i hate you debt i hate you credit i hate you loans i hate you rent i hate you widely accepted & legalized extortion of necessities

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go ahead talk about my current hyperfixation i won't be weird i promise

i lied

I hate to tell them they already didn’t have a chance of me anyway," Cassandra Peterson, aka Elvira Mistress of the Dark, joked.

Rb if you want all the hcs people have about you in your inbox

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If you needed even more reason to hate NFTs please feel free to take a look at this account: https://opensea.io/0x1a24f397b4679b2a5ae300bb451d602d1d4c49dc If you see your art or someone you knows art here please let them know! This account is completely FULL of stolen Markiplier fanart!!!

I have already sent in two emails for the my work that was stolen btw. If you have a Twitter you can follow this link to a great thread letting artists now how to file a report email to the website: https://twitter.com/Lazerlord10/status/1468049764273041412   

Please boost this and share anyway you can cause this is NOT okay!

Thank you for the tag @narutofoxlover , but thankfully nothing there was mine!

If anyone sees anything here of theirs be sure to file a dmca takedown on the site! It should just ask for your name, a url where the original artwork can be found and an explanation that the art was used without permission

This is why art theft is such a big deal. I’ve had this idea for a comic for a while now, and while it didn’t turn out the way I had invisioned it all these years, It still turned out better than expected. 

My original idea was for the crowd to get so large that the artist gets trampled underneath and has to claw their way over the floor to get out, while their art was being damaged in the rush to see the stolen piece. Ultimately it proved beyond my line art capabilities, but I still like how it turned out. 

I know so many people who quit posting their work online because of art theft, and there was a time where I was close. It’s a very big deal, as you can see by the hours indicated under the pictures of how long it took to do. You’re not only stealing their work, you’re stealing their credits, and you’re stealing their time. 

This may sound mean, but...

If you send me an ask containing links to Good Omens fan fiction you think I should read, I'll delete it. Do it again and I'll (regretfully) block you. This is a general blanket sort of thing -- I don't want to read it, legally I can't read it, no I won't make it into the next series, and, no matter how pure your motives, it's crossing a line.

I’m reading a lot of baffled responses to this. People, I’m showrunning and co-writing the Good Omens TV series. I can’t legally read unsolicited plot ideas. Think of Netflix. Their terms of service include

8.2. Unsolicited Materials. Netflix does not accept unsolicited materials or ideas for Netflix content and is not responsible for the similarity of any of its content or programming in any media to materials or ideas transmitted to Netflix.

…and you’ll find similar clauses out there for other production entities. They are trying to safeguard themselves. There are people out there who are certain that a hit film or TV series is based on their stolen idea. The easiest way to avoid that is to make sure that their ideas can’t get to you.

It’s nothing to do with not approving of what you do. It’s about not putting me, the producers, the BBC or Prime Video at risk — or about having to throw away plans for the future because someone did that in fanfiction first. I can’t legally read unsolicited scripts or story proposals or manuscripts and sending me a link to your or someone else’s Good Omens fiction counts as those things. If I read your story and then did something close to it you could sue. So I’m not going to read it. There’s no emotional baggage in this. I’m definitely not telling you that what you are doing isn’t valid. (And If I wasn’t showrunning I wouldn’t be so Please Don’t and I Will Delete about it. But I am. So don’t. Thank you!)

Reminder that "By Any Means Necessary," one of the best episodes of Babylon 5, nearly didn't get made because some fan suggested a similar idea (a workers' strike on the space station, dealing with workers' safety and labor issues at a time when Star Trek: TNG was still on the air).

I can't remember how far along the episode was in production — I think a rough draft of the script had been written —but showrunner J. Michael Straczynski had to pull the plug on the episode until they finally tracked down the fan who'd suggested a "workers' strike" story on Usenet and get legal documents signed that the fan wouldn't sue or ask for a cut of the proceeds. AND the documents had to be watertight enough that Warner Bros' legal dept was satisfied all financial/legal risk had been eliminated. In other words, it wasn't up to JMS to make the call.

Sadly, after that, he could no longer participate in the old Babylon 5 Usenet discussion list, where he used to interact directly with fans, answering questions. It was just safer if he stayed away, because that way nobody could accuse him of lifting ideas for the show. We don't want Neil to have to pull back for the same reason.

A lot of creators avoid social media for the same reason. Those that are here @neil-gaiman , @dduane , have a hard and fast rule not to look at unasked solicitations.

And now that Babylon 5 might get a reboot, JMS has issued a similar request:

Reblogging for people who think I'm overreacting or whatever.

Is this seriously a thing? 😧 The writers of Gotham used to take fan ideas all the time

“idc about shipping im an adult” i love that and i hope youre having fun but im gonna go gorge myself on every silly little interaction these fake people have and live like a king 

here’s to the people whose trauma didn’t make them kind and soft. here’s to the people who hardened, who had to turn cold in order to survive. here’s to the people who had to become cruel or maybe even violent just to keep themselves safe.

you’re not monsters. you did what you had to do to make it out. and you did. you survived. and i hope you can find healing. i love you.

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rb this and tell me what ur accent is. this has no purpose except the fact i just realized i could have like… mutuals with cockney accents or newfoundland accents or something and thats just wild