#beauty roundup

[kazz-brekker]

alucard and olrox both in season 2 of castlevania nocturne…we shall be simply overwhelmed by vampire hair

#rip drolta's pink ombre hair u were beautiful as long as u lasted #pie says stuff #pie watches castlevania nocturne #castlevania nocturne #castlevania #erszebet is excluded from this roundup of vampire hair due to deciding to become a furry

[abirdie]

Gael García Bernal in Eva no duerme (2015, dir. Pablo Agüero)

Gifs are all 540px wide so you can click to see larger.

[other gael filmography gifsets]

#gael garcía bernal #eva no duerme #ggb filmography gifs #gael garcia bernal #so gael's voiceover narration ties the film together #he has top billing and a not insignificant proportion of the lines #so i can't really bump this film into the cameos roundup post #but he's only actually on screen for around six minutes #half of which are devoted to a single three-minute shot of him arriving #and while that's a GREAT shot i can't do a three-minute gif #so you get this instead #anyway the film is weird and beautiful and creepy and i'm glad i watched it #although i'm pretty sure i don't know enough argentinian history to fully appreciate it #(i get all the obvious references but i know there's lots of subtext i'm missing) #eva doesn't sleep

[fieriframes]

[Flavor's dynamite. Lot of texture, lot of seasoning, totally unique. Beauty is in the eye of the gazer. In one plate, you're getting all different types of flavors and textures.]

#s30e01 'round the world roundup #guy fieri #guyfieri #diners drive-ins and dives #one plate #different types #flavor #dynamite #lot #texture #seasoning #beauty #eye #gazer

[bloodmaarked]

➳ monthly book round-up: april

read:

never split the difference: negotiating as if your life depended on it, chris voss + tahl raz. 5*. read 14 march 2023 – 14 april 2023.

the final strife, saara el-arifi. 4*. read 31 march 2023 – 16 april 2023.

how beautiful we were, imbolo mbue. 5*. read 16 april 2023 – 29 april 2023.

currently reading:

empress crowned in red ciannon smart. started 17 april 2023.

#monthly roundup #never split the difference #chris voss #the final strife #saara el arifi #how beautiful we were #imbolo mbue #currently reading #booklr #bookblr

[shesamreads]

I read 14 books in January. How did I read 14 books in January?

I started listening to audiobooks at work, which is great because data entry can be a slog. I also cut into my crafting time because sometimes I just don't feel like pulling a project out.

My Goodreads goal is 48, which is 4 books a month. I can definitely do that! I can't say I'll keep January's energy up the whole year, though. I know we already have a busy February.

Still, a pretty good start.

#SheSamReads #Roundup #January Roundup #Among the Hidden #Among the Imposters #Among the Betrayed #Margaret Peterson Haddix #Games with the Orc #Kathryn Moon #Book of Shadows #Cate Tiernan #Ensnared by the Werewolf #Lillian Lark #Wicked Beauty #Your Dad Will Do #Katee Robert #Catch and Release #Isabel Murray #The One #John Marrs #Warlord and the Waif #Chloe Parker #Saving Their Trainer #Nikki Dean #Latte Darling #SJ Tilly #Shade's Children #Garth Nix #2023

[madegeeky]

Epic Free Games (til 19 Jan. 2023, 10am cst)

First Class Trouble is a game where players work together and against each other to survive a disaster. The goal is to shut down a deadly A.I. Some players are impostors, secretly playing as human-looking killer robots intent on betraying the other players.

Gamedec is a single-player cyberpunk isometric RPG. You are a game detective, who solves crimes inside virtual worlds. Use your wits to gather info from your witnesses and suspects, getting to the bottom of deceptive schemes. You are the sum of your choices.

