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new fic go support (its short and sad tho) 👍🏻

#marinette dupain cheng #luka couffaine #sad #angst #losing a best friend type shit #oops am i projecting

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idk who to tag but yeah! this was fun 😊

Me 🤝 @mrabubu, bugs

Uquiz and picrew, inviting anyone who wants to participate!

#a little accurate #my skins a little darker #i had fun decorating my character! #nice activity

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omg thanks @chaoticneutralsapphic for tagging me

my five topics are:

lukanette

hamilton

anything space related

acting/theatre/art

writing ⭐

I'm not sure who to tag, so I'll just tag @haphira, and @alwaysawkwardd 😅

I saw this meme going around on twitter and I think it'll be perfect for this account.

List 5 topics you can talk on for an hour without preparing any material.

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random thoughts

may seem a bit controversial but why did I lowkey start shipping alyanette after the paris special 😭

like I'm still side lukanette supremacy but... 👀

#marinette dupain cheng #alya cesaire #miraculous-ladybug-ships #miraculous ladybug #alyanette #um #yeah

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LukTober Day 17: Stars

@lukacouffaineappreciation

Was not gonna do this day but someone one Instagram was hating on Lukanette and I wanted to spite them x)

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The big discourse on twitter right now is that writers going on strike or cancelling their own series are breaking an invisible “contract” they made with their fans and all creators owe their fans a satisfying conclusion to their stories. Actually all fans owe all creators for entertaining them and if a creator says “I don’t want to perform this labor anymore,” then regardless of the cliffhanger that leaves you with, your only response should be “take care! Thank you for all your hard work!!!” :)

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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.

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this post hasn't left my mind since i've first saw it

#this made me feel better about myself. #:/

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on a tangentially related note to my last reblog, i recently went into the toy aisle at the local supermarket. and as is standard for most grocery store store isles, there was a “boy” section of toys filled with bold primary colors and trucks and superheroes, and a “girl” section filled with soft pastels and dolls and ponies. and in the middle of that girl section, amidst the malibu pink barbies and the periwinkle elsas, was one bright red ladybug doll. and whenever i see people criticizing ml for not centering adrien enough or making disparaging remarks about girlbossing, i think about marinette dupain cheng, the only superhero, the only bright color, the only nonwhite doll in that aisle. and i think that her presence there is important and valuable and means something regardless of whatever flaws adults find in this children’s show. the need for girl superhero leads is not over. marinette is an icon.

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obsessed with this photo

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PSA- this is going on right now. I wouldn't care if the stories linked to my AO3 or ffn account, but no, it's fully copied and pasted to this site. Three of mine were there. Make sure you check for yours, and write them an email to take it down!!

@jessicanjpa @edwardskhakipants @palmofafreezinghand @gisellelx @acewardcullen @therealvinelle share far and wide!!!!

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