#torrents aren't illegal......

[asleepinawell]

RIP TORRENT, YOU WERE A GOOD HORSE

[cloudraker]

Oh hello! I've seen that your requests were open and I was wondering if you could write headcanons for MTMTE, about a sleepy human reader (platonic) accidentally falling asleep on the minibots during movie night (swerve,taligate,rewind) Thanks!!

For sure, thank you for requesting! First request I've done in a while so apologies if it's a bit messy

MTMTE Minibots with a Human Falling Asleep During Movie Time

Under the cut :)

No matter what movie it is Swerve will talk through it. It's a skill to be able to commentate on anything that's happening and it's a skill he has mastered. It rarely adds anything to the story but sometimes the joke is good. Everybody gave up shushing him after the second movie

Swerve is also the one that usually suggests what movies to watch- he's got a whole list of movies from Earth he wants to see and he is going to see them

If Rewind doesn't have the movie then they use like. Space torrent or something they find a way

Rewind is the designated projector. He doesn't mind because that means he has to be invited and also he gets to keep the movie file after

It's during movie night when some movie you've already seen four times is playing that you start to nod off. You don't mean to, you know you should stay up to watch the movie but your work on the ship has been rough lately and you've already seen this movie so surely it's okay if you just close your eyes for a second

Tailgate is the first to notice, almost waking you up with the noise he lets out at the sight of you just conked out next to them. He has to stop himself from touching you- he doesn't want to wake you up

Rewind shuts the movie off as soon as he realizes what's going on. He's got the movie on file already so he doesn't need to see the whole thing and now there's something to record and he's already got like four photos from very slightly different angles

Swerve is.. conflicted. On one hand he really wanted to see that movie and it was just getting good but on the other hand. Well. Hardly fair if you miss out on the movie (he is watching you sleep like and is enraptured. he is fascinated)

Whoever you fell asleep on (or nearest to) is NOT allowed to move on threat of being banned from movie nights. Yes, this includes Rewind.

It's like when a pet falls asleep on you. You aren't allowed to move it's illegal it's a crime

The three minibots huddle around you, making sure you're covered and able to sleep soundly enough. Anybody who comes in is very quickly shooed out as quietly as they can

They talk quietly while you sleep, Swerve doing most of the talking while Tailgate mostly listens and Rewind films more content like a normal guy

When you do wake up again it's so over for you. Tailgate and Swerve are going to be talking about it for a while and Rewind has photos that he shares with Chromedome who shares it with Brainstorm and now the entire ship has seen it

If it ever happens again they start a collection of photos, all stored in chronological order. Rewind has a digital copy of everything saved in his database. May or may not be making a montage of awkward sleeping positions you've been found in just for shits and giggles

[mesetacadre]

FAQ

Disclaimer: this FAQ is for avoiding repetition in asks. You can still ask me about these topics but only after you've read the relevant FAQ and you still have doubts, you want me to expand on something, or you're not sure how to apply these to your specific situation.

Are you telling me I shouldn't vote?

What can I do after learning about communism?

But what if i'm in the US?

What is marxism's relationship with intersectionality?

Do you have a reading list?

What do you think of this particular manifestation of the petit-bourgeoisie?

Can I DM you with a question?

What do you think of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact?

Your "glorious revolution" will never go anywhere

Should I torrent with a VPN?

How do I post as good as you do?

Why do you irradiate your screenshots? It's so there is no confusion which part of the post is a screenshot and which aren't. It's the same logic than the sea filter but that one distorts text too much and I think it makes text illegible

Also see the #seriousposting tag

[whumpster-fire]

Leading Thieves Say Millennials and Zoomers "Ruining the Crime Industry"

A variety of criminals have spoken out over the past few weeks, saying that crime just doesn't pay like it used to because Millennials and Gen-Z-ers are so broke, they have nothing of value to steal.

Stephen "Fingers" Gilligan, Pickpocket: Pickpocketing has been on the decline in America for a while, but it's getting ridiculous now. Nobody carries cash anymore, and even cards aren't paying out. The other day I stole a wallet with five debit cards, and all but one of them declined. The last one had just enough to buy a Sierra Mist from a vending machine. That was my second best score all week. The best was a $40 Olive Garden gift card and a crumpled, discolored $5 bill that I had to use archeological techniques to retrieve without it disintegrating in my hand.