#free games roundup #gamedec sounds interesting #of course the last two memorable cyberpunk games #were massive let downs for various reasons #(cyberpunk 2077 and >observer_) #so ngl i'm giving this one a wary side eye #in fact... #on steam it apparently has a mostly positive (recent) and very positive (overall) reviews #scanning through the reviews it reads way more like an adventure game than an rpg #people talking about how it's like a choose your adventure game #and then complaining about puzzles #tell me that doesn't sound exactly like an adventure game XD #next week is epistory typing chronicles #which i have played before and recommend #i never beat it but what i did play #was visually very beautiful and very unique #accidentally forgot the header/title #so had to do a quick correct so i didn't have to redo the entire post #so hope it doesn't look too weird

[xxmarvelouslifexx]

January Round Up

Fun camping trip with my cousins

Survived my first major public event for work (not sure if this is a highlight but it was a momentous occasion)

Started getting better on the Lyra hoop

#oops just started doing these so going back to fill in the months i missed #ive been doing aerial silks/hammock for a while now but just started with lyra #ive really enjoyed the aerial arts its so beautiful and also seeing my muscles grow is cool #my monthly roundup #personal lore and musings

[lindsaytimberlake]

Model Lindsay Timberlake for fashion designer Maria Bangsgaard Køster of North Country Maiden - Western Roundup Fashion Show, Nashville Boogie Vintage Weekender (2015)

PHOTO: Allison Kortokrax (kortophotography.com)

#floral #vintage fashion #vintage #retro #pinup #pinup girl #fashion show #fashion designers #fashion designer #maria bangsgaard-køster #supermodel #top model #fashion model #curly hair #retro hair #vintage hair #nashville boogie #western roundup fashion show #lindsay timberlake #north country maiden #brown hair #runway model #super model #beautiful model #nashville #tennessee #retro clothing #vintage style #red floral #rockabilly

[philharmonica]

january rotation 🍎🎵

new year, new name: rotation flows better than music round up

the breaking hands by the gun club || a gorgeous song! yes, the lyrics make me sad, but I'm just slow dancing to the music all by myself. I only know a few of this band's songs but they sound so different, love the versatility!!

strange by galaxie 500 || this song makes me want to go (for a walk? a solo road trip?) with no particular direction

heartland by the sound || ^similar to above but this time I have a destination in mind and it's the best version of myself and I'm improving every day

new town by life without buildings || this makes me feel like I absolutely need to make changes in my life

caeser on a tv screen by the last dinner party || this chorus has a similar rhythm/flow to a part of a musical that I like to it's automatically on this list but on a realer note I'm excited for their debut

whom are you dancing for? by art fact || this is exactly the kind of dark(ish) synth music I like

all over the world by pixies || not really sure what this song is about but I like the contrast of the monotone vocals with the harsh guitar

the diamond sea - radio edit by sonic youth || this is exactly the kind of sonic youth music I like, they should do more of this and less of that guitar noise (they're just not good at that, sorry not sorry)

free by the martinis || I need to feel the wind through my hair. sidenote this is from the movie empire records, which I love and think everyone should see (it truly has a great soundtrack in addition to great plot and funny characters and being so personal to me)

#monthly music roundup #also while compiling this list I found out that Nick cave and Debbie Harry did a cover of the breaking hands #so go listen to that too because their voices are beautiful together

[mostlysignssomeportents]

It all started with a mouse

For the public domain, time stopped in 1998, when the Sonny Bono Copyright Act froze copyright expirations for 20 years. In 2019, time started again, with a massive crop of works from 1923 returning to the public domain, free for all to use and adapt:

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2019/

No one is better at conveying the power of the public domain than Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle, who run the Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain. For years leading up to 2019, the pair published an annual roundup of what we would have gotten from the public domain in a universe where the 1998 Act never passed. Since 2019, they've switched to celebrating what we're actually getting each year. Last year's was a banger:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/20/free-for-2023/#oy-canada

But while there's been moderate excitement at the publicdomainification of "Yes, We Have No Bananas," AA Milne's "Now We Are Six," and Sherlock Holmes, the main event that everyone's anticipated arrives on January 1, 2024, when Mickey Mouse enters the public domain.

