#i don’t know why... guess it’s some disney + copyright thing

[heybaetae]

please i wanna know all about the rise of bangtan drama 👀😂

LMAOOOOO ok twitter follower

let me preface this by saying i did not know this youtube series existed before i started seeing tweets about it, so clearly the “documentary” in question is simply NOT apart of the universal army experience that a lot of people are making it out to be. i have never even seen these videos pop up in my recommended on youtube…so there’s that 🥴

BUT ANYWAY, i guess after bts announced they’d be coming out with a new docuseries with disney+ about their career, the editor of this completely FAN MADE youtube series made these really odd tweets implying that their work felt threatened by the prospect of a new official documentary from bts

come to find out that their series is literally made by compiling clips of official bts content including their ALREADY EXISTING docs, movies, youtube content, interviews, etc.

….so as delicately as possible and without trying to dismiss her work (because content creating as a FAN is very time consuming), the amount of views and acclaim she’s received on these “episodes” she’s made have clearly gone to her head. even more bizzare, a lot of people who like her videos are behaving as though hybe and bts owe her some kind of recognition or credit because she “did it first” …but she owns literally none of the footage she uses, so they’re completely forgetting that if none of the content she recycles clips of in her series existed, she wouldn’t have a series at all because that’s literally all her source material lmao. all it would take is a couple copyright strikes on her videos to get it all taken down, that’s what’s so baffling to me.

she deleted those tweets and made a couple threads on her personal account trying to explain that she thought she was helping bts with her series because it’s “from an army perspective” but like…they certainly didn’t ask her to do that, so her place as a fan needs to be clearer. she essentially makes long fan edits and calls it a documentary series (someone even made an IMDB page for it and this thing is listed under all of the members’ individual profiles…i cannot) and people are praising her a little too much imo. i guess her series pushes some narratives that are questionable and her editing puts them in a kpop box and glosses over a lot of important issues surrounding bts in that industry, so i’m very confused why people are calling it a staple for new armys and how it helped them learn about bts when they could have just watched all the official content bts put out themselves if they needed a proper introduction. it makes no sense to me and it’s very alarming and also just. hilariously bizarre. i don’t condone the bullying but girl, respectfully, what the fuck. 😂

#ask #local woman gets upset bts are telling their own story without her help...more at 11

[ironstrange-is-the-endgame]

On today’s Avengers Assemble episode (3x07)

(Also, ten minutes into the fight Stephen invites Tony to the Sanctum)

#ironstrange #strangeiron #tony stark #stephen strange #iron man #doctor strange #marvel #mcu #avengers assemble #i had to take a pic with my phone #because if i screencapped it on the ipad i couldn’t see tony #i don’t know why... guess it’s some disney + copyright thing

[steve0discusses]

Yugioh S5 Ep 18: A Series of Ecological Disasters

Booting up ye old Yugioh, booting up a new aesthetic playlist to type to. (today’s playlist is webcore, which would feel like such a damn fake aesthetic, if it weren’t that every single one of these -core aesthetics are pretty damn fake and everyone knows it.)

Anyway, it’s been so long that, I’ll be honest, I thought I booted up the wrong episode:

I usually skip the anime intro, but I try to watch it once each arc, cuz the intros change, and this arc was like “screw it, here’s all the other villains, just pretend this arc isn’t happening.” They had Pegasus, they had Marik, they have Bakura (who is kind of in this shot as well, you can see him phasing in there.) And like...I guess they’re hiding the villain of this arc or something because that was it. Alexander the Great got just nixed from this villain list and that’s a shame.

Just a real weird choice, but since apparently this arc didn’t air in Japan they probably had to outsource this anime intro and whatever studio in charge of it just cobbled together stuff from every other season and then a couple of shots of capsule stuff.

Speaking of capsule stuff: get a load of how many freakin lines the animators have to deal with every time they draw Grandpa.

Bro saw this and was like “oh yeah, this is a Shonen Jump” and yeah. The hair does give those vibes. We got a good look at what Vegeta would look like if he really let himself go.

(read more under the cut)

Sorry, my playlist started playing a song where every single line of the song is “Adrien Brody” and it took me like a few minutes to realize I was listening to “Brodyquest” completely seriously.

Damn it, webcore, don’t betray me like this.

Anyway, this arc does something super surprising: Yugi actually hugs somebody and doesn’t look like he’s going to pass out standing up.

It is pretty fitting that the good Yugi hug would go to Grandpa.

And, as night falls, Joey Wheeler has gotten hungry, and there is nothing to eat but his new best friend and spirit animal, baby dragon. Unfortunately he shares life points with the dragon, and I think if you eat it that just instakills you.

And directly underneath him--since this world is like 100 feet wide and things just conveniently happen--Tea has told everyone that they needed to stop worrying about Joey. Which is a lot coming from Tea, because her worrying about Yugi/Yami getting hurt is most of what occupies her headspace in this series.

But even Tea was like, screw Joey, I guess.

Who kinda just falls directly into them upside down, and shows us what Joey’s hair looks like when it’s sticking straight up.

For reals, admire how long Joey Wheeler’s hair is. If Tea were upside down, she would have the same length of hair.

Also speaking of Vegeta, I am low key concerned that Joey has what appears to be a significant amount of male pattern balding going on for a teenager.

Apparently getting set on fire many, many times did have an effect on Joey, and this massive pompadour he wears is a combover. Poor baby.

Holy crap, if this is what card stress and getting killed multiple times did to Joey Wheeler, can you imagine what’s going on under Seto’s bangs? That’s probably why his bangs ride so low, Seto likely wears a freakin toupee.

Guys, Joey’s gonna lose his hair at 25 at this rate. Those locks just aren’t long for this world. Poor baby.

After Joey rejoins the party, he immediately eats all of their food. Not sure why they can’t just have Baby Dragon eat like...whatever Baby Dragon naturally eats...and then transform that into shared Joey Wheeler life points, but it’s not clear exactly how much of a life-connection they have with their Yugioh monsters. Not like it matters because Joey Wheeler is default starving all the time anyway.

Tristan has decided we should start laying blame, I guess because Duke Devlin isn’t here anymore to be the local kill joy. This doesn’t seem to be important at any point, and most of the characters are just ignoring Tristan because like...once you’re in the haunted game in a haunted tomb in a random part of India--it’s kind of moot to argue about who’s fault that is, youknow?

Joey reminds us that he found this quest item in a treasure chest under a secret waterfall. No one says “that was convenient that you landed there after getting chased through a ravine by man-eating birds after you got your dragon from when you got your crotch injury from getting spliced by that tree.”

Which is when Tea says “Wait! We haven’t had a plot thing happen in like 4 seconds! Wait!”

Hey what degree of “I don’t trust nature” do you have to be to assume that all the flowers are trying to eat you?

Like what level of anxiety is Tea where she not only is like “pretty sure the flowers are going to destroy us?” but also...she’s correct? Like she’s not wrong.

They set the dog flowers on fire, but unlike the Jungle Book this doesn’t solve any problems (which apparently got taken off the Disney+ kid’s menu so...yet again, I make a Disney reference in these recaps that future generations will not understand because so much of the Disney library has been banned from the vault. It’s almost like Disney should let go of that copyright they held on for like a hundred years, because what they’re holding on to is only going to get more racist with time. But nah. Gotta hold on with their greedy mickey mouse gloves.)

So instead of using fire, Tristan used his monster to electrocute the air (?) and blind the dogs. Wisely, the animators quickly jumped to this other scene so we wouldn’t have to analyze why it’s suddenly daytime or why that plan would even work.

Joey and Tristan do a lot of buddy buddy stuff this arc. Usually we see a lot of Joey and Yugi’s bottomless friendship, but we don’t get this much Tristan/Joey love. So shippers rejoice, these two seem to have several coordinated dances and songs...and I’d say that teens don’t typically do that, but I went to summer camp, there are situational places where teens will sing the entire vacation and make coordinated dances.

Weirdly, since Joey and Tristan share so much time together, this also means Tea and Yugi actually sit next to eachother for a lot of this arc, almost as if they were a couple. Mind you, they’re chaperoned closely by Grandpa, but youknow...that’s a different energy than I’m used to seeing.

That and like, they can’t have Tea dance with them because last time she did a dance, it was like a DDR fight and she elbowed some guy like it was a fisticuffs situation. Like there was some sort of dance war going on behind the scenes of Yugioh’s card war, and it came up once and I guess Tea resolved it and the dance fights haven’t come back since.

Overall, if they did a dance with Tea, they would get kneed in the face, so that’s probably why they insist on doing cancans as a duet and not a trio.

After Joey and Tristan freak out over having no food, Tea decides to just start eating in front of them.

and like...didn’t Joey eat that food yesterday? Like last night? The short term memory loss on all these fools.

Immediately after this we realize something weird in the water. That’s right, it’s a massive head.

Yugi seems to have forgotten they lit this turtle on fire and electrocuted the entire sky the night before. Not that it mattered.

There were like...nesting birds on those trees on that island. What the hell? They just killed so MANY of those man-eating dogs that are flowers.

Seriously are land turtles allowed to just...dive underwater for long periods of time? How does that ecosystem even work? It’s like...That’s wild to think about.

Inside the temple, they have to fight a genie or something.

In case you were wondering, the only reason Tea and Grandpa got iced is because they were the closest to the door. The two who were actually standing out of harms way were the closest to harm the whole time.

Bro tells me this is also what will happen to you if you are in the front or the back of the party while playing Cthulu D&D

Anyway, Pharaoh decides to disclose that his big problem of feeling guilty all the time and taking all the blame, which he did all of last season...is still a huge problem he will probably never tackle.

Straight up, don’t be fooled by my caps, everyone else has completely forgotten about Alex, who is still running around that temple up there. They haven’t even asked Grandpa “hey is this your protege? Is this your mentee you never told us about?” Nah. They already forgot. 

How wild is it that Pharaoh thinks this is all his fault when he was the only one who was like “YUGI IT’S A TRAP DON’T GO IN THE- well...OK I guess we’re doing this, fine.” Is he upset he didn’t take control from Yugi and walk back to the plane? Because that’s the only way he could even be partially responsible, He was the only guy who was like “I see the end from the beginning on this y’all, and it’s the massive pyramid in India.”

Speaking of forgetting, they came across this language Pharaoh has decided to have nothing to do with.

This was actually a riddle and it was like...it was a riddle, sure, I guess.

And so Joey Wheeler does not hallucinate his dead wife from a previous incarnation and get on the back of his Baby Dragon to sail away into the sunset. Instead they’re just gonna walk.

Too bad Tea’s orb covered in wings only seems to hover a bit. Every single wing on that weird orb is absolutely useless.

And then Pharaoh’s pokemon is just a fire--which is hard to sit on--and Celtic Guardian...who would allow it, sure, but probably doesn’t fly (I think. He might fly)

And then Tristan’s Pokemon kinda seems like if you sit on it, you will get electrocuted. It can probably fly though. It’s very round. Seems like an anime thing that the more round your mascot character is, the more likely it can at least bounce a good distance.

So, next time, I’m just going to assume that we are going to do even more camping. And youknow, if you told me exactly HOW MUCH CAMPING was in this card game show with super future tech, I would not have believed you. But like...a lot of this series is set in the woods right? Like a lot a lot? I have grown to appreciate the woods.

Anyway, as always, if you just got here, this is a link to read these in chrono order:

https://steve0discusses.tumblr.com/tagged/yugioh/chrono

See you next time!

#yugioh #yu-gi-oh #recap #photo recap #S5 #Yugi muto #yami muto #grandpa muto #tea gardner #joey wheeler #tristan taylor #baby dragon #Ep18

[galaxycerebri]

To this day I wonder why I made Xiaojun, the protag of Requiem, Chinese. The culture/her ethnicity doesn't take a focus, and I'm not Chinese so I worry that if it were a focus I may get something wrong. And yet, I chose to make my protagonist Chinese, regardless of this.

For all intents and purposes, I could have just made Jun white and called it a day. On the other hand, I could have made her black, or even Somalian like myself, because to some degree Xiaojun is a projection of myself in the vein that she, Amelie and Maria were created in a time of emotional upheaval for me and I originally designed Jun off my apathy, Amelie on my anxiety and Maria off what I wanted to be (someone strong and stable like my sister) before I realised that Maria's state of being wasn't healthy either.

But yeah, I could have made her any ethnicity because it doesn't really factor into the story.

