A new speed video is now available to everyone!!! My wonderful Blossoms always get to see them first and foremost but i’m always excited when i get to share them with everyone else as well!
I got an ADHD inspiration to write a short DS9 fic off a shitpost about Star Trek-but-all-the-computers-run-windows-98, so I wrote a thing about Odo and the crew’s reaction to his seeming death. (This was written for twitter, so it’s gonna have some weird paragraph breaks, sorry about that)
Odo is tracking down a Bolian weapons dealer with as many morals as hair follicles when he finally corners him in a cargo bay. It goes south, quickly, as it turns out weapons dealers have access to a lot of weapons.
Oh, thank you for asking this totally unprompted question! Tumblr’s Post+ is our new tool that allows creators to make some of their posts exclusive to paid supporters and allows people to support their favorite creators. It’s an optional way to support and encourage your favorite creators on Tumblr, and it’s all done in the existing post form with the existing tools you all know and love.
Why Post+?
Creators are the backbone of Tumblr—whether they’re GIF artists, illustrators, comedians, cosplayers, or just really good shitposters. Since our founding, we have always believed in empowering the world’s creators to show off their best work. Post+ now gives these same creators the ability to earn money from their work.
Post+ is optional, right?
Right! Post+ simply gives creators the freedom to pick and choose which posts they want public and which posts they want only their paid supporters to see. Creators who use Post+ have the ability to choose how much of their content is free and public. Post+ is an optional program—the creator has the power to decide if they want to participate or not. The creator also has the ability to choose from a select set of predefined subscription pricing structures for their supporters.
Can I have it?
When Post+ fully launches, it will be available for anyone who wants to use it. Right now it’s still in its beta phase of testing. We want to make sure that everyone’s experience with Post+ is without any hiccups or bugs. We’re working with a very limited number of creators who are testing it out for us. But! If you want to get notified when more beta testing spaces open up, please sign up here.
Anything else?
If you want to stay up-to-date on all things Post+, give @postplus a follow. It’s where we’re posting FAQs and answering your questions. If you want to give feedback, fill out this survey here. Thanks for your patience, Tumblr.
The communities that make up Tumblr are built by artists, writers, GIF artists, shitposters, illustrators, and other creators sharing their talents with the world. It’s a place where the world’s creators can put their best work in front of an incredible audience. The tools that we built are built for creators and artists to do just that. Over the years we’ve watched countless careers born here, books launched, talents discovered. Tumblr connects people to their audiences and allows them to pursue their work in a greater capacity. We want that to be achievable for everyone on our platform.
Post+ is a move toward this goal—making sure creators who dedicate their time and effort to producing content have the choice to be paid for some of what they do, if they decide it makes sense for them.
Right now, we’ve got our beta testers and a world of feedback to incorporate, which is exactly how things get made and get better.
We do, however, want to address the main concerns we are hearing:
Fanfiction & Copyright Infringement
Basically, the process works the same as it always has. And yes, the following information is coming to you straight from a lawyer:
We fully support Creators sharing their fanfiction and fanart on Tumblr. We encourage sharing creative work of all kinds on the platform.
Fanfiction and fanart are frequently considered fair use and we support our Creators’ fair use rights. Monetizing fan work does not necessarily mean that it isn’t fair use.
Any content posted on Tumblr, both free and monetized, should follow our Terms of Service and Community Guidelines, which prohibits infringing the intellectual property rights of others. Whether a piece of fanfiction meets the requirements for fair use varies depending on the work. Intellectual property rights holders are in the best position to decide if they think a fanfiction or fan art violates their rights. If they do, they can use the normal Tumblr DMCA process to identify content for removal. Creators can also take advantage of the normal counter-notification process if they believe the content was misidentified as infringing.
Using the block feature and Post+
Post+ creators will be able to block subscribers in the final Post+ product launching later this fall, and resulting from our beta feedback. At the moment, testers of the Post+ beta will need help from Tumblr Support in order to block a blog that has become a paying supporter.
We will continue to answer questions over the next few weeks over on @postplus
As always, our priority is the people who make up this weird blue universe, and we’ll keep working to make sure we’re serving you as well as we can.
Ok, I am going to highligh a few things for people who might not parse legalese as a hobby (I read EULAs for fun, yes I am a weirdo).
Fanfiction and fanart are frequently considered fair use and we support our Creators’ fair use rights. Monetizing fan work does not necessarily mean that it isn’t fair use.
