22. Femme. I have a Behavioral Neuroscience Degree, hoping to pursue a PhD (eventually). Not sure what I'm doing with my life but I'm sure it's something. She/Her or They/them!
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.
Drag queens and trans women deserve recognition for their role in the Stonewall uprisings, and so do butches & transmascs. We all fought for each other.
Also remember, these are Delaverie’s own words about the Stonewall Rebellion:
“It was a rebellion, it was an uprising, it was a civil rights disobedience – it wasn’t no damn riot.”
To the gays and the theys; femmes and thems; to the bis and the aces and the pans and the lesbians; to the butches, the twinks, the transmascs, the transfems, the enbys, the genderfucks and all those in between and outside the lines:
I wish you all a Happy Pride, and another year of our existence being a joyous fuck you to those who would rather we not be here.
I was reading one of my childhood diaries the other day and there was a whole paragraph saying how hopeful I was that my writing will help the archeologists in the far future. Then it proceeded to describe my lunch that day and how my dog was probably secretly able to talk.
there is a fucking statue of a kid who lived sometime in the 1200s, around 800 fucking years ago, because we have pieces of his homework that he doodled on while learning how to write. this is one of his drawings:
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when I was googling him (because I couldn’t remember his name), I stumbled across this twitter thread about him, which includes a different doodle by an italian boy in the 1400s of knights besieging a castle:
people talk all the time about “primal instincts” and it’s usually about violence or sexual temptations or something, but your humanity comes with a lot of different stuff that we do without really thinking about, that we do without being told to or prompted to
your average human comes pre-installed with instincts to:
Befriend
Tell story
Make Thing
Investigate
Share knowledge
Laugh
Sing
Dance
Empathize with
Create
we are chalk full of survival instincts that revolve around connecting to others (dog-shaped others, robot-shaped, sometimes even plant-shaped) and making things with our hands
your primal instincts are not bathed in blood- they are layered in people telling stories to each other around a fire over and over and putting devices together through trial and error over and over and reaching for someone and something every moment of the way
~“Your primal instincts are not bathed in blood.”
My god this is beautiful. Such a refreshing change of pace to the constant glorification of instinctual human violence.
Primal Human Instinct pack also includes bonus instincts such as:
imitating weird noises made by other animals
playing with water
the urge to eat anything brightly colored and jelly-like
touching things that look like they will move in a funny way
seeing faces in literally everything, including toast
jumping up to see if you can bap the top of that doorway
saying ‘ow’ when something unexpected happens, even if it doesn’t hurt
When people would ask how her children were, my mother would sometimes respond “Clean and paid for.” which I always found very funny.
[ID: A post from Kim K. in December 2022, reading “In Norway, ‘up and not crying’ is a not uncommon response to ‘how’s it going’ type questions, and I feel like that’s a very reasonable standard to hold oneself to especially nowadays.”]
sorry I make this post frequently but apple really doesn’t get enough hate
so if you don’t like them it’s fine. I know a lot of people who are really mean to picky eaters about their preferences, and it doesn’t actually help.
However, some people only think they hate apples because they’ve only tried the horrible mealy Red “Delicious” variety. If that’s the case, you might be surprised by how much you enjoy a tastier variety. Honeycrisp and Cosmic crisp are some of the most popular apples and they are really good.
https://applerankings.com/ is a great, and wittily written, trove of apple reviews and information and will help you find nice apples. It is focused on apples available in the US, and idk where you are. I really miss discovery apples, which don’t seem to be a thing this side of the Atlantic.
They can be a little pricey though. Obviously I don’t know your personal situation, but if that’s an issue, there might be local programs that can help. I don’t know where you live, but here in Seattle there’s a program called Fresh Bucks that gives people $40/month to spend on fruit and vegetables at local farmers markets. There might be something like that near you. Or, if you just really wanna try a really nice apple and it’s not accessible to you, dm me and I can PayPal you something. I just want everyone to have the chance to have a nice apple from time to time.
Anyway, like I said, if you just truly don’t like any apples, you are 100% valid and you shouldn’t force yourself to eat something you don’t like. Body autonomy includes not having to eat foods you hate. But I’d hate for you to go through life not knowing how much you could enjoy a high-quality apple, just because you’ve only experienced the worst apples.
oh snap I just realized op meant the phone company
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