Recently I watched a video essay on the "ideal body" or something akin to that by Khadija Mbowe (someone please correct me in notes, and provide a name, I can't find it again and I really wanna watch the video again), and I have the attention span of a spoon. So I internalise things very quickly and depending on the situation, I can either hold onto it or not.

And I spent a lot of the time around starting Requiem (at the time Hunter X Spirit, about... 5 years ago, wow) reading Chinese web novels and comics and such. So I think perhaps I internalised that and just went with it, since even before then I spent so much time consuming East Asian culture because of my older sister.

I couldn't get into the serialised dramas and soap opera styled shows (gossip girl, PLL,) things my classmates would watch because I couldn't access them. And when my family finally got Sky tv, my younger brothers would hold onto the remote and we would watch (1) channel day in and day out (Disney XD) for years. I wish I was kidding.

As a result, I just never got into general tv shows. And my sister at the time was going through her anime phase, so the only real opportunity for me to experiment with the content that I wanted to enjoy, was through her laptop or novels and manga that I also got from her.

By the time I got a phone, it kinda just stuck. The first western tv show I remember choosing to watch (outside of merlin and dr who, that I would watch with my family) was Castle iirc.

It was easier to find anime streaming sites than it was to find streaming sites for western shows because streaming wasn't so big back then and any site that I could find was swiftly taken down because of copyright laws. I suppose borders kept anime pirating safe?

Moreover, Somali content was hard for me to access. A lot of it was poorly redubbed Bollywood tv shows, and movies, and I wasn't really into those huge set pieces and overdramatisation (props to them though, honestly that must be so hard to shoot). That's not even to take into account the fact that over the years of me codeswitching and trying to assimilate, I lost my grip on Somali language and now that I'm nearly 20, you couldn't even call me a native speaker.

I think all of these things:

- consuming east asian media growing up

- my hyperfixation on serialised chinese fictional content (webnovels/comics) around the time I started planning Requiem

- the lackluster grip I have on my own culture which resulted in me feeling like an imposter whenever I try to partake in Somali things

Kinda resulted in Xiaojun being Chinese. This, in general, has no bearing on the plot but like-- interesting.

On the one hand, because I’m British and so far haven’t experienced (at least to my face) the brutal racism that is found in America (the uk loves it’s microagressions and gaslighting you into thinking it’s not even a problem), I don't feel comfortable writing a black character because people will expect that overt racism. And I don't want to write a white character, because I will never understand that level of privilege, and while I can consciously point it out I never want to empathise with it. This pushes the onus onto a character of Asian descent which isn't great to say the least, more so with the rise in Asian hate and crimes directed against those of Asian descent.

On the other hand, I guess a part of me is trying to call back to days of innocence and naivete from my childhood years, as the initial planning for Requiem (then called Hunter X Spirit) happened when I was a baby teenager. 

And while, certainly, you can't say racism isn't a thing as it most definitely is, I know myself and a few others I have talked to would like something where race isn't punching you in the face as a theme. (Case in point, Bridgerton, wherein my buddies and I were excited about just having black people in that kind of setting without it being questioned only for them to drop that one line about a black/mixed race woman marrying a king and then acting like that solved all the racial issues of the period). And that we would like characters of minority background being present without it being questioned, or being considered "ticking a box."

Lemme know your thoughts.

#req #requiem #original story #original novel #writeblr #own thoughts #planning #kinda? #for real tho #let me know your opinions #tw racism #tw race #racism #race in writing #writing #asian characters #black characters

[deadcherpblog]

Remember when everyone was cussing out that one anon who just wanted to roleplay Pizza Thot as an asshole who didn’t care about artist’s feelings, but then it turned out they had asked permission and in fact got it?

You’d think maybe that would have served as a word of caution against jumping to the conclusion that anyone questioning the rule even a little must be such an asshole, like. Come on, guys.

More rambling beneath.

I find it funny that my intended point was “This is not as obviously straightforward and black-and-white as presented, it’s possible to have a different opinion without being a giant asshole and we should act accordingly” and this spawned a wave of vagueposting about how some people just want to be able to do whatever they want with other people’s things because... Um, who actually said that?

As I read it, Chappybird said that, while they dislike the idea of OC theft, they do not think it is the kind of ill that the ruleset should be used to prevent. Now, you’re welcome to disagree with that (I do too, actually!) but I think you should... recognize the actual point that was made?

I pointed out the rule isn’t as obvious and straightforward as presented as it is drawing a line in a grey area (and it is a grey area, that’s indisputable, if you think that all the OCs it protects should be protected, then the grey area in that case is to look at those OCs it does not protect and wonder if it should be wider) and that because of this we could stand to be polite to people who disagreed and actually explain why it’s a good idea instead of just shouting that, basically, ‘you would understand it was a good idea if you weren’t an asshole’. I made an argument that wasn’t even questioning that the rule was good, I stressed that I wasn’t questioning this in the post, that wasn’t the point of my post, and I still got replies like I was trying to get the rule removed so I could roleplay others’ OCs because I felt entitled to do so.

Like, some of you are hallucinating the points you’re arguing against, you understand that right?

At worst we have one person who was upset they couldn’t get permission when they tried (who then got permission), one person saying it’s gross but a gross thing that is worrying to see banned, and one person saying it’s understandable that some people might not understand the problem with it and so you might have to actually explain to them why they shouldn’t do it; who are the actual OC thieves you’re seeing here?

Sometimes, somebody can disagree with you on a topic, without holding the obvious perfectly opposite to yours position.

Now, full disclosure on my actual opinion; I really, genuinely believe that a creator cannot legitimately reserve the right to ban others from writing fanfiction of or roleplaying with their characters for noncommercial entertainment purposes. I just don’t think that’s a power creators have or should have, legally. And I think you would be in my corner if Disney tried to take down fanfiction en masse through copyright strike, even if you might think things work differently with smaller creators. So, in this sense, I guess you could argue that I believe I am entitled to roleplay other people’s characters; and, yes, I do, to the extent that I think everyone is so entitled. I think that is an important legal right that people have and deserve to have. But I also think that it is good to respect people’s wishes, and so I would not roleplay someone’s OC without their permission; it’s polite to ask, and disrespectful to ignore expressed desires not to do it. I don’t really roleplay people’s OCs anyways but I really would ask if I wanted to. But the other end of this is that, as a creator, I have granted express written permission to roleplay my characters, to take their designs and make your own OCs with them, to take my art and music and use it in projects. In this respect, if you really want to press a case against me, I think I can quite fairly insist that I am not selfishly entitled, but rather have a fairly radical opinion on intellectual property. (You know, like I said in the first place.)

#cherp

[thehoneyedhufflepuff]

Promises Kept & Made (& Researched):

behind the scenes on my zine fic

(Wow, cannot even keep the title of this post succinct, but is anyone actually surprised?)

Yesterday @captain-aralias made an awesome post re: the research that went into her zine fic, & I was inspired! So, with a little less than one week left to pre-order @goldendayszine , I thought I’d fill y’all in on some of the research & reasoning that went on behind the scenes for this particular fic of mine. (If you haven’t pre-ordered your copy yet, please do! All you have to do is donate $10 or more to our charity of choice, Outright International at this link. That $10 gets you a digital copy of the zine + an entry into our raffle! More info on raffle prizes here.)

While being accepted as a writer for the zine was super exciting, I was suddenly faced with the debacle all of us writers have to face: what the heck was I going to write? What do? What is plot??? The zine’s theme is new beginnings, & I let my noggin think on that for a while, & eventually it came to me: honeymoon. Give the boys some distance from their current trauma, set this in the future, give them that milestone moment, let them be happy…

What is plot???

As usual, I laid out a short, corny, ridiculous outline for myself. Actual footage of me sharing my nonsense with the zine discord:

Why Disney? Well, I know Disney like the back of my hand. I even worked at the one in Florida for a short period of time in college (pre-bookstore days). And at the heart of it, our boys need to have some fun & experience the childhoods they never really had. I was thinking of the fun they had together at the Ren Faire & wanted to draw from that.

Of course, I then had to figure out what exactly was going on—I had a word count limit, & if y’all know me at all you probably know that had me side-eyeing myself. I knew I had to get my point across, & I only had a certain amount of words to do it. So I needed to pick one area of the park to set my fic in…

And that turned out to be the easy bit. What's my & Mr HH’s favorite attraction? The Haunted Mansion. Where do Simon & Baz have their first kiss in canon (among many of my other favorite scenes)? A literal haunted mansion.

Okay, great. I had my setting. But then I realized I had another small problem: I was sending them to Disneyland Paris, where I’ve personally never been. And then I got to thinking…that I was pretty sure the Haunted Mansion in Paris was different from the Haunted Mansions here in the US. Because after my husband & I went on our own Disneyworld honeymoon in 2015, I bought & read a book all about the Haunted Mansion in its many iterations. 

And, well, I was right about the differences, of which there are many. (Maybe you wouldn’t think so if you haven’t ridden the US versions upwards of one billion times, but this one is so very different.)

Starting with the name: Phantom Manor.

I think a few people have guessed where this fic is set based on the previews shared here & by the zine tumblr, but I don’t want y’all North Americans to be shocked & confused when Baz literally says “Phantom Manor” in the fic instead of “The Haunted Mansion.” If I didn’t know any better, I’d think I was trying to avoid like…some weird copyright thing. Treading lightly. Nope, I’m just being geographically correct.

Second difference? The outside of the manor. Unlike its cousins in the US & Tokyo, Phantom Manor is more derelict & ramshackle in outward appearance, which is really just a factoid & not at all relevant to the fic itself.

Third: the locale. With no New Orleans Square in Disney Paris, & nowhere to put the manor in Fantasyland, the house found its own home in Frontierland. And unlike the Frontierlands of the other Disney parks, this one has its very own story that ties all the attractions together. The boys refer to the legend of the Ravenswood family very briefly in the fic (it’s more of one of the many bad jokes made in the fic than it is a referral, tbh). Put very simply, it’s one of those stories where the crazy dad kills all his daughter’s suitors because he doesn’t want her to grow up & leave. You know, normal shit.

Fourth: the ride itself. Because there’s a different storyline for this manor than there is for any of the others, I spent a good deal of time watching a ride-through video. I watched that damn video so much that the music was stuck in my head for days. What’s the same? We’ve got our portrait room. We’ve got our doom buggies. We’ve got our ride through the dark, haunted mansion house (which Baz complains about, since he can see in the dark & is therefore underwhelmed with the effects) & then through the graveyard. What we don’t have: the ghost host (RIP) & the hitchhiking ghosts. And keeping us company through it all: the bride.

I was admittedly a little put out at first (so much so that I tried to find a way to rationally send them to Disneyworld in Florida instead) (spoiler alert, there was no rational way to do it, especially with Baz's sensitive vampire skin & how much he probably hates America at this point). Still, I was perturbed: no ghost host?! WhY iS iT dIfFeReNt?! But I really warmed up to this version of the manor after I acquainted myself with it. It’s just as magical as the others, really. And I love that I got to share one of my favorite things with Simon & Baz, in a way. 

If you’d like to see Phantom Manor for yourself—& get the music stuck in your head—here’s the private ride-through I watched about one million times, outlined, reviewed, & used to block every mini section of the fic. (Below is one of my many outlines, & most of the bad jokes shown here did not make it into the fic.)

Anyway, hope y’all enjoyed this tangential & probably unnecessary look into my process. It’s been such a pleasure to be part of the zine, & I really hope y’all enjoy it! The previews & pieces I've gotten to see from other contributors are absolutely phenomenal.

donate $10 here to receive your digital copy of the zine*

Oh, PS. I made sure to give Simon some wonky dragon magic. It’s there if you squint. 😉

*please note that zines are not being distributed until April 1. 💜

💛💙

#zine preview #carry on zine #golden days #my fanfiction #snowbaz #snowbaz fanfiction #one word: honeymoon 👀

[kainetestament]

WandaVision Pt2

Let’s continue where we let off..

So far, 14 out of these 42 leaks are confirmed, 2 slight errors and the rest are inconclusive since there are still 2 more episodes remaining. Let’s start with the 2 errors first (since there are only two of them).

17. Monica would try to help Wanda realize the truth after getting her conscious back, but Wanda will get pissed off when she says her Vision isn't real and will throw her away from the town (to the outside world) using her powers.

