“I want to be cremated, and I want my ashes blown in Uri Geller’s eyes.”

-James Randi, Professional Magician, Skeptic, and Debunker of Paranormal Phenomenon

werewolf-cuddles:

anti-shippers stop calling ships that are clearly not incest “incest” challenge (impossible)

“They’ve known each other since they were kids!”

That’s not incest, Janet. Throughly history most people married people from their communities that they knew from childhood, Janet. Siblings and peers are two entirely different relationships, Janet.

i hate you tyler henry i hate you sylvia browne i hate you john edwards i hate you uri geller i hate you thomas john i hate you long island medium i hate you fake psychics (which is a redundant term because all psychics are fake) i hate you mediums i hate you people who exploit grieving families for financial and personal profit i hate you people who use dead loved ones as meat puppets to make yourselves look like you have psychic powers i hate you mindless simps who say it’s okay to lie about speaking to a dead person if it’s giving a grieving person comfort i hate you people who think it’s okay for a “psychic” to be opening their mouths about missing persons when they have no fucking idea what they’re talking about

werewolf-cuddles:

west-tokyo-incidents:

nangbaby:

west-tokyo-incidents:

anxious-mess19:

nangbaby:

Also, how can you be pro-blocking AND proshipping but anti-creator boundaries?

If a creator of a content sets a boundary with said content and tells people not to interact with it a certain way, then if you believe in boundaries, you respect and follow that rule. It’s not censorship for you to not write porn if the creator explicitly says they do not want porn allowed of their characters. Creators have rights to their content, since they created it.

However, if you feel people should be able resist against these type of boundaries because freedom is more important than a creator’s wishes, then you can’t in any sort of consistency bar people from your content by blocking them.

It sincerely bothers me because I do not get how you can block someone and prevent them from even seeing your content, but you step all over what other content creators do and get away with it because they can’t easily block you.

I really wish someone would explain this to me so I don’t have to keep expressing my confusion over and over again.

Because once you put content out in the public, you cannot control people

Telling people what to do with your work is censorship

And inviting copyright into Fandom space *will* lead to Fandom begin erased, and it’s alredy lead to a multitude of lawsuits

There’s also a distinct diffrence between blocking people for your comfort and policing what people make

You make the exemple of porn, but let’s take HP as an exemple, JKR doesn’t wish for her shit to have positive trans rep in it, or gay charthers, should we make more transphobic content? Or should we ignore her?

Creators should not police their Fandoms, if they’re uncomfortable they can easily block the tags, and untagged content should be reported

It *is* easy for content creators to avoid content they don’t like, just as it’s easy for us

Do we need to bring the Anne Rice incident back up? Have you all forgotten the ancient texts? Don’t engage with your Fandom. I am a creator, I’m writing a book and I fully expect it to fly out of my control seconds after publishing.

When authors block other Tumblr users, they’re basically Anne Rice-ing it up on an individual scale, except they’re actually taking the original content out of your hands.

No. No, they’re not. They’re controlling their own personal environment, not policing the public environment on a large scale and setting a precedent for corporations like Disney and other larger, more powerful entities to bring the hammer of law down on people for making content they don’t like on the minorities who are fans of their content.

We should not be asking about this. Like at all. When you put your content out to the public for its consumption and it becomes large enough to have a fandom, you lose control over any derivative works what aren’t monetized. Copyright only protects you from others making money off your stuff.

If we make it anything else, we are telling corporations that they get to tell us what we can and can’t create. There is a bigger picture here than one small creator’s feelings, as much as it hurts. If your stuff enters Fair Use public space, it is fair to use. Because if you can legally start telling people not to make something of your characters in your small fandom, then big people can start telling their big fandoms not to make anything with their characters, and fandom is dead.

And as for you comparing people blocking to what she did, I don’t think you even know what Anne Rice was doing. She was trying to police her fandom from making gay fanfiction of her characters. She was spitting homophobia into her fandom. Do not compare small blog owners to what she was doing, that is a horribly skewed view of what she did. If we hadn’t won that fight, we wouldn’t be doing half the stuff we can do now. Proship would include the vast majority of all fanfiction now.

Look, here’s the thing. If something exists, then whether the creator likes it or not, people are gonna make porn of it.

The creator can make their discomfort known, set the boundary for acceptable interactions with them, but they can’t actually control what other people do with their characters.

The least the people making pornographic content against the creator’s wishes can do is to not show it to them, respect their boundaries by keeping it out of their sight, so that unless the creator outright goes looking for it, there won’t be a problem.