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chat reminder to just write whatever the fuck you want. write that overused trope. write that obscure shit that no one will have heard of. just. do it. your writing is yours stop depriving it of that.
honestly in the era of AI slop it is more important than ever for you to write or draw that incredibly niche/strange/unpalatable thing you want to make. the world needs the unique weirdness of people more than ever
Iāve been cackling about this for like five minutes now
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O-okay, letās get into this, shall we?
*grumbling* Would you rather work for Lex Luthor or the Joker- *shouting* Lex Luthor, by like, a fucking mile!
Yes, yes, working for Lex Luthor is basically like being an Amazon employee that makes weapons of mass destruction, which is bad. Lex is like Donald Trump mixed with Mark Zuckerberg mixed with Jeffrey fucking Bezos, itās not a great mix. He does not treat his henchmen well. Their lives still suck, and they are probably monitored on how long they take piss breaks for.
But letās analyze what working for Lex Luthor is like versus the fucking Joker. With Lex you probably get a dental plan, a health plan, a paycheck, and the guy that youāre fighting really cares about human life. Superman will hit you just long enough to knock you out, so youāre not a treat, so he can stop the problem.
If you work for the Joker, your payment is youāre not fucking dead. You say one wrong thing? Bang. You donāt laugh at his jokes? Bang! You do laugh at his jokes? Bang! You think Joker gives a fuck about a henchman?
Whoās Lex Luthorās right-hand-man? Itās a woman, you sexist, her name is Mercy, sheās awesome. Whoās Jokerās right-hand-man? Bob? Nah, heās dead. Harley? Tried to kill her multiple times. Slappy? Who the fuck is Slappy?
The best case scenario of working for the Joker is that you fight the fucking Batman! And that presents its own fucking list of problems. If you stop Superman as a Lex Luthor henchman, Lexāll be pissed, but heāll be at least happy that Superman was caught. If you stop Batman as a Joker henchman, you better have a fucking coffin picked out yesterday.
This isnāt a fun hypothetical question, this is a screening technique that the doctors at Arkham use to determine your mental health! There is a right and a wrong answer to this question, and the correct one is Lex fucking Luthor. Thank you for coming to my fucking Ted Talk, have a nice day.
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Bitch neither I work for Wayne Industries, they got better offers than work these clowns:
batmans secret special attack is offering all of his enemys henchmen a living wage and guaranteed healthcare
The rest of the thread is here.
tl;dr: Donāt monetize AO3, kids.Ā You wonāt like what happens next.
read this thread. this is by far the most concise explanation of a lot of different issues that iāve seen in fandom spaces in a while. cosigning both the linked thread and the thread about aus/uk/can law thatās linked in-thread.
AHDHXHEBSG TWITTER WRITERS DID WHAT NOW???? AND PEOPLE PAID THEM????
If someone has never taken a class that includes copyright law, they may not know this stuff, so I donāt necessarily blame random people for not knowing what copyright is, but likeā¦ maybe just maybe itās something that should be taught????
Just another reminder, because this always drives me crazy, but even if monetizing your fic was 100% unambiguously legal and protected, AO3 would still not let you do it because AO3 was founded and is supported by people like me who want a fandom community that is completely divested from making money off of fic.
Yes, this. Lots of fanworks on AO3 are unambiguously legal. Fics based on Shakespeare plays and fairy tales and Greek mythology and The Great Gatsby and your original character from your D&D game are not violations of copyright, because no copyright applies to those things.
AO3 still doesnāt let you monetize those things on the site, because we donāt want the site to be commercial! Because thatās not what itās for!
Itās not there for you (generic you) to make money off the efforts of the people who build and maintain the site for free! We arenāt getting paid for the work we do to give you a nice site to use, just like you arenāt getting paid for the work you do to create whatever art you share there. Because fandom is supposed to be a community where we share with each other, and therefore we all benefit.
The deal is, we give you a free, stable, safe platform to host your works. In exchange, you get a site that isnāt covered in ads and tip jars and links to gofundme and āread the next chapter at my patreonā. You get one goddamn place on the internet that isnāt trying to make money off you. And we will defend that space and keep it non-commercial.
If you want to make money off your fics, you can instead post them somewhere like royal Road. āOh, but Royal Roadās culture is so much more negative and stressful and lacks the supportive norms of AO3!ā Yeah, because people are trying to make money there. Half the userbase is treating it as a storefront and hustling is the natural social consequence of that. AO3ās culture can only exist because itās not commercial.
š«© no i don't think those characters are siblings i think they're friends. I don't think that's their mom I actually think she's their friend. I don't think they're related actually I think they're friends with each other.
Babygirl I know fandom history that you wouldnāt even care about
i know fandom history that even I donāt care about
well, i know about lump fish
Good to see weāre all on the same page
Car-centric infrastructure pisses me off but it also pisses off car owners and they donāt even realize it.
Do you hate traffic? Yeah. Itās because of all the cars.
Do you hate noise? Yeah. Itās because of all the cars.
Do you hate so many people under the age of 30 dying? Yeah. Itās because of all the cars.
Do you hate lung and heart diseases? Yeah. Itās because of all the cars.
Why is suburbia boring? Because of all the cars.
Tired of having to drive around your elderly, young, and disabled relatives? Blame all the cars.
Tired of air and water pollution? Yeah a lot of that comes from cars.
Tired of potholes? Itās because thereās so many cars.
More severe flooding than there used to be? Because of all the asphalt for the cars.
Is your city losing money and canāt afford to maintain suburban sewer and sidewalks? Cars.
Your town keeps knocking down all its historic buildings to build more parking lots? Yeah I think you know what to blame. Itās the cars.
