#especially the dvd releases

[paintsplash1712]

Netflix just dropped the whole Nimona movie on YouTube!

I repeat NIMONA'S ON YOUTUBE FOR FREE!

[novelconcepts]

The irony of modern media consumption being “I am perfectly willing and able to pay for my movies/TV shows so I can own and watch them whenever I like, but you will not let me because you’re greedy corporate bastards who hate art” is not lost on me.

[love-songs-for-emma]

i still dont believe in buying blurays. at a time where a lot of ppl use streaming services & dont care abt this discussion,, i would like to talk about a lil something called Backwards Compatibility. i miss her. dvds and cds being able to play on anything with a disc reader,, ohhh man. i <3 the playstation 2,, my girlie who could Also play playstation 1 games AND cds AND dvds. name a better system... a more affordable option in this world... who needs streaming services when i can just buy dvd versions of everything i love for $5 a piece forever

[bmpmp3]

how did i not know there was an amnesia: memories musical..... an entire decade ago...................................................

[positivelyghastly]

Hi if there's a bootleg of the ghovie please let me know cause there's no screenings in my country

Hello! I have no idea if there is a bootleg of it floating around somewhere at the moment. Obviously it goes without saying, if there comes a chance for everyone to watch it via streaming or DVDs then (if you can afford it) watch it legally. HOWEVER if a bootleg does surface I’m not gonna tell people not to watch it and I’m not gonna respond to anyone talking shit for people pirating it either

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Okay I thought Loki S1 Steelbook going for £40 in CEX was a-lot, but DW 2024 S1 steelbook already being listed online at £59.99?! What the fuck?!

[graff-aganda]

YESYESYES I AM HERE FOR THE PSYCH ART THANK YOU!!! 2006 show fandom is sleeping but still alive🙏

OMG!! well I am happy to provide whatever doodles I may do... <3

[bones-sprouts]

hey guys if any of you are interested at all in arrested development you should start watching it right now!!!! on march 15th it gets taken off of netflix and the fifth season potentially becomes lost media!!!!!!!

[unproduciblesmackdown]

remembering a fun marble hornets trans wrights element throwback where i managed to show up for one of their first convention features & while this was ofc already [serious "hmm...Not Cis: me??"] occasions i wasn't yet out or anything like well time to suffer being known & perceived thusly....while i Was out by the same occasion the next year like well here i am again, different name, binder, no plans to give anyone any rundown about this thing, hope it goes smoothly anyways and/or i'm effectively giving a reintroduction anyhow even though i May have been up to more memorable things that last time....no conversations needed to be had, i think i had the impression i was recalled as the same person but it was an entirely chill time, just this as like an early and pretty unique Occasion of like, here's people who know me from In Person (and ig Kind of online, i also don't recall ever like distinctly linking said in person appearance to onlineness lol. it just may also have not been an unsolveable mystery or a mystery at all. but mostly in person, and that's the element i was focusing on anyways) and my showing up transly in person with a whole other name this time as the major difference really lol. like well hope this goes swimmingly....And It Did. and at some point not eons later ya boy tim with some cringe comp sincerety like oh let me make this post somewhere about how an epic element of being a known internet creator is meeting new & various people including explicitly the [mh fans are like exclusively The Gays. and then some unfiction posters] factor & i'm like lol well you're welcome. just doing my part. but fr that was neat like i'm glad to get chill indirect & direct trans validation from internet horror series contributors in that immediate period of coming out & having to sweat it like damn wasn't at this point last time around

[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.

Edit: if you are able, use $5 you would otherwise use for a streaming subscription to donate to a GazaFunds campaign.

[general-sleepy]

Media released in the literal 2020s will just not have audio description available. What even.

