korpikorppi:

The Cloud Buns wish you a Year of the Rabbit filled with Good Fortune, Prosperity and Happiness! 🐇🐰

niteshade925:

niteshade925:

For people who don’t know: despite what you might see on social media, Year of the Hare/Rabbit hasn’t started yet. This is because CNY/LNY goes by the Chinese Lunar Calendar, NOT the Gregorian calendar. It will start in about 3 weeks. CNY/LNY of 2023 is on January 22.

On the Chinese Lunar Calendar, today (12/31/2022) is the Ninth Day of the Twelfth Month in the year Renyin (壬寅年腊月初九). Due to time zone differences, in China right now it’s 1/1/2023 so it’s Tenth Day of the Twelfth Month in the year Renyin (壬寅年腊月初十). We are still in the Twelfth Month, not even at half yet.

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avaantares:

Fanfiction Authors: HEADS UP

(Non-authors, please RB to signal boost to your author friends!)

An astute reader informed me this morning that one of my fics (Children of the Future Age) had been pirated and was being sold as a novel on Amazon:

(And they weren’t even creative with their cover design. If you’re going to pirate something that I spent a full year of my life writing, at least give me a pretty screenshot to brag about later. Seriously.)

I promptly filed a DMCA complaint to have it removed, but I checked out the company that put it up – Plush Books – and it looks like A LOT of their books are pirated fic. They are by no means the only ones doing this, either – the fact that “”“publishers”“” can download stories from AO3 in ebook format and then reupload them to Amazon in just a few clicks makes fic piracy a common problem. There are a whole host of reasons why letting this continue is bad – including actual legal risk to fanfiction archives – but basically:

IF YOU ARE A FANFIC AUTHOR WITH LONG AND/OR POPULAR WORKS, PLEASE CHECK AMAZON TO SEE IF YOUR STORIES HAVE BEEN PIRATED.

You can search for your fics by title, or by text from the description (which is often just copied wholesale from AO3 as well). If you find that someone has stolen your work and is selling it as their own, you can lodge a DMCA complaint (Amazon.com/USA site; other countries have different systems). If you haven’t done this before, it’s easy! Here’s a tutorial:

HOW TO FILE A COPYRIGHT COMPLAINT FOR STOLEN WORK ON AMAZON.COM:

First, go to this form. You’ll need to be signed into your Amazon account.

• Select the radio buttons/dropdown options (shown below) to indicate that you are the legal Rights Owner, you have a copyright concern, and it is about a pirated product.
• Enter the name of your story in the Name of Brand field.
• In the Link to the Copyrighted Work box, enter a link to the story on AO3 or whatever site your work is posted on.

• In the Additional Information box, explain that you are the author of the work and it is being sold without your permission. That’s all you really need. If you want, you can include additional information that might be helpful in establishing the validity of your claim, but you don’t have to go into great detail. You can simply write something like this:

I am the author of this work, which is being sold by [publisher] without my permission. I originally published this story in [date/year] on [name of site], and have provided a link to the original above. On request, I can provide documentation proving that I am the owner of the account that originally posted this story.

• In the ASIN/ISBN-10 field, copy and paste the ID number from the pirated copy’s URL. You’ll find this ten-digit number in the Amazon URL after the word “product,” as in the screenshot below. (If the URL extends beyond this number, you can ignore everything from the question mark on.) Once this number has been added, Amazon will pull the product information automatically and add it to the complaint form, so you can check the listing title and make sure it’s correct.

• Finally, add your contact information to the relevant fields, check the “I have read and accept the statements” box, and then click Submit. You should receive an email confirmation that Amazon has received the form.

Please share this information with your writer friends, keep an eye out for/report pirated works, and help us keep fanfiction free and legally protected!

NOTE: All of the above also applies to Amazon products featuring stolen artwork, etc., so fan artists should check too!

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colorousme asked: Idk if they did this in the USA too, but in the netherlands they set up a sound system on a Dominos pizza scooter and everytime it drove it would make sounds like mmmmmMMMM Dominos! mmmMMMM tasty tasty (in dutch that's lekker lekker) mmmmMMMM PIZZA! and if it was waiting with the motor running it'd go dominosdominosdominosdominos all in a human voice

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lillkogobean:

colorousme:

transgambit:

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i read this message in the middle of the night and legit thought i was imagining it

i keep thinking about thjs and laughing ao hard my stomach hurts

here’s the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n17B_uFF4cA 

for the love of god please watch the video i am in stiches

did strong bad make this

I lost it at the video but then got to the strongbad comment and I’m still laughing as I type this, omg

ya-girl-izzy:

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September 8, 1966 - the day the voyage began!

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