The slight error on this one is that the event didn’t occur on same event and episode even. Monica was indeed under the HEX spell but is not fully brainwashed because she mentions about Ultron killing Pietro (not Vision) that’s why she was thrown out of the HEX by Wanda, and this was on Episode 3. Making Wanda realize the truth was on Episode 7 after Monica returned inside the HEX and she’s making her accept the reality that Vision is dead, not he’s not real, and this time, Wanda was unable to kick her out because Monica has activated her powers.

 16. Monica managed to enter Wanda's town while she was asleep in a helicopter. Sword will again try to break.

For this one, the only error on it is “asleep in a helicopter”, because neither Monica nor Wanda was in a helicopter, Monica did sent a helicopter drone to check what’s going on in Westview because of the paranormal occurrence that is happening. Wanda on the other end was asleep in her bed and was awakened by the noise of the helicopter drone (transformed into a toy) probably bumping into their outside bedroom wall before running out of battery and falling into the bushes.

Honestly my personal feeling about Peter is that he really is the real Peter (Pietro) of X-Men Universe. If we are to break it down, here’s what I noticed.

1.  Peter shows up in at the end of Episode 5, he still wears a leather-like jacket that is similar to the other jackets he wore in X-Men and TV commercials except, here in WandaVision – it’s black, not his usual silver colored jacket and snickers, but all of them still contains a lot of zippers. Though it does looks similar to the jacket he’s wearing when he made a cameo in Deadpool 2, but he’s on the background facing the camera so we cannot see the back design, but both have zip sleeves, studded lapels, epaulettes, the front look of the jacket is pretty identical.

2. Personality is still the same. We don’t know much about Pietro’s personality since he only appeared in Age of Ultron, and only has displayed arrogance or being over confident personality. On the other hand, Peter is still his usual “man child” playful self. He even called Vision “popsicle”, which coincidentally or probably a reference when he was eating a popsicle in X-Men Days of Future Past when he first met Wolverine, Charles and Hank.

3. Silver accents still present. When he first shows up on Wanda's doorstep, he still has his silver hair, (although I did find it odd why in Episode 6, his hair became very light blonde). He still wears stainless steel watch. The only thing he's missing is his silver goggles.

4. Powers remain the same. He is still the Quicksilver, running in super speed. He showed his super speed twice in Episode 6, first was when Wanda told him he doesn’t have a costume - he took Tommy with him and came back in matching outfits, second was when they’re being mischievous destroying pumpkins and spraying silly strings to townspeople. And just wanna point out how adorable both Peter and Tommy together, cant help but put a smile on your face really, the two of them look like father and son.

5. Vision comments about Peter being “great with kids”. Well this is probably a reference to X-Men Days of Future Past where Peter have a younger unnamed sister and probably takes care of her a lot, making him the elder brother being good at handling kids. If we look at the deleted scenes in Days of Future Past, the little girl (probably about 10y.o), said to Logan “I’m a princess, what are you?” Logan responded with “I’m the Wolverine. Where’s your brother?” and the princess pointed out to the stairs leading to the basement. Then later on, we see Peter watching the news about Magneto while the little girl is sitting on his lap, dressed as a princess.

6. Peter still loves video games. As seen in Episode 6, his way of bonding with the twins is by playing video game (PS1) and I’m guessing it’s a versus game like Marvel vs Capcom because we can hear on the background what sounds like the character selection menu and the punching and kicking sound-like effects, in which they removed the character voices (like Ryu, Ken etc) probably due to the CAPCOM copyrights.

Note: for some who may wonder, why DDR (Dance Dance Revolution) has been featured too in Episode 7, why Marvel vs CAPCOM cannot? That is because Disney (Japan) is one of the games publisher, even having its own DDR game called Eurobeat Disney (Japan Exclusive), while MvsC is developed and published by CAPCOM, so its them who own the copyrights of the game.

Also speaking of them, CAPCOM was mentioned on Episode 7 by the soldier when she said to Monica “Capcom Check”, well this could probably be referring to the astronauts communication which is also called Capcom. But it can be a double meaning; they could be referring CAPCOM Company, to pay tribute/reference to the video game, but at the same time, to avoid any possible legal matters, the “space engineer”, “the astronaut suit”, “outer space vehicle” will help masked the Capcom reference since Capcom is a real astronaut communication position.

We’ll continue this on part 3 with more of Quicksilver‘s conversation with Wanda this time.

#WandaVision #WandaMaximoff #PietroMaximoff #PeterMaximoff #Vision #MonicaRambeau #Marvel

[your-worst-knightmare]

I’ll Love You (As Misfortune Loves Orphans)

The Gotham wind howled at the rooftops. Away from the constant noise of traffic, it almost sounded like the cry of a mourning woman. Gotham was mourning, but for what? the loss of her innocence, or perhaps what her children had done to her. The wind was harsh on those autumn nights, and was cold and unforgiving. Gotham’s children knew that chill better than they had known full stomachs and warm bones. It was cold, it certainly was at the heights of those lonely rooftops, and yet– yet all Jason felt was heat. 

It built inside of him like a a roaring furnace, fuelling him. Not to fight a crusade for Gotham. Jason lived and breathed Gotham, and he knew that her saviour was not one man fighting symptoms of a virus that had long since taken root. He wasn’t that man. God, no. 

He was not as frivolous as that. He was the protector of those not able to protect themselves from the symptoms of Gotham’s disease. He was rage. It warmed him, burned him as he grappled from building to building. He was immune to Gotham’s icy howls, if only for tonight. 

Tonight, he was taking down one of Gotham’s drug trafficking rings. Well, taking out. He wasn’t going to kill anyone– he had obliged to the Bat’s rules to play nice– but he had not consented to no explosions. That would thoroughly set back their progress and give the Red Hood some time to convince them to play by his rules. 

Jason dropped to the ground silently, slipping pat perimeter guards. There weren’t as many as usual tonight, so he had less to worry about if things went south. The few guards that had noticed him were quieted with the butt of his gun to their heads. He made his way around the compound, planting explosives as he went. After planting the last one, he decided to make himself known to give the guards some chance of coming out of that compound alive. If they didn’t, well, collateral damage. 

“Awful weather we’re having, am I right?” he called, swinging into the guards’  line of sight. The noticed him immediately, shouting at each other to call for backup. He let them chase him, let them get too close before he vaulted away again. It was almost a game, and hey, if he was saving these poor dolts while doing it, why couldn’t it be? His job was done, and he figured that toying with some goons once in a while wasn’t a crime. “I noticed you’ve got some heating in this place. How much does it cost at this end of the city?”  

His response came in the form of a bullet grazing his shoulder. Jason growled. Fine. He’ll be serious and leave. They had more than enough time by now. “I hope you fools like the present I left ‘ya.”  He pointed his grapple at the nearest rooftop and sailed away, gunfire peppering his departure. 

Then, three things happened at once. Or rather, in such close proximity to each other that it seemed like it. One: Jason activated the detonator. Two: A bullet ripped through his abdomen– a lucky shot.  Three: He fell. The ground raced to meet him, and he met it, with a sickening thud. 

Now a different fire ran through him, alongside the rage that previously burned. This was blinding and invited dark spots to dance in his vision. It was consuming, and there was nothing other than its presence. It was agony, and it was deafening as it screamed at him. Jason cursed under his breath. The goons had gotten lucky. Thankfully, they didn’t seem to be following him. He grunted, pushing himself against the alley wall. That brought a whole new array of colours into is vision. He bit out more curses through the pain.

Once situated as comfortably as possible in his situation against the alley wall, he sucked in some air. He needed to assess his injuries and work from there. That’s what B always said to do. The most pressing matter was his side. His hands were sticky with blood from pressing the wound, but it didn’t help much. The liquid still spilled onto the floor of the alleyway, creating a growing puddle. That definitely was not good. His vision still was hazy, but he suspected it was from blood loss rather than a concussion. He tried moving his legs, only to let out a fresh string of curses. Ow, that was not happening.  Yeah, not a good idea. His best guess was that his left leg was most likely broken. 

He needed to get medical help. His bike– which was parked several blocks away– was out of the question. No way could he use a grappling hook with so much blood loss. He really wished he’d finished installing that comm unit in his helmet– he could maybe call someone for help. But that wasn’t an option. He was stuck in an alleyway, with a broken leg, alone and bleeding out. Just great. 

His eyes flitted up to the sky. It was clear and cloudless, not that you would be able to make out any stars in Gotham’s polluted air. But the moon. The moon was bright against that dark drapery of night, and its slivery glow cast onto Jason’s injured body. It didn’t help his headache. He tried angling his face away from it only to hiss in pain. 

Jason groaned. Well, he couldn’t just sit here and go quietly. He steeled himself and gripped the wall in an attempt to stand up. It was dizzying and hurt like hell, but he grit his teeth and stood. Good, he thought. Now, one step at a time. One, two. One, two. One– he fell to the ground with a crashing thud. 

Well, isn’t this a fun day, he grumbled. He regrettably (because ow) crawled back to the wall. He needed to get someone’s attention. Hell, he was desperate at this point. Superman would even do. Was he off-planet?  It was worth a try. He tried speaking but was cut off by a bout of coughing. That did not make his side any happier. He opened the front of his helmet the let himself breathe. Sucking in all the breath his lungs could hold, he yelled. “Superman!” 

Jason waited. Nothing. Wonderful. He pressed his head against the cold concrete of the alley wall, trying to clear his head. If only he weren’t so tired. Two minutes, he promised himself. Two minutes to rest before he tried again. 

He closed his eyes. Of course, he knew that if he drifted off completely, he may not wake up. If that were to happen, Jason wondered who would be tasked with writing his second obituary. He’d better be getting a new headstone for what it’s worth as well. 

His train of thought came crashing to a stop when he heard a familiar low rumble. An engine, he realized. Aw hell. Those goons might’ve finally tracked him down. He cracked an eyelid open to catch a glimpse of the new visitor. He didn’t see anyone. Wait, no– he craned his neck, finally sighting the vehicle. 

The Batmobile. He never thought he’d be so happy to smell its nasty fumes. B must have used the rockets on the back. Speaking of which, where was the Dark Knight?

He opened his other eye to find Batman. Jason let out a breathy chuckle. “Hey, B-man.” God, talking hurt. Batman grunted. 

“Let’s get you in the car, Jay-lad.” 

With hissing and cursing thought would have cost him fifty bucks in Alfred’s swear jar, the two made it to the car. “‘M gonna bleed all over your seats, B,” Jason warned, if not a little weakly. Batman ignored him. He braced himself as the car pulled onto the main streets, rocketing towards the Cave.  

_______________

Jason must have passed out at some point because he woke up in the damp air of the Cave. The cot he lay on was all too familiar from his Robin days, but he was secretly a little grateful that he didn’t have to take care of himself. Thankfully, his side had been cleaned and bandaged and his leg set while he was out. He figured that Bruce must have slipped some sedatives into the IV that stood beside him. That would explain why his head felt so light, and his eyes felt so heavy. He gave into its lulling numbness and slept. 

Bruce was with him the next time he awoke. He looked like he’d been sitting there a long time, which was silly. Bruce clearly had better things to do. “How are you feeling, Jay?” 

He shrugged or tried to, rather. Either way, Bruce got the message. “How’d you find me?” he croaked. 

“I saw the explosion. Heard you a few minutes later.” 

“How’d you know it was me?”Bruce stopped. 

“Jason, I’d know your voice anywhere,” he said, carding his fingers through Jason’s hair. 

Jason couldn’t find the incentive to berate him for the action. Silence filled the cave once again as Jason thought. Was the Cave always this gaping? “Why’d you come?” he finally asked. His voice was as quiet as the dark crevices of the Cave.  

“What are you talking about?” Bruce countered, looking bewildered. “Why wouldn’t I come? You’re my son, Jay.”

 “But the whole thing after… after I came back… and with Tim…” He studied the wrinkled fabric of the blanket that covered him, trying to hold back the tears that threatened his vision. “I tried to kill all of you, Bruce. How could… how could you want me back?” His final words came tumbling out.

“Oh, Jason…” Bruce murmured, enveloping the boy in his arms. They might have had their differences, but when all was said and done, at the end of the day, Jason was his son. “ You know, there’s this quote Dick likes to say,” he started. He cleared his throat dramatically and continued in his best impression of what had to be Stitch. “ ‘Ohana means family, and family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.’” 

Jason groaned into Bruce’s shirt. “You’re the worst.” 

Bruce chuckled, hugging Jason’s head closer. “I mean it, Jay. No matter what happens, I’m not going to stop loving or worrying over you.” 

