Year of Meteors

“I stood looking over my damaged home and tried to forget the sweetness of life on Earth.” -- Emily St John Mandel pic cr: major scale

[labambinafantasma-deactivated20]

If you’re European, in a couple of weeks you will be denied any and all access to fandom contents on Tumblr and everywhere else on the internet. Here’s why.

On June, 20th the JURI of European Parliament approved of the articles 11 and 13 of the new Copyright Law. These articles are also known as the “Link Tax” and the “Censorship Machines” articles.

Articles 13 in particular forces every internet platform to filter all the contents we upload online, ending once and for all the fandom culture. Which means you won’t be able to upload any type of fandom works like fan arts, fan fictions, gif sets from your favourite films and series, edits, because it’s all copyrighted material. And you won’t also be able to share, enjoy or download other’s contents, because the use of links will be completely restricted.

But not everything’s lost yet. There’s another round of voting scheduled for the early days of July.

What you can do now to save our internet, is to share these informations with all of your family members and friends, and to ask to your MEP (the members of the European Parliament from your country) to vote NO at the next round, to vote against articles 11 and 13.

Here you can find more news and all the details to contact your MEP:

https://saveyourinternet.eu

Also, sign and share this petition:

https://www.change.org/p/european-parliament-stop-the-censorship-machinery-save-the-internet?recruiter=50668942&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial

We have just a couple of weeks to stop this complete madness, don’t let them dictating the way we enjoy our internet.

#SaveYourInternet now!

[theconqueeror]

It’s funny how y'all will reblog any and all US things but when whole Europe might lose access to internet then everything is quiet.

[mmmmmmmilo]

Are you fucking serious? Is this really happening? I’m European and I didn’t know a single thing about this

[labambinafantasma-deactivated20]

Here you have

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:52016PC0593

https://creativecommons.org/2018/06/20/european-parliaments-legal-affairs-committee-gives-green-light-to-harmful-link-tax-and-pervasive-platform-censorship/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitterfacebook&utm_content=JURI-vote-june-20

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/article-13-european-parliament-internet-censorship-copyright-a8408531.html?amp&__twitter_impression=true

https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/20/eu-votes-for-copyright-law-that-would-make-internet-a-tool-for-control?__twitter_impression=true

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/eu-meme-war-article-13-regulation

Also ao3 has spoken out about this

https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/10637

[umbrxlla-acxdxmy]

PLEASE help share this as someone who lives in Europe I don’t want to see the internet change forever

[hcseokie]

interviewer: let’s talk about your ideal type

yoongi:

interviewer: how about capitalism

yoongi:

[slow-riot-deactivated20200720]

Thinking a lot about how people have liked to meme on late-life Johnny Cash for “God’s Gonna Cut You Down” and his “Hurt” cover but man, I think his last few years were amazing. He was a man who was always on the right side of things, pro-union, anti-prison, and then at the end of his life he just got weird and apocalyptic, looking back on his own life and staring death in the face. That shit rules. He went out with dignity, which can be said about a lot of people, but more than that, he went out with ambition. “You can have it all, my empire of dirt” sounds melodramatic coming from 29 year old Trent Reznor singing about drugs, but coming from a 70 year old man who was one of the faces of his entire goddamn genre, who had fought for change his entire life and never seen any real progress? That’s fucking devastating.

[filmsfoodandfandom]

“I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It’s still my symbol of rebellion – against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others’ ideas.“— Johnny Cash

[1st-1]

Timelapse of Europa & Io orbiting Jupiter, shot from Cassini during its flyby of Jupiter

[jungshiii]

where’s your soul? where’s your dream? do you think you’re alive? 

[ericnams-moved-deactivated20200]

MAP OF THE SOUL: PERSONA

[fyeahbangtaned]

Who the hell am I?

[jinsbts]

Persona, who the hell am I?

[dailyjeons]

PERSONA is here.

[kimseokjin]

map of the soul: persona comeback trailer

[ksjknj]

MAP OF THE SOUL : PERSONA

[petitesaffron-blog]

I wonder what he is dreaming about.

[jinsapeachx-deactivated20190329]

luminous

[fangirlingsince1901]

Article 13 - don’t panic

It’s not the first time I happen to talk about this shit, but now that EU voted for it, 348 vs 274 I feel like coming back on the topic once more.

So article 13 passed, now what? Let’s just remember a few things:

1) it is ‘only’ a directive. It takes two years before it becomes law and every single government have to actively accept it. No country is forced to do it, so…

2) So when you have to elect your governments, remember to keep this factor in mind when you go to vote. Aaand in May we vote to elect the European Parliament, let’s have a bit of fun!

3) The copyright legislation, as it is written, is shady in many points, this could be both good and bad.

4) Parodies, caricatures and educational sites are not involved. This means that memes and wikipedia, for example, are safe.

5) Those infamous filters everybody is so worried about already exist. Youtube uses it, for a instance. Are they faulty? Yes, sometimes. Who sells them? Google! So this will be mostly a clash of giants, huge publishing groups and huge platforms. Smaller sites/groups will probably suffer. Common people shouldn’t be affected so much, nevetheless —> Go back to point two!!

[hydro-homies]

Important to remember

[shadowhaert]

my favorite thing about queer eye is just the abstract idea that if you don’t moisturize then 5 gay men are going to storm into your home and absolutely obliterate you on a personal level

[harunosakuras]

Why did the chicken cross the road? Because on one side was everything she had ever known, and on the other side was a future, maybe. And even though she was afraid to leave everything she had ever known, she also wanted a future, maybe. And so, hesitating, and then not, and then moving quickly, running, sprinting even, desperate, she crossed and found a future. Maybe. And left behind everything she had ever known.