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writing is weird because sometimes I’ll have no ideas and everything in my head is kind of quiet but then something will happen and it’s like there’s these goblins living in my brain that just start shouting little phrases at me until I sit down and finally write the poem or story or whatever

ancient greek and roman poets:  sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story

me, banging pots and pans together:  wake the fuck up goblins!!  what the fuck is up!!
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arionwind:

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This is about the copyright reform by the EU and it will change a lot of things for websites like AO3, but also for Tumblr and basically every website with user-generated content.
There are two articles that are critical - Article 11 would impose a “link tax” and it would make running a website more expensive. Article 13 would force websites to have mandatory content-filtering requirements on websites in order to search user-generated content for potential copyright infringements. It would lead to content being automatically remove. That might lead to - No more gifs from your favorite TV show, no more fanart, no memes, no more links to an newspaper interview etc.. Sites like YouTube, Tumblr, etc. would probably block out a lot of content just to avoid being sued by publishing companies and entertainment companies.

The law is still debated and therefore we need to act now. The next key vote will be happening in the European Parliament’s JURI committee on 20th/21st of June. So people need to tell their politicians why this law and especially these two article would be a disaster for the freedom of expression online.

What to do?
Here are a number of e-petitions and standardized emails you can send to show that you disagree.

In English

https://act1.openmedia.org/savethelink

https://www.saveyourinternet.eu/

https://www.change.org/p/stop-censorship-in-europe

https://www.change.org/p/axel-voss-save-the-internet-reject-article-13-and-11

Use your voice, use different ways to protest. If you don’t have much time use the standardized mails, but it is always more effective to write personal emails – so find your personal MEP from your home country here - http://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/juri/members.html - google their contact details and write to them. Remind them that in 2019 you will be voting in the next European election.

Hier ein paar Protestoptionen auf Deutsch
https://www.change.org/p/stoppen-sie-die-zensur-in-europa-axelvossmdep

https://act1.openmedia.org/savethelink-de

https://www.saveyourinternet.eu/de/home-3/

Und ich hatte es in einem anderen Post schon mal, aber je mehr Protest desto besser - hier kann man die Abgeordneten kontaktieren - https://www.abgeordnetenwatch.de/eu/ausschuesse/ausschuss-fur-burgerliche-freiheiten-justiz-und-inneres.
Am besten alle Wege nutzen. Und es ist immer besser einen personalisierten Text zu schreiben, aber jeder Protest ist besser als keiner. Und immer gerne darauf hinweisen, dass 2019 die nächsten Europwahlen sind.

You want further information?Here is the call for action of AO3 - https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/10637

Some infos in English (thanks @katsuefox)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44412025
https://edri.org/files/copyright/copyright_proposal_article13.pdf
http://www.alphr.com/politics/1009470/article-13-EU-what-is-it-copyright
https://news.sky.com/story/memes-will-be-banned-under-new-eu-copyright-law-warn-campaigners-11398577
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:52016PC0593

Und hier Infos auf Deutsch:
Nicht nur auf Deutsch, aber alles rund über die Copyright Reform und damit zusammenhängende Dinge - http://leistungsschutzrecht.info/news
Weiter Infos:
https://netzpolitik.org/2018/upload-filter-eine-gefahr-fuer-die-netzkultur/
https://netzpolitik.org/2018/copyright-update-1-debatte-um-upload-filter-im-eu-urheberrecht-spitzt-sich-zu/
https://netzpolitik.org/tag/eu-urheberrechtsreform/
https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Copyright-Reform-EU-Staaten-einigen-sich-auf-Upload-Filter-und-Leistungsschutzrecht-4059219.html
https://www.liberties.eu/de/news/offener-brief-streicht-artikel-dreizehn/13194

Please share even if you are not from Europe as some of your followers might be and this is really important as it could lead to serious consequences not only for AO3 but for many platforms that hosts fanart, fanfiction and many other things.

And for that reason I tagged a lot of people underneath as I don’t have so many followers but you have many followers and we together can reach a lot of people and as mentioned before – this is really important as it could change the way fandom can express itself online. (as well as many other negative effects for freedom of expression in general)

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So I’ve seen a lot of people on here dismissing this as alt-right fearmongering and took some time to really dig into what this new law would do.  And while a lot of the posts I see about it are standard internet hyperbole, my amateur analysis as a non-lawyer legal research professional with a decade-long special interest in IP law is that the concerns over this are, if anything, understated.  I’m gonna go into detail on one of the common “counterarguments” keep seeing here, and also bring up a dengerously insidious aspect to it that I’ve only seen raised by people deep int he weeds of IP law.

First off, I see a lot of people comparing this to DMCA, and portraying that in a good way for some reason.  The comparisons are apt, but insufficient.  Part of what this law does is mandate a content-ID system similar to YouTube’s, with all the potential for abuse that entails.  Challenging a mistaken or malicious removal of “copyrighted” work - which under this law can and will include text as well as images, sound, and video - will still demand the filing of an actual lawsuit, which is a barrier of time and money that many creators won’t have.  On top of this, any site that accepts user-submissions will have to use this system, and will have to pay a fee to do so.

