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[id: two digital sketches of sir damien from the penumbra podcast. damien is a chubby Afro-Filipino man with wavy/curly hair. the first sketch is him facing forwards, hands clasped in front of his chest while smiling, the second is him in profile facing right, hands behind his back.]
these sketches just make me happy so im posting here but im thinking about big lad damien rights
some very important info re: paid accounts~
I am not a lawyer, but I can decently interpret legalese and, being as I also suffer from tl;dr syndrome and assume others may as well, I took one for the team and went through the updated TOS for the post+ accounts and highlighted (what I understand to be) the most pertinent information, which ultimately comes down to this:
You cannot monetize copyrighted works (aka charge and earn money from fanfic, fanworks, etc) and if you do decide to put your fanworks behind a paywall via Tumblr, when you are inevitably sued, Tumblr will not protect you and will not defend you and you alone, personally, will be responsible for whatever monetary damages said lawsuit results in.
If anyone is a lawyer and knows I've gotten any of this wrong, please do not hesitate to correct me/this post.
Screenshots taken from Tumblr's TOS (updated 7-21-21), Stripe's Account Agreement, and the post+ FAQs.
1. Your paid account will not be hosted by tumblr; it is routed through a 3rd party.
2. By signing up for a paid account, you're entering into an agreement with Stripe, so in addition to Tumblr's TOS, you are also bound to Stripe's TOS.
3. Stripe, like Tumblr, will not defend you or protect you against any lawsuits.
4. Furthermore, you may end up owing Stripe money (indemnify = compensate)
5. Tumblr's TOS specifically states that you can't put any content on your post+ account that violates any laws, including laws that protect intellectual property rights of others. This is super important, because Tumblr's post+ FAQ also states that you can post anything that you would regularly post on tumblr, which I'm sure many will take to mean that gifsets, fanworks, etc are fair game, since all of that stuff can be posted on tumblr now. However, the difference is, you're not making money from the fanworks you're posting or reblogging now. Once money enters the equation, the game changes.
Tumblr is making it seem like any and all content goes for post+ accounts, knowing 90% of this site is fanworks. This is not true and you'll be opening yourself up for lawsuits if you charge for fanworks.
6. Tumblr further disclaims any and all liability in any legal issues.
tl;dr: Please do not make a post+ account, bc you will be opening yourself to lawsuits and if that happens, Tumblr's response will be not our problem, you agreed to all the terms which said you couldn't do that, sorry not sorry. Please protect yourself.
This post is a public service.
This staff’s post explaining their POV on this just showed up on my wall, so here, have the relevant part:
We do, however, want to address the main concerns we are hearing:
Fanfiction & Copyright Infringement
Basically, the process works the same as it always has. And yes, the following information is coming to you straight from a lawyer:
We fully support Creators sharing their fanfiction and fanart on Tumblr. We encourage sharing creative work of all kinds on the platform.
Fanfiction and fanart are frequently considered fair use and we support our Creators’ fair use rights. Monetizing fan work does not necessarily mean that it isn’t fair use.
Any content posted on Tumblr, both free and monetized, should follow our Terms of Service and Community Guidelines, which prohibits infringing the intellectual property rights of others. Whether a piece of fanfiction meets the requirements for fair use varies depending on the work. Intellectual property rights holders are in the best position to decide if they think a fanfiction or fan art violates their rights. If they do, they can use the normal Tumblr DMCA process to identify content for removal. Creators can also take advantage of the normal counter-notification process if they believe the content was misidentified as infringing.
So, basically, with a bit of fancy wording around it how it’s gonna be Totally Cool, No Worries on tumblr’s side, OP’s point still stands fully, imo.
Thanks for the addition, @hidden-but!
Once again, I am not a lawyer, but here's my interpretation (again, anyone who is a lawyer please correct me if I'm wrong) of the above post (because I think it's deliberately misleading):
Basically, the process works the same as it always has. And yes, the following information is coming to you straight from a lawyer: We fully support Creators sharing their fanfiction and fanart on Tumblr. We encourage sharing creative work of all kinds on the platform.
Emphasis mine. This is worded very specifically; Tumblr is not supporting or encouraging you to sell your fanworks. They are not encouraging you to charge for your fanworks. Share =/= sell.
