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This is the primary reason why I use the Apple Music Store, Bandcamp, and similar services. I can buy the music, even if it’s a digital file, and keep as long as I have a viable storage medium. The artists get paid for every copy sold.
When I get to attend a concert, I will buy a physical copy of their music and/or other merch depending on what they have. The artist gets paid twice for me going to the show.
I wish I could still visit record shops easily. Tower Records used to be a worthy pilgrimage. The place I used to go in high school was maybe a 10-minute walk from my house and near a couple of universities. They had so much stuff I’d never heard of before.
Streaming sucks. Period.
Piracy can’t be stealing if paying for it isn’t owning.
Ink: Waterman Inspired Blue
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once you notice how few characters in media have brown eyes it really becomes impossible to not pay attention to it and its been bothering me ever since
#ganondoodles talks#i now its not that there are literally zero#but it almost is#and i get giving fictional characters non natural eye colors is fun#but blue and green is still everywhere evne tho those are also real#like sometimes it feels like brown is actively avoided#going for red or yellow instead#and i know in anime especialyl theres this idea i think that similar to hair color its bcs the majority of japanese people have those#so it feels 'more special' if its anything but that#idk how much of that is true#also its not just anime#feels weird#brown is such a diverse and beautiful color#makes me sad
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My controversial opinion about Hob Gadling is that I believe he’s absolutely the sort of guy that “puts things behind him”, and tries to wash his hands clean of the things he feels icky about. This is implied pretty well in the show, with him blithely moving from soldiering and robbery to printing, from slaving to… whatever it was he was doing in the 19th century instead. That being said, this is not at all the same as actively trying to atone, or even making a concerted effort to be a better person, and I really wish fandom could tell the difference!
#the amount of times I’ve seen people argue that Hob has redeemed himself and ofc feels really horrible about his role in the slave trade#but there is ZERO textual indication that’s true#in fact judging by how he acts in the 19th century and how he was after all the other shit he did that he maybeeee feels kind of sheepish#and would just like to move on thanks!#i love flawed characters and I love monstrous characters and I love hypocrites and I love friendly amoral assholes#Hob is genuinely a super compelling character and embodies the sort of greed of humanity we see in other forms in Madoc and Burgess#he’s got a more friendly face and he’s a slightly lighter version of it but sandman presents humanity as fundamentally flawed and greedy#and Hob is that to a T#I’d really love it if fandom embraced this version of Hob#making him a fluffy anti-racist progressive hip college professor is just so weird#or especially when they have him espouse progressive views… in the past???#look Hob is actual facts a worse person than the Corinthian in a lot of metrics#when I see 17th century Hob talk about the beautiful diversity of humans I just lose my mind a little#also he’s clearly a wolf of Wall Street yuppie asshole in 1984#hot take Dreamling would be more fun and spicier if people leaned into Hob’s canon traits more#both Dream and Hob are kind of awful#I actually like Hob!#but… man I do not like fanon Hob one bit
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okay but sarah celebrating tommy every year for mother’s day
#who needs a mommy when you got a tommy#the first time shes does this its preschool teacher maria’s idea#shes four and mothers day is coming up and its usually a hard time for her so joel lets maria know just in case she has any behavioral issue#miss maria is like 🫡 i gotchu#she makes sure to emphasize to the kids that families are all different#they spend every day of may leading up to mother day reading books exploring diversity in families and talking about what mom really means#that it doesnt have to be the person who had you in their tummy or a girl or even a person we call mom#for example miss maria’s real mommy wasnt so nice growing up so miss marias TRUE mommy is just her daddy and her auntie rose#because those are the people that loved her no matter what and kept her safe and taken care of and fed#thats all mom is#it just means someone thats there for you every day and loves you and cares for you#someone who is one of your favorite people and who would say the same about you#all the kids go around and say who they think are their moms#mosy say some iteration of ‘mommy’ and ‘mama’ or ‘grammy’#but then baby ellie says ‘tess and auntie marlene’#and baby sarah says ‘uncle thommy’#one of the other littles says ‘daddy and miss maria’ 😭#and they all make heart cards for their mommy firgures#they cant write or really read anything but a few letters yet#(even though hyperlexic baby sarah does have pretty incredible letter recognition for her age)#so they tell miss maria what to write on their cards and then decorate with oil pastels#sarah’s says dear uncle tommy thank you for being my mommy you are so funny and i love when we play horsey and princesses. happy mommy day#when he picks her up at the end of the day shes like HI MOMMMMM all giggly and hes like ????? hi???? whats this???? OPEN IT OPEN IT OPEN IT#and when he does and read it he literally drops to his knees to hug her and cry#because theres really nothing more precious than his little angel his baby his best girl#thats tommys DAUGHTER DO YALL UNDERSTAND??????#miss maria watching them from the cubbies like: godDAMN theyre so cute#the next day tommy brings her a oat milk chai from her favorite coffee shop as a thank you because it meant a lot to him and shes like ????#how did u know???? and hes like my brother and you ran into each other there last week yeah? he told me abt it i asked for your order#and shes like 🥹🥰🫠 thanks
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Kremy is a little insecure when it comes to "imperfections", whether on his clothing, in his act, or on his skin. He wears makeup to cover blemishes and scars, is constantly focused on smoothing out wrinkles in his clothes, practices facial expressions in the mirror...it's exhausting but he can't get himself to stop.
