Suffering

rodella:the word lover is so infinitely soft. So universal. So timeless. Two girls with awkward,...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 14:42:09 -0400

the word lover is so infinitely soft. So universal. So timeless. Two girls with awkward, hungry hands. A boy and a girl in the dark. Two men in empty light. A marriage of 40 years. Letters over eons. Sappho’s poems. The corner of a mouth. Lovers, lovers, lovers.

3rdgymbros:Dazai: You’ve been avoiding me, Chuuya.Chuuya: What the hell?! How do you do that without...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 14:35:52 -0400

3rdgymbros:

Dazai: You’ve been avoiding me, Chuuya.
Chuuya: What the hell?! How do you do that without turning around?
Dazai: To be perfectly honest, the first couple of people I did that to were not you.
Chuuya:
Dazai:
Dazai: I can still hear Odasaku laughing.

3rdgymbros:Dazai: In a moment of weakness … I had sex with Chuuya. You know, the King of the...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 14:32:37 -0400

3rdgymbros:

Dazai: In a moment of weakness … I had sex with Chuuya. You know, the King of the Sheep?
Ango: … Seriously?
Dazai: Yeah. Several times. And then several more times. And then several more times. And then several more times after that.
Odasaku: How long has this been going on?
Dazai: Oh, just last night.

3rdgymbros:Dazai: It’s not gay if I wanna date Chuuya but like, plationically, right?Atsushi:...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 14:31:48 -0400

3rdgymbros:

Dazai: It’s not gay if I wanna date Chuuya but like, plationically, right?
Atsushi: I’m no expert, but that does sound a little gay.
Yosano: I’m an expert. That’s gay.

phx-y: Art by Ecru ※ Permission to post was granted by the...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 13:34:20 -0400

phx-y:

Art by Ecru

※ Permission to post was granted by the artist.
※ Please don’t edit, remove caption or repost without permission.
※ Commercial use is prohibited.

Europe’s planned copyright changes are Really Bad for fanfic sites

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:16:30 -0400

eatingcroutons:

I mean you’ve probably got that impression already but honestly, they are really, really bad. Especially if you like uploading fanfiction to websites like AO3.

At the moment, the way the law is phrased is likely to mean everything you upload in Europe, to any website that allows user-created content, will need to be automatically scanned for copyright violations.

You know YouTube’s automatic content filter? Imagine having that for the entire internet. We already know that copyright trolls exploit YouTube’s system in a bunch of ways, making money off user content they have no actual rights to, and shutting down legitimate user content.

But here’s where it gets worse: Websites that host user-generated content – including fanfiction – will be responsible for putting those filters in place and maintaining them themselves.

This law would in all likelihood require AO3 to implement a system which monitors every single work uploaded in Europe for copyright violations, before they can be shared on the Archive.

We’re talking full-on “robotic censorship regime”, as the Electronic Frontier Federation puts it.

Not only would that be that icky and invasive. Not only would it ignore the complexity of copyright exceptions like Fair Dealing. Not only would it be easy to exploit by copyright trolls. It would also be a massive, massive burden on an organisation staffed entirely by volunteers. The sheer volume of work AO3’s coders, wranglers, and policy and abuse staff take on – for free, in their own time – is already staggering.

And while AO3 is a pretty robust archive, and might miraculously be able to find the resources to comply with this ridiculous law, there are many, many smaller websites out there that would seriously struggle. Other non-profits, libraries, and archives, who would all have to either build automatic content filters from the ground up – or more likely, pay for off-the-shelf “solutions” that are overpriced and ineffective.

The OTW are doing their best to fight this change, and this EFF post also has links to a bunch of ways in which you personally can help lobby against this terrible law.

The European Parliament’s legal committee has just voted (in June 2018) to press forward with the law, but we’ve probably still got until at least early 2019 before the whole Parliament votes on it. The timing is about as good as it gets – the next European Parliament election is expected in May 2019, so our MEPs are going to be worrying about re-election right when we need to put pressure on them (that’s now!).

