Give 'Em Hell, Kid

Cruxified•†

This project is completely created and managed by a 17 year old girl in argentina.

Lonnie Harbert, a 19 year old in New York, no job no study and in the middle of a depressive period. After an unlucky episode with a demon, she's rescued and hired by a mysterious team as a Cruxie; In simpler terms, as a demon hunter.

This story mixes guilt, regret, madness and religious trauma with a passion component.

I started this storyline like in 2021, just as two ocs and a VERY slow building world. Until now it is developing very slowly, but anyways, every bit of interaction would help me a lot to make this happen. Would be my biggest achievement. So, to everybody reading this, lots of thanks..<3

Cruxified•†

This project is completely created and managed by a 17 year old girl in argentina.

Lonnie Harbert, a 19 year old in New York, no job no study and in the middle of a depressive period. After an unlucky episode with a demon, she's rescued and hired by a mysterious team as a Cruxie; In simpler terms, as a demon hunter.

This story mixes guilt, regret, madness and religious trauma with a passion component.

I started this storyline like in 2021, just as two ocs and a VERY slow building world. Until now it is developing very slowly, but anyways, every bit of interaction would help me a lot to make this happen. Would be my biggest achievement. So, to everybody reading this, lots of thanks..<3

He didn't do it.

The cops very clearly planted evidence on him because they had to make an arrest because all eyes were on them and whoever actually did the deed was making them look stupid.

Why would the real killer hero have kept the weapon on his person and traveled two states over while carrying it and a manifesto in his bag, conveniently turning the crime into a federal matter? The same guy whose bag they found in a park, filled with monopoly money? Why did the police turn off their bodycams, take Luigi's stuff, drive a block away, turn their bodycams back on, go back into the restaurant, and then arrest him?

Like this young person didn't even know about goddamn Gutenberg which is a SHAME. I linked to it and they went "aw yiss time to do a theft" and I was like "I mean yo ho ho and all that, sure, but. you know gutenberg is entirely legal, right?"

Project Gutenberg is a gigantic collection of books that are in the public domain.  You can read the books through the site or you can download them in various formats so you can get the format you prefer for your eReader of choice.

It is free. 

It is legal.

I was reviewing the list of the top 100 books downloaded yesterday and I saw a fair few that I had to read for college classes - so if you’re a college student and your professor assigns you to read Plato or any number of older works, check here before you buy a copy.

If you look at the first reblog from me I also recommended a few other resources, most of which were from www.archive.org, home of the Wayback Machine! They run openlibrary.org, where you can check out ebooks of some public domain titles! They even have the Bone series by Jeff Smith!

And archive.org itself has all kinds of public domain media including music and movies! For Dracula fans, here's a radio show adaptation of the book, starring Orson Welles! And here's a 1920 movie adaptation of "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," starring John Barrymore, the grandfather of Drew Barrymore!

lots of writers and publishers are prepared to waive future profits for entirely petty reasons

because of this the entire works of Philip K Dick [petty writer who found himself with lots of hangers on during his life] and HP Lovecraft [his publisher - who was his wife and hated him] became public domain on their death

Sherlock Holmes entered public domain this year, it's always worth checking because you can save a fortune

book is old because it’s in

the public domain

LibriVox has free public domain audiobooks.

Public domain works in the US are:

Anything published (in the US) from 1927 or earlier (this number goes up every year for quite a while), and

Anything published between 1928 and 1963 that wasn't renewed, and

Anything published before 1989 without a proper copyright notice.

(Don't go looking for things in that third category unless you've studied a LOT about copyright law. Mostly that covers things like "weird little newsletters" and "self-published booklets" and sometimes fanzines. But most publications have a copyright notice in them.)

There's also some oddball exemptions here and there; copyright law is a tentacled mess. But those are the basic guidelines. (Except for audio. Audio has its own set of rules. It's weird.) (I mentioned tentacles, did I not? Double the amount of them you were thinking of.)

There are a lot of works from the 50s and early 60s that were not renewed, especially short stories published in magazines.

Huh