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Hi I am currently Sir Not Appearing in this reality, but just in case anyone is interested, I started a fic. It's about how Victor Nikiforov is Very Cursed (like by an actual god) (the god is... this isn't really a spoiler, it's in the first chapter, but let's just say it's George the Dragon-slayer), and I hope it will be of minor interest to people who like such things.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/22327171/chapters/53333029
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
So... I wrote a tiny ficlet for @shadhahvar for the Chihohohoko2019 gift exchange, in which Victor is a seagull shifter, because of course Victor would be a seagull shifter. I had so much fun writing this and I really needed to have fun, so thank you!
Looking at this makes me so tired.
Every year, multiple times a year, they convince ppl to fork out thousands of dollars andâŠ.literally nothing changes. Thereâs no doubt in my mind theyâre pocketing most of this money lol
Thatâs whatâs so wild to me. Theyâve made exactly 0 changes other than adding the âExcludeâ tags and that def doesnât take 130k.
You know if any of you actually bothered to click the link itâll take you to their budget update and break down exactly what the spend the money on, over 70% of which is spent on server expenses, monitoring tools and system licences.
They also spent a good amount of the rest of the 30% budget on significant server overhaul costs.Â
AO3 is literally a service you get for free and the audacity youâd have to not bother reading the very open budget plan they have, but to then bitch and whine about people donating to keep the site running is wild.Â
https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/11192
fuck all y'all, you donât know a goddamn thing about the skill and effort it takes to run a site like AO3.
brb throwing ten bucks at the AO3 to spite you dumbfucks who think server space is free and magic
Take your zero dollars elsewhere, thatâll really show AO3 what theyâre doing wrong. If you read the budget (and I did) the Organization for Transformative Works actually has a pretty sizable rainy day budget fund, and brings in more than they spend, so yes, they are âpocketingâ the money. Some people call the act of spending less than you make âgood fiscal governance.â It means the organization is stable, can weather emergencies and unexpected changes. And the fact that they have legal access and money makes us all safer, because people are a lot less likely to try to push them around claiming copyright infringement for transformative works. But whatever, who needs history or stability when you have zero dollars and a thirst to forget.
I COULD NOT BE MORE EXCITED
I just want to say that I am delighted and surprised by the new YOI movie direction. I wasnât expecting a movie focusing on early times, but once I thought about it, it makes perfect sense.
Season 1 is entirely in Yuuriâs point of view, but itâs also about a very specific slice in Yuuriâs life, and itâs about his reaching for a very specific goal: skating on the same ice with Victor, and being Victorâs equal (in many ways). One of the challenges the show has set for itself is that anything less than five-time-world-champion Yuuri is going to feel like a let down now, but also if he just keeps on winning then itâs going to lose much of the tension and surprise that made it delightful. So which is it--does Yuuri win as much as we have been promised or do we get bored? Iâve been trying to figure this out myself.
And so here is why Iâm delighted--because we know that Victorâs five-time-world-champion wins came at the cost of life and love, and by the end he felt like his desire to keep surprising people was a chain around his neck.
Are there going to be delightful moments in the movie? YES. Are they going to surprise us? YES.
But this tells me, most importantly, that Sayo found a way through the âYuuri wins all the time and we get boredâ versus âYuuri doesnât win all the time and we get madâ maze that must follow.
We have our tension, and it doesnât have to be âYuuri will lose.â It becomes âVictor wants to become the coach that he needed--someone who can coach a five-time world champion without making him give up life and love to do it.â
And *that* is a delightful story.
I do think there will be sad parts of the movie--what little we saw of Victorâs backstory was sad--but I also think that itâs going to surprise and delight us. At every turn, Yuri on Ice was delightful, and I donât think itâs going to stop.
I would personally love to see the movie end with the banquet, followed by a fast forward to a final scene--one in which Victor tells Yuuri what he wants for him as a skater, just before Yuuri skates out on the ice for what will be the first competition in Season 2.
So TL;DR, I think this is going to be something magnificent, and I am so, so excited. 2019 cannot get here fast enough.
