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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

Oh dear.

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)

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@funnier-as-a-system

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Is Jonathan the only case of being engaged to someone (who isn't her captor) from the start?

As far as I know, he is! I, to my shame, haven't read The Mysteries of Udolpho yet, but I checked and Emily St. Aubert's engagement begins before she meets her captor, but she isn't engaged at the start of the book. She meets her fiancé at the beginning of the story, and I think she's the only other case where the Heroine is engaged when she meets the captor. Everyone else either marries the captor, ends the book single, of gets engaged after The Horrors have already begun.

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How is Jonathan spending this month in Castle Dracula? Wrong answers only.

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Can I Think Crowley Is Gender Fluid?

You might as well. I do.

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I could function in a society that had an actual nightlife that isn't synonymous with just clubbing. Where are the night markets what if I want to go to the library at midnight

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Jack Seward at his phonograph: I do believe I have been making a breakthrough... I am so close, so close to unraveling the enigma of the machinations of his MIND

Renfield, listening in his room, sipping tea, pinkie out: Weirdo.

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You mentioned years ago that you once worked on a project restoring former coal mine land, trying to get plants to grow and break up the compacted soil and so on. Do you know how the site is doing now? I hope you don’t mind me asking, but it sounds like a very cool project and I would love to know if it worked!

Oh, extremely well! The trees are about a third of the height they should be for their age, but there's a little woodland there now. This year my uni is taking over the lease for the site, so investigations continue. We got a lot of papers out of it. Plus, we proved that if you get the trees to grow in, you increase other biodiversity, like birds and earthworms and small mammals and lizards (the place is alive with lizards every summer, actually. Sometimes they sit on your bag.)

The main project site is here, if you want a gander.

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What would Dorian have done if Lord Henry had believed him about the murder, do you think?

Fun question! I think it would depend on Henry's reaction.

I think what Dorian is hoping for is Henry's approval. Henry writes off everything else that Dorian has ever done as part of his giving in to every temptation and living life to the fullest. It's easy to imagine Henry doing the same with Dorian murdering Basil - treating it as some kind of pinnacle of art, the muse killing the devoted artist.

We know how heavily the guilt weighs on Dorian's conscience, but if Henry approved, or at least dismissed it, maybe that would make Dorian sit a little easier with what he did.

Perhaps they'd make an in-joke of it together - I could imagine Henry swanning around a gallery, raising an eyebrow and saying, "oh, Dorian always knows how to respond to an artist once his work becomes disappointing." Henry already makes jokes about Sibyl's death, or at least that's how I read the reference to Hetty "floating... in some star-lit mill-pond" like Ophelia.

I wonder if that would be Henry's reaction, though? Because I think there's also the possibility that this - not his divorce, not the scandal Dorian caused around his sister, not the trail of suffering that Dorian leaves behind him - but Dorian murdering Basil might finally be the thing that causes Henry's pose to crack. This might be what reveals that even Lord Henry Wootton is shockable.

And maybe somewhere deep down, Dorian is hoping for that too. We know Dorian thinks he is beyond redemption, while Henry seems to think he is beyond reproach. I suspect Dorian, who despairs of ever being forgiven his sins, would like the catharsis of being seen for what he is, not for the face that he presents to the world.

I don't think Dorian had the faintest idea what he would have done in that scenario, though. I think some part of him wanted to have it happen so he could find out.

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*Logs in*

*Sees two messages in the inbox*

I love you, anons who ask me about details on how Jonathan is a gothic heroine and talk to me about his traditionally feminine characteristics. <3

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My parents aren’t like this. My grandma, though... Once I was in an Italian course with the grandson of a neighbor of hers. It was raining, so he offered me a lift, since we were both going to our grandmas’ after the class and they lived in the same block. Next time I see my grandmother, I find out she and his grandmother were happily wondering if there was something going on between the two of us. Because of one lift.

He was twenty.

I was fifteen.

Some (grand)parents do be like that.

WHY ARE PARENTS IN FICTION ALWAYS SO PUSHY ABOUT THEIR ADULT CHILDREN'S LOVE LIVES

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How is Jonathan spending this month in Castle Dracula? Wrong answers only.

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So my two married-with-kids coworkers started asking me when I was going to get married and have kids earlier. And when I politely told them I wasn’t planning on it and tried to change the subject (because like fuck am I coming out as aroace at work), proceeded to tell me I’d change my mind and be married in no time.

So I went, “You wanna bet?” Told them to pick a time frame and sum of money and we’d have a wager. And one of them took me up on it. I was expecting her to put down a tenner or so, but she put down TWO HUNDRED QUID on me getting romantically involved in the next three years.

I would feel bad about taking the bet, except that 1) if someone specifically tells you they’re not interested in something and you bet against that it’s really on your own head, and 2) if you say something and someone grins at you delightedly and goes “care to bet on that” you should be really really suspicious.

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ngl it's certainly something that Jonathan Harker is Dracula's chew toy for months, with Jonathan narrating everything he can remember or allow himself admit experiencing in this "sea of wonders" while being the Count's said plaything, but every single book or comic cover or movie poster or series promo is Dracula menacing Half-Naked Girl

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