#are two things that can and should coexist

[escherenigma]

I feel like there's an interesting essay to be written about the interplay of Copyright, Trademark, and Patents, and how their coexistence shows that we understand that intellectual property is a complex topic.

I also feel like I'm way too lazy to write such a thing.

So I'm going to leave it at this: Patents expire after a set amount time, Trademark protections can be lost by abandonment or public dillution, and Copyright expires with death of the author.

And I feel like a lot of the abuses that each of those laws sees would be lessened with two things: one, if we broaded the way to lose each protection to include elements of the other.

I also think the protections should be longer/more stringent when granted to an individual human being, and less so when sold by the original grantee or given to a company.

Then again, I'm an internet rando, not a lawyer, and no where near Washington, so it's not like my thoughts have any chance of influencing policy, so I haven't put a super large amount of thought into 'em.

abandonware should be public domain. force companies to actively support and provide products if they don't wanna lose the rights to them

[sereia4skz]

a house we build | chapter 2: gene pool entanglement

pairing: established!Minsung x fem!reader

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word count: 1.4k

warnings: MDNI, smut, creampies, unprotected sex (duh)

You move in on a Thursday.

You don’t bring much with you. It feels more like a retreat than anything else, quiet, sprawling, strangely peaceful for a home owned by two world-famous idols. The property is surrounded by trees and tall gates, but the inside is warm. Wooden floors, wide windows, the smell of something sweet simmering in the kitchen. 

The guest room isn’t a guest room at all. It’s yours now, with a full closet, a brand-new mattress, blackout curtains. There’s a card on the nightstand written in Jisung’s handwriting. Welcome home (for now, unless you want to stay forever lol).

Jisung carries your suitcase in and promptly trips over the threshold. "Sorry," he mutters, face flushed. "Bad omen, right? Should I try again?"

Minho rolls his eyes and plucks the bag from his hand. "You’re going to scare her off."

You smile, small and genuine. "No, it’s okay. It feels… nice. Just strange."

"Strange is fair," Jisung says. "Weird and nice can coexist. That’s, like, our entire marriage."

Minho snorts. "Speak for yourself. I’m extremely normal."

"That's not what you said in 2 kids room" you laugh. It feels too easy, dangerously easy.

Jisung's the one who shows you around the house, too. He talks with his hands, bumbling through stories about the different rooms, the backyard garden, the espresso machine Minho doesn’t let him touch unsupervised.

Minho walks behind you both, quiet and sharp-eyed, the way he always is. He doesn’t speak unless he has to. But when you reach for the banister going upstairs, he’s the one who steadies you with a hand on your lower back.

The night moves slow after that.

There’s takeout and tea. A movie no one watches. Your things sit unpacked. It’s strange, like everything else: not romantic, but intimate. Like a sleepover you shouldn’t be at. Like a marriage you were dropped into halfway through.

It’s not discussed again, not explicitly, the arrangement, the act.

It just… happens.

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The night is strange. No one says it, but it hovers thick in the silence. This is the part that’s supposed to be clean, quick. Just biology. But there’s no doctor. No equipment. Just you and them. And nerves, humming sharp and high under your skin.

They give you time to shower. You come out in a robe someone left folded at the end of the bed, soft, fresh. Your hands twist in the fabric, and Jisung stares at the floor like it might swallow him whole.

“This is so weird,” he mutters.

Minho’s mouth twitches. “Weirder things have made families.”

“I guess.” Jisung looks up at you. “But also… kind of perfect?”

You nod. Something catches in your throat. There’s no plan. You end up in Minho’s room, bigger bed, darker curtains. The air smells like cedar and sage. No one moves at first. 

Jisung kisses you first. His lips are warm, a little dry, but sweet. Gentle. Shaky. You feel his nervousness in the way he keeps breaking away, like he’s trying to check your face for fear, for hesitation. His hands come up to cradle your face, then immediately drop like he doesn’t trust himself.

Minho doesn’t touch you until you’re already in bed, but when he does, it’s decisive. One hand curls around your waist from behind, pulling you closer to where he’s kneeling. He presses his nose to your hair, breath warm against your neck.

“You’re sure?” he murmurs.

You whisper yes.

Minho is focused. Deliberate. Everything he does feels intentional, like he’s not just trying to get you pregnant but trying to make you feel good, trying to remember every part of it. He kisses your throat, your shoulder, your breast, then leans back to look at you fully bare.

