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Kiss & Sky

Hi I am currently Sir Not Appearing in this reality, but just in case anyone is interested, I started a fic. It's about how Victor Nikiforov is Very Cursed (like by an actual god) (the god is... this isn't really a spoiler, it's in the first chapter, but let's just say it's George the Dragon-slayer), and I hope it will be of minor interest to people who like such things.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/22327171/chapters/53333029

#victuuri #kissandsky #Yuri on ice #yoi fanfic

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So... I wrote a tiny ficlet for @shadhahvar for the Chihohohoko2019 gift exchange, in which Victor is a seagull shifter, because of course Victor would be a seagull shifter. I had so much fun writing this and I really needed to have fun, so thank you!

#chihohohoko #yuri on ice #fanfic #seagull facts

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Take your zero dollars elsewhere, that’ll really show AO3 what they’re doing wrong. If you read the budget (and I did) the Organization for Transformative Works actually has a pretty sizable rainy day budget fund, and brings in more than they spend, so yes, they are “pocketing” the money. Some people call the act of spending less than you make “good fiscal governance.” It means the organization is stable, can weather emergencies and unexpected changes. And the fact that they have legal access and money makes us all safer, because people are a lot less likely to try to push them around claiming copyright infringement for transformative works. But whatever, who needs history or stability when you have zero dollars and a thirst to forget.

Looking at this makes me so tired.

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I COULD NOT BE MORE EXCITED

I just want to say that I am delighted and surprised by the new YOI movie direction. I wasn’t expecting a movie focusing on early times, but once I thought about it, it makes perfect sense.

Season 1 is entirely in Yuuri’s point of view, but it’s also about a very specific slice in Yuuri’s life, and it’s about his reaching for a very specific goal: skating on the same ice with Victor, and being Victor’s equal (in many ways). One of the challenges the show has set for itself is that anything less than five-time-world-champion Yuuri is going to feel like a let down now, but also if he just keeps on winning then it’s going to lose much of the tension and surprise that made it delightful. So which is it--does Yuuri win as much as we have been promised or do we get bored? I’ve been trying to figure this out myself.

And so here is why I’m delighted--because we know that Victor’s five-time-world-champion wins came at the cost of life and love, and by the end he felt like his desire to keep surprising people was a chain around his neck.

Are there going to be delightful moments in the movie? YES. Are they going to surprise us? YES.

But this tells me, most importantly, that Sayo found a way through the “Yuuri wins all the time and we get bored” versus “Yuuri doesn’t win all the time and we get mad” maze that must follow.

We have our tension, and it doesn’t have to be “Yuuri will lose.” It becomes “Victor wants to become the coach that he needed--someone who can coach a five-time world champion without making him give up life and love to do it.”

And *that* is a delightful story.

I do think there will be sad parts of the movie--what little we saw of Victor’s backstory was sad--but I also think that it’s going to surprise and delight us. At every turn, Yuri on Ice was delightful, and I don’t think it’s going to stop.

I would personally love to see the movie end with the banquet, followed by a fast forward to a final scene--one in which Victor tells Yuuri what he wants for him as a skater, just before Yuuri skates out on the ice for what will be the first competition in Season 2.

So TL;DR, I think this is going to be something magnificent, and I am so, so excited. 2019 cannot get here fast enough.

#ice adolescence #Yuri on ice #yuri on ice movie #long post #thinky post

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It me.

I HAD 3 PIECES OF CHEESECAKE AND ICE CREAM OH MY GOD

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Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Chapters: 20/? Fandom: Yuri!!! on Ice (Anime) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Katsuki Yuuri & Victor Nikiforov, Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov Characters: Katsuki Yuuri, Victor Nikiforov, Yuri Plisetsky, Yakov Feltsman, Phichit Chulanont, Christophe Giacometti, Lilia Baranovskaya, Okukawa Minako Additional Tags: Secret Relationship, Anxious Katsuki Yuuri, Pining Victor Nikiforov, Alternate Canon, Sexual Content, Slow Burn, Song Lyrics, This began as a songfic and then became every possible songfic, It takes a while for Yuuri to get a clue but once he does it’s on like Donkey Kong, Eros Katsuki Yuuri, Social Media, Long-Distance Relationship, If you think about it Victor did kinda start this with the whole Stammi Vicino thing, But we can’t all commission custom arias so bass-heavy fuck jams will do in a pinch, Happy Ending, Angst and Fluff and Smut Summary:

