#streaming alternatives

[incarnateirony]

Leigh has been making excellent suggestions in alternative to streaming to lift up independent creators on platforms like youtube, so--subtracting my Pokemon and political shit, here's some of my favorite independent channels:

#what aren't you watching #streaming alternatives

[bamsara]

You shine your scuba light on an unknown creature that appears to be curious about you. Or hunting you. Either way, you don't know how long it's been watching you, but it doesn't flee when you make eye contact.

First MerMay art! This started out as a practice painting/warm-up but then I got way too invested in it. I actually like how it turned out! Like usual, please don't repost this but feel free to use as phone/desktop wallpapers <3

#Mermay #fnaf moon #moon mermay #moondrop #the daycare attendant #for tag blocklist purposes #tw eye contact #doodles #painting #horror #shout out to everyone who came to twitch art stream and watched me audibly struggle #ill post some progress stuff and alternate versions on patreon

[comradekatara]

i feel like the reason aang isn’t as adored and beloved as he should be is because he’s the protagonist but he’s also not an archetypal western classical hero. i don’t agree with the entirety of that “avatar aang: feminist icon” essay because i think the role of patriarchy and gender in atla is more complex than what that essay posits, but he definitely complicates the masculine ideal of heroism and generally does not conform to patriarchal notions of masculinity. which is very deliberate, especially as contrasted with sokka and zuko’s explicit struggles with the imperialist/colonial standards of an aggressive, militaristic, and chauvinistic masculinity. aang is subversive because he represents an absence of war in a world ravaged by it. through his link to a (somewhat more) peaceful and harmonious past, he represents a better possible future. as katara would say, he brings people hope.

but people don’t like that he’s not visibly edgy or tormented like zuko is (even though he’s a far more tragic character than zuko is, just fyi), that he isn’t “cool” (even though he’s literally the coolest kid ever, just fyi), that he “gets the girl” (even though if anything, she gets him) despite being twelve and bald and nice (the horror!). katara is the more classical hero of the narrative, as its narrator and its catalyst, the adventurous revolutionary who gradually learns to control and use her powers and eventually becoming a force to be reckoned with. zuko is the classical anti-hero of the narrative, his “redemption arc” constantly hailed as one of the greatest character arcs in television. so people expect katara and zuko, as very obvious narrative foils who parallel each other every step of the way, to be the obvious couple, because based on every romance narrative we’ve been inundated with throughout our lives, within our patriarchal society, they “just make sense together.”

but as much as katara is a protagonist in her own right, aang is the show. the title quite literally represents the central thematic tension of the entire narrative, the colon illustrating the implicit divide between his duties to this brave new world in desperate need of justice and balance, or his duties to his extirpated culture as the last true voice among them. aang is the central figure because this tension represents the crucial ideological battle happening across the entire show. aang is the avatar because he is the only person in the entire world whose values have not been shaped by war.

people constantly laud zuko, in particular, for being the most interesting, complex character in avatar. but i personally don’t even think that’s true. which isn’t to say that zuko isn’t fascinating in his own right, of course, but rather that he’s certainly not the only complex character this show has to offer. he just happens to monologue about his anguish constantly. but aang wasn’t raised as an imperial prince, and so he approaches the world, and his own pain, in a very different manner. the reason he immediately goes to ride giant koi on kyoshi island, mailchutes in omashu, and otherwise goofs around after learning of the shocking ramifications of his people’s genocide is because that’s how he copes with his pain. unlike zuko, who never stops talking about his aches and yearnings, aang represses his trauma and hides his tears behind a mask of upbeat cheerful goofy twelve year old antics.

until he can’t anymore. until he snaps. both katara and zuko wear their hearts on their sleeves, and that includes their rage. but aang’s rage is dangerous specifically because it represents that he has been pushed past his limits, that the conditions of this world in which he is a perpetual stranger, temporally displaced and dispossessed, are intolerable. that peaceful reconciliation is impossible. and the fact that he persists beyond that breaking point, over and over again, to firmly and resoundingly establish his ideals even as they conflict with everything he has learned about this world, a world that is not his own even as he can never return to the world he once knew, is what makes him so unique, so powerful, so beautiful.