The first appearance of Mickey Mouse was in 1928's Steamboat Willie. Disney was critical to the lobbying efforts that extended copyright in 1976 and again in 1998, so much so that the 1998 Act is sometimes called the Mickey Mouse Protection Act. Disney and its allies were so effective at securing these regulatory gifts that many people doubted that this day would ever come. Surely Disney would secure another retrospective copyright term extension before Jan 1, 2024. I had long arguments with comrades about this – people like Project Gutenberg founder Michael S Hart (RIP) were fatalistically certain the public domain would never come back.

But they were wrong. The public outrage over copyright term extensions came too late to stave off the slow-motion arson of the 1976 and 1998 Acts, but it was sufficient to keep a third extension away from the USA. Canada wasn't so lucky: Justin Trudeau let Trump bully him into taking 20 years' worth of works out of Canada's public domain in the revised NAFTA agreement, making swathes of works by living Canadian authors illegal at the stroke of a pen, in a gift to the distant descendants of long-dead foreign authors.

Now, with Mickey's liberation bare days away, there's a mounting sense of excitement and unease. Will Mickey actually be free? The answer is a resounding YES! (albeit with a few caveats). In a prelude to this year's public domain roundup, Jennifer Jenkins has published a full and delightful guide to The Mouse and IP from Jan 1 on:

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/mickey/

Disney loves the public domain. Its best-loved works, from The Sorcerer's Apprentice to Sleeping Beauty, Pinnocchio to The Little Mermaid, are gorgeous, thoughtful, and lively reworkings of material from the public domain. Disney loves the public domain – we just wish it would share.

Disney loves copyright's other flexibilities, too, like fair use. Walt told the papers that he took his inspiration for Steamboat Willie from Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks, making fair use of their performances to imbue Mickey with his mischief and derring do. Disney loves fair use – we just wish it would share.

Disney loves copyright's limitations. Steamboat Willie was inspired by Buster Keaton's silent film Steamboat Bill (titles aren't copyrightable). Disney loves copyright's limitations – we just wish it would share.

As Jenkins writes, Disney's relationship to copyright is wildly contradictory. It's the poster child for the public domain's power as a source of inspiration for worthy (and profitable) new works. It's also the chief villain in the impoverishment and near-extinction of the public domain. Truly, every pirate wants to be an admiral.

Disney's reliance on – and sabotage of – the public domain is ironic. Jenkins compares it to "an oil company relying on solar power to run its rigs." Come January 1, Disney will have to share.

Now, if you've heard anything about this, you've probably been told that Mickey isn't really entering the public domain. Between trademark claims and later copyrightable elements of Mickey's design, Mickey's status will be too complex to understand. That's totally wrong.

Jenkins illustrates the relationship between these three elements in (what else) a Mickey-shaped Venn diagram. Topline: you can use all the elements of Mickey that are present in Steamboat Willie, along with some elements that were added later, provided that you make it clear that your work isn't affiliated with Disney.

Let's unpack that. The copyrightable status of a character used to be vague and complex, but several high-profile cases have brought clarity to the question. The big one is Les Klinger's case against the Arthur Conan Doyle estate over Sherlock Holmes. That case established that when a character appears in both public domain and copyrighted works, the character is in the public domain, and you are "free to copy story elements from the public domain works":

https://freesherlock.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/klinger-order-on-motion-for-summary-judgment-c.pdf

This case was appealed all the way to the Supreme Court, who declined to hear it. It's settled law.

So, which parts of Mickey aren't going into the public domain? Elements that came later: white gloves, color. But that doesn't mean you can't add different gloves, or different colorways. The idea of a eyes with pupils is not copyrightable – only the specific eyes that Disney added.

Other later elements that don't qualify for copyright: a squeaky mouse voice, being adorable, doing jaunty dances, etc. These are all generic characteristics of cartoon mice, and they're free for you to use. Jenkins is more cautious on whether you can give your Mickey red shorts. She judges that "a single, bright, primary color for an article of clothing does not meet the copyrightability threshold" but without settled law, you might wanna change the colors.

But what about trademark? For years, Disney has included a clip from Steamboat Willie at the start of each of its films. Many observers characterized this as a bid to create a de facto perpetual copyright, by making Steamboat Willie inescapably associated with products from Disney, weaving an impassable web of trademark tripwires around it.

