Garbage grifters have garbage values. The point is to represent no virtues, no values. #GOP

Another assignment

https://gomag.com/article/biker-butches-save-drag-queen-story-hour

PARKHILL,CANADA REPORTBACK

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pretty weird of gomag dot com to use a more "presentable" photo instead of the real photo of 'Wind Sisters' bikers that was literally linked in the original CTV news article that's linked in the text

We're gonna need a lot more of them across Canada.

In one month in British Columbia alone, there were 50+ anti-LGBTQ+ protests.

That's more than one anti-LGBTQ+ protest per day. In what is arguably one of the less bigoted provinces of this country.

Me: I should write something

me : … or I could spent 78 hours straight making a miniature library with a working LED chandelier

@themiraculousec

Pics!

The lights are working now!

everyone look at my friend's tiny library she's so talented

I think this picture of my gf helping fix my car should be in the MoMa

Lmao

Diversity win: your arch nemesis accepts your atypical gender identity but shall never accept the evil in your heart

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.

Dear sweet gods above and below and sideways. Where is my Nopetopus?!

Never ever EVER give anybody worldwide rights to anything of yours. EVER. Gaaaaaaahhhh.

(There are also about ten other things wrong with that contract that are BAD EVIL HORRIBLE NOISOME AND VILE. But if I get started enumerating them right now, before I do something about my blood sugar, it'll turn me into a pissed-off person for the rest of the day. Sweet THOTH on his e-bike but these people are fucking shameless.)

(starts rummaging around on the desk for the text of the Excommunication Curse against the Reivers to pronounce it against these schmucks)

..GAAAAAH. :/

Reblog to bonk your mutuals on the head every time they start thinking negatively about themselves

specifically this kind of bonk.

shoutout to everyone dealing with. thhe fucking difficulty

the fact that all of my mutuals immediately reblogged this from me really says something about all of us, doesn't it

today im thinking about the huge buff bread guy from kikis delivery service. highly underrated guy

Genuinely just a good man. Wife adopts teenage witch that needs a place to stay in the city? Sure. Even though you got a kid on the way? That’s fine. Cat too? Love cats. 

My favorite moment with him is when he goes to get some prepped baking sheets and he does this fancy twirl with them in front of Jiji. Like, there’s no other people in the room, he does this to impress a cat.

I don’t think he ever says more than a whole word the entire movie, and I still love him more than most Disney princes based on this one moment alone.

And the part where he wanted to surprise Kiki by making that beautiful elaborate sign OUT OF BREAD to advertise her business and he was all anxious for her to get home and see it

But then when he sees her coming he gets all bashful and runs away 😭

the most underrated thing about the ghibli movies is how deeply they are love stories to working people, to the small folk, to moments of love and kindness. its not just about magic, many movies are about magic and fairytales. Its not only about the people in the stories, but about stories in the people. And they are just loveable.

Pay heed to Klaudia Amenábar's words! Don't let the executives weaponize fandoms. WGA Strong.

My guys it is starting to work, I've seen some people I know complaining about the writer's strike and turning against them because their favorite shows and/or movie got put on hold. Please do not be fooled like this, this is exactly what the corporations want. It can wait, I promise you will find other things to focus, but writers need this.

I know why "prefered pronouns" and "prefered name" were retired from the vocabulary (it's way more than a matter of preference) but in retrospect it feels like a successful psyop to make transphobes sound absolutely incoherent.

Griping about people having "prefered pronouns": legible, clearly indicates what they have a problem with (trans people existing and being respected), makes you a huge unreasonable asshole but one whose grievances can at least be parsed for some kind of meaning.

Griping about people just having "pronouns": Incoherent, you are angry at a part of speech. Old man yells at cloud moment. Your hatred is so blinding that you can't hide that you have no idea what you're talking about and you look like a child throwing a tantrum except a child has probably been in an english class recently enough to know what a pronoun is.

Anyway we should do this with more stuff. Let's just call transitioning puberty exclusively until we get right wing grifters saying that puberty is unnatural and if you've gone through it you're a freak on their shitty little youtube channels.

FOX and NY Post made up a story about veterans. They paid people to act in a crisis. They went after immigrants. They slandered the President. It was all a hoax.

