wings to carry on

Oh dear.

Okay, you get an answer, because at least you took the effort to write your ask out properly, even if you are hiding behind the grey, sunglassed circle.

Do I, or any fanfic author for that matter, have any legal claims to our work? No, not really, no. (Although if someone took a fic, filed off the serial number--deleted the fandom specific elements--, and then had it published for financial gain, yeah, that would be a case.)

BUT

Fandoms are built on a social contract that says we respect each others work, the effort people put into their art. We don't steal or disrespect the work of our peers. By feeding people's fanworks to AI you both steal and disprect it, and we need to make people realize that before it's too late--before fandom falls apart, because there will be no more real, actual fanworks.

Disrepectfully,

Orlissa

People who write IP content for corporations give up their copyright on a contractual basis--the company wants writing they can sell about characters/settings they own without getting entangled in royalty obligations etc, so they hire people. Who sign contracts saying they don't own what they write as part of that job.

That's why you don't own Star Wars stuff you wrote for Disney; you specifically agreed not to own it.

Writing for IP you don't own leaves you in a position where you can't legally monetize it (without taking out the Owned parts ad rebranding), but it absolutely does not automatically cede or void copyright. That is super not a thing.

SUPER not a thing, I cannot say this enough.

I can't sell my Batman fic, but neither can DC Comics without my duly authorized consent. Because they own Batman, but not the prose I composed about him.

Also consider Mikinakoos' as they're extending support beyond their traditional service areas due to the scale of this emergency!

Donations for Namaygoosisagagun First Nation:

Donations for Whitesand First Nation:

There are 760,000 Australians on the National Disability Insurance Scheme, the system that - if they feel like it and your personalised plan says you get to have it - provides funding for everything from personal hygiene care to support workers to therapies to assistive technology. It's already very hard for disabled people to get on the NDIS, regardless of your disability. It's near impossible to access most support and equipment without being on the NDIS. And the government has announced that they want that number to drop to 600,000 in four years. 160,000 of us cut off the Scheme - and countless more denied access. This will cause deaths. People will die and people will suffer because there is no safety net. The NDIS is the only option for most of us. Even private health insurance doesn't cover most of these things. Nobody will swoop in to save us.

The bill wants to give the (non disabled!) NDIS minister basically unlimited power to cut our funding. They're already planning what they'd do with that power. What rights they'll strip from us. What dignity and freedom they'll remove to make their budget look better.

The bill wants to force people to try every treatment out there before they're allowed to be on the NDIS. Including if the treatment is literally impossible to access. There’s a lot of us living in regional areas or out bush who can't just pop to the capital cities for specialists. This will especially hurt disabled First Nations people in regional and remote communities, who already experience limited access to healthcare. Oh, and it includes chemical restraint, too. The government has directly refused to exclude chemical restraint from the required process, calling it "trialling medication".

If you're australian and worried, the ABC did a good breakdown of the proposed changes.

I know australia stuff doesn't really pop up on the radar on this site, but I want everyone to know what's going on. What we're fighting for here. Your australian disabled friends might be NDIS participants fearing for their life, rights, and freedom. They might not be a participant and afraid these changes mean they never will have access. We deserve better. The government built a system with no backup plan, and now they want hundreds of thousands of disabled people to pay the price for their bad planning.

hm. this sounds kinda euphemistic.

and the taxonomic name is Amelanchier alnifolia - which in turn got us excited, because we've never seen a taxonomic name with french in it before - and it turns out to be named after a european plant called amélanchier, which comes from the occitan name amelenco

At the bar, he asked Shane like three different questions trying to get him to answer his real question, "Are you and Rose Landry still together?" without having to actually ask that question outright. With each question, Ilya gets more pointed, closer to his real question, and each time, Shane doesn't pick up on it. Ilya is ultimately forced to ask his real question to get the answer he wants.

