my favorite thing about this post is all the people who chose to use the default icon defending themselves in the notes like no stop it just put a picture up
Loving this energy
*wipes tear* they learn tumblr culture so fast . . . the spite . . . the malicious compliance of it all . . . I'm so proud
I spent so much of my life romanticizing the Great and Powerful Enormity of the Sea, reading about the salt and the sweat of the sailors straining to haul the sails or anchor while dreading the monsters in the cold, icy deep fathoms below…and now you tell me that a fathom is only 6 feet deep -
Six feet is still more than enough for a grave.
Hi, that is the most metal addition you could have possibly made to this post
Do not cite the deep magics to me, witch. I was there when it was written.
You don’t own fanfics. They’re inherently public domain because they aren’t your IP. Agree or disagree with AI, there are no grounds for “protection” from AI because it isn’t your IP to begin with. That’s what you chose when you chose this medium
Oh dear.
Okay, you get an answer, because at least you took the effort to write your ask out properly, even if you are hiding behind the grey, sunglassed circle.
Do I, or any fanfic author for that matter, have any legal claims to our work? No, not really, no. (Although if someone took a fic, filed off the serial number--deleted the fandom specific elements--, and then had it published for financial gain, yeah, that would be a case.)
BUT
Disrepectfully,
Orlissa
(i can't believe I have to say this)
Also this is not true. You do in fact have the copyright to the specific writing you did in a fic, because that's not how copyright law works. Like this is not a grey area.
People who write IP content for corporations give up their copyright on a contractual basis--the company wants writing they can sell about characters/settings they own without getting entangled in royalty obligations etc, so they hire people. Who sign contracts saying they don't own what they write as part of that job.
That's why you don't own Star Wars stuff you wrote for Disney; you specifically agreed not to own it.
Writing for IP you don't own leaves you in a position where you can't legally monetize it (without taking out the Owned parts ad rebranding), but it absolutely does not automatically cede or void copyright. That is super not a thing.
SUPER not a thing, I cannot say this enough.
Do not perform that kind of massive corporate overreach for them. Holy shit. Do they not own enough.
It’s fascinating that this misconception of copyright still exists. Haven’t we all seen the posts on here where authors beg fans to please not send them fanfic of their works? They’re not doing that because they feel like it, they do that because fans legally own their words and ideas, and an author who takes them even unintentionally can in fact end up in real legal trouble for taking something that’s not theirs. It doesn’t matter whether they own the canon.
This.
Copyright is the most basic of protections for all writers. If there’s anything professional/career writers want spread around, it’s the knowledge that all writers have the same protections that copyright confers on us.
Astonishing indeed that anon would attempt to upbraid somebody on copyright issues when, themselves, they understand them so poorly.
The absolute contempt some types of people have for fanfic and fanfic writers is embarrassing.
its the same for other arts as well. If I draw a picture of Big Ben I own the rights to that picture. Not Ben's og designer. If I sculpt a miniature of the Eiffel tower the french can't break into my house and demand monetary compensation for that. If I etch nude Drarry into a 45ft stretch of glass and write LGBT+ rights over it with a flag our dear friend Jk can't do shit about it.
Your Etsy shop selling unauthorized merch is not covered by copyright. Unless its parody or greatly changed the source material. This can become a bit of a gray area though. (Mattel vs Aqua is a great example. Love this case. One of my faves)
Copyright law is fascinating and the history of how the mouse changed it (for -arguably- the worse) is crazy. And one of my main beefs with Disney as a corporation.
You own the rights to what you make. The og Creator owns the rights to the source material and liscensing. You 'can't' make money off of others ideas, just as they 'cant' make money off of yours.
DONT FEED WORK INTO AI. ITS THEFT. ITS SHITTY. AND IF YOU DO I HOPE YOU GET INOPPRITUNE STAINS ON YOUR CLOTHES AND ALWAYS HAVE TO GO TO THE BATHROOM AT A MOVIES CLIMAX.