"You’re doing something beautiful," he says, fingertips ghosting over your stomach. "Let us make it feel that way."

Jisung exhales like he’s been holding it in all day.

He’s more nervous than Minho. His hands shake when he pushes your legs open. But he never stops talking, praise tumbling out of him like it’s the only thing grounding him.

“So fucking pretty,” he whispers, sinking to his knees. “You smell so good. You’re gonna take us so well, aren’t you?”

You whimper when his tongue brushes you, and he groans against your folds like it’s too much for him. He eats you out with something close to worship, slow, messy licks, his nose nudging your clit just right. His hands stay on your thighs, trembling, then stroking, then gripping.

Minho watches from behind you, running his fingers down your spine like he’s memorizing the shape. You can feel his erection pressed against your hip, hard through his sweats, but he doesn’t move yet. He just whispers, "Relax, Jagi. You’re safe here."

It makes you tremble.

Jisung pulls back, chin wet, lips swollen, he smiles, bashful, but cocky. “She’s ready,” he tells Minho. “I got her nice and soft for you.”

Minho raises an eyebrow. “That’s not how anatomy works.”

“Shut up, I’m being romantic.”

You giggle through your haze of arousal.

Minho presses a kiss to your shoulder, then reaches down to guide himself to your entrance. He goes slow, achingly, carefully slow, but even so, you feel the stretch, the unfamiliar fullness. His hips press flush to yours, and he just… stays there for a moment, trembling with restraint.

“Fuck,” he mutters. “You’re-” He stops himself, jaw flexing. “First time I’ve ever…”

You turn your head. “With a woman?”

He nods, kissing the shell of your ear.

“But I’ve fucked Ji before,” he says softly, pulling out halfway before sliding back in.

“Hey,” Jisung huffs from where he’s propped on an elbow beside you. “You don’t have to tell all our secrets.”

“You’re loud when you come,” Minho murmurs, deadpan.

Jisung flushes pink and grins anyway. “You like it.”

You’re moaning through the pressure now, the fullness of Minho rocking into you. He moves deep and slow, gripping your hips like he’s holding on for dear life. His cock drags inside you thick and careful, each thrust brushing that soft, needy spot that makes your toes curl.

Jisung kisses you again. His hand slips between your legs, fingers circling your clit. “We’ve got you,” he breathes. “We’re doing it right, right?”

You nod, dizzy.

They’re not perfect, they’re clumsy, awkward, a little too tender, but it’s overwhelming in the best way. Like... Like a beginning.

Minho loses rhythm first. You feel it in the way his hips falter, the way he groans against your neck and presses his forehead to your shoulder.

“I’m close,” he mutters. “I’m gonna- fuck!”

“Do it,” you whisper. “Come on. Come inside.”

He moans, one deep, broken sound, and thrusts in hard one last time. He stills deep in your cunt and spills with a shudder, thick and hot and pulsing.

You clench around him without meaning to.

Jisung groans at the sight. “My turn?”

Minho pulls out, slowly, and you feel his spend drip out before Jisung’s already moving between your legs.

“Shit,” he breathes. “That’s so hot.”

He doesn’t tease, he can’t. He’s already leaking when he pushes in, a wet squelch of cum and needs making him hiss through his teeth, you whine at the overstimulation. He fucks you faster than Minho, less patient, all desperation and want.

You pull him in by the neck and kiss him hard. He whines into your mouth. “Gonna knock you up,” he babbles. “Gonna be so fucking full of us.”

You tighten around him, and he shudders, breath hitching.

“Fuck- fuck! I’m coming, baby, I’m-”

He jerks forward and spills deep inside you, twitching and gasping as he fills you to the brim. His hips keep moving, little aftershocks, and his arms curl around you so tight it hurts.

You lie in silence.

Your thighs are sticky. The air smells like sweat and sex and something bigger.

Minho kisses your hair. Jisung’s fingers trace lazy circles on your belly.

You fall asleep like that, tangled, aching, full. In the morning, you don’t talk about what it meant.

Three weeks later, you throw up into the sink and cry at a cat video.

You call the clinic and schedule the test.

And one baby, healthy, growing, none of you ask who the father is.

Because it doesn’t matter.

They both look at you like it’s theirs. Like you’re theirs.