Burt Crustman, Mugger: Man, nobody walks through dark alleys at night since the pandemic hit, and when they do? Jackshit. The only valuable anyone under 40's got on them these days is their phone. Admittedly lotsa people have $3000 phones, but you know what the market for fencing iPhones is like? It's shit! Everybody's buying new phones because their phone's the only nice thing they can afford!

Monty Derailleur, Bike Thief: Well the bike theft business would be going good, if people ever used the bikes they bought. The sales are high, but the fact of the matter is, the bike lanes around here are shitty or nonexistent, there's no room to take them on the bus, and there's no bike racks so everybody knows it's gonna get stolen.

Jerry Rigby, Car Thief: I don't know what you're talking about, Grand Theft Auto is booming. There's $75,000 pickups, $60,000 SUVs, $100,000 Teslas, and most people can't even afford to buy a used car legally so fencing's never been easier. The reason it's hard for those of us in the business is twofold. First, too many people living out of their cars. Second, the competition. You see a nice car parked somewhere, you gotta be on it like that, or the fucking illegal towing rackets will beat you to it. It's nearly impossible to make a living as an independent car thief.

Dwayne Pipe, Burglar: The only reason to be breaking and entering in the post-Pandemic years if to use somebody's shower. I swear to god, half the time when I break into a place, the only furniture is a mattress on the floor and a mid-sized computer monitor as a TV, and those are only good for scrap because with planned obsolescence the way it is, they have a life expectancy of about 6 weeks after theft. To be honest with you, I'm running a loss on most jobs. The only reason I haven't gone straight is because all the legal jobs pay jackshit too. That, and I really like replacing people's family photos with pictures of Nicholas Cage.

Brittlyghn McKannyck, Shoplifter: Shoplifting these days is a hobby, not a career. Half the time the stores are too understaffed to even stock the shelves, and if they're not, everything's locked up. I had to get a guy to unlock a magnetic tag on a box of Crispix the other day. If I didn't live with my parents, there's absolutely no way shoplifting full time would be viable.

Norman Gore, Master Hacker and Identity Thief: Scamming people out of their financial info or cracking passwords has never been easier, but the scores just aren't worth it. I keep getting into bank accounts that pending overdraft fees. It's pathetic. I have to leave the lights off so my hacker den's only lit by the monitors, and type on three or four keyboards at once to hack enough people to make ends meet.

Jack Gazebo, Digital Pirate: Oh my fucking God, people, stop paying for streaming! Learn to torrent! I'm telling you, man, this generation just doesn't have the technological literacy to pirate media.

Captain Tom Stillcutt, Analog Pirate: Let me tell ye something, matey, it be a sad day for piracy. No more galleons laden low with gold doubloons, rum, and exotic spices, nay, it be all scurvy container ships full o' mass produced plastic now. Me last prize was a forty foot container loaded full of over a hundred thousand Funko Pops, en route from the East Indies. The worst part of it was as the cap'n I gets a double share o' the booty, whether I want it or not. I've been makin' one walk the plank every day, and my cabin's still full of the blasted things. Shiver my timbers, I hate these damned Zoomers! At least the ones in me crew are happy.

Geraldo Cardamom IV, Gentleman Thief: The economy's just horrible for heists these days. Art heists? Jewelry theft? All the rich idiots are blowing their money on crypto, NFTs, and custom furniture from hipster woodworking YouTubers. Nobody just has a gallery in their house with priceless antiques in glass cases below a conveniently placed skylight, or millions of dollars in cash and gold bullion in vaults behind secret doors with seven different elaborate locking mechanisms anymore. Nobody secures their valuables with networks of criss crossing laser motion sensors. The only guys with that kind of money are assholes like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, and they don't have the sense of style for that. They just hire a bunch of assholes with guns.

