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saltygilmores · 10 months

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Thoughts While Watching Gilmore Girls- Season 2, Episode 16, "There's The Rub", aka A Sheer Masterpiece of GilmoreDom, AKA Jess, Rory, And Paris Eat Together And All Is Right With The World-Part 3

Who's ready for more TTR? (PS: There is a link to all previous recaps including parts 1 and 2 of TTR in my pinned post, while I work on puting together a better master index. You can also search my Tumblr by specific episode name or season).

Anyone ever look at unofficial GG merchandise on places like Redbubble and Etsy? There are a bunch of phrases that always end up on crap. Oy with the poodles already. I smell snow. Etc etc. "Vicious trollop" is a very common one as well. But nobody was putting "Why Did You Drop Out of Yale" on anything, so I had to create my own custom merch.

The banter between Emily and Lorelai is so sharp and witty and wonderful in this episode, it reminds me why am I still watching this show in the first place and subjecting myself to the additional torture of analyzing every episode minute by minute (for the second time in 3 years), even though it so often greatly disappoints me or angers me. There are just some episodes where AmyShermanPalladino's light shines through and touches everything in her kingdom. None of these moments involve Dean Forrester.

Never have I ever been so excited to see these two little words. "Doorbell Rings." JESS JESS JESS JESS JESS JESS JESS JESS JESS JESS

When I tell you I literally squealed when she opened the door. If Gilly Girls was taking place in the 2020's, Jess would be a DoorDasher. I would have him deliver to the Forresters and spit in Dean's food. This is all too pure. My heart's a flutter. I can't snark on it. SaltyGilmores™ has been disabled. Look, I can't just regurgiate every single line and frame from this scene so I'll just post a select few things. Enjoy and #AdmireTheDeliveryBaby

Can we talk about the way she's looking at him? 😍 R: How come Cesar didn't deliver this? J: I volunteered. R: Why? J: I wanted to get out of the construction zone. Mmm, sure. I love when he does this shit:

He doesn't exactly sound surprised that one of the Gilmores didn't tip him. I will never cease, desist or yield in making "Rory and Lorelai don't pay for their food" jokes.

Should I instead make jokes about how this is the second time in a row that the Gilmores actually did try to pay him and he refused?

The last time we saw this shirt, he had a name patch over his titty. I really like this shirt and how we can see his scandalous bare forearms for once. Dear Baby Jesus, Milo is adorable. And the light on him is just perfect in this shot.

R: You're staying? J: Didn't you just invite me? R: No... J: You told me I could have all the food I wanted. That sounded Invitation-Like. R: You want to stay here and eat? J: Beats being at Luke's.

You will not be going anywhere, young lady. You sit right down at that table and have a literary debate with Jess and Rory, eat some fries, and don't get up until Dean Forrester barges in and ruins everything.

Jess Mariano's social anxiety is so palpable you could eat it. It is radiating from his pores with the intensity of a hundred suns. This anxious little nugget, who did not make even a second of eye contact upon meeting a new person, has the entire town of Schitt's Hollow quaking in fear of what atrocities he may be capable of. Oooh what have we here? A MINOR INCONSEQUENTIAL PLOT HOLE!

To be continued.

#milo ventimiglia #gilmore girls #jess mariano #rory gilmore #lorelai gilmore #denise rewatches gilmore girls #gilmore girls season 2 #theres the rub #emily gilmore #paris geller #I love this episode I just want to gently place it in my nest #and incubate it #Anti Dean Forrester

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redgoldsparks · 2 years

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GENDER QUEER: THE ART OF MAIA KOBABE gallery show opening in San Rafael, CA, October 1 2022

"Gender Queer: The Art of Maia Kobabe" is a collection of digital comic work, including pages from the book "Gender Queer: A Memoir" and other short stories initially posted online- and one comic which has never been published before!

Welcome to this exhibit at author Maia Kobabe's undergrad college campus, setting of several scenes from America's most challenged and banned book of 2021.The gallery opening reception is Saturday October 1, from 2-4pm, in the Joseph R Fink Science Building at the center of the Dominican University of California campus in San Rafael, CA.

The show itself will be on display through March 22, 2023.The regular gallery hours during school semesters are: Monday-Friday: 8 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday: 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Sunday and campus holidays: closed

There is free parking in a lot located at the Conlan Recreation Center, 1475 Grand Ave, San Rafael, CA 94901, which is an easy walk from the Science Building in the center of campus. There is also some parking in the residential neighborhoods around the edges of campus.

(The top picture here is the two English editions of Gender Queer, and the bottom picture is a digital mock up I made when trying to figure out which pieces should go into which of the variably sized and weirdly named glass cases in this gallery. I’ll have some actual pictures of the show in a few more days. ~Maia)

redbubble / instagram / patreon / portfolio / etsy / my book

#maia kobabe #gender queer a memoir #queer comics #nonbinary comics #LGBTQ comics

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voxtism · 1 year

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YCH/YOUR CHARACTER HERE !!! payment thru etsy/amazon/redbubble gift cards bc im not allowed to use my dad’s p*yp*l anymore 😭

INFO!

