A Horse of a Different Color

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Aladdin/The Legend of Korra Parallels

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ahlistenalison: true friendship is bullying your friends into watching the tv shows you watch

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:55:47 -0400

ahlistenalison:

true friendship is bullying your friends into watching the tv shows you watch

"“Amazon Publishing will acquire all rights to your new stories, including global publication rights,..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:39:38 -0400

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“Amazon Publishing will acquire all rights to your new stories, including global publication rights, for the term of copyright.” What this means is that when you publish a story on Kindle Worlds, you’re giving Amazon the right to do whatever they want with your story, forever. They can sell it electronically, digitally, carve it into a rock, or give it away. It’s up to them, and you have no say. Ever.

“You will own the copyright to the original, copyrightable elements (such as characters, scenes, and events) that you create and include in your work, and the World Licensor will retain the copyright to all the original elements of the World.” Awesome! Exactly the kind of license I would want. Except …

“When you submit your story in a World, you are granting Amazon Publishing an exclusive license to the story and all the original elements you include in that story.” Want to publish your fan fiction on FanFiction.net? Tough. Amazon is the only entity legally allowed to publish your material. And if they decide that they want to stop publishing your material? Sucks for you. You have no other outlet.

“This means that your story and all the new elements must stay within the applicable World.” This is a huge, flashing warning sign, a big neon Danger, Will Robinson! When you submit a story to Kindle Worlds, you give Amazon all of the rights to your new ideas, even ideas that came solely from your head. Come up with a concept for an awesome new character who just happens to interact with a Salvatore Brother? You can never use that character anywhere except within a Kindle Worlds story.

“We will allow Kindle Worlds authors to build on each other’s ideas and elements.” This means that people get to write fan fiction about your fan fiction. Kindle Worlds is essentially a viral license. I don’t exactly have a problem with that. It would be cool if there was a way to be compensated when another author uses some or your original ideas, but I honestly don’t know how that would even be possible.

“We will also give the World Licensor a license to use your new elements and incorporate them into other works without further compensation to you.” One of the big issues authors have traditionally had with fan fiction is the possibility that a fan fiction writer would claim the original author stole the fan’s ideas and incorporated them into their work. This is why even authors who explicitly allow fan fiction almost never read fan fiction. This sentence does away with that fear entirely. If you submit a story to Kindle Worlds, the original creators can use it however they want. Just think! The next season of Vampire Diaries could be based on your story! Except you won’t be paid for it.

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The exception is the license to new concepts developed within a Kindle Worlds story. That is uniquely the author’s own, and submitting to Kindle Worlds locks it up forever. Stories are an author’s lifeblood, and you should never give that kind of control over your ideas to someone else. Fifty Shades of Gray would have never happened under Kindle Worlds, because Amazon would own all of the rights to that story, not EL James. She wouldn’t have been allowed to change the character names, flush out the story, and publish on her own. Amazon would have owned that work, not her.

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- Pretty sure all the awesome fandom folks I know are smart enough to have realized what a steaming turd the new Amazon thing really is, but just in case you have to get into an argument over it with someone (yes, these are things I legitimately prep for) here are some clear talking points.

Also, no porn, graphic violence, crossovers or’excessive’ use of curse words. So, like, all the fun stuff about fanfic.

(via bewaretheides315)

blainedevoonanderson: yodropthechampagne: i wrote a poem

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:23:34 -0400

blainedevoonanderson:

yodropthechampagne:

i wrote a poem

irresponsibleeyouth: the trick is to not let people know how really weird you are until its too...

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:53:45 -0400

irresponsibleeyouth:

the trick is to not let people know how really weird you are until its too late for them to back out

f-a-n-t-a-s-t-i-c-p-l-a-n-e-t: fuck the police if you know what...

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:58:06 -0400

f-a-n-t-a-s-t-i-c-p-l-a-n-e-t:

fuck the police if you know what i mean

psilentasincjelli: If I ever tell you I’m going to sleep and then you see me posting or liking...