“It’s not me you should be worried about B,” Jason said, suddenly mischievous. “I think I might call Disney to sue you for copyright violations.” 

“You wouldn’t do that, would you?” Bruce feigned a look of betrayal.”Because I can and will buy Disney if that’s the case.” 

Jason flopped back onto the cot, a grin shining through the tears that still lingered. “Nah. On grounds of loving you and all that.”

“Get some rest, Jay,” Bruce said, patting his son’s shoulder. “You don’t have to, but  I’d appreciate if you stayed here for a while, at least until you heal up.”

The boy considered it. Then he remembered: Alfred’s cooking his whole stay? Hell yes. “Okay, I’ll stay.”  

Bruce smiled. Misfortune might love his children, but he loved them more. 

#bruce wayne is a good dad #batman #ficlet #jason todd #red hood #batfam #hurt/comfort #dc comics #superman #dick grayson #lemony snicket #quote fic #quote #minor angst #oneshot #fanfic

[kellyvela]

That "might burn your family" tweet is indicative of what I know is going to happen in fandom: sure, people are indignant now about Dany but most people don't like to be rebels; they like to be co-signed by authority (the "I'm right b/c its canon" crowd"). And no matter how it was sugarcoated, GOT canon is that Dany is a mass-murderer. Those who are not stans will slowly but surely fall in line with this reading of her, not the least b/c they don't want to be wrong AGAIN when the books come out.

If you didn’t see it already, this is the HBO_UK tweet the anon refers: 

You sound very hopeful Anon. I agree that, in general, most people don’t like to be wrong, and certainly they don’t want to be wrong again about the same issue. 

But this fandom is something else…

Certain part of it just decided to live in denial and delusion (oh the irony): “I would never post a pic of dead dany”, “dany belongs to her fans that really love her and not to the misogynist show/books creators” (copyright what?), “I would never read the Books if that is the final”, etc, etc, etc.

We also have the actress that played dany saying/doing things like these:

I stand by Daenerys.

Clarke revealed that she met Beyonce at an Oscars after-party hosted by the musician and her husband, Jay Z. There, she was approached by the host herself, who gushed about Daenerys Targaryen. Beyonce, however, like the rest of the world, was at that point ignorant about Daenerys’ dark turn in Season 8. “All I wanted to scream was ‘Please, please still like me even though my character turns into a mass-killing dictator! Please still think that I’m representing women in a really fabulous way,’ ” Clarke said of the encounter. [x]

About the backlash on the final season: “It was profoundly flattering. Is what it was, because when someone cares that much, that they’re ready to make such a noise about how they believe the characters should have been… should have been finished, and how the story should have been gone. That’s just enormously flattering, that just shows how much everybody loved it.”        

She is using Dany and Drogon images to promote her charity.  Dany is not bringing fire and blood for once, she is a cute little nurse bringing help to those in need.     

We also have certain group of “asoiaf experts“ so called BNF, that decided not to watch the Show years ago, because it’s “sacrilege“, only the books are canon (in this I agree), but they have created their own canon, the way they interprete and understand the Books, and their followers buy everything they say as “the canon”. They still believe in their 20 years old theories that include Dany is the hero, maybe she would have a brief “dark phase“ but then “enters Jon” and they gonna fall in love, make love, celebrate life, have a baby, defeat the big bad guys walk walkers and sacrifice themselves to save the humanity. Tyrion will be the third head of the dragon, etc.  

As you can see Anon, that very human sentiment to hate being wrong, sometimes includes the belief that you can’t be wrong. So all these people (fans/stans/experts/etc) will stand by their beliefs and theories till the very end (when the books are at last published and they read them). And even after that they would say that GRRM is wrong, just like right now they are saying D&D are wrong.  

Dark Dany is not new. It have been theorized for years, And according to Elio García, co-author of the World of Ice and Fire, GRRM himself complimented that Dark Dany essay: “(…) he referred very specifically to the Meereenese Blot website and the knot essays. He said he was told about them, read them, and was very pleased that someone was able to get his difficulties and his intentions perfectly.”

And for those that paid attention, it was clear that the Show was taking that route at least since season 2. Her conversation with the Spice King is very telling. There is also this conversation with Hizdahr Zo Loraq in season 5 that is very much the same conversation she had with Jon just before he killed her. 

The Battle of the Bastard’s script says: “She doesn’t have to look. She only allows the faintest hint of a smile. A smile that says: my tyranny is not ended, motherfucker. It’s only just begun.”

People also have season 7 and even after watching those seven episodes, they believed that GOT was going to have a happy ending, a Disney one, with Targaryen restoration, jonerice wedding, king and queen coronation, boat baby and all. 

But you are right, the sugarcoat was real. They change season 7 - episode 2 title from “The Mad King’s Daughter” to something more poetic/whitewashed: “Stormborn”: 

What I was impressed by was the little hints that we saw of potentially her (Daenerys) becoming like her father in those conversations ( her talking with Varys). You know, threatening to burn somebody alive, in any universes, it’s not great.

Bryan Cogman: She has dragons, an effective form of execution.

But knowing what her father was doing to people that line sticks in your ear and also when inviting him ( Jon) down and she wants him to immediately bend the knee

Bryan Cogman: Yeah, I mean, she sees this as her birthright… it’s plain and simple, you know, they took this from her, it’s hers.

And so much of the episode ( really the whole season) not just for Daenerys but for a lot of our characters is dealing with the legacy of their families and the generations that preceded them and dealing not only with how they feel about it and what they might share with some of those ancestors but how other people perceive you.

That legacy it’s kind of why I wanted to originally call it the Mad King’s daughter (I like Stormborn, I think is a great title actually), I really wanted to call it the Mad King’s daughter and actually it would have made more sense.

In the original edit there were more characters referring to her like this in pretty much every scene and I think some of that was lost in the final edit but in the original script and in the original edit ( which was longer) pretty much every character that wasn’t in the Daenerys‘s circle was referring to her as “the Mad King’s daughter is here” .

Considering this idea that she’s got a reputation before she has ever set foot there, because she has a brother’s reputation too, that first scene is definitely about her reconciling with that, wrestling with how much of that legacy is good for her brand and what isn’t and certainly that is a big part of the no-fire bombing strategy.

It’s like: you could come in here and torch the whole place and everyone would be horrified and what have you achieved? If you want to rule, you need to take a different approach.

But under that, and I think you picked up on something in that first scene, is that she’s got a real kind of need and desire to go in guns blazing and from an emotional point of view the scene has to set up this.

Game of Thrones’ Writer Bryan Cogman: In Conversation (Part 2)

The Mad King’s Daughter, she’s got a real kind of need and desire to go in guns blazing. 

Yeah, hero material you all.

And even during season 8, after episode 2, Bryan Cogman made this really telling comparison between Sansa and Dany:

Sansa knows that of all the Starks that were ripped from Winterfell, she suffered the most to get it back. She’s the driving force for getting it back. Now she’s being told, “It’s not yours, and it’s not the Starks’ anymore. It belongs to Hitler’s daughter, the worst person in the world’s daughter, the daughter of the person who murdered your grandfather and uncle in the worst way possible. And guess what? Your brother, who you convinced to step up when he wanted to fuck off because of his death experience, bent the knee to her and is telling you that she’s your queen.” What part of Sansa’s reaction to any of this is irrational?

At the same time, if you’re Dany, this is the family that stole your family’s legacy. You grew up as a child living in constant fear that you were going to be murdered the next day. Then you’re married off to a warlord, and you’ve scraped and suffered and endured, and here you are. You’re going to help these people who destroyed your life and your family’s lives. Where’s the gratitude?

Even if he described both sides’ positions and sentiments, if you say one side’s reaction is not irrational, and then call the other side “Hitler’s daughter”, you know exactly who is the good guy and who is the evil one. 

D&D surely sugarcoated Dany, they were not calling her plainly “The Mad King’s Daughter”, but they were subtly telling us that she indeed was Aery’s pretty version: 

Jon: She’ll be a good queen. For all of us. She’s not her father.

Sansa: No, she’s much prettier.

—GOT season 8 - episode 1

In that “I stand by Daenerys” article, the interviewer recalled Kit Harington’s words about Jon killing Dany, during season 8 filming:

“I think it’s going to divide,” Harington says of the finale’s fan reaction. “But if you track her story all the way back, she does some terrible things. She crucifies people. She burns people alive. This has been building. So, we have to say to the audience: ‘You’re in denial about this woman as well. You knew something was wrong. You’re culpable, you cheered her on.’”

Harington adds he worries the final two episodes will be accused of being sexist, an ongoing criticism of GoT that has recently resurfaced perhaps more pointedly than ever before. “One of my worries with this is we have Cersei and Dany, two leading women, who fall,” he says. “The justification is: Just because they’re women, why should they be the goodies? They’re the most interesting characters in the show. And that’s what Thrones has always done. You can’t just say the strong women are going to end up the good people. Dany is not a good person. It’s going to open up discussion but there’s nothing done in this show that isn’t truthful to the characters. And when have you ever seen a woman play a dictator?”

After reading what Kit said, Dany stans gone rabid. They said things like HBO forced him to say those words and others simply insulted and hated him. Because, you know, he is wrong. D&D are also wrong. They are just a pair of white misogynist dudes that can’t stand women in power… SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!

I mean, look at these headlines. Dany stans/targ lovers are now justifying genocide. They are making/selling/buying “Her Satanic Majestic” T-shirts. 

So there you have it Anon. Some of them decided to believe Dany will still be the hero in the Books, because she ended slavery you know, that’s not what villains do, if you think different, you are a slavery apologist, also misogynist, and surely a Stark stan, those fucking classists xenophobes…   

Some others just joined “Her Satanic Majesty” cult. Those ungrateful peasants deserved to be burned alive because they didn’t love Dany. it was their fault that Dany had to go in guns blazing on them. Burn them all! Dracarys! Fire and Blood! 

It would be a long ride Anon.  

#Daenerys Targaryen #Dark Dany #Game of Thrones

[justkending]

You need to see a doctor. (Drabble Challenge)

Drabble #44 “You need to see a doctor.”

Pairing: Dean x Reader

Word count: 900+

A/N: This was sent in by an anon so I hope you see it my dear! I’m really enjoying these drabbles and I still have a few to work on! College just started back up though, so it may take me a minute, but these are great distractions! (The characters written about, are not my own. Copyright goes to Supernatural and Warner Brothers.)

“Sit still would you!” you shouted stitching up Dean as he squirmed under your hand.

“It’s hard to when it feels like you're performing surgery on me rather than a few stitches.” he groaned like a child.

“I’m not that bad.” you huffed.

“You’re kinda a butcher Y/N.” Sam said looking up from his book.

“You’re kinda a butcher Y/N- Oh shut up!” you mocked. 

“You need to see a doctor.” Dean chuckled before letting in a sharp breath from the next suture. “God, go easy on me.”

“You’re the one with the gash on your back. If any one needs to see a doctor, it's you.” you said not being as gentle on purpose now since the boys were being difficult.

“I’m not talking about a surgical doctor, I’m talking mental doctor.” he laughed getting Sam to chuckle as well. 

You smacked him upside the head at his comment and shot Sam a look that quieted his banter. 

“God. You’re so mean.” Dean muttered.

“I’m only being mean cause if you would have listened to me in the first place, and waited for backup, you wouldn’t be sitting here getting sewn up.” you said finishing up the last stitch. “There. Done.”

“Thanks.” he sighed glad that the pain was somewhat over.

“One more thing.” you said grabbing a whiskey bottle and pouring some on the wound.

“Holy-” he hissed jumping up at the stinging sensation. 

“Can’t risk getting an infection.” you winked at him as he sent you a glare, and you quickly took a swig of whiskey with a smile on the corner of your mouth.

“You little-” he said through gritted teeth.

“Yeah, yeah. You love me. I know.” you waved off turning around and going to the motel table to go back to research.

But just as you turned around, two arms snaked around your waist and lifted you off the ground. 

“Dean!” you shouted trying to push off of his arms, but also trying not to drop the whiskey bottle. “Put me down! You’re going to pop a stitch!”

“Not until you say your sorry!” he shouted back.

“Dean, I’m not kidding!”

“Neither am I!”

“Why should I be sorry!” you said starting to kick now. 

“For hurting me!” he said squeezing tighter.

“It’s stitches! They hurt no matter what!”

“Guys.” Sam sighed in the corner.

“Say it!” Dean said in your ear. 

“No!”

“Stubborn ass!” he shouted back at you still not easing his grip.

