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I know an older neurodivergent woman who genuinely adores The Big Bang theory. Not only because it doesn't demand too much of her (she struggles with absorbing information in visual media), she also finds it relatable to her experiences as a neurodivergent person. She sees herself in the likes of Sheldon Cooper and Amy Farrah Fowler, despite all the criticism that has been thrown the show's way.

#neurodivergent #neurodiversity #the big bang theory

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Today in niche genres of joke that I can never get enough of and will probably still be secretly thinking about four years later

#long post

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ideology

here's a random word generator--whatever word it gives you is now the thing you are the deity of

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50 posts!

#50 posts #tumblr milestone

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I was very rudely awakened to the concept in high school, where i shared a cup of water with a female classmate who said to me (roughly paraphrased) "btw, i've just gotten over a case of mono" while i was drinking from the cup she just drank from.

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how did seitokai yakuindomo get big?

you know, it's kind of bizarre how successful seitokai yakuindomo actually was as a franchise. thirteen years of 4koma manga from 2007 to 2020, two seasons of television from 2010-2014, eighteen OVAs (some of which shipped with the limited edition of the manga) from 2010-2020, and two theatrically released movies in 2017 and 2020. it might be one of the most successful franchises based off of 4koma manga of all time. hell, even if you don't even know the name of the series, you've most likely seen a few clips that are infamous. like this one:

or this one:

or even this one:

or this infamous scene:

and the fact that the series is kinda successful. that teacher just offered to piss in that teenagers mouth; this should be a turn-off for most people, and yet it was a successful franchise that ran for fucking years because despite it essentially being the humor equivalent of playing the penis game.

like, compare seitokai yakuindomo to shimoneta: a world where dirty jokes don't exist. shimoneta is a light novel series that has a similar sort of appeal to it; it's a work that also involves a lot of raunchy humor involving penises and vaginas. ayame and shino, if they met, would probably have a very...interesting conversation that would probably result in tanukichi freaking out and tsuda's quipping abilities being pushed to the brink. shimoneta only has a light novel, manga adaptation, and a single season of televised anime, putting it on the same level of success as seirei tsukai no bladedance, a series i love and adore with all my heart yet no one has heard of.

yet shimoneta is a different beast altogether than seitokai yakuindomo, I feel. for one thing, it has a continuing story and actual themes that tie into the story. it's attempting to say something, to tell a love story, to display a nightmare future and the consequences, and also to make you laugh, and I feel like its ambition to combine side-splitting dirty humor in a dark-ish dystopian setting doesn't always work to achieve these storytelling goals. also, sometimes the author makes it pretty clear that the topic that he actually cares about is his porno collection and how you'll have to drag his pornography from his cold, dead, hands.

seitokai yakuindomo, on the other hand, is funny. and it doesn't need to be anything more than that. it surprisingly pushes few buttons in regards to content; while the language may be filthy, the events themselves are fairly normal and mundane. there are issues with the writing, too; for example, ujie tozen cannot write a second male tsukkomi that is older than Tsuda (when the principal quips back at Naruko, he shouldn't sound exactly like the teenage main character) and some characters have only one joke (nene, suzu's best friend, is an insufferable presence).

still, syd rules, and i'm surprised it went for so long.

#seitokai yakuindomo #dirty humor #anime and manga #shimoneta: a world where dirty jokes don't exist #Youtube

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Copy Right and Public Domain in 2024

Happy 2024 all! its also Public Domain Day! a magical holiday here in America where things enter the public domain. Works published in the year 1928 (or 95 years ago!) have entered the public domain, which means they belong to us, all of us, the public!

Mickey's Back!

Yes! I'm sure you've heard, but Mickey Mouse (and Minnie Mouse too) is entering the Public Domain today. This has been news for a few years and indeed Disney's lobbying in the late 1990s is why our copy right term is SO long. So what exactly is now public domain?

Most people know about Mickey's first appearance Steamboat Willie, but a second short film, Plane Crazy was also released in 1928 so will also be public domain. So what's public? well these two films first of all, you're allowed to play them, upload them to YouTube or whatever without paying Disney. In theory you'll be allowed to cut and sample them, have them playing in the background of your movie etc. Likewise in theory the image of Mickey and Minnie as they appear (thats important) in these films will be free to use as well as Mickey's character as he appears in these works will be free to use. Now Mickey's later and more famous appearance

will still be protected. Famously the Conan Doyle Estate claimed that Sherlock Holmes couldn't be nice, smile, or not hate women in works because they still held the copyright on the short stories where he first did those things even though 90% of Sherlock Holmes stories were public domain. It's very likely Disney will assert similar claims over Mickey, claiming much of his personality first appeared in works still copyrighted.

