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so-no-plan · 1 month

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Time travelling unexpected $$$ yes pls

$50,000 immediately dropped into my bank account wouldn't improve EVERYTHING but boy it sure would be a grand, sexy little start to a good, happy life path, don't you think

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so-no-plan · 3 months

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Fanfiction Authors: HEADS UP

(Non-authors, please RB to signal boost to your author friends!)

An astute reader informed me this morning that one of my fics (Children of the Future Age) had been pirated and was being sold as a novel on Amazon:

(And they weren't even creative with their cover design. If you're going to pirate something that I spent a full year of my life writing, at least give me a pretty screenshot to brag about later. Seriously.)

I promptly filed a DMCA complaint to have it removed, but I checked out the company that put it up -- Plush Books -- and it looks like A LOT of their books are pirated fic. They are by no means the only ones doing this, either -- the fact that """publishers""" can download stories from AO3 in ebook format and then reupload them to Amazon in just a few clicks makes fic piracy a common problem. There are a whole host of reasons why letting this continue is bad -- including actual legal risk to fanfiction archives -- but basically:

IF YOU ARE A FANFIC AUTHOR WITH LONG AND/OR POPULAR WORKS, PLEASE CHECK AMAZON TO SEE IF YOUR STORIES HAVE BEEN PIRATED.

You can search for your fics by title, or by text from the description (which is often just copied wholesale from AO3 as well). If you find that someone has stolen your work and is selling it as their own, you can lodge a DMCA complaint (Amazon.com/USA site; other countries have different systems). If you haven't done this before, it's easy! Here's a tutorial:

HOW TO FILE A COPYRIGHT COMPLAINT FOR STOLEN WORK ON AMAZON.COM:

First, go to this form. You'll need to be signed into your Amazon account.

Select the radio buttons/dropdown options (shown below) to indicate that you are the legal Rights Owner, you have a copyright concern, and it is about a pirated product.

Enter the name of your story in the Name of Brand field.

In the Link to the Copyrighted Work box, enter a link to the story on AO3 or whatever site your work is posted on.

In the Additional Information box, explain that you are the author of the work and it is being sold without your permission. That's all you really need. If you want, you can include additional information that might be helpful in establishing the validity of your claim, but you don't have to go into great detail. You can simply write something like this:

I am the author of this work, which is being sold by [publisher] without my permission. I originally published this story in [date/year] on [name of site], and have provided a link to the original above. On request, I can provide documentation proving that I am the owner of the account that originally posted this story.

In the ASIN/ISBN-10 field, copy and paste the ID number from the pirated copy's URL. You'll find this ten-digit number in the Amazon URL after the word "product," as in the screenshot below. (If the URL extends beyond this number, you can ignore everything from the question mark on.) Once this number has been added, Amazon will pull the product information automatically and add it to the complaint form, so you can check the listing title and make sure it's correct.

Finally, add your contact information to the relevant fields, check the "I have read and accept the statements" box, and then click Submit. You should receive an email confirmation that Amazon has received the form.

Please share this information with your writer friends, keep an eye out for/report pirated works, and help us keep fanfiction free and legally protected!

NOTE: All of the above also applies to Amazon products featuring stolen artwork, etc., so fan artists should check too!

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so-no-plan · 3 months

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so-no-plan · 4 months

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Reblog if you've formed a meaningful relationship with someone you met online.

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so-no-plan · 5 months

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Hands up if you were the child that read thousands of books and as an adult you hit burn out and now only read stories about the same 2 idiots falling in love over and over as you don't have the brain power to get emotionally attached to new characters.

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so-no-plan · 5 months

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Listen.

EVERYBODY knows (or should) that you DO. NOT. STOP. in Vidor, Texas.

It’s best to just run out of gas elsewhere. Whatever you do, black folks, DO NOT STOP IN VIDOR, TEXAS.

There’s a good chance you’ll get lynched or just come up missing - and I’m not joking.

also do NOT stop in Harrison, Arkansas!!!! (relatively close to OK and MI) a nazi town with a BIG KKK organization.

