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hope everyone's having wonderful lust-filled thoughts over fictional men today

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saying “hm. must be the curse” every time something bad happens and refusing to elaborate is my new hobby

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running buddies 🏃‍♂️

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suit & tie 🕶

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hey guys

it's been quite a while, but i haven't stopped writing or abandoned my works. sparing details, my mental and physical health have been keeping me busy, and i'm sure i'm not the only one.

at the moment, i'm working on the final draft of conflagrate, and then the rest of my unfinished works will get attention. no idea when it'll be ready, but i'm crazy proud of how much my writing has improved (i think lol).

hope to share more soon. :)

#daim nonsense #daim writes #tumblr looks different

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an artist i admired blocked me for questioning in my tags why they whitewashed a character. i've finally had the full tumblr experience.

#daim nonsense #i mean it's mostly disappointing but okay

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reblog and write in the tags something that a family member/friend/SO does that makes you go ‘oh i love you lol’

#when my partner acts like he's having full conversations with our hamsters lol #and when my friend ela gets so excited during a conversation that half of what she types is spelled terribly wrong #and when my friend grace sends me memes that remind her of me #and when my friend jen saves me from creeps at the club when i just want to dance #and when my friend SAI sends me messages to check on me #tbh i'm the luckiest person ever in terms of great friends <3

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you know what, fuck you *unkills your character*

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A (Non-Exhaustive) List of (Red-ish) Flags In Writing

Particularly when writing people with a marginalized identity that you don't hold, it can be hard to tell what is an issue if you're not familiar with it. Research should be your main reference point, but sometimes you need to go with your instincts.

Here is a very non-exhaustive list of things that should flag to you that you need to take another look at it and do some more research:

Is a person/culture/group presented as "backwards", irrational, un-modern, or uniformly aggressive?

Am I using coded language (e.g. thug, slut, slow) to describe a character?

Am I associating sexual habits or preferences with a certain race, religion, gender, or class?

Am I dismissing or making light of devestating historical events that appear or are referenced in the story?

Am I prioritizing the rehabilitation of individuals or groups who commited violence, particularly at the expense of those who experienced that violence?

Are my characters, particularly my marginalized characters, embodying stereotypes with no other characteristics?

Do my marginalized characters exist simply so I can say I have included marginalized characters?

Am I applying every marginalization to one character so that I don't have to "deal with it" in other characters?

Do marginalizations, particularly disabilities, only appear when convenient?

Do marginalized characters, particularly Characters of Color, exist only to guide or care for white characters?

#writing resources

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THE 70S CALLED

#i don't know how i feel #it's an excellent feeling very good just indescribable #i love this

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Forget soulmate AUs. Give me a nemesis AU.

You're born with a tattoo of the words that start an epic brawl. You see a line connecting you to the person you will be competing against your entire adult life. You have a hyperrealistic dream every night about vanquishing a foe you can't quite see, but as soon as you meet them, you know they're the one.

An AU where everyone spends their lives training in order to beat the one person who can make them fail. Strangers to enemies to lifelong combatants.

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We know this, and we love you

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Breaking down Tumblr’s latest Post+ Statement

In the wake of massive backlash against their new monitization/paywall program, Tumblr staff has given a statement in an attempt to combat one of the major arguments against it: that this would be a nightmare for fan writers and artists who are vulnerable to lawsuits for copyright infringement.

This post was meant to read as “haha, your friendly neighborhood Tumblr staff!” while actually being intentionally vague and misleading. I’ve seen people laughing it off as Tumblr having an idiot for a lawyer, but the post is actually written very cleverly. So let’s break it down:

First off, let’s make one thing clear: this information is coming to you from Tumblr’s lawyer, not yours. Tumblr’s lawyer’s job is to protect Tumblr from legal trouble and is under no obligation to give fair legal advice to Tumblr users or protect them in legal matters.

Notice that they are careful to say that they encourage sharing these works on “the platform” in general, not through the Post+ system. This gives them deniability - they never explicitly encouraged users to post this content on the monetized platform.

Yes, fanfiction and fanart are frequently considered fair use when they are not monetized. And notice in the second sentence, they switch to the much vaguer term “fan work” when claiming that something can be monetized and still fall under fair use. Fan work could refer to something as innocuous as beta reading and other fan work related services. This could also be referring to works in the public domain. Again, they have plausible deniability.

And make no mistake, there is a long, ugly history of fan writers and artists being sued for copyright infringement. It is absolutely not legal to sell, through any means, fanfiction or fan art of copyrighted content.

And here we get to the real heart of the matter. Their TOS has a clause which states that you may not infringe on another person’s copyright. They have now vaguely but deniably suggested that you can monetize your fanart and fanfiction, but whether or not you’re violating fair use “depends.” They won’t give you specifics. Because it does depend - on whether or not the work is copyrighted. But their statement implies that there are special circumstances where the nature of a fan work based on a copyrighted source makes it ‘fair use.’ This is not the case.

Most importantly, when the copyright holder comes to complain, Tumblr will not protect you. They will say that you have violated the TOS by infringing on intellectual property rights, and we never told you to. You’re on your own, kid. I wouldn’t be shocked if this is used as an excuse to withhold your Post+ revenue.

And the DMCA takedown process? That’s just the process for getting the content removed from Tumblr. It doesn’t mention that the copyright holder then has the right to go after you, personally, with a lawsuit to recoup any money you made off your Post+ subscriptions, plus damages to the brand. Tumblr, meanwhile, can keep its cut of your subscriptions because that money was paid to them for hosting the Post+ service, not for the works themselves. And, as an online platform, they are not responsible for the illegal actions of its users beyond complying with DMCA.

This post is malicious and intentionally misleading. They intend to scrape a profit off of fan writers and artists on their way to the courthouse.

#listen guys just don't #i know a rare few people make money from it but #unless you're a creative industry professional who knows the ins and outs and legalities of each specific fandom you create for... #you're shit out of luck and shouldn't risk yourself over fanfic #thanks op for this breakdown post

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canon (derogatory)

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you guys don’t understand how much these fictional stories and fictional characters fill me up with joy and make this insane stuff we’re going through bearable

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no google docs you don't understand this is a sexy, necessary grammar mistake