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1. about 7 hours ago on Heart of the City

   Sounds yum! I love the family cooking in this strip. I’m confused about the aioli though. Does it mean something different in the US? I can totally understand using store bought mayo as a cheat instead of emulsifying yourself. It’s not exactly olive oil, but whatever. But this one doesn’t even contain much garlic? For a sauce that is literally nothing but olive oil and garlic that seems a like a strange choice.

2. about 19 hours ago on Wallace the Brave

   I think a lot of people maybe think of stories like Disney suing a child care facility for their mural on the wall, but A) Disney isn’t normal and they have the money to be able to stay not normal beyond reason and sanity and B) at the end of the day a child care facility is still for profit and they didn’t try to be transformative, they just wanted Mickey on their wall. Not even Disney goes after fanart and fanfiction. They shrug and accept it just like everybody else. Everybody can go on AO3 right now and read about Elsa from Frozen falling in love with Jack Frost from DreamWorks’ Rise of the Guardian with no trouble whatsoever and Deviantart is full of Disney fanart.

   Don’t take the discourse here too much to heart. I don’t think it was meant mean spirited, but out of a genuine believe that you could get into trouble for your fanart. And you have to remember that this is a fan space, not a fandom space. You are, by and large, speaking to a very different clientele here.

3. about 20 hours ago on Wallace the Brave

   As a fandom girl for decades I find the take in this thread really strange. But I suppose it’s a lesson that indeed a lot of people are completely unaware that fanart and fanfic and similiar fanworks A) exists and B) are permissible as long as they are transformative and not-for profit. By and large fanworks are usually excellent advertising for the original work and many original creators don’t just tolerate, but cherish them.

4. about 20 hours ago on Wallace the Brave

   Fanfic absolutely doesn’t have to stay below the radar. There are huge archives out there. Archive of Our Own even won the Hugo Award in the category of Best Related work. It is in the spirit and within the law of fair use. The times where something like Anne Rice’s deplorable, and frankly, unhinged behavior towards fanfiction writing fans was acceptable, are thankfully over.

5. 12 days ago on Heart of the City

   It’s available through the way back machine. The full link would get removed so I’ll try this way. Remove all the spaces in the URL: web. archive. org/web/20200507161225/htt ps: //twitter. com/oheysteenz/status/1256616474975838215

6. 14 days ago on Heart of the City

   It’s a chili-inspired fast stew. Chili for short. This is a perfectly fine stew to make for a beginner. All the things you mention take time, even more so if you only have very basic cooking skills. Time is a luxury many people don’t have when they have to feed a hungry family after a full day’s work.

   It’s not gourmet and I agree that the cooking time is awfully short even for a shortcut stew and there are some easy things I personally would add to juzz it up a little. But it’s perfectly fine. Please don’t food shame when people take the time to try and get something reasonably healthy and good on the table. Many don’t have the time or the skills or the time to learn said skills and it’s great that they try their best.

7. 25 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   Spud, is that you?

8. 26 days ago on Heart of the City

   The reruns made me realize just how much the art style changed since the beginning. This one is cute, but I think I like the current maturer one a lot better.

9. 26 days ago on Heart of the City

   No, because this week is apparently a rerun.

10. 27 days ago on Heart of the City

    I thought it was a comic, that’s why I asked. But the original poster cleared it up. They meant Arnold Schwarzenegger and he did this in real life.