truly having the wildest time, having a crush that makes me feel 15, insanely disregulated, being the most annoying person on the planet, and about to spend four days in a tiny cabin with hil, lib, az, ason, and jixuan, what the fuck am i doing, i want to bail or tell az to stay home or something, i canât imagine being in such a deep tight space with all these people and not be able to get ANY of my emotional needs met, plus the challenge of balancing my partner + an old crush and my total lack of knowledge re: whether or not we still have a romantic or sexual connection
i think iâm realizing that iâm being swept away by hormones in a totally wild way and also that nothing is hotter to me than someone who doesnât necessarily like me and who iâm trying to win, so, here we are
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hereâs something i made myself but i put it through soundcloud-- there are pros and cons to doing it this way
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its my birthday so i drew a cozy zuko
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but even with more "mainstream" cultural objects like harry potter, fandom, participatory culture, and the democratization of publishing provide new challenges and opportunities to fans, traditional media producers, and lawyers
stay tuned: ownership/copyright discussion with Prof Nakamura next!
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the "long tail" of the internet lets niches thrive
even smaller cultural works, like the shows Supernatural and Sherlock have tumblr followings almost as big as the Harry Potter tumblr fandom
(i used harry potter so that more of us would be familiar with the content)
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fans support each other and are very savvy at interpreting and spreading legal news
Dear fanfic writers, fanartists, vidders, giffers, meta-writers, and pretty much all other fandomers:Â
Youâre not pirates or thieves and youâre not stealing anything when you create transformative works.Â
We know you probably already knew that, or at least youâve been told that, but itâs always nice when a federal judge says it (in a roundabout sort of way).Â
In a case involving the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and Hotfile, the judge told the MPAA that they canât say the alleged infringements were piracy or theft, or that the uploads were stealing content. As Torrentfreak posted, Hotfile âasked the court to prevent the MPAA from using âpejorativeâ terms including piracy, theft and stealingâ. The case involves the uploads of entire show/film/music files, and if the court thinks that piracy, theft and stealing are too pejorative to apply to that kind of infringement, then itâs definitely too pejorative to apply to transformative works.Â
Hereâs a bit from the courtâs ruling:Â
âIn the present case, there is no evidence that the Defendants (or Hotfileâs founders) are âpiratesâ or âthieves,â nor is there evidence that they were âstealingâ or engaged in âpiracyâ or âtheft.â Even if the Defendants had been found to have directly infringed on the Plaintiffsâ copyrights, such derogatory terms would add nothing to the Plaintiffsâ case, but would serve to improperly inflame the jury.â
Case law in the US develops when lawyers argue by analogy, so itâs now possible to look to this case, and link to it, when someone calls creative fanders pirates or thieves or says they are engaged in stealing or theft. If file-sharing isnât any of those things, how could creating a transformative work be?Â
We are very interested to see what sorts of euphamisms the MPAA and their witnesses come up with - but we also hope they just say âcopyright infringementâ a lot.Â
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A story where Harry and the other students rose up to overthrow Dumbledore because of his paternalistic policies is apt to be recognized by a judge as political speech and parody, whereas a work that imagines Ron and Hermione going on a date may be so close to the original that its status as criticism is less clear and is apt to be read as infringement.
Henry Jenkins, Convergence Culture, 190 (via digculdigcul)
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We didnât know what we had on our hands early on in dealing with Harry Potter. We did what we would normally do in the protection of our intellectual property. As soon as we realized we were causing consternation to children or their parents, we stopped it.
Diane Nelson, then senior vice president of Warner Bros. (via digculdigcul)
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As we expand access to mass distribution via the Web, our understanding of what it means to be an authorâ and what kinds of authority should be ascribed to authorsâ necessarily shifts.
Henry Jenkins, Convergence Culture (179)
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Participatory culture constitutes:
+ âthe ability to pool knowledge with others in a collaborative enterpriseâ
+ âthe ability to share and compare value systems by evaluating ethical dramasâ
+ âthe ability to make connections across scatter pieces of informationâ
+ âthe ability to express your interpretations and feelings towards popular fictions through your own folk cultureâ
+ âthe ability to circulate what you create via the Internet so it can be shared with othersâ
Henry Jenkins, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (176)
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Who is creating this content? Well, anyone who has access.Â
we might define access as:
technology/ class access
media literacy
educational literacy
social connections/ knowledgeÂ
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but in the past we would have had to consider a big factor---
$$$$$$
--that isn't as big of a factor anymore
Fred Gideon Weasley II;Â gryffindor
Born September 21st 2001
Graduates in 2019
Laid back, calm, collected. Fred can usually be found on the pitch or down by the Black Lake. Extremely protective over the females in his family, they mostly all regard him as an older brother - even though heâs younger than nearly all of them.
