#freedom to publish

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

#Salman Rushdie #British Book Awards #Nibbie #Freedom to Publish #freedom of speech #free speech #freedom of expression #artistic freedom #religion is a mental illness

[akacatholicism]

Against "liberty of conscience"

Pope Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos, 1832:

14. This shameful font of indifferentism gives rise to that absurd and erroneous proposition which claims that liberty of conscience must be maintained for everyone. It spreads ruin in sacred and civil affairs, though some repeat over and over again with the greatest impudence that some advantage accrues to religion from it. “But the death of the soul is worse than freedom of error,” as Augustine was wont to say. When all restraints are removed by which men are kept on the narrow path of truth, their nature, which is already inclined to evil, propels them to ruin.

#indifferentism #liberty of conscience #catholic #mirari vos #pope gregory xvi #censorship #freedom to publish

[biglisbonnews]

IPA’s Karine Pansa in Portugal: Publishing Must Be ‘Tough and Smart’ The International Publishers Association’s Karine Pansa in Portugal speaks of rising threats to publishing’s framework of protections. The post IPA’s Karine Pansa in Portugal: Publishing Must Be ‘Tough and Smart’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. https://www.bookbusinessmag.com/aggregatedcontent/ipas-karine-pansa-in-portugal-publishing-must-be-tough-and-smart/

#Trade #Brazil #Copyright #Diversity #Educational publishing #Europe #Freedom of Expression #freedom to publish #Inclusion #International Publishers Association #Karine Pansa #Latin America #News #Portugal #Prix Voltaire #Sustainability #feedauthor #Book Business

[ultramontanism]

Pope Pius VII, 1800: Diu Satis:

15. Books which openly oppose the teaching of Christ are to be burned. [...]

16. In this case We cannot overlook, keep silent or act sluggishly. For unless this great license of thinking, speaking, writing, and reading is repressed, it will appear that the strategy and armies of wise kings and generals have relieved us for but a short time from this evil which has crushed us for so long. But so long as its stock and seed is not removed and destroyed (I shudder to say it but it must be said), it will spread abroad and be strengthened to reach over the whole world. To destroy it later or to rout it, legions, guards, watches, the armories of cities, and the defenses of empires will not be enough.

#the index #censorship #catholic #pope pius VII #diu satis #freedom to publish #free speech

[gelly-fsh]

A snippet of my a/b/o AU that I have been working on for like a couple of months

Featuring a pregnant Regulus <3

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“James, listen to me very carefully,” Regulus says, glaring at him “You will absolutely lose touching rights if you try to do anything near me while being this dirty, I'm serious”

“What,” James asked, looking absolutely panicked all if the sudden. He just got back from training the soldiers, and that just meant that after that James was always covered in mud and sweat.

Before the pregnancy? Regulus loved the musky smell of a post-training James, it never failed to make his knees weak.

Right now tho? Just the sight of mud was enough to make him want to gag.

Most of the time James never failed to come back clean after a quick dip in the lake. However, Regulus will not think about the possibility of his morning neediness for his alpha as a reason for James hasty arrival, that would be preposterous.

“You heard me well, no hugs, no kisses, no more…intimate stuff until you're completely clean, and you're not putting a foot near our nest like that” He was obviously full of shit, because right now he was not able to sleep decently when his alpha was not around, but what James didn't know didn't hurt him.

“but my Angel” James whined, looking really close to bursting into tears, and Regukus briefly thought how this man could be the leader of one of the nation's with the strongest warriors on the earth “It’s not even on purpose! I forgot to bathe after training, just give me a kiss please”

“Well too bad” Regulus replied “I can barely smell you right now beneath all that dirt, you know how distressed that makes my Omega? I am pregnant with your pup, for goodness sake. I cannot be stressed right now” he wasn’t even kidding, even if he showed somewhat of a calm demeanor right now, his Omega was rioting inside him in pure distress and that was making him more upset the more time that passed.

