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pinnipediatherealpennipedia

A compilation of seals looking squishy

butch--dan

tv from the mid 2000s was so good. if you can look past the everything

vintagehomecollection

Spicy colours have been used to create elegance and cosiness in this interior. The English eighteenth-century campaign bed is canopied in a striped, warm sienna brown silk, lined with yellow and covered with patterned nineteenth-century brown chintz quilt... Designer: David Mlinaric

Color in Decoration, 1990

mysticalcoffeequeen

When you thought it would be easy peasy lemon squeezy but it turns out to be difficult difficult lemon difficult.

switchnx

Wait that’s actually really good, gonna pop this out of the tags

I'm not gonna lie the secret to success for a great many people is absolutely stimulant abuse

luulapants

Wait hold on what was that

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doomsday-dj

There was recently a copyright infringement case in YA and I need everyone to know that the following sentence was in the legal decision:

“Hot, sexy, dangerous boys, central to virtually all young adult romance novels, cannot be copyrighted.”

kuttithevangu

“Regarding setting, the court held that both works taking place in Alaska high schools was not protectable because Alaska is a public place and setting a teen novel in a high school is a common genre convention.”

Freeman v. Deebs-Elkenaney | Loeb & Loeb LLP

kogiopsis

I've read the entire decision (skimming over the purely legal precedent/definitions bit) and here are some of my favorite bits:

katbelleinthedark

As a lawyer, I both envy and pity the poor judge who had to deal with this case.

katbelleinthedark

I'm sorry, but

On characters, the court found that while both works feature heroines with supernatural abilities and love interests who are paranormal creatures—at a macro level what one would expect of characters in a teen romantasy novel—the “totality of attributes and traits” of the characters differed materially. The court noted, for example, that Freeman’s heroine is a witch/shifter/demon who does not fly, while Wolff’s is a gargoyle/witch who does fly; that Freeman’s romantic lead is a sun-kissed Viking shapeshifter with no posse, while Wolff’s is a dark, brooding vampire prince with a posse; and that the Crave series features a fully developed love triangle with a second romantic lead and competition between “born” and “made” vampires that has no counterpart in Freeman’s work. The court rejected the notion that a heroine who takes advanced classes, quotes great works of literature, loves reading and discusses French philosophers was protectable, noting that the character Hermione from Harry Potter also exhibited those traits. The court also noted that the heroine having a biracial, gay male friend was not copyrightable.

plEASE. I'm dying here.

dct239394cvvd098dffgggp

ill spend my twenties investigating the healing properties of salt i dont know about you guys

protectspock

dct239394cvvd098dffgggp

excuse me

protectspock

Sorry op. That's my friend the Salt Vampire from the Star Trek episode "The Man Trap" which first aired in 1966. Blessings be upon you.

dct239394cvvd098dffgggp

its just i dont feel blessed by its presence is all. sending love your way

lord-kitschener

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dykeferatu

now i don’t know enough about omegaverse to say anything definitively but from what i have seen it certainly looks like it emulates insects much more than wolves.

dykeferatu

like if you’re looking for an animal with strictly defined castes and extensive use of pheromones you are looking for ants i think

boringkate

It's not too late to suppress all of your wants and desires and to die unfulfilled and afraid without anyone ever having really known you.

tragicfaggots-deactivated202407

person w adhd experiencing symptoms of adhd: why the fuck can’t I do this thing . I wish there was some explanation for this

escuerzoresucitado

So, X’s automatic translation feature accidentally kicked off a huge online fight between Russian and Japanese users. It all started when Japanese users saw Russian posts talking about watching anime and manga for free. What began as a small argument turned into a big global debate about copyright and access to content.

Japanese users were outraged that people were freely using creative work without permission. But Russians fired back, saying there’s basically no legal way to get most of that content in their country. They argued that when copyright holders block official access and payments, piracy ends up being the only option.

During the debate, Japanese users suggested some pretty extreme solutions—like just not watching anything at all, or traveling all the way to Tokyo to buy official copies. Then came a funny twist: the Japanese side proposed "pirating" Dostoevsky’s work as a kind of payback. The Russians quickly responded with links to legal, open-source libraries of Russian classics.

