THANK YOU for sharing these latest Demri pics with no watermark, I HATE when someone's EGO is larger than anything (like that other Demri pic, heavily watermarked). Yep, I get that thanks to them we have the photo (and maybe they spent money, time, etc), but if they are not the photographers, I don't get why they RUIN the photo with their name bro! So thank you, and thank you to the people who share for the love of sharing and not because of their ego.
No worries :)
Yes, this is always the forever issue... tagging the photos or not? We used to do it because people then shared with no credit, but as you say, we are not the photographers nor the copyright holders, we share the photos because we want, no one asked us to do so.
We also know that since you post them on the net they become kind of "public" and anyone can share them and not giving credit. And yes, it can be frustrating, but imagine being the photographer as you say, and see your own photo (art, sometimes) with someone's else name all over the place...
Like the editorial websites are okay, they buy the photos from the artist and we actually don't delete the watermark because maybe people want to search for their idols in these websites and thanks to having the watermark, they know about the website and can find new cool photos; or also if you are the photographer, of course; or even if you restore the photo, but other than that we don't think people should watermark their names/websites on someone else's work (but of course, we respect the ones who do, even if we disagree, we did it in the past so...)
Anyways, people should always give credit too, as someone has spent their money and time, just for respect. It is what? Just a couple of more minutes of when you are creating the post? (and nothing if you reblog! as the website will be shown). And for the same reason, maybe someone shares photos of their 5 or 6 idols (as we do) and maybe you don't like one, but like another, and want to find more photos of them.
Anyway, these are the watermark free Demri scans (here) and this is the heavily watermaked photo, you almost cannot see anything :(
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public libraries in the usa offering free digital library cards to people not in their areas (as of october 2023):
brooklyn (13-21yo us residents)
seattle (13-26yo us residents)
boston (13-26yo us residents, EDIT: just commonly banned books)
los angeles (13-18yo california residents)
san diego (12-26yo us residents, not the whole collection just commonly banned books)
these books unbanned cards (unless otherwise stated) get you access to each library's complete libby/cloud library collection, no hoopla/kanopy/physical copies included.
ebook collections are expensive to maintain (many american libraries have annual fees for non-residents because of this) but because of an uptick in book banning (particularly brutal in mississippi last summer) larger libraries have opened their doors more, which is very kind of them!
i've used my seattle card for the last several months and their libby collection has about three times the books that my local library does, which is wonderful for accessing more niche titles or skipping a waiting list. would love to hear of similar ebook initiatives internationally!
i use library extension (firefox/chrome/edge compatible) to check all my collections (+ the internet archive) at once, works for several different countries highly recommend it.
spotify seems to be offering 15hrs/month of audiobook listening to premium subscribers and while that does seem useful if you're already paying and are after a new release with a long library waitlist, libraries are better for everything else.
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A little Markus sketch that for some reason looks better than any other drawing I've done of him (my talent is not consistent)
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something. about. the horror of being sent on an impossible (death) quest and obligations and hospitality politics. the trauma of not having a home, and then the trauma of being in a house that becomes actively hostile to you, one that would swallow you whole and spit out your bones if you step out of line. all of this is conditional, your existence continues to be something men want gone.
it's about going back as far as I can with the perseus narrative because there's always a version of a myth that exists behind the one that survives. the missing pieces are clearly defined, but the oldest recorded version of it isn't there! and there's probably something older before that!! but it's doomed to forever be an unfilled space, clearly defined by an outline of something that was there and continues to be there in it's absence.
and love. it's also about love. even when you had nothing, you had love.
on the opposite side of the spectrum, this is Not About Ovid Or Roman-Renaissance Reception, Depictions And Discourses On The Perseus Narrative.
edit: to add to the above, while it's not about Ovid, because I'm specifically trying to peel things back to the oldest version of this story, Ovid is fine. alterations on the Perseus myth that give more attention Medusa predate Ovid by several centuries. this comic is also not about those, either! there are many versions of this story from the ancient world. there is not one singular True or Better version, they're all saying something.
Perseus, Daniel Ogden
Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation, edited & translated by Stephen M Trzaskoma, R. Scott Smith, Stephen Brunet
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