Any content posted on Tumblr, both free and monetized, should follow our Terms of Service and Community Guidelines, which prohibits infringing the intellectual property rights of others. Whether a piece of fanfiction meets the requirements for fair use varies depending on the work. Intellectual property rights holders are in the best position to decide if they think a fanfiction or fan art violates their rights. If they do, they can use the normal Tumblr DMCA process to identify content for removal. Creators can also take advantage of the normal counter-notification process if they believe the content was misidentified as infringing.
OK so those two bits in bold? What they mean is : - Tumblr is encouraging you to use this service and put FanFiction under their shiny paywall and they will take their cut of the money (5%). Apple and/or Google will take their cut from the app (30%). You as the creator will now have made money from this IP with the scraps left over [side-note : this is a badly structured deal for the content creator].
- In some IPs FanFic probably will fly under the rader/not be worth smacking. Anything that doesn’t have a novelisation market where it could be argued that Fic is “stealing” profit from the real market, as an example.
- In some IPs there will be immediate smackdowns (because the source *are* books, because they *sells* tie-in novels, etc.)
- In the IPs where there will be smackdowns Tumblr is washing their hands completly off the whole thing (but keep their cut of the money). They will point at the content creator and go “oh dear, I didn’t know this bad bad person was making money off your IP. That is totally against the rules and I have no idea how it got here.” In the best case scénario Tumblr will then take down the post(s) as a DMCA strike. They might take the whole blog/account down. IN absolutely zero cases will they offer legal support should the IP Holder sue the poster directly, on top of the DMCA takedown. They will be fully hands-off and the poster will be fed to the wolves.
@staff also hasn’t covered gifs (actual frames from actual cinematic productions), Fanart (visual and recognisable copyrighted characters) and a slew other styles of fan content….
That does not necessarily mean is so fucking loaded. There’s fan content you could totally monetize, like meta posts, comic reading guides, or content reviews. It can even be fair use AND monetizable to use direct quotes or short movie clips or screenshots in a review or meta post. Sometimes part of the evaluation for legality is whether money is being made (as hermit said above, direct competition is often part of that). But there’s an entire organization (the OTW) with a team of lawyers who spend their time working on what is and isn’t legal in fanworks, where fair use draws the lines, and what the best ways of protecting it is (and AO3 has decided full stop that they’re not wading into the monetization battle and connecting money and fanworks is against AO3′s TOS entirely so they don’t have to). And for a lot of it, there’s no legal precedent. It’s fucking complicated. We are the ones testing the waters, starting Patreons and waiting to see how IP holders are going to react, and going to court to set precedent. It feels like fic has been around long enough that this should be all decided already, but it’s not. We’re in a legal grey area during a time of immense digital rights and data development and change. None of this is set in stone and therefore it’s almost impossible for a layperson to completely understand; lots of lawyers aren’t even clear on it!
It’s blatantly irresponsible for tumblr to be very specifically advertising this feature to fan creators. They fully are acknowledging in this post that they don’t know if it will be legal for you or not and that if it’s not, they won’t stand in the way of the IP holder going after you. Is a lot of the stuff on Patreon risky and potentially sue-able? Yeah, but Patreon doesn’t make it sound like “it’s okay, we know you’re making legally unclear fancontent and we support you!” in the way tumblr does. Patreon is just a platform for all kinds of creators, and like with YT, it’s up to you to figure out what you can and can’t monetize for yourself. Because the truth is, no platform can figure that out for you. Tumblr def can’t. Which they’re straight up saying in this post, but making it sound like they’re saying “it’s all good, babe!”
(Consider also: stolen posts behind paywalls is going to be rampant and the only way to get them taken down will be DMCA requests from the og creator. This is already a huge issue for artists and writers on platforms like instagram and Wattpad. I file DMCA takedowns all the time and so do my artist friends. But on those platforms YOU CAN SEE WHAT PEOPLE ARE STEALING. On Posts+ you won’t be able to! People can be reposting your art, making money off it, and the only way you’ll be able to find out so you can order it taken down will be to pay them money… I imagine this happens a lot on Patreon, but at least there they need to be funneling in fans from an outside, visible source like insta. On tumblr, a busy repost blog can now, every time an artist goes after them, make the posts from that artist pay-only and still keep pulling in followers with art they haven’t been caught for yet without ever needing to change platforms. Just click the Post+ button!)
If tumblr needs income to survive, they’d be better off with an LJ, reddit, or discord approach than trying to backfill Patreon into a site that is already so established in a certain way, and is primarily used for legally uncertain fancontent (and doesn’t allow NSFW which is probably at least half or more of the kind of content people are willing to pay for lol).
