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you have been visited by the seven magic dragon balls your biggest wish will be granted but only if you reblog
Couldn’t risk it.
didn’t realize they change colors. now I know o gotta wish.
THIS SHIT IS REAL I GOT THE JOB I WAS NUTS ABOUT BC I REBLOGGED THIS YESTERDAY maybe it’s a coinkidink but it okay just take the necessary steps to achieve what you’re wishing for and YOU CAN DO IT
Do NOT trust Anne Rice
Hello, Vampire Chronicles fans.
Sit down. We need to have a chat.
You see, while some people are very much excited for a new show about our pompous king of the assholes (and I say this as a term of endearment, having loved Lestat since I was a depressed teenager living in New York, shuffling through my mom’s fiction section) we need to pause and remember this:
Anne Rice does not support fan fiction or anything that is not glowing praise.
Read it again, slowly.
Anne Rice does not support fan fiction or anything that is not glowing praise.
This is difficult for younger fans to understand, but let’s take a walk down memory lane.
She has threatened to sue writers in the past. She is one of the most prolific writers of our generation, and she does not support people using her characters for their own work.
In fact, in 2000 she went on a binge-attack against her fans. She threatened legal action against fans who wrote or drew her characters, but especially those who wrote with them. She sent them weeks of harassing letters and doxxed them on the internet.
Let me repeat that.
She doxxed people who wrote fan fiction.
She harassed them online and threatened to contact employers.
She used her fans to outright attack other fans.
This isn’t even something she can just shake off now, with the comment of “It was so long ago” because she did this to a writer who wrote commentary on her story in 2013.
In 2013.
While it was not that she wrote fan fiction, she still shows that she has no respect for people who are in fandom.
Remember those disclaimers used in fan fics, at the beginning? “I do not own …. ”? Yeah, a lot of that has to do with the fact that Anne Rice and others like her would attack fandoms and threaten them, and was in hopes that they would just leave us alone. She didn’t.
In short: Do not trust Anne Rice. I love her writing, I have read every book she has even written, but I do not trust her.
You shouldn’t, either.
Anne Rice was and still is a bully. Don’t support her work.
Don’t not take this seriously either. She hunted down fan fictions on small privately hosted web pages as well. She doesn’t care if you put the disclaimer in the top.
She hates fan fiction and WILL try to sue you. DO NOT think this is a joke, real people received real legal paperwork from her. And this happened about ten years ago, so it wasnt a super long time ago.
Anne Rice isn’t the only one in this club. Diana Gabaldon has compared fanfiction to putting her characters into “white slavery.” George R. R. Martin has also spoken out about fanfiction, but Rice takes the cake for rejecting any criticism of her work along with banning any and all fanfiction based on her work.
However, according to copyright law fanfiction is considered a transformative work, and therefore is considered fair use.
Support the Organization for Transformative Works, who “serve the interests of fans by providing access to and preserving the history of fanworks and fan culture in its myriad forms.”
That Amazon review was, like, the most hilariously amazing thing to ever happen in fandom. I wasn’t even in Anne Rice fandom, I’m not sure anyone I knew was, but it caused glee far and wide. “Interrogating the text from the wrong perspective” became the go-to catchphrase but, I, for one, think nothing matches the utterly batshit beauty of “you have strained my Dickensean principles to the max.”
Annette Curtis Klause, Robin Hobb (who also writes as Megan Lindholm), and Robin McKinley likewise take issue with fanfic. In “The Fan Fiction Rant,” available in its entirety on Fanlore.org, Hobb refers to fanfic as “identity theft.”
Do not let fandom history be forgotten. Always remember. Always pass this on.
Anne McCaffrey was the same, to the point where she told fans that they could write in her worlds, as long as there was no gay stuff ™.
For real. She told them that.
