#fuck the corporate media

[badolmen]

People against piracy fail to realize that no, I can’t just ‘buy it.’ They stopped making DVDs and Blu-Rays. They’re barely offering digital copies for download. I am not spending money I could use for food or bills to pay for a subscription service just so I can always have access to a beloved piece of media. Especially not when the service will remove media on a whim without concern for how the loss of access to that piece will make its artistic conservation nigh impossible.

For example, I recently learned that Disney+ had an original film called Crater. It’s scifi, family friendly, and seems cool - I would love to buy it as a holiday gift for my little brother! But: it’s exclusive to D+ and THEY REMOVED IT LITERALLY MONTHS AFTER ITS RELEASE.

The ONLY way I can directly access this film is through piracy. The ONLY available ‘copies’ of this film are hosted on piracy websites. Disney will NEVER release it in theaters, or as something to buy, and it may NEVER return to the streaming service. It will be LOST because we aren’t allowed to purchase it for personal viewing. If I can’t pay to own it, I won’t pay for the privilege of losing it when corporate decides to put it in a vault.

So yes, I’m going to pirate and support piracy.

#ra speaks #piracy #media piracy #pirate to make hondo ohnaka proud #obligatory ‘don’t fucking pirate small authors/artists works wtf dude’ statement. #anyone who’s seen my media bitching before knows I’m a hype man for indie films this ain’t about them #this is about corporate streaming services killing physical media bc sales numbers are less impressive than number of streams #edit: USAmericans stop telling me to buy DVDs and blurays at Walmart. think outside your borders for a hot sec. fun thought exercise. #your experiences are not universal #edit: WHO GOT THIS TO 100k. I JUST WANT TO TALK (this post is my second to hit 100k woahg.) #in other news: fix your fucking posture. drink some fucking water. and go the fuck to bed if it’s late bc it’s for me rn. peace and light.

[kiraleighart]

What exactly do we do about an internet that isn't a tool we use, but a tool power uses to use us? I don't have an answer.

I mean, I do, but the answer is something many folks just can't accept...

#social media #internet #corporate #capitalism #twitter #facebook #linkedin #instagram #be gay do crimes #tech #technology #business #politics #big tech is fucking evil #cyberpunk

[bonefall]

post/734733274896809984/do-you-ever-worry-your-own-writing-might-come-off that makes sense. i was asking because i'm afraid of accidentally writing misogyny myself and i kind of admire what you do

Hmm... I wish I had better advice to give you on this front, but honestly, the only thing I can tell you is to consider the perspective of your female characters.

Women are people. They have thoughts and feelings of their own, so like... just let them have their own arcs. A lot of the worst misogyny in WC comes from the way that the writers just don't care about their girls (or, in the case of tall shadow, actually get undermined and forced to rewrite entire chapters), so they're not curious about their lives, or WHY they feel the way they do or what they want, or any direction for their character arcs.

Turtle Tail as an example. She'll often just end up feeling whatever Gray Wing's plot demands. She's gotta leave when Storm dumps him to make him feel lonely. She shows up again to love him in the next book. Lets her best friend Bumble get dragged back to Tom the Wifebeater, but is sad enough about her death to be "unreasonably angry" with Clear Sky, and then calms down and accept Gray Wing is right all along.

And then she dies, so he can have his very own fridge wife.

In this way, Turtle Tail's just being used to tell Gray Wing's story. They're not interested in why she would turn on Bumble, or god forbid any lingering negative feelings for how she didn't help her, or even resentment towards Clear Sky for killing her or Gray Wing for jumping to his defense. She isn't really going through her own character arc.

She does have personality traits of her own, don't misunderstand my criticism, but as a character she revolves around Gray Wing.

So, zoom out every now and then, and just ask yourself; "Whose story is being told by what I wrote? Do my female characters have goals, wants, and agency, or are they just supporting men? How do their choices impact the narrative?"

But that's already kinda assuming that you already have characters like Turtle Tail who DO have personalities and potential of their own. Here's some super simple and practical advice that helped me;

Tally the genders in your cast. How many are boys, how many are girls, how many are others?