I’m worried for young/inexperienced/non-english-speaking/non-legalese-speaking creators who see tumblr’s advertising approach and think that means they’re definitely safe to use this feature.
In the best case scenario Tumblr will then take down the post(s) as a DMCA strike. They might take the whole blog/account down.
Regarding this: Tumblr allows 2 copyright violations (DMCA strikes) within 18 months. If you get to 3, your blog and any associated side blogs will be deleted without warning. They will not restore your account unless you can prove what you posted is actually your content and not someone else’s. Good luck! Tumblr support is not helpful.
The three examples above have one thing in common.
They are some of the ONLY examples of accurate and non racist Polynesian representation in mainstream media.
Three. Things.
Two movies.
And one character who gets mere minutes of screen time.
Polynesian people are an after thought in society and media. Our land is “profitable” our culture “entertaining”. We are viewed like relics in a museum, pretty too look at, but never worth more than a glance. Our soul is stripped away and our culture made “ palatable” for tourists. We are seen as accessories to vacations. After thoughts.
Can you name three Polynesian actors? Without saying Jason Momoa or the Rock? Did you know Polynesians were the first people to discover Antarctica? Did you know Hawai’i was a formal kingdom? Did you know the Dole company, along with white settlers, overthrew the Kingdom of Hawai’i with the help of the US? Did you know most Polynesian native languages were ban by White Settlers? And only reinstated in the mid 1900s?
How much do you not know? And this isn’t a slight. I mean it genuinely. How has the media effected your view of Polynesia and it’s people? And If you know a lot, I admire you! Genuinely. But you can’t ignore the gap in media. This is not mainstream knowledge.
Which brings me to Star Wars specifically.
Temuera Morrison, a Māori actor, was cast to play Jango Fett in “Star Wars: Attack of the Clones.” In this movie, he plays a Mandalorian bounty hunter who is payed to be a Clone donor. Using his DNA, an entire army is created. Clones of him, known as “Clone Troopers”.
Despite being Clones of a character Temuera Morrison plays, Clones have NEVER looked Māori in their main media. (The Clone Wars)
I genuinely. Do not think this was done on purpose AT FIRST. Genuinely. HOWEVER! Unintentional bias and ignorance is STILL bias and ignorance.
When you get a group of character designers and they’re all white, and they all grew up AS white people, in a world that provides the privilege of ignorance to white people, you will get ignorance. Unintentional or not. It is still racism. It’s still white washing. It’s still feeding ignorance around Polynesians.
Ignorance about Polynesians is what creates this.
Ignorance. That went unchecked. Ignorance that turned into internal bias. Internal bias that turned into racism.
How Temuera actually looks was an after thought. His round face and hooded eyes, were an after thought. His accent and body type was an after thought.
This after thought spun again and again and again, and now, the Smartest Clone is the lightest. And the Dumbest Clone is the darkest. And their faces are angular, beyond recognition.
This is racism. Plain and simple.
So how do you help?
LISTEN TO POLYNESIANS!!! Learn about our people, learn about our actors, learn, learn, learn.
Prevent ignorance by listening. Prevent internal bias by learning and unlearning.
And speak up. Call Disney out on their racism! Call out character designers on their white washing. Call out artists for their white washing.
And lastly, Have difficult conversations. No one likes to be ignorant. But sometimes we all are, and unchecked, that ignorance can light the fire of racism and harm. And it will spread, and grow, until it’s a wildfire burning everything in its path. That fire burns my people, burns me. Hurts my heart, my soul, my perception of myself.
-taps mic- the whole MC going “no pain medication, I don’t want to cloud my mind” trope is both ableist and shockingly popular for how plainly ableist it is
(protip: if you’re at the point where you’re being advised to take pain medication by people who don’t want to give you pain medication then your mind is most certainly already clouded by pain)
With severe enough injuries, your personal opinion on pain meds doesn’t even fucking matter because in order to physiologically heal, certain muscles need to be not involuntarily clenching in order to heal–and they will be involuntarily clenching if you are in pain! Pain meds are not solely a palliative measure, they are also a form of direct, necessary treatment
When pain medication is deemed Necessary, it is so necessary that standard procedure is to take the next dose before the last one has worn off, because pain that severe is thatdebilitating
Nat: If you are fighting an opponent your age Morgan, there may be up to 270 bones in the human body. Children’s bones ares still fusing together. Here is how you can use that….
Bold of you to assume Pepper knows how to prepare literally anything but salads and sandwiches.
Nebula, on the other hand, has had to survive alone in space.
