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The Republicans and the former president's followers will not even consider that all of this is anything more than a plot against the former president.

Faith-based belief systems tell you to actively ignore the evidence that disputes the system's dictates and doctrines.

This is a cult.

An Arizona grand jury has indicted 18 allies of Donald Trump for their efforts to subvert the 2020 election — including former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, attorney Rudy Giuliani and former Trump campaign operative Mike Roman.

The indictment, which includes felony counts of conspiracy, fraud and forgery, also describes Trump as an unindicted co-conspirator.

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Fanfic, as well as fan art, has lived in a nebulous existence for decades. Every so often, someone will say that Artists' Alley is going to be shut down by DC or marvel (or more precisely their legal departments. So far it hasn't.

So far.

Every so often someone makes a LOT of money off of art they don't, and the legal departments come along and start sniffing around. When a couple of artist cashed in big on NFTs by drawing a couple characters owned by the Big Two, some rules were drawn up BUT fast.

Fanzines used to be printed in batches of a couple hundred at most, and they took years to sell through. Fan-made movies were shown in hotel rooms to audiences of a couple dozen. Now you can spread your work worldwide with a eyclick, and some fan productions are very profitable indeed, so much so that Paramount set up rules for exactly how profitable they could be.

The companies know that the fans are what keep the properties profitable. But when they see other people making money, they can't help themselves but seeing it as money they're losing. And that makes lawyers get itchy.

why taking commissions for fanfics can KILL Archive of Our Own and fanfic culture as a whole

okay, so thing is, fanfics are allowed — as in they’re not banned — because nobody is supposed to be profiting off of copyrighted characters.

this is why popular site like Archive of Our Own is allowed to be up and running, because no one is supposed to be making money from fanfics.

the fact AO3 is allowed to be up and running, unfortunately, can and will most likely change if people start normalizing commissioning fanfics and making profit off of them.

because the second those big companies learn people are profiting off of their copyrighted characters, the target they will attack after you (in terms of legal action) is a platform like Archive of Our Own, which will likely ruin it all for everybody and every fandom.

imagine Archive of Our Own getting shut down because fanfics were banned because people were profiting off of them. (I know AO3 isn’t only about fanfics, but since it’s mostly known for fanfics, it will most likely get targeted and that will most likely mean it’ll get shut down if worst comes to worst.)

honestly. most people write fanfics in their free time for free out of passion and love they have for their favorite characters.

people read fanfics for free because that’s their source of happiness.

I’m not saying there will be no fanfics left in this world if they really are banned, because people will always find a way. but it WILL be so much harder having to sneak around and find a way to post fanfics without them getting removed at best, the authors getting sued at worst. and it WILL be harder for readers to find your works if we have to censor key words and character names in order to avoid getting caught.

it’s so much easier like this, we can freely post fanfics without having to hide and censor key words or worrying about anything.

no, I’m not making this post for the sake of those big companies. this post isn’t about “hey, don’t profit off of their characters”. it’s about “hey, don’t risk ruining fanfics culture as a whole for everybody by profiting off of them and putting a platform like Archive of Our Own in jeopardy.”

if you don’t want to live in a fandom without AO3, keep fanfics free.

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Complete with the sponsor bumper at the end. Probably voiced by the same lady.

次回予告 / キタニタツヤ - Preview of Me / Tatsuya Kitani

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Well, poop.

#Star Trek

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I somehow didn't know that Jeremy Carver was on he show. Cool.

"In the funny, terrifying, colorful, oddly lovely, lovably odd Dead Boy Detectives, premiering Thursday on Netflix, deceased putative teenagers Edwin (George Rexstrew) and Charles (Jayden Revri) investigate what’s troubling troubled ghosts...."

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I won't lie to you - I want one.

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This is the 21st century version of the old "dry clean only" joke.

And I'm prepared to bet that it Elmu hasn't already thought up some mad proprietary car washing system for these low-polygon calamities, he soon will.

In case anyone else needed a good belly laugh today.

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"What are Republicans?"

Potpourri for$200, please.

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Yes, these Muppets have taken Manhattan. The question now is can they HOLD it

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7.5. I've heard and enjoyed the obvious songs from MCR but I can't honestly say I've heard enough to say I listen them. Sort of self-gatekeeping myself.

I know I've heard of Mr. Bungle, and and probably heard a song or two of theirs, but I couldn't name one.

I'd bet you could stroll through my history and guess what the other 7 bands are.

Okay. Reblog this and tag with a numerical response for how many of these artists you listen to. It’s stereotypical “tumblr user” music.

Lemon Demon

Tally Hall

Death Grips

Jack Stauber

Mr Bungle

King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard

Devo

Oingo Boingo

Aquabats

Weird Al

My Chemical Romance

100gecs

Talking Heads

They Might Be Giants

Mitski

Girl In Red

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Voting for Bandora out of respect and fear.

Can't imagine why she's not tracking better.

may the best Milf win

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I can see them doing an all-lady ranger team, but only as a mini-series or something. It'll be years till we get a full-season lady team, if ever.

"In the event Toei does finally decide to break tradition, even if for the one series, I feel like the only way Sentai will get a full-time female Red is if they intentionally don't advertise the team as such, just keeping it vague while providing enough for media coverage until episode 1 where the surprise can be given to us all."

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So "Yes, but I haven't used them in years" is simply an "I don't iron my clothes"?

cause I'm prepares to bet almost the entirety of the "older generation" has them, but only a handful still use them.

if you don‘t personally own one but your roommates/parents do and you are allowed to use it, that counts as yes

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This one might make no sense if you're not of a certain age, and probably British.

this is by far my favorite safety/warning sign btw. they really went off with this one

#Youtube

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She had Barbie-feet before it was cool.

Barbara Eden

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Exactly the strip I was hoping someone tacked onto this post. Thank you.

i think we should all consider getting emotional over this xkcd. as a group. let's get emotional about it