We encourage you to share your fanworks
means
we encourage and support posts and reblogs containing copyrighted works, but we're not telling you to SELL ANYTHING, so if you do, then the consequences are your problem.
Fanfiction and fanart are frequently considered fair use and we support our Creators’ fair use rights. Monetizing fan work does not necessarily mean that it isn’t fair use.
I think this is irresponsible wording bc it makes it seem like you have the right to charge for copyrighted works if you claim that your work falls under fair use - but how many of us actually know what fair use means? And if you don't know what it means, how can you use it as a defense by claiming your work falls under it? I'll be honest, I don't really know what all "fair use" entails but when I looked it up I found a pretty straightforward and thorough explanation that cleared things up for me.
From this article on fair use, published by Stanford Libraries:
In its most general sense, a fair use is any copying of copyrighted material done for a limited and “transformative” purpose, such as to comment upon, criticize, or parody a copyrighted work. Such uses can be done without permission from the copyright owner. In other words, fair use is a defense against a claim of copyright infringement. If your use qualifies as a fair use, then it would not be considered an infringement.
So what is a “transformative” use? If this definition seems ambiguous or vague, be aware that millions of dollars in legal fees have been spent attempting to define what qualifies as a fair use. There are no hard-and-fast rules, only general guidelines and varied court decisions, because the judges and lawmakers who created the fair use exception did not want to limit its definition. Like free speech, they wanted it to have an expansive meaning that could be open to interpretation.
Most fair use analysis falls into two categories: (1) commentary and criticism, or (2) parody.
Emphasis mine.
Translation: You can share your fanworks (we're not telling you to sell them) and if you get in trouble, you can claim "fair use," and if that defense doesn't work because fair use isn't applicable, we will not protect you from whatever legal ramifications you face.
Whether a piece of fanfiction meets the requirements for fair use varies depending on the work. Intellectual property rights holders are in the best position to decide if they think a fanfiction or fan art violates their rights.
I'm just going to say Anne Rice and leave it at that.
Okay, I'll say more than that. Many authors, creators, etc won't hesitate to, at the very least send you a cease and desist and, at the worst, file a lawsuit against you. This is why it's so important that AO3 is non-profit and you can't link to or mention your ko-fi, patreon, etc - because many ip rights holders do not consider fanworks to be fair use and will go after authors (or artists, etc), so AO3's legal defense rests on "nobody is making money or profiting from this."
What Tumblr is doing is removing itself from any responsibility here by saying, okay, even if what you post isn't considered fair use, it's fine unless the person who owns that intellectual property decides to come after you, in which case, again, we are not going to protect you.
Tumblr went out of its way to say their statement on copyrights came directly from a lawyer. All this means to me is that Tumblr got their lawyer(s) to word their side in a way that protects them from any legal liability while still encouraging you to profit off of copyrighted works, and they're trying to make it seem like a lawyer has said this is fine, but that is very much not the case.
tl;dr: Copyright law and "fair use" are much more complicated than you might think, and the latter is probably not going to hold up as a defense if someone comes after you, and Tumblr still will not protect you. So again, by creating a post+ account and putting fanworks behind a paywall, you will be making yourself very vulnerable to legal action being taken against you and Tumblr will not do a thing to help you.
!!!!!!! If possible please reblog this version, re: tumblr's stance on fair use. I've already seen a few people saying tumblr said it's legal to monetize fanworks, so their post is definitely sending the wrong message to users.
[ID: a digital drawing of rilla, arum, and damien from the penumbra podcast. rilla is a short, slim, dark skinned Bangladeshi woman in a red kameez top, baggy bright yellow embroidered pants, orange boots, and a gold scarf. she smiles and stands with one hand on her hip, and her other holding arum’s hand. arum is a tall, broad, four armed green lizard monster, who wears a purple cape and a long, purple checkered sarong around his waist. he stands scowling with one set of arms crossed, but still holding rilla and damien’s hands with the other set. damien is a tall, brown skinned, broad shouldered Afro-Filipino man wearing a sea blue coloured barong tagalog with striped dark blue pants, and dark shoes. he has a gentle smile, and stands tall with a hand on his chest.]
BOUQUET TIME BABEY
me trying to pitch rqg to ppl: it’s like, found family, very cute n happy u kno
i’m a simple person i see a drawing of zolf smith and i slam the reblog button
Miss my wife…..