Years of traveling with Gideon and few good years with Frost, Gricko, and Torbek made him loosen his grip on excessive perfection a bit, but it's still a problem. The feywild has made it a little hard to care about those things at the moment, though, which freaks him out a little.
Eventually, years in the future, he actually starts feeling comfortable in his own skin, instead of constantly trying to crawl out of it.
#i just feel like that man has some deep issues#diversity win! the conniving and deceitful con man lizardfolk is gay AND insecure!#if you wanted some ship fluff with this i imagine Gideon is very much a 'i gotta tell my partner how handsome he is RIGHT NOW' guy#so i imagine that helped#once upon a witchlight#ouaw#legends of avantris#text#this is a true fact#kremy lecroux#my own hc
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"KILL ME TODAY OR KILL ME TOMORROW IT MATTERS NOT TO ME BUT I WILL NEVER LIE TO HER AND THAT IS WHY SHE TRUSTS ME"
#still star-crossed#rosvolio#that was true love that WAS TRUE LOVE#we used to have a shondaland period drama with diverse casting where the romance was GOOD#/
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Oh hey, look!
Turns out every one of us who had legitimate concerns about DAV actually being what we were told (sold) it was or what we hoped it would be…were not, in fact, “just hateful a**holes” out to ruin everyone else’s enjoyment of the game, but instead, were 100% entitled to doubt BioWare and this whole project.
Uh.
Funny that.
History repeating itself…Seems to be the theme these days.
#veilguard critical#bioware critical#two things can be true at once#ok action adventure game#heinously bad RPG/DA game#inclusive and diverse and extremely poorly written#also the representation aspects seem to be pretty shallow#and I’ve already read several takes on how the game is very problematic in other areas (ie racism)#mass effect#deja vu#sighs
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Before we call anon rude because let’s see it from their perspective, imagine getting an entire feast to eat. That can be pretty hard to start with so much that’s going on, but if they start with one thing they know they’ll like (aka one character they like) that can be the start for them leaping to other characters to finish the story and the bigger story. I struggle the same way to start book series if I don’t have at least one character that drives me to read it, it’s all about what can be the hook to push them through. Sounds like the anon is neurodivergent (just a guess) so they might genuinely not see it as rude and see it as a solution to even play the game to start with.
Btw absolutely adore the game, the complex and rich characters making them all so unique is amazing. The art is so pleasing to the eyes I love it!! I’m waiting for it all to get out at once so I don’t get too impatient. Shae however interests me the most, which routes will have the most lore for them? Will there be routes that give more lore in general based on decisions you make or do they all share the same amount? (I mean general lore not just Shae lore)
Apologies; we are not trying to accuse any asker of being rude! We are simply explaining our perspective as the developers / are trying to broadly encourage folks to dip their toes into other areas of the story outside of the main route(s) they're interested in, especially considering some routes will be made available sooner than others, and these other routes will likely contain additional scenes/lore of everyone's fave(s) regardless! We want to give each main cast member an equal amount of love (and lore) regardless of their overall popularity, so our goal is not to tut-tut anyone for having strong preferences for one character over the others, but rather to explain that you may be surprised by how much *more* you learn about your preferred characters in the other routes. That's all!