I HAD 3 PIECES OF CHEESECAKE AND ICE CREAM OH MY GOD
What a champ
YOU DONT UNDERSTAND IM LACTOSE INTOLERANT
It me.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 20/? Fandom: Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Katsuki Yuuri & Victor Nikiforov, Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov Characters: Katsuki Yuuri, Victor Nikiforov, Yuri Plisetsky, Yakov Feltsman, Phichit Chulanont, Christophe Giacometti, Lilia Baranovskaya, Okukawa Minako Additional Tags: Secret Relationship, Anxious Katsuki Yuuri, Pining Victor Nikiforov, Alternate Canon, Sexual Content, Slow Burn, Song Lyrics, This began as a songfic and then became every possible songfic, It takes a while for Yuuri to get a clue but once he does itâs on like Donkey Kong, Eros Katsuki Yuuri, Social Media, Long-Distance Relationship, If you think about it Victor did kinda start this with the whole Stammi Vicino thing, But we canât all commission custom arias so bass-heavy fuck jams will do in a pinch, Happy Ending, Angst and Fluff and Smut Summary:
Canon-divergent AU. Just before he skates at the Hot Springs On Ice, Yuuri receives a photo of his drunken GPF banquet antics; consumed with humiliation over a night he canât remember, he loses the competition. Victor goes back to Russia with Yurio, and Yakov comes to train Yuuri in Japan. One night, frustrated and miserable, Yuuri posts some personally relevant song lyrics on Instagramâand wakes up the next morning to find that Victor has posted lyrics that seem to be a reply.
With the world watching their every move, Victor and Yuuri begin trading lyrics in a secret conversation; from playful rivalry to intense seduction, through Savage Garden and San Fermin, their virtual affair unfolds, hidden in plain sight. But the Grand Prix approaches, bringing with it newfound opportunities for Yuuriâs career, and his new life hinges on two things: winning the gold, and staying away from Victor.
CHAPTER 20: âI have something for you.â Victor tilts his head to the side, just a little. âButâŠitâs your birthday. If anything I should have a present for you. Is this a thing in Japan?â Yuuri shakes his head. âIâŠI just woke up this morning and I realized I wanted to do this.â
SEE, I TOLD YOU. I used to write this fic slowly but nowadays it just happens all at once. Like Beyonce, Iâve embraced the element of surprise so Iâm gone for a little while and then bam, surprise yâall
Morning bump!!
Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Ever wanted to know whose skates you'd fill if you ever took to the ice? This is the first wave quiz- consisting of six popular characters from the anime as possible outcomes.
So many, many months ago, I made a quiz! âĄïŒŸâœïŒŸâĄ Why? Because I thought it would be fun, but also because the one or two I found myself didnât give very indepth answers, so naturally, I decided to make my own and add my own spin. Whatâs my own spin, you ask? Why, brevity, of course xD This was just something fun to pass the time, so I chose six characters for this version. I was considering making a second one, but I realised I had never shared it here. So I said Iâd do that first! Let me know who you get!
I got Victor, so go take this super-accurate quiz.
I cannot emphasize enough how much you need to read thoroughly through the terms of any publication before you send your writing to them. It is mandatory that you know and understand what rights youâre giving away when youâre trying to get published.
Just the other day I was emailed by a relatively new indie journal looking for writers. They made it very clear that they did not pay writers for their work, so I figured Iâd probably be passing, but I took a look at their Copyright policy out of curiosity and it was a nightmare. They wanted ânon-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free, perpetual, worldwide license and right to use, display, reproduce, distribute, and publish the Work on the internet and on or in any mediumâ (thatâs copy and pasted btw) and that was the first of 10 sections on their Copyright agreement page. Yikes. Thatâs exactly the type of publishing nightmare you donât want to be trapped in.Â
Most journals will ask for âFirst North American Rightsâ or a variation on âFirst Rightsâ which operate under the assumption that all right revert back to you and they only have the right to be the first publishers of the work. That is what you need to be looking for because you do want to retain all the rights to your work.Â
You want all rights to revert back to you upon publication in case you, say, want to publish it again in the future or use it for a bookmark or post it on your blog, or anything else you might want to do with the writing you worked hard on. Any time a publisher wants more than that, be very suspicious. Anyone who wants to own your work forever and be able to do whatever they want with it without your permission is not to be trusted. Anyone who wants all that and wants you to sign away your right to ever be paid for your work is running a scam.
Protect your writing. Itâs not just your intellectual property, itâs also your baby. You worked hard on it. You need to do the extra research to protect yourself so that a scammer (or even a well meaning start up) doesnât steal you work right from under you nose and make money off of it.
Exclusive publishing rights have to have a set time frame! Do not agree to anything that doesnât clearly state âup to five years from signatureâ or something like that.Â
What if the publisher goes defunct? What if they get bought by another publisher who doesnât care to promote or publish your work? You still canât to anything with it, you donât own it anymore!
For a thorough overview of what you should be aware of regarding your intellectual property and publishing rights, please read through this collection of post [https://kriswrites.com/business-musings/contracts-and-dealbreakers/] by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.Â
Protect your IP. Do not give away your stories.
Every writer needs to read this before signing that contract:
Writer Beware!