But back to the more direct DMCA comparisons.  Part of what allows DMCA to not completely ruin the internet is the safe-harbor protections.  Sites that have a dedicated DMCA compliance agent and take down properly filed requests are immune from prosecution.  Currently the EU has similar protections, but they will be lifted for any site that “optimizes” content.  Any site that promotes posts, curates based on preferences, or allows tagging will not be protected under the new articles.

On top of this, defenders will point to the fact that new articles carve out new protections for non-commercial uses.  And on the surface that sounds better than nothing.  The issue is that a lot of things currently licensed under Creative Commons are cleared for commercial use, which means sites that make use of those CC works will not be protected.  Sites like Wikipedia especially are vulnerable because of this.

Speaking of Wikipedia, that insidious unremarked aspect I alluded to above will really hurt them, too.  This rework creates a new kind of work that can be protected by copyright - news stories.  Again, on the surface this sounds like it could be good.  It could stop sites like InfoWars and Brietbart from cherry-picking information from news stories against the writer’s wishes, after all.  The problem is that sword cuts both ways.  Any news site could, under this law, charge a license fee to cite any of their articles, which would make a site like Wikipedia impossible to maintain financially.  Worse than that, any irresponsible news story that does misrepresent facts could claim a copyright on its own work and block anyone from citing or linking to it when criticizing it.

The intent of protecting small content creators is a good one, but this law is so poorly written and overbroad that it won’t accomplish that goal.  Corporations will have new, powerful tools to filter content they don’t like and maliciously claim copyrights on things that aren’t theirs, and while small content creators could theoretically fight back with this law behind them, the sheer cost of such endeavours will be as prohibitive as it is today, if not more.

These aren’t overblown fears.  All these things have been tried in bits and pieces before, and every bad outcome I have described has followed from those attempts.  I want this time to be different too, but there’s nothing new in this law that will change or prevent the outcomes of the past from repeating themselves.
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classicalcassiopeia:

oneroikalunae:

nnajdraws:

Would you like your doom extra hot or lemon and herb?

The feanorians fucking with him like this, i can see them doing it, little assholes all of them

They been out with the bro’s, they really want a good cheeky Nando’s to top the kinslaying off 👌👌👌

@greenekangaroo
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meganphntmgrl:

kyraneko:

johnnyatruant:

birdrhetorics:

my great-grandfather had to leave italy in the 20′s because he hit a fascist with a tuba, so if you think I am going to take this sitting down you are going to have to catch these hands and also this tuba

Glory, glory hallelujah

Hit a fascist with a tuba

Help me finish these lyrics, tumblr 

Glory, glory, hallelujah!

Hit a fascist with a tuba!

Run like hell and learn to scuba!

Oh Freedom, give him hell!

Oh, I took my ass to DC when that bastard won the vote

With no dignity nor decency nor kindness, not one mote

Well, to make my feelings known to him, my instrument I tote

With plans to raise some hell!

(Chorus)

Well, I found him in the Oval Office pissing on the rug

And he looked at me and sneered as if I were some kind of bug

So I swung my tuba right into his condescending mug

And rang it like a bell.

(Chorus)

The Secret Service showed up ‘bout three seconds after that

They surrounded me and drew their guns and told me to get flat

But like fuck was I about to hit that slimy piss-soaked mat

Or see a prison cell.

(Chorus)

I gripped my dented tuba and I put it to my lips

And I found a certain fingering with questing fingertips

Drew a breath and played the Brown Note and gave Trump the runs and drips

His pants began to smell.

(Chorus)

Well, he stood there looking stupid with his trucker hat askew

With his face all turning purple and the guards all turning blue

As they pinched and held their noses and he shat into his shoe

I turned and ran like hell.

(Chorus)

I made it to the White House walls, climbed over and was free

Stashed the tuba in the branches of the National Christmas tree

Jumped into the slow Potomac and swam southward towards the sea

My plan was going swell.

(Chorus)

Stashed underneath the water was a scuba tank and fins

I sucked air in from the former, strapped the latter to my shins

Ashore they look to see me, but their quarry sinks and grins

Look, Ma, no diving bell!

(Chorus)

I got to shore and changed my clothes and safely came back home

With Trump still fiddling like he’s Emperor of burning Rome

Maybe next I’ll play the bassoon ‘neath the Capitol’s big dome

You bastards, go to Hell!

Glory, glory, hallelujah!

Hit a fascist with a tuba!

Run like hell and learn to scuba!

Oh Freedom, give him hell!

(Disclaimer: Author does not condone the hitting of Presidents with tubas. You’ll dent something that deserves better, and you’ll go to jail, which is a waste of you.)

I’m so glad it took only three days for this generation’s Hitler Has Only Got One Ball to show up.

Bringing this back.

Hey remember when someone wrote this fucking song? Print this shit out, y'all
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jetsetblues: favorite lyrics by album →

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jetsetblues:

favorite lyrics by album  → danger days

conventional weapons / black parade / revenge / bullets / insp
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Time is cruel but Gods are crueller

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charlottedabookworm:

@hamelin-born

Right. So, this totally isn’t what I had planned for the prompt. I’m still planning on writing a short funny thing from Nyx’s childhood where he calls Ardyn “Your Majesty” sarcastically. But, apparently, I’m in a bit of an angsty mood. So have 1100 words of an AU where Nyx was born before Ardyn was cursed and his father ordered him away before his execution. Hope you like it, tell me what you think.

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