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I just read that the guy who discovered Uranus wanted to call it George but was overruled and I can’t deal with this information

shakes4supes

I imagine this is how the conversation went:

Scientist:- Let’s call it “George”

NASA: No! No way! Definitely not!!

Scientist (mumbling): You’re anus

NASA: Perfect!!

#Uranus Not-George Itwasn'tasuggestion

roane72

Honestly, I think the whole “don’t pay the writers” thing boils down to the notion that everybody thinks they can write. It’s the old saw about the novelist at a cocktail party having to hear someone say, for the millionth time, “I’d love to write a book someday.”

Someone–Stephen King? Pretty sure I saw this in a Stephen King foreword–once said they’d like to say to a brain surgeon, “Boy, I’d love to do brain surgery someday.”

We treat “the ability to put words into a sentence” like it’s just the same as “the ability to form a coherent narrative that engenders a variety of emotions within the reader and puts them in a scene and shows them what they didn’t see before”.

And that’s like me drawing a stick figure and saying I’m an artist.

Writers are constantly devalued because everyone thinks they have a book in them and don’t realize the level of skill and commitment it takes to finish even a short story, much less a whole book.

This goes well beyond fandom, but man, I would’ve hoped fandom would know better.

lokisweboflies

***REBLOGS AGGRESSIVELY***

stumblonmytumbl

I really like how they depicted the author in that last panel.

Dom-Jacob/Sub-Edward fic recs

Way late to the party, and google is really no help here, so any help would be appreciated.

M looking for COMPLETE Dom-Jacob/Sub-Edward (or any Dom-Wolf/Sub-Vampire) fic recs where Bella is either villified or mentioned AS LITTLE AS possible.

#dom-jacob #sub-edward #domcob #subward #edwardxjacob #edcob #jakeward #twilight #no bella #screw bella

loudest-subtext-in-television-d

I love that “homage,” “pastiche,” “reboot,” “retelling,” and “fanfic” all mean the same damn thing, except that the last one is written primarily by women for free, and often includes sex, especially queer sex, so it’s delegitimized in the eyes of society.

And by “I love” I mean “I don’t love” because apparently we can just pick and choose what words mean

cupidsbower

I totally agree with the point being made by the OP, but want to point out the irony in the politics of remix being described here.

You see, “homage,” “pastiche,” “reboot,” “retelling,” all tend to be less <i>original</i> than fanfiction. And I use the word “original” knowing how loaded, and potentially meaningless it is — it’s the criteria used by copyright law for a text worthy of being covered by copyright, and also as part of the definition of plagiarism. Works in the genres of “homage,” “pastiche,” “reboot,” “retelling,” are nearly always assumed to be original enough to be copyrightable in their own right, despite being derivative works.

These remix categories are all expected to explicitly rework a story while adding in a few new frills, and yet somehow, magically, that re-working makes them “original”. Yet that magic does not apply to fanfiction, which is seen as much more derivative and less worthy of respect.

Here’s the irony I mentioned. Fanfiction often jumps off from the source and tells a new story, or fills in a gap in the story it’s responding to (commonly with queer romance or sex). In many cases, fanfiction, while still a derivative work, is fundamentally much more “original” than the mainstream and more legitimate forms of remix, as it is telling a new story altogether.

Interesting, isn’t it, that the form of remix which is often most “original”, in that it offers more than just a retelling with new frills, is derided as the most derivative.

As the OP says, it’s not a coincidence that fanfiction is the version of remix currently considered least clever or worthy of respect, and is primarily a women’s genre and often also a queer genre.

flamingoslim

Way back in 1985, Joanna Russ (one of the first feminist literary critics to take slash writing seriously) wrote that slash fanfic was “…is the only sexual fantasy by women for women that’s produced without the control or interposition of censorship by commercial booksellers or the interposition of political intent by writers or editors.” In the same essay, she wrote what slash writers wanted was “…the freedom to choose, a love that is entirely free of the culture’s whole discourse of gender and sex roles….” (From “Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans and Perverts: Feminist Essays”.)

Still relevant…

youknowyoureawriter

yrbff

The reviews of Adam Sandler’s new movie are quite something.

shakes4supes

“Adam Sandler looks as depressed as a film critic who has to keep reviewing Adam Sandler comedies.”

#adam sandler #pixels #reviews

thesuperheroesnetwork

shakes4supes

Looks like someone wasn’t invited to the Villain Pub

#Villain Pub #hishe #texts from superheroes

ignisgayentia

an important gifset

shinelikethunder

#literally no one involved in this movie missed how fucking gay it is

acenouie-deactivated20160512

1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.

Kurt Vonnegut (via thebrosheviks)

oswaldsandstarks-deactivated201

FFS… Will people stop saying Kurt’s still being tormented by Dave? It is NOT Dave’s fault that Kurt is still in love with Blaine. It is not Dave’s fault that Klaine broke up yet again in the first place. It is not Dave’s fault that Blaine is using him.

Look Dave was a douchebag to Kurt in seasons 1&2, there’s no denying that. But he hasn’t 1) laid a finger on Kurt since he apologised or 2) gotten together with Blaine to hurt Kurt.

We all know the writers of Glee are Klainers. That they introduce love interests for either Kurt or Blaine and break them up within an episode or two to put those two back together so why all the drama?

Let people who like Dave or hell even those who ship Blainofsky enjoy themselves for a couple of weeks. You’ll get Klaine back soon enough.

shakes4supes

Thank you for saying this. It needed to be said.

#dave karofsky #blaine anderson #blainofsky #glee #justicefordavekarofsky

theredcorvine

Grimm and Other Folk Tales

by Cory Godbey

mitchmajor

acquired-taste-babe

His tattoo translates to ‘faggot’. WHY

lukeaustinyeah

Because i am one.

veganlightbearer-deactivated201

“Let me give you some advice, bastard: Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armour, and it can never be used to hurt you.”

-George R.R Martin.

keirakknightley

"For the record, feminism by definition is: ‘The belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. It is the theory of the political, economic and social equality of the sexes.’

I started questioning gender-based assumptions when at eight I was confused at being called “bossy,” because I wanted to direct the plays we would put on for our parents—but the boys were not. When at 14 I started being sexualized by certain elements of the press. When at 15 my girlfriends started dropping out of their sports teams because they didn’t want to appear “muscly.” When at 18 my male friends were unable to express their feelings. I decided I was a feminist and this seemed uncomplicated to me. But my recent research has shown me that feminism has become an unpopular word. Apparently I am among the ranks of women whose expressions are seen as too strong, too aggressive, isolating, anti-men and, unattractive.

Why is the word such an uncomfortable one?”

#emma watson #feminism