At the mention of the distress of Regulus’ Omega, James' demeanor changed drastically. He could see how James clenched his hands constantly, an habit that gave away how much he wanted to rub Regulus' belly to soothe him, and Regulus could not decide if he felt grateful or mournful over the lack of touch.

“Oh Angel, I'm so sorry about that, I will go to bathe at the lake okay? Just wait in our nest” he spoke softly now, using that warm tone he only used for Regulus, and that tone just convinced him more that they have been apart enough for a day.

“Wait- I…will accompany you, I haven't bathed yet anyway.” Regulus finally said because dammit, his alpha has been away all day and he wanted some well-deserved quality time, give him a break. James' eyes absolutely lighted the fuck up at Regulus' proposal and he didnt waste more tkme after that, gently taking his hand to quickly make the way to the lake, Regulus laughing fondly behind him while he rubbed his slightly distended belly.

#jegulus #james potter #james x regulus #fic: in the lands of freedom #snippet #a/b/o #omegaverse #NOT A PUBLISHED FIC YET #This fic is my Magnum Opus #starchaser #regulus black #fluff #silly banter

[historia-vitae-magistras]

I don't think you've ever gone into much detail on the relationships between Alfred and Zee/Jack. Does he care about them or is it more like an an adult sibling in their 30s suddenly having siblings that are in their teens? Nothing in common and generally don't really speak to each other or feel like they're really related at all. Just some other people that his father calls his children that he couldn't care less about?

It's really not very sibling but it's kind of distantly familial. But mostly they interact as friends. Zee has been very sceptical about Alfred pretty much from the get-go. She met him probably in the early Victorian Era and Alfred interpreted her clinging to Uncle Rhys as shyness, but she was low-key cranky and not having it. It's not that she doesn't like him, because she does. Alfred's impossible not to like especially when he's being genuine. But she's not sure she trusts him. He's ambitious and cunning in that bible salesman kind of way.

But he also has had some moments where he recognizes how Europe rejects both of them for being very obviously on the edge of European hegemony. They might ride a lot of human context of whiteness but empire is a very fucked up cosmopolitan thing so "neither you nor I are entirely European. We're western states but never going to completely European and there will always be a barrier there. Don't bother with them, I've already tried and pushed our limits." made for some surprising commonality with them. He's also had his head in her lap hallucinating and begging for Matt, death or Dad when he was low-key dying of malaria or dengue in the South Pacific. She also, perhaps ironically given their power differences, has given him the biggest fuck you anyone ever has by banning his ships from her ports while not only not escaping punishment but still entirely benefiting from the American security apparatus. He saves the majority of his emotional attachment for Matt but they can have a beer and go surfing without major incident. He certainly trusts her more than she trusts him but like it's just more solid than intimate.

Jack's relationship with Alfred is both more and less fraught. Mostly because of gender. Zee has it harder in a lot of ways being afab and feminine presenting most of the time but that's also made her less concerned about masculinity. Especially the sword clashing virility-as-nationalism they came of age in. The stolid, stoic, takes-his-lashes-silently ideal of British manhood that Jack does not suit. He looks at Arthur and he looks at Matt and he doesn't want to be them. His father's rage, Matthew's senseless martyrdom. He wants that respect, the warriors right to respect as it is. But he looks across the Pacific in the late 19th century and early 20th and Alfred is bright, forward-looking friendly and progressive. He has a navy. He has respect. He has a battle scars waged in the name of glamorous things like freedom and democracy and equality. That's an example of masculinity he likes. Alfred standing on the flag ship's prow, at the head of the Great White Fleet announcing him as the next great power kind of beat Jack over the head with a 'oh I'm a baby I need to grow up and get a navy and be a man and earn respect.' And he does pursue those goals and something of Alfred's version of great power projection. But its also not long before Alfred scares the shit out of him too. The costs of his father' ambitions have always been visible but when Alfred's are revealed to Jack they're shocking and frightening. He doesn't want to be his father and he doesn't want to be Alfred. But sometimes, the blunt imperialism of his father is a little easier to handle than the way Alfred operates as an empire of militant idealism. So while he and Alfred appear to get along very well on the surface, and work together very well while they're at it, there's very fundamental differences to who they are and that keeps them friends, not family.