[id: an illustration of juno, mostly cast in shade. he is a slim black lady with dark skin and short curly dark brown hair flicked with gray. he is wearing purple eyeliner and lipstick, an eyepatch over his right eye, a sleeveless black top, jeans, and black boots. he is lounging back on a ledge, one foot propped up on a metal bar before him with his elbow resting against his knee, fist supporting his face. he’s looking neutrally toward the viewer. /end id.]
I got 5 hours of sleep last night so forgive me for being pedantic but how we define second citadel as “a story about kissing a lizard” is so funny but so damagingly reductive of how the actual premise of the show is very explicitly about an ensemble of characters confronting their internalized prejudices and the ways they interact with the real world …….so like 4-5% of the show really does deal with strategizing about kissing a lizard for Reasons but the other 95% is very much an exploration of ableism and misogyny and homophobia and toxic masculinity et al and while there ARE distinctly more muppety noises here than the juniverse it’s not a goofy jokes show devoid of the same heavy real-world themes, it’s just a different show with a different approach to em
I got 5 hours of sleep last night so forgive me for being pedantic but how we define second citadel as "a story about kissing a lizard" is so funny but so damagingly reductive of how the actual premise of the show is very explicitly about an ensemble of characters confronting their internalized prejudices and the ways they interact with the real world .......so like 4-5% of the show really does deal with strategizing about kissing a lizard for Reasons but the other 95% is very much an exploration of ableism and misogyny and homophobia and toxic masculinity et al and while there ARE distinctly more muppety noises here than the juniverse it's not a goofy jokes show devoid of the same heavy real-world themes, it's just a different show with a different approach to em
We cultivate riddles In our languages. In words, Out of context. In touches, That carry meaning. In looks that embrace emotion. In stories that make no sense When all parties were not present. All relationships are mysteries, Nonsensical, Frustrating. Until you understand them. Not every riddle Requires a resolution. Many are better off that way: Left to their own Cleverness. Other puzzles Demand To be known.
And, brother, you know what they did?
They danced.
@jakkubrat suggested a Persephone/Hades au with Damien as kind of Demeter and I have been consumed ever since
i wrote some of this week’s LKT fic during intermission at the live show…. to keep myself from having a freakout…….. r.i.p.
Going Through Changes, Ripping Out Pages
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Fandom: The Penumbra Podcast
Relationship: Lord Arum/Sir Damien/Rilla
Characters: Lord Arum, Sir Damien, Rilla, The Keep
Additional Tags: Second Citadel, Lizard Kissin’ Tuesday, Established Relationship, (uhhhhh sorta), Amnesia, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, (WE WILL GET THERE…… EVENTUALLY)
Summary: Lord Arum wakes to discover that some things have changed while he slept. Namely, there is a human in his bed.
Notes: I have no excuse for this. Why do I keep writing angst???? please send help. Also, just to be on the safe side, this first chapter might potentially hit close to triggering if you’re sensitive to depictions of domestic violence, though no actual violence occurs. Title from the song Changes by Langhorne Slim & The Law.
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Arum wakes warm.
This is the first sign that something is wrong.
He wakes warm, with a strange pressure on his left side pinning two arms against his chest, and something holding down his thigh, and his bed is soft and pliant beneath him, and the last thing Arum remembers is putting his head down in his workshop over some new plans he intends to have the Hermit animate after he rests. Rests only briefly, of course, because the strange minor blight on the Keep is beginning to grow, beginning to worry-
Unfamiliar rhythm. A heartbeat not his own, strange breaths that extend into a sleepy sigh.
Arum snarls, launching himself backward and shoving the weight off of himself, landing on three of his limbs and then scrambling backward until the wall of his bedroom hits his back. The weight - the source of the breaths and heartbeats - tumbles off the other side of the bed with a squawk, taking an unfamiliar thick blanket along for the fall.
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If any of you, any at all, post about The Penumbra Podcast, please please please reblog! I need more content for TPP because man is it good and I'd appreciate it greatly if I could find and follow accounts who enjoy TPP as much as I do ^^
Arum: Humans always ask me, are you a boy lizard or a girl lizard? And I always tell them the same thing…
Arum: How dare you speak to me.
