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@arcadiasunsets

Hi I'm Kaylee! 22 year old Latina mom friend with a penchant for mischief currently into Half Life, LOTR, Star trek, needle work and reluctantly into Walten Files. Studying Anthropology in Uni she/her, INFP, Pan D&D, Hunter the Reckoning, tabletop games feel free to drop in I love new friends Profile pic credit: @Shrimpkidd previously: ThatSteampunkGamer Wife is: @transbian-samus-aran
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figachilles

you may say the basis of every star trek show is collaboration. morality. diplomacy. primary colors. but you would be wrong. the true foundation of any star trek show is the token gay autistic weirdo man who carries the entire fucking show on his back

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fleshdyke

i love john brosio paintings bc theyll be an absolute gut punch that forces you to consider your own morality like two earthlings and they will also be Big Crab

“two earthlings”, an absolutely devastating oil painting that i think about every single day

“fatigue 2”, Big Crab

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reblogged

actually since sherlock holmes is in the public domain there is nothing preventing all you fanfic writers from publishing & selling. i want someone to traditionally publish a new collection of mystery stories where holmes & watson are canonically banging

#no listen. i want them to be MYSTERY stories written in the original style. same writing style, similar plots, it’s a mystery driven story very similar to the originals. BUT holmes & watson are married. and it’s just treated as a side detail. #maybe with a single smut scene thrown in just bc i think it’d be funny. i would buy a copy

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gehayi

Er…it’s not that simple, unfortunately. From Lubin Austermuehle, business litigation attorneys:

While most of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories are in the public domain, ten of his stories were published in the 1920s, and while some of those stories have been entering the public domain since 2016, others remain under copyright until January 1st, 2023 [in the United States].

(In the UK, copyright on written works extends for 70 years after the author’s death. Conan Doyle died in 1930, so the British copyright expired in 2000. American copyright law is WAY more complicated.)

1) ‘Mr. Holmes’ Copyright Lawsuit SettledVariety,  Oct 9, 2015 6:38pm PT

2) Lawsuit over ‘warmer’ Sherlock depicted in Enola Holmes dismissed – the Guardian,  Tue 22 Dec 2020 08.55 EST

So…unfortunately, there is something preventing all the  Holmes fanfic writers from publishing and selling…at least until January 1, 2023.  

On January 2, 2023, I expect bookstores to be flooded with Holmes & Watson smut

…ok but given that a metric shit ton already exists, is there anything stopping any random editor from messaging a bunch of ao3 writers and inviting them to publish their existing stories in an anthology? this is a very good and profitable idea, listen to me i am very intelligent.

if there are any editors or publishing professionals reading this, i very much hope you will mark the date!

January 2, 2023

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