But trademark doesn't prevent you from using Steamboat Willie. It only prevents you from misleading consumers "into thinking your work is produced or sponsored by Disney." Trademarks don't expire so long as they're in use, but uses that don't create confusion are fair game under trademark.

Copyrights and trademarks can overlap. Mickey Mouse is a copyrighted character, but he's also an indicator that a product or service is associated with Disney. While Mickey's copyright expires in a couple weeks, his trademark doesn't. What happens to an out-of-copyright work that is still a trademark?

Luckily for us, this is also a thoroughly settled case. As in, this question was resolved in a unanimous 2000 Supreme Court ruling, Dastar v. Twentieth Century Fox. A live trademark does not extend an expired copyright. As the Supremes said:

[This would] create a species of mutant copyright law that limits the public’s federal right to copy and to use expired copyrights.

This elaborates on the Ninth Circuit's 1996 Maljack Prods v Goodtimes Home Video Corp:

[Trademark][ cannot be used to circumvent copyright law. If material covered by copyright law has passed into the public domain, it cannot then be protected by the Lanham Act without rendering the Copyright Act a nullity.

Despite what you might have heard, there is no ambiguity here. Copyrights can't be extended through trademark. Period. Unanimous Supreme Court Decision. Boom. End of story. Done.

But even so, there are trademark considerations in how you use Steamboat Willie after Jan 1, but these considerations are about protecting the public, not Disney shareholders. Your uses can't be misleading. People who buy or view your Steamboat Willie media or products have to be totally clear that your work comes from you, not Disney.

Avoiding confusion will be very hard for some uses, like plush toys, or short idents at the beginning of feature films. For most uses, though, a prominent disclaimer will suffice. The copyright page for my 2003 debut novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom contains this disclaimer:

This novel is a work of fiction, set in an imagined future. All the characters and events portrayed in this book, including the imagined future of the Magic Kingdom, are either fictitious or are used fictitiously. The Walt Disney Company has not authorized or endorsed this novel.

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250196385/downandoutinthemagickingdom

Here's the Ninth Circuit again:

When a public domain work is copied, along with its title, there is little likelihood of confusion when even the most minimal steps are taken to distinguish the publisher of the original from that of the copy. The public is receiving just what it believes it is receiving—the work with which the title has become associated. The public is not only unharmed, it is unconfused.

Trademark has many exceptions. The First Amendment protects your right to use trademarks in expressive ways, for example, to recreate famous paintings with Barbie dolls:

https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/summaries/mattel-walkingmountain-9thcir2003.pdf

And then there's "nominative use": it's not a trademark violation to use a trademark to accurately describe a trademarked thing. "We fix iPhones" is not a trademark violation. Neither is 'Works with HP printers.' This goes double for "expressive" uses of trademarks in new works of art:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_v._Grimaldi

What about "dilution"? Trademark protects a small number of superbrands from uses that "impair the distinctiveness or harm the reputation of the famous mark, even when there is no consumer confusion." Jenkins says that the Mickey silhouette and the current Mickey character designs might be entitled to protection from dilution, but Steamboat Willie doesn't make the cut.

Jenkins closes with a celebration of the public domain's ability to inspire new works, like Disney's Three Musketeers, Disney's Christmas Carol, Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Disney's Around the World in 80 Days, Disney's Alice in Wonderland, Disney's Snow White, Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame, Disney's Sleeping Beauty, Disney's Cinderella, Disney's Little Mermaid, Disney's Pinocchio, Disney's Huck Finn, Disney's Robin Hood, and Disney's Aladdin. These are some of the best-loved films of the past century, and made Disney a leading example of what talented, creative people can do with the public domain.

As of January 1, Disney will start to be an example of what talented, creative people give back to the public domain, joining Dickens, Dumas, Carroll, Verne, de Villeneuve, the Brothers Grimm, Twain, Hugo, Perrault and Collodi.

Public domain day is 17 days away. Creators of all kinds: start your engines!

