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Disney Wants Your Stuff. (No, I’m serious, they literally say you own the copyright to your fanwork until they say that THEY own it, i.e. Welcome to the new Disney TOS, Baby.

First up, the link, so chill already: https://disneytermsofuse.com/  Your relevant and terrifying passage(s) are the entirety of Section 7. Go read it. I’ll wait.

Now. First thing to understand is that the legal language within the new TOS *implies* that Disney is only referring to people who use its services, people who clicked and agreed to this new TOS. But it’s implication only. That’s not what this TOS actually says.

This TOS spends a lot of time defining fanworks, or as they call it, User Generated Content.

They want to make it clear that,

a) You totally have the right to make User Generated Content (UGC) all you want.

b) You can put that UGC anywhere you want, whether they own the site or someone else does. What matters is that you’ve put that UGC in a publically accessible place…like, oh, AO3.

c) Disney spends a few breaths saying that the creator of the UGC owns the copyright to that UGC…except if you read those words carefully, they’re not guaranteeing you anything, because THEY own the copyright.

d) Disney then says, since they own the copyright to your UGC, they can literally do anything they want with it. They can steal it, crib it, use the entire thing as their own, make money off of it, reprint it, ANYTHING–and you do not get credit. You do not get paid. You do not get acknowledgement. You might get a DMCA telling you take down your UGC because it is now *their* content that they’re selling and how dare you steal from them. (No, I’m not kidding.)

e) Nobody seems to know a fucking thing about this.

f) The bullshit on Twitter over May the Fourth was just a smokescreen, sorry. https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/28/21238909/disney-star-wars-maythe4th-hashtag-copyright-contract-twitter

Disney doesn’t want your Tweets. They just wanted to see who was paying attention, and how, and if they could get away with it. (Yes, they did go after someone who reposted Disney’s own tweets. No more information on that yet.)

g) Yes, you should absolutely take this seriously. You should be terrified, because how many fan content creators have the bank to fight this if their “copyrighted content” that Disney specifies is still *their* copyrighted content is stolen? OTW exists for this very reason, but this is fucking Disney. They. Own. Almost. Everything. In. The. Corporate. United. States. Entertainment. Industry.

h) No, your MCU, Star Wars, Pixar, Disney animated films, ANY such fanworks, are not safe. If Disney likes it, they will take it. If you say they can’t, they’ll point to their new site-wide TOS and say that they can. Is that legal? Don’t actually know, but think about who’s in the White House right now. Think about who he’d support. Yes, the Library of Congress and the House of Reps are supposed to be in charge, but how long until we could push for them to deal with/fix this shit?

i) Yes, Disney is probably trying to steal content in order to survive the pandemic, seeing as their major sources of revenue (parks and movies) aren’t happening right now.

j) Yes, I will be removing my Star Wars content. I didn’t work on that fucking story for nearly 20 years just for some corporate shill to fucking steal it.

k) Someone who currently wishes to remain anonymous has pinged an OTW peep to see if they’re aware.

l) If they weren’t so specific to point out that they really do mean Any Public Place, I wouldn’t be so concerned…but it doesn’t. This isn’t just about their services. This is about the entire fucking internet.

That’s it. You guys now know everything I know, so no, I wouldn’t be able to answer any of your questions. I suggest spreading the word, if only so someone else with more information can step up and reassure us that Disney can’t do what they believe they can do…

…but it’s fucking DISNEY. They nearly destroyed Public Domain in the United States over fucking Mickey Mouse a hundred years ago. Do you really think they’re going to say, “Oh, sorry, our bad” about this?

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FUCK YOU DISNEY

Anyways, y’all better start saving your fave fanfics and fanart under the Disney labels cause it looks like they’re trying to curb fair use/fanworks and I’m sure there’s going to be mass panicked deletions even though it’s probably unnecessary cause AO3′s legal team will fight for us.

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Code debunked! (Read more)

TL;DR: Thomas’s birthday could symbolize Patton’s desire in being in a safe time period; a time period where moral decisions were easier to make.

Keep reading

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Remus

Janus

(shortened form of) Vergilius

@thatsthat24 Sir I see you. Very clever

that also means that all known and established dark sides have Roman ties. whatevee might that mean?

