Square Peg Saz
Name: Saz
Occupation: Selling my soul to The Man so I can afford to live
Sexuality: ???
Gender: ???
Writer, photographer, artist. Just a general Creative, I suppose.
Art blog!
(via tellychan)
Being queer doesn’t excuse you from privilege. You can be a white queer racist, a queer male misogynist, a cis queer trans*phobe, a wealthy queer classist, or any number of other oppressive things and the sooner you educate yourself to this the better off our whole community will be, because contrary to media depiction, queer people aren’t all white middle-class gay men!
(via riley-ferretboy-konor)
Really doubt this is going to take off because there are too many limitations and I am so wary of the fact that someone else will then basically own your creative content. I hope that the newer waves of fanficcers will not take this up because they do not know where else to take their writing/read other people’s stuff. I personally am not interested in monetised fanfic and I hope we can continue to encourage the free community of fanfic for a long while yet.I’m with Scalzi on this.
IM FREE IM FREE IM FREE DANG ITh
what was that ridiculous giggle that just escaped from my mouth I WILL NOT TOLERATE SUCH INCREDIBLE CUTENESS
SO CUTE
(via tellychan)
So, Amazon wants to get its greedy little fingers in the fanfic business, eh?
I have a lot of thoughts on this. Angry thoughts, to be completely honest. I’ll try to limit my use of capslock, but no promises.
I love the lack of capitalism in the creation of fanworks. It’s extremely important to me. We do it for ourselves, for each other. It is a free exchange of ideas and talents, done out of pure love and desire to create. FUCK YOU for trying to take that away from us.
I get it! Corporations just HATE that this huge, popular thing exists and they can’t figure out how to make money off it. So publishing companies scour archives for the next 50 Shades of Grey, trying to find anything that can have the ‘serial numbers’ filed off enough so that it can be resold as an original work.
They want to take something freely available, deny public access to it, then make people pay for the privilege of reading it. Isn’t capitalism beautiful?
I’m not saying that writers wanting to be paid for their work is inherently bad. Of course not! I have bookshelves full of books I paid money for. But people offering up their talents without requiring an exchange of goods in return is something I find truly beautiful. It goes against the grain of society, which teaches us ‘nothing’s ever free.’
Fandom is a small village, sitting around a campfire telling stories to each other. Anyone can sit and listen, anyone can contribute. You don’t need to pay to sit and listen – what a horrible shame it would be if someone built a fence, controlled the gate, held out their hand and denied you entry to the campfire if you didn’t have the cash in your pocket.
That is not what fanfic is about. It’s beautiful as is. Let’s not ever forget that.
AMEN TO THAT.
Hey, good-looking ;DImagine sitting beside your icon on a 14 hours plane ride
… who left this fucking bread here who’s bread is this I NEED ANSWERS
sits in uncomfortable silence for the duration of the flight
(via folksongs-and-fairytales)
wait you mean you don’t use the word ‘fortnight’ in america???
Wait what? Then what do they use?
they don’t have a word
what do you mean they don’t have a word what kind of uncivilised people are they??
the fuck is a fortnight
It’s a word for ‘two weeks’
They dont??????? :0
SERIOUSLY? ARIEL IS THIS TRUE I THINK THIS IS MORE DISTURBING THAN KNOWING THAT PORRIDGE OATS COME IN A CANNISTER THERE.
Oh good lord :P It’s just uncommon!
I tell you, it’s lik looking into an alternate universe where everything is shifted jusssst enough to freak you out. Anyway, it’s a very useful word, adopt it.
Wait wait wait. WHAT?