Jisung hugs you too tightly when the doctor confirms it. Minho touches your stomach like it already means something. And even though the process is barely beginning, you already feel it in your chest.This isn’t just a job.

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[xclowniex]

You wouldn’t survive living a week as a Muslim

I am not going to deny the struggles that Muslims go through. Islamophobia is absolutely terrible.

It is just absolutely fucking stupid that you are erasing the struggles jews go through.

In New Zealand, using data from the NZ police on hate crimes from January 1 2022 to June 30 2023, as well as data on jewish and Muslim populations in New Zealand

0.32% of Muslims have reported a hate crime

0.46% of Jews have reported a hate crime.

And that is reported hate crimes. Not incidents of antisemitism. Most jews i know have experienced antisemitism. I assume this also is similar with Muslims and Islamophobia.

I myself, have been the victim of an antisemitic hate crime in 2018 when i was raped for being jewish. Something I have mentioned a few times on this blog.

I do want to make it absolutely clear. Islamophobia is bad. I am not denying that it is bad and the rate it happens at. What I am doing is pointing out that the rate of antisemitism is also bad. Two things can be true at the same time, Islamophobia in general but also the rate of it is disgusting and antisemitism in general and also the rate of it is also disgusting.

Erasing jewish suffering doesn't do anything to validate Muslim suffering. Suffering isn't a finite thing. One group suffering doesn't take away from another group suffering.

The fight against Islamophobia should not come at the cost of jews, and vice versa. You are not promoting coexistence between Jews and Muslims.

[villaincousland]

Also thinking about how the devnotes on Minthara's dialogue acknowledges her and Durge as both being victims of cult brainwashing. Idk I just think it's neat that the game recognizes that having committed atrocities for a cult and being a victim of one are not mutually exclusive

[knowlesian]

Serious Art and humor cannot coexist in fiction without the second cheapening the first is one of those takes that makes me want to put my head through a wall

[brick-van-dyke]

As the US election closes in and the final states take to the polls, I want to remind people to turn out and protest.

Yep, protest. Strike, disrupt, be out there on the street regardless of who you voted for or who wins. I expect to see you all out there demanding; access to abortion nation wide, protections against discrimination, free universal healthcare, a free Palestine, anti war, prison abolition, to increase the minimum wage, and for a US free of the electoral college and that counts votes as votes.

Yes, you can say "you should vote for Harris" and do so as much as you like, but do not forget the power you have through your own everyday actions away from the polls and that of protesting. Do not use the excuse that your right to vote means it's somehow more foundational or important than the right to protest. You have the ability to create direct action and that is so so important, please don't just expect a rich representative to stick to their promises every time you vote; you have power too, never forget that.

This system will not change until we, the people, make it. There is NO representative that can ever change the system that allowed them in, and likewise; this system will never allow a candidate that would stop it from continuing and/or ensuring its designated purpose of oppression and subjugation. Resist, regardless of the results.

Long live the resistance.

[babacontainsmultitudes]

I can't really draw what's on my mind so here is the blueprint of my vision instead:

[scuderia-hamilton]

we can be happy for Lewis without bringing Charles down i hope certain people know that 😩

[a-vibing-potato]

I would just like to take a moment to acknowledge how CRAZY it is that Cas broke Dean's trust in 6x20, "The Man Who Would Be King"

Dean "trust issues" Winchester.

Dean "literally had no friends or relationships that weren't his dad's first in the first three or four seasons besides one night stands because 'in this line of work, we can't have relationships hold us back'" Winchester.

Dean "This is your problem, Dean. You have no faith." Winchester.

Dean who has HORRIBLE, childhood trauma induced trust issues and one of his defining problems is that he has no faith. He GOT faith. He GOT trust. He MADE it. And he built that. Just to put it all into Cas and believing him.

And Cas is the one who broke it.

The teary-eyed looks in both of their eyes are gonna haunt me for days.

[thingfromanoutherworld]

Been seeing too many clean shaven Faulkner designs..That guy has the worlds shittiest beard that he refuses to shave because itll "grow in" (it does not.) And you cannot convince me otherwise..