#the ask box || probis pateo #im just publishing like 6 weeks of drafts lmaooo sorry #Pacific Siblings || freedom and fairness

[windslar]

drafting a legacy challenge because i'm not already playing two of them right now ✌🏼

#text post #i've been working on it for the last month-ish? #here and there just adding bits and pieces to it #but last night i was working like i was getting paid a seven-figure salary to make it LMFAO #when i publish it it better not flop #i'm counting on you!!! #it's for my bbs who like structure but also freedom #for my bbs who like lists of things to do but also like “your sim is feeling this way about their love life” -- what do you do? #for my bbs who like to take online personality tests bc “OMG that's ME”

[wizardmarriage]

シン・仮面ライダー 『継承』

#the last one: ''inheritance/accession'' with the ''reclaim the freedom of your soul'' line #feel free to correct me on the published english translation of these btw i'm grabbing these from jp articles so i don't have them proper #shin kamen rider #シン仮面ライダー #シン・仮面ライダー

[miralines]

One thing I think is interesting/useful to note about the Rose Red book is that it is a book that was published in the OUATIS galaxy a little under ten years after the war, and that it has an in-story author— and, crucially, that author is not necessarily an entirely reliable narrator.

More rambling about this under the cut

The author, Althea, is a normcivilian with an unusual amount of sympathy for the now-decommissioned Rose Reds. This is not a popular position, and between:

A) her rhetorical goal of changing the minds of people actively against the Rose Reds being allowed to survive

B) the constraints of mainstream publishers, who are under social/political pressure to not threaten the new government, requiring her to be both neutral and not too challenging,

C) her own corresponding bias in believing that neutrality is both possible and desirable,

and D) her limited viewpoint as a normcivilian (not a Rose Red) from a privileged background,

There are quite a lot of places where events, people, and viewpoints are presented in ways that are somewhat misleading. Althea has a degree in journalism, but she does not live in an entirely free society, and both external forces and her own biases do color the narrative she presents throughout the book.

In short, she’s the equivalent of a left-leaning ally to a marginalized group who’s a bit more centrist than one might hope and is presenting herself as even more centrist in order to be published at all through mainstream channels and taken seriously by people who are biased against her cause.

#my fic #one thousand and three #rose red book #I figure she’s willing to bargain the constraints of traditional publishing for the reach they offer #in service of her greater goal of humanizing the rose reds to other norms #this is a compromise she can make. I think many rose reds would feel differently #including several she interviews #it would also fundamentally be a different book if it were written for rose reds #Althea’s biggest flaw in approaching this is attempting to be palatable to an audience who is hostile to the people she writes about #and this creates some. problematic dynamics in how she handles some of the issues she’s discussing as an outsider #I have. a lot of thoughts about the politics of the book #and also how they intersect with broader galactic politics #(especially when it comes to freedom of ideas and censorship) #anyway thanks to anyone who’s read all this meta rambling about rhetoric and narrative in this project #hope you enjoy the book itself lmao

[charmac]

ack sorry I was rude about the bathroom problem script I misunderstood what you meant </3 thank you for being a great resource for the sunny stans

No worries lmfao I was being crypto maybe unnecessarily but more for fun… trying to lure people to my blog… lol

But I promise my main goal here is to make sure fans have access to as much Sunny content and resources as possible!

