it’s a hard mentality to counter! i also find it similarly hard to indulge silly creative impulses because of the constant pressure that everything i do has to be “productive“ or lead to something. so much of life has this pretext of observation hanging over it now. i really feel ya there ✊😔

People never really talk about the joy of just writing something stupid for your own edification which is Free and U can do it right now

just wonder traded for one of these guys i’ll send him your way chief 🫡

really good thread! i work in US energy law and this distilled a lot of my feelings on datacenters very succinctly. thank you for taking the time to write it!

the point i’m making isn’t just about fanfic; it’s about implications for anything produced that is “substantially similar“ to the original content. things like modding for video games, fandom zines, etc. you aren’t reading the context of what im saying; you’re just wanting to argue with me :/

me trying to get my mummy glamour together:

have you seen the cloth blacksmith chestwrap? it’s an instant classic glam piece imo

This was kind of already dangerous territory (look at dolphin emulator and ffxiv’s mare lamentorum mod) but something like this makes enforcing claims there potentially easier if you have a particularly litigious copyright holder

huge