And take stock of how many of those characters are just in the supporting cast, and compare that to the amount you have in the main cast.

If you have a significant imbalance, ESPECIALLY in the main cast, fire the Woman Beam.

It's a really simple trick to just write a male character, and then change its gender while keeping it the same. I promise women are really not fundamentally different from men lmao. You can consider how your in-universe gender roles affect them later, if you'd like, but when you're just starting to wean yourself off a "boy bias" this trick works like a charm.

Also you're not allowed to change the body type of any girl you Woman Beam because I said so. PLEASE allow your girls to have muscles, or be fat, or be old, or have lots of scars. Do NOT do what a cowardly Triple A studio does, where the women all have the same cute or sexy face and curvy body while they're standing next to dwarves, robots, and a gorilla.

Or this shit,

If you do this I will GET you. If you're ever possessed by the dark urge, you will see my face appear in the clouds like Mufasa himself to guide you away from the path of evil.

Anyway, you get better at just making characters girls to begin with as time goes on and you practice it. It's really not as big of a deal as your brain might think it is.

Take a legitimate interest in female characters and try not to disproportionately hit them with parental/romance plots as opposed to the male cast, and you'll be fine. Don't think of them as "SPECIAL WOMEN CHARACTERS" just make a character and then let her be a girl, occasionally checking your tally and doing some critical thinking about their use in the story.

(Also remember I'm not a professional or anything, I'm just trying to give advice)

#I wish I had more succinct and practical advice to give you besides the woman beam trick #Honestly I just kinda feel it out because I like telling stories about girls #I made it fun for myself by clapping and cheering and whooping and hollering whenever a girl does something #because it's not fun to write like a monk in a monastery #With the spectre of Brother Smockbimble looming over your shoulder telling you to Write Perfectly Every Time #Characters aren't real people. You can just fix it if you happen to fuck up or do better next time with what you learned. #Making mistakes is just part of acquiring skill #and writing is an art just like painting or drawing. #So don't make a fun OC project into homework! You should be enjoying making your own art! Express yourself! #Please understand that when I'm ripping into the series I'm being so harsh because it's bestselling corporate media #Read by HUNDREDS of thousands of kids worldwide #Raking in millions of dollars a year. Written by a TEAM of professionals. #So I have higher expectations of it than of a fandom rando on the internet. Or even a self-published author who's just One Guy. #Hence why I'm infinitely more charitable to Ratha than I am to Battle Cats #bones gives advice

[the-irreverend]

You know the whole world has gone completely insane when that making Tumblr your primary social media turned out to be a smart decision.

#helluva boss #social media #elon musk #helluva boss moxxie #helluva moxxie #moxxie #tumblr #vivziepop #fuck elon musk #meta #deviantart #twitter apocalypse #twitter #twitpocalypse #corporate greed #helluva boss season 1 #harvest moon festival #the harvest moon festival

[storgicdealer]

oh my god i fucking hate corporations i hate them so fucking much oh my fucking god are you fucking kidding me.

theyre getting rid of infinity train on ALL FUCKING PLATFORMS????????? ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS

#infinity train #do you also fucking LOVE IT when amazing series get turned into lost media by the fucking corporations????? #genuinely fuck you. i hate everything

[genericpuff]

i've been working on writing up a post for my main project fanbase to let them know what the plan is for my return to Time Gate and what I wanna do going forward in 2024

it was a whole ass essay as most of my posts are

but honestly i think a lot of my feelings can simply be summed up as:

#my goal for 2024 is to catch up all my other sites with the current updates so i can finally leave this shit app #so p much just comic fury global comix and tumblr maybe #and then real life interactions and markets because those have literally been so much better for my comic than WT ever has #i'm coming for you WT #just like i did to tapas #i'm done with posting my comics to what's essentially just social media #corporate apps can suck my dick #going back to BASICS y'all #webtoon #webtoon sucks #fuck webtoon

[intermundia]

btw if ao3 ever goes down again and you still want to read some obikin, i've backed up all my fics on my baby neocities site to be available to read, and am also working on backing up my meta in a more easily accessible spot than tumblr. i'll be improving the site aesthetically and expanding the content in the future to include more research and photos (aka i'm trying to create a home online that isn’t dependent on any social media companies) but for now, the fics should be all here!!