WOW. Lmao
All of that bullshit for this one gif are you kidding me
if they rebooted austin powers it would either be the most tone deaf unfunny incredibly offensive movie in years OR they'd do it right and really keep with the times in being very self aware and it would be one of the best films in decades. austin powers would be a massive support of trans rights because trans women means more women for him to shag
oh your pronouns are she/they? well baby lemme she/them titties shagadelic
austin powers discovers bisexuality and it blows his fucking mind
WAIT, I CAN SHAG MEN TOO? OH BEHAVE!
Like I legitimately like the idea of an Austin Powers who has never been homophobic or bigoted, and was only straight because he only has one braincell and the idea of shagging men had never occurred to him
Listen. Listen. No one is ever going to be a better Bob Cratchit than Kermit the Frog.
no one is ever going to be a better Scrooge than Michael Caine, who treats the Muppets with all the respect they deserve as renowned veteran actors
According to a blip in the IMDB trivia section, Michael Caine told Brian Henson that he was going to play this as if he were in the Royal Shakespeare company. He was going to be the ultimate “straight” man in the world of puppets, running gags and humor.
“Before production began, Sir Michael Caine told Brian Henson, “I’m going to play this movie like I’m working with the Royal Shakespeare Company. I will never wink, I will never do anything Muppety. I am going to play Scrooge as if it is an utterly dramatic role, and there are no puppets around me.” Henson replied “Yes, bang on!“” IMDb.com Trivia section
tis the season for this post to make the rounds again i guess
And don’t forget that Muppet Christmas Carol had the most historically accurate costumes for all the years depicted than any other Christmas Carol
yea one of the only things that wasn’t accurate was having two marleys, but it was worth it to have both gay old men
HADES 2 HADES 2 HADES 2 HADES 2 HADES 2 HADES 2
NEMESIS
if they haven't said, I am guessing this is who the protag is:
I never fucking get tired of this post.
Merry Christmas.
people say the animorphs covers are *creepy* but the actual in book transformations are all like ‘then her face cracked in two, her organs melted, her bones all snapped and reformed backwards, and her fingers and toes fused together. she couldnt cry because her tear ducts didnt fucking exist anymore. everyone looked at the ground so they wouldnt throw up looking at this’
new art challenge: Re-draw Animorphs covers based of the books description.
New art challenge: dONT
Ok, but if you’re an independent contractor in the US and this happens? Find a lawyer, because you might have just gotten a huge payday.
Your position was just referred to as employment. Independent contractors do not have employers; they do not have employment. Congrats, your contact at this company just provided evidence that you were illegally missclassified.
This contact is claiming that you have set hours you’re obligated to fulfill. Unless a work task can only be done at a set time for practical reasons (i.e. you’re an audio freelancer paid to support a live event that occurs at a particular time and requires a certain amount of pre-show setup), a company cannot set an independent contractor’s work hours. This is further evidence that you were missclassified.
The whole exchange establishes that the company is interpreting an employer-employee relationship rather than expecting a service. Discipline and potential for firing (you cannot fire an independent contractor; no longer purchasing their service is not equivalent) establish that this person views themselves as a manager. Independent contractors cannot have managers.
This one text exchange could:
If the company is going to screw you over like that, may as well make them pay for it.
Since this is getting a lot of reblogs, here’s a federal source that can help you determine if you’re illegally classified as a contractor:
You can also file a form with the IRS to force the company to correct your classification (assuming you meet the criteria), without necessarily having to sue:
Keep in mind that this is just federal. Most states also prohibit missclassification as an independent contractor; and even if states have more lenient rules, companies still have to comply with this federal law. The rules have largely been bipartisan and existed for decades, so they’re common.
States also have an interest in having regulations about missclassification: it’s a significant loss of tax revenue. Your self employment tax does not fully equal what a company would have paid for you in payroll taxes.
A lawyer can help point you in the right direction if a company is currently missclassifying you.