Canon-divergent AU. Just before he skates at the Hot Springs On Ice, Yuuri receives a photo of his drunken GPF banquet antics; consumed with humiliation over a night he can’t remember, he loses the competition. Victor goes back to Russia with Yurio, and Yakov comes to train Yuuri in Japan. One night, frustrated and miserable, Yuuri posts some personally relevant song lyrics on Instagram—and wakes up the next morning to find that Victor has posted lyrics that seem to be a reply.

With the world watching their every move, Victor and Yuuri begin trading lyrics in a secret conversation; from playful rivalry to intense seduction, through Savage Garden and San Fermin, their virtual affair unfolds, hidden in plain sight. But the Grand Prix approaches, bringing with it newfound opportunities for Yuuri’s career, and his new life hinges on two things: winning the gold, and staying away from Victor.

CHAPTER 20: “I have something for you.” Victor tilts his head to the side, just a little. “But…it’s your birthday. If anything I should have a present for you. Is this a thing in Japan?” Yuuri shakes his head. “I…I just woke up this morning and I realized I wanted to do this.”

SEE, I TOLD YOU. I used to write this fic slowly but nowadays it just happens all at once. Like Beyonce, I’ve embraced the element of surprise so I’m gone for a little while and then bam, surprise y’all

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I got Victor, so go take this super-accurate quiz.

So many, many months ago, I made a quiz! ♡＾▽＾♡ Why? Because I thought it would be fun, but also because the one or two I found myself didn’t give very indepth answers, so naturally, I decided to make my own and add my own spin. What’s my own spin, you ask? Why, brevity, of course xD This was just something fun to pass the time, so I chose six characters for this version. I was considering making a second one, but I realised I had never shared it here. So I said I’d do that first! Let me know who you get!

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I agree with the OP who says that you should read the terms of any agreement.

But if you want to know why you should read things for yourself and not, like, just randomly accept things other people say, the last comment is a perfect illustration.

So here’s an example of how you read a contract properly.

Amazon’s T&C are here. https://kdp-eu.amazon.com/agreement?token=eyJjbGllbnRJZCI6ImtpbmRsZV9kaXJlY3RfcHVibGlzaGluZyIsImRvY3VtZW50SWQiOiJrZHAiLCJjYW5jZWxVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL2tkcC5hbWF6b24uY29tIiwiY2xpZW50TG9jYWxlIjoiTkEiLCJkaXNwbGF5UGFyYW1zIjpudWxsfQ%7CeyJtYXRlcmlhbFNlcmlhbCI6MSwiaG1hYyI6IjNVTU9oejdYTENWY1dsMUZEWWQwYnRZN3FNR1FxOEJxVHpyaWhYS2dGVWM9IiwianNvbkhtYWMiOnRydWUsInR5cGUiOiJSRUFEX09OTFkiLCJhY2NlcHQiOmZhbHNlfQ&language=en_US

Does Amazon contractually own your work in perpetuity? Well, the things you need to look for are the term of the agreement (legalese for “how long this lasts” and then the rights they ask for.

Here’s the term of the agreement:

3 Term and Termination The term of this Agreement will begin upon your acceptance of it and will continue until it is terminated by us or by you... You are entitled to terminate at any time by providing us notice of termination, in which event we will cease selling your Digital Books within 5 business days from the date you provide us notice of termination.

In other words, this agreement is VERY easy to terminate--you just tell them you want out and you are out in five days. This is easier to get out of than your standard cable contract.

(Note that the section on KDP Select has separate terms/right grants, but that’s optional from what I understand.)

