unsuspectingfish:

BRYAN FULLER: MENACE TO SOCIETY.

ohai-ohia:

wwruska:

REAL Lesbians React to Lesbian Porn!

I’m laughing so hard oh my god

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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ssjdebusk:

tonymyturtle:

modernizing:

good night

oh my god

The overlord has spoken. And it was good.

Hey guys? Look at the username. Tumblr’s founder is David K-A-R-P not K-R-A-P. 

Visit that account and you’ll see it’s an RP account. 

THINK BEFORE YOU REBLOG.

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sdzoo:

Happy Haui-san! by Penny Hyde

When our animals are happy, we’re happy.

KITTY

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John Fugelsang

over 3k notes fuck yeah

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fyeahcopyright:

A lot of people have a lot of opinions about the place of fanfiction and copyright in the wake of Amazon’s announcement that they will publish and sell fanfiction for specific franchises. One author/fanauthor I follow sifted through the whole mess and had some questions lingering before she would hypothetically allow her original worlds to be available in this Amazon project: 

Will I lose my copyright in the world/characters I’ve created if I allow others to use them or if I look the other way if someone else uses them in something that’s commercial? ? Further, what copyright do the fanfic writers retain on their work using my world/characters? How would that pan out?

One very common copyright myth that goes around is that your copyright will expire if you don’t vigorously protect it. Author Orson Scott Card has famously said ”if I do NOT act vigorously to protect my copyright, I will lose that copyright.” 

Not only is this wrong, but it displays a fundamental misunderstanding of what copyright is, and how copyright functions under the Intellectual Property umbrella. Patents are about unique, non-obvious inventions. Trademarks are about branding. Copyright is about authorship. 

Let’s take a look at all the music downloading cases— we all know the stories: you download one song off The Pirate Bay, your IP gets flagged, and the next thing you know you’re getting served with papers suing you for $150,000 per song you ever downloaded. 

But let’s break down how these suits work: torrents are peer to peer networks, which means there’s an entire group of people downloading and uploading the same song/tv episode/movie simultaneously out of a decentralized web. Hypothetical You, who is now a defendant, is the only one of the swarm being sued. The record label is going after only one person. 

However, the record label’s choice to bring one suit at a time doesn’t damage their ability to later go after anyone else in the swarm. If in two years they decide to pull your neighbor’s IP address out of the hat, they still have a valid case against your neighbor. 

Not only that, but ignoring a thousand other people downloading the file doesn’t mean they’ve given up the copyright. Even if they never sued anyone for infringement for the download, they’d still own the copyright, and can still go after anyone who downloaded it. 

The same holds true for fanfiction: our use of these worlds in no way diminishes or devalues the copyright the author holds in the original work. 

Trademarks and copyrights aren’t the same thing. Copyright exists automatically in anything you create, but trademarks only exist for something you’re marketing, selling, promoting or using as a brand. And if you don’t protect your trademark against infringers, you run the risk of losing it, because if the awesome phrase you’re using as your trademark becomes associated with things not created by you & yours, then it no longer identifies only your stuff/goods/services/brand. 

(This doesn’t mean you can - or should - go after anyone who uses the same phrase or design in any context, because other people who use your trademark in limited ways, such as to describe your thing or compare their stuff to yours, or in a narrative context, or in a transformative work, can do so. You don’t have to try to stop them, and the lack of trying won’t impact your trademark rights.)

fishingboatproceeds:

TRIGGER WARNING: Rape, misogyny, general horribleness

I am asked all the time why I think Professional Internet Types tend to be male more often than female. Is it because women aren’t as aggressive about building an audience and so struggle amid the media saturation? Is it because women aren’t as funny, or aren’t as talented, or blah blah blah?

Maybe we need to consider that one of the central reasons women artists/vloggers/musicians/etc. are less likely to rise to prominence online is that whenever women build an audience online, men threaten those women with rape and murder. And unlike traditional celebrities, most of these women do not have the resources to hire the kind of lawyers and bodyguards that one needs to stay safe. 

Like all misogyny, and I want to emphasize this, this is bad not just for women but also for all human beings. We are better off as a species if everyone has a chance to be heard, and we are worse off if talented people like Kitty Pryde don’t have the basic safety and security that one needs in order to effectively make and share stuff.

But it’s not just these kinds of horrifying threats (which as pointed out above is “the most normal thing”).

I also want to say something to all those guys who are like I was as a teenager: You’re not a sick person trying to get someone’s attention by harming or threatening them, but you do have a weird relationship with the women who make work you like. You think that if this person knew you, you could be friends…maybe more than friends. And so you want to get her attention, so you can get to know each other, because then you’ll definitely become friends or maybe—

Stop.

When you start falling down that rabbit hole, stop. I know it’s hard. But stop.

What we love—even if these people make highly personal and confessional vlogs or whatever—is the stuff they make, not the people themselves. And what we really want is for more of that stuff to exist in the world. So the only proper way to be a fan is to let them be, so that they can bring more good and useful stuff into the world for us to enjoy.

hellotailor:

cthonical:

a-sensitive-psychopath:

deathpoolquinn:

I’m CRYInG

Nothing has ever explained our fandom SO well

That’s it that’s the fandom shjfdhsdjfkhskfgffffff

hannibal fandom. HANNIBAL FANDOM……….

THIS FUCKING FANDOM.

sirdef:

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

Has anyone shown this to Gyzym yet?

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