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I keep seeing these "statement begins" hoodies advertised on tiktok and I just wanna make sure, RQ hasn't licensed merch rights to anyone correct?

[THESE ARE MY PERSONAL VIEWS AND I AM NOT SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF ANY COMPANY FOR WHOM I HAVE WORKED]

Right, I'm not on TikTok and I'm not looking this up, but I get a lot of asks similar to this so I'll try to unpack it a bit. The short answer is: Don't Tell Me About This Shit. As a rule of thumb if an unlicenced product is visible enough to be bothering you, you can assume whoever owns the appropriate copyright has seen it and is taking what action they can.

Speaking more generally. Creative Commons (which we released TMA under) says you can do whatever you like with the podcast, the universe and the characters as long as you don't make any money from it. That's pretty simple, pretty clear. And to be honest, I've worked with a lot of companies and the attitude is almost always the same, even when it's not explicitly CC. Its only when money gets involving that things get complicated.

Obviously no-one actually wants to punish small fan artists taking commissions or the like, but here's the thing: legally you have to enforce your copyright or you can straight up lose it. And given the era of ripped-off and AI-generated slop we exist in, that means if a company is aware of copyright infringement, they have to take action.

Now, basically no company in the creative space actually has the resources or manpower to be actively hunting down everyone selling a few dozen keychains with a weird princess or a good cow printed on them, so if something gets big enough that it organically crosses their path, it's probably big enough that does genuinely need to get slapped down.

But the thing is, if I'm made aware of any of this stuff, I gotta tell 'em. So do not fucking tell me. Do not ask me if it's ok to sell your cool unlicenced merch. Do not ask me to promote or endorse it(!) If you give me a fun little present at a signing, do not tell me you're also selling it. And if you're someone who's done one of these things already: No You Fucking Didn't.

So yeah, it's very much a situation where everyone's hands are tied, so just be chill and trust that if someone is properly taking the piss, the company involved will spot it and take the appropriate action.

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periods are medieval honestly. like sorry I got suicidal last night turns out I had too much blood in me. yeah no some of it fell out and I'm fine now.

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thinking two characters have had sex does not equal shipping at all… i dont have to like it i just know it happened

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A tourist murders my sister, steals her shoes, and accepts a mission from my political rivals to literally murder me? And I’m the villain???

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Hi! I would love to see you draw #23 with the A-Team ~

“You dumbass. Don’t do that. Ever again.”

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while i can’t in good conscience recommend it watching spn does in fact unlock both the biggest part of the map on ao3 and the funniest part of the map on tumblr

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in order to not succumb to sex negative conservatism you have to accept that people will get off to things that are upsetting to you. and you cannot assume anything about what they have or have not experienced, what they do or do not believe, and how they act based solely on what gets them off. even if it's extremely confusing and disturbing to you. there are people who have only ever had heterosexual vanilla sex in missionary with the lights off, who actively contribute to more real world harm than your average fetish artist. kink is not a reliable source of information on someone's moral standing. it just feels good to think that way.

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Whatever

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Zoinks

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i was jumanji’d too when i was a kid but no one cared

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i hate this weird trend in fandom where subtext is seen as a Bad Thing and is only done if the creators are too cowardly to commit to showing something. i hate to break it to you but nuance and layers are what make stories interesting, if you have no subtext then you have a very flat story

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in almost every other children's book where the main heroine is swept away to a land of whimsy she's shown having a lovely time; braving dangers occasionally, trying to find her way home, sure, but ultimately delighting in the magic around her. meanwhile alice spends her entire time in wonderland like

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anyway

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knight who is constantly searching for a good and noble king to serve but cannot fucking find one for the life of him so he has to become the good and noble king himself.

and now all these other knights are coming around like "please let me serve you" and like obviously hes going to let them serve him thats the point of being a good and noble king but its also. very annoying. one of you become the good and noble king for once lets trade

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but bro the self fulfilling prophie