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lizzardbird

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It’s not that Loki lacks morality; he just isn’t obnoxious about it. That’s why so many audience members manage to miss it. They’re used to heroes™ who define themselves according to their moral code. Loki is a moral person, but he doesn’t define himself by being one. He doesn’t advertise himself as a hero. When he does the right thing, it isn’t for self-glorification or because some key part of his identity is bound up in being A Good Person™, and he’s under no illusions (lol) that he’ll ever be thanked or celebrated for it.

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Hollywood tries to convince me that they don’t have a massive paedophile problem then do things like this:

This is the kinda stuff that EVERYONE should be infuriated by. The kinda stuff that should be trending. It’s so fucked up.

The movie’s worse than I originally thought and I cringe at the thought of how many paedophiles will watch this shit and jerk off to it. It’s so fucked up. Seriously considering cancelling my Netflix subscription over this. I don’t want any part of this bullshit.

#cuties netflix #cuties #cancel netflix

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Hogwarts letter finally arrived 

(via)

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I feel like I just watched a whole movie

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Tea delivery system is Japan

Source

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Starting at midnight on January 1, tens of thousands of books (as well as movies, songs, and cartoons) entered the public domain, meaning that people can download, share, or repurpose these works for free and without retribution under US copyright law.

Per the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998, “corporate” creations (like Mickey Mouse) can be restricted under copyright law for 120 years.  But per an amendment to the act, works published between 1923 and 1977 can enter the public domain 95 years after their creation.  This means that this is the first year since 1998 that a large number of works have entered the public domain.

Basically, 2019 marks the first time a huge quantity of books published in 1923 — including works by Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie, and Robert Frost — have become legally downloadable since digital books became a thing.  It’s a big deal — the Internet Archive had a party in San Francisco to celebrate.  Next year, works from 1924 will enter the public domain, and so-on.

So, how do you actually download these books?

It largely depends on what site you go to, and if you can’t find a book on one site, you can probably find it on another.  For instance, ReadPrint.com, as well as The Literature Network (mostly major authors), and Librivox (audio books), Authorama (all in the public domain), and over a dozen other sites all have vast selections of free ebooks.

There’s also a handful of archiving projects that are doing extensive work to digitize books, journals, music, and other forms of media.  A blog post from Duke University’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain listed some of the most recognizable works published in 1923, as well as links to download these books on digital archiving projects Internet Archive, HathiTrust, and the Gutenberg Project.  The books include:

Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan and the Golden Lion

Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links

Winston S. Churchill, The World Crisis

Robert Frost, New Hampshire

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Aldous Huxley, Antic Hay

D.H. Lawrence, Kangaroo

Bertrand and Dora Russell, The Prospects of Industrial Civilization

Carl Sandburg, Rootabaga Pigeons

Edith Wharton, A Son at the Front

P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves and Leave it to Psmith

Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room

E.E. Cummings, Tulips and Chimneys

In total HathiTrust, a massive digital archiving project, has also uploaded more than 53,000 works published in 1923 that just entered the public domain.  Over 17,650 of them are books written in English.  Similarly, Internet Archive has already uploaded over 15,000 works written in English that year.

Project Gutenberg, which has over 58,000 free downloadable books, has digitized five works that entered the public domain in the new year: The Meredith Mystery by Natalie Sumner Lincoln, The Golden Boys Rescued by Radio L. P. Wyman, White Lightning Edwin by Herbert Lewis, The Garden of God by H. De Vere Stacpoole, and The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran.  I’m going to be perfectly honest: I recognize exactly zero of those books.  But like most if not all digital archives, Project Gutenberg had some books from 1923 available for download before January 1, 2019 (like Jacob’s Room by Virginia Woolf.)

If you’re interested in academic papers, Reddit user nemobis also uploaded over 1.5 million PDF files of works published in academic journals before 1923.  Your best bet for actually finding something you want to read in there is to know which academic paper you’re looking for beforehand and check the paper’s DOI number.  Then, search for the DOI in one of nemobis’s lists of works — one list includes works published until 1909, the other includes works published until 1923.

It’s worth noting that projects like Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg rely on volunteer efforts, so there’s going to be disparities in the number of books available for download depending on where you go.  But over the next several days and weeks, it’s safe to expect many more books will become available legally and for free across the web.

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Well, I guess not agreeing with you about excluding people with different opinions is a reason to ‘cancel’ me. Let’s go over facts, all right?

1. You posted about not wanting racists to see your blog.

2. I asked if it’s a good course of action since it’s better to unradicalize people than to let them slip into shadows where they can grow in number. You have the right to block anyone but if they just follow you and don’t interact with you it is impossible and I guess get’s your panties twisted?

3. You replied with basically “I don’t wanthem to see my content because they are racist/homophobist etc.”. Because you don’t like them.

4. I was a bit harsh and commented you are fanatic, you replied I can unfollow you, I replied that it’s maybe too strong a word but what do you call someone that not only doesn’t want to talk -humans run on talking- you refuse to let anyone with not “right” worldview hear you speak.

5. You blocked me. I made another account, admited dogmatic would be better word for you, said your writing is amazing and that I won’t contact you again. Again I was blocked.

I of course don’t think I’m in wrong and if you ignored me at any point I would drop it but I guess you are much too far in the intersectionality cult/religion for anyone to talk to you. And with the latest news (someone got killed for saying “All lives matter”) I don’t think I want to.

Edit: Oh yeah, forgot to add since I don't care about this... You seem more emotional than me and it looks like you are going to be mad

#araceil #intersectionality

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"BLM Supporter Shoots Woman For Saying 'All Lives Matter' And News Tries To Cover It Up"

Holy shit, Fanatics on the streets, US is in the middle of the civil war.

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Fanfiction, specifically AU fanfiction which focuses on retelling the same story in a different setting, under different constraints, or with a twist, is actually a cultural successor to the ancient bardic tradition of taking long-loved and long-told stories and retelling them with a personal flourish. Through the practice of adding details to unexplored scenes, bringing a specific character to the forefront and constructing sequels, the content-creating fandom that is keeping the ‘epics’ alive through transformative works is reflective and hereditary to the human need to preserve the stories which are dear to us and connect with them on a personal level. In this essay I will

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“I think the experience gap between a 19 year old and a 35 year old is too large to result in a healthy romantic relationship without a power imbalance,” I say.

I pause.

“But of course I’d date a 3,000 year old shapeshifting dragon demi-god if the opportunity arose. Why do you ask?”

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Why did the word “fandom” come to be in common usage? It sounds dumb and the word “fan base” already existed. Was it seriously just that nerds on the internet thought “fan base” wasn’t cute enough or something? When did we even start using the word “fandom?”