“Right back at you jackass!” you said squirming harder.

“Guys!” Sam said louder but neither of you listening. 

“I’m not putting you down until you say it.” Dean huffed as you kicked him in the shin. “Ow!”

“I’m not going to say sorry for something I’m not sorry about Dean! I patched you up, now put me down!”

“Sassy women!” 

“Immature boy!” you yelled back as you put the bottle down and went back to kicking.

“Fine! If you won’t say it, I guess I’m not letting go.” he said now moving you toward the bed still lifted from the ground.

“Dean, what the hell?” you said wiggling more, but still not making any progress getting out of his grip. 

“I’m going to bed, and I’m not letting go.”

“You guys are insufferable.” Sam said rolling his eyes and giving up on trying to break you two up. 

Sure enough, Dean flopped on the bed with you still intertwined in his arms. You tried moving out of his grip a new way, but found it harder as he threw his legs over you, enveloping you like a sloth.

“You going to say it?” he whispered in your ear. 

“No.” you huffed giving up and staying still.

“Ok. Goodnight then.” he said cuddling into you more. 

“Dean…” you dragged out, but no answer. “Ugh..” you said accepting defeat and staring at Sam in front of you on the other bed who just shot you a grin before going back to his book.

“You two are too stubborn for your own good. How you guys don’t tear each others heads off, I’ll never get.” he laughed. 

“Give me 10 more minutes and your wish may come true.” you groaned as Dean held you closer.  

Those 10 minutes passed and you realized you had to pee really bad. Dean still had a death grip on you even half asleep.

“Dean.” Nothing. “Dean come on. I have to pee.” you said shifting the little bit you could.

“Say it.” he mumbled into your hair.

“Come on Dean.” you groaned. 

“I’m not letting go until you say it.” he mumbled again. 

You let out a long sigh debating on not giving in, but your bladder had other ideas. 

“Fine. I’m sorry I was rough when giving you stitches. Will you let me go?”

“Say it like you mean it.” he said nuzzling into you more. 

You rolled your eyes, and let out an exaggerated sigh to show him you weren’t happy about it.

“I love you and I’m sorry. Can I please go pee now?”

“Eh, I’ll let it pass this time.” he said giving you a squeeze before finally releasing you. 

“Holy shit. I forgot what it’s like to breath. Your grip is like a freaking anaconda.” you said stretching as you walked to the bathroom.

“I love you too!” he shouted.

You shot him a quick glare, but couldn’t hold it since he was giving you a goofy face. One that always made you smile no matter what your mood. 

“Love you too dork.” you chuckled shaking your head.

“Yeah I know. Just wanted to hear you say it.”

“Jerk.” you giggled walking into the bathroom. 

“Dork!” he shouted back.

My lovelies forever:

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#supernatural #SPN #SPN drabble #spn reader insert #supernatural drabble #supernatural imagine #supernatural one shot #justkending #dean winchester #dean winchester x reader #dean x reader #dean winchester drabble

[smartguyreviewed]

1x5 - Don’t Do That Thing You Do

Original air date: April 16, 1997

Alright, Disney. We need to have a little talk.

I take a lot of shit from you in the name of nostalgia. You repay me by selling all of your DCOMs on iTunes but since they are DRM protected, you then make me have to buy third party software to remove said DRM just so I can watch these movies for my own personal viewing. If you’re worried about me selling and distributing copies of your movies to people who also wanna relive them good ‘ole days, stop. People will find a way to pirate your shit regardless and actually have more than what you release. Really, just stop.

You then removed all of the Smart Guy episodes from YouTube so that the only dregs of the show left are sped up, slowed down, or only take up a third of the video player due to copyright shit. You gave me considerable hope when I saw you’d be putting all the original shows and movies (minus In a Heartbeat. Minus The Jersey. Minus The Famous Jett Jackson. Minus Model Behavior. Minus My Date With the President’s Daughter.) on this shiny new channel of yours.

I know you have a problem with misordering episodes, making certain episodes season finales when they shouldn’t be and just not having any general sense of continuity. I am still baffled as to why this episode, episode number 5 is not included in the first season, which is already hella short at just 8 episodes. Disney, do you enjoy making me wonder why I even fuck with you? Once I get a .mp4 file of Johnny Tsunami and maaaaybe Can of Worms, I’m through with you forever.

This one is gonna be long because TJ really pissed me off in this episode. But if you actually read the above, I love you because I’m literally just whining.

In this episode, I will actually feel bad for Marcus. Yes, Marcus, teenage horndog, sexist Marcus will tug on my heartstrings and make me relate to him. I know I give him a lot of shit, but at the end of the day, he’s still a teenage boy. A dark-skinned teenage boy in a family full of gifted and/or capable light skinned people, at that. In this family, guess who is the odd one out, the black sheep? Marcus. Coincidence? I just couldn’t help but notice some things Yvette does (like pursue dance at one point) are encouraged while Marcus’s hobby (music, another art) is constantly shit on by Floyd who wants Marcus to be more book smart. Or how Yvette didn’t get into any trouble for not trying to stop TJ’s party just because Marcus, who is younger than her, was in charge? Just two examples, but you get the point. 

We begin the episode with TJ bothering the big kids while they’re trying to rehearse for the upcoming Battle of the Bands gig. The gang needs cash to continue banding, especially since Mo’s strings are caca. Marcus is certain they will win and as soon as he manifests positivity about his future, something bad happens. Their guitarist breaks his finger. 

Marcus is whining to pops about this little roadbloack when we see Yvette has invited Gabrielle Union back to her place to study in the kitchen. None of that learning crap will be happening right now though, because Floyd has made Gabs wet. She tells Yvette who delivers the most visceral reaction. But Yvette...your dad is hot. And it’s perfectly normal for friends to have crushes on your parents. And you also date older men! Yvette has her moments where I hate her and this is one of them. Instead of just dropping it and continuing to study, she actually throws her friend out! You would have thought Yvette was Floyd’s damn girlfriend, the way she was acting. 

Because every show needs a montage here and there, we are now jettisoned to the garage, where Marcus is auditioning for a new piano player. Spoiler alert: they all reek, except for one guy who clearly must have been on some type of psychedelic drug to audition for a high school R&B band during a federal pursuit. The others were straight duds, including the most aggressive polka musician ever who thought his accordion counted as a keyboard. 

Marcus is fucked. His goose is cooked. His dream is deferred. How the hell is he going to pull a new piano player out of his ass in time for BotB? He suddenly hears someone tickling the ivories and is beyond impressed...and then disappointed once he sees its TJ. Turns out the little guy knows all their songs and then proceeds to explain music in math terms and I pretty much feel the way Marcus does here.

I mean, really, it’s annoying to know that your freakishly intelligent brother is pretty much good at everything, including the thing that you love more than anything. You share a room with this person, you see this person every day at school and you now have to let him in your band because of circumstances.  I do like that Marcus includes the rest of the group in his decision making, even though they really don’t seem to care about its direction as long as they can have sex with all the groupies. 

So now its Mackadocious +TJ and Marcus is doling out the “kicks” to everyone except TJ. But TJ, homie, you just entered the band and your role is to just play the piano, since nobody else is around. This is not the time for you to be trying to get your Regina Spektor on. Play your part! TJ gets upset at this, but once Marcus threatens violence, he immediately goes back to his role.

B plot land is just Yvette pissed off that her friend finds her father attractive. They go to the BotB thing and she even cuts in front of them. Jeez Yvette, chill.

When her bestie leaves a voicemail directed more towards Floyd, although flattered, he has to let her down gently. Yadda yadda, Floyd is about to have that uncomfortable conversation but it’s fine because Gabby met some dude in a black trench coat and needs Yvette to style her hair like Halle Berry’s in the last month’s Essence. Yvette is happy that things are back to normal, at the expense of her lonely father who most likely reveled in that small amount of validation as quickly as it was snatched away from him. Poor Flody. 

Anyways, back to the main arc of the episode. It’s time for the BotB and TJ is still vying for that piano solo but Marcus isn’t budging. This will end well. Once they get far enough into the song, Marcus is about to do his solo. He’s probably thinking that finally, the spotlight will be on him for a change and he can feel like he’s doing something worthy of praise. But this is TJ we’re talking about, and he is a petty little asshole, so he immediately hijacks the show and begins with his piano solo. Marcus looks straight dumb trying to hop back into his own set. So now instead of being a dick and doing the solo he wasn’t supposed to do, he has now embarassed Marcus. His feelings about the situation can best be summed up here.

The next day at school, we see that TJ is still hogging all of the band’s attention. Marcus’s insane level of togetherness right now is commendable, seeing as TJ clearly has no remorse for what he’s done and is now rubbing it in their faces. Just Marcus, though. TJ is a little babe magnet and is now basically getting girls for Mo and Goose to have sex with. Everyone is getting what they want right now. Except Marcus. 

During a rehearsal, TJ moves on to insulting Marcus’s compositions and telling the band that they need something “else.” Marcus has had it and decides it’s time for TJ to go. TJ tries to save his ass by apologizing for something he’s clearly not sorry for after the fact, but the damage is done. Now we all know that TJ is totally one to accept defeat and move on so I’m sure nothing else will come of a rather amicable split.

Later, Kid from Kid n’ Play shows up and offers Mackadocious some moolah if they play again, but with TJ, seeing as Mackadocious has been unwillingly changed to The Band With the Cute Little Kid. Marcus, putting his dream over his desire to teach his little narcissist brother a lesson (just kidding, he wants the money) asks TJ back, but he’s strangely okay with staying out of it. Marcus then grabs TJ and threatens him, calling him a little twerp. This is still funny to me.

Floyd comes in and breaks up the fight and forces the siblings to hash out their differences in a healthy way. TJ says he wishes he could sing like Marcus. Marcus hates that TJ is good at everything. They both apologize to each other and Marcus even asks if TJ wants to rejoin the band and TJ is about to ruin this totally fine moment between them by revealing his evil plan.

After being kicked out of the band, TJ wanted to get even. Instead of just taking the L and moving on, he reached out to Kid and offered some tax code write offs in exchange for promising Mackadocious a lot of money to perform a bogus gig where nobody would show up. Yes, you read that right. TJ wanted to destroy Marcus’s life and possibly crush his spirit to the point where he’d never want to pursue music at all. All because he did something shitty and got punished accordingly. TJ is a petty little asshole. Floyd hears this and allows the beating to continue. Did I mention how much I love Floyd?

Stuff I noticed:

- TJ’s shirt. Where can I find this shirt? Seriously, it’s amazing.

- Oh hi, Christina Milian.

- When TJ is mentioning the name of the band’s fan site, he just says it’s ww.cutekid.com which makes no sense because that’s too general to refer to a band and also sounds like pedo bait. 

#smart guy #tj henderson #marcus henderson #90s #nineties #tahj mowry #christina milian #christopher reid #kid n play #yvette henderson #essence atkins #jason weaver #john marshall jones #mo tibbs #omar gooding

[zatyrlucy]

Hi guys. I start this post by saying the latest Live video was one of the best!!! (At least for me xD) Despite Ashley being sick and Ed Bosco didn’t get to the stream (that’s why there is not much facts about Alastor) I felt it was very funny and also Vivz gave a lot of hella good information. Fans are getting better and better on making questions and I love that.  

1.       OCs made by fans can’t appear on Hazbin Hotel unless they won some kind of contest or something like that in the future. (That’s because there could be copyright problems for including content that don’t belong to Vivzpop or the artists of the crew.  If I am not wrong, at the moment a fan won a contest or something and their OCs get to be in the show as a reward, that person has to give up the owning of that specific character to make everything legal…I guess. Also that’s why Vivz and the crew can’t make background characters similar to yours because it can be a copyright infringement too).

2.       There are concepts of fallen angels for HH that might be in the show in the future.  

3.       There probably will be angels in the show but their concept is not what fans are expecting to be, so until angels show up in the show, vivz don’t mind any headcanon fans come up with.

4.       Alastor and Charlie’s relationship is a big plot point of the show, then, Vivz can’t say much about them without telling spoilers. The only thing that is already known by many is that both of them share the same sense of humor. There is seriously nothing else that can be said because the development of their relationship is going to happen in the pilot because they didn’t know each other before.

5.       Alastor doesn’t like dogs. He is not afraid of them anymore, he just doesn’t like them at all.  

6.       Molly and Angel are siblings and…there are not much to say besides that.  

7.       Alastor is able to have a friendship with someone but that person have to be funny and entertain to be with (In my opinion that explains his friendship with Rosie, because she probably sings so they can entertain themselves by singing together).

