#i'm aware of that

[cl0ckworkpuppet]

time for my monthly mp3 player propaganda post!

yall. don't fucking stream music off of youtube or spotify. they pay their creators shit. the most generous estimate i could find was artists being paid $1 for every 200 streams (0.5¢ per stream), and unless you're listening to songs on an album thousands times in total, it helps tremendously more to just. buy their albums or subscribe to a patreon-like service for them

mp3 players are laughably inexpensive (you can get a decent one with bluetooth for like $40-50 and you can get away with even less if you forego some features), many of them are drag-and-drop, no ads, decent enough sound quality for the average person, unlimited skips, track selection, regular play and shuffle, playlists, being able to shut off your screen, and more importantly, ALL OF THIS IS AVAILABLE WITHOUT A SUBSCRIPTION. i've always been an avid hater of subscription models. there are some things where it's understandable, but you shouldn't lose access to basic QOL features just because you can't or won't fork over $10-15 a month.

"b-b-but $50 is so expensive!" WRONG. $50 (which is more than i've EVER spend on a single mp3 player) is the equivalent to 5 months on spotify premium without discounts. if you can afford that, it's worth investing into a device that can last you literal years if you get a good one and take good care of it

"but i don't wanna carry around another device!" fair enough, but these things are small enough to fit in tiny pockets (mine fits snugly in the watch pocket of my jeans) and are typically light enough to not be burdensome. if you can carry around your phone, you can carry around an mp3 player

"what if people think i'm weird for having outdated technology" let them. it's worth it in my opinion if it means i get to listen to music ad-free. the most I've ever gotten was "wooooah bro's got the dinosaur tech" and i just thought that was funny personally

"but what if the artist collapses without a constant stream of money!!! i'm not supporting the artist!!!!!" companies try to pay as little as they can get away with to artists. most of that money goes to the CEO and other higher-ups.

"but piracy is bad!" Piracy is a Crime. However, downloading youtube videos/audio for your own PERSONAL, NON-COMMERCIAL USE and NOT REDISTRIBUTING THEM is legal (generally, in the US, check your laws, i am not a lawyer, not legal advice, blah blah blah). besides, i never said you had to pirate your music. in fact, i encourage you to buy the albums of and support your favourite artists in other ways. some artists might even provide links for people to download their songs for free in high quality anyway

not gonna link products just in case someone thinks i'm a shill. but literally just look up "mp3 player" on your search engine or shopping site of choice and find something that doesn't look like it'll fall apart if you breathe on it too hard

seriously guys. if you listen to music more than like a few hours a week, and you don't get all of your music from livestreams or radios (although mine can connect to AM/FM radio), consider investing in an mp3 player. i tried out using one regularly in fall of 2021, and I haven't looked back. don't let companies drain subscription money from you

#music #mp3 player #spotify #youtube #youtube music #amazon music #itunes #apple music #music streaming #subscription services #btw this post isn't for audiophiles #i've said a lot of things here that would make an audiophile rip their hair out #i'm aware of that #this post is intended for the AVERAGE PERSON who isn't picky about getting the absolute best sound quality #but there are some high-end media players out there #sorry i just really hate spotify #and am also autistic #i have almost 600 songs on my mp3 player #<- crazy

[inklessletter]

I know this isn't the place to cry and whine but I just need to let out of my chest that I've been trapped for a while in a neverending chain of disappointments, and I feel like I can't take it anymore. But that's a lie, because everytime I think that, I can take another one.

#Like #it's cringy how melodramatic this all sounds #I'm aware of that #It's just #I've been taking so many shit for so long #and it took EVERYTHING in me to finally say #no #I'm sorry #but I can't do this anymore #and expected some push up #some fight #that they expressed their reasons of why they were making me go through this much stress #and they went like “oh okay no problem” #and it looks like good news #but they're not #because that means that it wasn't even necessary to put me through so much shit from the very beginning #and they did it anyway to take advantage of me until I couldn't take it anymore and #the worst of all #I had to say “thanks” #It was a 25 seconds phonecall and I had all this pent up energy #it took so much to gather the strength to say “no more” and for what #A 25 second phone call #and that's it. #Never knew I could feel so worthless in less than a minute #How fucking disappointing

[torturedpoetemotions]

I want to live in a big house with all my closest friends and share meals and have movie nights and curl up with hot drinks on the porch to watch the fireflies. And I want everyone there to be there because they want to be not because they settled for this instead of some life they wanted more. Who's with me.

#daniel march coded of me #it's a pipe dream #i'm aware of that

[bumblingbee1]

Okay, why does Marta from Outlast 2 sound kind of attractive...

