Anonymous asked:
why do you charge money for your art
big fan of eating
happy pride to him
Gay broke sober king 🤴
hiiii hello and welcome to a completely unscheduled long overdue far too small installment to my creator shoutout posts!
Even though these gifs don’t cover a single week, since it’s the 37th time I’m making one of these posts everything here is in my #csw37 tag. Everything in this series is tagged #creatorso and all shoutout posts are tagged #cswrapups
this is, of course, where the tumblr revamp would always lead. Just in time for Pride month, the "Queerest Place on the Internet" is attempting to crack down on fags like us for self-identifying with slurs, rather than doing something beneficial like reducing the large ever present transphobe/terf population. Advertiser friendly is the name of the game and I'm sure in a few years this site will be identical to every other sterile neutered social media site available. Have fun while it lasts folks.
this comes right after they stole your joke too funnily enough (about.tumblr.com)
THEY MUGGED ME IN BROAD DAYLIGHT AND THEN SHOT ME IN THE FUCKING HEAD
anyway lol here's my intrusive thought for the day
I got this comment on a story from my Other AO3 Account this morning.
(Info redacted because I prefer keeping these accounts separate but no one follows me on the side blog I have for that account.)
The story was posted almost a year ago and is relatively “popular” by my average statistics even though it has tropes and themes that are big turnoffs for a lot of people (hence separate accounts). This popularity is undoubtedly because it’s a Marvel Loki story and that fandom is massive.
So there is obviously an algorithm or a bot scrubbing ao3 statistics and leaving this comment on fics that meet a certain metric with the main character of the fic inserted into the comment.
I had a little time to kill this morning so I decided to investigate further. And y’all this is so predatory. Come on this journey with me. It made me mad. It may make you mad.
First, if you go to Webnovel’s website, you HAVE to choose between male lead or female lead stories before you can go any further. WTF?
And that’s weird, but this gets so much worse. This is basically a pay-to-read site that has different subscription models. Which… okay BUT! The authors don’t get paid! Look at that comment again. They’re promising a supportive and nurturing community, but zero monetary compensation. It’s basically, “post your stuff here so we can get paid and you can get… nice vibes?” I mean look at this Orwellian writing:
Using the phrase “pay-to-read model” in the same sentence as “qualitative changes in lifestyles for authors” deliberately makes you think that you can get paid and maybe even make a living on this website. But that’s not actually what it says and authors will not receive one red cent.
Oh but wait, the worst is still to come. In case this breaks containment (which I kind of hope it does) this is where I mention that I’m a lawyer in the US.
I don’t do intellectual property or copyright law but I do read and write contracts for a living. So I went to look at their terms of service. It was fun!
Highlights the first, in which Webnovel gets a license to do basically whatever they want with content you post on their site. This is how they get to be paid for people reading authors’ writing without paying them anything.
Highlights the second, in which Webnovel takes no responsibility for illegally profiting off of fan fic. This all says that the writer is 100% responsible for everything the writer posts (even though only Webnovel is making money from it).
Highlights the third which say that by posting, the author is representing that they have the legal right to use and to let Webnovel use the content according to these terms. So if a writer posts fan fiction and Webnovel makes money from people reading the fan fiction, and the House of the Mouse catches wise, these sections say that that’s ALL on the writer.
So that’s a little skeevy to start off with but the thing that is seriously shitty and made me make this post was that these assholes are coming to ao3. They are actively recruiting people in comments on their fan fiction. And they are saying they are big fans of the character you’re writing about and that they share your interests.
They are recruiting fan fiction writers and giving every impression that you can make money from posting fan fiction on their site and hiding the fact that you absolutely cannot but they can make money off of you while you try, deep in their terms of service which no one but a lawyer who writes fan fic and has some time to kill will read.
I see posts on here regularly from people who don’t understand how this stuff works, don’t understand that they (and others) can not legally make a financial profit from fan fiction. And there are tons of people who will not take the time to dig into the details.
Don’t deal with these bastards. Fuck Webnovel.
they will never attack my big and large towers
george w bush and sauron have both said this
Glowy eyes ideas
- Magic user who eyes glow when they’re concentrating hard on something. Doesn’t even have to be while they’re using magic. Just concentrating.
- Emotional glowy eyes. Like when they get overly emotional (crying, angry, etc.) their eyes start glowing
- Their tears also glow when they cry
- Glowing = PAIN. By that I mean it HURTS when their eyes glow. It burns and aches.
- Constant headaches/migraines
- Flashing when startled
- Growing in intensity as their powers crescendo
The Wind Rises (2013) – dir. Hayao Miyazaki
Favorite ship dynamic
King’s harshest and most famous criticism of Malcolm X, in which he accused his fellow civil rights leader of “fiery, demagogic oratory,” appears to have been fabricated.
“I think its historic reverberations are huge,” Eig told The Washington Post. “We’ve been teaching people for decades, for generations, that King had this harsh criticism of Malcolm X, and it’s just not true.”
The quote came from a January 1965 Playboy interview with author Alex Haley, a then-43-year-old Black journalist, and was the longest published interview King ever did. Because of the severity of King’s criticism, it has been repeated countless times, cast as a dividing line between King and Malcolm X. The new revelation “shows that King was much more open-minded about Malcolm than we’ve tended to portray him,” Eig said.
[…]
Some of the phrases added to King’s answer appear to be taken significantly out of context, while others appear to be fabricated.
It is a standard practice in journalism when publishing Q&A-style interviews to make minor changes, such as removing excessive “ums” or truncating long answers where the subject repeats their point over and over again or wanders from the topic at hand. But journalists typically take great pains to ensure any changes do not alter the intended meaning of an interviewee’s response. In addition, outlets commonly will include an editor’s note informing the reader of such changes.
What Haley appears to have done amounts to “journalistic malpractice,” Eig said.
Source: archive.ph
Saw a cool poster on a walk recently
Anonymous asked:
Im going to a new school soon and im pretty strong so im thinking about being a bully, any beginners tips?
this is such a funny ask im not even going to touch it
this is immensely funny to me
DOCTOR WHO GIF MEME
10 episodes 10 dynamics 10 outfits 7 companions 7 quotes 7 funny scenes 3 doctors 3 side characters 3 running gags 1 season 1 era 1 free choice
like terf accusations don’t bother me cause i know what i believe and i know trans women are my sisters in arms and i’ll defend and love them forever and ever but it just makes me realize how bleak the state of feminism is that it’s so common to dismiss anything about feminism as being part of a hateful message. we’re backsliding really badly and it makes me really fucking scared to know a lot of you won’t have women’s backs against the rise of misogyny in the form of andrew tate and alpha male rhetoric. we can’t even discuss feminism on tumblr, the sjw homeland, without getting backlash. that is so bleak dude