At the cottage, Ilya talks about wanting to get rid of his Russian passport and wanting American or Canadian citizenship. Obviously, marrying an American or Canadian would expedite this process. Ilya is hinting again. Hey, I want to talk about this with you, but I don't want to say it directly, because it might reveal too much or scare you, so I'm going to hint and hope you take the bait, essentially. Except, Shane doesn't realize it's bait. He doesn't realize Ilya is hinting at anything or trying to get Shane to bring something up.

So, when Ilya says, "I could marry Svetlana," he is being more pointed about it. Getting closer to what he's really trying to say.

Shane still doesn't get it, but Ilya gets lucky this time because the way Shane responds takes the conversation in the direction Ilya wants anyway.

Honestly, the first time Ilya tried baiting Shane with this same conversation was when Shane visited him, and Ilya said he was friends with this woman who was perfect for him, and that he thought he'd get married someday, but that he thought he'd find "someone else."

So like, literally just like back in Tampa, Ilya hinted multiple times, each time needing to get more direct before getting Shane to say what Ilya really wanted him to say.

idk if this matters to anyone, except maybe for fic writing purposes?

re: Shane + the French language

tl;dr: in "Heated Rivalry" (TV), French, to show!Shane (and to Canada as a country) is not the same as what Russian is to Ilya (and Russia).

The scene in which Ilya is watching Shane talking to a reporter in French. That's the only time we hear Shane speak French. It's halting and unsure. His French accent isn't great (he can't get the French "r"s). Ilya can't understand him but is grumbling about how Shane is "perfect" and can answer questions in French.

This scene is IMMEDIATELY preceding the Nashville press conference scene. During which Ilya hesitates while trying to answer a reporter's question and Shane steps in to help.

What's so cool about those two scenes being back to back is that each scene provides additional context to the other.

Ilya is frustrated that Shane can be perfect while answering questions in his second language, not realizing that he (Ilya) is probably just as good if not better in his (Ilya's) second language than Shane is in his (Shane's). But it also shows how Ilya is nervous about sounding stupid when he speaks in his second language, so he keeps his answers so short. At the Nashville press conference: "still feeling like that's gonna happen?" / "yes." ; "what he said." It just so happens that his economy of words really works for his cocky asshole persona, but this is kind of a chicken and an egg situation. Did he decide to do the cocky asshole thing and then realize that keeping his answers short coincidentally and conveniently worked for that? Or did he start off giving short answers, realize that people were interpreting that as cocky assholery, and then lean into it because that's preferable to people thinking that he's nervous about sounding stupid in his second language?

It also shows that Shane totally knows what Ilya is going through when he hesitates after that question in Nashville. Shane has experience answering reporter's questions in his second language. Shane's answers in that interview were short, vague and kind of repetitive. How much of that is because he was just being diplomatic and how much was it because he didn't have to vocabulary in French to elaborate any further? Shane clocks the second language thing immediately because he's been there. And he's like, "I Can Fix This." And Shane uses his diplomatic, polite, media-trained, "perfect" press skills for Ilya's benefit, not to make him look bad. He even dresses it up with, "Sorry, not to jump the gun...with Rozanov's permission...my mom is the biggest Metros fan..." He made it look like he was jumping in because he was eager, because he already had an answer he was excited to share (the personal connection of his mom). He helped while making it look like Ilya was doing him a favor. And he repeated the question in his answer, to help Ilya understand and to give Ilya more time to think. This set Ilya up for the "what he said" joke, which got a laugh and allowed Ilya to keep up the cocky asshole image.

In the scene where Ilya's watching Shane be interviewed in French, Ilya is jealous. He thinks Shane is better than him. But they're SO similar, SO equally matched. Their rivalry is theatre which requires constant cooperation to maintain. They're each other's scene partners. The league and their teammates and the fans think that it's Hollander vs Rozanov. But in this Nashville press conference, we see how much it really is, as Scott says, "always Hollander and Rozanov, right?": in this together. Working together to help each other play their respective parts, just like in ep 2, onstage at the MLH awards in Las Vegas.