i think it’s really weird how shippers have turned top/bottom into Gender Roles The Sequel and are stereotyping people’s sex positions based on their physical appearance, personality traits, or even mental health status. “which one of you is the woman??” has evolved into “which one is the sweet soft tiny anxious uwu bratty bottom???” which is arguably weirder and more invasive.
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
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
Fandoms are built on a social contract that says we respect each others work, the effort people put into their art. We don’t steal or disrespect the work of our peers. By feeding people’s fanworks to AI you both steal and disprect it, and we need to make people realize that before it’s too late–before fandom falls apart, because there will be no more real, actual fanworks.
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.
I can’t sell my Batman fic, but neither can DC Comics without my duly authorized consent. Because they own Batman, but not the prose I composed about him.
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.
Just fyi, y'all need to stay off A03 for the foreseeable future because that DDos hack? It’s bad and y'all could end up being the victim of ID theft. Like this is on level with Target one a few years ago just with a site that doesn’t necessarily have the juice to protect you now that it’s been done. That is straight from the mouth of my IT guy husband.
Just fyi, y'all need to stay off A03 for the foreseeable future because that DDos hack? It’s bad and y'all could end up being the victim of ID theft. Like this is on level with Target one a few years ago just with a site that doesn’t necessarily have the juice to protect you now that it’s been done. That is straight from the mouth of my IT guy husband.
Fire Lord Zuko passing a law that forbids challenging anyone under the age of majority to Agni Kai
Fire Lord Zuko waiting until the day he reaches the age of majority to pass this law, lest anyone think he is a coward
(No one. Literally no one would have thought that, but it’s generally regarded as a very classy move regardless)
Wait but also, until then, if anyone under the age of majority is challenged
Zuko fights it for them.
Which, especially in more rural towns (where Agni Kais are less of a public event and more of a fast and violent duel) is terrifying because you challenge your neighbor’s kid over a stolen chicken-fish and all of a sudden the Fire Lord is showing up???
But, those few who still challenge those who should be kids learn quickly to regret it.
Okay but this implies that Zuko knows whenever someone challenges a kid to an Agni Kai and is there before the battle takes place.
Firelord Zuko: *wakes up in a cold sweat near midnight*
Firelord Zuko: *running down the palace hallways while still struggling to put in his pants, being chased by his team of bodyguards* I’M GOING TO HING WA ISLAND TO KICK SOMEBODY’S ASS SEE YOU IN A WEEK BITCHES
Random spirit: Why’d you do that to him? Isn’t it kind of a stretch for a mortal to be blessed like that?
i rly wanna know like americans and non-americans- were u immunised against chicken pox or did ur parents rather u just get infected as a child??
I was born just a few years before the vaccine was even available, and I contracted chickenpox before the vaccine was part of routine vaccination (and mandatory in schools).
Which doesn’t sound so bad on its own, but at sixteen my immune system collapsed, and the previous mild case of chickenpox I had at nine suddenly gave me a violent and atypical case of shingles. My whole damn body was covered in pustules, even down my throat. Wherever there was skin, it was covered in pox. I nearly died. The doctors told my mother if she had waited just two more hours to get me to the hospital in Indy (my hometown hospital refused to even give me an E.R. bed ‘because it’s just chickenpox’, despite our pleas that I was immunocompromised), I would have died.
I was out of school for three months with a PICC line going straight to my heart pumping acyclovir into me even after I was discharged from the PICU. I never recovered academically and I ended up forced out of school the next year because they hated that I was wrecking attendance records with my frequent illnesses.
It’s only in the last five years that most of the pox scars have faded. I was sixteen then. I’m thirty now.
