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in the latest cyber-news: the internet archive has lost their case against 4 major publishing houses (verge article). they’re going to appeal, but this is still a bad outcome. the fate of the internet is currently hanging in the balance because 4 multibillionare publishing groups missed out on like $15 of combined revenue during the pandemic because of the archive’s online library service. it’s so fucking stupid.

for those who don’t know what the internet archive is, it’s a virtual library full of media. books, magazines, recordings, visuals, flash games, websites - a lot of these things either don’t exist anymore or cannot be found & bought. heard of the wayback machine? that’s part of the internet archive. it is the most important website to exist, and i don’t say that lightly. if the internet archive goes down, the cultural loss will be immeasurable.

so how can you help?

boycott the publishing companies involved in this. they’re absolute ghouls, frankly, and don’t deserve a penny. the companies involved are harpercollins (imprints), wiley (imprints), penguin random house llc (imprints), and hachette book group (imprints). make sure the websites are set to your location as it may differ worldwide.

learn to torrent. download a torrent client (i recommend transmission), a vpn (i recommend protonvpn - sign up and choose the area that’s closest to your continent/country), and hit up /r/piracy on reddit for websites. with torrenting, you can get (almost) any media you want for free in high quality, with add-ons such as subtitles, and with no risks of loss. i would also recommend getting into the habit of watching stuff online for free. the less you can pay to a giant corporation, the better.

get into the habit of downloading and archiving materials. find a TB external hard drive, ideally the higher the better. it’ll probably cost around $60 for 1TB and continue to go up, but they’re so so useful. if you can’t afford a drive, look for any GB harddrives or memory sticks you have lying around and just fill them up. videos, pdfs, magazines, songs, movies, games - anything you can rip and download and fit on there, do it, because nothing is permanent.

donate to the internet archive. this is the most important option on the list. the IA relies entirely on funding, and it’s going to need more to fight this case. whatever you can donate, do it. i promise it’s helpful.

and finally…

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ROAR

by Sadan Vague

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hatsumei doodle, dont ask why

#mei hatsume #mei hatsume if she fucked #mha #bnha

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ah heck i posted this to the wrong blog. it’s been a long time since i used tumblr lol

kujou sara. i just think she's Neat...

#genshin #kujou sara

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THE DAD BRACKET: ROUND 4

Atticus Finch - To Kill a Mockingbird / Optimus Prime - Transformers

If you like what I’m doing, reblog so others can participate! And remember: Bring your favorites up, don’t bring the others down!

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happy birthday to denki kaminari lol

#denki kaminari #mha #happy birthday to that guy

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color study of Weird Purple Hair girls

#bnha #mha #kyoka jiro #lady nagant

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i also did one of them costume redesigns. my take on hearing hero: earphone jack.

#kyoka jiro #earphone jack #bnha #mha #kyouka jirou

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remember when this was a meme idk if it still is. banger mashup tbh

#mha #bnha #kamijiro #kyoka jiro #denki kaminari

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this was a fun one, i liked doing her funny hair

#mha #bnha #kyoka jiro #jiro kyoka #kyouka jirou

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i also like mei, there should have been more of her tbh

#mei hatsume #hatsume mei #hatsumei #bnha #mha

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miscellaneous kyoka jiros

#bnha #mha #kyoka jiro #kyouka jirou #shes my arbitrary fave can you tell #i like her design

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boy its been a MINUTE lmao people still use tumblr and stuff right?? i might dump some art here again just for the hell of it, i’ve mostly been posting on twitter or not at all. I ended up in bnha fandom for a bit and ended up doodling some stuff for that and doing a few commissions for it too so i’ll might dump some of the stuff i think looks any good

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also miscellaneous junkmetra doodles because of Course I still do junkmetra doodles on twitter

#overwatch #junkmetra #symmetra #junkrat #satya vaswani #jamison fawkes

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And here’s just a handful of Sym doodles I’ve posted on twitter since the last time I was here.

#overwatch #symmetra #satya vaswani #magical girl sym

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And here’s some halloween overwatch doodles also from my twitter!!

#overwatch #symmetra #junkrat #junkmetra #junkenstein #the summoner #happy october

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Dump of twitter art of my OC Saffron, a terrible little mad scientist. And/or many clones of a mad scientist?? Plus a bonus robot-fron. 

#oc #saffron sunder #cw death #cw violence #theres like a severed head somewhere in there but dont worry she got better