For Shae... Well, they were a foot soldier for one of the worst periods of the War. Lore wise, any other story that touches on the War will likely have content relevant to them and their experiences. ^^
#ask#clotho answers#edit/final note: we got a *few* asks on this subject and will not likely answer all of them for the sake of our followers' dashboards#but we also want to note that part of our encouragements here come from the fact that Flan/Keagan are our most popular characters by a lot#and we want to do what we can to gently nudge folks who may not want to romance the fem / nb characters into checking out their stories#despite not being into them romantically. this is half of why we have platonic routes to begin with#we recognize veterans to the dating sim world may feel less inclined to romance characters that don't align with their irl orientations#this isn't a bad thing. some people steer clear of dating sims altogether because they're aro or just not interested in romance stories etc#but the unintentional side effect of this is it has a chilling effect on developers even in the indie sphere to make less diverse stories#if Flan and Keagan are our most popular characters then they will be our most *profitable* characters in the long run#and as much as we would love to not care about money and just produce the story we want to tell#we live in a society (tm) and need to eat#if at the end of ndm's development we see that 90% of our engagement went toward the boys it is hard to ignore the financial incentive#to redirect our energy toward leaning into the 'tried and true' formula that assures we can buy groceries and make rent#basically what i am candidly saying here is capitalism is pretty bad for creative liberty unless you're already rich / able to self finance#which we are not. and currently none of the core devs make *anything* from ndm#it would be nice if it does turn a profit but that isn't a guarantee - which the team has accepted as a normal risk in game development#anyway this is getting rambly but the Point is that this goes beyond us wanting to make sure all sides of our story are equally appreciated#it is *partly* that - we do want players to experience the entirety of our artwork#but it's not just for our egos - it's so we can keep making art like this#i considered including this in the body of the post but money talk suuucks man#and i don't want anyone to think we're glaring at them in a holier than thou 'ah-ha! you don't want to play maeve's route because she's a#woman!' sort of way because i think that's a reductive way to look at things#people like what they like and there's nothing intrinsically wrong with that#but if you like that we're making a diverse story#with masc routes fem routes and nb routes#even if you don't personally want to romance x or y#it would help us if y'all play the platonic routes#we are trying our very very best to make the fem/nb routes interesting for Everyone so those stories don't get sidelined#and if you don't like them for their own sake - fair enough! can't win em all and we'll deeply appreciate that you tried anyway!
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People being called chronically online for being angry that we were promised a black man for the next doctor only for the regeneration to happen and it be a white guy is so funny like.
Yeah, sure, this is bc we're online. There's no principle here. They didn't do Anything shitty here at all 🤣
That this was conveniently paired with a magazine cover of said pasty white guy with a huge headline of 'this is what the future looks like' Is absolutely not us just reading the writing on the wall.
They literally lied abt who they cast, took the time to get pats on the back for it, pulled the rug out from people's feet by literally going back into the past and hiring not only a white guy, but one who has already had a bite of the apple and then Said bluntly that this is what the future looks like.
Sometimes, it's best to just believe people when they tell you what they're about, and this is one of those situations. They can't ever walk this back.
#dw shit#this isnt even Half of it#gatwa's been a footnote at his own party the Entire time#the piper clone companion got a stage entrance for fucks sake#meanwhile the rest of the diverse hires have also just disappeared apparently#which Could be a way to keep them spoiler free true but do they not comprehend#how bad this looks#everything they've done they've done in The most antagonising way possible#they didn't have to do this
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The New Titans #55 (1989)
Batman (2010-) #641
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Batman (2016-) #138
They sure do bAT&Tman. They sure as hell do.
Yet Jason never thought this way about you.
#Don’t you dare kill them with a simple headshot Jason! I have to keep them alive so I can torment them until they wished they were dead#they’ll never use their hands again. this is the superior way#and you should follow in my footsteps as any self-respecting non-criminal vigilante would in order to keep your conscience squeaky clean#also how dare you not be more understanding of the fact that I completely betrayed your trust#and threw your unhealable trauma in your face and shamelessly admitted to it#after I slit your throat in front of the murderer responsible for that same trauma while he laughed in your face a few years back#god you are a terrible son u are so selfish everything I ever said about you while u were dead was true ur being such a burden rn#also I just love how in batman 640 Bruce was going around interrogating Ollie and Clark (ppl who died + came back)#to find a *~rational~* explanation for how Jason was even here#instead of yk. just being glad your child is alive#and when Damian died he does all this shit to Jason to figure *how to* bring Dami back#after he burned his artwork the same way he emptied out Jason’s room#god you flaming turd of a father never change#the fact that lobdell boiled down Jason’s reasoning to ‘he’s the bad guy and you’re the good guy Jason’#already shows we’re starting off on the wrong foot but#Jason coming back to Bruce in every new comic and saying the same ‘I tried it your way. or sucks’ thing is so silly because#it*#he already learned that decades ago#all the way back in batman 424 lol#you’re just. making him. look like an idiot. but yk what maybe that’s still better than the self-deprecating diversion bs#that’s actually convincing more people ‘yay Jason want redemption this is revolutionary & has definitely never been done a billion times b4#and is a step in the *right* direction’#my post
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On one hand, I agree that there should be a more diverse field of subject matter utilized in "adult animation". Not all "adult animation" should be used as an excuse to revolve around shock content and gratuitous potty humor. At this point in time, stuff like this being seen on prime-time television is no longer out of the ordinary. And, from my observation, is done well even less frequently. There should be more films that treat themselves seriously and explore an array of topics rather than just comedy with a middle-school idea of mature subject matter.