That’s my whole motivation for this blog, after years of searching the depths of the internet for old stuff and running into dozens of dead links (why!! @alwayssunnyfxx !? why did you privatise/delete so many videos!?) and watching almost every social media site fall apart to bad AI search and bots, I want a place where that’s not going to happen (as long as Blogger stays in existence, I guess)

It’s definitely a work in progress, and there’s still a lot to come, to be added and collected, scripts included, but hopefully we will soon have a great resource and fun and interesting site for the community, and a place for great future content and, of course, Season 17+ updates :)

#iasip #ask #ppb #woring on a formative post #not rn lol i’m tipsy #but yo publish monday probs? #i need 5 peer reviews on this thing #anyway i am trying to pander this blog to everyone #so you can read the posts and get it #no matter if you’ve seen the show once through while under the influence or 100 times #you can see these things and go yeah! or go ohhh #that’s the goal :) #on top of all the FUN STUFF! #anyway if anyone wants to join… again. i have a discord and what not #:$ #also like #s16 tracking everything on my own was fun #but i hated literally HATED how isolated my stuff was lol #like it was just a personal spreadsheet i could figure out how to format here #this blog is more freedom :)

[catoscloves]

you know in my ap us history/ap government classes something that comes up in the videos they have us watch as homework assignments is how governments & especially fascist regimes will use children's education as a tool to mass-brainwash the impressionable youth into believing in their ideology while cutting off their access to outside information & resources that would contradict and completely disintegrate that line of thinking, and being the thg girlie that i am i immediately thought "hey that sounds familiar, pretty much what happened to the career tributes" and after that i was like "oh. that's literally suzanne's entire point!! right."

#even the US did this during wwi and literally took away their beloved constitutional freedom of speech when it didn't benefit the war effort #the constitution: yeah people should be say what they wish (within reason) because that is literally the founding principle of liberty #the US during a war when people disagreed with the draft: yeah how about no #i wouldn't goso far as to call it fascist that is not the correct word (i don't think I'd be able to publish this post online if the US was #but like ??? 'freedom of speech but not when it's inconvenient for us' 💀💀💀 #the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the career tributes #listen no matter how you feel about them as characters (even katniss saw them as jerks which they kind of were) #if you were raised from literal infancy/toddlerhood to think that murder was super cool and great #and had no reliable resources or education telling you otherwise #I mean. anybody in that situation would have turned out just as bad as cato was according to katniss #they weren't going to grow a moral conscience they deadass had no frame of reference to be like 'wait maybe the ideas we grew up believing #in our whole life are actually?? wrong and oppressive????? #cato hadley #clove kentwell #district 1 #district 2 #anna speaks

[thelaurenshippen]

sometimes I go to reblog something and I type out a whole essay in the tags responding to the original post and then I just close out without ever posting. I think this is a habit more people on this website should practice

#tumblr #I don't do this SO much on this blog #but on my other one #sometimes you just need to type that shit out to realize #'oh huh' #'this isn't something I need to contribute to this conversation' #or #'a bunch of strangers don't actually need to know this thing about me' #and then you just delete the post before you ever actually publish it #true freedom

[moonpaw]

What if similar to the celestial dragons being the descendants of the original 20 kings, those who carry the initial D are the descendants of the lost kingdom? And that's why the celestials are scared of them?

#one piece #carrying out the will of D is carrying out the kingdoms goal or something similar? #because it's an interesting observation how most of the characters with D are pirates #garp and saul were marines but saul defected because he knew what was going on wasnt right #garp is a weirdo though #but i dont think he likes what's going on with the celestials either seeing that he's still a vice admiral instead of stepping up #im sure he couldve easily been an admiral long ago #but being one means being bound to the celestials #he probably gets more freedom as a vice #but i just think it's interesting that most D's are against the government #and those that are they government tries pretty hard to erase that initial #changing gol d to gold and getting mad when the publishers didnt remove it from luffy's poster #despite what seemed like several requests to do so #they're afraid of the public seeing the initial D despite the public not knowing squat about it (or seemingly care) #and if nika was originally from this kingdom it's just like #doflamingo's words during marineford yknow? #whoever wins this battle becomes justice? #hence why most D's are pirates or against the government? #i wonder what the kingdoms name was #and if it started with a D

[corpsepng]