Carmen San Diego, Legend: You must be joking, right? The reason I retired is because the infrastructure in this country is so dilapidated it's impossible to move it without it disintegrating. My last heist was "stealing" the World's Largest Pothole in Lansing, Michigan. I lifted the entire six lane wide, fifteen foot deep pothole out of the ground, disassembled it, and shipped it across the country to a warehouse in Las Vegas, then filled in the hole with pristine asphalt so it looked like it was never there. Nobody investigated. Nobody came after me. The city threw a parade in my honor. It didn't even take a month before my record holding pothole was dethroned by one in Cleveland, leaving me with nothing but a bunch of dirt, crumbling asphalt, and broken dreams. That's when I realized it was time to call it quits. Well, maybe the Bass Pro Shops Pyramid, but it already looks stupid enough in the middle of Tennessee that the only way stealing it would be funny is if I put it in the original Memphis.

[sharpth1ng]

hey again!! thank you for answering my ask, and for the clarification! i figured you probably had it all sorted out because you're a grown adult and seem to know your stuff but i still said something anyways just in case haha

i should have been more clear with my original ask but i myself still find all this stuff quite confusing so thats my bad sorry 😞 basically it has nothing to do with the labour of printing or if the company publishes it or not, it’s because fan fiction is already grey area, it’s ok when no one is making money off it. as soon as at any point someone makes any money off it, like these printing companies, or commissioning someone on etsy, or even just going somewhere local to get the pages printed, it now becomes illegal - fanworks infringe on the creator's intellectual property and you need a licencing agreement if it's not public domain etc blah blah blah you get it lol

as soon as the word "pay" comes in, it's illegal - you can't pay for anything, even if you are the one that wrote the fanfic (which fucking sucks). but your merch and stuff is completely fine because the references are based on your original writing, like theyre not gonna be like "how dare you sell this tshirt with a bloody B on it thats illegal!!" bcs that whole thing is entirely unique to your work and has no ties to the original property 👍

but thats just my understanding of it, and the specifications of it can get really confusing!! same thing happens with fanart too, technically you aren't allowed to sell fanart - that's why people often only sell it irl at cons to avoid copyright strikes. but then again there is people selling fanart on redbubble and in fanzines etc so like, i honestly don't know how that side of it works as well?? i think its under a different law since it’s a transformative work maybe...??

its all very confusing i wish clarification was more clear 😭 but you sound like you've looked into it and know what you're doing so thats fantastic, and i'm glad to hear. thank you again for answering so quickly i dont mean to be a bother. ur a talented writer and i loved debaser, keep it up 😊

Yeah no problem! I do appreciate the effort to give a heads up. And like to be fair I’ve done my research but I’m not a copyright lawyer or a legal scholar and the law on this stuff is very confusing to me.

In terms of the fanart stuff my understanding is that it is illegal to sell but for the most part fan Artist are too small for copyright holders to go after, it’s just not really a thing that’s done for the most part. There’s even a number of situations where selling fanart led to those artists being directly employed by the copyright holders. I think it’s very rare for fan artists to get sued for copy right and the only examples I know of are from Disney.

For the most part fanart sold is illegal, but it’s similar to torrenting content where its not really enforced so people do it anyways, and often at a pretty large scale. The stuff on red bubble and in fanzines is also illegal as far as I know, it doesn’t count as transformative.

Honestly I think it’s very unlikely that anyone printing my work would get targeted like that, mostly because this fandom is small and I’m even smaller. I only have a little over 1000 followers here and while that’s more followers than I’ve ever had before in my life it’s pretty much microscopic on the internet. Beyond that there’s less than a handful of printed copies as far as I’m aware.

Honeslty I have a lot of issues with copyright law- obviously it needs to apply to things like generative AI which is essentially a very environmentally damaging collage machine, but in terms of fanart and fanfiction I really don’t see how it could be construed as taking away profit from copyright holders.

People for the most part only read my work because they were already into scream, and a number of people have even told me my work got them to watch scream so if anything I’ve created profit for them. Fandom is the reason these original works have the legacy they do, and fanworks are a massive part of that because you can only consume the original content so many times before you get bored.

Beyond that we wouldn’t have some of our most highly acclaimed cultural works if copyright law had existed hundreds of years ago. Like, Shakespeare would have been fucked.

