If you’re European, in a couple of weeks you will be denied any and all access to fandom contents on Tumblr and everywhere else on the internet. Here’s why.
On June, 20th the JURI of European Parliament approved of the articles 11 and 13 of the new Copyright Law. These articles are also known as the “Link Tax” and the “Censorship Machines” articles.
Articles 13 in particular forces every internet platform to filter all the contents we upload online, ending once and for all the fandom culture. Which means you won’t be able to upload any type of fandom works like fan arts, fan fictions, gif sets from your favourite films and series, edits, because it’s all copyrighted material. And you won’t also be able to share, enjoy or download other’s contents, because the use of links will be completely restricted.
But not everything’s lost yet. There’s another round of voting scheduled for the early days of July.
What you can do now to save our internet, is to share these informations with all of your family members and friends, and to ask to your MEP (the members of the European Parliament from your country) to vote NO at the next round, to vote against articles 11 and 13.
Here you can find more news and all the details to contact your MEP:
i’m not good at words right now so i’m not sure how well i’ll express this but…
i slept through the time when i should’ve taken my meds, because i have a dumb head cold. i took my painkiller, but i was not going to take the rest of them, because i wasn’t sure which ones are ok to take late. i knew i was having depression and anxiety feelings because of not taking my lexapro, but i was prepared to just tough it out.
barb persuaded me to take the meds anyway, aside from the concerta which would’ve kept me awake all night.
about a half hour after taking the lexapro, the world changed.
it was like a discordant melody gradually coming into harmony, or a dark and desaturated film becoming bright and sharp. you don’t realize just how distorted it is until the distortion clears up.
i hadn’t exactly forgotten what depression was like, but the contrast was startling. i knew thoughts like “i don’t deserve to have the full-spectrum lights on” were fucked up, but when you’re down in it you just don’t have the perspective to appreciate how enormously fucked up that whole depressive paradigm is. the idea that it’s possible to not deserve sunlight is just so bizarre, but you can live for years inside a world where it makes sense, and that’s kind of terrifying. i lived my entire life inside that world until the age of, what, 35? how did i even survive?
anyone who would tell you not to medicate depression is basically giving you the “don’t become addicted to water” speech from fury road. fuck those assholes. they’re just so wrong.
Plume de Lynx 