I don’t use this but might be for someone out there who does, check it out?
Here’s a pretty comprehensive write-up:
reblog to save a life
Into reports of the sudden and wonderful blossoming of the #CisWithTheT twitter hashtag in Britain.
Some say it was a toxic BBC article spreading TERF lies that created the uproar, while others point to the Dave Chappelle tragedy.
Regardless, suddenly a lot of cis people had had enough of the transphobia and came out in strong support of trans people.
Here are a few of the tweets:
@SMichaelsonn: Cis lesbian here; I am not threatened by trans women using female spaces (where they belong) or using the term ‘lesbian’. What I /am/ threatened by is people constantly weaponising me against my trans sisters and policing gender non-conformity.
@SpillerOfTea #CisWithTheT currently trending at Number 4 in the United Kingdom. Because, as nearly every poll shows (except the ones conducted amongst 80 hand-picked transphobes), the majority of cis women support trans inclusivity, but are silenced by a minority of hateful bigots.
@KateHeywood8 I’m a CIS woman and am furious on an almost daily basis by the increasingly absurd actions of the toilet obsessives. Trans women are most definitely welcome to use the same spaces as me. Love to our trans sisters #CisWithTheT
@hotmessica__ I’m a cishet woman and I’m genuinely terrified of the GCs [gender critical feminists] who try to reduce my womanhood to just my genitals and organs. I’ve been questioned in a toilet once because I’m tall, broad shouldered and dress tomboyish. GC ideology is a threat to all people #CisWithTheT
@rhipratchett: Hate can not be allowed to win. Be better humans. Choose kindness, understanding and inclusion. I stand with the trans community today and always. #CisWithTheT
@AffleckEmma: I am a cis lesbian and I am so sick of seeing people who normally don’t give a damn about lesbian rights (and who are outright homophobes) tweeting #IStandWithLesbians because they want to claim all trans people are predators. Your bigotry is not progressive. #CisWithTheT
@23rdspiral: I’m a 40yr old cis woman. Until last year I had an amazing elderly relative who transitioned when I was a teen. It never occurred to me she was anything other than herself. I miss her. Trans women are women. GCs don’t speak for me their ‘feminism’ is not feminism. #CisWithTheT
It seems good cis people have had enough of the constant barrage of transphobic falsehoods produced by trans-exclusionary radical feminists and right wing extremists. Good people see and feel the suffering this propaganda is causing among trans people. Many of them also understand that this is a repeat of the homophobic rhetoric of yesterday.
Keep up the good work, cis allies. This is helping!
holy CRAP.
Artists, creators, students, and researchers of all types, take note:
Digitized photos and text. 2D and 3D object renders. Music and other sound files. Videos. Research datasets. Collections metadata.
On a Creative Commons Zero license: Take what you want. Use it. No permission or attribution required. Yes, even for commercial use.
There is a lot wrong with the world at the moment, but the Smithsonian… the Smithsonian is right.
The archive includes fashion images!
its that time of year where people on tumblr are shouting “if you donate to AO3 and not my personal gofundme you are EVIL”
ok but what are they doing with $270K??
well as it happens, the otw is a nonprofit so they actually make their annual budgeting and expense reports public (spoiler: most of it goes toward servers and paying contractors)
“what are they doing with $270k” is probably the dumbest question you could ask. even without looking at their budget, ao3 is a huge nonprofit website that millions of people access in a single day. probably at the same time as well. there’s tons of data and variables and complex coding involved, what the fuck do you think they’re doing with the money oh my god
hookers and blow, obviously
reblog to increase the hookers and blow budget for the AO3 moderators
still don’t really understand how some people have trouble just being nice
Oh my gosh you’re such a good person. Hey everybody come look at how much of a good person this is.
i literally cannot comprehend how you got offended by this but thanks for proving my point anyway
I don’t mean to distract from OP’s post but my dash won’t let me see what the second image is, it’s just showing me this:
And I am losing my goddam mind.