PRICE IS UP TO YOU! whatever u can afford bc I just wanna buy some stuff, please don’t lowball me though! it can be any species, obv willing to make it into a furry/your fursona, willing to change pose somewhat (arm positioning etc), willing to change brush type, willing to change body type as well!! because I definitely understand how frustrating it is to never find diverse body types in art, shading is an option but I will add $5 to whatever price you’ve offered, unwilling to do a complex background as I am not confident in that, simple backgrounds r fine! lmk if I missed any info that you need !!

contact thru discord !! dm me on here for my disc bc im not putting it out publicly

and finally! the ych!! it’s very rough so I can change the stuff should you need it !!

also if you don’t like this but you’d still like to support me, I do have comms open! info in my pinned post :3

#your character here #ych #furry ych #human ych

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see-arcane · 4 years

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On Brand

I just signed up for a Twitter account for the first time in years an hour ago and I already feel like I re-enlisted for an unpaid job. It feels the same way LinkedIn and Indeed and Glassdoor and the Ko-fi (which already seems like both a time and money sink. $50 for a Gold option that allows commissions and subscriptions no one will ever bother with because my art is C+ and I can’t figure out how to sell stories on it, even if people were willing to buy them) do.

Just another site I Must Check In On and Maintain to exist as a viable person Brand in the 21st century. It has my real name on it. It’s a thing employers and family can peruse. Already I’m foreseeing myself curating the fucking thing to be m a r k e t a b l e. I think I’ll kill it by the time I finish writing this. Because it isn’t even an Official Author/Writer/Creator site.

That was what my new second Tumblr account was going to be.

The one I made and promptly deleted half an hour ago.

Why?

Because I got pre-fed up with the prospect of paying for a premium theme, for trying and failing to figure out how to plug the Twitter and Ko-fi links into the description, for having to build up a following all the fuck over again while maintaining an Official Authorial Presence © and being on brand at all times.

God. God. I hate this.

For all the complaints this site gets when there’s an update, I will say it’s still a billion times more palatable than any other site I’m looking at. There’s no pressure, no influence, no popularity games. It’s just an endless blissful blue stream of bullshit.

Bullshit that is rarely reblogged or shared. I’ve burned days’ worth of work on things that get one reblog for every 40 likes. Like all content creators, I am bitter on this point. I’m already putting in this effort and sharing it for free, and I have a decent little heap of followers, but every performance I put on feels like I am doing it for a theater full of silent stares and polite pity-applause.

But, like all content consumers, I am guilty of the same. There are mountains of liked posts that I have sworn to myself I would reblog later, and then I just…don’t.

I can’t blame my audience for not lavishing enough attention on my work any more than I can blame them for the dust gathering on my Ko-fi.

How can I, when half the posts in my dash are other people pleading for a few dollars’ worth of help, and almost universally for more pressing reasons than my own? Patreon, Ko-fi, Etsy, GoFundMe, Kickstarter, Shopify, Redbubble, commissions—the broke begging the broke. I’m better off letting my own please-donate-some-alms account peter out in the year to come and then letting it die.

I will live off a Career and nothing else.

A career that expects me to have a portfolio straight out of graduation. (LinkedIn? Squarespace? WordPress? Wix?) Social media with palatable content to comb through (Smile for the Twitter! Instagram! Snapchat! Facebook! #IExistToBeABrand!). X many years of experience, unpaid internships, a dozen responsibilities that have nothing to do with the job title itself—oh, you want to write? Better know every facet of Microsoft Suite, all of Adobe’s programs, manage all our corporate blogs to make us hashtag relatable, know three dead languages, have ten years’ experience, and be Passionate About the Company* (*don’t be distracted by silly things like your life outside the Company).

And now?

Now, when I am finally determined to produce something solid and real from myself, because I want to, because I can, I still hit the wall of branding. The Author Brand.

I have to get on more social media, I hear.

I have to consider SEO in everything I post.

I have to review books and cozy up to fellow reviewers, readers, and writers, all of us pretending we are there only to support each other and not to Network+ and prey on each other’s friendship in hopes of being promoted.

I need a site for my authorial writing, to post routine essays, reviews, videos, stories, samples.

I need to trumpet my book’s upcoming existence at every opportunity, even when it is barely being outlined into notes.

Promote, market, sell, brand, brand, brand.

All this would be maddening enough in better circumstances.

But you have to be blind, deaf, and an island hermit not to know better by now. There is nothing, not one iota of news I have seen in the past six months that has done anything to improve my hopes of the future. Nothing.

I could die in a week and a half. I dared to go out for groceries a few days ago, and I’ve made a habit of timing the two-week period after every excursion, waiting to see if I start coughing. I may suffer a stroke that kills or permanently disables me—I’m in the age bracket to worry about such a COVID-19 side effect. And, of course, I live in Dumbphuck, TX, in the heart of the red zone.

My country is on the edge of fascism, people being caged and vanished and murdered for simply wanting to exist free and equal.

We are on a planet that is steadily beginning to boil for no other reason than corporate greed and a refusal to consider the future of any generation other than their own.

I will die. All of us will die. It’s a fact that has always been true, but now it feels like it is sprinting ahead, rushing out of the horizon to meet us far earlier than expected.

And I have to work on My Brand ©? On selling myself? On divvying every waking action into a dozen social media sites and tagging them for maximum viewability and hoping, hoping, hoping I have performed My Brand well enough to be bought and sold?

Fuck that. Fuck. That.