[f1owermoon]

sorry but i have a couple more things to say about the joost stuff and it might be an unpopular take here but i really don't like how some people are reducing the allegations to "grown man having sex" or saying stuff like "happy for whoever gets to bounce on it" like....that's not the point....no one gives a fuck about a 27 year old grown ass man having a sex life LMFAO the issue here are the alleged lies and manipulation, that's a WHOLE different story. we're talking about serious stuff here and it lowkey pisses me off how some people have completely missed the point.

and also, the way that some twt fans were ready to jump at other people's throats when some decided to leave the fandom is just...yikes. like yeah i'm sorry if someone i'm a fan of is being accused of being a disgusting person ofc i wouldn't wanna support them anymore??? again, these are really serious accusations and i think it's a perfectly normal reaction??

now, let me clarify that i don't wanna come across as overly critical or try to make it seem like i'm accusing joost or claiming that those allegations are true. i don't know shit and it seems like they've been cleared up for the most part?? i'm still confused, honestly. but yeah, that's all. just a couple more thoughts i had to get off my chest.

[rawliverandgoronspice]

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not sure it's my post to make particularly, but I do fucking hate how the concept of white guilt gets weaponized within white people ingroups to throw at each other in order to goad each other into emotional passivity, detachement and inaction, it's just so extremely not what the concept is about initially and is actually still an extension of white guilt it turns out!!! as it's still reacting to that idea and concerned by trying to sever oneself from its perceived effects, regardless of what those are and what they do and what bigger picture they exist in!!!! anyway.

[mordecaispe]

remember through all of this that it's important to support victims. also remember through all of this that it's important to do outside research if you're skeptical of a claim or a story that seems fabricated. believing things blindly is how things like the situation with kwite and orion happened. it's not disrespectful to research things you're unsure of, not doing so is how misinfo spreads, and with the waycthis misinfo spreading resulting in actual innocent people being harassed? yeah, no. give support where support is due, but critical thinking is important as well.

[sing-me-under]

I don’t think people utilize Dick spending the latter half of his childhood under Bruce’s guardianship enough. Like, yes, his core childhood memories are in the circus with his parents, but kids don’t often have a grasp on money until they’re in the double digits.

I saw a post where Tim just pulls out a couple hundred dollar bills, and I want that for Robin-era Dick too. Dick didn’t realize that his weekly allowance was enough to feed a small family for a whole month because all of his civilian classmates have approximately the same if not higher allowances because they’re all in the same wealth bracket and a $100 pineapple is a perfectly normal visiting gift. To add a little bit of flavor, Dick generally has a very skewed perception of how much things should cost. $100 pineapple? Completely normal. It’s just a nice gift. $400 sweater? They’re not items he had to think about purchasing as a kid, especially since the circus kids cycled through hand-me-downs. He generally assumed that all clothes are investment pieces (quiet wealth) and had zero concept of fast fashion. The fancy crystal chandelier? Definitely expensive, and he really shouldn’t break it, but it’s not like it would cost an arm and a leg to replace, right? Bruce built him an indoor trapeze set in the next week.

But $17 ticket to the local movie theatre? Horrendously overpriced. He vividly remembers the circus tickets were only $3 per adult and free for children under 12. Meanwhile, carnival food is like $20 for a corn dog. Dick always hesitates when paying for the movies because it feels like highway robbery, but he doesn’t bat an eye at the movie theater food prices.

I think it’s generally funny if the three Robins who’ve led their respective Teen Titans all have this little “quirk” where they just unironically carry hundred dollar bills. Tim is from the same social circles as Bruce, and Damian is something along the lines of a literal prince.

I keep thinking about that panel of Dick not having a credit score because Alfred then Starfire handled his finances.

[ispyspookymansion]

why does everybody think this post is like a call to action to abolish 2fa. its called Bitching and Complaining. like it sucks that if my phone is dead or i lose it or i change numbers i cant get into my email on my laptop and that it assumes everyone has access to a phone number so its prohibitive when its made mandatory and overall its also just mildly annoying !

first they made it mandatory to log in everywhere. create an account to download your free template Log in to access resource give us your email nowwwww. Now the humble password is being killed too. open your magic email link! type your 6 digit code that we texted you because we required your email and your phone number! we’re gonna call you and whisper a code sweetly in your ear so you can log in to your account. yes it has a password but you cant use that anymore. okay? poob is gonna call you. now poob is just gonna call you.

[a-vibing-potato]

I watched the first episode of Stranger Things and episode 7x10 (Death's Door) of Supernatural and the combination of a cast of exciting new characters and a new world to discover AND Bobby's death has me fucked up in the head.