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/15/mouse-liberation-front/#free-mickey

Image: Doo Lee (modified) https://web.law.duke.edu/sites/default/files/images/centers/cspd/pdd2024/mickey/Steamboat-WIllie-Enters-Public-Domain.jpeg

CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en

#pluralistic #copyfight #scotus #mickey mouse #public domain #ip #contract #trademark #tm #jennifer jenkins #copyright #disney #nominative use

[reportwire]

Out of Thousands, A Sephora Beauty Director Labels These 11 Finds "Need to Try"

Raise your hand if you could spend an entire afternoon in Sephora and still not even make a dent in their product inventory. I know I could—I could happily browse the shelves for hours at a time and probably only make my way through a few different brands. As we all know, the retailer is basically every beauty lover’s dream—every product you could possibly want is at your fingertips. Since it’s…

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#Beauty #Core #hair #makeup #Product Roundup #Sephora #skin #Who What Wear

[beautifulbadlandsnd]

4th of July Patriotism Starts Early with Flags at the Killdeer Mountain Rodeo

4th of July Patriotism Starts Early with Flags at the Killdeer Mountain Rodeo

Flag Time Homage to the Stars and Stripes is always part of rodeo in the US. We love going to the Killdeer Mountain Roundup Rodeo. To us it seems about as authentic as you can get. And it starts days early in the preparation when they put up the Flags at the Killdeer Mountain Roundup Rodeo. Sure there are bigger and louder rodeos with lots of entertainment, but none more authentic. Here’s where…

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#beautifulbadlands #Killdeer #ndlegendary #NorthDakota #Patriot #patriotism #American flag #Badlands #Badlands of North Dakota #Beautiful Badlands ND #BeNDLegendary #cowboys #Dunn County #flags #Killdeer Mountain Roundup Rodeo #Places to go #ThingsToDoNorthDakota

[flixadda]

We Never Thought We'd Stop Wearing Our Favorite Perfumes—Until We Tried These 13

We Never Thought We’d Stop Wearing Our Favorite Perfumes—Until We Tried These 13

A new pair of jeans or heels is nice, but nothing puts quite the same pep in our step as a brand new perfume. From the ritaul of that very first spritz, to the boost in confidence, to the influx of comments and compliments…nothing can beat it. That said, and as we all know, actually finding a perfume that you love unconditionally can be harder than finding a needle in a haystack. There are plenty…

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#beauty #fragrance #Perfume #Product Roundup #Products #Stock #Who What Wear

[absolutecreaturevibes]

Hey you beautiful Creature Lovers!!! Here’s a roundup of week 3/ batch 3 of Absolute Creature Angels for UltraAngelTober hosted by @ultrainfinitepit to tantalize your eyeballs!!!

“Manticore might be my favorite one yet but it’s hard to choose just one amirite?

#UltraAngelTober #Inktober #Drawtober #Angeltober #creature art #absolute creature art

[saltytimemachinefestival]

Cattle Roundup

Outdoors Beauty | Archive

#outdoors #beautiful ass #cutie w a bootie #great butt #nice buns #short shorts #denim shorts #jean shorts #cut offs #beauty #sexy breasts #sexy content #adult model #sexy breast #beautiful girls #pretty girls #beautiful women #sexy titts #hot as fuck #spicy content #amazing body #hot as hell #so hot 🔥🔥🔥 #great bodi #hot nude #beautiful

[negrowhat]

BL Superlatives of 2023

Instead of doing a roundup (which I still might do) I just decided to do my own Best of 2023 for the handful of BLs I watched this year.

Series I Finished for the Couple- A Boss and A Babe. The plot had way too much going on and a lot of the pieces didn't flow well and a lot of things really pissed me off. Also the only side characters I liked were Porsche and Jack. But I LOVED Boss Daddy Gun and his Cher Bear. They filled me with joy and warm fuzzies and I loved how dependent they were on each other. Gun got was able to let his guard down and Cher found someone he could be vulnerable with.