I’m such a fandom old I remember Wendi and Richard Pini going out of their way to make their characters accessible to fans, but still telling them they had to slap three paragraphs of carefully written disclaimers all over everything. Like, even for fanart. You wanted to draw Cutter and Skywise doing the do? You had to put that disclaimer on it somehow.
AO3 and the current creator-reactions to fanfic are so, so very new. Don’t ever forget how privileged we are to be here.
And NEVER trust Anne Rice. She batshit crazy, fam.
Yeah, but am I the only person who kind of wants to see the Interview fic ramp up anew just to watch Rice come up against the gargantuan that is Hugo Award Winner AO3’s legal team?
I do not want Anne Rice to come up against AO3’s legal team. They have better shit to do than to deal with a crusty-ass, fan-hating raisin. I want her to know what it’s like to see the brainchild she gave birth to choke on its umbilical cord because the fans do not react to its unholy spawning.
Avatar only has like ten fics on AO3? I want her to suffer in the knowledge that her work is so uneffecting because of her toxicity that at least one part of her empire crumbles.
That woman wrote a long ass essay because she was bitter that one of her books was so poorly received
She will come after you for fan work
Ever think about how antis have completely normalised abuse in fandom because I do
No, seriously. From the excuse of the needles incident, to saying that telling someone to eat glass isn’t a death threat, to accusing pro shippers of gaslighting, antis have completely and 100% normalised systematic abuse in fandom. Nobody seems to notice.
Don’t forget suicide bating! I don’t think I’m ever gonna recover from that :(
Or telling survivors they deserved it.
Or calling minors pedophiles in the same breath as insulting a CSA survivor for their “nasty ship!”
These antis are going to grow up. Sooner or later they’re going to hit a wall and realize what they’ve done. I was around for the absolute hell livejournal and early ffnet was, and I look back and cringe, but about how bad my fics were. I don’t look back and feel ashamed for sending suicide bait and telling rape victims they deserved it.
I’m waiting for that day to come. I’m waiting for the mass realization of how horrible these people are. I’m waiting for the apologies. I’m waiting for these people to ask forgiveness for inexcusable things.
I’ve been told I’m an invalid abuse survivor because I ship bakudeku, they even said I deserved to be killed by my abuser lol. Crazy stuff! And don’t forget how LGBT people are regularly invalidated and called honorary cishets for their shipping preferences.
These boys radiate positive energy reblog to clear your skin and get good grades
if you are going to do historical inaccuracy, then go big. Just take it to a whole ‘nother level.
I mean like Knight’s Tale “chanting Queen at the jousting tournament ‘foxy lady’” levels of anachronism. Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters with Hansel injecting himself with insulin and Gretel wielding a multiple-shot crossbow levels of anachronism. Go for Blazing Saddles, Blackadder, Jack of All Trades, Connecticut Yankee levels of anachronism
you either have to play by the rules or throw out the book.
Go full on Xena. All of history happened at the same time. Get your legs broken by Caesar and find out Lao Tzu didn’t write that book, his wife did, and she hitting on you…all 10 years before you go meet up with Helen at Troy. Fight with Beowulf and commission Sappho within a few months of each other. Abraham and Issac? Only like 2 years before Jesus. Invent CPR and the kite during the bronze age. Watch your gal pal teach Homer how to be a better bard. Have a fucking battle of the bands in Ancient Greece. TIME IS MEANINGLESS.
Go Full On Xena
Look, I think that’s just good life advice: When in doubt, just Go Full On Xena.
These boys radiate positive energy reblog to clear your skin and get good grades
Hilda by Duane Bryers
More Hilda!!
in this family we love and support Hilda.
Yes! Hilda!
What i love about this artist’s depictions of women is even the sexualized ones the woman is always genuinely happy and enjoying herself. Frolicking or making funny faces, she’s living her life and looking sexy while doing it, not sitting in a sexual pose for the audience’s view.