Finally there's copyright vs trademark. Copyright is total ownership of a piece of media and all the ideas that appear in it, copyright has a limited set term and expires. Trademark is more limited and only applies to things used to market and sell a product. You can have a Coke branded vending machine in your movie if you want, but it couldn't appear anywhere in the trailer for your movie as thats you marketing your movie.

Where trademark ends and copyright begins and how trademarked something in the public domain is allowed to be are all unsettled areas of law and clearly Disney in the last few years as been aggressively pushing its trademark not just to Mickey in general but Steamboat Willie Mickey in particular

Ultimately the legal rights and wrongs of this might not matter so much since few people have the money and legal resources of the Walt Disney corporation so they might manage to maintain a de facto copyright on Mickey through legal intimidation, but maybe not?

And Tigger Too!

All the talk about Mickey Mouse and Steamboat Willie has sadly overshadowed other MAJOR things entering the public domain today. Most people are aware Winnie the Pooh entered the public domain in 2022, but they might not realize his beloved friend Tigger didn't. Thats because Tigger didn't appear till A. A. Milne's second (and last) book of Pooh short stories, The House at Pooh Corner in 1928.

Much like Mickey Mouse only what appears in The House at Pooh Corner is public domain so the orange bouncy boy from the 1960s Disney cartoon is still on lock down. But the A. A. Milne original as illustrated by E. H. Shepard is free for you to use in fiction or art. His friend Winnie the Pooh has made a number of appearances since being freed, most notably in a horror movie, but also a Mint Mobile commercial so maybe Tigger too will have a lot of luck in the public domain.

Other works:

Peter Pan; or the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up

Peter Pan is a strange case, even though the play was first mounted in 1904, and the novelization (Peter and Wendy) was published in 1911, The script for the play was not published till 1928 (confusing!) meaning while the novel as been public domain for years the play (which came first) hasn't been, but now it is and people are welcome to mount productions of it.

Millions of Cats

The oldest picture book still in print, did you own a copy growing up? (I did)

Lady Chatterley's Lover

The iconic porn novel that was at the center of a number of groundbreaking obscenity cases in the 1960s and helped establish your right to free speech.

All Quiet on the Western Front and The Threepenny Opera in their original German (but you can translate them if you want), The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie, and Orlando by Virginia Woolf will also be joining us in the public domain along with any and all plays, novels, and books published in 1928

for Films we have The Man Who Laughs who's iconic image inspired the Joker

Charlie Chaplin's The Circus, Buster Keaton's The Cameraman, Should Married Men Go Home? the first Laurel and Hardy movie, Lights of New York the first "all talking" movie, The Passion of Joan of Arc, The Wind, as well as The Last Command and Street Angel the first films to win Oscars for Best Actor and Best Actress respectively will all be entering public domain

For Musical Compositions (more on that in a moment) we've got

Mack the Knife by Bertolt Brecht, Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall in Love) by Cole Porter, Sonny Boy by George Gard DeSylva, Lew Brown & Ray Henderson, Empty Bed Blues by J. C. Johnson, and Makin’ Whoopee! by Gus Khan are some of the notables but any piece of music published in 1928 is covered

Any art work published in 1928, which might include works by Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe, Alexej von Jawlensky, Edward Hopper, and André Kertész will enter the public domain, we are sure those that M. C. Escher's Tower of Babel will be in the public domain

Swan Song, Public Domain and recorded music

While most things are covered by the Copyright Act of 1976 as amended by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, none of the copyright acts covered recordings you see when American copyright law was first written recordings did not exist and so through its many amendings no one fixed this problem, movies were treated like plays and artwork, but recorded sound wasn't covered by any federal law. So all sound recordings from before 1972 were governed by a confusing mess of state level laws making it basically impossible to say what was public and what was under copyright. In 2017 Congress managed to do something right and passed the Music Modernization Act. Under the act all recordings from 1922 and before would enter the public domain in 2022. After taking a break for 2023, all sound recordings made in 1923 have entered the public domain today on January 1st 2024, these include.

Charleston by James P. Johnson

Yes! We Have No Bananas (recorded by a lot artists that year)

Who’s Sorry Now by Lewis James

Down Hearted Blues by Bessie Smith

Lawdy, Lawdy Blues by Ida Cox

Southern Blues and Moonshine Blues by Ma Rainey

That American Boy of Mine and Parade of the Wooden Soldiers by Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra

Dipper Mouth Blues and Froggie More by King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, featuring Louis Armstrong

Bambalina by Ray Miller Orchestra

Swingin’ Down the Lane by Isham Jones Orchestra

Enjoy your public domain works!