8.       Angel doesn’t like watermelon jolly ranchers (wth are those?)

9.       Angel likes sweets, especially strawberries with chocolate. He also likes apples (then everybody laughed because Ashley said if those facts have something to do with the strawberry pimp and the apple daddy xD)

10.   Angel indeed is a masochist 

11.   How the main characters of the show died is totally plot point and can’t be explained.  

12.   There is cold areas in hell and there also can be snow in hell. This is because HH is based in Dante’s Inferno and in that story, there is a circle of hell made of ice.

13.   !!!!!  “Angel Dust” is just a nickname, not an actual name. The spider demon chose the name of that drug to be his porn star and his drag queen nickname. Only Vivz know the real name of our dear kinky demon.  (I wonder if there are other main characters being called by their nicknames instead of their real names. Now I doubt everythingggggg @_@)  

14.   Angel Dust’s real name is not Martin. That was a fan theory because that’s how Angel was called loooong time ago, like, the first years of HH, but this is not canon anymore.

15.   Vivz did choose the name “Martin” because of Martin Scorsesee. But I repeat, this is not canon anymore.

16.   !!!!! THE PILOT IS GOING TO BE 30 MINUTES LONG !!!! It will consist of two parts, both of approximately 15 minutes each, Act 1 and act 2. (wow...just wow, that’s the longest pilot in history, because even the pilots for Tv shows are like, 20 or 23 minutes long, because they have to make time for commercials, but this case is different because is going to be an internet show without commercials, holy cow).

17.   The normal episodes are probably going to be 15 minutes long.

18.   Hazbin Hotel inspiration is based in demonology, villains and adult animations/shows.

19.   Vivz love villains but she didn’t want to make the show about villains vs heroes and instead she made it more real with bad vs good people. That’s why there is a big difference between Charlie (aka the Disney princess of hell) and the other demons (aka complete assholes) because she wanted the main focus of the story to be the contrast between good and bad on people.

20.   Vivz and the crew like the Country western AU. She even confirmed there is a country western area in hell.

21.   All the characters in zoophobia that might appear in HH are just a cameo, it doesn’t mean that those characters are part of hell now, no, they are just a cameo.

22.   The only exception is Hatchet whose character and personality is going to be changed by Vivz so he will become canonically part of the Hazbin Hotel world from now on instead of zoophobia.

Also, as a bonus, go check min 3:10:30 to laugh your as** off for almost 10 minutes because that’s the moment when Vivz and Ahsley start to talk very funny topics and I had a really good time listening to those two talking crazy things (Is the first time I hear vivz said “fuck” so many times xD) while Michael in the background is like “ok I just will be quiet” xdxd

#Hazbin Hotel #Ashley's Live videos

[benisasoftboi]

In Which I Explain The Entirety of Star Wars, Despite Being Very Much Unqualified To Do So

I have only seen one Star Wars movie - it was The Last Jedi. I saw it, with no context, two years ago in theatres when it first came out. I was very surprised to find out that it made a lot of people very angry, because I quite liked it, as did the friends I saw it with. I can’t say I remember much though.

All the rest of my Star Wars knowledge comes from its generally inescapable nature in the pop cultural zeitgeist. I might have seen a bit of Episode 6, which I don’t know the name of, when I was round a friend’s house once, but I was very tired, and it was about a decade ago anyway.

That’s just some context for my lack of qualifications to do this. My friend said I should still do it anyway. I will not be looking anything up as I write this, so all spelling mistakes and other general errors are mine. 

So anyway - The Entirety of Star Wars:

Original Trilogy 

There is a guy called Luke. He is played by Mark Hamill and he is George Lucas’s self insert. He lives on a planet where there is only sand, because in this universe all planets have only one terrain, I think. He drinks milk. The milk might be blue.

A guy played by Liam Neeson finds Luke. I think this guy’s name is probably Obi Wan Kenobi, but I might have that wrong. At some point he will die tragically and it will be formative for Luke, but then he will also come back as a ghost. Ghosts exist in this universe. 

Possibly Luke has known this guy for a long time or possibly he is a stranger, I am not sure. Somehow they end up on a spaceship.

Luke needs to learn how to use magic powers called the Force, which seems to be mostly telekinesis, and also lets him use a really fancy but probably impractical sword called a lightsaber that shoots blue or sometimes green or sometimes red light. This is called Jedi training. Jedi Knight is a religion. You can claim to be one on the census in the real world. They seem to be really serious people despite having a silly name.

Everyone also has guns that go ‘pew pew pew’ and nerds get really mad when you make fun of that.

Luke will meet many colourful and interesting people on his journey. These include:

A woman played by Carrie Fisher who is also his twin sister but he doesn’t know that until after they kiss. Her name is Leia or maybe Laia. She has silly hair. At one point she wears a slave bikini because she’s enslaved to a gelatinous blob because that’s just how it goes when you’re the woman in a 70s sci-fi movie

A guy called Han Solo because he is Edgy and Does Things Solo. He and Leia have a romance and it’s Drama. He also has a spaceship that people will build very impressive lego replicas of. He dresses like a cowboy. I’m 90% that he is played by Harrison Ford

A bunch of walking teddy bears called Ewoks who can kill you and live in a jungle

A guy called Lando Calrissian who I think wears fancy clothes and that’s all I know about him, he might actually be a villain I’m not sure. He might die?

A little blue robot who hid behind some rocks one time and then in the re-release he hid behind more rocks than before and the fans got Mad

A big gold robot who is nervous and gay and might be gay for the little blue robot, like they might be married but that also might be a meme I’m not certain

A weird green goblin thing called Yoda who makes Luke carry him around and speaks in broken English that annoying people have spent the last thirty years imitating. He dies, but then is a ghost so it doesn’t matter really

A guy called Boba Fett who is a bounty hunter. I genuinely have no clue how he fits in to all of this. He might not actually be from Star Wars, maybe I’m mixing him up with something else. 

Luke is also trying to fight the Evil Darth Vader who works for an Evil CGI Emperor of the Evil Empire. They live on a big spaceship called the Death Star and it looks like a moon but isn’t and people think it’s funny when you point that out for some reason. They are the Dark Side, which makes them easy to root against because they’re just cartoonishly evil I guess. I think they are also bureaucrats. They have Stormtroopers, who might be brainwashed people or might just be robots, or might even be clones. They all wear identical white armour with helmets so people don’t care when they get shot. Kinda like fencers.

Darth Vader is actually Luke’s father and this is a twist except not anymore. This means he is also Leia’s father, I’m not sure if she knew. Also Luke loses his arm. Darth Vader gets redeemed and then dies but also takes down the Evil CGI Emperor with him.

I don’t know what happens in any of the movies, but I know that the first one ends with them getting plans for or from Leia, not sure, the second one has the dad twist, and the third one has ghosts. Also they blow up the Death Star by shooting a garbage chute really hard. 

Prequels

These movies are widely disliked. The first one has too much bureaucracy. They are about Darth Vader’s backstory. He used to be a guy called Anakin. He will Become Evil. He will also meet many colourful characters. They include:

His love interest, who is called Padme. She wears a silly hat and dies of a combination of Childbirth and Sadness. I saw this bit happen one time when I was a kid and I was stuck round my mum’s friend’s house and her son was playing through this part in the LEGO game. It was sad

A guy with a red face whose name might be Maul and has robot legs? 

A guy called Jar Jar Binks who everyone seems to simultaneously hate and feel a desperate need to make sex jokes about 

Angry Jedi People

Probably some robots

Anakin hates sand and is pretty but grumpy. His hatred of sand is what will prevent him from finding Luke in the original movies. He falls in a volcano and gets turned into a robot man and it’s very dramatic. He has an angry red lightsaber. He murders a bunch of children by executing Order 66. Or maybe that was in the first set of movies I don’t know. I’m not sure how they made three of these movies, there doesn’t seem to be much to them.

Also there is something called ‘mitoclorians’ and I don’t know what they are but they make nerds Very Mad.

Expanded Universe

There was an expanded universe, but Disney said it wasn’t canon when they bought the rights, so now it isn’t. If I were a Star Wars fan, I would not take this lying down, because what right does Disney have to say what’s canon? Why is it up to the copyright holders? They are a corporation, not a writer. Expanded universes are always really fun and full of wacky nonsense that would never get put in the mainline stuff. I don’t like it when people try to dismiss them. 

Stand Alone Movies

When the new trilogy started, they also made some stand alone films. They were called Rogue One and Solo. Rogue One is about a woman named Gin or Jinn or Jin or Ginne or - I wish I hadn’t restricted myself to not looking anything up - Urso. The spelling doesn’t matter because she dies. So does everyone else. Then Darth Vader shows up.

Solo is about Han Solo and his friends and they have an adventure and there’s a robot who wants robot rights but she dies so no one has to address the slavery thing. Also apparently it was going to be a comedy but got reshot as a drama. I hope I never watch it because that sounds terrible, even as much as I like Donald Glover who I think is in it probably. I think his character might have been in love with the dead robot.

Sequel Trilogy

These movies are about a girl called Rey. She makes nerds mad by existing and being the protagonist. She is Space British. She is a scavenger and is friends with a really cute little orange robot. Somehow she ends up in space. She starts hanging out with Older Leia’s crew, which include a pilot named Poe Dameron and a guy called Finn, but I don’t know why he’s there. People ship them with each other, and also with Rey. 

The other person people ship Rey with is Kylo Ren, who I call Space Zuko because when I saw The Last Jedi, he showed up and I was like ‘oh, it’s Zuko from Avatar: The Last Airbender but in space’, because he has bad hair and is angry about his Daddy Issues. I hope in the next movie he gets better hair and fewer Daddy Issues like Real Zuko did. A lot of people get really angry about Rey and Space Zuko being shipped together, but they’re still the most popular ship on AO3. So no matter what happens in the next one, nerds are going to be mad about it, and I am not looking forward to it.

Kylo Ren killed his dad, Han Solo, because he was radicalised to be evil for reasons I don’t know. The guy who runs the New Evil Group, which is called the First Order, is an ugly CGI guy called Snoke. It was apparently a Big Twist that Kylo kills him Last Jedi, and it made nerds really mad. I don’t understand why people were surprised, because when I saw the movie, I saw that guy and was like ‘oh he’s gonna get killed by Space Zuko because that would be Drama and also from a production standpoint having a guy who needs lots of special effects is much more difficult than just having Adam Driver wear a scary mask’ and then I was right so maybe I’m smarter than all the nerds. 

There is also a guy called Hux and he is a ginger. I think he is evil.

The other thing people got really mad about was that Rey’s parents were not established characters. People wanted her dad to be Luke, I think, who is in Last Jedi. I was happy about this because I like Mark Hamill. He spent the movie teaching her about the force while they hang out on an island with a race of merchandising opportunities called Porgs. He dies at the end but he might be in the next one as a ghost anyway. 

Also there was a girl called Rose and people decided that not liking the character meant they could be mean to the actress, which is not true and everyone who was mean to her should be ashamed. There was another woman as well, but I don’t remember her name, she had purple hair and was serious and I have no idea if she was good or evil. 

Kylo Ren’s real name is Ben which is not very sci-fi. Maybe that’s why he changed it.

Though come to think, Luke isn’t a very sci-fi name either. 

Anyway, that’s everything I know about Star Wars.

Feel free to ask me questions about Star Wars and have me try to answer.

Do not, under any circumstances, try to actually explain Star Wars to me. I’m much happier as is, thank you very much

#star wars #long post #misc #long essays about niche topics #luke star wars #leia star wars #oh they have surnames #luke skywalker #leia skywalker #han solo #kylo ren #rey star wars #darth vader #anakin skywalker #yoda #hux star wars #and others #i guess #i dont know #obi wan #obi wan kenobi #is that all the important ones? #poe dameron #finn star wars #last jedi

[archiveacademics]

What about the lawyers?

Fanfic is not just about the fans or the creators of the original works, oh no. There’s a third category of people who care very much about fanfic. Well, when they’re paid to.

Lawyers.

Yeah, ok, this is maybe the least sexy part of fanfic. But it’s an important part too. 

Our buzzwords for the day are fair use, transformative work, and public domain. Oh! And Mickey Mouse.

So what is fair use? The Organization for Transformative Works has a great explanation of what constitutes fair use. 