Autumn Would you Rather
Would you rather:
1. Go apple picking V.S. Go on a hay ride
2. Scary V.S. Sweet
3 Sweaters V.S. Boots
4. Socks V.S. Mittens
5. Bonfires V.S. Football
6. Trick or Treating V.S. Watch Scary movies
7. Apple Pie V.S. Pumpkin Pie
8. Halloween V.S. Thanksgiving
9. Bake Pie V.S. Bake Cookies
10. Rain V.S. Fog
11. Black Cats V.S. Owls
12. Ghosts V.S. Wizards
13. Harry Potter V.S. Halloweentown
14. Go Hiking V.S. Sleep in
15. Cinnamon V.S. Nutmeg
16. Reading V.S. Writing
17. Hot Chocolate V.S. Tea
18. Live in a Cabin In a Forest V.S. Have it be fall 24/7
19. Candy Apples V.S. Caramel Apples
20. Blankets V.S. Pillows
21. Roasted marshmallows V.S. Roasted Chestnuts
22. Coffee V.S. Apple Cider
23. Red Leaves V.S. Orange Leaves
24. Braids V.S. Bows
25. Scented Candles V.S. The Smell of Fresh Baked Goods
26. Carve Pumpkins V.S. Make Pumpkin Pie
27. Pumpkin Spice Lattes V.S. Chai Tea Lattes
28. Coats V.S. Oversized Sweaters
29. Beanies V.S. Berets
30. Candy Corn V.S. Peanut Butter Cups
31. S'mores V.S. Apple Crisp
32. Jump In a Pile of Leaves V.S. Swing on a Tire Swing
33. Corn Maze V.S. Haunted House
34. Bob For Apples V.S. Visit a Pumpkin Patch
35. Whipped Cream on Hot Chocolate V.S. Marshmallows on Hot Chocolate
:eyes: 7. “Please don’t go out alone.” for rad bouquet??
i am. so sorry. that this took as long as it did. I am just so sorry and i have no excuse. gosh i hope you enjoy it anyway. Uhhhhh happy Lizard Kissin’ Tuesday!!!
Turnabout
[ao3]
Fandom: The Penumbra Podcast
Relationship: Lord Arum/Sir Damien/Rilla, Lord Arum/Rilla
Characters: Lord Arum, Rilla
Additional Tags: Second Citadel, Lizard Kissin’ Tuesday. Prompt Fill, Established Relationship, Protectiveness, Arguing (mild), Play Fighting, (sort of…. i have no idea how to tag this. as usual)
Summary: Rilla may not be a knight, may not be a magician slash architect, may not be a warrior, but she is more than competent in her own particular way, and certain people would do very well to remember that fact.
Notes: So this was uhhhh SUPPOSED to be for a hurt/comfort fic, which this didn’t exactly turn into. I like what it is, but it’s certainly not H/C, so, sorry about that part also???
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Arum leaps from the portal with his knives out and swinging, and the three-foot centipede is in multiple wriggling segments on the ground before he even lands, panting and wild-eyed.
Rilla stands from her defensive crouch, dropping the packets of explosive powder back into the pocket of her skirt, loosening her grip on the short knife at her belt. “Oh,” she says, blinking and amused as Arum spins to face her. “Uh. Thanks, I guess?”
“Amaryllis, are you hurt? As soon as the Keep told me, I-”
“I’m fine,” Rilla says, her eyebrows dipping in confusion as Arum scuttles closer and sheathes two knives so he can touch her shoulder, tip her chin up and scan over her face as if looking for very minute cuts, for some obscured injury. “Arum, I’m fine. It didn’t even touch me.”
He exhales, dropping his hands away from her, and then he sheathes the other two knives and presses his lips tight together with a visibly awkward tilt. “Good,” he says, and then he gestures to the portal. “Good, I’m glad to hear it. Now, come back to the Keep and-”
“Uh, hang on a sec,” she says, not moving. “I’m not done out here.”
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Damien is a waterbender Angelo is an earthbender Caroline is a firebender It Just Fits
ooh, Caroline/Quanyii?
hate it | don’t like it | meh | like it | love it | literally the best ship
Random hc: They’ve been together since before Caroline became a knight (I don’t actually remember if we have canon info on this). But I think they’ve been together at least that long, and Quanyii definitely offered several times to help Caroline magic her way through the exams but Caroline insisted on doing it herself without her gf’s help.
thank you!!! <3<3<3
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