Wait how do cars pollute the water
Wear and tear on the roads and car tires degrading releases chemicals and microplastics that run off into the water supply when it rains
Also coolant and oil leaks, plus the oil spills in the ocean for gasoline
Yes but itās important to point out that even electric cars can pollute the environment
just trying to help with the dishes.. all good here (via)
I do suffer the american condition of liking to drink huge drinks
Lemme get a little sippy
saw this post & blacked out for 30 minutes & came back to awareness having had created this. the creative urge overtook me.
itās almost 2014 already are we still arguing on whether to give female characters the equal amount of screentime on movies as male characters
#this is both an example of captain kirk being upset by it and of reboot being a flagrant offender
#jim kirk was a raging feminist if you donāt think so you donāt know him
THIS IS NOT EVEN UP FOR FUCKING DEBATEĀ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
couldnāt stop thinking about this post
gotta lie down every time I remember this recording and the post about it
nature documentary but the narration is just weird enough to make you question it
āSome fish can walk out of water, so remember that next time.ā
āYou might think youāre safe, but horses are omnivoresā
please watch the round planet on netflix itās exactly like thatĀ
op disabled reblogs but I think the point still stands
reminder that the books themselves also suck ass actually. there's an entire plotline endorsing slavery. the one character who advocates to end slavery is bullied and made fun of. the one slave who doesnt like being enslaved is bullied and treated as an outcast. the bankers are the picture of racist stereotypes of jewish people. the one asian character is named fckn Cho Chang. the worldbuilding SUCKS. fuck harry potter and fuck rowling. stop giving her your money.
AO3 Writer Affirmations:
I do not have to reinvent the wheel every time I write fanfiction
I do not have to make every chapter's word count above 1,000 in order for it to be good
It is okay if some things don't make sense
I can write whatever I want
I am writing this shit for free
If people don't like my stuff, they can block me. If they're being mean about it, I can block them.
The most important part of writing fanfiction is having fun
Writing fanfiction is supposed to be fun
I do not have to appeal to people
This shit is fun
I am doing this all for free, and anyone who objects can go eat wet sand and worms from the sidewalk
I can write the same thing multiple times
I can write the same thing as someone else
My chapters don't all have to be the same length
It's never to late to go back
I don't have to finish it if I don't want to
I can choose just to write the scenes I want to write
itās so magical and beautiful that there are sprawling interconnected cave systems carved deep into the earth by various geological forces and you donāt have to go in them. there are miles and miles of stone passageways in total darkness that require you to exhale all the air out of your lungs to squeeze through parts of them and you donāt have to be there. some of these squeezes are underwater and require cave divers to take off their oxygen tanks and push them through ahead of them and me i am above ground looking at the sky as we speak. there are untold subterranean wonders no human has ever seen and i will not be the one to discover them #grateful #blessed
so true there could be any number of undiscovered species down there all of which are none of my business and never will be. peace and love on (the surface of) planet earth š
why is lake superior so dangerous? i cant find anything online that will give my access (not american!)
it's the largest freshwater lake on the planet by surface area, you could lose a couple of smaller countries in there and not even notice. (vs Europe)
on top of that, it's a Northern lake, so the water never really gets warmer than 50 F (10 C) even in the heat of summer, and it's famous for sudden violent storms that destroy ships and buildings alike. this thing has a MASSIVE body count because it's also a major shipping thoroughfare.
tldr it wants to eat you so so bad
She is also over 1,300ft/400m deep at her deepest. Once she has eaten you, she will not give you back. Lake Superior doesn't give up her dead.
And when Bunjy says "the largest by surface are" what that means is: Lake Superior is a whopping 31,700 square miles (82,103 square km) of water. The only reason she is not an inland sea is because she is freshwater.
She has tides. She has rip currents, like an ocean does. You don't even have to go out on a boat to get got by her, all you have to do is step into her icy waters in the wrong spot. She has ice formations that aren't "icebergs" on the technicality that they didn't calve from glaciers, even though they look and act the same.
(photo by Paul Berger)
She LOOKS like an ocean when you are at her shores. This is from a location on the Minnesota side shore.
(photo by George Ilstrup)
She is huge, icy, and hungry. This makes her very dangerous. Not to be fucked around with, because you WILL find out.
Superior doesn't want to kill you in the way that K2 wants to kill you. She doesn't give much thought to you at all, unless you draw her attention. Then, well, might as well start ringing the bell at Mariner's Church yourself, because she is inevitable.
one of my favorite bodies of water
This is your reminder today that Irene Adler in the original Conan Doyle story is literally not a criminal. She never commits a crime.
Nor is she a seductress in any kind of negative or manipulative sense - she has a mutual relationship with a powerful man who then breaks up with her, and afterwards she keeps protection against him in the form of evidence that the relationship existed. She HAS blackmail material, she even waves it at him threateningly because he treated her like shit, but she never even uses it.
Irene Adler is not a thief, femme fatale, or blackmailer. She's just a cool lady that wants to be left alone.
@delphi-star You do recall correctly!! She does not give a shit about that man! She's happily married! She tipped him for being a witness at her wedding!
If your Sherlock Holmes adaptation has a character whose identifying qualities are that she is a seductive criminal in love with Holmes, you have created a character that is basically the literal opposite of Irene Adler and you should name her something else.
She's also -- and I cannot stress this enough -- from New Jersey. IMO this is the single most important detail missing from all the adaptations -- IRENE ADLER IS FROM NEW JERSEY.
Please just once in my life I would like to see this adapted faithfully it would be the funniest fucking thing ever.
i donāt know why i love this so much but i do
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Ok wait I'm an animator but the idea of referring to a real life human's gait as a walk cycle is sending me