Reblog To Save Life

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so-no-plan · 5 months

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An artist : Aw man! I saw my arts were reposted on Instagram. I’ve asked them to take my arts down but they ignored me.

Me : Say no more! Click this link, then click ‘fill out this form’. Fill the form and wait for about 1-2 days, the staffs will remove the image you were reporting from the reposter’s account :^)

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so-no-plan · 5 months

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I'm stressed out so i'm going to mod stardew valley to distract myself.

Not because modding Stardew relaxes me, but because it diverts my stress to something within my power to change.

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so-no-plan · 6 months

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stardew valley mods list ♡

below are all the mods that i currently use in my game - all of which you can find on nexus mods! these include buildings, furniture, clothing, expansions, cheats, etc!

01. buildings/crafting mods | cozy hut house • expanded woods • medieval buildings • medieval craftables • oasis greenhouse • rustic country town interior

02. character mods | friendly divorce • get glam • immersive spouses • passive friendship • ran’s prettier witch

03. cheat mods | cheats menu • item spawner • map teleport

04. clothing/player mods | cozy scarves • oversized sweater • rural outfitters • skin tones • non-replacer hairstyles • new hairstyles • elegant farmer body

05. recolor mods | better crops • better resources • better fishing and beach foraging • better gems and minerals • better artisan goods

06. expansion mods | stardew valley expanded • downtown zuzu • east scarp • ridgeside village

07. furniture mods | garden furniture • flower power • industrial furniture set • seasonal fireplace • fairydew decor • rustic country walls and floors • witch’s garden flowers • industrial kitchen • cottagecore fences • gwen’s paths

08. gameplay mods | automatic gates • destroyable mods • no fence decay • skull cavern elevators • wear more rings • shop overhaul

09. livestock and animals | barn animals replacement • coop animals replacement • horse replacement • better ranching

10. portrait mods | portraiture (needed for portrait mods) • dcburger portraits • dcburger sve portraits • sve portraits • east scarp portraits • ridgeside portraits npc • ridgeside bachelor portraits • ridgeside bachelorette portraits • ridgeside new npc portraits • wizard and marlon portraits • lewis and gus portraits • downtown zuzu portraits • elliott portraits • sam portraits • alex portraits • sebastian portraits • shane portraits

socials

youtube • twitch • twitter • kofi • throne wishlist

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so-no-plan · 6 months

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so-no-plan · 7 months

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Reblog if you think public libraries are important and should be maintained.

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so-no-plan · 7 months

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next year james patterson is slapping his name on a book called "the secret lives of booksellers and librarians," which is real bold considering that every bookseller and librarian that i've met in my time as a bookseller and librarian absolutely loathes him. including me.

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so-no-plan · 7 months

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so-no-plan · 7 months

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full offense but none of you would have ever survived fanfiction.net in 2009

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so-no-plan · 8 months

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What people think Librarians are all about: Tea, cats, knitting, and reading

What we are actually all about: Revolution, social welfare, tattoos, social drinking, tea, weird spooky facts lost to history, cats, true crime facts, piercings, dying our hair, comic books, engineering, gardening, emerging technology, knitting, hoarding like the dragons of legends, and reading.

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so-no-plan · 8 months

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“Authors should not be ALLOWED to write about–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative

“This book should be taken off of shelves for featuring–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative

“Schools shouldn’t teach this book in class because–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative

“Nobody actually likes or wants to read classics because they’re–” you are an anti-intellectual and an idiot

“I only read YA fantasy books because every classic novel or work of literary fiction is problematic and features–” you are an anti-intellectual and you are robbing yourself of the full richness of the human experience.

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so-no-plan · 8 months

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as a general rule. if what we’re calling ‘cultural appropriation’ sounds like nazi ideology (i.e. ‘white people should only do white people things and black people should only do black people things’) with progressive language, we are performing a very very poor application of what ‘cultural appropriation’ means. this is troublingly popular in the blogosphere right now and i think we all need to be more critical of what it is we may be saying or implying, even unintentionally.

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