Alright lmao rant over. Tl;dr I’m doing my best to do this all in a legal way, but it’s good for folks to be aware that there may be an issue with the legality of printing my work even if they aren’t paying me. I think it’s unlikely any of you will face repercussions because this fandom is miniscule but if you’re worried maybe don’t post on Tumblr- but feel free to dm me or post in my discord 👍

[jessaerys]

rented a horror movie in spanish on amazon because i could not find it anywhere to torrent it and it has huge english subtitles on the picture. they cannot be turned off they aren't a separate srt file. i'm astonished because i don't need english subtitles and they are incredibly distracting. literally my illegal streaming websites have better standards than this this is what i get for giving up and succumbing to the four dollar siren song of convenience

[toskarin]

Asking as someone who's only ever pirated anime via streaming - so like, streaming a show counts as a legal grey area, yeah? Like, it can't be made illegal just to see something on a website you could legally access via google. But torrenting a game is actually illegal I'm pretty sure, and y'know, fuck the police and all that, but in terms of how to download that FSN torrent safely (and without getting in trouble), how would one go about that?

I mean, just imagining that this scenario were happening and giving advice for it theoretically, type-moon isn't coming after individuals for downloading copies of games that they aren't selling in their territories (it's more or less impossible to legally buy and play fate/stay night on PC as of right now in any way that would directly give money to type-moon)

if you're especially worried, a vpn could help, but this is significantly less of something with actual consequences than, say, downloading a very popular AAA game made by a highly litigious studio that publishes in your home territory

in short, a vpn is good practice for this kind of thing because the most likely consequence (and it's still not very likely in this case, but it's good practice) is your internet provider taking issue with it

[whichvpnhaschinaserver]

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[ideahat-universe]

Not your hard drive, not your data.

There's been a lot of bad news regarding actually owning anything that was digitally acquired. From Funimation to Sony. A lot of stuff people bought just stopped existing.

Ross Scott from game dungeon is trying to end the perma death that takes place with Live Service games.

It's gotten people to really talk about buying physical media again.

And to me, this is a flawed thought process. Owning the physical device won't save it forever. In fact, most media does have a physical form. Companies typically keep a master copy of whatever is created and sold/broadcast. A lot of that content becomes essentially lost media but in reality, we're just looking for someone who is willing to digitize the only physical copy that exists for that item.

You're thinking "Oda, one copy is good. It's better than no copies, and all we want is to own a copy and we're willing to pay for it to and that will preserve it better in the end." And that's a convincing argument. But we need to talk about how things are preserved.

CDs are how most TV shows and video games are saved and copied and CDs can last anywhere between 20 to 100 years.

Did I say 20 to 100 years? I mean to say, 1 day to whenever you scratch it accidentally. Sun damage, dropping on the floor, having it sit on a surface and gather dust, hell, running the CD wears it out after awhile.

This is the same issue with books. Of course we need to keep books. Books are valuable and priceless, but if you aren't keeping your books maintained by rebinding it, touching up the faded ink, and keeping the book basically unmolested in a temp controlled container, it's going to rot on your shelf and become useless. Hell, forget about extremists burning your books. Bugs are going to eat it first.

Having multiple physical copies is the way but it should be in a format that is easily transferable. CDs are quickly becoming obsolete and once CD drivers stop being built it will be a pain in the ass to rip data from a CD (This isn't even including Blueray CDs which are even harder to extract data from).

What you don't want is to just have a CD of the game or TV show. You just need physical data on a hard drive. Once you have a copy on your hard drive, you can copy that data onto other hard drives, you can copy that data onto a cloud service that you use like Dropbox or Megaupload. You can also illegally torrent or re-upload your copy so other people can have it.

I see this argument a lot in digital currency spaces. Just because it's effectively invisible doesn't mean it doesn't exist physically. Physical ownership should not mean becoming a very organized hoarder.

It should mean dumping and ripping everything you buy whether it's some CD you bought at Best Buy or it's some show you bought legally on a online store that you don't really own because the fine print said you were just renting it long term but fuck them, you bought it, therefore you should use video rippers to make whatever you bought actually yours (and if you are wondering, no, I don't use those specific methods but the method I use I had to actually pay for).

And once you have it. Make a backup, Make a backup of that backup, make a remote backup, and make sure when your time comes someone can find your copy of it.