any of you guys thinking of escaping the zoo and making your own site? lmk and i will check it out! we can be luddite friends together <3

#fanfic stuff #just in case #i'm going to be sharing a lot more stuff on there #papers from college and photo albums and stuff #fuck corporate social media man i'm tired

[spartanlocke]

tumblrinas when asked to reblog a single drawing to support an artist:

tumblrinas when they realize the AI lets them generate funny memes (using work stolen from the artists they claim to support):

#not posting context for this if you've seen my tweets you know #and if you disagree i'm not arguing with you #stop using AI for your dumb shitposts all you're doing is encouraging corporations to keep firing and replacing artists with AI #no amount of redundant discourse and “it's just a joke/satire” will ever change that #jem blogs #ai #FUCK AI #tumblr #social media

[uniquezombiedestiny]

headcanons for any random projmoon character NOW!!!! /not forcing

NPD ANGELA SWWWEEEEEEEPPPPPPPP

i think she occasionally likes (liked?) to visit the abnos when it's too late for anyone to be seeing/noticing her. even now she holds lots of thoughts and maybe love, understanding, etc for them.

there was a comic of her falling asleep and roland noticing that she's human enough to do so. truest shit ever i loved it

malkuth stims!! clicks her pen, doodles, and flips notebook pages a lot. i think hods a swayer like me (sways side to side/forward and back a lot of the time, it comes naturally/automatically now lol). and netz too!! oh and hod plays with her hair when stressed/nervous/etc, also like me. feel like yesod would tap his feet and fingers a bunch, more discreet ways of stimming and usually to a melody.

didnt think id have many hcs, since i often dont + theyre not too jarring from canon. well except some but thats not the pm games so <3

#asks #horatioo #ty for the ask!! my strongest solider #lobotomy corporation #library of ruina #main tags time! 🎉 #angela lor #malkuth #yesod #netzach #hod #not sure what the distinct like lc guys tags are #when i search i often go for tags that have the hcaracter and media in them at the same time so #character* #ah well #the jarring one is trans reinhardt. all joke hcs become real one day. #actually not even jarring i fucking asked syumi and he said MAYBE #and that 'it's a possibility'

[moghedien]

if you're buying digital media of any sort (ebook, movie, tv show, music) and you cannot physically download it onto your harddrive and do with it as you please, you are not buying it. if you have to go to the distributor's site/app/platform just to use the digital media that you bought, you are not buying it.

amazon will literally delete tv shows from your library that you have purchased if they lose the license for it, and you will have no way to watch/listen to/etc the media that you supposedly bought, because you're not buying it if you do now actually own the files that you're paying for. if you have to go to amazon or apple tv or anywhere else just to watch it and can't pull it up on your own computer with your own software, then you don't fucking own it.

#let me radicalize you all into getting back into physical media #like literally two days ago I saw someone posting about amazon deleting seasons of a tv show they bought #because of licensing issues on amazon's part #don't fucking buy digital media from big corporations that don't actually give you the files

[mortimer]

i hate nerd and fandom culture so fucking much i hate how it took such interesting genres and forms of storytelling and turned them into slop generating machines to sell the most pin back buttons and funko pops and disney+ subscriptions

#and i just cannot CANNOT understand how people dont get embarrassed to be dedicating so much of their identities to corporate media #like arent you curious about what else the world can offer? #one day ill write the most scathing essay on capitalism art and fandom MARK MY WORDS because if ppl on the internet gave #half the energy they give to big fucking corporate garbage shows and shit to indie artists i think the world would be a much better place #or at least more interesting. ANYWAY! #m

[noodleblade]

After a day of a pretty depressing road trip, it’s time to tuck into bed and finish some wips

Also fuck tumblr and it’s AI bullshit.