I’ve spent the last week and change reblogging and re-reblogging my limping attempts at graphics and announcements that, ‘Ooh! Look! Someone on Tumblr is WRITING something! And they have [INSERT DONATION/COMMISSION ACCOUNT]! How entirely unexpected!’ and have felt greasy doing it. Reblogging for the sake of another hit of sweet, sweet Validation Juice is one thing, but doing it to try and wring a few pennies and free promotion out of people who have followed me as a distraction (many of whom I’ve followed back for the same) from the obscene trash fire that is being alive here and now is making me sick.

So.

Fuck it.

Author site? Book site? Social media accounts 1-12?

NOPE.

All my crap’s staying right here. All of it. Will I throw some Original Writing on here? Will I slap some art up now and then?

Maybe! Maybe not! I get distracted by the rest of the blue bullshit stream on the regular, and by a hundred other things!

Maybe I’ll switch aesthetics halfway through, turn into a Moomin blog, and start jamming cottagecore in with the eldritch apocalypse junk! You don’t know and neither do I!

I guess what this all boils down to is me saying apologies to the 2.5 people who were actually into my recent M.A.D. God posting, but there isn’t going to be any new, special ~Official Site~ for just those works. I am too lazy, too tired, and too blisteringly aware of my own finiteness to bother stretching my attention any thinner than it already is in order to juggle any more accounts than I already have. If I post anything original, it’s going on this account, with all the rest of the junk.

If and when I have a draft ready to publish, I’ll pitch it to a publishing house. See who bites. If not, self-publishing and the purgatory of self-marketing ensues. At worst, it flops. Cue violins. Languish and woe.

But here’s the thing.

I have to exist for something more than a brand. Mine or anyone else’s.

And if I exist to write, to read, to draw, to wallow in what little pleasures there are to share among other people who produce and enjoy content for no other reason than that they can and that they are driven to do so without any guarantee of Influence or Capital…well, there are worse reasons to stick around.

Employers can have my LinkedIn, a resumé, a cover letter, and fuck-all else.

The rest of me is for me.

And for any of you who can put up with my contributions to the blue bullshit stream.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have a Twitter account to kill.

P.S.

There’s one small silver lining to my new-Tumblr-that-never-was. I came up with a significantly badass new username in the process. So.

trickerydickerydock > apocalypsokane

#ramble and rant #also: name change!#my writing #branding #and loathing

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paintedrecs · 5 years

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Know any artists that sell sterek merch :)?

Ahh I’m so sorry for the belated reply! I’m bad at checking tumblr lately, and worse at checking it, making a mental note to reply, then forgetting for 5 days.

There aren’t a LOT of active sterek merch artists, but I do know of a few. (If anyone knows of others, feel free to link ‘em in replies! I’m always looking for good sterek merch.)

@beerwolves has an online shop that looks like everything’s currently out of stock - but keep an eye on them, because they’ve produced most of the sterek merch I’ve bought over the last year or so!

@sinyhale has a biggish online shop that’s currently closed, but you can find a few sterek items in her etsy in the meantime.

@inkforwordsart is on vacation at the moment, but her etsy shop should be reopening after the weekend. You can click the button to be emailed when she’s back. She also has a couple comics on gumroad.

@batwynn has an etsy shop that is currently closed (are you sensing a pattern here yet...) but has had great stuff like sterek books. Keep an eye on that shop as well!

@cryptomoon has a shop with some clothes, stickers, posters, etc.

@puhnatsson has some great prints on etsy

A few other etsy shops here (you can always try running a search for “sterek”; I check periodically to see if there’s any new stuff):

A print by @sixspades

Jewelry by quevajewelry

Zipper bag by mmustang

I’d also recommend doing a sterek search on Society6 and Redbubble; a lot of those shops have been taken down over time, but you can still find some nice art that you can buy as prints or on different products like blankets, throw pillows, zipper bags, mugs, etc.

For instance, @benaya-trash has a pretty active RB with lots of great options, and @lenaospinka has some really beautiful pieces up there.

Then on S6, you’ve got @maichan808 and @geeky-sova , who both have some wonderful art available.

@akimao is another personal fave who’s on both S6 and RB.

@dakotaliar used to have a great S6; their RB doesn’t have sterek at the moment, but maybe they’d add some if there was interest?

And that’s about it for now! Hope you can find something you like in there. :)

#eternalsterek #sterek #merch #derek hale #stiles stilinski #haleinski #Anonymous

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apple-dandy · 4 years

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I was tagged by @cottagecorekarter hello

Rules: tag 10 followers you want to get to know better

Sexuality: demisexual/grey-A bi/pansexual, easier to just say I'm queer tbh

Name: Mackintosh, "Tosh" / "Mack" [they/he]

Cats or dogs: both, absolutely. I thought I was allergic to cats until I got one of my own, and it turns out that I'm just allergic to dust; nobody bathes their cats often enough

Current time: 11:49 AM EST

Hogwarts house: JK R*wling is dead to me.

Favourite animals: all of them but especially ferrets and mola mola

When I made this blog: 2012? I think. Homestuck was at its height, I was like a Kankri stan or some other horrible choice, that's all I know

Reason for url: So I was addicted to World of Warcraft at 12-15, and my main toon was Kialessa the blood elf hunter - named after a cute classmate (Kia) and the main character in a Dragonriders of Pern book (Lessa). It's now my literal brand. Redbubble, soon to be etsy, twitch...

