Fanfiction Authors: HEADS UP

(Non-authors, please RB to signal boost to your author friends!)

An astute reader informed me this morning that one of my fics (Children of the Future Age) had been pirated and was being sold as a novel on Amazon:

(And they weren't even creative with their cover design. If you're going to pirate something that I spent a full year of my life writing, at least give me a pretty screenshot to brag about later. Seriously.)

I promptly filed a DMCA complaint to have it removed, but I checked out the company that put it up -- Plush Books -- and it looks like A LOT of their books are pirated fic. They are by no means the only ones doing this, either -- the fact that """publishers""" can download stories from AO3 in ebook format and then reupload them to Amazon in just a few clicks makes fic piracy a common problem. There are a whole host of reasons why letting this continue is bad -- including actual legal risk to fanfiction archives -- but basically:

IF YOU ARE A FANFIC AUTHOR WITH LONG AND/OR POPULAR WORKS, PLEASE CHECK AMAZON TO SEE IF YOUR STORIES HAVE BEEN PIRATED.

You can search for your fics by title, or by text from the description (which is often just copied wholesale from AO3 as well). If you find that someone has stolen your work and is selling it as their own, you can lodge a DMCA complaint (Amazon.com/USA site; other countries have different systems). If you haven't done this before, it's easy! Here's a tutorial:

HOW TO FILE A COPYRIGHT COMPLAINT FOR STOLEN WORK ON AMAZON.COM:

First, go to this form. You'll need to be signed into your Amazon account.

Please share this information with your writer friends, keep an eye out for/report pirated works, and help us keep fanfiction free and legally protected!

NOTE: All of the above also applies to Amazon products featuring stolen artwork, etc., so fan artists should check too!

HELP URGENTLY NEEDED.

see that forecast? our central air conditioning just broke down.

me and my roommates have six cats between the three of us, and it's going to be a couple of days before we can get it repaired.

repairs are going to cost $2000 and we've had to get hotel rooms to keep the cats (and ourselves) at a safe temperature.

PLEASE help if you can, and please share this.

paypal.me/voidbat | cashapp and venmo: voidbat

update:

our AC has been repaired, but it ended up setting us back $1400 (after the donations we already received) that we REALLY can't afford. we desperately need all the help we can get.

hey guys, we still really, really need help.

“His first day was on location with Kylie Minogue, but all eyes, even Kylie’s, were on Bernard. He’d turned up with a suitcase full of props, just in case, including a rubber chicken. And what an actor. Oh, really though, what a wonderful actor. We once took him to the TV Choice Awards and sent him up on his own to collect the award, and the entire room stood up and cheered him. That’s a lovely memory. He’d phone up and say, ‘I’ve got an idea! What if I attack a Dalek with a paintball gun?!’ Okay, Bernard, in it went! He loved Gill with all his heart; he mentioned her in every conversation we ever had. A love story for the ages. I’m so lucky to have known him. Thanks for everything, my old soldier. A legend has left the world.”  — Russell T. Davies

BERNARD JOSEPH CRIBBINS, OBE (29th December 1928—28th July 2022)

Only day you can rb this

I need to get a lawyer against my abuser and I can't afford it because I'm a single parent on disability. I also have other expenses I need help with. Description under the cut. Please, please help if you can.

P*ypal: yanidork

C*shapp (preferred): $yourdestinymae

V*nmo: nicework_bonedaddy

$0/2000

Warning: pics of stitches and mild blood under the cut

$72/2k

$115/2k! Thank you so much!!

$155/2k!

$176/2k!

hi everyone i made 12 euros in all of december. ive fallen behind on rent and bills and this little guy needs to get his nuts out so he stops peeing on the couch. i still havent even made all the money back from the immigration fuckup back in october so im getting to the point where i need some real help. pls assist

https://ko-fi.com/sadstoned/

do it for him

Starting tomorrow I shall be running a 10% discount on my @inprnt store that will last until JANUARY 5th. it will also be last chance to pick up my 4 ‘Rooks’ prints as they will be taken down after that date x Promo code will be posted tomorrow x (29th Dec)

hey does anyone want to help me and lillie pay our bills and get cat food this xmas season? We need about 440 dollars to get by with groceries, electricity and medical appointments. I’d also like to get Lillie something nice for her birthday in a couple of weeks!!!!  have a nice picture of the cats we’re trying to feed if it helps warm ur heart

venmo: coquiprincess paypal.me/luquisgabriela

15/440

35/440

55/440

75/440

225/440 thank you :’)

This video made me cry so I wanted to put it here

What the fuck why am I bawling

Okay. Come on, then. I love you, get up, we are going to keep going. Repeat this to yourself in a mirror or in a whisper or in the shower or in a shout. I love you, get up, keep going.

