Not just that, but copyrighting clothing is generally not possible. Clothing’s utilitarian function in the eyes of the court renders it exempt unless it has features so unique to them as to warrant being considered copyrightable. Most cases that go before the courts are about stealing images and putting them on…

It’s hard to find time to learn microbiology when you’re hand-etching your dissertation on a vagina gem.

From the site (12 Reasons to Shove a Rock up your Magic Portal*):

In 3 weeks my parents are visiting and I’ve decided it’s probably time to tell them I’ve been seeing someone for the last year and a half. We’d actually been in a long-distance relationship for something like 10 years but for a myriad of reasons we kept that to ourselves (mostly to stop hearing “oh, those never…

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She’s great and I’m really glad she did this video.

Meh. Mostly this just reminds me how hideous and out of place that dollar store butter dress looks.

Preaching to the choir here but reaaaaaallllllyy sick of people trying to ruin my favorite fairy tale with their pretentious, uninformed armchair psychoanalysis.

It’s not a zero sum game. Artists can use the internet to create publicity stemming from this wrong AND we can be outraged that this kind of thing keeps happening and companies hand-wave it away as “not my fault, an intern did it.”

Because people are capricious. This is systemic to the industry, to any arts industry. I’ve known so many people who’ve had sample pieces stolen or uncredited by magazines, pin designs stolen, patches stolen, because it’s industry standard to get away with this kind of thing. It’s infinitely easier for an intern to…

I highly doubt it was done intentionally.

It’s always the fault of “an intern” and I NEVER believe them. I’ve worked in studios and I’ve known a lot of artists who’ve worked for a lot of companies. It’s almost never “some intern’s” idea. Usually someone will say “I want something like this/I want this exact thing” and then hand it to an intern for whom…

Isn’t “thousand island dressing” basically just “Russian dressing?”

Let me tell you what the US health system needs a big fucking target on it for reform that not enough people talk about: dental. I do not know why dental is treated as something separate from the rest of health insurance, but it’s so god damned important. People DIE from lack of dental care, poor tooth health or…

Have men ever had to try on the red carpet? It’s good to be reminded Depp always dressed like an elderly gay windchime.

There’s definitely a weird/patronizing reaction of having “lost someone to the dark side” when someone take a salaried or corporate gig. You may have guessed my profession as well, and I’m relieved basically no one I know thinks this way. Partly, I think, because we’re always all hustling for money, and partly…

There’s two pervasive, infuriatingly romanticized, ideas in the popular consciousness that devalue creative work:

I spent ten years as a freelance artist without insurance. Just about every other freelance artist I’ve known lived in the same boat, and for the most part that put preventative care out of everyone’s reach. It also meant that if you had a chronic condition, well best of luck. I know so many people, even those with…

So what? No one is saying the relationship was illegal, just icky.