Tags: I'm not picking favorites, do it if you follow me and feel like it.

#I'm old #gods i am so old #long post #tag game

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myvividreams · 4 years

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So. I had a couple of people on Facebook and Discord ask me about the final paper I wrote on copyright and the criminalization of fandom. Well, I got an A! And permission to share it with whoever’s interested in reading 2700 words on the love-hate relationship we creatives and fanworkers have with copyright

With the advent of the internet and social media, fan culture—a form of participatory culture where fans not only consume but also create content often based on existing creative works[1]—has grown phenomenally in the last two decades. For example, attendance to the San Diego Comic-Con, proclaimed by Forbes as the largest fan convention in the world, has almost tripled between 2000 and 2019. In such conventions, fans get to interact with their favorite content creators, from the people behind their favorite series to their fellow fans who create content online that they consume. In the 2019 San Diego Comic-Con alone, attendees spent around $88 million directly on events and merchandise in the convention, not counting what they spent on other costs, like transportation and housing for the duration of the con! That is a lot of money going around publicly for what is essentially a black-market hub. And these conventions, like many other aspects of fan culture, are as much hubs of illegal activity as they are incubators of creativity. This needs to change.

In the context of this essay, I will be using the term fan culture to describe the lived experience of fans both casual and serious. This is to differentiate it from the term fandom—which I will be using to refers to, collectively, all the ideas, interactions, characters, fans, and derivative/transformative works associated with a particular creative work. Fandom will be used in this discussion to describe the virtual place within which fans interact, create content derivative of, and negotiate the meanings surrounding the originating work.

I choose to discuss fandom in the context of place rather than community because places, as defined by Pelletier-Gagnon and Diniz, are “site[s] of meaning where agents create, efface, and accumulate symbols”, which are delineated by contours rather than characteristics and can exist within images, sounds, and videos as well as locations.[2] As far as fandom is concerned, a fandom will continue to exist though fans may enter and leave at will. Fandoms are countoured with recognizable characters and settings, and the fans within them create new meanings and interpretations of the originating work—while keeping within said contours—through posts, discussions, and derivative creative works like fan art and fan fiction. Often times, fandoms aren’t occupied by any single community, they’re occupied by several who each compete over interpretations of characters and character interactions. Sometimes, such communities can even develop around derivative works—enough so that the derivative work becomes the anchor and contour of another fandom![3]

As rich and diverse fan culture within fandoms can be, however, that does not detract that many activities prominent within fan culture go against copyright law. As it exists right now, much of copyright law is obsessed with copies.[4] It (ideally) grants creatives a set of exclusive rights to their original creations as incentives to produce more work, giving copyright owners (not always creatives!) the right to control the reproduction and distribution of copies of their work as well as the right to prepare derivative works based on said copyright work.[5] You can imagine, then, how easily creatives within fandoms can cross over the line to copyright non-compliance: they do it every single time they create fan works celebrating their love for the original work.

Fortunately, most fan works online fall under the fair use doctrine, which allows the reproduction of works for “purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research.”[6] There are four criteria works are evaluated by to qualify as fair use: the purpose of the work (commercial or non-profit?), the nature of the copyrighted work, the amount of the copyrighted work used, and the effect the such use of the work would have on the market for or the value of the work.[7] Generally speaking, fan works like fan art, fan comics, fan fiction, gif sets, animatics, and AMVs that are shared online for free fulfill at least the first and the fourth criteria for fair use, which are the criteria usually prioritized by copyright holders.

The problem arises when fan creators start monetizing their fan works—creating merchandise featuring copyrighted content, selling them online, selling them in cons, doing commissions—basically, doing anything that constitutes distributing their work for profit. Thousands of such merchandise are being sold on sites like Etsy and Redbubble or featured on their creators’ social media pages for sale, and they come in many different varieties—from art prints to enamel pins to dolls to clothing. The creators of said merchandise also fill the aptly named Artists’ Alleys in conventions to sell their products in person. Groups of creators sometimes band together to create and sell magazines—often referred to simply as zines—or even fan comics for their fandoms.[8] Of course, murkier cases also exist, like let’s play vloggers profiting off of posting their playthroughs of copyrighted videogames online or fan writers and artists earning money through their followings on Patreon.

Copyright owners’ responses to such activity have varied widely throughout the years, with differing degrees of success. Consensus as of the present seems to be to leave it alone unless the fan profiting from their derivative work is experiencing significant success or making significant sums of money from the monetization of such work. At that point, the fan would be asked to take the work off their online store or, if they’re a vlogger, take the offending video down from their channel. What constitutes as significant is often up to the copyright owner.