Then we get to:

5.5 Grant of Rights. You grant to each Amazon party, throughout the term of this Agreement, a nonexclusive, irrevocable, right and license to distribute Digital Books, directly and through third-party distributors, in all digital formats by all digital distribution means available. 

(emphasis mine). There’s more (and I’ll get to that), but that is most definitely a time-limited agreement--the rights you grant are for the term of the agreement. Remember the term of the agreement? Yep. You can cancel in five days. So...not exactly forever-level theft ownership.

So the next section of the rights grant gets more specific, and I’m going to snip most of it, but the question is... do any rights that Amazon asks for survive the term of the agreement?

I read the whole section, but I’m only going to copy the rights that survive the term of the agreement:

This right includes, without limitation, the right to:... (c) permit customers to "store" Digital Books that they have purchased from us on servers ("Virtual Storage") and to access and re-download such Digital Books from Virtual Storage from time to time both during and after the term of this Agreement; 

That’s it, that’s the only right you’re granting Amazon that survives the term of the agreement--the right for customers who have paid you money for your  work to be able to read that work as if it were a real book on their shelves.

I’m guessing 99.9% of creators are going to think it’s totally cool that people who bought a thing get to keep enjoying the thing they bought even after you’re no longer working with the person who sold it to them. 

If you’re in the 0.1% of people out there who think that it’s theft for consumers to enjoy something they’ve already purchased, then definitely don’t publish through Amazon.

But that’s why you should read your own contracts--because some other random person out there is...not guaranteed to be right about what they read.

I cannot emphasize enough how much you need to read thoroughly through the terms of any publication before you send your writing to them. It is mandatory that you know and understand what rights you’re giving away when you’re trying to get published.

Just the other day I was emailed by a relatively new indie journal looking for writers. They made it very clear that they did not pay writers for their work, so I figured I’d probably be passing, but I took a look at their Copyright policy out of curiosity and it was a nightmare. They wanted “non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free, perpetual, worldwide license and right to use, display, reproduce, distribute, and publish the Work on the internet and on or in any medium” (that’s copy and pasted btw) and that was the first of 10 sections on their Copyright agreement page. Yikes. That’s exactly the type of publishing nightmare you don’t want to be trapped in. 

Most journals will ask for “First North American Rights” or a variation on “First Rights” which operate under the assumption that all right revert back to you and they only have the right to be the first publishers of the work. That is what you need to be looking for because you do want to retain all the rights to your work. 

You want all rights to revert back to you upon publication in case you, say, want to publish it again in the future or use it for a bookmark or post it on your blog, or anything else you might want to do with the writing you worked hard on. Any time a publisher wants more than that, be very suspicious. Anyone who wants to own your work forever and be able to do whatever they want with it without your permission is not to be trusted. Anyone who wants all that and wants you to sign away your right to ever be paid for your work is running a scam.

Protect your writing. It’s not just your intellectual property, it’s also your baby. You worked hard on it. You need to do the extra research to protect yourself so that a scammer (or even a well meaning start up) doesn’t steal you work right from under you nose and make money off of it.

#terms and conditions #long post #peeves #look if someone makes the claim that thousands and thousands of people are doing a thing that is very very bad but none of them have noticed #they are almost certainly wrong #I knew before I went and looked that the claim was wrong #also the stuff in there about unlimited exclusive periods is wrong in the US #because you have the right to terminate after 35 years no matter what your contract says #pretending not to be myself is going badly

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Boop!

Um, boop back, I guess?

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I’m...back-ish?

By which I mean I have a little more free time, finally, I think. I’m going to try to start tackling the GIGANTIC mountain of unanswered comments on AO3, and get back into working on this one story that I am extremely excited about. I hope you all are doing well and I am VERY SORRY I have been a terrible commenter on fics these last handful of months.

Also I made a Twitter (where I am https:/twitter.com/shysweetthing because why ruin a good thing) and am currently only following Kubo (in both her accounts) so help me out a bit.

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This is the best!

