All stories are true. Some just never happened

“When you’re president, as opposed to the head of a private equity firm, then your job is not simply to maximize profits. Your job is to figure out how everybody in the country has a fair shot… And so if your main argument for how to grow the economy is ‘I knew how to make a lot of money for investors,’ then you’re missing what this job is about.”

President Obama on why Mitt Romney’s record in the private sector matters (via barackobama)

An interesting question was just posed to me while I was browsing a kink meme for Thor…

momentsofweakness:

…the problem at hand was an abandoned fic. The author had ceased writing their story and had completely disappeared, no word on if they wished to continue the story and unable to be located as they were anon.

Another author, enamored with the original story and upset that it had been abandoned, asked if anyone would be mind if they took up the story in the original author’s stead and finished it themselves, so as to give the story a conclusion.

(The rest under a ‘cut’ because, damn this got long.)

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Hi! I hope you don’t mind me throwing out my (really long) two cents because this got me thinking.

On one hand I think you’re right and that a fanfiction author (or moderator) has to be pretty damn hypocritical to refuse other fanfiction writers to write things based off or inspired by their story. On the other hand. Fandom is an iffy place with no real rules. We have to tread carefully and be respectful (if we want fandom to be a good place that is. I know there is lots of wank, but that wank happens exactly because people aren’t careful and respectful). With an anon author who can’t be reached and a fic that isn’t finished… It’s hard to to think of a way to be respectful to the first author’s work when you can’t getting their opinion or consent. Especially in a work that is not finished because then it’s not an alternate ending fanfiction type scenario but almost is more of a hijacking I’ll finish it for you.

I don’t know. I think disallowing fanfiction of fanfiction is extremely hypocritical, but in a place where there are no copyright protection or anything except general guidelines and respect I think erring on the side of caution when you can’t even talk to the author isn’t a bad thing?

TL;DR: On it’s face the decision is hypocritical, but not unreasonable because fandom especially has to PLAY NICELY with each other.

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simpledisneythings:

Pocahontas makes a new friend.

nyah86:

Summary: What if Sherlock was never real? What if he has always been a figurement of John Watson’s traumatized mind? A cure to ease John’s loneliness after the war.

I promised you I’d do a trailer to this amazing story/concept/idea and BAM! here it is…

kurtcountertenor:

louisecriss:

When Kurt Met Blaine (Trailer)

If the Klaine story was a movie, this is what I think the trailer would look like.

DOWNLOAD LINK

Just take a moment and smile.

Filed under: Things I don’t need. Or would look good in. But still might desperately want.

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grenouille-kun:

I just finished re-watching R.O.D. the TV with a friend. It is honestly one of my favorite anime although scrolling through the ROD tag on tumblr, I noticed many fans lamenting how it is an under appreciated series. I’m apt to agree. Hence, some long overdue fanart. While my initial plan was to include all the awesome-tastic characters, my lack of skills filtered it down to the Paper Sisters. They are amazing in their own right and it’s so so very hard to pick a favorite so I won’t! :D

raeistic:

foreverkorra:

aka how Korra got KO’d by a puff.

I laughed wayyy too hard at this.

saezutte:

suzelle3782:

morgan-leigh:

emmadelosnardos:

Photo spread for an imaginary Sherlock Holmes of the Harlem Renaissance.

Wentworth Miller as Sherlock Holmes.

Idris Elba as Dr. John Watson.

1925: Harlem, New York City.

Sherlock Holmes is the light-skinned, blue-eyed son of a Black mother and White father, a man who has grown up with a foot in both worlds. By necessity, he is an astute observer of those around him, and frequently ‘passes’ as White. Holmes puts his powers of observation and his chameleonic tendencies to good use as a private detective in New York City, where he moves back and forth between downtown (White) Greenwich village and uptown (Black) Harlem, investigating illegal gambling rings, brothels, and speakeasies, where he is not above sampling the wares himself.

Dr. John Watson is a Black doctor who served in an integrated regiment during the First World War. One of the few commissioned Black officers in the U.S. Army, he occupied a respected position in the Forces, only to return to the harsh reality of a segregated society when the war ends. Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Watson moves to Harlem in order to establish a private practice, where he can serve the up-and-coming Black middle class of New York City.

In a divided city, Harlem is where the classes and the races meet:

A major element of Uptown allure was its enormous social fluidity; in this urban free zone …the elite not only frequented public restaurants, but basement speakeasies, where they mingled not only with non-Social Register customers but with people of color.

From Hide/Seek (p. 28):

Prohibition…closed bars and dance clubs in white areas, but permitted them to fluorish in black neighborhoods like Harlem. Many white citizens first came to Harlem during Prohibition, crossing a profound racial divide that made Harlem essentially a black city in the midst of a white one. There, they first encountered Harlem’s personalities, social mores, and artistic culture.

The culture these white tourists found in Harlem was notably more tolerant of sexual difference, giving many whites their first taste of an unashamed, well-integrated queer culture. In venues like the Cotton Club, openly queer performers regularly entertained, and as the evening’s entertainment was already in violation of the law under Prohibition, it encouraged a sexual openness unavailable in other parts of the city.

Harlem thus became the center of many white homosexuals’ existence…For many white queers, Harlem was a ‘sexual playground’, and its poverty, un- and under-employment, and racial tensions were less germane to their experiences of the place than its erotic possibilities…

Fresh from the Army, Dr. Watson is thrust into this fervent neighborhood, into a Harlem where black and white, male and female, queer and straight, collide and converge. But his own understanding of himself, his race, and even his sexuality, is challenged when he meets Sherlock Holmes, who is investigating the death of a pair of singers at the Cotton Club. Originally called in to identify the cause of their deaths, the staid and sober Watson is thrown into a world where nothing is as it appears at first glance: a world where black is white and white is black, where the police pay pimps for the right to the street, and where moonshine flows like milk and honey. To make matters worse, the whole investigation is led by Holmes, a brilliant, crazy man who plays the dangerous game of passing as white in the city that never sleeps.

Thanks to AfroGeekGoddess for suggesting Wentworth Miller as a possible Sherlock Holmes in this canon.

This is an insanely good idea and I want it on my screen NOW. Seriously though, this is an amazing pitch for a movie/book/show/whatever. Someday when I am in charge of the world I am going to get shit like this made, and it is going to be GREAT.

(Suzanne, if you haven’t read this, DO SO IMMEDIATELY.)

HELP

SOMEBODY HELP

THIS IDEA JUST KILLED ME DEAD.

BUT REALLY I WOULD DIE OF HAPPINESS IF THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED. IDRIIIIIIISSSSSSSSS.

THIS IS THE GREATEST THING I HAVE EVER READ.

The sad thing is, Donna probably saw that funny man on the telly carry the torch and didn’t think much of it.

Let’s be honest. Donna is probably vacationing off in Madagascar or something and has absolutely no idea that they Olympics are being held in London this year.

(Source: thewrongkhristol)