Historically, however, this was not always the case. In the 2000s, many copyright holders famously sent cease-and-desist letters to fan creators, specifically fan fiction authors, and made their dislike of fan fiction—or specific types of fan fiction—well known. Anne Rice, author of the then-popular novel series The Vampire Chronicles, was one of them, having posted a notice on her website in 2000 that effectively banned all fan fiction of her works online.[9] Following such, several individuals online reportedly received cease-and-desist orders and threats on their businesses unconnected to their activity as fan creators, and several commenters on a viral thread on tumblr claim that they left the Vampire Chronicles fandom entirely because of it.[10] [11]

On the other side of the scale, Marion Zimmer Bradley, author of the Darkover series, dove into the fandom surrounding her series headfirst. Although the controversial Contraband incident she is connected to took place long before the internet truly caught on, it bears sharing as it is often used as a cautionary tale for copyright owners and professional creatives against participating too actively within the fandom surrounding their original work. In the two decades after she published the first book in her Darkover series, Bradley had fostered an extremely close connection with her fans, commenting on fans’ derivative works, providing feedback, curating/editing their zines—often even adopting ideas proposed by fans or introduced by fans in their fan works as canon (true) to the Darkover universe. This all came to a head in 1992 when Bradley approached one of her fans offering money in exchange for being able to use elements from the fans’ published fan works in what was supposed to be Bradley’s next novel, Contraband. The fan disagreed, and the incident ended with cancellation of the novel and the discontinuation of Bradley’s active participation in the Darkover fandom.[12]

Both these examples have played a large part in how copyright holders’ current attitudes towards fan culture are playing out. Copyright holders tread the line between too much and too little exercise of their copy rights. Too much, and they may end up losing their fanbase. Too little, and they may lose profits and control of their public image to the more prolific members of their fandom. Fan culture, to copyright holders, also presents a largely mixed bag of feelings and viewpoints that varies from holder to holder. Each copyright holder tackles the issue differently. Some, like JK Rowling, welcome it. Some, like Anne McCaffrey, tolerate it with stipulations. And others, like George R. R. Martin, dislike it but will tolerate it as long as fans don’t send their fan fiction to them (art and other works usually fall under different considerations). Whatever their approach is, the general consensus among copyright holders seems to be that they tolerate (maybe even like) fan works as long as they aren’t sold commercially and, if said fan work is a piece of fan fiction, that work isn’t sent to them with the expectation of said author reading it and acknowledging it publicly.[13]

Note, however, that none of the current popular approaches to dealing with fan culture that I listed above includes the outright banning of fan activities. Copyright owners and creatives have learned from the examples of Anne Rice and her contemporaries in the 2000s that restricting fan culture—and taking advantage of or treating fans badly—is a good recipe for a shrinking fanbase and the non-success of their copyrighted work. They have also learned how an active fandom can rapidly propel a copyrighted work to success.

James Boyle, in his article Fencing off Ideas: Enclosure & the Disappearance of the Public Domain, posits that “a large leaky market may actually produce more revenue than a small, tightly-controlled market.”[14] With the phenomena of fandom as my example, I concur. Original works anchor and draw fandoms around themselves, but the creative outputs of fandom act as both gifts to the communities of their originating fandoms and free advertising for the originating work of said fandom. In fact, according to a report published last year by a collaboration between Fandom, Inc. and Ipsos, fan content plays a large role in driving discovery of new creative works. 59% of Explorers, the market segment that makes up half the fans in the United States, claim that fan content they encountered influence them to try new content.[15] At least part of the success experienced by popular creative works online—and on social media specifically—can be attributed to the robust participation of fans in creating, curating, and sharing derivative works both online and offline.

Because of this, fandom is often seen as a hub for developing creatives. There, amateur (and even professional!) creatives can hone their skills on existing characters and settings they already love. They can also build up a following and be cheered on, supported, and guided by their fellow fans and creatives in the fandom. Some of these creatives who got their start out of fandom even go on to create the “original content” they consume themselves! This usually happens in fandoms surrounding longer-running fictional series, such as DC Comics, Marvel Comics, and Star Wars.[16] And other creatives who have grown up within fan culture also go on to create their own original works and publish their own series. Cassandra Clare, author of multiple bestselling series (including the Mortal Instruments series), famously got her start writing fan fiction for the Harry Potter fandom in the 2000s.[17] Naomi Novik, award-winning author of the Temeraire series, admits to still writing fan fiction and actually co-founded the Organization of Transformative Works[18] in 2007![19]

None of this, however, changes the fact that much of fan culture operates by the grace of copyright holders—or that much of it is, in fact illegal due to copyright. This needs to change.

Lawrence Lessig, in Remix: How Creativity is Being Strangled by the Law and In Defense of Piracy, talks about the criminalization of Gen X and their culture of piracy through peer-to-peer sharing and YouTube remixes. But it isn’t just gen X anymore. It’s the criminalization of an entire culture. To participants of fan culture, copyright has become something ignored until it is useful or relevant, which damages the credibility of law. By criminalizing an entire culture—one that is still growing no less—we’re creating a culture where it becomes alright to break the law or at least consider it lightly. In the context of fan culture where breaking copyright law is often ignored, the continued criminalization of fan culture is telling fans, especially younger fans, that it is alright to break the law if you can get away with it. By doing so, we’re compromising the very value of law.

Moreover, as both Boyle and Lessig have said, copyright as it exists now is strangling creativity.[20] [21] [22] As copyright laws become increasingly stringent and skewed towards copyright owners, the sandbox other, younger creatives can play in legally continues to shrink as well. Additionally, said laws are skewed towards estates and corporate copyright owners rather than the creatives they are supposed to incentivize. Current copyright laws in the US award copyright to creatives for the duration of their lifetime plus 70 years before their works are released into the Public Domain for the creatives of the day to play with. As it stands, there are thousands of works lost to the public, which means that there are thousands of works that will not be able to inspire another generation of creatives.

