"Not everything is about your blorbos" to you maybe. To me every other song and probably that car commercial is about them
fun fact: if you pirated six full length albums from your favourite band, listened to them all back to back 5 times, and then sent them $20 on ko-fi or whatever, on average they would have earned slightly more money per play than they'd get from you streaming the same shit with ads on spotify.
invariably when I talk about media piracy people are like "but what!!! about creators!!! they need to make a living!!!" my homey in romey if you're that worried about it send your favourite artist $5 right now. do it. shut the fuck up.
I want to support artists but I can ONLY do it if I'm being drip fed shittier and shittier versions of the content a tech executive thinks I want. I have no choice in the matter because uhhhhhh other people won't pay for things if they're free. yeah that's right. other people are the problem.
here's the piracy secret big media don't want you to know: you can always give artists money if you want to.
ADDENDUM: woke up this morning and realised my math was off (I missed a decimal place). your favourite band would actually earn about 10x more per play from your $20 than they would from spotify.
That means you could pirate six albums and listen to them 50 times each, and you would only owe around $20 in spotify equivalent fees. Figures below the cut since people keep disputing them in various directions in my inbox:
God damn I’ve been Owned…
where’s jack going
to undo the future that is aku
Yes we need more chaste twee baby gay romances like heartstopper and yes we also need more shows where men fuck raw to express their love for one another like Élite and yes we need more toxic gays having hate sex like Interview with the Vampire and yes we need more incidental gay characters like the dads in cartoons like Owl House.
It's not a competition! It's a hoard and I'm like a gay little Smaug.
the normalization of porn in mainstream media is a weird take to have
Normalization of gay desire and yes, even gay sex, is paramount to gay liberation actually.
New chess piece:
A trolley is headed towards all 8 of your pawns. You can pull the lever to change the track and divert the trolley towards the opposing side's pawns, but is it truly ethical to selectively save only those whose ideologies align with yours the most? Is it truly ok for you to decide who should live or die in this situation? Furthermore, would it really be fair to put the opponent at such a disadvantage just because you went first?
Where did the extra white pawn come from
Well you see, when a mommy pawn and a mommy pawn love each other verrrry much, they perform "Mom Passant" and the excess energy gets converted into a new pawn
hate bluetooth headphones that talk. you are a machine you may NOT speak to me
when headphones beep sadly because their battery is low: oh you poor thing :( let me plug you in :(
when headphones say "battery low" in a human voice: Who Are You Stop Interrupting My Music
40,000 years ago, early humans painted hands on the wall of a cave. This morning, my baby cousin began finger painting. All of recorded history happened between these two paintings of human hands. The Nazca Lines and the Mona Lisa. The first TransAtlantic flight and the first voyage to the Moon. Humanity invented the wheel, the telescope, and the nuclear bomb. We eradicated wild poliovirus types 2 and 3. We discovered radio waves, dinosaurs, and the laws of thermodynamics. Freedom Riders crossed the South. Hippies burned their draft cards. Countless genocides, scientific advancements, migrations, and rebellions. More than a hundred billion humans lived and died between these two paintings—one on a sheet of paper, and one on the inside of a cave. At the dawn of time, ancient humans stretched out their hands. And this morning, a child reached back.
A Timeline of Humanity:
being in your early 20s is crazy bc there’s people who are literally married and people who’ve never even dated and people who are trapped in their childhood bedrooms waiting to get out and people who are trying to live out romanticized dream lives and people who are completely on their own and people with multi tiered support systems and we’re all supposedly peers and none of us think we’re doing it right at all
u ever have on mutuals whos so deep in another fandom that u know absolutely zero about and they make posts that look like they speaking another language or some shit
i really appreciate the number of mutuals who are not in any of my fandoms sharing this post. its like a little hello nod as we pass each other in the hall
my most antitheist opinion is that hell is like. a cartoonishly evil thing to believe in and insanely abusive to teach children about
"No, I didn't threaten my children with torture if they disobeyed me, I just told them that an omniscient force forever watching their every move would torture them eternally if they ever disobeyed me!"
