Jellypilled Fishmaxxing

So... The glass scientists ended as all my fellow fans know and while I was scrolling on Google looking for tgs yaoi (shut up I'm sure y'all do it too 😞) I stumbled upon the cover for a little comic called "The Ghostkeeper" by @johannamation. I became intrigued and started doing some research on it and started telling the rest of the TGS fandom about it.

After reading it I have to say holy fucking shit I love it so much like... I cannot recommend it enough. Unfortunately it's not a webcomic like TGS you do have to purchase a physical copy but if you can get it go read it especially if you're a TGS fan.

The main character (Dorian) is also like TGS Jekyll in a lot of ways and I really have grown to love him over the course of the story

Why am I recommending it to TGS fans specifically? Well in many ways is similar but still completely original. It's set in the Victorian era, it's full of supernatural stuff, the main character is a workaholic (just like Jekyll), also the main characters of both stories are can see ghostly figures while others can't (E.G. Jekyll can see Hyde while others can't and Dorian can do the same but which ghosts) and the best part, it's gay!!! There's Yaoi!!! And I know what you TGS fans are like for Yaoi content

I do have to put some warnings here tho if you do decide to purchase the comic

It contains slight body horror and dealing with heavy topics like trauma and grief

But yeah if you can go and read the ghost keeper it's so amazing I was actually sobbing by the end of it

yeah well I asked logan sanders and he said hes a physical representation of something deeply imbedded within you, even if it seems like he's gone he will always be there.

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.

I used the AO3 Reversi theme as a base. Get it here (GitHub) or here (AO3) 🩸

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