Love Scene the Made Me HOLLER- Love in Translation. YangPhumjai fucking nasty across their freshly opened convenience store. They fucked in front of the security cameras and with the way they were slamming each other into the shelves I'm surprised more merchandise wasn't all over the floor. 10/10 love scene. Also I adore YangPhumjai.

Messiest Plot-Moonlight Chicken. Between the cheating, crying, screaming, and fighting I was thoroughly entertained. They had my emotions all over the place. I loved the series in it's entirety. (No I haven't watched OF or that would've won lol)

Dilf of the Year- Jeng from Step By Step. Everything about that man screamed 'Daddy'. He was sweet but stern. A very gentle Dom. He ran multiple businesses. He wore dad jeans on his off days. He had a beautiful smile and a BANGING body. And all he wanted to do was cook and take care of Pat...maybe teach him a few thangs. Sigh yeaaaa He was Pat's daddy idc.

Most Likely to Get Jumped- Saengtai from La Pluie. Don't you dare lie and say you didn't want to fight him at SOME point in this series. Tai was just very selfish and did not know how to apologize. He blamed everyone else for everything and he acted like a spoiled brat through most of the series. And I for one wanted to beat him up a couple of times. He's so cute tho.

Best Dressed-Chen Yi x Ai Di from Kiseki: Dear to Me. One favored collars, sweaters, and bright colors and the other had more of a biker-streetwear-combat style and somehow they ended up matching 79% of the time. They looked good together. The stylists popped off.

Most Goodest Boy- Woo Seung Hyun from the New Employee. Just a sweet 28 yr old man eager to work and be his very best. His bubbly personality is easy to love and I just want to squish his face, kiss his forehead, and hug him for hours. I see why Jong Chan fell in love immediately.

Most Sad Boy-Seo Jae Won from The Eighth Sense. He shut himself off to the people around him and allowed terrible people into his life because he didn't care enough to show them who he was in real life, he covered everything with a mask and acted the way people would expect so they wouldn't seem him crumbling inside. He blamed himself for his brother's passing and also for Ji Hyun's accident. He felt like he deserved every bad thing that happened to him and every bad person in his life. Ji Hyun brought light into his life after being shrouded in darkness for so long.

Hottest Couple-KingUea from Bed Friend. The love scenes always delivered. That kitty play scene?????? There was consent everywhere which was also sexy. King was such a green flag and they were hot together. Uea wasn't afraid to be sexy and King was a bonafide bisexual himbo who refused to be shy about sex and all it entails. They were grown and sexy type of hot.

Hottest Scene-The oil rubbing scene from I Feel You Linger in the Air. Not explicit, but extremely sensual. You can feel the desire and tension in that rub down Jom gave Yai. And then Jom going into his room to rub himself down and relive the moment that just passed??? HOT AF. Personally, I think IFYLITA was the most sensual series I watched all year. The series focused a lot on intimacy and physical touch.

Most Potential-Step By Step. This series had all the makings of a perfect plot but then everything just sort of got away from them. The office part of the office romance sort of stepped on the romance part. There was too much business involved and it made the conflict between the two mains unnecessary and annoying. Also they completely neglected the side couple and made their storyline almost non-existent. The eps were long af and yet the time wasn't placed in the right parts of the storylines and some scenes felt like a waste...even some eps. It was a bummer because I liked all the characters and first leg of the series. JengPat are top notch and I wanted more from JaabJane.

Fave Side Dish-YiwaMarine from Wedding Plan. Ooops slipped some girls in! Gawd I LOVED THEM! Yiwa was such a sweet talker! She was def a smooth operator. That line about her liking being short so she could kiss Marine better????? SWOON! I could totally see why Marine could never stay mad at her and was always blushing. They were just the perfect pair of girlfriends turned wives and I'm sad we didn't get invited to their wedding.

#bl best of 2023 #best of 2023 #sorry i didn't watch a lot of gmm series this year #a boss and a babe #i feel you linger in the air #step by step #step by step the series #la pluie #moonlight chicken #wedding plan #wedding plan the series #bed friend #bed friend the series #the eighth sense #the new employee #kiseki: dear to me