People/parents love to think that chickenpox is a normal and harmless part of childhood, almost a right of passage. Oh it’s just a week or so if mild itching, life will go on. No need to get my child vaccinated. Hell, let’s intentionally infect our young child by hosting chickenpox party! Better to have it at a young age, they say! But I wasn’t immunocompromised yet when I got chickenpox at 9. And at sixteen that same “harmless” virus latent within me nearly killed me. And even with the basic chickenpox, things can and have gone catastrophically wrong. Your perfectly healthy kid might come into contact with another kid on chemo. Suddenly that kid can die just like I almost did. Even your perfectly healthy kid can have a freak reaction and be killed by chickenpox.
The chickenpox vaccine has been around and available for over two decades now. Chickenpox and further complications like shingles are completely avoidable. Get your kid vaccinated
I was in the last group of kids before the vaccine was created (born 1985, caught the pox when I was 3).
“Normal and harmless part of childhood”?
Let me put my case into context.
Normally, the pustules stop appearing on the 14th day and start disappearing on the 16th and 17th day.
I had new ones on the 18th. I had pox marks over 2/3rds of my body. The doctors were considering transferring me to the burn unit for specialist support in damaged skin. I still have scars on my body, more than 30 years later.
Give your kids the vaccine.
My brother and I apparently had asymptomatic versions of chickenpox which led to symptomatic versions of shingles at 5 and 7. He got it first, and he had them everywhere. Since we already had the medicine used for it at the time, I had what anyone in the medical field would consider a mild version since I only had the lesions on one arm, and they didn’t really hurt. His case however was not mild though not bad enough to require the hospital luckily. It was painful for him, and he still has scars from it to this day. He’s thirty-four now. I am 36. Get your child the vaccine. They could get lucky, and have a mild case like I did, but is that really a risk you want to take for your child? Vaccines mean your child doesn’t have to suffer needlessly and will still have immunity. VACCINATE
We need everyone’s help right now to protect the rainforest and Indigenous People
The Amazon Rainforest is under a massive threat. I know you’ve heard this a million times, but this is different. There is a piece of legislation that will decimate the rights of Indigenous people of Brazil, who have been protecting the rainforest. It’s unfathomably bad. It has majority support. And they’re voting tomorrow. As reported here, the Bill allows “the Brazilian government to find energy resources, set up military bases, develop strategic roads, and implement commercial agriculture on protected Indigenous tribal lands, without any prior discussion with the affected peoples.”
The thing you can do—and I know this sounds overly simple—is sign this petition—and tell your friends to do the same: SIGN HERE.
As reported here, the Bill allows “the Brazilian government to find energy resources, set up military bases, develop strategic roads, and implement commercial agriculture on protected Indigenous tribal lands, without any prior discussion with the affected peoples.”
Again, this bill has majority support. You may be wondering, why will a petition signed by people who don’t live in Brazil make any difference? Because it will give those opposing it political air cover. It will show the world is with them.
But we need a LOT of signatures.
Please do this simple act and spread the word.
Anonymous asked:
I need to thank you for opening my eyes to something as well as showcase reading a point of view matters, even if one doesn't realize it. The Stiles as the main character stories has flooded ao3 so much that when I started my own W.I.P I didn't even question the elimination of Scott. And even when I added him I didn't question my dismissal of him as important. Becoming a member of the Scott defense squad I see now that that is a very bad way to go. Even if the focus gets sift to Stiles as a main character it does not take away the fact that the main character is the main character and has importance. And unfortunately a trinkle down effect of reading so many stories that tell a particular story It causes the readers to have a mindset of what a character is like even if they don't realize why that character was written that way in the original piece that portrayed him that way. And even worse when they don't take in the source material it paints a picture that doesn't showcase the character in the best light. Even though I saw the source material and loved it It did not stop me from going down this route because of everything that I had read. So again I thank you, and the rest of the defense squad for opening my eyes.
Let me make things perfectly clear: there is absolutely nothing wrong with writing a Stiles-centric story. There are no ships involving Stiles that should not be written or explored. My involvement with End Racism on the OTW isn’t because Stiles will never be my favorite character. It’s because there is a vast majority of people who claim to be Stiles fans, Derek fans, Sterek fans, Steter fans, or fans of any other ship which involves white characters who are not actually motivated by those characters but instead by racist fury because Teen Wolf never pretended to be anything other than a story about a Latino teenager.