i know that aang isn’t the typical hero, neither narratively nor aesthetically, but really, that’s the entire point. the world, our world, needs something other than what we have now. we need someone who will not succumb to the ideals of domination and victory through violence to assert themselves. we need someone who stands firm in refusing to kill the firelord, even as everyone he knows tells him otherwise. we need someone who knows that darkness cannot be vanquished through more darkness, but can only truly yield to purifying light.

and sure, aang is a child, and often acts childishly. sure, he’s not conventionally handsome and alluring. but one thing i will never understand is how that somehow negates his appeal to the masses. because even if you don’t appreciate how crucial he is to the themes of this narrative you all seem to love so much, how can you not love his adorable little face? his precious little laugh, his zest for life, the infinite well of love and kindness he holds in his heart? people who hate aang are crazy to me. because you are, quite literally, hating the world’s most precious baby boy.

#aang #katara #zuko #analysis #hot takes #sorry this one is kind of all over the place #very stream of consciousness bc it’s loving aang hours #and he’s not only meaningful narratively #but he’s also just SOOOOO CUTE #I would literally pay money to babysit him #which I think defeats the point of babysitting but whatever #he’s just. so precious 😭😭😭 #also fwiw I don’t really fw kataang either but like. it does make more narrative sense than the alternative #and if it had been executed better . well. who can say

[phuuca]

perfume

(concept art for a fic I'm writing)

#remember if you're going to listen to wilbur and lovejoy's shit #listen via lyrics videos or alternative streaming services that don't provide them money #(which is what I did) #phuuca's art #Overblot Ace AU #adeuce #ace trappola #deuce spade #twst #twst wonderland #twisted wonderland #twst fanart #fanart #art #digital art #digital artwork #firealpaca #firealpaca art #fan comic #comic art

[witchrealms]

(x)

#u #web finds #alice glass #prey//iv #music #alternative #stream alice glass <3

[vellichorom]

hell timelines & funhouse mirrors // & finding a bit more of yourself IN yourself than you might like,

( ft @/sad-ist’s narrator! )

#uwu art #The Stanley Parable #The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe #TSP Narrator #Clock 0ut #Clock Out #Ctrl #Sad-ist #WHICH SAD GOT TO SEE & LIKED SO YAY #i like how unitnendedly similar & yet not they look #I LIKE JOKING THAT CTRL IS AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE THIERRY & VICE VERSA HENCE THE CRYPTIC CAPTION #& truth be told ctrl would have probably been what thierry would have looked like as a Younger lad perhaps #this is a very indulgent drawing admittedly <3 #WENT THE EXTRA MILE FOR IT TOO BECAUSE I STREAMED THIS ONE #fun fun fun #OOH AND JUST BEFORE C03 ??? preemptive indulgence

[h-ayuchan]

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#locs credit to lokkera #happy 1 near nwjns and its ugly but wtahvaa 😭😭💀💀 #stream i want bye ive tho 😁😁 #newjeans moodboard #new jeans moodboard #newjeans #kpop moodboard #kpop moodboards #discord layouts #discord bios #minji moodboard #hanni moodboard #random moodboard #random bios #brown moodboard #blue moodboard #red moodboard #alt moodboard #alternative moodboard #cute moodboard #messy moodboard #moodboard #hyein #kang haerin #new jeans #hanni pham #hanni #danielle #clean moodboard #carrd templates

[nostalgicfun]

This is probably Too Niche, but to the vivid dreamers out there: do you ever get nostalgic for a place from your dreams that isn't real? I have recurring locations in my dreams that just. don't exist. And I find myself thinking about them or having "memories" about them even though they don't exist and never have. But they're real in my heart even though I'll never go there.

(tell me about these places in the tags, I'm so curious)

#the house along the highway with all the junk around it that I walk up to but never get to go in #the lake with the houses around it where I walk out onto the little fishing pier and watch the swans every time #the alternate version of the trails at my mom's house where a stream green with algae runs along the railroad tracks #the big mall where most of the lights are off and many of the stores haven't been restock in a long time and there's a creepy thrift store #and I know malls (esp abandoned malls) are common in dreams but this is the same one every time and I'm aware of that in the dream #a yellow victorian house with lots of trees and a fence out front. there's a park nearby. I've always been older in this dream #and it's always MY house. and I'm always so surprised I live there in a self-aware kind of way. I long for that house so bad.