Things shifted when users from Brazil and other Latin American countries jumped in. They backed the Russians, saying they have the same problem accessing Japanese content legally in their regions. Now, the heated argument has cooled down into a more chill conversation about cultural differences and sharing memes.

depsidase

heylsgowt

best-blurst-of-times

ironbite4

Teachers have tried this and are amazed when their classes don’t go feral like in the book. It’s almost as if the book was supposed to be satire and not a treaty on the nature of humanity.

thedarkbutbeige

spaceshipoftheseus

there’s a timeskip

THERE’S A TIMESKIP

after losing control of the signal fire there’s a FUCKING TIMESKIP and when the next chapter starts everyone’s hair is several inches longer and their clothes have rotted to shreds and they’re still just kind of chilling!!!!

IT TAKES THE TERRIBLE IMPERIALISM MIND-POISONED EXCESSIVELY BRITISH BOYS IN THE ACTUAL BOOK SEVERAL MONTHS TO COMMIT A SINGLE ACT OF INTENTIONAL VIOLENCE, EVEN THE ONE (1) CHILD WRITTEN AS AN ACTUAL SOCIOPATH

AND then when they DO turn on each other it is because

THERE’S AN UNSPECIFIED WORLD WAR HAPPENING

AND A PILOT’S CORPSE CRASH LANDS ON THE ISLAND POST-DOGFIGHT AND THE CHILDREN MISTAKE THE PARACHUTE FOR A MONSTER AND SPIRAL INTO PARANOIA

BECAUSE CHILDREN INHERIT THE LEGACY AND TRAUMA OF VIOLENCE FROM THE ADULTS WAGING WAR AROUND THEM

HURR DURR IN THE REAL WORLD IT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN LIKE IN LORD OF THE FLIES -

IT DIDN’T HAPPEN THAT WAY IN LORD OF THE FLIES EITHER YOU JUST HAVEN’T READ IT SINCE HIGH SCHOOL IF EVER AND DON’T REMEMBER WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED IN THE GODDAMN BOOK

randomslasher

mayfriend-archive

#tbf the dude wrote it to be a dick

yes. yes he did. i’m also gonna direct you to the real life ‘lord of the flies’ which occured in the 1960s, when six tongan schoolboys got stranded on a desert island for over a year before being rescued by an australian fisherman (who, it should be noted, later took on all six as crewmembers because the reason they were out in the first place was because they wanted to see the world, and named his ship the Ata after the island they were stranded on). nobody died. the only injuries that occurred were accidental, and when one of the boys broke his leg falling down a cliff, the others braced it and looked after him so well that it healed perfectly. if they argued, then they would literally go to opposite sides of the island until they’d cooled off. after leaving the island, they remained friends for the rest of their lives. here’s a photo of them as adults, with their rescuer (who is third from the left) and other members of his crew.

i read about this in rutger bregman’s human kind, a book i cannot recommend highly enough, but if you don’t want to go and read a whole book about the inherent goodness of humanity (which again, you really should) then the relevant excerpt can be found here.

mayfriend-archive

acorviart

just spoke with the funniest hater of all time. went to the optometrist, happened to be wearing my hadestown shirt. he asks me about it, I tell him it's a musical and he tells me he hates musicals and lists a few he didn't like. fair enough, but he listed mostly movie musicals, so I tell him that stage musicals are quite different. so he asks for my favorites and a few recommendations, and I also explain to him the differences between seeing a show on tour vs on broadway. I tell him he could check out the local theatre and see what's in the next season, but he says he'd rather just fly to new york and see the broadway show if it's the best version and that he probably wouldn't like it. I tell him that sometimes people will like the tour version better just based on personal preference of singer performance. he says, I don't really like singers, I just don't really like music. I get my eyes dilated. I bum around for 15 minutes before going back. he checks my eyes and shows me that he pulled up a google search of hadestown to read up about it while we were waiting. he tells me again he hates musicals and can't take them seriously, while actively looking at showtimes for hadestown at the walter kerr on broadway. I tell him each musical is very different so he should listen to the recordings of a few songs to see if he likes the vibe of a show before he wastes $200 on a ticket. he says nah I won't do that because I probably wouldn't like it, I just don't like music. the broadway showtimes to hadestown are still pulled up on a browser tab. I cannot emphasize how many times he told me that he doesn't like musicals or music while actively taking my recommendations and planning a theoretical trip to nyc specifically to see a broadway musical that he predicts he will hate. i respect it