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Sorry I haven't replied I forgot I'm a person

blackpyrefly

2023 AWARD FOR INNOVATION AND EXCELLENCE IN THEIR FIELD

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blackpyrefly

2023 AWARD FOR INNOVATION AND EXCELLENCE IN THEIR FIELD

receipients:

hyena, for being the first kity to ever be pupy.

fox, for being the first pupy to ever be kity.

JOIN US NEXT YEAR

blackpyrefly

2023 AWARD FOR INNOVATION AND EXCELLENCE IN THEIR FIELD

receipients:

hyena, for being the first kity to ever be pupy.

fox, for being the first pupy to ever be kity.

JOIN US NEXT YEAR

blackpyrefly

2023 AWARD FOR INNOVATION AND EXCELLENCE IN THEIR FIELD

receipients:

hyena, for being the first kity to ever be pupy.

fox, for being the first pupy to ever be kity.

JOIN US NEXT YEAR

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linguisticparadox

Spoke to a gen z person the other night and apparently the young folks don't know about the very legal sites from which you can access public domain media (including Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and other Victorian gothic horror stories)?

Like this young person didn't even know about goddamn Gutenberg which is a SHAME. I linked to it and they went "aw yiss time to do a theft" and I was like "I mean yo ho ho and all that, sure, but. you know gutenberg is entirely legal, right?"

Anyway I'm gonna put this in a few Choice Tags (sorry dracula fans I DID mention it though so it's fair game) and then put some Cool Links in a reblog so this post will still show UP in said tags lmao.

ri-writing

Spreading the news to my followers - if you weren’t aware of this before, here’s the link to Project Gutenberg - https://www.gutenberg.org/

Project Gutenberg is a gigantic collection of books that are in the public domain. You can read the books through the site or you can download them in various formats so you can get the format you prefer for your eReader of choice.

It is free.

It is legal.

I was reviewing the list of the top 100 books downloaded yesterday and I saw a fair few that I had to read for college classes - so if you’re a college student and your professor assigns you to read Plato or any number of older works, check here before you buy a copy.

I reread the Anne series several years back - they were free through this. I need to reread Pride and Prejudice at least once a year, and my e-book version is from this. Someone recommended Jekyll and Hyde to me a few weeks back and I got a free copy from this. When I went to Haworth on my last holiday before the plague times, I brought books by the Bronte sisters with me to read or reread that I downloaded from here. It’s a great resource.

linguisticparadox

Yes yes yes! I was honestly so flabbergasted that this young person hadn't heard of the gutenberg project! It's been around for AGES, maybe longer than the kindle has? And it's such a huge project and wonderful resource! It used to be a household name (or maybe that's just my family, thanks to my dad being a cheapskate nerd [affectionate]). I was so glad to be able to share this resource and others with them though, and I wanted to make sure no one else was missing out!

If you look at the first reblog from me I also recommended a few other resources, most of which were from www.archive.org, home of the Wayback Machine! They run openlibrary.org, where you can check out ebooks of some public domain titles! They even have the Bone series by Jeff Smith!

And archive.org itself has all kinds of public domain media including music and movies! For Dracula fans, here's a radio show adaptation of the book, starring Orson Welles! And here's a 1920 movie adaptation of "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," starring John Barrymore, the grandfather of Drew Barrymore!

I'm so excited to see people falling in love with classic media through Dracula Daily! Let's keep that fire blazing!

wanderingchaos

Also, if you can't handle reading things, check out libirvox.org! it's a free audio book project taking public domain works and people doing free audiobooks! there's a lot of great stuff on there, but it takes things in the public domain and makes audio books out of them!

it's a super nice project, and you can find some really nice readers there!

athenadark

Also don't think a book is old because it's in the public domain

lots of writers and publishers are prepared to waive future profits for entirely petty reasons

because of this the entire works of Philip K Dick [petty writer who found himself with lots of hangers on during his life] and HP Lovecraft [his publisher - who was his wife and hated him] became public domain on their death

Sherlock Holmes entered public domain this year, it's always worth checking because you can save a fortune

and the more popular the classic - the more likely someone has uploaded it

the-haiku-bot

Also don’t think a

book is old because it’s in

the public domain

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

elfwreck

Want audiobooks instead?

LibriVox has free public domain audiobooks.

Public domain works in the US are:

Anything published (in the US) from 1927 or earlier (this number goes up every year for quite a while), and

Anything published between 1928 and 1963 that wasn't renewed, and

Anything published before 1989 without a proper copyright notice.

(Don't go looking for things in that third category unless you've studied a LOT about copyright law. Mostly that covers things like "weird little newsletters" and "self-published booklets" and sometimes fanzines. But most publications have a copyright notice in them.)

There's also some oddball exemptions here and there; copyright law is a tentacled mess. But those are the basic guidelines. (Except for audio. Audio has its own set of rules. It's weird.) (I mentioned tentacles, did I not? Double the amount of them you were thinking of.)

There are a lot of works from the 50s and early 60s that were not renewed, especially short stories published in magazines.

Project Gutenberg began in 1971; the first text was the US Declaration of Independence, shared through the university computer system. That was the start of "hey computers + public domain text = FREE BOOKS FOR EVERYONE."

noswordinourlake

Adding on that Project Gutenberg is not just Eng language texts either! I know specifically about the French texts because I did independent study French lit in high school and all my sources were Project Gutenberg acquired (Candide my beloathed) but there's many open source texts available in a number of languages.

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worldsgr8estgrandma

martinidog-deactivated20181219

I didn’t know how much I needed this until I heard it.

dr-peppermint

The original song is how depression felt at first, this version is how it feels now

supernovajazzy

hollowedskin

@l-heure-du-the this is so VIOLENTLY your fucking aesthetic

cryoverkiltmilk

From “… nothing matters…” to “NOTHING MATTERS! :D”

silverybeing

#lfgggg #linkin park #music #favorite #:3

derinthescarletpescatarian

I’m not sure Americans understand what listening to Night Vale is like for Australians.

The history of Night Vale as Cecil describes it? That is the literal history of Australia. That’s exactly how white people settled here. StrexCorp? Reads exactly like a parody of the party of our Prime Minister who has shockingly similar goals (although admittedly less viscera and teeth), and who’s been threatening to sharply curtail the ABC (our government television station)… and StrexCorp bought the radio station the very next episode after we elected him. Markus Vanstone? Looked ridiculous until we saw how much power Clive Palmer, insane rich guy who decided on a whim to become a politician, was outright buying in our government. Clive Palmer still exists and can be thought about, though, if you’re the kind to think about such things.

My point is that when you live on what basically amounts to a giant desert with a fringe of grass and where animals leaping, seemingly on purpose, in front of vehicles to be hit is a regular occurrence, and the rest of the world all agrees that your timezones are fucked up, and the government is cutting funding everywhere to invest in seemingly random infrastructure projects and telling you not to acknowledge or speak about certain things, listening to Night Vale gets really, really weird.