OH NO MY HEART :’)

Some fanart I did during @chongoblog‘s hardcore minecraft streaml. Unfortunetly he ended before I could upload it :( but I enjoyed watching him live for the first time.

Biden will reinstate rule protecting transgender students’ use of bathrooms on day one (...and there is more!)

Fox News  reports that President-elect Biden is prepared to sign nearly a dozen executive orders on his first day in the Oval Office, one of them will be to reinstate a federal guidance that is to protect trans students in public schools.

This means that trans teens will be allowed  to use bathrooms, locker rooms and other school facilities matching their gender identity.

After Trump revoked these “Title IX protections,” it has been left to states to make their own rules on the issue.

Biden is expected to revoke  all  the anti-LGBTQA regulations of the Trump-administration.

Biden’s site, jobiden.com, says this about trans people:

Donald Trump and Mike Pence have given hate against LGBTQ+ individuals safe harbor and rolled back critical protections for the LGBTQ+ community. 

By blocking the ability of transgender individuals to openly serve their country, denying LGBTQ+ people access to critical health care, proposing policies allowing federally funded homeless shelters to turn away transgender people and federally funded adoption agencies to reject same-sex couples, and failing to address the epidemic of violence against transgender people—particularly transgender women of color—the Trump-Pence Administration has led a systematic effort to undo the progress President Obama and Vice President Biden made. 

The Biden administration promises to:

Reaffirm that the Civil Rights Act prohibits employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. 

Support transgender and non-binary people in the workforce.

Stop employment discrimination in the federal government.

Reverse the transgender military ban.

End the misuse of broad exemptions to discriminate.

Affirm one’s gender marker and expand access to accurate identification documents.

Guarantee transgender students have access to facilities based on their gender identity.

Protect LGBTQ+ students from sexual assault, harassment, and bullying.

Work to end suicide among young LGBTQ+ individuals.

Combat the epidemic of violence against transgender women of color.

Ban so-called “conversion therapy.

Expand mental health and suicide prevention services for LGBTQ+ individuals.

Increase safety for incarcerated transgender individuals. 

Advance an inclusive human rights agenda that promotes LGBTQ+ rights by integrating them within a broad human rights agenda.

…and more (details here).

See also: 

It Looks Like the Biden Presidency Will Be a Force for Good for Transgender People World Wide

Biden Picks a Transgender Woman,  Rachel Levine, as Assistant Health Secretary

Photo via Kuhlmann, MSC/Wikimedia Commons

I am legit going to show this to anyone who ever says to me"Disney is not a bad company! They're loved and inspired children for decades".

Yeah?

Well they are now stealing those inspired works

Disney Wants Your Stuff. (No, I’m serious, they literally say you own the copyright to your fanwork until they say that THEY own it, i.e. Welcome to the new Disney TOS, Baby.

First up, the link, so chill already: https://disneytermsofuse.com/  Your relevant and terrifying passage(s) are the entirety of Section 7. Go read it. I’ll wait.

Now. First thing to understand is that the legal language within the new TOS *implies* that Disney is only referring to people who use its services, people who clicked and agreed to this new TOS. But it’s implication only. That’s not what this TOS actually says.

This TOS spends a lot of time defining fanworks, or as they call it, User Generated Content.

They want to make it clear that,

a) You totally have the right to make User Generated Content (UGC) all you want.

b) You can put that UGC anywhere you want, whether they own the site or someone else does. What matters is that you’ve put that UGC in a publically accessible place…like, oh, AO3.

c) Disney spends a few breaths saying that the creator of the UGC owns the copyright to that UGC…except if you read those words carefully, they’re not guaranteeing you anything, because THEY own the copyright.

d) Disney then says, since they own the copyright to your UGC, they can literally do anything they want with it. They can steal it, crib it, use the entire thing as their own, make money off of it, reprint it, ANYTHING–and you do not get credit. You do not get paid. You do not get acknowledgement. You might get a DMCA telling you take down your UGC because it is now *their* content that they’re selling and how dare you steal from them. (No, I’m not kidding.)

e) Nobody seems to know a fucking thing about this.

f) The bullshit on Twitter over May the Fourth was just a smokescreen, sorry. https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/28/21238909/disney-star-wars-maythe4th-hashtag-copyright-contract-twitter

Disney doesn’t want your Tweets. They just wanted to see who was paying attention, and how, and if they could get away with it. (Yes, they did go after someone who reposted Disney’s own tweets. No more information on that yet.)

g) Yes, you should absolutely take this seriously. You should be terrified, because how many fan content creators have the bank to fight this if their “copyrighted content” that Disney specifies is still *their* copyrighted content is stolen? OTW exists for this very reason, but this is fucking Disney. They. Own. Almost. Everything. In. The. Corporate. United. States. Entertainment. Industry.

h) No, your MCU, Star Wars, Pixar, Disney animated films, ANY such fanworks, are not safe. If Disney likes it, they will take it. If you say they can’t, they’ll point to their new site-wide TOS and say that they can. Is that legal? Don’t actually know, but think about who’s in the White House right now. Think about who he’d support. Yes, the Library of Congress and the House of Reps are supposed to be in charge, but how long until we could push for them to deal with/fix this shit?

i) Yes, Disney is probably trying to steal content in order to survive the pandemic, seeing as their major sources of revenue (parks and movies) aren’t happening right now.

j) Yes, I will be removing my Star Wars content. I didn’t work on that fucking story for nearly 20 years just for some corporate shill to fucking steal it.

k) Someone who currently wishes to remain anonymous has pinged an OTW peep to see if they’re aware.

l) If they weren’t so specific to point out that they really do mean Any Public Place, I wouldn’t be so concerned…but it doesn’t. This isn’t just about their services. This is about the entire fucking internet.

That’s it. You guys now know everything I know, so no, I wouldn’t be able to answer any of your questions. I suggest spreading the word, if only so someone else with more information can step up and reassure us that Disney can’t do what they believe they can do…

…but it’s fucking DISNEY. They nearly destroyed Public Domain in the United States over fucking Mickey Mouse a hundred years ago. Do you really think they’re going to say, “Oh, sorry, our bad” about this?

Growing up with your starters

Artist:  esasi8794 / Twitter

my sense of humor: getting birthday cards with the wildly incorrect age on it for people

30 Days of Doodles - 2021

It’s Day 1 of March which means it’s Day 1 of 30 Days of Doodles!

If you join in, please do tag your posts with #30DaysOfDoodles and #30DaysOfDoodles2021 so everyone can find and support them! I look forward to seeing what you create! :)

Today’s prompt: doodle a familiar character with a new hairstyle

This is Emiko. She’s an old OC that I’ve redesigned.  Here’s some background info about her.

Her name is Emiko, but some people would call her Emily or Em. She's of Japanese American descent.

She is a retrograde amnesiac, remembering nothing but her name and the smell of home cooking, wherever that may be. This is all a result of when she fell from the sky after a forced operation to give her superpowers. Now, on a quest to regain her memory, she joins a dysfunctional team of ninja vigilantes to fight crime with her newfound superpower of mental constructs under the alias, Emerald.

Jason and Emiko sitting in the park gazing up at the night sky.

"It's the all the little things in life that make it beautiful"

-unknown

Jason and Emiko, watching Netflix and chilling in Lockdown.

Stream art from @marblecantus Pokemon White Nuzlocke randomizer stream. It’s a bit unfinished because I was super tired, but I think it doesn’t look too bad