With video games there are data dumpers and ROM sites galore. The really hard part is getting a emulator that runs the games effectively. Citra was caught in the AOE when Nintendo Ulted Yuzu and they just Surrendered at 20. Even when Citra was alive though it wasn't replacing a 3DS in a lot of ways. There are a lot of games that were dependent on the various software and hardware functions that a 3DS had that the Citra doesn't accurately replicate. You CAN play Tomodachi Life on a Citra but good luck not destroying your OLED from your miis asking for sneeze assistance. Forget using the AR camera or even the normal camera. Citra crashes or creates scrambled images when taking in game screenshots.

The mic doesn't work either so mic related games just don't work.

But Tomodachi Life can be generally played. It gets uglier when you think about games like Rusty's Real Deal baseball. A game that requires you connecting to the store to make a purchase. An action that is completely impossible now. How about all the games that were Mii related? Spotpass? Streetpass?

Eccentric games that requires specific hardware and software to run are basically easy to copy but impossible to run. Real preservation is in completely replicating the environment they used to function in which is a level of techno wizardry most people don't have.

Which brings me to the Sisyphean task of making sure games with dedicated servers gain the ability to live forever as a zombie.

When a multiplayer game is kept alive through user owned servers, it lives in only the most literal sense. Imagine all those failed live service games that had their audience dwindle down to zero before closing forever. Would those games have been saved if you just gave players the ability to set up their own server? No, because most of those games require several hundred players to really function correctly.

Similar to how just owning the ROM to Rusty's Real Deal Baseball doesn't grant you the ability to play it like it originally was. A live service game that has lost 99% of its audience is not saved by having it's existence put on life support via the one person willing to host a server for it and maybe five other people willing to play it for a few hours a year.

It is unfortunate but in order to actually preserve Live Service games we have to let them die and allow for the idea that made the game to be reborn into something more sustainable. Instead of a Live Service or an MMO it's just a single player experience. Maybe it is multiplayer but the other players are just sophisticated AI and the occasional human player.

Preservation isn't just about having something sitting around and rotting. It's about acquiring something at it's most functional, and then replicating that and if something truly cannot be saved, it must be remembered and remade. CDs, Books, even Hard Drives die.

But ideas are forever.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

what’s better than a twist ending is a twist character. as in a character who the narration reads entirely wrong and with prejudice/assumption, until the story development sheds new light on their character & perspective, and turns our understanding into something different and far more empathetic

[northwest-cryptid]

We are once again back to "things you could have educated people about in a nice way but you wanted to be an assholes instead." But hey I have to give this one credit where it's due because normally I get upset since they don't typically actually explain anything but this post does.

It is that simple, is easy to forget with how normalized it is but piracy is an underground and illegal thing, it's just not super enforced on the users end. It's more likely my internet service provider would shut down my internet before I'd ever have cops at my door asking me to prove that I bought that video game that suddenly showed up on my computer.

However that doesn't mean that sites that host proper torrents and such don't get taken far more seriously, and sites that are potentially dangerous whether that be through malicious viruses and malware or through other means; will gladly take their place using the same name and aesthetics to the point you won't easily be able to tell. I know you think yourself a highly computer literate individual who could spot that shit a mile away but trust me, you aren't. Even if you are it's entirely possible the person you're downloading from got their torrent from a sketchy website and maybe they aren't.

What I'm saying here is that the more mainstream and wide spread these websites become the easier it is for people who want to cause you harm (and no I don't even mean cops) to access them all the same.

It's not like you're out here going on "the dark web" or something, anyone can access this stuff. Essentially it's the same as if you knew about a really cool store that has everything you ever wanted at a criminally affordable price. However it's located at some really discreet place way out of town and you make sure only to tell your very good trusted friends about it because you don't want everyone else shopping it out every time you want to go. You'd be pissed off to see it all over social media or on TikTok with thousands of people flaunting their finds on their own accounts because suddenly you find that this once private thing has become overly public, and only a week later it became so popular that it was looked into and found to literally be criminal and now it's shut down.

We're really back to "loose lips sink ships" but with a slightly different meaning. Anyways I know my version is like 5 times as long but I'm not calling you an idiot for trying to share something exciting and fun with the world, so hopefully you can understand why we can't just go around doing that. No shade to OP I get it, it's annoying to see one of the few underground communities out there being exposed and beaten down by over excited newcomers who don't understand the culture, I just don't think insulting them and being mad at them is a great way to get them to understand we're on the same side and just asking that they not accidentally destroy our few remaining sites.