You know what this reminds me of, only in reverse? …
wait. shit. oh god. I can’t unsee it…
Can someone put this one in on the reverse? with the ‘no fear –> Be Kind to each other –> one fear’?
The original comic was about Simpsons porn?
This is possibly the most tumblr-y tumblr post I’ve ever seen.
Hercules is the most visually creative of the Disney Reneissance films. If not any Disney film ever.
The three Fates sharing an eye.
Hades’ flaming hair.
The various designs of the mythological monsters and titans.
The diverse faces and body types of all the minor characters.
It’s a very visually engaging movie.
How could I forget the Underworld
And the opening sequence
Y’all need to get off Walter Disney’s cock
Jeez, I just said the movie looks nice. No need to get antsy.
Also like, pretty sure WD didn’t make that movie. It was the effort of various animators who sometimes get overlooked because we don’t see them WORKING on it for so many days, just the two hour long result.
Pretty sure that Walt Disney didn’t work on Hercules since it came out decades after he died.
Fun fact! The reason Hercules has such a unique style is because Musker and Clements brought illustrater Gerald Scarfe (famous for his work on Pink Floyd’s The Wall) to be the conceptual character artist. His original character designs are wild
Hey kids, did you know that you can be critical of a company and acknowledge how shitty it is in its business practices, and appreciate that it produces a lot of good art, much of which is created by artists and animators who have nothing whatsoever to do with the aforementioned shitty business practices?
Fucking wild that you can do that.
I’m glad this thread went exactly where I wanted it to
I know a ton of people have said this before but for the love everything PLEASE stop treating AO3 like instagram. It is NOT cringe to comment on an old story. It’s an archive old stories are still meant to be found and read. Please think about interacting with the fic you read: at least kudos if you read it, a comment would be ideal. The authors will be over the moon. I guarantee you not a single author is going to ask why someone is commenting on an older fic.
I LIVE for my morning "You've got kudos" email. I have to fan myself if there's a comment.
Hey. Minors following me. Internet safety is key!! NEVER include these in your bio/byf:
In general: stay safe. If you're not comfortable with every stranger out there having access to this information, you shouldn't post it on the internet.
Play devil's advocate and ask yourself about what would happen if someone searched for your information with intent to hurt you. You do NOT owe anyone an explanation!
adding on to this post, i agree w all of OPs points, but i also highly advise against super young teens posting their face on the internet, its so easy to take peoples selfies + name and find stuff out like your school and then figure out the rough area in which you live. same with your phone number. be super careful about what you put out there. once you post it, it really is here forever.
OP already said this so I’m just reiterating to emphasize:
If the answer is that it would make it easier to harass you, identify you, contact you, or god forbid find you, don’t put it online. You can’t fully control who does and does not see that information--not even with privacy settings.
I will never not reblog these things.
I’ve been on the Internet longer than any minor has been alive. I rode the ragged edge with the information I disclosed and somehow escaped unharmed. In today’s world, I may well not have.
If you have kids, don’t lose them. Stay involved in their world. They want you to, even if they act like they don’t. Your teenagers don’t need the legwork they once did, but they need a lot of mind-and-heart work. Hold onto them. My parents held onto me even when I fought them, and I think it’s one of the reasons I didn’t get in some of the trouble other kids did/do.
Tangential: I would like to see a movement away from putting diagnoses/triggers/traumas in bios. I think of my bio as what I’d lead with introducing myself. I wouldn’t say “I have XYZ diagnoses, ABC traumas, and these triggers.” Of course these things might come up in a conversation and that’s fine! But it’s not the first thing I’d tell a new person. I think my medical history and bad experiences are some of the least interesting things about me, really.
If you can’t find a place on your blog for Patrick Stewart in a bathtub dressed like a lobster, then your blog probably doesn’t deserve such majesty anyway.
It has returned to my dash and I cannot fight the compulsion to reblog…
the patrick lobster appears only once in a thousand years, reblog for good luck