[doyoulikethissong-poll]

Andrew Gold - Spooky, Scary Skeletons 1996

Andrew Maurice Gold was an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and record producer who influenced much of the Los Angeles-dominated pop/soft rock sound in the 1970s. Gold performed on scores of records by other artists, especially Linda Ronstadt, and had his own success with the US top 40 hits "Lonely Boy" (1977) and "Thank You for Being a Friend" (1978) (which was later used as the opening theme for The Golden Girls), as well as the UK top five hit "Never Let Her Slip Away" (1978). In the 1980s, he had further international chart success as one half of the new wave duo Wax. During the 1990s, Gold produced, composed, performed on and wrote tracks for films, commercials, and television soundtracks.

"Spooky, Scary Skeletons" is a Halloween song, first released on Gold's 1996 album Halloween Howls: Fun & Scary Music. It was one of nine original songs on the album, released to fill a void of availability of fun and scary Halloween original songs according to Gold on his 1996 liner notes. He produced, mixed, sang and played all the instruments on the track. It prominently features a xylophone to represent the sound of skeletal bones rattling.

In 1998, Disney included the song on their VHS tape Disney's Sing-Along Songs: Happy Haunting: Party at Disneyland! (which was released on DVD as Disney's Sing-Along Songs: Happy Haunting in 2006). They paired the song with the 1929 animated short film The Skeleton Dance by Ub Iwerks. The video has garnered over 31 million views since it was recreated and uploaded by a Youtube user. On October 31, 2013, the Youtube band The Living Tombstone created an electronic dance-like remix of the song with a faster tempo than the original. Their upload of the remix to YouTube has garnered over 102 million views. By 2022, there were over 5 million TikTok videos featuring the song. “Spooky, Scary Skeletons” was adapted into a children's picture book by Random House Children's Books featuring the lyrics to the song on August 27, 2024.

"Spooky, Scary Skeletons" received a total of 90% yes votes!

[flanaganfilm]

Mr. Flanagan, I’d like to ask a question and I deeply hope that it does not offend or upset you. I am strongly considering canceling my Netflix subscription due to their new password sharing policy. However, Midnight Mass is one of my favorite shows of all time and I know it isn’t available on DVD, and I’m also profoundly anticipating your take on my favorite Edgar Allen Poe story. So I wanted to ask your take on people accessing your work through, uh, other means. If it’s something that’s offensive to you or will harm you or the other people who work so hard on these shows, I’ll happily keep my Netflix just so that I can keep supporting your work. I respect you far too much as an artist to do otherwise.

Again, I really hope I’m not upsetting you by asking this question. Thank you for everything, and I hope you’re having a great day!

(NOTE 6/4/2024: I'm editing this entry because, well over a year since it was posted, some journalists dug this up and used it to create click-bait headlines that are misleading, out of context and artificially combative. While I was of course disappointed over the years that Netflix opted not to release my work on physical media, I never experienced any hostility or aggression in those discussions, and I sincerely regret the manner in which this post was used in the press this week.)

Hi there - no offense taken whatsoever, in fact I think this is a very interesting and important question.

So. If you asked me this a few years ago, I would have said "I hate piracy and it is hurting creators, especially in the independent space." I used to get in Facebook arguments with fans early in my career when people would post about seeing my work on torrent sites, especially when that work was readily available for rent and purchase on VOD.

Back in 2014, my movie Before I Wake was pirated and leaked prior to any domestic release, and that was devastating to the project. It actually made it harder to find distribution for the film. By the time we were able to get distribution in the US, the film had already been so exposed online that the best we could hope for was a Netflix release. Netflix stepped in and saved that movie, and for that I will always be grateful to them.

However...

Working in streaming for the past few years has made me reconsider my position on piracy.

In the years I worked at Netflix, I tried very hard to get them to release my work on blu-ray and DVD.

It became clear very fast that their priority was subscriptions, and that they were not particularly interested in physical media releases of their originals, with a few exceptions.

While companies like Netflix pride themselves on being disruptors, and have proven that they can affect great change in the industry, they sometimes fail to see the difference between disruption and damage. So much that they can find themselves, intentionally or not, doing harm to the concept of film preservation.

The danger comes when a title is only available on one platform, and then - for whatever reason - is removed.