#bee babbles #we need more women who growl #look i know she's bad news #and she's the right hand of the scumbag knoth #i'm aware of that #and i'm team langermann all the way #but she's basically the closest thing i have to a 'hear me out' type of character lmao

[blortch]

ngl if you didn’t already see this from the way I answer asks I’m feeling a mix of “ew RLM’ll give me political cooties (for the lack of a better term) if I watch them” and “I’m at the point where I’m near to making up stuff to be critical about I’m p sure I can watch them critically enough“

#I guess this would become a problem if it got in the way of having fun with it #but this is my way to have fun with it #if i'm not invested in any shape or form then...i won't care #if i keep engaging then i clearly do care #i'm aware of that #blortchmod #but anyway now i'll go look for gifsets to bury this

[bendro-pascarnes]

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#it sucks to pull out of a fandom and therefore lose interest in 90% of what your mutuals post #so you un-mutual-ize yourself because as much as you want to support them #seeing the content on your dash just means you sigh a lot #and now you're stuck in the small fandom that is quiet af or filled with genuinely not that great of content #i did this to myself #i'm aware of that #but i miss having mutuals come into my inbox to scream and talk #it just doesn't happen no matter how much i try to do that for others #i guess i'm not worthy enough of a content creator to be interacted with

[kulluto]

please excuse my hater moment but i hate when people see two characters that have the most insane dynamic and they’re like but what if it was wholesome :) okay well what if they fucked nasty style and tried to kill each other all the time also

#i'm aware this literally doesn't matter but what is tumblr for if not having a few hater moments #🍭

[springs-hurts]

look,

I've made this blog to vent, rant, talk about my fav characters, books,ship some people and be lame and real and a ‘bokachoda’ in general if you're aware of that word's meaning. I legit can't talk bout just one fandom or something like that. So yeah.

#my life is disaster in making at this point #and yet here i am #it's me hi i'm the problem it's me #c'est la vie #I am a bokachoda anyway #I'm aware of that #And that's why I'm here #I'm a clown #I'm a fool #And I'm perfectly happy being that #But I'm not just that #I've emotions #I understand things #And fuck man I can't deal with real life shit #If you've a problem with my venting then please please don't follow #Simple as that

[balis77]

Fun fact: Samus' zero suit is a bodysuit in more recent games instead of the tank-top she wore in older games because at this point, she's been spliced with so many species' DNA you really don't want to see what the rest of her skin looks like.

#her head is like the sole part of her that looks human at this point #you look at a single bit of her skin that isn't covered by the zero suit that shit starts building your frenzy meter #samus takes off her suit and instead of something sexy you just start going catatonic from things your mind cannot comprehend #samus aran #metroid #shitposting #note: I'm fully aware some of you would still be into this #just saying

[magnetothemagnificent]

The vegan to ecofascist pipeline

#before all of you freak out I am literally vegetarian #but surprise surprise #I'm also aware of human biology

[ayo-edebiri]

They’re not wrong 💀

#marvel #i'm aware i have a marvel url don't worry

[hazardous-arcadia]

some putz: Climate change isn't real!

me: It's 81 degrees Fahrenheit at 3:30 in the fucking AM. Sunset was 7 hours ago and the heat index is still in the 90s and I DO NOT LIVE IN A SOUTHERN STATE.

#i also don't have air conditioning #one more day of this shit #august is the worst #i'm aware of that #but it didn't used to suck this much

[aromantic-diaries]

"this character is autistic coded so headcanoning them as aro/ace is wrong because you're reinforcing the idea that autistic people are incapable of having romantic or sexual relationships" DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MANY ASPEC PEOPLE ARE ON THE AUTISM SPECTRUM

#aro #aromantic #arospec #ace #asexual #acespec #also are you aware that they're called headcanons for a reason? they're not real. you don't have to agree with them #i'm not really into fandom stuff but yeah

[inkskinned]

the thing is there's like, a point of oversaturation for everything, and it's why so many things get dropped after a few minutes. and we act like millennials or gen z kids "have short attention spans" but... that's not quite it. it's more like - we did like it. you just ruined it.

capitalism sees product A having moderate success, and then everything has to come out with their "own version" of product A (which is often exactly the same). and they dump extreme amounts of money and environmental waste into each horrible simulacrum they trot out each season.

now it's not just tiktokkers making videos; it's that instagram and even fucking tumblr both think you want live feeds and video-first programming. and it helps them, because videos are easier to sneak native ads into. the books coming out all have to have 78 buzzwords in them for SEO, or otherwise they don't get published. they are making a live-action remake of moana. i haven't googled it, but there's probably another marvel or starwars something coming out, no matter when you're reading this post.