I am tired too. It's okay. We will sleep in the car ride over. We will sleep on each other's shoulders. We will sleep upside down and in the laps of new friends and on the bellies of our lovers and in the hands of better tomorrows. We will sleep and we will wake up rested and we will wake up happy and we will wake up home again.

I love you, get up. It's time to write "maybe next time" on our gravesite. It's time to write: it could not kill me, I would not die. It's time to write a love letter to the sun and our one-act play and the history of our keychains. It is time to write a future where despite everything, we are finally warm and safe.

I love you. I love you. I love you.

Get up. Keep going. We are going to be okay.

COVID is slowly becoming a “third world” disease. While first world countries are hoarding vaccines, having doses for populations many times their size, third world countries can’t get any because pharma companies want to sell to the first world countries first. Even then, first world countries will receive them first. While rich countries recover from COVID, they will forget about the pandemic while many other countries live the absolute worst moment of the pandemic without being able to vaccinate their population.

Watch also when some first world countries finish vaccinating their populations, they will turn to third world countries and “donate” or sell surplus vaccines. People in these countries will go “Oh how sweet! The government is donating vaccines to the poorer countries <3” when it was their hoarding that led to many, many third world citizens dying before they could even get vaccinated in the first place.

african and latin american countries are also pushed by pfizer to give up sovereign assets as part of their vaccine agreement

Yo europeans, sign the fucking petition, get the european commission to lift the patents

This is not a bullshit useless change dot org petition by the way this is an actual thing with legal consequences. If this petition gets to a million signatures, the european commission HAS to examine it.

They need not only a million signatures but to pass thresholds in at least seven member states - which only Belgium has done so so far. Especially if you have Italian, Irish, or Cypriot citizenship, please sign. Sign it in general, but try to circulate if you can to anyone with those nationalities specifically.

231,195 / 1,000,000 signatures as of 10/28/21

237,730  /  1,000,000  signatures as of 11/28/21 and the Signatory Deadline(it has to be signed by this date) is January 8th, 2022.

PLEASE sign, especially if you’re from one of the countries that has not reached it’s threshold. (France, Sweden, Greece, Germany, The Netherlands, Austria…basically every country except Italy and Belgium)

Minimum thresholds must be met in at least five more countries in addition to the 1,000,000 signatures requirement.

The countries closest to reaching their minimum threshold are Ireland(89% of required signatures), France(75%), The Netherlands (75%), Spain (69%), and Cyprus (46%). If you or anyone you know have citizenship in these countries, please sign it, encourage them to sign it, and pass it forward.

If the requirements are met, the European Commission will be forced to examine this and take legal action. Real change is a possibility if enough signatures are collected.

Spread this.

Do every retail employee a favor this Thanksgiving/black friday: stay home.

Just want to remind you that there’s a fucking pandemic and I mean this post 100x harder this time. If you show up you die.

The spirit of Diogenes is alive and well

This is funny, obviously, but even if you don't go to the extreme of the example above, this is a separate seat for one person, with a back and 4 legs:

But it's not a chair. It's a bar stool.

This, however, are all chairs:

Each one is missing at least one component of the chair definition above.

So like... it's almost like strict definitions are exclusionary.

Reblog to hit a transphobe with a separate seat for one person

Don't laugh at this because "Oh those silly monster f*ckers." This is a giant freaking RED FLAG just like with Only Fans.

so there's some people in the tags wondering "hey why are lots of sites cracking down lately/why is anything sexual being removed"

once again, it goes down to platforms and payment processors. platforms, aka, app stores, and mostly Apple: that was the issue with Tumblr, and with OnlyFans. Fandom, the company that hosts all the fan wikis, also produces D&D Beyond. If they're trying to make a Fandom app, this might be why it's happening - or because they are self censoring before trying to do something else that would involve an app store or credit card payment processor.

This is why people need to pay ATTENTION to what happens with the mainstreaming of SWERF rhetoric. For example: there is a supposedly anti-trafficking movement called Exodus Cry about "protecting children not porn", that uses trafficking survivors, the media environment of trafficking panic and people's real fears, to push this stuff, when in reality they are an evangelical Christian group. Without researching the nefarious background, the New York Times wrote a whole piece about their supposed "work", which, being the NYT, got a ton of attention and got payment processors like the major credit card companies to start cracking down HARD on porn sites. (Look up the TraffickingHub campaign. The irony here being that Mindgeek, the GIGANTIC media monopoly that owns sites like Pornhub and Redtube, is very unethical but not for the reasons these mf say).