I’m not saying that copyright should be abolished. Creatives should be acknowledged and compensated fairly for the time and effort they put into creating their works. I’m saying that a system must exist that reconciles the interests of copyright owners and fan creators without criminalizing one side or the other. There must be a way to bring balance back to the relationship between copyright owners and the next generation of creatives. I can think of one—bringing the duration of copyright back down to at least the lifetime of the creative (which is the longest most reasonable duration in the context of incentivizing creatives!)—and I’m sure there are more. We just need to find them.

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[1] Grinnell College. Fandom & Participatory Culture. n.d. 6 May 2020. <https://haenfler.sites.grinnell.edu/subcultural-theory-and-theorists/fandom-and-participatory-culture/>.

[2] Pelletier-Gagnon, Jérémie and Axel Pérez Trujillo Diniz. "Colonizing Pepe: Internet Memes as Cyberplaces." Space and Culture (2018).

[3] See the Dreaming of Sunshine fandom which emerged surrounding the popular Naruto fan fic of the same name. Similarly, there’s the Nuzlocke fandom which has spawned several fan art, fan comics, fan fics, and let’s plays based around the idea of playing through one of the mainline Pokemon RPGs under a certain set of self-imposed rules. There’s also the more recent Maribat fandom, which came into being more recently (that is, sometime mid-last year) and created a space overlapping two very different parent-fandoms: (1) Miraculous Ladybug and (2) DC Comics (specifically Batman).

[4] That’s why it’s called copy-right!

[5] U.S. Constitution. Art. 17, Sec. 106.

[6] U.S. Constitution. Art. 17, Sec. 107.

[7] U.S. Constitution. Art. 17, Sec. 107.

[8] Sean Thordsen, Esq. The Law of Anime Part II: Copyright and Fandom. 15 Feb 2013. Article. 6 May 2020.

[9] Jackson, Gita. It Used to Be Perilous to Write Fan Fiction. 16 May 2018. 6 May 2020. <https://kotaku.com/it-used-to-be-perilous-to-write-fanfiction-1826083509>.

[10] fandomlife-universe. "So I'm on AO3 and I see a lot of people who put." Fandom Life. April 2016. <https://fandomlife-universe.tumblr.com/post/140771184680/so-im-on-ao3-and-i-see-a-lot-of-people-who-put-i>.

[11] So I'm on AO3 ... (the forgotten history of disclaimers). n.d. Web. 2020 6 May. <https://fanlore.org/wiki/So_I%E2%80%99m_on_AO3_...(the_forgotten_history_of_disclaimers)>.

[12] Coker, Catherine. "The Contraband Incident: The Strange Case of Marion Zimmer Bradley." Transformative Works and Cultures 6 (2011). Web. <https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2011.0236>

[13] Authors of /r/fantasy, how do you feel about fan fiction of YOUR works? 2019. Forum. 6 May 2020. <https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/b3e6jh/authors_of_rfantasy_how_do_you_feel_about_fan/>.

[14] Boyle, James. "Fencing off Ideas: Enclosure & the Disappearance of the Public Domain." Daedalus 131.2 (2002): 13-25

[15] Fandom Insights Lab. "The State of Fandom." 2019. PDF. <http://fandom.com/state-of-fandom/fandom-ebook.pdf>.

[16] Petrin, Katelyn Mae. How the rise in fandom culture changed the media industry. 21 June 2017. Web. 6 May 2020. <https://qrius.com/how-the-rise-in-fandom-culture-changed-the-media-industry/>.

[17] Jackson, Gita. It Used to Be Perilous to Write Fan Fiction. 16 May 2018. 6 May 2020. <https://kotaku.com/it-used-to-be-perilous-to-write-fanfiction-1826083509>.

[18] Most famous for being behind ArchiveOfOurOwn, one of the three most popular fan fiction hubs on the internet today

[19] Tor.com. Naomi Novik Talks Fanfic-Inspired Fantasy and Ending Temeraire in Her Reddit AMA. 25 Feb 2016. Web. 6 May 2020. <https://www.tor.com/2016/02/25/naomi-novik-reddit-ama-highlights/>.

[20] Boyle, James. "Fencing off Ideas: Enclosure & the Disappearance of the Public Domain." Daedalus 131.2 (2002): 13-25.

[21] Lessig, Lawrence. "In Defense of Piracy." The Wall Street Journal 11 October 2008: 1-3.

[22] Lessig, Lawrence. "Remix: How Creativity is Being Strangled by the Law." The Social Media Reader. Ed. Michael Mandiberg. New York: NYU Press, 2012. 155-168.

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templeofgeek · 5 years

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Carol Danvers a.k.a Captain Marvel is one badass superhero! So we totally get why you want to cosplay as her!

Captain Marvel is an extraterrestrial Kree warrior who finds herself caught in the middle of an intergalactic battle between her people and the Skrulls. Living on Earth in 1995, she keeps having recurring memories of another life as U.S. Air Force pilot Carol Danvers. She also has a badass friend named Maria Rambeau who is also an airforce pilot. In the movie Carol Danvers two distinct “Earth Cosplays”. She wears an airforce pilot uniform as well as a grunge style outfit featuring a S.H.I.E.L.D. hat and a white Nine Inch Nails T-Shirt.

