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Ethan he/him pfp and bannerby @sinhasfluffyheadfur Star Wars side blog is @thefluffiestconvor Previously fandomnerd101

[thefluffiestbird]

hi there!

pronouns are he/him

this is mostly aftg stuff but sometimes I post other stuff too

my pfp is by the lovely most amazing @sinhasfluffyheadfur

I’ve got a Star Wars side blog here

the tag for my art is just My art

I’m making a tag for my ocs but also another one specifically for my aftg ocs

[kam-is-kringe]

Happy half point of artfight!1!!1🔥🔥🔥‼️‼️

A few of the attacks I’ve done so far:

Characters belong to:

Makomakomako (1,3,7)

lightbearer (2)

Muffinpines (4)

Thefluffiestbird (5)

FaerieFireShines (6)

[adirtnap]

[what-even-is-thiss]

The upside to the adhd forgetting that you made yourself a drink thing is thinking to yourself “man I could go for a drink right now” and looking to your right and seeing a drink has appeared there. Thank you, past me. I lost you somewhere but you have still provided.

[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.

[stevespookington]

browsing the top 100 books downloaded in the last 30 days can be really fun too, interesting to see how things change

https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top#books-last30

[rostekhorn]

Oh man, yeah, young people definitely need to learn this. I read so many public domain things when I was fresh out of college and penniless but still needed entertainment. Just going straight to Wikisource works too:

And yes, Sherlock Holmes is in the public domain. But I got bored with Sherlock Holmes after a few months, and became much more pumped when I discovered his mirror opposite, Arsene Lupin. Because when you're not only young and penniless but living through the Great Recession, what you really want to read about isn't the world's greatest detective solving crimes. It's the world's greatest thief robbing fat cats blind while pantsing the police along the way.

[trambrosia]

And you can Ctrl-F find words in electronic texts.

This is so powerful that in the old times they made a whole-ass index of every word in the Bible, called a concordance. It is now possible for every electronic book

[zoroshonkingbazonkadonkas]

my god, this man

[exy-enthusiast]

"stop fagging up my striker" says the faggiest striker to ever do it

[pocketss]

that’s a hard yes

[demento-mori]

eating would be fine if it was only a recreational activity. instead, its a horrible sisiphean nightmare and you need to do it every day without fail on threat of pain and death

[miggylol]

Spin the wheel. That's who's trying to kill you.

Spin the wheel again. That’s who’s trying to protect you.

(If you have zero idea about a name you got, spin until you see someone you recognize.)

Are you safe?

Absolutely not. I'm dead. 100% dead.

I might stay alive, but it'll be a really close thing.

I'll take some hits, for certain, but I should be okay in the end.

A few attacks might get through, but nothing concerning.

The attacker might be able to get in one lucky hit. If that.

I am the opposite of worried. I'm 100% safe.

…Look. I've tried picturing this. But I honestly don't know how to answer.

Voting ended onJul 14

(I've run this poll twice before, expanding it significantly for the second run. With about a year passed since that second run, I thought it was time to add another couple hundred names to the list and have another go.)

[local-seraph]

Oh he's cooked.

[creekwyrm]

how to tell mutual they intrigue me greatly and i would be honoured to be allowed to grow a friendship where i may study them up close without saying any of that

[creekwyrm]

how to tell mutual i know i havent interacted with them directly in like five months but i still think of them highly and semifrequently and their art is still a source of inspiration for my own

[fibfoolingart]

a visitor on the biodome!!

[funkyspacerat]

Nobody understands the struggles of being a teenage girl better than Prince Hamlet of Denmark

[goatskickin]

This cannot possibly be a ‘hot take’ as it is 208 years late but

I am floored by the claim that anyone other than Mary Shelley could have written Frankenstein

BECAUSE

Even in the modern day, I do not think that I can recall a book that was so very clearly influenced by the author’s real lived experience. Not just her romantic relationship, but also her lived experience as a mother.

