insane how sexism damaged how we research (and what we know about) animals. did you grow up being taught that only male birds sing? you may be entitled to financial compensation
we’ve intentionally avoided giving more thought to animals who have matriarchal societies for this reason or they’re (hyenas) characterized as villainous and/or ‘unnatural’ when in reality there’s not a wrong way to be an animal
One study showed that female monkeys chose to play with a frying pan more often than male monkeys did. The study failed to mention that the objects were not presented neutrally to the animals (giving them encouragement to take the preferred object) or the fact that monkeys don’t cook, so a frying pan holds no significance to them. [3]
That’s…so dystopian and absurd. Monkeys don’t cook.
So, the other day, when I was discussing AO3’s policy on solicitation, a tumblr user came at me saying that AO3’s “no monetization/solicitation” rules were “bullshit” because nexus mods allows fan created mods to get paid.
Look at me.
Look at me right now.
AO3 protects you.
AO3 protects you and your works.
It protects your works from copyright strikes and DCMA takedowns.
It protects your work from advertisers.
It protects your work from overzealous legal challenges.
It protects your right to post adult content.
AO3 is non-profit and AO3 will never try to use you or your work to make a profit for themselves and AO3 will go to bat for you if someone tries to legally challenge you or your works.
Please respect AO3 and its mission.
#I’m confused on how fic authors can’t make money from their works bc I’ve seen people say they take commissions or have kofi#ao3 shouldn’t have any sort of transaction feature ever it’s an archive as in a LIBRARY of works#also I’m not sure I trust ao3 to store CREDIT CARD INFO ????#that’s completely different from storing public and semi public works#misc#tbc I’m all for kofi and commissions btw
What people mean when they say fic authors “can’t make money from their work” is:
Earning money/profiting from fanfiction (writing that involves intellectual property that is not your own) is dubiously legal to do.
It’s on legal thin ice. There is an argument to be made that it is illegal.
There is no hard and fast rule about whether it’s legal or not, and in what circumstances, and any time you do it you run the risk of being sued by the owners of that intellectual property.
the demon i am on a first date with: i should apologize ahead of time. see my horns are so huge and majestic that i cannot put a shirt on. i am cursed to never have a shirt on so you can always see my (large) torso. i understand that might be rude
me: dang. i am sorry for your situation. we will just have to try make the best of it
what’s good about this is that our demon here COULD wear a button down, but this has clearly never occurred to them which indicates that they’re a himbo too
Me, staring at shirtless himbo demon and taking off my own shirt: oh my god, you’re so fucking stupid
maybe i like pulling out my debit card instead of using apple pay. maybe i like untangling my wired headphones. maybe i like typing something into the search bar instead of using siri or whatever. maybe i like curating my own social media feeds over an algorithm. i just don’t think everything has to be perfectly streamlined and efficient i like it when things feel tethered to the real world.
Sokka and Zuko get SO much funnier when you remember this is both of their first times talking to another teenage boy in years. Sokka had all the other boys leave the tribe when he was little and Zuko just hasn’t talked to other teenage boys. They wanna be friends but have absolutely no clue how to talk to other teenagers. I love them so much.
2 POORLY SOCIALIZED DOGS BOTH PLAY-BOWING WHEN THE OTHER ISN’T LOOKING.
They have talked to a teenage boy. However, it was Jet. That was the last and first teenage boy either of them have talked to. and it did not end well.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a movie first and foremost about the destruction of minority neighborhoods and public transit by the American car industry. After that, it’s a technological milestone. And then it’s about cartoons
@cornfieldsrambles Your analysis is 100% correct and your Jessica Rabbit emotions are profoundly valid!
I used to be a proficient googler who never wasted a word but since Google is near useless no matter how good you are at it now I have reverted to just typing in entire questions like an old person
now say it with me: authors/artists dont owe you moral purity. an author/artist job is not to hold you by the hand & tell you exactly what is Good™ & what is Bad™. you should be able to think for yourself
“yes but depictions of (morally questionable thing) are only okay if its punished in the story” thats the hays code. you just reinvented the hays code
If you are making calls to Republican politicians about not supporting certain bills, remember to stick to Republican scripts. No trying to play on their emotions. Don’t talk about people dying or marginalized people being hurt or anything like that. That doesn’t work on them.
Instead, focus on:
Cost. These Republican bills have MASSIVE costs that either tax payers take the brunt of or it goes into the national debt.
Withholding your vote. You weren’t going to vote for them anyway, but they have absolutely no way of knowing that. Even if you’ve said in other places, they are not researching every single person who calls to see who’s a Republican. You’re just another constituent using your vote as leverage. Take advantage of that.
Hard-working Americans/working class Americans/veterans/etc. Figure out the specific group of people that politician campaigns the hardest to and talk about them and how they’ll be hurt by whatever is happening.
Trump’s stupid fucking bill isn’t cruel and evil and it’s not going to kill millions of people, it’s a huge financial strain that will drastically increase the national debt while hurting working class Americans who just need a bit of help and you would never consider voting for someone who would support it.
Essentially use as many conservative buzzwords as you possibly can. Think of what a Fox News watcher in your life would say and inject as much outrage and indignation into it as possible during the call. You are larping as a conservative voter for this.