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:37:10 -0400

psilentasincjelli:

If I ever tell you I’m going to sleep and then you see me posting or liking things online for about an hour immediately after that, I promise I wasn’t lying to you, I’m just bad at going to sleep and it is usually a long process that begins with disengaging from any sort of immediate contact with people (chats, for example) and ends when everything on my screen is blurry and I’m hallucinating plot points I haven’t written yet

A supercut of the 18 best running gags on Arrested Development...

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:17:25 -0400

A supercut of the 18 best running gags on Arrested Development

Star Trek Into Darkness writer apologises for 'gratuitous' underwear scene - Telegraph

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:05:30 -0400

Star Trek Into Darkness writer apologises for 'gratuitous' underwear scene - Telegraph:

bigmamag:

specialedition87:

Damon Lindelof promises to be “more mindful in the future” after complaints from fans.

GOOD.

All writers of television shows and movies should take basic feminism classes by law.

fishingboatproceeds: the-blog-of-anne-frank: I just realized that “pun intended” is a pun on...

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:43:19 -0400

fishingboatproceeds:

the-blog-of-anne-frank:

I just realized that “pun intended” is a pun on “unintended” and I’m literally about to gouge my eyes out I’m so angry

This. Changes. Everything.

chudobs: someone has waited their entire life to put that title...

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:34:07 -0400

chudobs:

someone has waited their entire life to put that title to use and if he is not promoted immediately i am calling the l.a. times and complaining

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sharonosbourne: paulbearer: there are people who think kit kats taste good yeah they’re called...

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:00:49 -0400

sharonosbourne:

paulbearer:

there are people who think kit kats taste good

yeah they’re called smart people

oh-deir: ACTUAL MESSAGE OF (500) DAYS OF SUMMER THAT NO ONE...

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:19:34 -0400

oh-deir:

ACTUAL MESSAGE OF (500) DAYS OF SUMMER THAT NO ONE ACTUALLY REALIZES

"Women read comics. Anyone at all engaged in social media knows this. Women read comics and are a..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:10:13 -0400

“Women read comics. Anyone at all engaged in social media knows this. Women read comics and are a driving force behind fandom. I think I could call them the driving force behind fandom and put up a convincing argument. Just think about it: what fandoms have driven America crazy in the last decade? Could anyone dissuade me from saying that they were Harry Potter, Twilight and the Hunger Games? “Avatar” may have put butts in theater seats, but you don’t hear about it… ever. No one is immersed in the world of “Avatar” except James Cameron and people who enjoy wearing Na’vi Zentai suits. “The Avengers” was pretty darn huge and, if Tumblr is any indication, a whopping portion of the people driving that fandom online do not possess a Y chromosome. Women engage in fandom to levels that men do not. When women get behind something, their sheer numbers and passion force it into the mainstream. That’s why you can name the actor who plays that werewolf kid in “Twilight” and probably sing at least the chorus to one Justin Bieber song. What do tween boys like? I have no clue. Sports? Probably sports.”

- Brett White, Comic Book Resources (via wandrinparakeet)

and yet men remain the most marketed demographic for just about everything.

(via ohhoechno)

I’m pretty sure the only men who spend more time thinking about DC than women on Tumblr are the men who actually work there.

(via touchofgrey37)

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One night President Obama and his wife Michelle decided to do...

Sun, 19 May 2013 21:41:17 -0400

One night President Obama and his wife Michelle decided to do something out of routine and go for a casual dinner at a restaurant that wasn’t too luxurious. When they were seated, the owner of the restaurant asked the President’s Secret Service if he could please speak to the First Lady in private. They obliged and Michelle had a conversation with the owner. Following this conversation President Obama asked Michelle, “Why was he so interested in talking to you?” She mentioned that in her teenage years, he had been madly in love with her. President Obama then said, “So if you had married him, you would now be the owner of this lovely restaurant,” to which Michelle responded, “No. If I had married him, he would now be the President.”