they came up with a stupid shape for panties then decided it’s the pussy who’s wrong and you should remove the hair sticking out………. the state of this world
Just had to explain to my virtual assistant what Ao3 was and why I needed her to create an account so she could send someone a message for me.
What is my life.
Also, please don’t tag authors in fanfic of their work, even as a gift.
I luckily didn’t see the whole email before I realized what’d happened and hit the back button, but even reading the summary could’ve forced me to throw out years worth of work if it’d been similar enough to anything I’d been planning to publish.
And nobody wants that.
I read this post several times before it clicked that there was a second human involved, and you weren’t, like, trying to talk a smart device through this.
“Alexa, you and Siri, Rule 34, enemies to lovers, slow burn.”
I’m sure that particular fanfic already exists, but for the sake of my sanity, I will not be searching for it.
I know this is old at this point but I just saw it in the notes, and the reason I had my assistant do it was because the only way I could contact the gift writer was by clicking on the fanfic link.
Y’know, the thing I cannot do for legal reasons in case I get accused of plagiarism somewhere down the line if the fan predicted anything similar enough to canon, thereby forcing me to scrap potentially years worth of work to avoid claims that I stole something from a fan.
And let’s be clear, if the author is doing their job and telegraphing their intentions well, fans should be able to make accurate predictions based on what the canon has given them.
We want you to speculate and catch onto the themes we’re developing (at least we do if we’re not Marvel) but we don’t want you showing them to us because that’s where legal problems start 😅
This.
Please, please, people, do not force writers to engage with their-universe fanfic in any way, or send writers idea for stuff based in their universes. You may think of these as a harmless gift, you may think it’s okay if you say you’re renouncing all rights to the idea(s), you may believe your thoughts are too general to be of any harm… but none of these stances have any force in law. To look at your stuff exposes us legally. To force us to look at your stuff in our ask boxes (or in Facebook DM’s or wherever…) means that if we’re having any thoughts along those lines, to ensure our own safety we have to throw those plotlines out and never, ever use them.
Just in the first three months of this year I’ve been faced with asks that (once I’d been exposed to them) meant I had no choice but to discard several promising possible plotlines in the Young Wizards universe in order to protect myself and my work. Sending writers your ideas about their universes is a foolproof way to make sure those ideas will NEVER HAPPEN IN PRINT (or any other venue we’re working in).
So, you know: just don’t.
(sigh) Thank you.
☝🏼
This. Do not send authors fanfic of their work. Do not gift them fanfic of their work. Do not tweet them fanfic of their work. Do not do this.
The state had to prove to a jury that feeding the homeless is a criminal act and in doing so, probably convinced a few members of the jury to sign up for food not bombs lol.
This is a great time to remind everyone on here about Jury Nullification
Def yell this out
I am about to head to Houston’s FNBH because goddamn.
Sorry babes but as someone who lived lug around 500 cds they can die. To me lps are at least pretty and pretentious like a fine wine. Cds have no point
the point is cds are sexy as hell. sorry you dont know what sex is.
The real point is that you OWN a CD. You do NOT own anything digital you purchase.
Google Play stole hundreds of dollars worth of music I paid them for from me by forcing me to upload it to YouTube Music (or lose it entirely) which is behind a subscription paywall, requiring me now to pay more money every month if I want to listen to MY music I PAID for without constant advertising.
You do not own anything digitally purchased. It can be taken back from you at any time and it is fully legal for big corporations to do so for some reason.
CDs can’t be taken from you unless they come into your house or car in person to physically pry them out of your cold dead hands.
That’s why the resurgence. As funny as that person’s reply to you was, it’s not in fact because they look sexy. It’s because you actually own them.
Look- CDs are your friend. CD-ROMs and CD drives with the capacity to burn? Are your friends with benefits.
Can anyone teach me how to burn Digital only songs into CDs?
i can ask my dad!! i think you need a certain piece of hardware, but i dont think its difficult!
One of the most life-changing things I ever learned came from Mythbusters, where they tested and proved (with cognitive testing puzzles and reaction time tests) that lying down and resting with the intention to sleep STILL provided significant mental benefits over just staying awake, even if a person couldn’t fall asleep in the amount of time they had.
It helps me to actually sleep to know that just lying down with my eyes closed is still doing me some good, and helps me to not freak out/beat myself up when I stay up later than intended. Any amount of rest is better than no rest!
So if you didn’t know that…now you do
do you know that i think of this post every time i can’t sleep op. what mythbusters did for you, you have done for a great many others.
I think the most unintentionally pretentious part of me is I genuinely forget that most people do not have a near-encyclopedic knowledge of mythology and folklore. I literally just assume most people know at least the name of every Greek god. My mom and I were watching the Banshees of Inisherin and at the start, she asked “Do you know what a banshee is?” and I was so stunned because it would never occur to me to ask that question because I would never assume the average person doesn’t know what a banshee is. The average person knows what a banshee is right. You know what a banshee is right. You know the names of the greek gods right. You know that norse myth where loki fucked the horse right. Right. RIGHT
Japanese child actress Mana Ashida (little Mako) was embarrassed that she couldn’t pronounce Guillermo Del Toro’s name so he gave her special permission to call him “Totoro-san” instead.
My Neighbor Guillermo Del Toro.
If I don’t reblog this, assume I’m dead.
Guillermo del Totoro
May I suggest doing an image search for Guillermo Del Totoro