Then FOX/NY Post never apologized.

Queer, gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual Muslims exist too. They battle homophobia, transphobia AND Islamophobia everyday. Please don’t erase them. (Photos not mine)

Queer, gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual Muslims exist too. They battle homophobia, transphobia AND Islamophobia everyday. Please don’t erase them. (Photos not mine)

oh good, we’re just wasting the hides now, that’s so much better than making things out of them

@the-seelie-court-official can you please post the image you made for when I tell people things that make them angry

#I KEEPS SAYING IT I DO I DO.#AIN’T NO USE IN BEING VEGAN AND THERE’S EVEN LESS GOOD IT DOES YOU#YOU’RE NOT EVEN HELPING. YOU AREN’T HELPING INDIGENOUS PEOPLE. YOU AREN’T HELPING THE ENVIRONMENT. YOU AREN’T HELPING YOUR COMMUNITY.#VEGANISM IS A BLACK HOLE THAT MORALITY AND GOOD INTENTION GETS DEVOURED BY.#THERE WILL NEVER BE A VEGAN ALTERNATIVE THAT SAVES THE PLANET BECAUSE THE THING WHICH SAVES THE PLANET IS A GRIP ON REALITY.#WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN NO ONE EATS MEAT. WHERE WILL ALL THE ANIMALS GO. WHERE DO YOU PUT THE PIGS AND COWS AND CHICKENS?#WHAT HAPPENS TO THEM ONCE NO ONE EATS THEM BECAUSE IT’S KINDER? WHERE DO THEY GO? WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE POOR INNOCENT ANIMALS?#WHO WE DOMESTICATED TO BE DEPENDENT ON US TO KEEP AND KILL THEM?#WILL YOU SET THE COWS LOOSE IN THE PRAIRIES? ARE THE CHICKENS GOING TO REWILD YOSEMITE? SHALL WE ALL KEEP PIGS AS PETS OR FREE THE BOARS?#THE ROAD TO HELL IS PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS AND THE ROAD TO ECOLOGICAL DISASTER IS PAVED WITH ANIMAL-FREE FAD DIETS.#YOUR PHILOSOPHY DOES NOT EXIST IN A VACUUM OR IN THE GROCERY AISLES#IT EXISTS IN THE REAL WORLD FOR YOU TO HOLD YOURSELF ACCOUNTABLE TO IT. IF YOU ARE VEGAN TO PREVENT ANIMAL CRUELTY#THEN YOU MUST FIGHT FOR BETTER CONDITIONS NOT COMPLETE ERADICATION OF AGRICULTURAL FARMS#IF YOU ARE A VEGAN FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION THEN STOP BUYING QUINOA IMPORTED FROM CHINA AND PALM OIL PRODUCTS IMPORTED FROM BRAZIL#IF BEING A VEGAN WAS ABOUT EMPATHY OR ACTIVISM THEN YOU WOULD BUY EGGS FROM YOUR NEIGHBOR AND BEEF FROM THE FARMER’S MARKET#AND GROW FOOD IN THE GARDEN. BUT IT IS NOT ABOUT ACTIVISM IT IS ABOUT OPTICS.#IT IS ABOUT MORAL SUPERIORITY. IT IS ABOUT#YOU HAVE MADE EATING INTO AN EVANGELICAL FAITH WHICH PREDICATES ITSELF#ON A MYOPIA WHICH MATCHES THE SHORT TERM PROFIT SECTORS OF BP AND SHELL.#ALL EVIDENCE PROVES THAT ALL YOU DO AS A VEGAN IS CAUSE MORE DAMAGE THAN A SAUSAGE DOES.#STOP FUCKING IGNORING IT AND START DECIDING TO ACTUALLY FUCKING WORK WITH ECOLOGISTS AND CONSERVATIONISTS AND AGRICULTURALISTS#BECAUSE OTHERWISE WHEN YOU DIE THERE WILL BE NO CLEAN SOIL TO HOLD YOUR PATHETIC BONES#AND I WILL KILL THE MAGGOTS WHICH WOULD HONOR YOUR CORPSE WITH THEIR MOUTHS. 

Sorry @inneskeeper but these tags are so much, and I wanted to save them.