I always forget about Hilda and am so pleased when she randomly shows up on my dash. Always makes my day
I love Hilda so much and I want her to be happy
I’m literally just about Hilda’s size and proportions AND I’m a redhead so it’s nice to see this cutie living it up! :)
Real talk though has anyone else just thrown away a whole Tupperware container bc you left food in there for way too long and now you’re afraid to open it?
All of you are so valid
FYI, that is generally speaking a safe protocol. Couple of notes. Fungi and bacteria are the first lifeforms discovered to eat plastic. They both use a technique of creating biofilms on and in things to establish colonies; even bacterial and fungi that don’t eat plastic will burrow into it. Visual inspection is not generally good enough to preclude fungal “roots” in plastic. Though if the plastic has separated (forming like a bubble or a peeling away film) then microbials have almost certainly established “roots” in the material. The metabolism of microorganisms denatures plastic even if they don’t eat it; this produces toxic biproducts similar to burning plastic. If something has grown in the tupperwear from it being left along in the wet and the dark with a growth medium for who knows how long then opening it is a bad idea. That will almost certainly aerosolize spores or bacteria that have had long enough time and sufficiently isolated conditions to evolve their own special adaptations. “Cleaning” and reusing the tupperwear is ill-advised in that case as you’d need a lab to guarentee the plastic isn’t compromised and playing host to some nasty biofilm that is resilient against typical cleaning practices, and the plastic itself likely is coming apart in a way that will perpetuate toxicity–low grade at best– even if you did manage to santize the surfaces. Best case scenario, you’re eating microplastic and the tupperwear is shedding as it breaks down over years. It ain’t worth it.
^^^^^^
@venomtots what used to be a random post with no real direction is now actually validating and educational,
I already feel so much better about myself and all the Tupperware bowls I’ve sacrificed
Coolcoolcoolcoolcoolcool
Only buying glassware from here on out
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This is so fucking stupid. Why can’t artists and writers even give the option of pay? It’s not like anybody is holding a gun to reader’s heads forcing them to donate. It’s donated money! You’re telling me Article 13 removes people’s option to even donate???
Article 13 is causing all sorts of bullshit, but this is nothing new for Ao3 and it’s important for folk to know. Writers or anyone hosting content on Ao3 should never ever link back to a ko-fi or patreon or even mention needing donations due to legal restrictions placed on Ao3 in order to exist. If you are found out or reported, they can delete your account.
So the way Ao3 works? Is that the only way they can protect us from content creators and their legal teams, is to be like “hey, look, this is transformative work for fun! It earns no money!” And that’s how they get around what many authors still in this day and age think of as plagiarism and defemataion.
It’s actually in Ao3′s Terms of Services, not because they are monsters who don’t want you to thrive, but because it’s the only way to protect fan creators from the proverbial wolf at the door. I’m just old enough to remember when Anne Rice and Star Wars were going after people and filing official take downs for fan works and threatening to sue people. I know actual people who got real letters telling them to take down their fanzine or else.
And every time I see someone creating a patreon or ko-fi for the fanfic, my heart jumps up into my mouth. Like sure, let people know you have those things? But don’t have tiers that say things like “fanfic updates”. And for the love of god never post links to them in your Ao3. @deadcatwithaflamethrower nearly lost their account some years ago because they mentioned having a donation drive on their tumblr and someone reported them.
Okay, I’m going to come down like a ton of bricks on this: fanfic should not involve getting paid. FANFIC SHOULD NOT INVOLVE GETTING PAID. I don’t care how broke or poor you are, fanfic is just one hair on the side of legal and the moment you profit from it becomes the moment you endanger us all.
I write fic with the explicit understanding that what I am doing is FREE, both as a content creator and as a consumer. FREE is inherent.
(Personally I find ko-fi to be a little offensive. Even if they’re technically “donations”, you’re still monetizing something you shouldn’t be. Want to express how much you love something? USE YOUR FUCKING WORDS, PEOPLE. Comment, like, share. Don’t make this a financial transaction.)