Europe has managed to reject bad legislation in the past. We can do it again this time. Please do what you can to spread the word or get involved!

how i read

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:13:21 -0400

pvreblooded:

a book: oh, only 180 pages left, I’ll finish this today

a textbook: another 8 pages left what the fuck this is too much

thebootydiaries:me: starts screamingsomebody: whoa there buddy whats that all about?me: sorry i...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 09:51:19 -0400

thebootydiaries:

me: *starts screaming*
somebody: whoa there buddy whats that all about?
me: sorry i just remembered my whole entire life

chuuyabelongswithhappiness: Dazai: Chuuya is the only one with the spare key to Port Mafia’s secret...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 09:49:48 -0400

chuuyabelongswithhappiness:

Dazai: Chuuya is the only one with the spare key to Port Mafia’s secret hideout in case of emergencies.
Dazai: So I asked him, “What if you die and I went missing, how will they get in?”
Dazai: He said, “If I’m dead, you guys have been dead for weeks.”
Dazai: Which is legit true anyway

savvylittleminx: rebelslicious: to all my peeps who need to hear...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 09:47:13 -0400

savvylittleminx:

rebelslicious:

to all my peeps who need to hear this

To all my writers out there: You matter. Your work matters. Thank you for putting images to pen. ❤

chuuyabelongswithhappiness: Dazai, trying to impress Chuuya: Now that we’re married, I shall...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 09:38:46 -0400

chuuyabelongswithhappiness:

Dazai, trying to impress Chuuya: Now that we’re married, I shall impress Chuuya with my ultimate cooking skills that both the Mafia and the ADA envied!
Chuuya, snorting: Right. You can’t even open a bottle of ketchup.
Dazai, on the verge of tears as he tries to remove the cap of the bottle of ketchup: See me try, babe.

Photo

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 09:33:24 -0400

nochillmemes: Under pressure and ready to explode You need your...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 00:05:55 -0400

nochillmemes:

Under pressure and ready to explode
You need your required daily intake of memes! Follow @nochillmemes for help now!

dollypopup: kellifer-k: peoriarhetoriapeoria: ionaonie: solarcat: pheuthe: thebestpersonherelove...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 00:05:29 -0400

dollypopup:

kellifer-k:

peoriarhetoriapeoria:

ionaonie:

solarcat:

pheuthe:

thebestpersonherelovesbucky:

brendaonao3:

ferlocke:

thesecondsealwrites:

siawrites:

anglofile:

hedwig-dordt:

tygermama:

bewaretheides315:

xcziel:

et-in-arkadia:

those ao3 “kudos” emails where someone has gone through and read pretty much all of your stories, one after the other: blessings upon you and your household

don’t authors find that weird though? i don’t do that, just because i always figured it might seem stalkery, going story by story through people’s older work (which of course i do ~all the time~ because awesome fic is addictive) if people are happy to have the kudos, i will totally start leaving them as i read

I mean, I can only speak for myself here, but no, I don’t find it creepy. Someone I’ve never met going through my old instagram selfies and systematically liking them - creepy. Someone I’ve never met obsessively reading my old fics and liking them - my favorite person of the day. Just MHO.

seeing the same person’s name on a string of kudos for your fics because they’ve obviously read through your back catalogue is one of life’s great joys

xcziel, there’s nothing I like more as a writer than someone who is obviously reading everything.

Well, maybe comments. Yes, on old fic too.

I once (back on lj) had someone comment on every single chapter of a fic I wrote in one evening. It was the most thrilling night of my fanfic career. I didn’t feel creepy in the least.

COMMENT. I don’t care how old it is or how many chapters a reader comments on.

The only thing that might possibly be more flattering is the “I stayed up all night because I couldn’t stop reading” comment.

Yes, please.

YES ALL OF THIS

all of this

Reblogging because readers somehow still have this idea that too many comments/kudos are seen as creepy or stalkery.
IT’S NOT.
Seriously. Every comment, all of the kudos, they’re greatly, GREATLY appreciated. And knowing that someone liked your work enough to click on your name and go through your other fics and liked those too, even the old stuff you’re kind of self-conscious about, is the greatest feeling a writer can have. So if you like a fic, say something/leave kudos, no matter if it’s the first or fifth fanfic you’ve read in one night from that author.

I LOVE when I get an email where it’s the same name, like a dozen or more times because they went through and read like, /everything I ever wrote/ apparently. It makes me so happy! :D

Multiple kudos and/or lots of comments are the best thing ever

Not at all creepy. It’s like, they are reading, get to the end, said they liked it, and Prove they liked it because they read another and liked that…

And yes, it’s just as fun to see this with old stories. Maybe even more?

The other thing that is super nice? When someone comments and says, hey, I tried to kudos but I had already kudos’d so I’m commenting to kudos again because I do that ALL THE TIME. I either forgot I’d read this lovely thing and want to kudos again, or I’m doing a re-read of something and I *want* to kudos again. When it happens to me it’s seriously lovely - someone enjoying your stuff enough that they re-read.

