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paying attention to it

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chelonates https://chelonates.tumblr.com/post/702481773576224768/i-dont-think-we-need-to-be-meaner-about-marvel :

i don’t think we need to be “meaner” about marvel films i think we need to just stop fucking talking about marvel films altogether. frankly.

like this idea that pushback against toothless insufferable mass media is met with a let people enjoy things-esque hostility has created a class of people who are convinced that their being able to notice that marvel at al. is a bland unimaginative incurious tool of social placation is tantamount to, like, serious countercultural work. serious countercultural work is divesting from hegemony and pouring our energy into alternative sites of creation and criticism. spending every iota of your mental energy dissecting why xyz mass media du jour leaves you unsatisfied retains a cultural discourse arena wherein xyz mass media du jour is all we have to talk about, all we’re allowed to engage with.

the best thing you can do to end the tyranny of marvel is to watch other films and never ever talk about a marvel film again (Your picture was not posted)

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always been people, cagainosa, really

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girderednerve https://girderednerve.tumblr.com/post/663687449967542272/girardo-cagapisto-a-twelfth-century-milanese :

“Girardo Cagapisto [a twelfth-century Milanese civic official] is significant for another reason, too: his name. It has not been stressed by most historians that so many of the Milanese political leadership had surnames beginning Caga- or Caca-, that is to say ‘shit.’ The niceties of earlier generations of scholarship led them to neglect this, and older historians at most refer to it glancingly and uneasily […] but it was certainly important for Milanese identity and self-representation. Cagapisto probably means 'shit-pesto’ – as, for example, in the pasta sauce. In the case of the two brothers Gregorio and Guilielmo Cacainarca, again both iudices and active consuls between 1143 and 1187, their surname means 'shit-in-a-box’. That of Arderico Cagainosa, consul in 1140 and 1144, means 'shit-in-your-pants.’ Other prominent families included the Cagalenti, 'shit-slowly,’ the Cacainbasilica, 'shit-in-the-church,’ the Cacarana, 'shit-a-frog,’ the Cagatosici, 'toxic-shit,’ and there were many more…. It is important to recognise that shit-words were not taboo in Europe in this period; medieval Europe did not ever match the squeamishness of polite society in the years 1750-1950 in this respect. The Investiture Dispute, for example, has clear examples of Hildebrand being called Merdiprand and similar by ecclesiastical polemicists on the opposing side. But this in itself shows that shit-names were at least insulting, in many contexts, in our period. Not always in Milan, though, evidently. The earthy sensibility shown by local naming, I would go so far as to say, is one of the major Milanese contributions to the 'civic’ culture of the twelfth century; and it was both new and, as they must have soon realised, aggressive to outsiders.”

• Christopher Wickham, Sleepwalking into a New World (2015), p.51-2 (Your picture was not posted)

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American besties if you go onto covidtest.gov you can order 4 free tests for your household

Guess what I just did?

you can also start ordering them from the post office again!

COVID Home Tests | USPS https://special.usps.com/testkits

(thanks, Congress!) (Your picture was not posted)

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youtube recommended a Lord of the Dance performance from 1998 to me and i said “sure what the hell” and it’s the most dramatic thing i’ve ever seen in my LIFE

it started with a bunch of robes figures walking onstage and a girl in a golden outfit playing the flute among them for like. 2 entire minutes. and now there’s just a single guy onstage serving an absolutely earth-shattering amount of cunt. i’m living for it (Your picture was not posted)

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plagiarism, amazon, self publishing

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galvanizedfriend https://galvanizedfriend.tumblr.com/post/703842223634137088/it-has-just-been-brought-to-my-attention-thanks :

It has just been brought to my attention (thanks, deehellcat https://tmblr.co/MDYvXYZHqQ7PljwZRmFTAbQ!) that someone by the pen name of J.D Geraghty and Plush Books https://www.amazon.com.br/s?i=digital-text&rh=p_27%3AJ.D+Geraghty&s=relevancerank&text=J.D+Geraghty&ref=dp_byline_sr_ebooks_1 has copied one of my fics and published it as an original book on Amazon. I was told it was We’ll Always Have New Orleans, but I couldn’t actually find that one on their list. I did find The Wolf, https://www.amazon.com.br/gp/product/B0BMQ5D91M?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tkin_7&storeType=ebooks though. They didn’t change anything, even the summary is the same (even the font on the “cover”).

This person has HUNDREDS of books on Amazon. On the supernatural/vampires/werewolves section alone I saw other KC stories, even one I recognized https://www.amazon.com.br/gp/product/B0BN2TRKXR?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tkin_17&storeType=ebooks by willowaus https://tmblr.co/MpAICE3m2HKHdH842-NJMEg (being sold on print form as well). So I highly suggest that anybody with published fics out there, be it on tumblr, wattpad, AO3, anything, check this person’s profile on Amazon. A quick twitter search showed me they’ve been identified as stealing stuff from other fandoms as well. There are definitely some Teen Wolf and other Vampire Diaries stuff there. Some of it seems to be rather recent (The Wolf was published on Amazon this November). They’ve also published some of this stuff on Barnes and Noble.

I am trying to figure out how to file a plagiarism complaint on Amazon. The form is not really that intuitive, so I’m not sure how to do it exactly. If anybody has dealt with this before and has any idea on how to address it, I’m all ears. I would really love some tips on how to procede here, because I have no clue and am kind of in shock right now.

Also, would really appreciate a reblog here so that other authors out there might become aware of their stories being stolen. (Your picture was not posted)