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..... but you have become my muse.

I have been struggling for so long, yet from the moment I met you I have done nothing but create art.

You are the Rose to my Jack, the way I want you to sprawl naked on my couch and I'll sit there with my canvas, capturing your essence. Your silhouette, your always perfect moustache, the sparkles in your eyes and the smile that makes me fall for you over and over again...

I promise to love you in all the ways that are possible, for all eternity until we're both old and wrinkly.

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.

So uh, my writing motivation is back and I am trying to write stuff along with fanfics again! So uh, obviously if I feel like no one gives a fuck about them, I might lost motivation to write altogether (yes, I do write for myself, but at the same time, I don't write them so that my writing stuff goes out into the void and gets only cricket silence) 😅

So uh...

Reblog if you'll read the fanfics for niche fandoms you most likely never heard of before (or if you're in such a niche fandom)

Reblog if you'll read the fanfics for a fandom that is popular (especially if said fandom is what you like)

Reblog if you'll read the fanfics for a fandom that isn't niche, but isn't the most popular one ever

Reblog if you'll read the fanfics even if they're not 100% canon to the fandom source (because most of my writing is AU stuff)

Reblog if you want me to post my fanfics here for people to access the link to

Reblog if you just like reading fanfics in general and want something

Reblog if it's one than more or all of the above for you

(Not forcing anyone to do this, it would just be nice to know who actually gives a fuck)

(And also, reblogs help more than likes, but you can still like the posts obviously) (I’m currently working on some fanfics :3)

(I FINALLY BEAT MY WRITING BLOCK FINALLY)

NOOO Wes, he's not the Danny you know!

Reference 🎵

So I've been trying to experiment with an aged-up Danny in my style, and this is what I've come up with so far! It's been suchhhh a struggle tho ahhh...

The outfit for adult Danny I took from @phantomwithbreakfast's college Danny lol

Forgot the timelapse button.. again.. but here's the original sketches for the colored ones:

Hey y'all! So I know I haven't posted much lately BUT college has been crazy. And related to that, for one of my classes I'm doing a study on the relationship between time within the greater fandom community and understanding of fanfiction-related jargon. Below I have the link to the survey which will just have three multiple choice questions relating to your relationship to fandom and then a list of 15 terms to define if you know them. 

Please reblog this or otherwise share the survey link with anyone you think might be interested so I can have as large of a sample size as possible for this. The form will be open until April 24th. 

Thank you all so much! 

(and yes, I will post the data when I get it all collected for all you fellow nerds)

Oh dear god I finally finished some fanart for the new episode!

It’s really scrappy but I just wanted it to exist. 😂 (I’ve been so busy freelancing lately, takes all my energy for fanart drawings).

did a merchant Jax doodles today ft. @daggerstarlight's awesome fem Jax design that definitely did not have me go insane in front of the entire discord 🙂‍↕️