SIGNAL BOOST
@deadcatwithaflamethrower i think it might interest you (if not directly for you then it might be of interest for your followers)
This is one of the many reasons that you do not publish your work through Amazon. They contractually own your property in perpetuity, i.e. forever, if you use their publishing service. Theft, okay? Stuff like the above is legal theft. Watch your asses, loves.
(And itâs one of the reasons Iâm so screamingly frustrated about not being able to devote any spoons to running Altered Nature Press, because one of its main tenants was I Donât Own Your Work, You Own All Of Your Work Forever.)
I agree with the OP who says that you should read the terms of any agreement.
But if you want to know why you should read things for yourself and not, like, just randomly accept things other people say, the last comment is a perfect illustration.
So hereâs an example of how you read a contract properly.
Amazonâs T&C are here. https://kdp-eu.amazon.com/agreement?token=eyJjbGllbnRJZCI6ImtpbmRsZV9kaXJlY3RfcHVibGlzaGluZyIsImRvY3VtZW50SWQiOiJrZHAiLCJjYW5jZWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL2tkcC5hbWF6b24uY29tIiwiY2xpZW50TG9jYWxlIjoiTkEiLCJkaXNwbGF5UGFyYW1zIjpudWxsfQ%7CeyJtYXRlcmlhbFNlcmlhbCI6MSwiaG1hYyI6IjNVTU9oejdYTENWY1dsMUZEWWQwYnRZN3FNR1FxOEJxVHpyaWhYS2dGVWM9IiwianNvbkhtYWMiOnRydWUsInR5cGUiOiJSRUFEX09OTFkiLCJhY2NlcHQiOmZhbHNlfQ&language=en_US
Does Amazon contractually own your work in perpetuity? Well, the things you need to look for are the term of the agreement (legalese for âhow long this lastsâ and then the rights they ask for.
Hereâs the term of the agreement:
3 Term and Termination The term of this Agreement will begin upon your acceptance of it and will continue until it is terminated by us or by you... You are entitled to terminate at any time by providing us notice of termination, in which event we will cease selling your Digital Books within 5 business days from the date you provide us notice of termination.
In other words, this agreement is VERY easy to terminate--you just tell them you want out and you are out in five days. This is easier to get out of than your standard cable contract.
(Note that the section on KDP Select has separate terms/right grants, but thatâs optional from what I understand.)
Then we get to:
5.5 Grant of Rights. You grant to each Amazon party, throughout the term of this Agreement, a nonexclusive, irrevocable, right and license to distribute Digital Books, directly and through third-party distributors, in all digital formats by all digital distribution means available.Â
(emphasis mine). Thereâs more (and Iâll get to that), but that is most definitely a time-limited agreement--the rights you grant are for the term of the agreement. Remember the term of the agreement? Yep. You can cancel in five days. So...not exactly forever-level theft ownership.
So the next section of the rights grant gets more specific, and Iâm going to snip most of it, but the question is... do any rights that Amazon asks for survive the term of the agreement?
I read the whole section, but Iâm only going to copy the rights that survive the term of the agreement:
This right includes, without limitation, the right to:... (c) permit customers to "store" Digital Books that they have purchased from us on servers ("Virtual Storage") and to access and re-download such Digital Books from Virtual Storage from time to time both during and after the term of this Agreement;Â
Thatâs it, thatâs the only right youâre granting Amazon that survives the term of the agreement--the right for customers who have paid you money for your  work to be able to read that work as if it were a real book on their shelves.
Iâm guessing 99.9% of creators are going to think itâs totally cool that people who bought a thing get to keep enjoying the thing they bought even after youâre no longer working with the person who sold it to them.Â
If youâre in the 0.1% of people out there who think that itâs theft for consumers to enjoy something theyâve already purchased, then definitely donât publish through Amazon.
But thatâs why you should read your own contracts--because some other random person out there is...not guaranteed to be right about what they read.
Boop!
Um, boop back, I guess?
Iâm...back-ish?
By which I mean I have a little more free time, finally, I think. Iâm going to try to start tackling the GIGANTIC mountain of unanswered comments on AO3, and get back into working on this one story that I am extremely excited about. I hope you all are doing well and I am VERY SORRY I have been a terrible commenter on fics these last handful of months.
Also I made a Twitter (where I am https:/twitter.com/shysweetthing because why ruin a good thing) and am currently only following Kubo (in both her accounts) so help me out a bit.
Wakaba: A Somewhat Premature Retrospective
Earlier this week, @shysweetthing commissioned me to write a gush-post about Wakaba Higuchi, which was definitely not what I anticipated when I opened up commissions but which I was absolutely delighted to write. Not only do I love talking about Wakaba, it give me a great excuse to go back and rewatch some of her performances and cry about it a lot.