I LOVE EVERY LAST PERSON WHO INTERACTS WITH MY FICS

lilysinthefall:me when exams r suffocatingly close but i haven’t done jack shit: cool beans

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 23:41:50 -0400

lilysinthefall:

me when exams r suffocatingly close but i haven’t done jack shit: cool beans

haikyuuslut: Oikawa: iwa-chan, you know the tongue is our strongest muscle?Iwaizumi: and?Oikawa:...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 22:31:43 -0400

haikyuuslut:

Oikawa: iwa-chan, you know the tongue is our strongest muscle?
Iwaizumi: and?
Oikawa: wanna fight?

congrats on 500! can we see kyouka and kenji or atsushi and dazai? i love your art btw! ur expressions are super good!

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 22:31:29 -0400

I drew both, hope you don’t mind! XD

3rdgymbros:[ Dazai and Chuuya start to make out ]Dazai: How drunk are you?Chuuya: Drunk enough that...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 22:30:39 -0400

3rdgymbros:

[ Dazai and Chuuya start to make out ]
Dazai: How drunk are you?
Chuuya: Drunk enough that I know I want to do this. Not so drunk enough that you should feel guilty about taking advantage of me.
Dazai: That’s the perfect amount!

randomsnarfle: 双黒That moment when you fall into a new fandom...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 22:30:12 -0400

randomsnarfle:

双黒
That moment when you fall into a new fandom and draw the first piece of legitimate fanart you’ve draw in years.

nehart82: 6 - Viktor cooking! A request from @ erushi on...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 22:29:13 -0400

nehart82:

6 - Viktor cooking!

A request from @ erushi on Twitter!

I’m taking advantage of these requests to try to improve myself. While I was looking for some ideas I found this picture and I fell in love with it. I decided to try to reproduce it, despite the tricky background (and the tricky light, tricky perspective, tricky EVERYTHING!). It was a bit of a challenge but I am fairly pleased with the outcome. I hope you like it too!
I love making backgrounds ❤️

Oh, and for the easter eggs hidden in the art (ok, they’re not so hidden - the blackboards, lol): guess what the message in Japanese says? “Viktor likes katsudon.” (of course.) Obviously it’s written by him. A Japanese for first stage learners - I used the kind of Japanese that Viktor would speak with Yuuri.
And then… well, then there is Chris. XD

Two big thank yous:
- @quadruple-axel, for the help with Japanese;
- @ainitsuite-agape, for being my malicious Chris on the blackboard. ;)
Check her wonderful arts!

Suffering

rodella:the word lover is so infinitely soft. So universal. So timeless. Two girls with awkward,...

3rdgymbros:Dazai: You’ve been avoiding me, Chuuya.Chuuya: What the hell?! How do you do that without...

3rdgymbros:Dazai: In a moment of weakness … I had sex with Chuuya. You know, the King of the...

3rdgymbros:Dazai: It’s not gay if I wanna date Chuuya but like, plationically, right?Atsushi:...

phx-y: Art by Ecru ※ Permission to post was granted by the...

Europe’s planned copyright changes are Really Bad for fanfic sites

This law would in all likelihood require AO3 to implement a system which monitors every single work uploaded in Europe for copyright violations, before they can be shared on the Archive.

The OTW are doing their best to fight this change, and this EFF post also has links to a bunch of ways in which you personally can help lobby against this terrible law.

how i read

thebootydiaries:me: *starts screaming*somebody: whoa there buddy whats that all about?me: sorry i...

chuuyabelongswithhappiness: Dazai: Chuuya is the only one with the spare key to Port Mafia’s secret...

savvylittleminx: rebelslicious: to all my peeps who need to hear...

chuuyabelongswithhappiness: Dazai, trying to impress Chuuya: Now that we’re married, I shall...

Photo

nochillmemes: Under pressure and ready to explode You need your...

dollypopup: kellifer-k: peoriarhetoriapeoria: ionaonie: solarcat: pheuthe: thebestpersonherelove...

lilysinthefall:me when exams r suffocatingly close but i haven’t done jack shit: cool beans

haikyuuslut: Oikawa: iwa-chan, you know the tongue is our strongest muscle?Iwaizumi: and?Oikawa:...

congrats on 500! can we see kyouka and kenji or atsushi and dazai? i love your art btw! ur expressions are super good!

3rdgymbros:[ Dazai and Chuuya start to make out ]Dazai: How drunk are you?Chuuya: Drunk enough that...

randomsnarfle: 双黒That moment when you fall into a new fandom...

nehart82: 6 - Viktor cooking! A request from @ erushi on...

thebootydiaries:me: starts screamingsomebody: whoa there buddy whats that all about?me: sorry i...