Please consider: Nebula efficiently dicing the cucumber, and then teaching Morgan and Pepper both how to prepare a simple meal, which would apparently taste better with a specific type of meat that they can’t acquire on Terran, but this is the best she can do given the circumstances.
I’m so glad that with Natasha, er, temporarily indisposed, Bucky is covering Morgan’s important education.
(Actually, the Winter Soldier having been forced to assist in brutally training young women to kill, while Bucky chooses to gently teach a young girl to defend herself, is beautiful character development, and I think a great way to reclaim both his agency and his humanity.)
Bucky: Okay Morgan, there are 206 bones in the body, but! I’m gonna teach you how to dislocate someone’s body in 230 ways—
Sam: Dude. She’s a kid.
Morgan:…
Bucky: Oh yeah! You’re right.
*turns around for a few seconds before turning back with puppets over his hands*
Bucky, in somewhat a Kermit the frog’s voice: Hi kids! We’re going to show you how to dislocate someone’s body! Let’s start with the Clavicle region. Do you know where that is?
where is that renaissance painting with those two fellers and a giant fucking random skull on the floor that looks like it was accidentally stretched out in photoshop
THANK YOU
somebody please explain
Someone once told me it’s like that because it was designed to be hung in a stairwell so the skull pops out as you walk past.
…I guess it works but you have to be at a pretty sharp angle
There was a whole trend at one point where artists would include something in their paintings (usually a skull, for whatever reason) that’s super distorted in just the right way so that it looks normal if you hold the painting up to a convex/concave mirror. I have absolutely no idea why. But I think that’s what’s going on here.
In case anyone’s curious, here’s what it looks like when you walk past it irl:
It does have a 3D effect to it! It’s pretty neat, guess it would be even more impressive to people from the 14th century.
honestly, people just looking at the skull are missing the real deal here
You can read any implied text you see in this thing, even the book, that’s how detailed it is. Look at the painting on those letters!
jesus christ you’re just showing off now, Hans!
HANS OH MY GOD
anyway, the skull apparently had some meaning about the transcendence of death, you can only see it clearly when you can’t see the world clearly and vice versa, but man, I’m all about the detail in this guy’s shit
No, I think you’re missing the real deal here
as an art historian, i think this is the best post on tumblr
kurdish: “my story went to other homes, god bless the mothers and fathers of its listeners” (Çîroka min çû diyaran, rehmet li dê û bavê guhdaran.)
greek: “and they lived well, and we lived better” (και ζήσανε αυτοί καλά και εμείς καλύτερα)
afrikaans: “whistle whistle, the story is done” (fluit fluit, die storie is uit)
goemai: “my tale has finished, (it) has returned to go (and) come home.” (tamtis noe lat / dok ba muaan yi wa)
amharic: “return my story and feed me bread” (ተረቴን መልሱ አፌን በዳቦ አብሱ::)
bengali: “my story ends and the spinach is eaten by the goat” (aamaar kothati furolo; Notey gaachhti murolo) *means something is irreversibly ended because goats eats herbs from the root
norwegian: “snip snap snout, the tale is finished” (snipp snapp snute, så er eventyret ute”
polish: “and i was there [at the wedding] too, and drank mead and wine.” (a ja tam byłem, miód i wino piłem.)
hungarian: “this is the end, run away with it” (itt a vége, fuss el véle)
turkish: “lastly, three apples fell from the sky; one for our story’s heroes, one for the person who told their tale, and one for those who listened and promise to share. And with that, they all achieved their hearts’ desires. Let us now step up and settle into their thrones.” (Gökten üç elma düşmüş; biri onların, biri anlatanın, diğeri de dinleyenlerin başına. Onlar ermiş muradına, biz çıkalım kerevetine.)
spanish: and they lived happily and ate partridges (y vivieron felices y comieron perdices)
also: red goldfinch, this story has finished (colorín colorado, este cuento se ha acabado)
serbian: čiča-miča gotova priča (nonsense word - nonsense word the tale is done)
or
I živeli su srećno i zadovoljno do kraja života (and they lived happily and contentedly until the end of their lives; basically hea)
german: “and if they haven’t died yet, they live on to this day” (und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, dann leben sie noch heute)
russian: “and i was there, drank honey-beer, and only made my moustache wet*” (И я там был; мед-пиво пил — и усы лишь обмочил) OR “so the fairytale ends, and those who listened, they did great” (Так и сказке конец, а кто слушал молодец)
*meaning that the narrator didn’t get to actually drink the beer, rip