Like the character of Victor Frankenstein? That was so crystal clearly her clowning on her man. If you know anything about Percy “ohhhhhh another fainting spell has overcome me and I shall be bedridden for 2 fortnights at least” Bysshe Shelley - that IS Victor Frankenstein. She IS making fun of him only in the way that a long-annoyed person can make fun of her fuckass man! Yes, men *can* write about themselves self-deprecatingly - but not like this. I would not put it past Percy to have read this work and have helped edit it, sure. But the work itself was all Mary and she is really, really good at it. I read Frankenstein and I was like, “god, she is so funny. She is so fucking funny. She is smart as hell but all that intelligence didn’t prevent her from ending up (and getting stuck with) a weird artsy dude who is poetic and whimsical and philosophical but who is also annoying and needy and flirts with her friends (and more) and just is not very stable or reliable.” When reading Frankenstein I felt like I was having a delicious conversation with my bestie about her ain’t-shit man. She would have been one hell of a conversationalist. She had to hang out with Percy’s fuckass friends too, so I’ll bet Lord Byron and his asshole behavior was an influence.

And.

Mary was deeply traumatized by the experience of losing her children. Three of her four children died. Her babies died. And there was nothing she did wrong, nothing that could have been done to prevent this except not having had birthed them, and this is heavy, constant burden on her heart.

This loss and this horror is stitched in every chapter of Frankenstein. Her grief and disgust and guilt are ever present both in the dialogue of Victor Frankenstein and the monster himself. Through Victor she expresses the horror of the idea of creation. Had it not been for the act of creating life (in her case, intercourse), the children would never have come to be. Mothers, when their children suffer, automatically blame themselves. How could I have prevented this? What did I do wrong? Why did my child have to suffer? And when the child dies, a mom can only think, why where they ever born? Why did I do this? I want to take it all back. *I* caused this to happen. The guilt the guilt the guilt the regret, the shame, the horror and the pain that can never, ever leave because you allowed the life to exist. The book was the result of a challenge to write a ghost story, and Mary is absolutely haunted by the deaths of her children.

And through the monster himself, she expresses rage. Her babies died and are no longer with her physically, but their brief lives are specters of pain for her. Their lives left her with grief she cannot ever escape and she is MAD about that. The character of the monster is one of deep hatred. To Victor Frankenstein the monster says, “You cause me to live. Now you suffer the consequences of my twisted unlife. You are to blame. I will never stop trying to hurt you because you did not love me enough, and because you made me happen.” The monster chases Victor Frankenstein, causing grief and destruction again and again and again because this is a pain Mary cannot escape. You cannot ever get over the death of a child. And it happened three times for her. Again and again in the book horrible things happen for no reason and no one is to blame, they just happen because that is the closest thing (emotionally) to what she has experienced. The death of a child has no explanation. It should not happen, but sometimes it just does.

The monster tells Victor Frankenstein that he will never stop coming after him, never stop destroying everything he loves. Because to bring him to life but to never love him in return and help him and nurture him is and act that deserves ceaseless punishment. That is what Mary believes. The monster and Frankenstein are locked in a cycle of pain and disgust and rage and putting this in the context of someone who lost a child (not once, but three times) hugely influences just why these characters are fated live in this endless cycle.

So how could anyone BUT Mary Shelley have written Frankenstein.

[callmepio]

was scared to take a breath, didn’t want you to move your head

inspired by this cute post

bonus under cut :3

[horsefigureoftheday]

Horse figure of the day: Papo #39923 Dragon Knight Horse

[cottoncandylesbo]

oh fuck... the adderall has hit my system... the change, it's happening... grRRRGH...!! get away from me, before it's too late...!!

(flails on the ground, then stands up and does the dishes)

[tetitasdelimon]

top 5 horror movies

-having a job

-not having a job

-applying for jobs

-the job market

-the concept of working my whole life