They've made Netflix documentaries, TikTok is chock FULL of trafficking panic videos with false information, Congress has already used "protecting children" to enact SESTA/FOSTA, which put sex workers and many others in danger (see: the immediate fall of Backpage), and there's more on the horizon.

I IMPLORE people - this is not about fandom shipping discourse. This is not about antis. This is about 1) internet privacy 2) sex worker rights 3) how to REALLY protect trafficking and abuse survivors 4) the police/surveillance state we live in getting bigger. I'm rambling here, but to learn more:

1. Follow Hacking/Hustling on Twitter/etc. They have an infinite amount of resources on this.

2. Follow the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who flags stuff like this all the time.

3. Listen to these episodes of the You're Wrong About podcast for a good summary:

- the sex offender episode

- the human trafficking episode

- the wayfair conspiracy & trafficking statistics episode

4. Some necessary reading:

- "The Crusade Against Pornhub Is Going to Get Someone Killed"

- "Visa and Mastercard are Trying to Dictate What You Can Watch on Pornhub"

- "Nick Kristof & the Holy War on Pornhub"

5. LEARN ABOUT THE EARN IT ACT from Republicans in Congress. It is another "oh we're trying to protect the children" situation that will hurt sex workers first and everyone else in the process.

- "The EARN IT Act is a Disaster for Online Speech and Privacy, Especially for the LGBTQ and Sex Worker Communities" - ACLU

6. LEARN ABOUT SECTION 230 and the ongoing debates about platform responsibility. As Facebook enters its meta virtual reality phase this is crucial as well.

Companies sure are quick to take down nudity and sex, but will drag their feet on things that cause actual harm like racism and transphobia.  

I have a trans woman friend in serious need of help. She needs to get a halfway decent lawyer quickly, all in all a total of $2,500. To avoid nearly a year of jail time. Her PayPal is amypetit558@gmail.com and her Venmo is Melanie-Greene-37. Anything and everything helps out, any amount of money to spare or just boosting quickly.

all video games should have a “I’m shit at video games but I’m curious about the story and I don’t want to watch a let’s play” mode

I am

I made this post because I am disabled and no matter how much I practice there are some games I will never be able to play because I physically cannot move my fingers the way you have to and the responses to this post from other disabled people, people who grew up unable to play video games, and people who just aren’t very good at them has been extremely enthusiastically positive, while people who apparently can’t conceive of the idea that some people will never be good at gaming condescendingly comment, tag or send me asks telling me to try easy mode or to get good despite the fact that the feature I’m describing already exists in some games and mods. if you’re part of the latter group, consider that some of us can not ever be good at video games and we still deserve to be able to participate and have fun

Ok, real talk, if you play PC games I use a program called Wemod that has settings for almost every game ever and you can change them to suit your needs Unlimited health? one hit kill? unlimited items? They can’t mod multiplayer games, but every genre of game imaginable is on Wemod so I use it for everything from stardew valley, subnautica, hades, farming sim and more! It mods the games to your level of ease without needing to mess with any files or get deep into webpages for mods yourself It is a life changer

I will reblog this everytime I see it until my dying day

What is this?! Why have I never seen this?! 😍😍😍😍😍😍 absolutely awesome!

Yessss

The TIMINGS On this thing

It’s so GOOD

@blackkatmagic @rayshippouuchiha

This amazing fanvid is by voordeel (found on youtube here).  Everything they’ve done is great and you should check them out.  I’ve watched this one about a billion times.

US Helplines:

UK Helplines:

FREE 24/7 suicide hotlines:

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ALWAYS REBLOG WHEN YOU SEE SOMETHING LIKE THIS PLEASE; ITS SO MUCH MORE THAN IMPORTANT TO PEOPLE. IT MEANS EVERYTHING TO SOMEBODY AND EVEN THOUGH YOU MIGHT NOT SEE THIS IN THE SAME LIGHT, SOMEONE MIGHT. INFACT YOU REBLOGGING THIS COULD STOP SOMEONE TAKING THEIR LIFE TONIGHT.

I noticed there isn’t one here for Ireland, so

Irish free suicide helpline: 01-116 123

last time i reblogged this, i got this ask:

so please, please reblog. this could actually save a life.

Omfg.

OH MY GOD

Well, that was unexpected.

whAT EVEN IS GOING ON>??

ok I’ve seen this like 8 times on my dash and ignored it but now I finally watched it because I was like “okay this has to be SOMETHING good because everyone I fucking follow is reblogging it” I was not fucking let down at all.

Oh. My. Christ.

Welp. Didn’t see THAT coming.

Ignore the thumbnail, just watch it

OH MY FUCKING GOD