#I finish the skids/swerve fic TODAY #rambles #seriously though fuck tumblr and the ai bullshit #I’m so over it #I don’t blame anyone that decides not to post there stuff on here anymore #tumblr and social media as a whole is supposed to be a platform to express yourself #not fund corporate bullshit through OUR own creativity because they only view the arts as a profit and nothing more #manufacturing cheap bullshit on the backs of people’s blood sweat and tears #I’ve been fuming as I’ve been driving all day #anyway ai rant in my tags but ¯\_(ツ)_/ who cares

[plasma-tree]

"are you boycotting xyz? do you financially support them?"

babe I pirate every piece of media I consume. I don't financially support ANY media company and I'm not going to

#i'm poor and i'm not paying for moving images from a huge corporation #if you think i'm going to PAY to watch Outlander or any of the HP movies or Metalocalypse you're wrong #i. am. poor. #i am poor and i am determined to enjoy whatever media i want while completely fucking over whatever company made it.

[transpanda-1]

🌓Like we know this is gonna be the theme of the video but holy shit does this constant need to produce leave the most sickening feeling in our stomach. It's something that, like, this bitch has worried endlessly if she's a plagiarist from the characters she creates inspired by others and these people are doing it boldly like no one has before. Oh my fucking god.

#chirps #Like do you know how many nights we stress about the fact that Yuni or Kokoro #draw heavily from source material #even though part of their deal is they're attempting to build further onto it #and making commentary on specific tropes or consistencies in media #(i.e. Yuni with genderbend media just. ending on status quo; Kokoro with how series will introduce filler that. Is insane in context) #but other creators are so incentivized to just... pump shit out!! that who cares!! #who gives a shit!!! nordvpn get their ass in here!!!!! #don't think about it just go go go!!! #we can't keep up with actual companies and corporations dedicated to churning out a mass of content so we have to pretend to!!! #fuck dude! #👑Pandora💔

[captain-acab]

I still feel like it's less "Both parties are the same" and more "Both parties suck but one is doing a capitalism and has shitty immigration policy while the other is actively trying to get people killed". Two-party systems are awful and the Democrats do indeed suck in a lot of ways, but it beats the shit out of the Republicans. I just wish there was a secret third option.

#I was originally just gonna post this without tags but now I don't trust yalls fuckin media literacy. SO to be clear: #If you take up arms it better be against fascist leaders or corporations. Not. Random. Fucking. Civilians.

[alertarchitect]

Full disclosure, this is a long one. It's also a vent post. I'm mainly writing this out to help get the thoughts and feelings regarding this kind of organized and out of my head, makes dealing with them just a little easier. Maybe it'll help you put to words your own thoughts & feelings on this kinda shit, too, and if it does, I'm glad my screaming into the void at least helped out someone other than myself! After all, if anything I say, write, or do ends up helping at least one other person, then maybe I'm doing something right :]

Sometimes having long-time special interests in an ongoing franchise FUCKING SUCKS. Perfect example - I am both a big Halo nerd, and really enjoy the overaching lore of Bungie's connected worlds (with how Marathon, Pathways into Darkness, Myth, Destiny, and even the ways Halo originally connected before it had to become its own thing thanks to Microsoft). Here are the ways that currently sucks:

The state of Halo Infinite, the most recent Halo game, both currently and at launch. At launch, you had a buggy mess, with multiplayer that barely functioned, lacking feature parity (even just on the multiplayer side of things, not counting the campaign) with Halo Reach, a game from 2010. Currently, 343i has admittedly fixed a lot of the launch issues - there's more customization than the game has ever had before (still not as good as Reach's customization imo, but at this point I've given up hope on any multiplayer AAA game having that level of customization for free ever again), the desync issues (in my experience) are no longer happening, and it has the most powerful Forge mode in any Halo game to date. The flip side of that, though? Egregiously horrendous monetization, an armor core and coating system that both hurt the customization more than help, and a drip-feed of content with little to no communication from 343 on anything past the most recent update. Not to mention the issues that come from a focus on "Live Service" bullshit.

The issues at 343 Industries itself, which come part and parcel with the massive issues related to Microsoft as a company. Massive megacorporation, horrible management, staff getting screwed over, crunch culture, and more - it just goes on and on.

