#(according to some sites)

[amphibianaday]

day 1421

[dimitrscu]

everyday i go online and get exposed to the worst takes imaginable and everyday i have to fight the urge not to kill

[organised-disaster]

All my Snowbird playlists! The "rumi" one is the original "snowbird," but I decided to make snowbird the general one with rumi and sera combined

Ashamed to do this but tagging @randosfandos for the attention (they're the only person who'd be interested in this lol)

[noys-boise]

This came crashing into me randomly on my way to breakfast

this is cursed this is so cursed

[empirearchives]

This is one of Napoleon’s alleged illegitimate daughters: Joséphine-Napoléone de Montholon

I found it on Wikipedia.

Little Joséphine was born on the island of Saint Helena in 1818 to Albine de Montholon. She was legally recognized as the daughter of Albine’s husband, not Napoleon.

She unfortunately died young.

She had an older sister who was also born on Saint Helena and was also believed to be the daughter of Napoleon. Her name was Hélène-Napoléone. She lived a very long life and died in 1907. She was said to strongly resemble Napoleon. I haven’t been able to find any pictures of her, though she lived long enough for there to be photographs.

[vonlipvig]

in my mind, i trust letterboxd reviews to be 75% hit 25% miss, while goodreads is the complete opposite.

[britishchick09]

the tall man :)

@robert-273-fan

[nevermeyers]

At this point in life I already understand the rush of one of my friends to take the Cambridge English level exams when we were still in secondary school...

[shedontlovehuhself]

Let a site use y'all fave and state they said something without their permission. Y'all would be pissed.

[t-u-i-t-c]

thinking about go-onger again

[dwellerinroots]

Moon Tree, Joakim Back, misanthropia.net (defunct)

[cripplecryptid]

I had to give my med card up because I want to be a firearm owner and I think it’s gross that so many people need to sacrifice freedom or are outright barred from natural remedies and pain relief like it’s a boogeyman. But we can load up on addictive chemical prescriptions or I can go buy a full container of hard whiskey and a shotgun 20 mins apart

Yeah it's incredibly hypocritical. The way that im forced to choose between prescribed opioids or getting weed illegally (or just not getting any pain relief at all) is SO disheartening, because the opioid got me in the hospital on the second day. It clearly isnt without fucking risk. And yeah sure it isnt hard to get weed illegally, but i shouldnt have to! It should not still be illegal in 2023

And i get that there's a scientific process to get medicine approved, but they really act like weed was invented yesterday

I'm sorry you had to give up your med card, I'm sure that wasnt an easy decision

[stevebabey]

i hope ur day got better, also i’d love to hear ur angsty steve thoughts bc i have many. whenever u post ur next angst fic i will come running like a stampeding emu

this made me laugh just a little 🤏 i love the visual u provided hehehe, however angsty steve thought did NOT get written tho, i’m sorry to disappoint :(

[fandomchaosposts]

the question is, should i trust olla.gr or should i wait until i go to germany

[themirokai]

I got this comment on a story from my Other AO3 Account this morning.

(Info redacted because I prefer keeping these accounts separate but no one follows me on the side blog I have for that account.)

The story was posted almost a year ago and is relatively “popular” by my average statistics even though it has tropes and themes that are big turnoffs for a lot of people (hence separate accounts). This popularity is undoubtedly because it’s a Marvel Loki story and that fandom is massive.

So there is obviously an algorithm or a bot scrubbing ao3 statistics and leaving this comment on fics that meet a certain metric with the main character of the fic inserted into the comment.

I had a little time to kill this morning so I decided to investigate further. And y’all this is so predatory. Come on this journey with me. It made me mad. It may make you mad.

First, if you go to Webnovel’s website, you HAVE to choose between male lead or female lead stories before you can go any further. WTF?

And that’s weird, but this gets so much worse. This is basically a pay-to-read site that has different subscription models. Which… okay BUT! The authors don’t get paid! Look at that comment again. They’re promising a supportive and nurturing community, but zero monetary compensation. It’s basically, “post your stuff here so we can get paid and you can get… nice vibes?” I mean look at this Orwellian writing:

Using the phrase “pay-to-read model” in the same sentence as “qualitative changes in lifestyles for authors” deliberately makes you think that you can get paid and maybe even make a living on this website. But that’s not actually what it says and authors will not receive one red cent.

Oh but wait, the worst is still to come. In case this breaks containment (which I kind of hope it does) this is where I mention that I’m a lawyer in the US.

I don’t do intellectual property or copyright law but I do read and write contracts for a living. So I went to look at their terms of service. It was fun!

Highlights the first, in which Webnovel gets a license to do basically whatever they want with content you post on their site. This is how they get to be paid for people reading authors’ writing without paying them anything.

Highlights the second, in which Webnovel takes no responsibility for illegally profiting off of fan fic. This all says that the writer is 100% responsible for everything the writer posts (even though only Webnovel is making money from it).

Highlights the third which say that by posting, the author is representing that they have the legal right to use and to let Webnovel use the content according to these terms. So if a writer posts fan fiction and Webnovel makes money from people reading the fan fiction, and the House of the Mouse catches wise, these sections say that that’s ALL on the writer.

So that’s a little skeevy to start off with but the thing that is seriously shitty and made me make this post was that these assholes are coming to ao3. They are actively recruiting people in comments on their fan fiction. And they are saying they are big fans of the character you’re writing about and that they share your interests.

They are recruiting fan fiction writers and giving every impression that you can make money from posting fan fiction on their site and hiding the fact that you absolutely cannot but they can make money off of you while you try, deep in their terms of service which no one but a lawyer who writes fan fic and has some time to kill will read.

I see posts on here regularly from people who don’t understand how this stuff works, don’t understand that they (and others) can not legally make a financial profit from fan fiction. And there are tons of people who will not take the time to dig into the details.

Don’t deal with these bastards. Fuck Webnovel.

[razbb]

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