I ship them with: âŚ.
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black/ biracial characters being portrayed in fanart as white is a big controversy! even if the characters are super minor/ don't appear in the movie or anything.Â
tumblr is a space where non-mainstream media representation can thrive, which brings with it challenges of canon and authorship. in this case, sticking to the canon is important, because it increases representation of people of color in media
*canon= the source text, usually proprietary
*fanon= fan + canon = not-canon interpretations of the source text
when people whitewash fred and roxanne weaslyÂ
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drarry fan mix including link to download the songs
wicked and divine {a dracoxharry fanmix}
i. so close (Ăłlafur arnalds feat. arnĂłr dan); ii. wicked game (chris isaak); iii. perfect enemy (t.a.t.u.); iv. closer (nine inch nails); v. do i wanna know? (arctic monkeys); vi. my sweet prince (placebo); vii. nicotine (panic! at the disco); viii. undisclosed desires (muse); ix. i still remember (bloc party); x. might tell you tonight (scissor sisters); xi. closer (tegan and sara); xii. wouldnât it be nice (beach boys); xiii. house (patrick wolf); xiv. we are young (mika)
[[listen]]
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race swapped and also "real world" AU (alternate universe) fan art
My precious babies all growned up and chasing horcruxes and saving the world and shit :â)
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fan art including raceswapping
´cause PoC Harry is my favorite HarryâŚ
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fanfiction can be super specific-- fantasy fulfilling on many levelsÂ
"Drarry" fiction is stories about Draco and Harry, main male characters and moral enemies, falling in love.
Do you know the Drarry fanfiction where the students have to do like group counseling and Harry and Draco are in the same group?
Hmm. This doesnât sound familiar to me, but here are some that are similar:
Fics with H/D in a therapeutic setting
Only the Lonely by digthewriter - (NC-17, 21k) - Harry runs a support organization for survivors post-war and hires Draco as his assistant.
Welcome to Holding Hands by susan5124 - (PG-13, 19k) - Draco and Harry are Auror partners who canât get along. Kingsley sends them to a counseling retreat to work it out, but itâs actually marital counseling and has some unexpected results.
Reparations and Foundations by Saraâs Girl - (NC-17, 88k and 237k respectively) - Draco runs a rehab program and Harry, a healer-in-training, is assigned to assist him.
Touched by writcraft - (R, 7k) - Draco and Harry are both in therapy after the war and run into each other in the waiting room each week.
Freudian Slip by jennavere - (PG-13, 7.5k) - Draco is obsessed with Harry Potter and Lucius sends him to therapy to deal with it.
Inconsolable, or how Harry Potter Stopped H8ing and Learned to Love Video Games by November Snowflake - (R, 10k) - Harry is addicted to a video game and Ginny begs him to get help. When he goes to a 12-step group he sees Draco, whoâs there for sex addiction.
Leave Your Field to Flower by Emma Grant - (NC-17, 13k) - Almost all of the magical survivors of the war have lost their memories. The exception is Harry Potter, who finds many of his friends in a support group for people with memory loss and helps Draco remember.
Fics where H/D are assigned to work together at Hogwarts
In Motion by drarryxlover - (NC-17, 6k) - Harry and Draco are assigned to fix the Room of Requirement and their relationship takes an unexpected turn
Homecoming by November Snowflake - (NC-17, 27k) - Harry goes to spend two weeks as a guest lecturer at Hogwarts. Draco is his assigned faculty guide.
Muggle Studies by counterdogma - (PG, 6k) - Draco is taking Muggle Studies after the war and makes Harry an accessory to his coursework.
Sex Magic by velvet_blood - (NC-17, WIP that may be continued by leo_draconis) - Harry and Draco are enrolled in a Hogwarts Sex Magic class and are made partners for the practical parts of the class.
Hope one of these helps! You could also try the H/D Ficsearch comm. Alternately, does this sound familiar to any of you?
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