We have already seen this happen. And it is only going to happen more and more. Titles exclusively available on streaming services have essentially been erased from the world. If those titles existed on the marketplace on physical media, like HBO's Westworld, the loss is somewhat mitigated (though only somewhat.) But when titles do not exist elsewhere, they are potentially gone forever.

The list of titles that have been removed from streaming services is growing.

I still believe that where we put our dollars matters. Renting or buying a piece of work that you like is essential. It is casting a vote, encouraging studios - who only speak the language of money - to invest more effort into similar work. If we show up to support distinct, unique, exciting work, it encourages them to make more of it. It's as simple as that. If we don't show up, or if they can't hear our voice because we are casing our vote "silently" through torrent sites or other means - it makes it unlikely that they will take a chance to create that kind of work again.

Which is why I typically suggest that if you like a movie you've seen through - uh - other means, throw a few dollars at that title on a legitimate platform. Rent it. Purchase it. Support it.

But if some studios offer no avenue for that kind of support, and can (and will) remove content from their platform forever... frankly, I think that changes the rules.

Netflix will likely never release the work I created for them on physical media, though I'll always hold out hope.

Some of you may say "wait, aren't The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor available on blu-ray and DVD?" Yes, they are, because they were co-produced with Paramount, and I'm grateful that Paramount was able to release and protect those titles. (I'm also grateful that those releases include extended cuts, deleted scenes, and commentary tracks. There are a number of fantastic benefits to physical media releases.)

But a lot of the other work I did there are Netflix originals, without any other studio involvement. Those titles - like Midnight Mass, The Midnight Club, and the upcoming Fall of the House of Usher - along with my Netflix exclusive and/or original movies Before I Wake and Gerald's Game - have no such protections. The physical media releases of those titles are entirely at Netflix's discretion, and don't appear to be priority for the studio at this time.

At the moment, Netflix seems content to leave Before I Wake, Gerald's Game, Midnight Mass, and The Midnight Club on the service, where they still draw audiences. I don't think there is a plan to remove any of them anytime soon. But plans change, the industry changes.

The point is things change, and each of those titles - should they be removed from the service for any reason - are not available anywhere else. If that day comes - if Netflix's servers are destroyed, if a meteor hits the building, if they are bought out by a competitor and their library is liquidated - I don't know what the circumstances might be, I just know that if that day comes, some of the work that means the most to me in the world would be entirely erased.

Or, what if we aren't so catastrophic in our thinking? What if it the change isn't so total? What if Netflix simply bumps into an issue with the license they paid for music (like the Neil Diamond songs that play such a crucial role in Midnight Mass), and decide to leave the show up but replace the songs?

This has happened before as well - fans of Northern Exposure can get the show on DVD and blu-ray, but the music they heard when the series aired has been replaced due to the licensing issues. And the replacements - chosen for their low cost, not for creative reasons - are not improvements. What if the shows are just changed, and not by creatives, but by business affairs executives?

All to say that physical media is critically important. Having redundancy in the marketplace is critically important. The more platforms a piece of work is available on, the more likely it is to survive and grow its audience.

As for Netflix, I hope sincerely that their thinking on this issue evolves, and that they value the content they spend so much money creating enough to protect it for posterity. That's up to them, it's their studio, it's their rules. But I like to think they may see that light eventually, and realize that exclusivity in a certain window is very cool... but exclusivity in perpetuity could potentially limit the audience and endanger the work itself.

[voguewoozi]

there's always one more kpop group discography to add to the collection. when does it end

[lqveharrington]

Milk & Cookies | S.H.

summary: you and steve watch movies and make cookies for christmas!

pairing: steve harrington x fem!reader

includes: fluff, harmless bantering, you and steve being cat parents

a/n: went back to my original boy for once 🫶🏼 (well, draco is my og, but steve was clearly the inspo for the acc)

Ever since you and Steve began dating, you had a tradition for each and every holiday. On Halloween, you would dress up as famous movie couples and pass out candies to the kids until your feet hurt. On Valentine’s Day, Steve would always bring you to the same restaurant and watch a movie at the theater afterwards. But your favorite was always Christmas time. You would make cookies and build gingerbread houses, and you would watch movies until you both passed out on the couch.