So without further ado⊠please enjoy my reflections on Wakaba and everything that makes her great.
Keep reading
This is the best!
Random hug! It always makes me smile to see you on my dash. I hope that youâre doing well!
Thank you! Iâve had a REALLY busy first quarter of the year. Good, but still busy. Â Iâm nearly through the worst of it, and Iâm hoping Iâll be more active sooooon.
I have so much mail to answer on here & AO3 and so much fic to write.
âWell the Secret World Chronicle series started out as fanfic within an RP community playing the City of Heroes MMORPG. Then we took the same basic characters and put them in their own entirely different universe.â - Mercedes R. Lackey
Source:Â http://qr.ae/TU1mZn
This is SUCH bullshit though.Â
The basic sentiment is lovely (âGo, ye little writers!â), but the notion that no published writer is still writing fic is so clueless itâs laughable.Â
Fandom is full of published authors. And even if a writer hasnât gone pro, donât even try to tell me that means they canât have Olympics-level writing skills.Â
A lot of fan fiction is so toe-curlingly good, it makes whole heaps of published works (especially of the âshe boobily breasted down the stairsâ variety) look like a preschoolerâs first attempt at storytelling.Â
Fanfic can be amateur, yes. It can also be the best fucking thing youâve ever read in your entire life, and if you havenât noticed that, please donât talk about it like youâve any clue about the matter.Â
Wow, could she be more condescending?
âI published a series that started as City of Heroes fanfic. Fanfic is never going to be good, because any good fanfic writers move on to publishable work. I see no contradiction in these two statements.â
...does she think professional authors stop loving things?
Thatâs weird. Thatâs super-weird.
Also, just because you have the chops to be a professional author doesnât mean you actually want to do it. Tons of Very Good professional authors who have great reviews and accolades donât make that much money because the business is built on luck and lightning striking.
Also, even if you are successful, doing something you love for money changes your relationship to it.
Itâs way less stress to have a steady 9-5 with health insurance and a guaranteed paycheck and write fic for fun.
I mean, sure, be a professional author if thatâs your goal. But being an author is a job. Not everybody wants to do all jobs that they are qualified to do.
To that 1% of YOI fandom
I love most of you. This is not applicable to most of you. But YOI fans... some small portion of you are the worst. People are not elevator buttons. Even elevators donât come faster if you press the button repeatedly, but an elevator doesnât care that youâre repeatedly pressing the button. Stop bothering the YOI team about when things will be out, especially when those things are like âSeason 3â and they havenât been announced, but also when anyone over the age of seven understands that major releases have a schedule. There will be an announcement and a trailer and a press release when they announce the damned movie. Kubo is not going to break down under the combined weight of your Twitter questions and say, âoh, fine, the information is embargoed everywhere but weâre releasing it October 3rd.â She is also not going to unilaterally decide to move the release date up three months because @bittermonkey27261 asked her to do so a fifteenth time. All you are doing is making a jackass of yourself and being disrespectful to someone who is trying very hard to bring you joy. You wanna complain? Itâs super-easy to complain to LITERALLY ANYONE ELSE IN THE WORLD EXCEPT THE CREATIVE TEAM.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Itâs chapter eight of Undiscovered Country, finally, after far too long. Thank you all for your support. This is my longest fic that Iâve posted to date and I had no idea I was going to do it.
I feel kind of emotional, so thank you all for being here with me through it.
I really appreciate how your writing feels so grounded in detail. Were you already following/knowledgeable about figure skating before you became a Yuri!!! on Ice fan? And same question for studying Japanese; were you already doing that?
Iâve been a figure skating fan since the Sarajevo Olympics, which I loved so much I named the stuffed bear my aunt gave me âSarajevo.â In 1988 I told my mom I wanted to be Ekaterina Goordeeva when I grew up. She pointed out that there were no rinks near where we lived, that figure skating was insanely expensive, and that Goordeeva started skating when she was four and it was already too late for me.Â
Iâve drifted in and out of skating fandom; it was hard to stay connected when I didnât have a TV when I was in school. YouTube wasnât a thing yet. (And I actually didnât have a computer of my own, either, so that wouldnât have worked.)
(I am dating myself. Every time I see someone refer to themselves as a âtumblr oldâ itâs always because they remember when there was no Twitter, and not, like, learning to type on a manual typewriter.)
By contrast, I started learning Japanese with the explicit goal of being able to consume whatever YoI content came next as soon as was humanly possible.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Itâs chapter eight of Undiscovered Country, finally, after far too long. Thank you all for your support. This is my longest fic that Iâve posted to date and I had no idea I was going to do it.
I feel kind of emotional, so thank you all for being here with me through it.