Unfriendly reminder that all you idiots being like "yeah just pirate media now, fuck corporations!" posting links and just openly telling people where to download pirated media are why it's so hard to find safe, working sites for it anymore.

I've been doing this shit for over 20 years and the availability has gone down as it's become more mainstream. The more you publicly talk about all these sites the less there are. Shut up. Tell people in private or don't tell them at all.

[zevranunderstander]

ngl sometimes people on here have takes that try to sound leftist that just make me go. "you really don't know how this thing works, do you?"

[fivehole]

Hiiii, may i ask which screen recorders you'd recommend? I'm starting to get into making gifs and i'm not sure which is the most reliable haha. And i'm pretty sure you've answered this already but i don't remember anymore :( Thanks for ur help in advance

I haven’t downloaded anything on my new laptop yet, I used to use the Icecream Screen Recorder but they changed the conditions of the free version and now it has a watermark; I’m sorry I couldn’t help, when I find a screen recording software that I’d recommend, I’ll make sure I reblog this ask and let you know

[doberbutts]

Real stupid that people are being assholes about the Amazon show. Don't know why they're so against someone enjoying something that gives them the representation they need/want. Like just because you (referring to the anons) aren't going to watch and enjoy something doesn't mean someone else can't. Besides, one person watching it and enjoying it is doing far less harm than the hundreds of people hate-watching it.

Keep doing you

(also I love your account. I've learned so much about dogs, esp. Dobermans.)

Also, I cannot stress this enough, if you want to hate watch it and don't want to give Amazon any money you can literally just pirate it. Go learn how to torrent and give Amazon zero money and also make it so that it's harder to track just how many people are watching so Amazon can't use illegal streaming site data as a tool for such. Host a discord movie night where you hate watch with all your little friends after you have a digital copy on your computer. There you go, Bezos gets zero money out of it and you don't have to fall for racist propaganda dressed up with a woke hat just to defend why you aren't watching. That simple.

[goldenandhappy]

But it's not just that

yes, niche interests will get lost without piracy, but you peeps don't seem to understand how important piracy is even for extremely popular franchises.

And I don't mean it for corporations who bank on merch. I mean it for the people who would never be able to access thos shows without piracy.

I am 27 years old, at the hight of the streaming era, and I still illegally stream and pirate all of the anime I watch. And it's not because it's niche content or because I hate big corporations (i do, but that's not the subject), it's simply because there is no way to access Crunchyroll from where i live.

Streaming platforms aren't available to everyone. And when they are, the prices that seem appropriate in dollars become exorbitant when converted to local currencies.

My entire country lives out of piracy. We pirate TV accesses, we pirate movies, we pirate streaming platform accesses.

There's a whole ass industry that does just that and sells you those pirated accesses for a 3rd of the price (which, all math done, is its dollar price, but in local currency)

Torrenting is something you learn with your first pc. And when i was younger, every corner had a shop that sold pirated movies burned on CDs.

And all of that was born out of a need. Because not everyone can afford that subscription, because sometimes the service is unavailable in your region, and because sometimes you also really want to piss off some rich dudes in fancy suits.

I spent all my life pirating. If they didn't need my money for all that time, i don't see why they'd start needing it now.

People with most mainstream tastes imaginable should not open their mouth on how anti piracy they are btw. Yea no shit you can depend on legal sources to watch Marvel and listen to tswift and Maroon 5. Thank you so much for signing the petition to close that platform that was the only one i could download this 2008 romanian dungeon synth ep from

[vocaloidfactoftheday]

Welcome to Vocaloid Fact of the Day!

Every day at 12:00 PM Eastern time, a new Vocaloid fact is posted. These facts revolve largely around the Vocaloid characters, their development, and their presence in Vocaloid culture.

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People of all ages are allowed to follow this blog. I may sometimes use cuss words in the tags of my posts or when replying to people, but I will avoid posting anything NSFW.

You can feel free to send your own facts. Please use the ask box to do so! If I decide to post them, I will give you credit for sending it in, unless you want to stay anonymous.

