fading snow

(texting my dick guy) we gotta have sex rn i just blogged

so much cheap generic medication. reverse engineering compounds would be even more financially profitable.

fewer people dead of vaccine preventable illnesses in the global south bc the greatest barrier to distributing some vaccines like hpv is their ip

plant seeds and grafts that come from the plants instead of licensing them. don't invest so much in preventing cross contamination. more localised experimental breeding.

library of the world: every book and journal article in the world could be digitised and be searchable for every person in the world to read regardless of where they live. cheap reprint runs and local translations everywhere.

an online interface where every citation could actually lead to the text in question

freedom from the hell that is DRM software

everytime someone reverse engineered your shitty proprietary software we would all be freed from it instead of them getting DMCA'd

so much hardware would be opened up & therefore made so much cooler.

so many more songs that riff off and sample and interpolate shit from this decade instead of like 70 years ago and more analysis of music that didn't keep getting nuked off the internet

preserving movies and tv shows and games as long as someone, somewhere has the desire to host them

just go publish your fanfic/art/vid as is instead of all us pretending it isn't fanwork or begging the corporation for mercy / licensing

I am saying this as someone who has never once picked up a “popular on booktok” canva art romance novel, and rarely reads any 21st century literature at all—who finds a lot of contemporary anglophone lit to be banal, obnoxious, and utterly tedious. I couldn’t care less about the artistic merits of fanfiction as “legitimate literature” either way, and I find the “character-first” approach to storytelling most people in fandom circles employ to be reductive and a bit exhausting…

if you seriously think that the kinds of people writing gay fanfiction on ao3 about the main characters from a mainstream hollywood production are the same kinds of people who would otherwise be experimenting with the form of the novel in artistically groundbreaking ways, then I really don’t know what to tell you. and if you think the phenomenon of novels being written for the emotional (and sexual) gratification of women being derided as a perversion of an otherwise elite artform is a new phenomenon that sprung up within the past decade, then you obviously don’t know enough about the history of literature to be making these kinds of claims with such dismissive arrogance.