It’s not about one story. It’s about all of them together.It’s about the fact that the OTW’s policies for AO3 aid and abet a large part of my fandom to indulge in racist fantasies without regard to the parts of the fandom damaged by it, and they do so by hiding behind a screen of polite indifference and pearl-clutching about freedom. And from everything I’ve read and seen, it’s not just my fandom.
Teen Wolf is simply the fandom in which I witnessed it. Look at that picture up there from Night School (1x07). It’s a pretty classic horror shot, no? Now think of the majority of stories on AO3 where
Peter’s murder sprees and selfishness are excused because of the fire.
Derek’s terrible decision making and massive trust issues are excused because of what Kate Argent did to him.
Stiles’s lies and outbursts are excused because of his mother’s death and the nogitsune.
Isaac’s brutality and indifference are excused because of his treatment by his father.
Yet, Scott is dismissed as ‘whiny’ and 'ungrateful’ because he didn’t immediately see being a werewolf as a positive thing. There was an untagged story yesterday which has Stiles wishing Scott would get his head out of ass and realize all that being a werewolf had done to him was cure his asthma, get a girlfriend and make first line.
What’s the difference between these five characters? This isn’t one story, or ten stories, or a hundred stories, but literally thousands of stories that contain these tropes.
Hey, remember when Peter literally beat Derek into submission and savaged Lydia to get Stiles to cooperate?
Remember when Derek tried to murder Lydia for something she didn’t do and drive Isaac away by throwing glass at his head?
Remember when Talia Hale covered up her brother’s and son’s involvement in the death of a young girl and badgered a woman to carry her child to term?
Remember when Scott told Stiles that it was wrong to kill the victim of a mad scientist’s experiments and lying about it and maybe he should go talk to his dad?
And yet, I can guarantee you that there is only one of those four alphas who is portrayed consistently as an obtuse tyrant. (Hint: it’s not the white ones) And this isn’t one story, or ten stories, or a hundred stories, but literally thousands of stories that contain these tropes.
And it’s not just the lead. Let’s take a look at how the fandom treats secondary characters on AO3:
Talia Hale (1 episode): 5190 stories
Laura Hale (2 episodes): 8760 stories
Jenna Geyer (mentioned once; name is fandom generated): 617
Claudia Stilinski (1 episode; impersonated for 8 episodes): 3079
Derek Hale’s Father (never appeared or mentioned): 843
Noshiko Yukimura (16 episodes): 470
Ken Yukimura (20 episodes): 261
Satomi Ito (3 episodes): 284
David Geyer (5 episodes): 351
See a pattern? You should. As I said, it’s not one story, it’s thousands.
No one’s saying that you or anyone else shouldn’t write fictions that focus on Stiles or Sterek or even stories where Scott is a terrible person. It’s the trends. If transformation is what AO3 and OTW tout as their purpose, and that transformation is about variety and exploration, why is it always the white characters that get the benefit of it? When it comes to transformation, why do characters of color get erased, caricatured, or robbed of their narrative roles?
Don’t tell me that it isn’t damaging.
Do you know how many times I’ve encountered a person who entered Teen Wolf fandom through AO3 and Tumblr who believed that the characters of color are either terrible (such as Scott and Deaton and Braeden) or unimportant (such as Boyd or Mason or the Yukimuras)? More than I or anyone else should be comfortable with. But this is part of the mechanism. There aren’t little racism fairies that visit people in their sleep; it’s not a bacterial infection; it’s not the work of a secret cabal. Cultural racism is maintained by institutions, and it is transmitted by institutions, and this is one example. OTW and AO3 are two such institutions.
Thanks for writing. I’ll take what you told me as a compliment.