This blog does not post facts about songs or producers unless they are relevant to VOCALOID development or impact. I can decide how relevant it is at my own discretion.

I will do my best to avoid posting images that are insensitive in nature, even if they are directly related to Vocaloids. This includes RUBY's whitewashed design from her Anime Expo debut and Sweet ANN's original boxart (all Sweet ANN posts use her Taiwanese illustration/box instead).

I will avoid linking to or directly mentioning torrent websites used to illegally download Vocaloid software. I do not think pirating Vocaloid software is an inherently morally wrong thing to do and I will not judge you if you happen to do so, but I want to avoid legal trouble for myself and anyone who interacts with the blog. (I won't force you, but I'd like to ask that nobody else links to or mentions these sites on my posts, either.)

Tagging System

Each post is tagged with the following:

Vocaloid name - in cases where the software and character have different names, the character name is used. For example, posts about Gumi will be tagged as #gumi and not #megpoid. There are some exceptions. ARSLOID is an exception as most people know him by the name ARSLOID and not Kano Akira, the name of the character he is based on. unity-chan is also an exception because she has two equally associated mascots.

Vocaloid editor - the relevant Vocaloid editor to the post. Unless the post is about an updated version of a voicebank, this tag will be whichever editor the Vocaloid was initially released for. For example, a post about Lily will be tagged with #vocaloid2 unless the post is about her V3 voicebank. Other editors, such as CeVIO and Synthesizer V, may also be tagged if they are relevant.

Vocaloid language - every language the relevant Vocaloid was released in. Any languages added in future updates will not be tagged unless they are relevant. For example, Megurine Luka will always be tagged as #japanese vocaloid and #english vocaloid, while Hatsune Miku will only be tagged as #japanese vocaloid unless her English or Chinese voicebanks are relevant.

Vocaloid company - the company that developed the Vocaloid. In cases where a Vocaloid was developed by multiple companies, the more recognizable company is used. For example, posts about Rana are tagged as #internet co and not #we've inc because We've Inc. does not have any other Vocaloids.

Additional tags may include:

#concept art - posts related to a VOCALOID's concept art.

#lost content - posts about a voicebank that was conceptualized and possibly developed, but never released.

#private vocals - posts about a voicebank made for prviate use or for beta/prototype/demonstration purposes and never released.

#merch - posts related to VOCALOID merchandise, such as figures and apparel.

#bonus - posts talking about several vocaloids in relation to a specific topic (such as piracy) that aren't part of the blog's queue.

Sources

Most of these facts are from the Vocaloid Wiki. If possible, to avoid misinformation, I provide extra sources that are linked on the Wiki. If any posts do contain misinformation, please let me know!

All images are from the Vocaloid Wiki unless stated otherwise.

Some sources also include Twitter accounts. These are not random Twitter users, they are people involved with VOCALOID personally (voice providers, illustrators, developers, etc.), people who were present at official events, people who own physical copies of VOCALOIDs and can provide photos and videos, or people who are very involved with the community, and can be trusted to provide accurate information.

Alternate Text

Tumblr has a built-in system for adding alt text to images. Note that older posts were restricted to the old alt text character limit (which was very small) and thus have shorter alt text.

In order to keep it easy enough to actually process the information, I have some assumptions I make when adding alt text:

You (being the one who uses alt text) know what the Vocaloid in the post looks like. Thus, I will not use alt text to describe, for example, Hatsune Miku's appearance, but I will simply refer to her by her name.

Additionally, you know what each Vocaloid's box art looks like. I will type "Hatsune Miku's Vocaloid2 box" instead of describing the illustration.

You only understand English. By that, I mean that I will not transcribe foreign text, especially if they are from alternative alphabets that your screenreader may not be able to process. If I want to add an English translation, it will be within the post itself.

If a Vocaloid is in an alternate outfit or appearance (including concept art), you do not need or want to be told every single detail. I describe what I believe are the most notable aspects, such as different hair colors or hair styles, because that is just what someone who can see the image would notice.

If you think a post needs more descriptive alt text, let me know! I'm not very good at typing long image descriptions, though (partially because I tend to make many typos) so I can't guarantee that I can deliver on it.

That's all for now! Enjoy the blog, hopefully you'll learn something new!