I can’t believe I never noticed this was Captain Jack.
omg
(Source: brigwife)
We’re gonna go ahead and assume that Amazon didn’t realise what kind of Pandora’s box they opened when they announced Kindle’s new fanfic store.
According to Amazon’s statement today, Kindle Worlds is “a place for you to publish fan fiction… engage an audience of readers, and earn royalties.” The small print being that your fanfiction must be set in “featured Worlds,”, which currently include Warner Bros. shows Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars, and The Vampire Diaries. So people looking to profit from their Harry Potter or Teen Wolf opus may have to wait a little while longer.
WHAT
Almost all of the ethical issues in terms of compensation to writers here appall me - it’s an unabashed move to profit off of and control fan communities. Remember the fuckstorm that was the Jayne Hats? This is setting that up on a massive scale - now that Warner Bros is profiting from fanfic they have an actual incentive to shut everything else down. I recognize that the “if we use your characters you get zilch” clause needs to be in there precisely because nobody is actually going to read all this shit and thus people need to be protected from frivolous lawsuits along the lines of “your new character is obvs based on my Mary Sue, so pay up,” but the fact that you need to stomp on creators’ rights to do that is a prime example of why allowing fanfic and corporate publishing to mix is a godawful idea.
All of which said… if Doctor Who were to sign up, it would mean that limitless streams of fanfic would all be Official BBC Licensed material. The sheer power of this weapon in canon debates is unfathomable and yet beautiful. And I kind of want it to happen.
So I read the Japanese Bee one to my roommate, who promptly responded “Like, who was the first group to figure that out. ‘Alright, here’s the plan: we’re gonna group hug, and then BUZZZZZZ.’”
So this just happened on Facebook.
aLL THE FUCKING AWARDS
UNEXPECTED TURN OF EVENTS
things get real
First I was like no, and then I was like yes
(Source: sketch-ass-arachno-fondler)
A Glimpse of Hell - Stunning Shots of an Active Volcano
Two Kyrgyzstan-based photographers, Andrew and Luda, trekked to the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia where the volcano complex known as Tolbachik was in active eruption. Among the numerous hellish vistas photographed by the team was this deep volcanic cave that offered a glimpse of what it might look like below the Earth’s crust.
beautiful.