and we are like "hi, this clone of project A completely misses the point of the original. it is soulless and colorless and miserable." and the company nods and says "yes totally. here is a different clone, but special." and we look at clone 2 and we say "nope, this one is still flat and bad, y'all" and they're like "no, totally, we hear you," and then they make another clone but this time it's, like, a joyless prequel. and by the time they've successfully rolled out "clone 89", the market is incredibly oversaturated, and the consumer is blamed because the company isn't turning a profit.

and like - take even something digital like the tumblr "live streaming" function i just mentioned. that has to take up server space and some amount of carbon footprint; just so this brokenass blue hellsite can roll out a feature that literally none of its userbase actually wants. the thing that's the kicker here: even something that doesn't have a physical production plant still impacts the environment.

and it all just feels like it's rolling out of control because like, you watch companies pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into a remake of a remake of something nobody wants anymore and you're like, not able to afford eggs anymore. and you tell the company that really what you want is a good story about survival and they say "okay so you mean a YA white protagonist has some kind of 'spicy' love triangle" and you're like - hey man i think you're misunderstanding the point of storytelling but they've already printed 76 versions of "city of blood and magic" and "queen of diamond rule" and spent literally millions of dollars on the movie "Candy Crush Killer: Coming to Eat You".

it's like being stuck in a room with a clown that keeps telling the same joke over and over but it's worse every time. and that would be fine but he keeps fucking charging you 6.99. and you keep being like "no, i know it made me laugh the first time, but that's because it was different and new" and the clown is just aggressively sitting there saying "well! plenty of people like my jokes! the reason you're bored of this is because maybe there's something wrong with you!"

#this was much longer i had to cut it down for legibility #but i do want to say i am aware this post doesnt touch on human rights violations as a result of fast fashion #that is because it deserves its own post with a completely different tone #i am an environmental educator #so that's what i know the most about. it wouldn't be appropriate of me to mention off-hand the real and legitimate suffering #that people are going through #without doing my research and providing real ways to help #this is a vent post about a thing i'm watching happen; not a call to action. it would be INCREDIBLY demeaning #to all those affected by the fast fashion industry to pretend that a post like this could speak to their suffering #unfortunately one of the horrible things about latestage capitalism as an activist is that SO many things are linked to this #and i WANT to talk about all of them but it would be a book in its own right. in fact there ARE books about each level of this #and i encourage you to seek them out and read them!!! i am not an expert on that i am just a person on tumblr doing my favorite activity #(complaining) #and it's like - this is the individual versus the industry problem again right because im blaming myself #for being an expert on environmental disaster (which is fucking important) but not knowing EVERYTHING about fast fashion #i'm blaming myself for not covering the many layers of this incredibly complicated problem im pointing out #rather than being like. yeah so actually the fault here lies with the billion dollar industries actually. #my failure to be able to condense an incredibly immense problem that is BOOK-LENGTH into a single text post that i post for free #is not in ANY fucking way the same amount of harm as. you know. the ACTUAL COMPANIES doing this ACTUAL THING for ACTUAL MONEY. #anyway im gonna go donate money while i'm thinking about it. maybe you can too. we can both just agree - well i fuckin tried didn't i #which is more than their CEOs can say

[dailyflicks]

#The way Crowley distances himself from Aziraphale by putting on his glasses for the first time this season in the bookshop

#good omens #goodomensedit #good omens spoilers #tusercora #tuserrobin #tuserrachel #tuserpris #tuserhan #* #by aurore #2020s #sci fi #tusertha #userzo #usersaoirse #userpavlova #userpayton #usertom #arthurpendragonns #i'm very much aware it's not the first time this season but it's the first time when it's only them #and aziraphale knows what is happening!! but he's still trying to reach for him

[stuckinapril]

so for anyone who doesn't know, the last few days of the global strike (jan 26-28) are where people are supposed to amp up posting about palestine on their social media. if you can afford it, please use the remainder of the strike days to mostly engage w content spreading awareness about palestinian genocide. some people might find this a tall order, but it really isn't. it's just three more days, and the content you typically consume isn't going anywhere. and if you're keen on not giving a fuck about palestinian genocide, do everyone a favor and don't engage by leaving "how can i filter political things like this?" comments on posts about palestine. the people who're concerned w advocating for palestine have other things to worry about than disturbing your internet bubble. save yourself the trouble of typing that up. i assure you nobody cares.

#and on that note--as far as this blog is concerned i'm exclusively engaging w palestine awareness media until jan 28 #palestine #gaza #israel