You have two weeks left to register folks! All registrations and deposits must be received by July 1st to guarantee your spot at camp!!
But for now, lets answer some real questions from real campers……
Q:
How long do we get in the ball pit?
A: 1 extra hour. Beyond that we promise nothing.
So basically it will be just like Dash only like without the fiscal mismanagement and with the outdoors and stuff. Yeah.
PS: My basement is filling up with balls
Q:
What is the total expected attendance?
A: We were originally hoping for at least 20, and we have 25 registered so far. There are 33 beds and we can sleep 38 people in them if we put two in all the doubles. So basically we have 12 spots left if we squish people in, 7 spots if we give people a bit of space to actually move.
Q: Are you doing this again next year/ever?
Not next year for sure, unless someone else wants to take on Camp Director duties. I mean, just for context our last Megamind fandom meetup was in 2014 and this one is in 2018. So who knows what we will be doing in four years? Sure as hell not me.
So if you’re holding off on going cuz you think you can go next year….. don’t do that. Who knows if this will ever happen again.
I really have to stop watching old movies and imagining Megamind as the lead xD
But I couldn’t help this one. The arrogant, scientifically-minded King who rules with an iron fist but has a soft side too. Not to mention he’s UNFAIRLY attractive – and the music is stunning… hmm, parallels much..? xD
Whoo… I adore Megamind’s aesthetic but if he ever wanted to change it to a “Barbarian King” then I sure wouldn’t be complaining *fans self*
Oooo! He looks so sexy… yeah I’m going to need a moment…💙💙💙 (He totally would wear that too.)
Most mad scientists in movies are actually just mad engineers
It’s always “I’ll use this gigantic laser to blow up the moon”, and never “I’ll test the effect this gigantic laser has on the moon, my hypothesis is that it will blow up”
“I’m going to test the effects of deadly neurotoxin on the island of Manhattan. The control group will be Long Island, which I will not release deadly neurotoxin upon.”
OTW Legal and our allies have been active in fighting on fan-unfriendly legal proposals in the EU. Since these proposals were introduced in 2016, OTW Legal has submitted comments opposing them and has joined in calls for action against them. We’ve managed to hold them off so far and encourage some revisions, but a key vote will be happening in the European Parliament’s JURI committee on 20/21 June that could have a significant impact on the Internet and fan sites. In particular, two provisions of the current proposal would be bad for fans. Article 11 would impose a “link tax” that would make it more expensive for many websites to operate, and Article 13 would impose mandatory content-filtering requirements on websites that host user-generated content. These provisions have been hotly debated and revised a bit since the last time we reported on them. (For more on recent revisions and debates, see these discussions by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Hogan Lovells Firm) But despite revisions, they’re still bad deals for fans. Importantly, they don’t preserve the “safe harbors” that websites rely on to operate, and they don’t include user-generated content exceptions.
Without safeguards for user-generated content, Article 13 would require your favourite websites to implement systems that monitor user-generated content and automatically remove any content that could potentially infringe upon copyright, giving publishing giants the power to block your online expression. Sites like YouTube, Tumblr, GitHub, Soundcloud, etc., could be required to block the upload of content based on whether it has been “identified” by big corporations, rather than based on its legality. The law is still being debated, and it is difficult to predict how it would impact the OTW’s projects, including the Archive of Our Own, if it is passed. Regardless of how this vote comes out, the OTW will work as hard as we can to keep the Internet fan-friendly. But we need your help. The most effective thing you can do right now is contact your Member of European Parliament. You can use one of these tools to e-mail your MEP or call your MEP to tell them that having user-generated content on the internet is important to you.
Here’s what you can tell them: Without safe harbors for user-generated content, Article 13 of the Copyright Directive would stifle free expression on the Internet. We don’t want mandatory filtering. Algorithms don’t understand limitations and exceptions to copyright like parody, public interest exceptions, fair use, or fair dealing, and we don’t want our non-infringing videos, website posts and art blocked because of a biased algorithm created by big corporations. We want the law to protect user-generated works, not harm them.
OTW Legal will keep fighting for fan-friendly laws!
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If any of my followers are in Europe, please help protect the AO3 (and other fannish archives as well)!
This creature of the see is pretty rad. It is immune to the stings of the Man O’ War jellyfish and actually rips off the jelly fish’s tentacles and uses them as a whip. The males have a specially modified third right arm which stores sperm, known as a hectocotylus. During mating, the male octopus will detach his arm place into the mantle of the female to fertilize her eggs. The male dies shortly after mating.
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