[aericita]

┄ ❒ 🦢𖨂 ✎ ⁺

┄ ❒ @aeraras 𖨂 ✎ ⁺

#kpop #moodboard #kpop moodboard #kpop gg #k-pop icons #white #loc nf2u #grey #aeraras ┄ birth event #kim lip #artms #artms moodboard #kim lip moodbpard #gothic #messy #birth artms #gif #grey gif #stim #loona #kim lip artms #kim lip loona #loona icons #artms icons #stream birth #k-pop gifs #white moodboard #messy moodboard #alternative #black

[todayisafridaynight]

'tumblr if you snipe the quality of another post of mine im going to break into your cellar and ruin all of your wine' translation: click for better quality

80's version

#rgg #ryu ga gotoku #ryu ga gotoku 7 #yakuza series #yakuza 7 #masato arakawa #masumi arakawa #jo sawashiro #snap sketches #almost finished the line art of this during stream but had to run before i could complete it !!!! sad !!!! #anyway. this was supposed to look sillier- or at least jo and arakawa were supposed to look dumbfounded #idfk what happened during sketching for me to change it but this isnt terrible either i dont think. s'alright #ill mourn that alternate version tho... i wanted the vibe of a gag manga if we know what i mean #but again This Is Fine. i also havent drawn in about ten days so i should post SOMETHING to remind people i draw LMAO #maybe if i make an 80's Version of this i can go with that idea... hm....... might fit better too... we'll have to see don't quote me #you CAN throw a brick into my inbox and say you'd like to see that tho. if you want. #anyways im done looking at this i need to be consumed with existential dread again byyyyye

[romanticwrld]

#romanticwrld #alice glass #crystal castles #stream alice glass #witch house #grunge #grunge revival #2010s #alternative #alternative blog #dark blog #soft grunge #alt blog

[r0semultiverse]

Digital Circus AMA Notes

Digital Circus is getting a season 1 at some point!!!!

#webcore aesthetic board for the series design

Pomni was going to be a frog originally. 🐸

90s toys Zooble inspo

Caine is an antagonist, but not by active choice, he doesn't know he's not helping. He doesn't feel a whole spectrum of human emotions (he's an AI).

"Caine canonically just lets things happen if he thinks it's funny."

Characters eat like Chao in Chao garden in Sonic. The characters can eat the food, but they can't digest it.

Jax's favorite food is spaghetti.

Pomni likes salmon.

Q "Was the ending a 'Last Supper' reference?" A "in a very superficial kinda way yeah." Religious stuff is sometimes just used for the funny.

Gooseworx tumblr sketches MAY or MAY NOT be canon to the series, so it's up in the air for every single one.

People can abstract from feeling too much pain if it breaks their mind from it being too much. Characters feel pain from things, but not as intensely as they would in real life.

Zooble is gonna swap parts every episode (implying they have spare parts) except their body & head.

Jax chose his own name & gooseworx likes to think he chose Gangle's name.

Ragatha was named "Emmy" originally.

They (the cast of characters trapped in the circus) can't change their clothes but Caine can. It's part of their skin sorta kinda.

There's empty space under Pomni's hat because video game model physics.

Spamton was partially inspo for Caine, Caine's VA did Spamton dubs.

Gangle only has 2 masks. Why's it (her hapiness mask) break all the time? Mental state, but the "real her" is "harder to break."

Kaumfo was gonna be part of the main cast originally before Jax.

Kaufmo's model has nothing below the waist at this time, but was made for that promotional image on twitter.

Q "What kinda person was Kaufmo?" A "He was the same as Ragatha in a sense, goofy & cheery, sometimes toxic levels of positivity."

I'm paraphrasing for the sake of note taking in real time, go watch the stream playback for more context & details if you want.