What if. Hear me out. What if I self published a couple books that I know tradpub wouldn’t touch with a 10ft pole? What if I just did a cheeky lil self pub and the 4 of you paying attention here could read it

#will that hurt my chances of tradpub? idk #I still want to be traditionally published but I think. #I think the projects I’m thinking of NEED the freedom to be nasty and that can only happen if I self pub #which is gonna suck bc I can’t market but whatever at least it will be out there

[ultramontanism]

Pope Gregory XVI, 1832: Mirari Vos:

15. Here We must include that harmful and never sufficiently denounced freedom to publish any writings whatever and disseminate them to the people, which some dare to demand and promote with so great a clamor. We are horrified to see what monstrous doctrines and prodigious errors are disseminated far and wide in countless books, pamphlets, and other writings which, though small in weight, are very great in malice. We are in tears at the abuse which proceeds from them over the face of the earth. Some are so carried away that they contentiously assert that the flock of errors arising from them is sufficiently compensated by the publication of some book which defends religion and truth. Every law condemns deliberately doing evil simply because there is some hope that good may result. Is there any sane man who would say poison ought to be distributed, sold publicly, stored, and even drunk because some antidote is available and those who use it may be snatched from death again and again?

16. The Church has always taken action to destroy the plague of bad books. This was true even in apostolic times for we read that the apostles themselves burned a large number of books.[23] It may be enough to consult the laws of the fifth Council of the Lateran on this matter and the Constitution which Leo X published afterwards lest “that which has been discovered advantageous for the increase of the faith and the spread of useful arts be converted to the contrary use and work harm for the salvation of the faithful.”[24] This also was of great concern to the fathers of Trent, who applied a remedy against this great evil by publishing that wholesome decree concerning the Index of books which contain false doctrine.[25] “We must fight valiantly,” Clement XIII says in an encyclical letter about the banning of bad books, “as much as the matter itself demands and must exterminate the deadly poison of so many books; for never will the material for error be withdrawn, unless the criminal sources of depravity perish in flames.”[26] Thus it is evident that this Holy See has always striven, throughout the ages, to condemn and to remove suspect and harmful books. The teaching of those who reject the censure of books as too heavy and onerous a burden causes immense harm to the Catholic people and to this See. They are even so depraved as to affirm that it is contrary to the principles of law, and they deny the Church the right to decree and to maintain it.

#freedom to publish #catholic #free press #the index #mirari vos #pope gregory xvi #fifth lateran council #pope leo X #council of trent #clement XIII #censorship

[linguenuvolose]

I do a lot of translation in my job and I've started enjoying it so much more since I started letting myself be a bit more free in my translations. Communicating the message and the vibe is more important than the phrase structure or wording being exactly the same.

#it also improves the quality of the texts because they actually make sense #sometimes these Italians love to put 40000 words that mean nothing and the same thing in a sentence and it's like #girl we don't have to do all that #in the sense that Italian and Swedish text conventions are different and what sounds fine in Italian risks sounding v formal in Swedish #also sometimes I sit there with an Italian origin text that I first have to edit and it's like do I not understand what this says because #1. my Italian isn't good enough in this field #2. this is a complicated field #3. these people don't know how to write #and sometimes when I'm done editing the Italian text and go to do the translation I'm like oh I have no idea what they're trying to say #and think to myself hmm maybe I should've done more editing but oh well eccoci qua #I mean this is like translation 101 but I have done exactly one very bad translation course 5 years ago #that made me go I never want to do this for a job #but my increased freedom now is just I don't care as much about it being exactly the way my boss envisioned #like everything we publish has to go by him first which puts a certain pressure on the text #so when I first arrived at this job I was like uuh the Swedish has to be as similar as possible #but now I'm like man it's more important that it sounds Swedish and not Italian than it being exactly the same #and my boss also doesn't speak Swedish in any case so what does he know #snicksnack #comunque sì queste le riflessioni della serata #domani ho preso il giorno libero perché i miei colleghi mi hanno un po' rotto er cazzo sinceramente so :))