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One does not simply get all their ducks in a row
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unavoidable that you will be the villain in someone else's story. You will be painted in an unfavorable light. You will be the irredeemable one. and all of this will happen despite how nice you might usually be or how kind or how respectful or how warm. and you will just have to move on.

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geopsych

Here’s a video so you can hear the water and the thrushes. I took it for you because you couldn’t be there. <3

In case anyone could use this right now.

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w1ng3dw01f

Fellas, fellas

Why on earth are you BUYING PHYSICAL BOOKBOUND COPIES OF FANFICTION????

ACTUALLY WHY ARE YOU EVEN BOOKBINDING FANFICTION TO SELL?!?!?!

IF ANY OF YOU DO EITHER OF THESE THINGS, GET OUT!! I AM NEVER SPEAKING TO YOU AGAIN.

In all seriousness though, authors on AO3 have begun to pull their works off of the site to avoid getting sued by people stealing their works to make a pretty bound book for profit. Entire accounts could be shut down as well.

Listen, I’m all for saving favorite works by printing them out and putting them in a binder, or learning how to make a bookbound copy yourself and/or assembling one with a pre-made and purchased fancy binding for a fanfic FOR YOURSELF or AS A GIFT to someone, but making bindings with and putting fanfiction in it TO SELL is where I draw the line.

Literally the entire point of AO3 is that you can read it FOR FREE.

It is DISRESPECTFUL for people to make money off of hardbound copies because guess what, the original creators of these fics get nothing. We are literally only writing fanfiction for our own pleasure.

Buying and selling book-bound fanfiction is also ILLEGAL YOU DUMB SHITS. People who are selling content while claiming to be a book binder is a misconception of their services. Book binders make the covers and all that, not the actual content of the book. Selling fanfiction is also an immediate violation of copyright law / Creative Commons licenses. The original fan work will get erased from the internet.

Fanfiction is already a legal grey zone since they are works being written about are protected by copyright. Copyright holders can in fact go after writers as well as the person who sold the fanfiction.

This also goes for people who steal fanart and, claim it as theirs, and put a price on it.

Don’t make it worse.

rest assured, we can still write our fanfics and make our art.

Buying a binding for you to assemble onto your own fanfiction or fanfiction you printed for PERSONAL USE is fine.

HOWEVER,

Bookbinding fanfiction for profit is literally ruining things for everyone. DON’T.

If I see any of them on Etsy, I swear to god-

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A.I. photos are flooding social media and contributing to an Internet where we can't believe what we see. Spotting A.I. 📷s is an important media literacy skill.

None of us have time to research every image we see. We just need people to notice BEFORE THEY LIKE OR SHARE that an image might be fake. If unsure, check it or don't share.

I've started drawing some comics explaining the basic of AI spot-checking and media literacy in the age of disinformation. Follow along here or on my Twitter.

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Happiness Will Come To You.

when tho

When You Least Expect It. Probably Late March

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wizardshark

reblog for happiness to come for you in late march!

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zac--efren

I reblogged this last year and I hung out with blink-182 backstage on March 30. Reblogging again because it worked the first time.

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scientiablr

honestly, last year one of the best days of my life happened in late March

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shymagnolia

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment

likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post

i need all the help i can get for finals

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finnglas

Hey so

the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like. 

So you know. 

This might be the real one, y’all.

At this point literally anything helps.

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songtaegguk

For my upcoming mid terms, semi finals and finals. Please.

Eh fuck it let’s do this not like i’m gonna lose anything anyways

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virgomoon
books on, about, and made by palestinians. non-fiction books about palestine, palestinian poetry, history books, fiction books by palestinian authors, links to free e-books and poems. i apologize in advance for not breaking this down by genre / type.

LINKS & RESOURCES:

FICTION:

  • Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa
  • Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa
  • Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
  • Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
  • Wild Thorns by Sahar Khalifeh
  • The Things We See in the Light by Amal Awad
  • A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum
  • Secrets Under the Olive Tree by Nevien Shaabneh
  • Trees for the Absentees by Ahlam Bsharat
  • The Beauty of Your Face by Sahar Mustafah
  • Mother Country by Etaf Rum
  • The Sea Cloak and other stories by Nayrouz Qarmout
  • The Parisian by Isabella Hammad
  • My First and Only Love by Sahar Khalifeh
  • Velvet by Huzama Habayeb
  • Haifa Fragments by Khulud Khamis

NON - FICTION:

  • The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
  • On Palestine By Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappe and Frank Barat
  • The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe
  • Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappe
  • Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire by Jehad Abusalim (Editor), Jennifer Bing (Editor), Mike Merryman-Lotze (Editor)
  • Except for Palestine The Limits of Progressive Politics by Marc Lamont Hill, Mitchell Plitnick
  • Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians by Noam Chomsky
  • Where the Line Is Drawn by Raja Shehadeh
  • Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza by Mosab Abu Toha
  • Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights by Omar Barghouti
  • Palestine: A Socialist Introduction [edited] by Sumaya Awad and Brian Bean
  • From the River to the Sea [edited] by Sai Englert, Michal Schatz and Rosie Warren
  • Palestine Speaks [edited] by Mateo Hoke and Cate Malek
  • The Punishment of Gaza by Gideon Levy
  • The Question of Palestine by Edward W. Said
  • I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti
  • Shell Houses by Rasha Abdulhadi
  • Born Palestinian, Born Black by Suheir Hammad
  • Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood by Ibtisam Barakat
  • Orientalism by Edward W. Said
  • Gaza Writes Back by Refaat Alareer
  • Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd
  • Ever Since I Did Not Die by Ramy Al-Asheq
  • The Butterfly's Burden by Mahmoud Darwish
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theman

I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF

This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.

Then bring me luck

the day after I posted this last time I was notified that I was selected for a really cool mentorship gig and got an unrelated glowing review at work

Reblogging because I really need some good luck

Even if this isn't lucky, potatoes are awesome

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