#these are all from GLITCHX 2023 on the glitch productions youtube channel btw #for anyone curious as to where I got the screenshots & details #theory crafters pop off with this #someone else can reblog this with time stamps if you want I'm pretty tired #I'm not going back through that stream right now; I'm sure someone else will put timestamps in the comments maybe #but yeah consider the amazing digital circus officially greenlit for a first season I guess! :D #tadc season 1 eventually baybeee!! #I'm hyped! I wonder if the pilot will remain canon into season 1 or if we'll get a new introduction into the series. #Wonder why Jax called Gangle... well Gangle 👀 maybe he just thought it sounded silly or something i'm curious as to what gooseworx thought #Caine's AI really thought Pomni running around looking for him & Kaufmo abstracted in his room was funny 😐 or his AI is glitchy #(we saw him glitching out already in the pilot) alternatively I think Bubble could be distracting Caine on purpose but idk just yet #imagine how much pain Ragatha was in since they can all actually feel that though like being body slammed & thrown against walls & stuff 😬 #also excited to see some Gangle-centric content in the future based on that comment about the 'real her' 👀 #Kaufmo would probably make jokes at really dark moments when it wasn't appropriate because that was a coping mechanism for him poor guy 😭 #mine #op #the amazing digital circus #tadc

[k-yujin]

∿　 ﹒ ⌑ 　 @8unjin ↷ 　 . 🎀

∿ ﹒ Baby, you and me are a twisted fantasy 　♫

#❁ ﹒k-yujin #stream hold on tight :b #kpop icons #kpop moodboard #kpop layout #alternative layout #female icons #alternative moodboard #fyp #fypage #pink moodboard #purple moodboard #winter moodboard #winter icons #aespa moodboard #aespa icons #black moodboard #vintage moodboard #colorful moodboard #messy moodboard #random moodboard #short locs

[seulzitos]

֪ 𑁍 ⌇ 🌺 𝄒 𔗁 𓇼𓇼 ៹

#stream better things ! #ningning #ningning moodboard #ningning layouts #aespa #aespa moodboard #aespa layouts #aespa ningning #mood board #vintage moodboard #aesthetic moodboard #alternative moodboard #beach moodboard #summer moodboard #tropical moodboard #carrd moodboard #colorful moodboard #fresh moodboard #clean moodboard #gg moodboard #green moodboard #red moodboard #kpop moodboard #kpop #kpop packs #kpop layouts #kpop aesthetic #carrd layouts #carrd resources #gunw-ook

[effervescentdragon]

I bet it was Jenson Button. He seems like the type to fall for a con :)

Leverage 4x13 - The Girl's Night Out Job

#not to trash talk my british rat man #but i bet it was him #alternatively. mark webber #leverage #sophie devereaux #tara cole #jenson button #love crosiing the streams #f1

[littleeggrock]

i hope Jaiden returns to the island after like 2 months just absolutely fucked up physically and mentally, and everyone there gives a collective "girl what the fuck" and she just responds with "haha BALLS?!?! BOLAS?!?! lol lmao" and continues right where she left off, refusing to acknowledge anything that happened to her during the aftermath of purgatory despite her being obviously not ok, she's got a new daughter, yeah? she's gotta be perfect for her, she can't mess this up again. she won't mess this up again. She can just be silly again, she doesn't have to think about how she's doing mentally, how she hasn't been taking care of herself. she doesn't have to think about how the scars on her face from the gas mask haven't gone away, how her hands shake when she sees bad out and about with dapper, fight or flight instincts screaming, but above it all a voice saying "hey, we could use him again, if he wants to kill us. for the team! it's a bolas day today, today we die!". no, she doesn't have to worry about that, it'll sort itself out on its own right? right now she's just gotta take care of Em and keep up appearances, that's what matters.

#qsmp jaiden #jaiden animations #qsmp #qsmp empanada #oh god we're bordering on a month of no q!jaiden streams #i miss her :( #alternatively the feds run a secret mission to take her off the island themselves and that's where shes been this whole time #recovering like the eggs #but it takes longer because for 1 she is a person 2 she was doing bad BEFORE she disappeared