"they should bring back the inquisitor as the protagonist it gives them a personal stake in solas as a villain" there is nothing funnier than the new pc knowing absolutely nothing about solas and every single other person around them having deeply personal beef with him. literally nothing
everyone, regardless of how much tng they’ve watched:
Ugh, I love him so much your Honor
Not every story is about seeing yourself in it. Sometimes it’s about learning to see other people too.
Every part of this joke is older than most of the people on this website.
Pro-Capitalist’s defense of capitalism is just explaining how it works, and then when you say “yes I know, I just think it shouldn’t be like that” they explain it to you again but angrier this time
They say “It’s fair because the people who own capital earn all the rewards” and then you say “I dont think owning capital entitles you to all the profits” and then their brain short circuits
“He invested capital”
“Yes and then a thousand other people did work while he sat around and profited.”
“But… he invested capital….”
they literally CAN NOT FATHOM that I know how capitalism works and just oppose it on moral grounds
Welcome back to its really hot and I’m going to murder someone
wrapping jiaozi🥟 chinese dumplings
This is the first user-generated ad I've seen since the new rollout, and frankly, this is the kind of content I was hoping to see. Thanks, @ophanims.
Did anyone else have a flashback to the old mIRC chatrooms?
*slaps you around a bit with a large trout*
EVAN BUCKLEY 9-1-1 | 04x06 - Jinxed
Eddie looks so tiny compared to Buck 🥹
sneak peek • Buck and Taylor fight about her reporting on Jonah
I hate the way she talks to him :( Like, apart from ANY other shipping I do, I hate that she so often talks to him like he's an idiot who needs things explained slowly. Like...Buck has his himbo moments (and they are delightful), but he's not a moron.
*cackling*
If OTW weren’t around, this wouldn’t be “scaremongering”: It would be the inescapable status quo.
The people who believe this crap are the anti-vaxxers of fandom.
Oh god. They kind of are, aren’t they?
I’d go bigger and just say that they’re the conservatives/reactionaries of fandom–or, to frame it differently, this is how conservative and authoritarian ideologies express themselves in the context of Fandom.
my opinion on AO3 is that it’s an important asset but i still find it scummy that they’ll ask for money but when their users try to ask for money they slam them with their non-monetization rules. Like Anne Rice is dead and this isn’t the 90s anymore, people are making money from fandom please catch up with the times.
I think you’ve misunderstood:
AO3 was built by a bunch of us with our free donated labor for the purpose of being a space free from commercial spam.
It’s not a public service. It was built by us to house the type of fandom culture we liked.
People who want to do fandom differently, including making money, are welcome to go build their own site with their own money or their own donated labor.
AO3 does not forbid commercial links because they think fans making money from fanworks is immoral but them making money (to run the damn site) is fine.
AO3 forbids commercial links because they are making a very specific claim about the legality of fanworks, and that claim is about noncommercial fanworks.
They’re not saying that commercialized fanworks are against the law. They’re just not prepared to host them–nor defend them in court.
In case people missed it: The OTW will not honor DMCA takedown orders that are basically, “I own X work and that’s a fanfic of it, and that’s copyright infringement so make it go away.”
The OTW says, lolnope, we don’t think that’s copyright infringement. If you disagree, sue us.
The OTW says: Disney - we will not remove explicit Mandalorian fanfic. Rowling, Warner Bros - we will not remove trans Harry Potter fanfic. Gabaldon - we are not removing Outlander fanfic no matter how much you think it’s illegal or a personal violation. Yarbro, if someone puts “The Adventure of the Gentleman in Black” on AO3, you will need to actually take it to trial to (try to) get it removed; none of this C&D order followed by fans caving because they can’t afford a lawyer.
…So far, nobody has sued them. (This is, in my mind, the strongest proof we have that fanfic is not copyright infringement. In 13 years, not a single person or company has scrounged up a lawyer and filed a lawsuit against AO3/the OTW for hosting fanworks.)
But they’re not willing to put themselves on the line for commercial works. Those get considered differently in copyright law. They’re not always infringing - there’s a whole history of parody books & songs to prove that - but the OTW is not dealing with them.