ON THE OTHER HAND. I don't think there is ANYTHING wrong with animated movies and shows with lots of drugs and boobies and sex and gross jokes. I think cartoon characters having freaky sex is funny af. Both have the right to exist together. Art should not be pigeon-holed through a lens of "respectability" in order to be taken seriously. Demanding adult animation be "palatable" for an "adult" audience ultimately strips it completely of what makes it a unique medium for expression in the first place.
#way too often I see people going on one end or the other on this#when what is the problem with both existing?#I admit that I PERSONALLY am not big on gross-out humor and when I do find it funny it is at its most mild#but that doesn't mean I don't think it should exist at all#I have grown kind of annoyed with people's insistence that the reason they don't like current adult programs is it feels too immature#which...I do get some things aren't everyone's cup of tea and it is fine but I think the problem is less 'adult animation inherently bad'#and more that studios don't make the effort to support a more diverse amount of stories#I think the limitations offered in 'children's animation' is commendable because it is true that serious subjects can be approached#more creatively through those mediums because of it#but I think that often creates the false pretense for some people that these shows are 'peak' when it comes to addressing their topics#when no...they still have limitations by being a family rated program they are just trying their best to talk about it within those limits#which can cause people like atla fans going ham about some concepts as depicted when they forget it is a family program#this isn't me talking down family content I just think it is important to acknowledge that distinction in its writing process#anywayyyyy this got long lol#squack
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Tom Brittney & Tom Glenister 2022 · GRANTCHESTER · S7·E06 · Mystery
#weyyy diversity win! we get a queer-coded serial killer in true 1950s fashion#homoeroticism#grantchester#grantchesteredit#perioddramaedit#periodedits#7x06#will davenport#tom brittney#tom glenister#jim baker#1950s#beautiful men
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#tumblr memes#meme#memes#political memes#political humor#political shitposting#leftist memes#fuck conservatives#meme humor#dei#diversity equity and inclusion#humor#humour#funny but true#funny because it's true#true memes#lol#lol memes#shitpost#dank memes#dank humor#dankest memes#funny#funny shit#ha ha funny#funny memes#funny meme haha#funny meme xd#funny post#funny stuff
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from tottenham to tokyo, this club means something to so many people 🤍
#tottenham#football#actually cried a bit at this 🥲 the way that spurs is so loved!!!!#the supporters were immense today you could hear them all around the stadium in such loud voice#this is why it pisses me off when ppl call supporters like these lot tourist and fairweather fans#it’s just not true is it? look at the diversity of kits there; the different players they all have on the back#from the lad in the green cl kit from 2019 with lucas’ name to the one with this year’s with archie’s …#these supporters have borne witness to our history just like any fan born and bred in tottenham#this is passion this is connection this is pure love#and the fact that they sang that mikey’s one of our own just proves that we’re all connected by this silly little club#no matter if we were born a stone’s throw from tottenham high road#or stay awake till 3am on the other side of the world to watch the matches#we are all tottenham. 🤍#rahul.txt#fave
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Hiiiii bestieeeee! Just noticed on your little rant about supporting fat people and black sex workers and being anti racist..and yet your blog is still very STARK white, very thinspo vibes.
Ironically you, yourself spam like black sex workers content instead of supporting THEM....
..so was the post for funsies or?? Irony perhaps, my liege? Lmaoo
#looking at you popular nonblack girlies :3#hiiii#ijs#you're so boring#support content creators#support black content creators#diversity my ass#yall nonblack hoes stay spam liking#but true support? nahhh
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As an indian, we stay winning cause ambika mod played emma so stay mad you racists
#the fact that theres still talk about this#and saying that “its not true to the books” when her character being brown doesn't hender with any of the plot lines#and ADDS to diversity WITHOUT doing that so that should be celebrated if anything at all#the fact that shes getting backlash for it even now is BIZZARREEEE#how do you open your stupid dirty mouth to speak against representation??????#how does a thought dumb and disgusting enough conjure up in your mind???????#one day netflix#one day#emma morley#dexter mayhew#dex mayhew#netflix#ambika mod
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