Wakaba: A Somewhat Premature Retrospective

Earlier this week, @shysweetthing commissioned me to write a gush-post about Wakaba Higuchi, which was definitely not what I anticipated when I opened up commissions but which I was absolutely delighted to write. Not only do I love talking about Wakaba, it give me a great excuse to go back and rewatch some of her performances and cry about it a lot.

So without further ado… please enjoy my reflections on Wakaba and everything that makes her great.

Keep reading

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Random hug! It always makes me smile to see you on my dash. I hope that you’re doing well!

Thank you! I’ve had a REALLY busy first quarter of the year. Good, but still busy.  I’m nearly through the worst of it, and I’m hoping I’ll be more active sooooon.

I have so much mail to answer on here & AO3 and so much fic to write.

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...does she think professional authors stop loving things?

That’s weird. That’s super-weird.

Also, just because you have the chops to be a professional author doesn’t mean you actually want to do it. Tons of Very Good professional authors who have great reviews and accolades don’t make that much money because the business is built on luck and lightning striking.

Also, even if you are successful, doing something you love for money changes your relationship to it.

It’s way less stress to have a steady 9-5 with health insurance and a guaranteed paycheck and write fic for fun.

I mean, sure, be a professional author if that’s your goal. But being an author is a job. Not everybody wants to do all jobs that they are qualified to do.

“Well the Secret World Chronicle series started out as fanfic within an RP community playing the City of Heroes MMORPG. Then we took the same basic characters and put them in their own entirely different universe.” - Mercedes R. Lackey

Source: http://qr.ae/TU1mZn

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To that 1% of YOI fandom

I love most of you. This is not applicable to most of you. But YOI fans... some small portion of you are the worst. People are not elevator buttons. Even elevators don’t come faster if you press the button repeatedly, but an elevator doesn’t care that you’re repeatedly pressing the button. Stop bothering the YOI team about when things will be out, especially when those things are like “Season 3” and they haven’t been announced, but also when anyone over the age of seven understands that major releases have a schedule. There will be an announcement and a trailer and a press release when they announce the damned movie. Kubo is not going to break down under the combined weight of your Twitter questions and say, “oh, fine, the information is embargoed everywhere but we’re releasing it October 3rd.” She is also not going to unilaterally decide to move the release date up three months because @bittermonkey27261 asked her to do so a fifteenth time. All you are doing is making a jackass of yourself and being disrespectful to someone who is trying very hard to bring you joy. You wanna complain? It’s super-easy to complain to LITERALLY ANYONE ELSE IN THE WORLD EXCEPT THE CREATIVE TEAM.

#Yuri on Ice #fandom wank #YoI

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It’s chapter eight of Undiscovered Country, finally, after far too long. Thank you all for your support. This is my longest fic that I’ve posted to date and I had no idea I was going to do it.

I feel kind of emotional, so thank you all for being here with me through it.

#morning reblog

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I really appreciate how your writing feels so grounded in detail. Were you already following/knowledgeable about figure skating before you became a Yuri!!! on Ice fan? And same question for studying Japanese; were you already doing that?

I’ve been a figure skating fan since the Sarajevo Olympics, which I loved so much I named the stuffed bear my aunt gave me “Sarajevo.” In 1988 I told my mom I wanted to be Ekaterina Goordeeva when I grew up. She pointed out that there were no rinks near where we lived, that figure skating was insanely expensive, and that Goordeeva started skating when she was four and it was already too late for me. 

I’ve drifted in and out of skating fandom; it was hard to stay connected when I didn’t have a TV when I was in school. YouTube wasn’t a thing yet. (And I actually didn’t have a computer of my own, either, so that wouldn’t have worked.)

(I am dating myself. Every time I see someone refer to themselves as a “tumblr old” it’s always because they remember when there was no Twitter, and not, like, learning to type on a manual typewriter.)

By contrast, I started learning Japanese with the explicit goal of being able to consume whatever YoI content came next as soon as was humanly possible.

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It’s chapter eight of Undiscovered Country, finally, after far too long. Thank you all for your support. This is my longest fic that I’ve posted to date and I had no idea I was going to do it.

I feel kind of emotional, so thank you all for being here with me through it.

#undiscovered country #last chapter