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Cosy Joe 🌻 prints

Thank you @vintagejacqui for the WONDERFUL prompt for my art giveaway! I hope you love it! Getting to draw cosy winter Joe was a dream I just love him so much 💛

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Fanfiction Authors: HEADS UP

(Non-authors, please RB to signal boost to your author friends!)

An astute reader informed me this morning that one of my fics (Children of the Future Age) had been pirated and was being sold as a novel on Amazon:

(And they weren't even creative with their cover design. If you're going to pirate something that I spent a full year of my life writing, at least give me a pretty screenshot to brag about later. Seriously.)

I promptly filed a DMCA complaint to have it removed, but I checked out the company that put it up -- Plush Books -- and it looks like A LOT of their books are pirated fic. They are by no means the only ones doing this, either -- the fact that """publishers""" can download stories from AO3 in ebook format and then reupload them to Amazon in just a few clicks makes fic piracy a common problem. There are a whole host of reasons why letting this continue is bad -- including actual legal risk to fanfiction archives -- but basically:

IF YOU ARE A FANFIC AUTHOR WITH LONG AND/OR POPULAR WORKS, PLEASE CHECK AMAZON TO SEE IF YOUR STORIES HAVE BEEN PIRATED.

You can search for your fics by title, or by text from the description (which is often just copied wholesale from AO3 as well). If you find that someone has stolen your work and is selling it as their own, you can lodge a DMCA complaint (Amazon.com/USA site; other countries have different systems). If you haven't done this before, it's easy! Here's a tutorial:

HOW TO FILE A COPYRIGHT COMPLAINT FOR STOLEN WORK ON AMAZON.COM:

First, go to this form. You'll need to be signed into your Amazon account.

Select the radio buttons/dropdown options (shown below) to indicate that you are the legal Rights Owner, you have a copyright concern, and it is about a pirated product.

Enter the name of your story in the Name of Brand field.

In the Link to the Copyrighted Work box, enter a link to the story on AO3 or whatever site your work is posted on.

In the Additional Information box, explain that you are the author of the work and it is being sold without your permission. That's all you really need. If you want, you can include additional information that might be helpful in establishing the validity of your claim, but you don't have to go into great detail. You can simply write something like this:

I am the author of this work, which is being sold by [publisher] without my permission. I originally published this story in [date/year] on [name of site], and have provided a link to the original above. On request, I can provide documentation proving that I am the owner of the account that originally posted this story.

In the ASIN/ISBN-10 field, copy and paste the ID number from the pirated copy's URL. You'll find this ten-digit number in the Amazon URL after the word "product," as in the screenshot below. (If the URL extends beyond this number, you can ignore everything from the question mark on.) Once this number has been added, Amazon will pull the product information automatically and add it to the complaint form, so you can check the listing title and make sure it's correct.

Finally, add your contact information to the relevant fields, check the "I have read and accept the statements" box, and then click Submit. You should receive an email confirmation that Amazon has received the form.

Please share this information with your writer friends, keep an eye out for/report pirated works, and help us keep fanfiction free and legally protected!

NOTE: All of the above also applies to Amazon products featuring stolen artwork, etc., so fan artists should check too!

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My frame for the @theartguard gif project!! 🥳 (And yes, I went completely overboard and put them into the 1920s. Good guys or bad guys is up to the century!)

See the full amazing project here with links to all 14 artists:

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Nicolo di Genova

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My roommate said that Nick looks like he just failed a bottle flip and is trying hard to hide the pain so this is now the context for this

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@captainshakespear requested the tog crew + Canadian winter, and what started out cozy just got progressively more chaotic

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I was excited to have the opportunity to commission @johannathemad recently!

Thanks Jo for this fabulous image of the Fence coaches enjoying a very-friendly-and-definitely-not-at-all-highly-competitive afternoon of poker. (also a nod to Coach Joe, who said he just needed to rest his eyes for a minute.)

We're all looking forward to meeting the famed Exton coach, Alessandra Donati, eventually...

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afternoon husbands

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Immortal Family - Tarot Series

Andy - the Emporer, Quynh - the Hermit

Joe - the Sun, Nicky - the Moon

Booker - the Hanged Man, Nile - the High Priestess

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黄金

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after we watched The Old Guard last year, I of course fell hard for JoexNicky 😭❤

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you are taking requests you say 👀 could I possibly ask for Nicky "owl eyes OvO" di Genova staring at Joe like a child staring at their parents silently urging them to stop talking to their friend in the supermarket and go home already? or is that too specific? thank you v much either way your art is wonderful 💜

his beloved wont notice his desperate eyes and tragically they will stay to chat another 5 minutes :(

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Love at first sight

... but no one said that it was mutual.

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Harvard and Aiden as rich, early-1900s vampires for halloween 🎃

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Why is Aiden taller than Harvard? Because I'm lazy, that's why.

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And thus, Nicholas continued to snuggle with Seiji - who in turn pretended to be very grumpy.

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midterms almost over,,,writing commence,,,soon