This tutorial on Captain Marvel will provide reference photos, search terms to use for locating items and tips. We will try to provide you with as much information as we can so you can hunt down your own Captain Marvel cosplay. We will provide links to certain items but keep in mind that they may sell out and no longer be available, or they may not be available to ship to all countries.

Grunge Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel

This look is simple enough. The most recognizable pieces are the oversized men’s moto jacket, grey S.H.I.E.L.D. hat, and the White Nine Inch Nails band T-Shirt. There is a version of this T-Shirt on the Nine Inch Nails website, but it is not the screen accurate shirt. The one worn by Brie Larson may have been altered or custom made for her. It could also be a vintage Tee that is no longer available. The Nine Inch Nails Tshirt sold online is longer than the one worn by Larson.

LOGO WHITE TEE by Nine Inch Nails (Similar to the one worn by Captain Marvel)

Available at: https://store.nin.com/collections/clothing/products/white-logo-tee

We recommend buying from the artist website because we are all about supporting bands! But there are also other versions available on Etsy and other sites. Search terms to use are white & grey Nine Inch Nails shirt and Captain marvel NIN shirt.

New Nine Inch Nail NIN Rock Band CAPTAIN MARVEL Hero Men’s T-shirt by ShirtForWorld

NIN shirts on Redbubble

Captain Marvel T-Shirt Design by MeerKatz

There are a lot of versions of the grey S.h.I.E.L.D. hat found online. The search terms you want to use are Captain Marvel Shield Hat and Grey Shield Hat. We personally like the way the hat from EpitomeAparrel looks.

Available at: https://www.etsy.com/listing/660214612

The Officially Licensed hat from Lids is currently out of stock but may be available for resale on sites like eBay.

The jacket is the hardest piece of this cosplay. Based on filming reference photos from a deleted scene (see below) we know that she is wearing a men’s motorcycle jacket. It is a grey distressed motorcycle jacket with large front lapels, four zippered front pockets, and zippered sleeves. What we don’t know at this time is what brand and style it is. While researching this jacket we found websites claiming to have custom made replicas of the jacket, but they only showed movie promo photos of the jacket and no proof to what the replicas actually looked like. in an effort to avoid our readers be scammed, we have chosen not to link those sites. Our best recommendation is to search for a similar jacket in whatever way you can, be it Etsy, Amazon, thrift shops and more. We have provided reference photos below to help you with your search. but truly as long as you have the Hat and the Tshirt you could wear any jacket and still be recognizable as Captain Marvel!

phot by Just Jared

Air Force Maria Rambeau and Carol Danvers

Marvel Studios’ CAPTAIN MARVEL..L to R: Maria Rambeau (Lashana Lynch) and Captain Marvel (Brie Larson) ..Photo: Film Frame..©Marvel Studios 2019

This cosplay section works for both Maria Rambeau and Carol Danvers. They essentially wear the exact same outfit. The only difference being their name tags. In the promo photo above Carol Danvers’ name is removed from the photo, but it is seen in the movie. They are both wearing US Airforce Flight Suits. You can find the flight suits at a military surplus store, Etsy, Amazon, eBay, and other online stores. The onscreen ones are vintage 1990s suits and have a spot for two patches on the front.

JusticeAndFreedom Vintage Flight Suit

This Vintage Flight suite available from Justice and Freedom on Etsy is probably the closest to what is actually worn on film. But you can find lots of similar suits. The differences are small.

Others places to find the flight suits online:

Olive Drab Military Air Force Style Flight Suit Coveralls by Army Universe

Propper CWU 27/P Nomex Flight Suits from Tactical Gear

The name patches might be the trickiest to find. You would have to have someone custom make a Maria Rambeau and Carol Danvers patch. Or you could create your own. Ideas on making your own would be using iron-on transfers or painting one to look like it. if you are interested in buying the patches most of them are available through the Vanguard website: https://www.vanguardmil.com/collections/air-force-patches.

Stitch Loft offers the Patch Set at: http://www.stitchsloft.com/loft/carol_danvers_patch_set/

AF Flight Test Center Patch. Not currently available online on its own. May have to be a custom made item. We have provided a high-resolution design of the image here, in case you want to turn it into an iron-on patch or attempt to recreate it yourself.

AF Systems Command Patch available at: https://www.militaryvetspx.com/

USAF Test Pilot School available at: https://www.flyboys.com/pf77-tps.html

Aviator sunglasses are the easiest and can be found anywhere from $0.99 to a few hundred dollars. You can find plenty of options on Amazon. We are especially a fan of the aviators from Diff Eyewear that offers the captain marvel insignia on them available here: https://www.diffeyewear.com/.

Do you have any Captain Marvel Cosplay Tips? See anything we missed? Let us know in the comments below!

Click the link to find out how To Cosplay Grunge & Air Force Captain Marvel! Carol Danvers a.k.a Captain Marvel is one badass superhero! So we totally get why you want to cosplay as her!

#Brie Larson #Captain Marvel #Captain Marvel Cosplay #Carol Danvers #Cosplay #Flight Patch #Flight Suit #how to cosplay #Lashana Lynch #Maria Rambeau #Sheild Hat

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tt40art · 6 years

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I am currently extremely busy with schoolwork and trying to find a job, so I haven’t had much time to do art! This is a reminder, though, that I still sell original art on Etsy (and cannot really make anything new until my stock is reduced) and run a Redbubble account! You can also donate to my Ko-Fi to help me out until I can get a job. Thanks for all the support!

