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EMERGENCY COMMISSIONS

I'm reposting this since it's an emergency now and this is my only income.

There are still two (2) slots for full illustration, $180 usd. Here's more info.

If you wanna help here's also my ko-fi. You can find my sketchbooks and the gomens fancomic. The portrait commissions are also available, $25-$45 usd.

And my prints. All reblogs appreciated!

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I wanna know what people assume about me because of my tumblr.

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Writing progress be like well I have a vague concept, the aesthetic, and two random scenes... No I didn't write them but I did imagine them so that counts.

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went to badlands national park today :)

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Made a trip out to the Badlands last week

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Authors Convinced Fanfic is Illegal/Requires Permission

Terry Goodkind: “Copyright law dictates that in order for me to protect my copyright, when I find such things, I must go out and hire lawyers to threaten these people to make them stop, and to sue them if they don’t.”

John Scalzi: “Let's remember one fundamental thing about fanfic: Almost all of it is entirely illegal to begin with. It's the wild and wanton misappropriation of copyrighted material”

Diana Gabaldon: “OK, my position on fan-fic is pretty clear: I think it’s immoral, I know it’s illegal, and it makes me want to barf whenever I’ve inadvertently encountered some of it involving my characters.”

Robin Hobb: “Fan fiction is like any other form of identity theft. It injures the name of the party whose identity is stolen.”

Anne Rice: “I do not allow fan fiction. The characters are copyrighted. It upsets me terribly to even think about fan fiction with my characters. I advise my readers to write your own original stories with your own characters. It is absolutely essential that you respect my wishes.”

Anne McCaffrey: “there can be no adventure/stories set on Pern at all!!!!! That's infringing on my copyright and can bear heavy penalties…indiscriminate usage of our characters, worlds, and concepts on a 'public' media like electronic mail constitute copyright infringement AND, which many fans disregard, is ACTIONABLE!”

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro: “No. Absolutely not. It is also against federal law.”

Lynn Flewelling: “Whether you are writing about Seregil or Fox Mulder or Sherlock Holmes, if you do not have legal permission from the author, their estate, or publisher, then you are violating US copyright law. It is creative piracy. Doesn't matter how many disclaimers you put on, or if you're being paid. It. Is. Illegal.”

Someone Else, elaborated in the notes

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Been working out and kinda bummed in terms of not losing weight so I'm gonna make note of my weight lifting stats atm (for 3 sets of 12) and check back later to see if there's any improvement:

Row: 88 lbs

Chest press: 77 lbs

Lat pulldown: 66 lbs

Leg press: 308 lbs

Leg curl: 66 lbs

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“the end goal of fiction is (of course) to collectively identify and consume only the good things. good stories make you a good person and bad stories make you a bad person” you guys literally sound like the 2nd grade teacher who told my mom not to let me read the golden compass

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after they first move in together, kyle goes through a phase of insisting selfies documenting everything ('can we do it after i brush my teeth' 'no it's authentic. just, like, swallow your spit or something')

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Appropriate/inappropriate isn't the term I'd use, but I voted for appropriate. I mean...look, there's a reason I don't criticize specific fanfic outside of talking in private chats with my friends. I'm aware that plenty of authors don't appreciate comments that aren't 100% positive, and there's not really a way to know unless they're asking for critique. I'm not going to crap-shoot in making people feel bad over something they wrote when it's extremely unlikely that any of the 'flaws' I see would have real-world ramifications.

But on the flip side of this, I've seen posts complaining about less engagement on fics than there was years/decades ago. I've experienced that myself, too. And I do think part of that has been the stricter take of 'criticism is mean'. Criticism isn't (inherently) mean, and can actually boost engagement in fics-- if I criticized a fic by recommending it on my tumblr but saying, "I liked this fic a lot, but did think the romance was unintentionally toxic which makes me hesitant to recommend it...." and commenters followed up with things like "I agree that the romance would be toxic irl but it fits the trope; this fic is based on 90s RomCom 'Movie Title' and I think it works in that fictionalized setting" well, idk. That's criticism, but it's not negative and in fact can encourage more thoughtful engagement with the fanfic itself than kudos and 'Good jobs!' alone can. I've seen a lot of people specifying interactions like 'don't like. Just reblog', and subsequently a lot of people disinterested in writing fanfic because the engagement just isn't there like it used to be.

Criticism can kill a writer's interest in writing, but so too can narrowing the scope of allowable interaction so much that it kills any discussion about content you're creating.

I don't think criticism should be taken to mean ripping on the author, the way a lot of the commenters seem to see it. But people should keep in mind the weight critiques can carry, especially when they engage publicly with hundreds to thousands of people who don't know them and can't as easily pick up or pick apart their thought processes as a discord server of 3 friends.

Publicly here involves anything that anyone in a broader community can see without having to join, say, a discord server. You can be more specific in the tags. If your answer would change based on which fandom or community the fic belongs to, vote for the option that best reflects the community most open to public criticism of an author's work.

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COMMISSIONS OPEN

3 slots this time. Full illustration, $180 usd. More info here! Reblogs appreciated.

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and by this I mean do the groceries, go to the park, go to the café, etc

extra points if you say your country in the tags

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to anyone that says they want to see less gore in horror movies, no. I want to see more gore, I want to see blood and guts, I want to gag in my theater seat! I want half the budget to go to practical effects and buckets and buckets of fake blood!!! MORE GORE IN HORROR!!!!

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You know what trope I wanna see more of? Couples who have been married forever who are estranged but still in love but estranged. You know me better than any other person on earth. I haven't seen you in three years. I never stopped loving you. If I have to spend another minute in your presence I will murder you. I'm hurt and I need you right here with me. God you're such a dumbass. You're the only one I trust to do this job. I want you out of my sight.

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In my head butters is fancast by jon voight. Unassuming, rounder apple-face, and angelina jolie lips