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Deceit and Remus Parallels

Saying things that aren't meant to be said in words, Deceit's an action and Remus's a sound effect

Doing the dramtic hurt face while leaning back a little and lifting their hands defensively

Finger wiggling

In conclusion: they are best friends and you can all pry this headcanon out of my cold dead hands

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What if in a Sanders Sides video Roman ducked out because he actually felt inferior to the other sides and felt useless? They all go to his room and he’s not there, though Remus is. They’re about to question him when he asks a simple question;

“Hey! do any of you know where Roman is?”

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It’s my favorite thing when a lesbian is just like “I got extra fries with my meal, gay rights” or an enby is like “wow trans rights I just got a free gift card to the movies” or a bi dude is like “finally found a plant that won’t die, queer rights I guess.” Like that is the funniest shit I don’t care.

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roman and remus’ logos for comparison

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hey, Fanders. Here’s your heartbreak for today

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Can we all agree, that no matter WHAT direction that Thomas and his team take Deceit as a character, that no one has any right to complain or be negative to Thomas and the team? 

It’s his characters, and they have the right to do as they please. 

They have a name planned, Deceit is going to become a significant and main character just like the others. 

There is such a divide between the Fanders and their views on this character, whether Dee is toxic, sympathetic, neutral, goofy, a villain, and anything in between. 

Whatever he is, whatever he ends up being, please don’t ever take out your issues with the character to Thomas or anyone who works on the episodes. You as a fan have no right to do that. 

I want to make this clear after talking for hours about Deceit. He’s going to be in this new episode, and likely many more to come, and if that’s the direction this series is taking and if Deceit becomes a main character, that’s how it goes.

He could get a ‘redemption arc’ (when it’s arguable he did anything extreme enough to get a redemption). We don’t know how he’ll turn up and I feel that so many people have jumped to conclusions over a character we don’t know about. 

There are so many ideas, that at this point whatever does happen to Deceit, people are going to be upset. Please don’t voice that or be rude to Thomas or anyone. If you get upset keep it to yourself. 

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Reblog if you post Sanders Sides stuff

I want to follow more Sanders Sides blogs

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Who wants some loving Logan juice?

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Reasons I am so proud of Logan in this video:

“Or, your reaction is a little too extreme.” He knew the problem straight away, and from the get go was trying to steer everyone in the right direction.

Same thing in the song, he is the first to be taken away by the Duke because he tried to tell Thomas “It’s okay.” 

The soft, proud look he gives Virgil the first time he says “Not all thoughts have some grand meaning behind them, some are worthless!”

When he puts aside what we all know has been bothering him for a long time “This is not about me being listened to” to get to the root of the problem and help everyone “You all are not listening to Thomas!”

When he stops himself from calling Virgil paranoid and thanks him for his concerns and contributions before gently telling him to take a step back and listen. 

Subsequently, how he tries to be gentle when telling Virgil that the main problem with Thomas right now is actually VIRGIL’s overreactions to Remus’s actions.

The utter joy and surprise on his face when he realizes that he’s not the one being too strict this time. 

How he keeps his cool as he shows Remus why he has no power over him.

When he asks Thomas how he’s doing, and when Thomas gives a noncommittal “fine” he immediately turns to Virgil to ask how he’s doing.

The gentleness on his face or in his voice every time he says “it’s fine” or “It’s okay.” 

“Everything is okay.”

The look on his face when Thomas thanked him and told him he was cool. 

I’m so proud of him, he was the hero of this video and I love him <3

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So this was based on that one post floating around for the people who shake their heads like an etch-a-sketch to clear the minds of Intrusive Thoughts, and I just. I had to, you guys. You don’t even know-

@thatsthat24 @thejoanglebook

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SO UH!!!!! HOW ABOUT THAT NEW SANDERS SIDES EPISODE HUH!!!!!!!!!! NO I HAVENT BEEN WATCHING THIS 7 SECOND SEQUENCE OVER AND OVER HAHA HOW ABOUT YOU GUYS!!!!!!!!!

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Donald Trump looks like a circus peanut that was dropped on a hot sidewalk two weeks ago.

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Fan art of the latest @thatsthat24 ’s video. It is AMAZING!!! I can’t even imagine the amount of work put into it (And also it was about time I made a Sanders Sides’ fan art)

Hope that you like it!