Halo 5, despite its generally negative reception, is horrendously inaccessible to those of us that want to experience it as a piece of history and/or try out the multiplayer. A perfect example of how little companies care about game preservation, despite the decent track record 343i has had in that respect thanks to the Master Chief Collection, its PC release and addition of Halo Reach, and the efforts to find, occasionally recreate from almost nothing, and implement lost & cut content in the MCC titles.

Being a fan of Bungie's overarching stuff... really bad when you are at PEAK investment into their stuff, namely my Destiny 2 hyperfixation, and they not only announce that their new Marathon game is going to be a fucking EXTRACTION SHOOTER, and thus unlikely to have one of the most interesting things about Marathon in it (that being its lore) while also being very hard to get into thanks to people treating that kind of game as a massive sweat-fest, but also suddenly lay off a bunch of employees (when previously they had a good track record of treating employees decently...) due to Square Enix levels of profit overestimations of Lightfall, the BEST SELLING DESTINY EXPANSION EVER only getting 45% of the expected sales. Because why be realistic, right? Just fuck over employees, that certainly won't hurt us in the end!

The fact that, despite ALL OF THIS and my moral convictions against the shitty nature of this stuff, my dumbass brain still wants me to just spend spend spend on it anyway because of how much of a special interest Halo & the Bungie lore are to me - it almost hurts. I generally prefer fantasy stuff, but I can't stop myself from loving the lore and stories associated with this stuff. I have to fight myself every goddamn time I have money to not fall into the traps. It's easier with Destiny - I uninstalled it, replaced my PvE needs with Warframe and Risk of Rain 2, replaced my PvP needs with Halo Infinite, and just keep up with the story from a distance. But now that Halo Infinite is back in my life? I love the gameplay, hell I'd go as far as to say it has some of the strongest gameplay in the series (though some modes could use a bit more work, for example the Infection mode just isn't as fun as the Infection from Halo Reach), but the monetization just... AAAARGH it hurts me that I want to spend on it, both for customization and to have little goals to work towards in the (thankfully well-implemented due to them being available eternally) battle passes.

I just want to be able to love something that's been so central to me for so long - I played a cracked version of the CE PC demo for countless hours growing up, to the point that to this day I know the mission Silent Cartographer back to front from memory & could do it in my sleep, and associate Blood Gulch with countless memories of Halo's multiplayer from how often I'd play it with my sister, and to add onto all of that Halo Reach is one of my favorite games ever made, period - without caveats and moral hangups. I just want to love something without justifying it every time I think of it, both to myself and others.

I know this is a massively first-world issue, having the luxury to whine about my Favorite Things going through years and years of getting fucked by their own successes driving them into corporatism, but it still sucks. Obviously not as much as other issues both myself and others deal with, and DEFINITELY not as much as the horrible shit people are enduring in several parts of the world, but just enough for me to want/need to vent about how much corporations like to shit on the little rays of sunshine that we use to feel better about life.

#vent post #halo #halo infinite #marathon #pathways into darkness #myth the fallen lords #destiny 2 #corporate bullshit #fuck corpos #just let me have nice things in peace goddammit #why does everything have to be fucked with SO MUCH over time #I just want comfort games I don't have to think about the real-world bullshit of too much #but unfortunately my brain landed on options that #while not the WORST by any stretch of the imagination #I mean just LOOK at the state of CoD Battlefield and just... #EVERYTHING that was touched by the Shitty Wizard Franchise #which I only mention due to how many people I've known who had to find a completely new comfort media after JKR proved herself to be a TERF #it still sucks that it's nearly impossible to find something that isn't either problematic or actively getting enshittified #at least in my favorite genres #namely FPS games (both modern and retro) and Metroidvanias #and while the latter isn't too bad #the former just gets infested with so much assholery and corpo fuckery that #you either have to play an indie game made by one person who could turn out shit at any time and that is so niche there's no multiplayer #or just deal with the shittiness involved with getting too attached to a franchise owned and produced by a megacorporation #and unfortunately I got attached to one of the latter from a young age so #at least I can feel a little better now that I've kinda gotten the bulk of my thoughts about it off of my chest #which I honestly REALLY needed to do #so that's good at least