It was the holiday you waited every year for.

You were leaning back on the kitchen counter of your tiny apartment you shared with Steve up in New York away from Hawkins, your eyes trained on his as you listened to his nonsense. “I think… It’s not practical.”

The smell of cookies filled the air as he pulled the tray out of the oven, shooing Willow away from the burning oven. He placed the tray onto the counter and watched you pick the cat up, rolling his eyes when you peppered her with more love than your words for him.

“It’s a good idea if you think about it.” Steve collected glass cups from the cabinets and maneuvered around you to grab milk from the fridge. “You just want to be mean.”

“I do not.” You gasp and pick up a cookie from the tray, wincing when you burn yourself. Steve whips around and takes a look at your finger before kissing the top of it and microwaving the milk. You smile like a fool in love before continuing your banter. “Besides, it’s kinda stupid, babe.”

“It’s kinda stupid, babe.” He mocked you and crossed his arms over his chest, raising his brows at the sudden pout decorating your beautiful face. “Don’t give me that look, you were being mean during the holidays.”

You tilt your head to the side and sigh, hugging Willow closer to yourself. She merely purred and rubbed her cheek into yours, pawing at your knitted sweater. “Is mommy ever mean to daddy? I don’t think so. Especially not during the holidays.”

“Yes, you are.” Steve deadpanned and liked the frosting off his thumb before pulling the milk out of the beeping microwave, completely oblivious to your reaction.

Your jaw was dropped in shock and you turned away from him, nose in the air like a child. Steve finally noticed what you were doing and pulled you into his arms, wrapping them around your front and tucking his head into your neck.

“I’m sorry.” He murmured and planted soft kisses across your neck, thumbing the skin underneath your sweater softly. “I didn’t mean that.”

You purse your lips in amusement and tilt your head back to meet his eyes, raising your brows when he rolled his eyes at your facial expression. You giggled and thumbed his jaw, kissing his lips briefly.

“You’re such a loser for actually thinking I was upset.” You laugh as he turns you around so your chest was against his. You tuck your head in his chest and let the laughter take over your body, your chest shaking from the action.

“Ha ha.” Steve squeezes your waist and shakes his head. “You see what I mean? You’re so mean.”

Willow meows loudly at the both of you when she realizes you’re both giving affection without her. Steve chuckles and picks her up, putting her in between the both of you as you kiss her head over and over again. Once more, Steve rolls his eyes and presses his own kisses to your head before you finally let up from showering Willow in kisses.

“I love you too, Harrington.” You grin and press a kiss to his cheek, beckoning toward the television with the DVD already setup. “C’mon, I wanna watch one movie together before we fall asleep.”

“I think that’s just you.” Steve releases your from his hold and grabs the glasses while you grab the plate of cookies, careful to not let Willow snag one. 

You roll your eyes and make your way to the living room, Steve trailing close behind. “Shush.”

©lqveharrington - all rights reserved. do not copy, translate or share my work on other media platforms

[retrosofa]

Discotek Media is releasing the original Cutie Honey TV series on SD-BD. The release date is February 25th, 2025.

I did the subtitles (and then some) for this release, which is honestly a dream come true. I was only 14 years old when I imported the Japanese DVDs with my own allowance money. Never in a million years did I think I'd get to work on its official US release!

This Blu-ray will have a completely new and improved translation from the original DVDs. Names and terminology will be consistent with Discotek's New Cutey Honey, Re: Cutie Honey and Cutie Honey The Live releases.

My friend and magical girl enthusiast, Ayumi Shinozaki, did a lot of translation work for this release. She especially helped out with a lot of trickier dialogue, namely 90% of Danbei and Ms. Alphonne's lines. My good friend @sailorfuncomics was also a huge help by proofreading the subtitles.

And of course, I want to make a shout out to Justin Sevakis and David Miranda for making this all possible. We all put a lot of work into this release, so I'm glad to finally see it come out! Please support more Cutie Honey in the US by pre-ordering a copy!