#FUCK AMAZON

[middle-earth-mythopoeia]

Uh, guys? Don't confuse your crappy televised fanfic for the story that Tolkien actually wrote.

Galadriel was never "under Sauron's thrall." That's something ROP made up. In Unfinished Tales, she was the only one in Eregion who suspected that Annatar was lying about being an emissary of the Valar. Celebrimbor was deceived by him. She was not. She was certainly not "under his thrall." No, not even because she had Nenya.

Yes, when Frodo offered her the One Ring, she was tempted. It could have given her the power to prevent the fading of Lothlórien. But when she makes this speech in the book, and in the Peter Jackson movies, it's her own thought, she's not repeating something that Sauron said to her once:

“You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!”

These are Galadriel's words. Her words. Not Sauron's. And she was tempted by the One Ring because she could have been a more powerful queen, not Sauron's queen. Like, you guys really took one of the most powerful and complex female characters in Tolkien's works and you made her story all about a man and his power over her and his manipulation of her. Fuck off.

And stop tagging ROP as Lord of the Rings.

[never-forget-viva-la-pluto]

Holding an indie movie release hostage and demanding that a show the creator was just an acting job in stay in the top 10 for 30 days is bad enough, but they 1) didn't get contracts to let it be released outside the usa and 2) They didn't advertise it properly and 3) They made him sign NDA's so he couldnt properly advertise it himself is some of the most heinous bullshit and i hate that this doesn't even rank in the top ten worst things Amazon has done

[badaziraphaletakes]

I haven’t put my finger on what exactly it is yet, but something about Amazon initially wanting to cancel GO instead of firing NG and continuing with it, and the subsequent decision to only make a shortened version, gives me the ick, in a way that the cancellation of his other shows doesn’t.

Something about the fact that he offered to withdraw (though admittedly, we don’t know exactly what that meant) and they were still going to drop it.

The message that sends feels… weird. It feels wrong.

I’d welcome hearing people’s thoughts.

[hawkeye221b]

[friendlyneighborhoodmermaid]

Edge of sleep has fallen to number 9 on Amazons list.

LET'S GET THOSE NUMBERS UP BOYS

[rollerska8er]

Buying things in 1974: go to a shop that sells the thing you want. Buy the thing

Buying things in 2024: the shops that sell you that thing you want have all closed down due to lack of business. Go online. Look for the thing you want. Read reviews written in broken grammar about how it's really really good. Google the company name. Read through a bunch of SEO-optimised AI-written slop. Go back to shopping website. Place order. Pay delivery fee you wouldn't have to pay if the shop still existed. The item arrives. it falls apart after two uses. Fuck you

[hazbinhotelhate]

Hazbin Hotel is satanic propaganda, so bad that it is an insult towards satanists.

[permdaydreamer]

okay so fuck Amazon. this is not about the strike, WGA/SAG-AFTRA aren’t the cause of this. this is about corporate greed and the purposeful and blatant silencing of queer/wlw stories and interests. so, in case anyone forgot, FUCK AMAZON.

[highlyincorrect]

I am so tired of shows being treated this way.

The equation doesn’t even work any more. A show can be successful and beloved and reach number one slot in fifty countries- generate millions upon millions for their companies- but none of it seems to mean anything. The company will slash it, ruin it, delete it entirely.

What I don’t understand is who this serves. The fans are desperate, they’d pay anything. The author who we will not name (bc fuck him) has written a full script and agreed to step aside because even he understands the importance of this show. This isn’t just affecting us. Terry Pratchett’s memory is being slandered and demeaned. He had one wish and the money hungry pieces of shit down at Bezosville cant even give him that.

I don’t understand what more a show can do nowadays. It doesn’t even seem to matter anymore.

[aerilune]

Just learned that My Lady Jane was cancelled because it wasn't on Nielsen’s Top 10 weekly streaming charts

ARE YOU SHITTING ME

WHAT, DOES EVERY SHOW HAVE TO BE THE MOST STREAMED THING EVER CREATED IN HISTORY IN ORDER TO GET RENEWED FOR EVEN ONE MORE SEASON????

It feels like these days, if a new show doesn't have record-breaking numbers, streaming services will simply abandon it before it even has the chance to garner a fan base

[middle-earth-mythopoeia]

I'm out of the blue here but why do Tolkien fans hate Rings Of Power? How is it damaging his work and legacy?

We don't hate it because it's damaging Tolkien's work or legacy, which stand on their own merits. We hate it because it's an awful adaptation that treats his world and characters horribly. We hate it because it's made by a company that utterly betrays Tolkien's values and showrunners who have arrogantly compared themselves to him as if they're on his level. Not only that, ROP is being shoved down our throats: it's all over online spaces, it's mentioned in Tolkien-related news articles that have nothing to do with it, and ROP images have even been plastered on the covers of Tolkien's books just to make more money for Amazon. I have more than a few criticisms of Peter Jackson's films, but they all pale in comparison to the criticisms I have of this dumpster fire of a show and the company that made it. ROP has tried to present itself as diverse, but it actually has extremely regressive writing and tokenistic casting, not to mention abhorrent labor practices because it's made by fucking Amazon. Its plotlines and dialogue and internal consistency are shit. Despite an absurdly high budget, its production value is also shit. Even if it were a standalone fantasy series that had nothing to do with Tolkien and we weren't comparing it to canon, the whole thing is embarrassingly, sickeningly bad. Does this answer your question?

[deramin2]

If you’re looking for audio books (like What Doesn’t Break), please check out libro.fm instead of Amazon.

You choose an independent bookstore and the sale goes through them, insuring a rich diversity of local booksellers remains in business.

DRM free downloads. It’s yours forever without restrictions. Or play it through the website/app.

Bookstores also have curation pages to help you find your next favorite book.

Playlists to help you find books on a theme, such as why Amazon is horrible, voting rights, Latino authors, or free audio books.

Excellent app for managing and listening to your audiobooks, including tags, bookmarks, playback speed, chapter menu, and sleep timers (I like setting the timer to stop at the end of the chapter so I can absorb things.)

They’re an employee-owned Social Purpose Corporation. They serve people over profits and aren’t incentivized to make the service worse to squeeze money out of customers, book stores, or publishers.

They are committed to uplifting historically excluded voices. You can find so many cool books being promoted there that mainstream bookstores like Amazon ignore.

Membership subscription like Audible to get cheaper credits, or buy books outright as you want them.

[ziggythemoonman]

my favorite butches, i'll miss them sm

[hawkeye221b]

Judge Judy never stood a chance

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

Up the workers.

[furst1ded]

Markiplier's show Edge of Sleep released on Amazon Prime!!! If you want to help Mark release his Iron Lung movie or just want to help a creator say fuck you to the corporation literally dangling his passion project in front of him, watch it! Help it get to the top 10! Dethrone Judge Judy!