Long before Ao3 somehow wrestled derivative work into being legal, I understood that what I am creating is not technically mine. Do I work hard at it? Absolutely. Would I love to get paid for the thousands of hours of my time? God yes. But I am also very much aware that I don’t own this sandbox I’m playing in, and therefore have no right to solicit. The only reason I don’t still write “not mine, don’t sue” as my opening line is because Ao3 has predicating its existence declaring that for me.
Given enough provocation, Disney or etc could come down on AO3 and the rest of us and stomp us into oblivion, and they would be well within their legal rights to do so. Yeah, maybe they’ve decided that artists at cons aren’t worth going after, but Ao3 is a juicy target and its our job as users to protect it at all costs. That means not mentioning money.
If you want to get paid for your writing, do like 50 Shades of Gray and make your work different enough that’ll it’ll stand up to the copyright issue. If you’re dead set on getting paid for fanfic, contact the copyright holder. Star Trek has serialized novels. So does Star Wars. It’s a long shot, but if you’ve got a professional-level proposal, there’s a nonzero chance it might work. Otherwise, you need to accept that this is free content. It always had been.
I know this is probably coming across as a rant by a hysteric copyright shill, but at this moment, it’s the way things are. If we want to keep creating our transformative works, we need to work within those boundaries, because if we don’t there’s a very strong risk we’ll lose everything.
If you’re doing this to get paid, you should be creating original works. Fanfic should be free. Fanfic is a gift.
This is your hobby, not your side hustle. Keep money out of the equation, but if you can’t, if you absolutely, painfully, truthfully can’t: you sure as fuck better not mention it on Ao3.
Reblog to save a Muslim
As you probably know, Punish A Muslim day is coming up on the third of April. Any Muslim who lives in England is in danger so please stay home. Don’t send your children to school. DON’T GO OUT on the 3rd of April. My non Muslim friends, please reblog this, one of your followers could benefit from it.
Please reblog if you see this.
For artists who have problems with perspective (furniture etc.) in indoor scenes like me - there’s an online programm called roomsketcher where you can design a house/roon and snap pictures of it using different perspectives.
It’s got an almost endless range of furniture, doors, windows, stairs etc and is easy to use. In addition to that, you don’t have to install anything and if you create an account (which is free) you can save and return to your houses.
Examples (all done by me):
Here’s an example for how you can use it
Great find, thanks!
OMG HEAVEN!!
Bless you!!!!
mi vida y las probabilidades de hacer cómics en un futuro han vuelto a resurgir!, estoy tiene que ser definitivamente reblogueado.
REBLOGUEEN ESTO Y AYUDEN A MÁS HERMANOS ARTISTAS CON PROBLEMAS DE PERSPECTIVA! :D
“But if you forget to reblog Madame Zeroni, you and your family will be cursed for always and eternity.”
not even risking that shit
scrolled past this, re-evaluated my life, then SCROOOLLLED back up and hit the damn reblog button.
She ain’t no games in real life so I take her serious all the time
Anyone with a name that starts with a “Z”, ends with an “i”, and isn’t some kind of Italian pasta, IS SERIOUS
I’m not climbing no mountain with a pig on my back, 🙅🏽🙅🏾🙅🏿 Negative.
Nope. I know better, have your reblog Madame Zeroni.
who the fuck is Madame Zeroni
Look at these stupid children who don’t know who Madame Zeroni is
Man lissen if you don’t know you better ask somebody AFTER you hit the reblog button
Idk who she is but I have an exam today so I’ll reblog her
idk who she is but i have an exam today so i’ll reblog her
^Haiku^bot^0.4. Sometimes I do stupid things (but I have improved with syllables!). Beep-boop!
Now listen here you little shit one tiny kudos does not fully express the how I feel when I read a good fanfic and I am no where near being able to express in words the shear heartbreak or pure happiness that these authors can make me feel so let me send another fucking kudos