The OTW does not care if fans are making money. The OTW cares if fans making money interfere with its legal defense of its archive.
If you are not a copyright lawyer, your opinion about the situation is not going to be considered.
Also, it wasn’t just Anne Rice coming after fandom in the 90s as though this is some relic holdover terror from ancient history.
Events like Strikethrough and Boldthrough happened in the early to mid-2000s. It felt like you’d wake up every day in 2007 and find another fandom group on LJ gone. (And not just fandom groups either, important community groups for education and trauma survival were also wiped out in those purges as well.)
And while not exactly the same, Yahoo Groups–and yes Yahoo Groups was a major online fandom hub at one point–were deleted as late as 2019 with very little warning, leaving a lot of older fandom groups scrambling to back up decades worth of content.
I might be projecting, but Fanfic.net seems to be wobbling too. It wouldn’t surprise me to find out they go under in the next few years despite performing similar purges of adult content in 2012 and allowing for obnoxious ads, which made the site unusable on mobile unless you wanted to see an ad what felt like every couple of paragraphs. (It might be better now, I haven’t checked in a while.)
It has only been in very recent memory that fandom has gained any sort of foothold that isn’t poised directly over a precarious faultline that could at any moment open up and swallow entire communities whole, and a huge part of that is the volunteers at Ao3 who decided to play chicken with the likes of Anne Rice and won.
Ao3 at its core was and is built by fandom. Some people don’t like it and that’s fine, but to even suggest that the volunteers are lounging around eating peeled grapes and lighting cigars with hundred dollar bills making bank through fraud while fanfic authors are left out in the cold is beyond the scope of laughable.
New headcanon just dropped, Christopher being the first one to call Bobby grandpa, and Bobby breaking down because he never thought he’d get to be one. Then once Jee starts talking every time Bobby’s around her everyone makes sure to call him grandpa so she associates him with it too. Denny goes along with it too, and years down the line Bobby just keeps getting adopted as grandpa to all the new kids (like a possible second child of Buddie’s, any child Henren fosters, background characters kids, etc). Like listen, we all know Bobby is everyone’s dad in the 118, but that means he already has grandchildren and that makes my heart sing because this is a man who thought all hope was lost on him having his own family again, and now he gets to have it tenfold. I love one (1) middle aged white man!!!
Oh my GOD Bobby would be SO grandpa-shaped I am SHAKING. Years down the line, every time Christmas rolls around, Athena gets home and there's like, 50 presents around the Christmas tree, and she's like "Bobby, May and Harry are grown they don't need this many presents" and Bobby's all "no I already gave them theirs, these are for my fifteen grandchildren" and jsjdjdjd I just think it's what he deserves
Summer haters are like "idk why people statistically feel better and happier when the weather is warm and the sun is out I personally love feeling like I'm one lost sock away from hypothermia."
meanwhile summer lovers are like, "i love getting heatstroke every day, it's so much fun fainting and throwing up"
Listen, I am HAPPY for the people who derive some sort of pleasure out of the Hell Months. Really. I wish I could be one of you. But when going outside feels like being smacked in the face with a hot towel soaked in underboob sweat, it’s hard to feel anything but despair.
has this been done yet?
The synopsis specifically listing Eddie’s survivors guilt alongside his PTSD — and now I’m remembering way back before 5a started there were behind the scenes of army vehicles right??? but we weren’t sure if they were definitely 911 or not?
So maybe Eddie has a flashback/nightmare that is War-specific, that leads to him talking about it in therapy and realising his guilt surviving when members of his unit didn’t :((
And to round out the violence, Maddie fearing the worst for Jee being Maddie thinking it might be juvenile leukaemia because that’s what Daniel had 😭 (and it won’t be — it’ll be something mild and baby Jee will be perfectly fine ofc!!)
(You don’t need to yell at me @homerforsure and @littlespoonevan already did 😅 I’ll see myself out!!)
Ooooh...but counterpoint--Jee has childhood leukemia, but this time Buck is a match and it works in a nice little full-circle way.
i'll do it for sam