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reblog if it's okay for your mutuals to message you and create an actual friendship, not just interactions

#please interact #i need friends

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black

bored poll time!

feel free to elaborate on what shade in tags if you want because tumblr only gives 12 slots get me out of here

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seitokai yakuindomo is the only anime i've ever seen where the anime girls are horny in a "desperately needs to get laid" way, and not an "exists for fanservice" way. like, these are the sort of teenagers who giggle when someone says "penis", and think they're so cool and grown up for knowing what fetishes are. it's honestly kind of nostalgic XD. totally reminds me of my high school friends.

#seitokai yakuindomo

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i think someone flirted with me in ffxiv. i do not know how to react to this information. i'm more incredulous than anything.

#help me i'm 24 and aspec #ffxiv

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i just spent two hours at a public library playing settlers of catan with a bunch of strangers and it was the greatest thing i've ever experienced.

#public libraries #settlers of catan #i had fun #i am a dork

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i am a proud loser, but i can't be a proud loser alone

#introvert #i want friends #proud loser

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i started to play ffxiv. i play as a miqote named s'yhuh desjardin, so if you ever see me around, say hello.

#ffxiv

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I watched The Giggle

SPOILERS BELOW!

Neil Patrick Harris is great as the Toymaker, continuing in his quest to star as a villain in all 2nd level science fiction franchises. He was the villain in The Matrix: Resurrections, which also starred Freema Agyeman, who was in Sense8 AND was Martha Jones. I never thought that "Spice Up Your Life" would be used in an utterly terrifying way, but honestly I was wrong. I thought Kate Stewart might have died when that happened. Anyways, he should star in Robocop 4.

Ugh, are all the companions be gonna be linked to UNIT now? I hate that. Bringing back Mel is an...interesting choice because I find Melanie Bush annoying. She was screaming constantly and I hated it. Luckily, she didn't scream in this special. Why didn't they just bring back Martha Jones? She already works for UNIT, and I want to see her 15 years later.

I did like that the Toymaker lampshaded that, until at least the Chibnall era, most NuWho companions got a raw deal in terms of...you know...living as normal people. I am very happy this is no longer the status quo. Amy died, Clara died, Bill died. Graham, Yaz, Ryan, and Dan all got to live. Donna gets an extremely happy ending, though.

Loving Ncuti so far as the Doctor, though he's not my favorite. So far, he is essentially Fourteen with a new face. Fourteen and Fifteen get along unusually well compared to the Second and Third Doctors. Ncuti was inspired to be an actor by David Tennant, so that could be the key.

I'm almost certain that the ending of this will be controversial, and launch tons of arguments about whether or not 15 is the real Doctor. I mean, I guess he is. I mean, they never explain bi-generation in relation to regeneration. Also, settling down with a family is...controversial, let's say. Like, I'm not even going to ask questions about this, because I get the feeling I'm not going to get any answers.

Next time, The Doctor goes to the club and gets a companion with a stupid name. They also encounter the puppets from Labyrinth, apparently.

#doctor who #doctor who 60th anniversary #the giggle #fourteenth doctor #fifteenth doctor

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is it kinkshaming to make fun of david carradine's death? unless it's really funny, it doesn't exactly make people want to HANG around.

#david carradine #tw: death #tw: kink #celebrity deaths #idc what anyone says #dying while masturbating is embarrassing and funny #autoerotic asphyxiation is funny #you just don't have a sense of humor

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I watched wild blue yonder

Gotta say, was not expecting the episode to start out the way it did. Including Sir Isaac Newton was kind of pointless, but it was cool. Are they gonna continue with this mavity stuff?

The 13th Doctor would solve this shit in like 5 seconds. That's not a diss against the show or the Chibnall era, just that she would be all in on the mystery, plus her crowded TARDIS would make the creature's jobs significantly harder. We only saw them deal with two people at most; how would they handle three people?

The marketing lead-up said it was very "experimental and weird", so comparisons to "Midnight" are inevitable. While it was interesting not knowing whether or not Donna and the Doctor are the persons they say they are, "Midnight" was more subversive because the Doctor actually lost control of the situation.

The characterization of Donna and 14 is interesting because these are not the same people that they were in 2008. I remember 10 and Donna fighting a ton; even though they were the best of friends, they definitely had clashing personality traits that caused conflict in their relationship.

The creatures in this episode were pretty freaky, although the effects are pretty obvious. It's also a cool concept, beings with no sense of...anything trying to take form for nefarious purposes. Kinda reminds me of "Flatline", although these dimension crossing beings should stop being evil for one second.

Next week, Neil Patrick Harris continues in his quest to star as a villain in an installment of every 2nd level science fiction franchise. The Matrix, Doctor Who, what's next?

#doctor who #doctor who 60th anniversary #wild blue yonder #fourteenth doctor #donna noble #dw spoilers