Pretty Lips Sealed

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[force-dyad]

[captainodonoghue]

Captain Swan Advent Calendar 2025 Day 4 ↝ Desire

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chappell02

[twistedangelbonez-deactivated20]

iam the very hungry caterpillar that they speak of 🐛

[sourdough-seal]

the cool thing about writing is that if you finish the book you get a free book at the end

[artifacthubs]

800 years ago at All Saints Church in Hereford, England, a skillful carpenter carved this gentleman high up in the dark roof where nobody could see him. Five years ago they built an extra floor with bright lights for a restaurant.

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[blackerthings]

AARON PIERRE

This or That: Sexiest Man Alive Edition

[ruinedchildhood]

[goth-queen]

I found his brother!

[landsccape]

[sourcezendaya]

ZENDAYA — for On

[anniensmoke3]

• @vernonfrancois 📢Congratulations @wunmimosaku on your #CriticsChoice nomination for #BestSupportingActress The world is catching up to what we’ve known all along — you are phenomenal. Beyond proud and excited for you. 🥰

@sinnersmovie #vernonfrancois #bts #afro #hair #curls #love #wunmimosaku #sinnersmovie

[kurganfilledwithbearbones]

[fluffmugger]

#i just looked and i don't think this post gives you the full picture #santigold96 has written 357 works of asoiaf fanfiction in chinuk wawa #the devil works hard but santigold96 works harder

[xosiren]

Victoria Monét for 𝒱𝑜𝑔𝓊𝑒 𝒲𝑜𝓇𝓁𝒹 𝐻𝑜𝓁𝓁𝓎𝓌𝑜𝑜𝒹

[guerrillatech]

[macassarebony-deactivated202603]

“Never let your enemy tell you how many of you there are. Never let the man that you’re against form your opinions. This is the trick that’s played on everyone who’s oppressed: when you have a revolution in a country, the first thing you take over is the radio. Then, you start telling the people that the war is over, so all of them surrender. They believe that thing right there. And once they take that over, they start telling you where you are and where they are, and you fall right in line — it’s plain thought control. The majority of the American people aren’t segregationists. The majority of the American people aren’t imperialists. But the government is. The structure is; the power faction is. So, how, then, do all the majority go along with it? Because those who sit in power over the television, over the radio, and over the press are constantly telling those who are the masses how free they are, how this they are, and how that they are.”

[shadow-manor]

The rest of the thread is here.

tl;dr: Don’t monetize AO3, kids.  You won’t like what happens next.

[ratherembarrassing]

read this thread. this is by far the most concise explanation of a lot of different issues that i’ve seen in fandom spaces in a while. cosigning both the linked thread and the thread about aus/uk/can law that’s linked in-thread.

[billybluboy]

AHDHXHEBSG TWITTER WRITERS DID WHAT NOW???? AND PEOPLE PAID THEM????

[prof-grace-aspen]

If someone has never taken a class that includes copyright law, they may not know this stuff, so I don’t necessarily blame random people for not knowing what copyright is, but like… maybe just maybe it’s something that should be taught????

[antifa-stray]

[mercurywells]

Just another reminder, because this always drives me crazy, but even if monetizing your fic was 100% unambiguously legal and protected, AO3 would still not let you do it because AO3 was founded and is supported by people like me who want a fandom community that is completely divested from making money off of fic.

[naryrising]

Yes, this. Lots of fanworks on AO3 are unambiguously legal. Fics based on Shakespeare plays and fairy tales and Greek mythology and The Great Gatsby and your original character from your D&D game are not violations of copyright, because no copyright applies to those things.

AO3 still doesn’t let you monetize those things on the site, because we don’t want the site to be commercial! Because that’s not what it’s for!

It’s not there for you (generic you) to make money off the efforts of the people who build and maintain the site for free! We aren’t getting paid for the work we do to give you a nice site to use, just like you aren’t getting paid for the work you do to create whatever art you share there. Because fandom is supposed to be a community where we share with each other, and therefore we all benefit.

The deal is, we give you a free, stable, safe platform to host your works. In exchange, you get a site that isn’t covered in ads and tip jars and links to gofundme and “read the next chapter at my patreon”. You get one goddamn place on the internet that isn’t trying to make money off you. And we will defend that space and keep it non-commercial.

[clementine-kesh]

i’ve made this post a million times but it really does drive me up the wall when people think that the phrase “everything is political” means “everything is related to current political happenings” instead of “everything is a product of its context”