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Same anon, and I get that YOU arent incestous... But are you anti incest as a concept?

I’m just gonna lay it all out on the table for you anon. Kay?

I ultimately don’t support incest. However, I’m aware that people are weird and will literally jerk off to anything, so there are incest people in the world and I will acknowledge that.

Hell, I have an uncle who married his cousin and had a few kids. (However, that cousin turned out insane and ended up shooting my uncle. (not fatally but still).)

I have admitted to jerking off to stancest, but I would like to stress to that it’s purely a sexual fantasy. Even if the Stan Twins were irl and they were incest, I wouldn’t actually enjoy it in real life. (I would be deeply disturbed by it.) Some things are just best left to fanfic writers and fan art.

Surprisingly enough, even though I spend a large portion of time in “La-la Land”, I can distinguish that from reality just fine, so that brings me to another point to make and I say this across the entire spectrum of bedroom business and sexual preference:

I DON’T CARE WHAT IT IS PEOPLE DO.

I don’t care if they’re hetero, bi, or homo. I don’t care if they like a lot or a none. I don’t care if people jerk off to furries, lolis, or waifus. I don’t care if people are into bdsm, bad dragon, or would even liked to be fucked by a trans person dressed up as a fucking daffodil. People are weird and it’s pretty apparent through all of history that humans will jerk off to just about ANYTHING.

I don’t support it all, and I’m not into half of it, but basically I have just these few rules when it does come to someone’s sexual preference:

Everyone should have consent

Don’t force/harm anyone without consent or safety precautions

Keep it in the bedroom

This last one, I’ll harp on: KEEP IT IN THE DAMN BEDROOM. No matter what your orientation is, I don’t want you to cram it down MY THROAT. I’m not a prude, but I don’t wanna go yelling in the streets, “HEY I’M HETEROSEXUAL AND I LOVE BLOODPLAY!” and wave a flag around that represents hemophilia. I don’t have any issues if someone was gay, I know plenty of people who are gay, ranging from in-laws, to family relatives, to even close friends, but I can’t stand the fucking ego that comes with the stupid rainbow flags. RAINBOWS MEAN MORE THAN YOUR SEXUAL ORIENTATION. THEY WERE A SYMBOL OF PEACE (according to my religion).

If you’re gay, fine. Fine! It’s more than fine! But I’m not gonna applaud you for being born a certain way. There’s no pride in that. Otherwise where’s my fucking trophy for being born with a birthmark on my neck?? (a pretty noticeable one too.) Where’s my representation for people with birthmarks that aren’t in specific shapes? And don’t expect me to get your pronouns right if I don’t know you or have no respect for you. If I like you, I’ll make the effort to not offend someone (my husband’s an atheist, I’m not gonna preach the Word of God at him), but don’t start the conversation with, “My preferences are “fighter pilot and drama queen” and I will be so triggered if you don’t use them.”

Lastly; pedophiles. I hadn’t covered it because I find it to be trickier than homosexuality and incest.

First off, I don’t support pedophiles. It’s wrong and terrible and you’ll horribly scar an innocent child who is no where near ready for that kind of experience.

However, I understand a lot of pedophiles are people who have suffered and need help. They don’t need to be told that what they do is wrong, it’s like telling a smoker that smoking will give them lung cancer. They know it! They need help. They need a way to get it out of their systems and get better.

What I mean by that is that surprisingly enough, when you restrain or abstain something, it only makes people want it more. People get off on the thrill and rush of doing something wrong or taboo. However, in most cases, by letting someone have that something enough, they’ll lose interest, become bored with it, or even start to resent it. It’s a similar mindset to; a child loves chocolate and will sneak candy before dinner/Child eats too much candy and then loathes it.

I mentioned before, I’m hemophiliac. I like blood and get turned on by it. It used to be a bigger issue to me as a child cause I didn’t have anyone to talk to about it and it’s not like I’ll pick up the kitchen knife and hurt myself for a taste. But I used to crave it pretty badly. Since meeting my husband, we’ve engaged in enough blood-related role-playing and I’ve written quite a few vampire!au fanfics that it no longer bothers me. Hell, at this point, I’m not always even turned on by blood anymore, let alone to the degree I used to.

I feel pedophiles need a similar chance. In a controlled and safe environment, they should get the sexual tension out of their system (probably with porn or a dummy of sorts) and hopefully get better.

I feel teenagers are the same too. When they’re raging with hormones and no means of release, I’m not saying you should hand your daughter some birth control pills and tell her to have fun, but at least let her have some privacy. Let him keep that playboy magazine. Hell, try to have an open enough relationship with your kids to help them get through it without feeling so embarrassed. (maybe let them watch an r-rated movie with you once, idk.) If people stopped treating sex like it’s either a plague or a reason to celebrate and started just accepting it as something normal, I wonder how much things would change.

Now seriously, if you’re asking this for validation or support, would you please support ME and check through my etsy and redbubble? I’ll even open for commissions (writing and drawing) if you would like. (Though don’t expect any nsfw.)

#I do apologize for the long response #but it is something I think about quite a bit #especially cause it not only plays a large role in my life #but a large role in Life in general #rambling mastermind

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