“The U.S. Copyright Act provides that certain kinds of uses of copyrighted material are fair use, and therefore are not infringing. The law provides examples of the kinds of uses that are likely to be allowed -— such as criticizing or commenting on the underlying work. The law also provides a list of factors to consider in determining whether a particular use is allowed:

the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;

the nature of the copyrighted work;

the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and

the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

Courts generally balance all four factors in deciding whether something is fair use — no single factor determines the answer.”

(Emphasis in original)

So what does all that really mean, though? Number one means that works used for education purposes have a really good argument for fair use and anything used for commercial purposes doesn’t. Number two basically means that fictional works tend to be more protected than factual ones. Number three is...honestly I’m still a little unclear the extent of number three. I read an article called “Fan Fiction and the Fair Use Doctrine” that described number three as having “the grayest area of any other factor when applied to fan fiction.” It seems to depend on how much of the original story you use (plot, world, characters) and then whether or not some of those things (characters) are actually copyright (sometimes characters are, sometimes they aren’t.) Finally, number four just measures whether or not the work in question will effect the market for the original work.

One thing that’s become very clear in my research is that the courts tend to take these fanfic copyright infringement cases on a case by case basis. There is no overarching ruling that everyone adheres to. In the infamous words of Justice Potter Stewart, “I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description ["fanfic” and “copyright infringement”], and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it.” (Wikipedia.com)

Generally, as long as the work itself is not commercial, there’s not a large chance that the author, even if they dislike fanfic*, is going to sue for copyright infringement. 

So where does “transformative work” come into all this?

Fanlore.org, a wiki run by the Organization for Transformative Works, gives a pretty concise definition of “transformative work” and why it’s important. 

“Transformative works are creative works about characters or settings created by fans of the original work, rather than by the original creators. Transformative works include but are not limited to fanfiction, real person fiction, fan vids, and graphics. A transformative use is one that, in the words of the U.S. Supreme Court, adds something new, with a further purpose or different character, altering the [source] with new expression, meaning, or message.“

(Emphasis in original)

So if I’m writing a noncommercial transformative work (for instance the events of Harry Potter from the point of view of a new, background character) then I’m well within the fair use doctrine. I’m (1) using the world of Harry Potter for the noncommercial purpose of entertainment. Harry Potter itself, of course, being (2) a work of fiction. (3) I’m using events from the books but not major characters (as my hypothetical fanfic here is from a background character’s perspective). And at the end of the day (4) there will be little to no effect on J K Rowling’s market. In fact, it might even have the opposite effect, making people want to go read the originals (either again or for the first time). 

So that’s a quick overview of fair use and transformative work from someone who’s not a lawyer (nor even a law student). If you want to hear more from actual lawyers on the topic I have a few options for you to check out.

The Fansplaining podcast had a great episode called “Buncha Lawyers” where they interviewed two lawyers who work with fandom and, more specifically, the Organization for Transformative Works. 

There is also this webcast. Kyle Courtney is a copyright advisor for the Harvard office for scholarly communication. The webcast skips a bit, but it’s fascinating and well worth a listen if you want to learn more.

Last but not least there is a tumblr called FYeahCopyright (run by one of the lawyers from the Fansplaining podcast) that answers questions about fandom, fair use, and copyright that you can check out.

But wait, there’s more!

I still haven’t gotten to public domain, or Mickey Mouse yet. I’ll be quick, I promise.

It wouldn’t be fair, though, to talk about copyright without discussing public domain. Public domain is basically what happens when copyright has expired and the work is open to the public. Fanfic is no longer questionably legal, it’s totally fine! And “as of 2019, copyright has expired for all works published in the United States before 1924. In other words, if the work was published in the U.S. before January 1, 1924, you are free to use it in the U.S. without permission. These rules and dates apply regardless of whether the work was created by an individual author, a group of authors, or an employee (a work made for hire).” (Stanford University Libraries)

“But 1924,” you say, “that can’t be right. That’s so long ago!”

You’re right, imaginary conversant of mine, that is a long time ago. Unfortunately though, it’s not wrong. Copyright law in the US last for just a bonkers long time because of, you guessed it, Mickey Mouse.

The Mouse casts a long shadow and Disney has the money and the lawyers to lobby for longer and longer copyright terms. Twice now, copyright has been extended basically entirely because of Disney. 

“With only 5 years left on Mickey Mouse’s copyright term, Congress again changed the duration with the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998.  This legislation lengthens copyrights for works created on or after January 1, 1978, to “life of the author plus 70 years,” and extends copyrights for corporate works to 95 years from the year of first publication, or 120 years from the year of creation, whichever expires first. That pushed Mickey’s copyright protection out to 2023.” (alj.artrepreneur.com)

So Disney’s got at most another three years before we all start writing Mickey Mouse slash fiction**. 

*And oh how some of them do hate fanfic. But that’s a topic for another time.

**If you don’t know what slash is, hang around. I’ll get to that next week.

#copyright #fanfic #fansplaining #fair use #organization of transformative works #fanlore #public domain #mickey mouse #disney #law #lawyers

[awholelotofladybug]

He said Yes!: A Stammering Adrien AU Story

Based on this AU

This is a nonprofit story. The only characters or locations I own are the ones I make up.  All other fictional characters and locations about Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir are the property of Thomas Astruc and Zag.Bella Notte is from Lady and the Tramp, which is the property of Disney. No copyright infringement intended. I do not intend to profit from this. Please support the official release.

Marc was more nervous than he had ever been. He had never been on a date before, let alone one with a boy. He could feel himself sweating right through his new suit. There was no doubt in his mind that he wanted this, but at the same time, it felt like his comfort zone was miles away, so many miles away. In an attempt to soothe his frazzled nerves, Marc took out his phone and called Sabrina.

“Hello?” she answered.

“Hey Sabrina,” said Marc. “Is this a bad time?”

“No, you’re alright, sweetie. I was just cleaning my braces. You know, having them really stinks.”

"Oh, don’t worry, honey. It’ll only be a few more months, after that, you’ll have free teeth again,” said Marc. “Anyway, I need some pep talk,” he added.

“Why?” Sabrina asked.

Marc sighed. “I’m panicking! This is my first date with Nathaniel, and I’m sweating right through my clothes! I need comfort, advice, tips, reassuring words, anything!”

“Marc, get a grip!” Sabrina snapped. “You’re getting worked up, and nothing bad has even happened yet.”

“It’s a habit. I can’t help being anxious,” Marc said as his face turned as red as his suit.

Sabrina shook her head. “Just remember one thing. One thing to remind you just how much Nathaniel cares.”

“What would that be?” Marc asked.

“He said yes.”

That made Marc think. Would Nathaniel have said yes if he didn’t like him? It’d be hard to say for certain, but Marc took a deep breath and exhaled.

“Okay, Sabrina. You’re right. I can do this.” he said while trying to be confident.

“Proud of you, Marc,” Sabrina said before hanging up.

With that, Marc remained in his living room, waiting patiently for Nathaniel.

Nathaniel tugged at his shirt collar as he looked at Marc’s house. This was his first date with a boy, and he felt uneasy. It wasn’t because he didn’t want to. Far from it. Nathaniel wanted this to happen, but it was still unfamiliar. Hoping for some support, he called Chloé.

“Hello?” she answered.

“Chloé, it’s me, Nathaniel. I’m at Marc’s and I’m nervous. I’m not sure if I can do this.”

“You can’t back out now,” Chloé said in a blunt tone. “You’ll blow it.”

Nathaniel sighed. “I guess you’re right. But what do I do? What should I say?”

“I can hardly talk to my own crush. How would I know?” Chloé asked.

Nathaniel groaned a bit as something came to mind. “I don’t get you, Chloé. You don’t really seem to be the kind of girl to be all timid around a guy she likes. What’s so different about Luka?”

“I don’t know. Luka makes me feel different than Adrien or some other cute boy or girl would. He’s got a “Je ne sais quoi” about him,” she said with a groan. “Anyway, we’re not talking about me, we’re talking about you.”

“Okay, okay,” Nathaniel said, holding up one hand in defense. “Okay, how about this? If a boy were to take you out, what would you like him to do?”

Chloé blushed at the question. “Well, I would like it if he held my hand, opened doors for me, pulled my chair out for me, looked deeply into my eyes, ran his fingers through my head, whispered sweet nothings into my ear…”

Chloé went on. It was clear to Nathaniel that she was daydreaming about Luka. He should have been irritated, but it was cute, so he gave it a pass.

“Yo, earth to Chloé!”

“Oh! Sorry.” Chloé with a nervous chuckle. “Look, all I can tell you is smile, be nice, be polite, and compliment him. That’s the best I can think of.”

Nathaniel sighed. “Okay. I can do this. Thanks, Chloé,” he said as they both hung up.

Nathaniel looked at Marc’s front door, took a deep breath, and walked up to it. He knocked on the door and waited. Marc himself answered the door, looking frazzled, but also very handsome in his new suit. Nathaniel couldn’t help but blush. This is what he said yes to.

“Um, how do I look?” Marc asked.

Nathaniel snapped out of it and cleared his throat as he tried to pull out a compliment. “You look wonderful,” Nathaniel said.

Marc blushed at the compliment.

“Shall we?” said Nathaniel, offering his hand.

“Let’s.”

Marc locked his hand with Nathaniel’s and walked their way towards town.

It didn’t take long for them to get to a restaurant, and as luck would have it, it was Edoardo’s.

“I love this place,” Marc said with a smile.

“Me too,” said Nathaniel. “I hope we can get a table.”

That’s when Nathaniel saw Adrien Agreste in a nice black suit, and Marinette Dupain Cheng in a little red dress. The two of them were talking to Luka Couffaine. Nathaniel could tell how elated Marc was to see them as he felt himself getting dragged.

“Adrien! Mari! Luka!” Marc shouted. “Over here!”

“Oh, hi Marc! Hi Nathaniel!” Marinette said with a smile.

Adrien smiled at the sight of his friends. “Hi, guys. What are you t-two doing here?” he asked.

“Well, um, we’re on a date,” Nathaniel said with a blushing face.

Adrien gasped, and Marinette did the same.

“You two got together?” she asked. “I’m so happy for you!”

Marinette squealed as she hugged them both.

“Wow, Marc. You got the guts to…you got the guts to ask your crush out.” Adrien said with a smile and a nudge to Marc’s arm. “Way to go.”

Marc and Nathaniel smiled.

That’s when Adrien got an idea.“Hey, as long as we’re all here, let’s m-m-make this a double date,”

Marinette, Marc, and Nathaniel looked at each other.

“What do you guys think?” Marinette asked. “I’m okay with it if you are.”

Marc Nathaniel thought about it, and the more they did, the more it seemed like a good idea, especially Nathaniel. Having someone else there could help him relax and allow him to think straight so he can make the right choices.

“Okay, let’s do it,” Nathaniel said.

“Alright!” Adrien cheered. “This is gonna be g-great!”

Marc smiled. “Someone’s in a good mood.”

“Of course he is. Who wouldn’t want our company?” Nathaniel said, trying to be smooth.

This got a giggle out of Marc, so Nathaniel took this as a good sign as they went in.

It took about five minutes, but the two couples managed to get two tables next to each other. Marinette sat with Adrien, and Marc sat with Nathaniel, who had pulled his seat out for him, which made Marc smile. Marc was still pretty nervous. It’s not that things seemed to be going bad, far from it. It’s just that this was, in fact, his first date of any kind, and he was so still pretty anxious in public settings. Marc was going to try to get through it. After all, this date was his idea. That’s when the waiter arrived with a basket of breadsticks.

“Evening, monsieurs and madamoiselle. Welcome to Edoardo’s” the waiter said. “I’m Donnie, and I’ll be your waiter tonight. Can I start you off with something to drink?”

Marc looked at the menu and saw something that caught his eye. “Sparkling water for me, please.”

“That sounds nice,” said Marinette. “Make it two.”

“I’ll have it too,” Adrien said.

Nathaniel raised one finger to get the waiter’s attention. “Same.”

“And do we have an idea of what we want this evening?” Donnie asked.

Marc looked at the menu. He was going for something romantic. And that’s when he saw it. The "Lady and the Tramp” Speciale. It was described as ‘Spaghetti and Meatballs for two, with musical accompaniment. Named after Eddy’s favorite movie.’ Just as Marc was about to suggest it, Nathaniel quickly blurted out

“One Lady and the Tramp Special please.” he said before realizing he forgot to ask Marc. “I mean, if that’s okay,” he said nervously.

