn't fighting it, doesn't flinch from his touch. He goes where Rozanov arranges him and let's himself be held and rocked back and forth gently as Rozanov presses his mouth to Shane's ear and starts whispering something so quietly that Yuna can't really make out the words but what she can see is Shane's shaking subsiding, hands fisting tightly into Rozanov's shirt, his breathing going slowly back to normal because - oh. oh - her son is syncing his breaths with Rozanov who, Yuna realises, is taking very exaggerated deep slow breaths of his own so Shane can match them. And then Rozanov turns slightly while still rocking them both back and forth and Yuna sees Shane's face where it's smushed into Rozanov's neck. Sees the look there.

And that's how Yuna realises her son is in love and the man - his years-long rival - he loves must have left in the middle of his award-winning show to come here and pull her son out of a panic attack like there was no place he'd rather be than right here with Yuna's overwhelmed panicked boy in his arms, soothing him until Shane's body relaxes completely into that hold, mumbling that he's fine yet not pulling away and Rozanov makes no move to let go either.

Oh, Yuna thinks again, gripping David's hand tightly. It's not just Shane. My baby is in love. And he's loved back.

[ocd-in-blue]

Hm? Oh perfect, another immediately iconic Emily Axford character, put her with the others

[david-goldrock]

I find the fact that the closest mountain point on earth to the moon, the highest mountain and the tallest mountain are 3 different mountains to be a tiny bit disturbing

[deez-no-relation]

Explain

[david-goldrock]

The world's highest mountain is the most beloved, it is mount everest, the mountain that's farthest from sea level. If you connected the other two to everest by a slide and put a ball on everest, it will slide down to the other two (in a frictionless perfect world)

The world's tallest mountain is mauna kea, it's almost 4000 feet taller than everest if you measure from base to top, most of it is underwater though

The world's closest mountain to the stars is mount Chimborazo, it is both shorter and less high than the other two, but it is closer to the equator, so the bulge of earth makes it ever so slightly farther from the center, so it is closer to the stars

So yeah, 3 ways to measure, 3 results

[casavanse]

Earth is weird

[naamahdarling]

Would they have personal rivalry, or be friends, I wonder?