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….Obviously, this is probably NSFW.  Also, mirrorverse discussion.  Read on: [DW | LJ]

So Kacey and Amber and I were all standing around (metaphorically) and staring at this picture and rather angrily speculating about the captain’s chair and Jim Kirk and mirrorverse!Kirk and, mainly, about all the sex that has to happen in that chair. After all, regardless of JJ Abrams’ persistent mischaracterization of him, Jim Kirk is an opportunist to the bone, and look, it’s a rather nice chair! That may or may not have some powerplay implications! And a great view of the quadrant in general! And that he sits in with, apparently, a chronic inability to close his legs.

So of course this happened.

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…in ways you cannot yet realize

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Ted Sarandos, Chief Content Officer at Netflix (via laliberty)

Look, someone who gets it.

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give me my tv shows and my movies on netflix and i won’t have to torrent that shit just to give it a try before i decide whether to spend money on it.

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daunt:

copperbadge:

As a book, I love Ender’s Game to tiny pieces. It’s the anthem for the smart young outsider, and it’s a hell of an adventure story. I love it and I’m ashamed of how much I love it because it’s written by this man:

“Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage.” —Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card sits on the board of the National Organization for Marriage, attempting to ensure the second-class treatment of queer people and (impotently, but still) threatening to destroy the government over matters of simple equality. He is a frothing, virulent bigot.

Don’t pay to see his movie. Don’t let a cent of your money go to him or encourage the studio to make more films which make him more money to give to people who think pro-equality governments are their mortal enemy.

Spreading the word, guys.

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I think I used to use that, but checking everything individually is weirdly cathartic to me? It also lets me compartmentalize what I do and don’t want to see since I use all those things for very different purposes.

i can see where that would be useful. 

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Google would still work. I just don’t hang out in my email the way I do on Tumblr.

that’s why i’ve got trillian :) so i’ve got access to aim, google chat, twitter, and my email without needing to have a million windows and applications open. makes things so much easier :)

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Awww! Oh, well. I’ll miss having chats with you while browsing Tumblr!

right? i’m sad :( but if you have AIM or google chat or anything, we could still chat :)

had to uninstall xim :( it was making my computer super slowwww

dammit, that was really handy, too

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emjayelle:

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So, Amazon wants to get its greedy little fingers in the fanfic business, eh?

I have a lot of thoughts on this. Angry thoughts, to be completely honest. I’ll try to limit my use of capslock, but no promises.

I love the lack of capitalism in the creation of fanworks. It’s extremely important to me. We do it for ourselves, for each other. It is a free exchange of ideas and talents, done out of pure love and desire to create. FUCK YOU for trying to take that away from us.

I get it! Corporations just HATE that this huge, popular thing exists and they can’t figure out how to make money off it. So publishing companies scour archives for the next 50 Shades of Grey, trying to find anything that can have the ‘serial numbers’ filed off enough so that it can be resold as an original work.

They want to take something freely available, deny public access to it, then make people pay for the privilege of reading it. Isn’t capitalism beautiful?

I’m not saying that writers wanting to be paid for their work is inherently bad. Of course not! I have bookshelves full of books I paid money for. But people offering up their talents without requiring an exchange of goods in return is something I find truly beautiful. It goes against the grain of society, which teaches us ‘nothing’s ever free.’

Fandom is a small village, sitting around a campfire telling stories to each other. Anyone can sit and listen, anyone can contribute. You don’t need to pay to sit and listen – what a horrible shame it would be if someone built a fence, controlled the gate, held out their hand and denied you entry to the campfire if you didn’t have the cash in your pocket.

That is not what fanfic is about. It’s beautiful as is. Let’s not ever forget that.

AMEN TO THAT.

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likeafieldmouse:

Alvaro Sanchez-Montanes - Indoor Desert (2010)

“By the end of World War I, diamond mines in Kolmanskuppe, a site in the Namib Desert, ceased to be exploited. For over two decades it had been one of the wealthiest settlements in Southern Africa. During that time of splendour, German colonists who run the site had built their peculiar residences there evoking the architecture and décor of those in their homeland Bavaria. After it was closed down and its inhabitants left, Kolmanskuppe became a ghost town engulfed by desert sands. With his series Indoor Desert, Sanchez-Montanes enters these houses abandoned to the desert to unveil the serene enchantment that dwells in their chambers.”

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softerworld:

A Softer World: 972

(no one could steer me right, but mama tried.)

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jazzypom:

Amazon Debuts ‘Kindle Worlds,’ Where Your Gossip Girl Fan Fiction Can Earn You Cash Sometimes a writer creates a universe so compelling that others feel the need to join and help flesh out that world with their own tribute fiction. And sometimes you make something crappy like Gossip…

What in the hell! Damn, this makes me hella uncomfortable. I’m torn between deleting all my online fanfiction or… hoping that this madness passes. This is so not a good idea. 

People would be stealing shit left and right.  Hell, they do that now and fanfiction is for free.   Let’s not get into the authors who are going to be fucking pissed at this as well they should be because they won’t be getting any of that money based off of their characters.

Lawd.

I’m not here for this at all. I need people to profit from their own creativity, not just jumping off of someone else’s.

the biggest problem with this is that, even if you do decide to sell your fanfic through them, you won’t get much protection. once you publish - according to the details of this program - they own it. they can republish it in an anthology or in another country/language, and you won’t see an additional dime.

furthermore, the owner of the original universe and characters can take your idea and turn it into a film/book/tv show/etc and not have to compensate you at all. it’s typical Amazon bait-and-switch. on the surface, it seems alluring, but you have to read the fine print. the only way property rights’ owners would agree to this is if Amazon promised them a deal they couldn’t refuse. “you’ll get a cut of the profits AND have an endless pool of story ideas that you don’t have to pay for!” the fanfic writer will get screwed. twice.

fanfiction isn’t new. hell, the Star Trek novels are basically authorized fanfiction. at least there, the authors are properly credited and compensated. this sounds like a really, really bad idea.

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