Marc blushed and smiled with a nod.

“Make it…make it two,” said Adrien, getting a smile from Marinette.

“Feeling romantic tonight, are we?” the waiter teased. “Alright, coming right up.”

The waiter dashed back to the kitchen. Marc sighed quietly with relief. That went smoother than he thought. As they waited, Marc caught himself watching Adrien and Marinette exchanging pet names and feeding each other breadsticks.

Nathaniel shook his head. “They are so gross,”

“Yeah, but it’s the good, romantic kind of gross,” Marc said as he took a bite of a breadstick.

Time passed, and the two couples started talking to each other. Sometime during the conversation, Nathaniel heard a soft and timid “Nathaniel?” escape Marc’s lips. He looked at his blushing date.

“This may be a dumb question, but are you happy to be here, you know, with me?” Marc asked, rubbing the back of his neck.

Nathaniel smiled, glad Marc asked the question. “Yes, I am. “I’ll admit, I was scared at first because I never liked a boy before. But now that this is happening, I’m happier than I’ve ever been, and I wouldn’t be if it weren’t for you Marc. Thank you.”

When Nathaniel finished his confession, he saw tears flowing from Marc’s eyes. He was scared that he might have said the wrong thing, but those fears were put to rest when he saw Marc give a tearful smile.

“Oh Nathaniel, darling, I’m so glad I can hear you say that.”

This caused Nathaniel’s eyes to water with joy. Just then, the food had finally arrived. Nathaniel marveled at the dish. It was bigger than he expected, and for such a simple dish, it looked incredible. He took a fork and began to dig in, along with Marc, Adrien, and Marinette. That’s when he saw the owner, Edoardo, come out with an accordion. He was joined by Luka, who was on the mandolin. The two began to sing a familiar, and appropriate song.

“Oh, this is the night, it’s a beautiful night, And we call it bella notte! Look at the skies, they have stars in their eyes, On this lovely bella note! Side by side with your loved one, You’ll find enchantment here! The night will weave its magic spell, When the one you love is near!”

At that moment, as they were singing, Nathaniel found that one of the noodles in his mouth led right to Marc’s. It seemed too perfect, almost like bad romantic fanfiction. Nathaniel wondered; Should he take the opportunity? Then he took a look another look. Marc was blushing. His Social Anxiety Disorder was as visible as a neon-colored sweater. Romantic as it might have been, he could tell Marc wasn’t ready for that, not yet at least. They split the noodle, and Nathaniel decided to speak up.

“It’s okay, Marc,” he said. “We can wait until your ready for that part.”

“Promise you won’t get tired of waiting?” Marc asked, rubbing his arm.

Nathaniel smiled. “Hey, I’m an illustrator. Patience comes with the territory.”

Marc smiled right back. Nathaniel looked into his bright-green as and felt himself melting. He had never felt this way for anyone before, not even Marinette. And the more he thought about it, the more he liked the idea of being with Marc. He was so glad to be here. He was so glad that he said yes.

“Oh, this is the night, and the heavens are right! On this lovely bella notte!”

#miraculous #miraculous ladybug #miraculous ladybug fanfiction #miraculous ladybug au #stammering adrien au #stammering!adrien #nathaniel kurtzberg #marc anciel #marcnath #nathmarc #nathaniel x marc #chloe bourgeois #luka couffaine #adrien agreste #marinette dupain-cheng #lady and the tramp #disney #bella notte #main au #edoardo

[dramallamadingdang]

The post I want to make on the MTS forums but can't...

...because they're touchy about discussing the "p" word. As in "piracy." I understand why they are, but I also think that they're wrong to silence people about "pirating" yet not have a care in the world if people tell others to buy used disks, for reasons that you'll see if you choose to read this thing. But...Their site, their rules and that's cool and all that. I’ve got no problems with that. I just think it’s doing the current (and future) TS2 community a disservice. Hence, this post.

Now that EA has announced that they will no longer give out the TS2 Ultimate Collection, I think it's time to address how to get the game if you don't already have it and want it. Or if you have it but your disks are lost/damaged. Or if you suddenly find yourself with a new machine that doesn't have an optical disk drive and you don't have and/or don't want to buy an external one. Or even if somewhere down the line EA removes the UC from your access, if you have it already and you then can't install it on a new machine. (They'd be entirely within their rights to do that, by the way.) If one is concerned about legality, then one ought to know what actually is legal or not and why and where the shades of gray are, so that you can make informed decisions about what you want to do. So, if you're interested in that, that's what I'm going to talk about in this post. 

I'm going to say this up-front, though, as a sort of teaser: Now that EA is no longer giving out the UC like people give out Halloween candy: THERE IS CURRENTLY NO FULLY-LEGAL WAY TO GET OR PLAY THE GAME, if you don't already have it. Yes, the above is true, and behind the cut is why.

Here are my "credentials," if you will: A nice chunk of my income comes from royalties and licensing and stuff. Much such stuff is sold in digital format, music CDs and data CDs of original compositions and stuff like that. I have sued individuals and companies, successfully, who've infringed on my copyrights and/or the licensing agreements that I'm involved in. I'm pretty well-versed in this stuff.

So let's make one thing about this issue clear off the top: You do not these days purchase games or non-game software or movies or music or whatever that comes on a disk or in some digital form like, say, a book you download onto your Kindle. You only purchase a license to use the information on that one, single disk or that you got from that one, single download that you paid for. It's a small but all-important distinction, and it pretty much defines what makes things legal or not when we're talking about getting TS2 now that EA is no longer selling it or giving it away themselves.

Now that EA is out of the picture, at least for now, you have three options for getting the game:

1) Find someone selling disks that you know absolutely for certain have not been used.

Guess what? Still probably not fully-legal. The reason is this: If you're buying from a genuine retailer and not some shady "business" in Taiwan or a guy on eBay or something, EA recalled all new, existing, unopened TS2 discs from all retailers (at least in the US and I believe -- but am not certain -- worldwide) years ago. 2013ish, if memory serves. Those retailers were given full refunds for any unsold discs but were actually not required to physically return those discs. (Because, of course, EA didn't want to pay for return shipping!) They were supposed to destroy the disks, in good faith, in exchange for the refund. Even if they didn't receive a refund, they're still not supposed to be selling disks anymore because they've been recalled. Those disks are not supposed to exist and all end-user (that's you) licenses associated with them are now void. Which means that even if you now manage to find a genuinely unused retail disk, you have no legal license to use the game because EA voided it. They only way it would be legal is if you are buying from an individual (not a retailer of any kind) who bought the game and somehow never installed it...and I'd take such stories with a grain of salt, personally. 

Because, remember: You're not buying a game; you're buying a license to use a game, and EA has revoked those licenses on retail disks that were unsold as of 2013ish. Now, is someone going to come pounding on your door to arrest you or to serve you court documents because they’re suing you? Of course not! But bear in mind that if the above applies to you, your game is not fully legal.

2) You can buy used disks from someone. Ebay and Amazon Marketplace and such are teeming with them.

Also not fully legal. Why? Because, as I said, each disk comes with a license to use the game for a single buyer and his/her household. No one else. That's one of the things that the End-User License Agreement says and that you agree to, probably without reading it, when you install the game. So as soon as the original buyer of the disk you subsequently bought installed the game on a machine, that single user license was used up. It cannot be transferred to another person. The disk can be transferred, sure, but not the license to use it, which when it comes to legality is all that matters. So, if you buy used disks, you still do not have a legal license to use the game.

Again, no one's going to come pounding on your door, of course. No one's pounding on the door of second-hand game shops, either, because it's not illegal to sell the used disks at all. But it is legally shade to actually use those disks when you buy them. So, just realize that your game is not fully legal if you bought used any or all of the disks you have. Then move on and don't worry about it...but also don't claim that you have a "legal" game so you're somehow more moral or whatever than people who pirate it. Because that's not true at all. In fact, legally you're in exactly the same boat -- pirate ship or otherwise ;) -- as people who've “pirated” the game. Which leads me to...

3) You can "pirate" the game. Meaning, you can get it via torrenting so that you never have a physical disk and you use a no-CD crack to play the game. Or you can make a copy of your friend's disks. Whatever.

There are multiple legal issues here. I'm not going to discuss why it's illegal to pass around copies of a game. I trust that everyone understands why that's so.

But you might be surprised to learn that it's actually not illegal to download the game illegitimately, for the same reason why buying and selling used disks isn't illegal. But there’s a catch. Again, the issue is that you don't buy a game; you buy a license to use it. So the problem arises, again, from using what you downloaded (or using that copy you made of your buddy's disk), because you don't have a license to do so. Sure, obviously no one would download something that they wouldn't then use, but my point is that if you download the game from a torrent, your legal problem is exactly the same as the legal problem that people who buy used disks have. And at least you, as a "pirater" did not pay someone for your legally-shady copy of the game. No one profited at EA's expense, in other words, whereas someone did exactly that if you bought used disks, especially if the seller didn't originally buy the disks themselves, which is usually the case at second-hand shops.

If you download the game via a torrent (as opposed to making copies of someone's disks), it's illegal not because you downloaded the file but because of the way torrenting works. It works by sharing your incomplete download with other downloaders as you download, as you go along, as well as after you do so, if you continue to "seed" the torrent after your own download is completed. The sharing part is illegal for what I hope are obvious reasons; the downloading part is not. It’s a technicality, sure, but then all of this discussion is.

In the end, the most-illegal thing you can do when it comes to this stuff is not downloading via torrenting but making a copy of your buddy's disks for your own use because in that case you're transgressing twice. And here's why.

There's a thing in copyright law called Fair Use. This covers multiple things, but the relevant bit here is that it allows you to make a backup of digital media that you've legitimately bought for archival purposes. This has always been on the books, as long as there've been digital formats, which goes all the way back to tapes. So if you have, say, a copy of The Lion King on DVD and your three-year-old insists on watching it twice a day if she can and in the process breaks a disk a week, you have a right to make a copy of the original in order to preserve the original. (OK, you're not supposed to make multiple backups, just one, but seriously? The kid breaks them constantly and Disney disks are terribly overpriced. And no, I'm not talking from experience at all. :) ) Anyway, Fair Use = 1 backup of your legitimately-purchased disks.

But then in the 90s the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) came along. (In the US, that is. There's similar bullshit worldwide, though.) Mostly it came about because movie and music distributors (not the musicians, one needs to point out) are absolute control freaks and were really, really pissed that CDs/DVDs are so damn easy to make copies of. The relevant bit of this was that it said, "Nope, no more personal backups for you! At all! And hey! No ripping that CD to put the songs on your phone or MP3 player, either! You gotta buy another copy of the songs from iTunes or whatever it is that we want to make more money from today!" It all comes back to "You don't buy a movie. You buy a license to view the content on that one disk, so if your obsessive three-year-old breaks it you have to buy a new disk every week. Sucks to be you, but it's really awesome for us." (Needless to say, you can guess what I think -- as a musician -- of this bit of corporate greed.)

My ranting aside, the issue now is that it is technically illegal to make copies of disks and stuff that you legitimately own, even for your own use and you never share anything with anyone. Again, no one's going to come knocking on your door, but you should know about this. (Mostly, in the wake of DMCA, court cases have involved small companies that make software that can rip DVDs by decoding/bypassing encryption, not individuals who make or use copies of disks. They know they can’t pursue such individuals in any practical way. Instead, they seek to take away the tools that allow you to do it.) So, that's transgression #1 when it comes to making a copy of your buddy's TS2's disks. The other, of course, is the same as the other points: You don't have a legal license to use that copy of your buddy's disk. So, you're transgressing coming and going, so to speak.

So, what's a TS2 fan to do now? Honestly? All three options are problematic, legally. Unless you can somehow manage to find genuinely never-used disks from an individual (not a retailer), you will not be fully legit. So, if you want to be pure and clean and looking down on all the sinners from your fine high horse, you can't get TS2 now if you find you need it, unless EA decides to distribute it again. But for the rest of us? I'm not going to advocate any particular thing because, as I said, all of the options are shady and more or less equally so and for the same reason across the board. But you have the info now -- if you’ve actually managed to read all this -- and you can make an informed decision for yourself, should you need to acquire the game again. Or for the first time. But for the love of God, please don't go around saying that you're all legit because you bought used disks while that person over there *gasp* got their game on the torrents. Because you're not legit, and you’re not legit for pretty much the same reason as a dirty pirate is.

#sims 2 #this has been your psa for the day #and a rant too #woo!