And Thus Liberated...

Drawings, animation and critical analysis!

[wonderstruck]

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

[jameswoodall]

I’ve not seen Good Omens s3 yet, but apparently my latest video is relevant?

[riseofthecommonwoodpile]

if you illegally download all of your music and then buy like 2 albums from smaller or independent bands you’ve likely already done more to pay musicians than a year of spotify streaming. just pirate everything and send some walking around money to a couple artists you like. they’re probably on bandcamp, wait till a bandcamp friday. spotify hates you anyways.

[ralfmaximus]

Next Bandcamp Friday is May 1st, 2026!

Even buying from Bandcamp in-between Bandcamp Fridays yields more profits to the artist than Spotify. Bandcamp charges artists 10% to 15% to host their music, compared to $0.003 and $0.005 per stream on Spotify.

That's right, you'd have to play the same song 200 times minimum to earn the artist $1, and 30% of that $1 earned goes to Spotify. Worse, Spotify pays the rights holder these royalties, not the artist. So if your band has a contract with a label, the LABEL gets paid, then the artist gets a percentage of that.

This article is from 2020 but illustrates the issue with an example. The spotlighted artist earned $4200 from Bandcamp via 700 customers in two days. The same artist earned $100 from roughly six years of streaming.

Also, while you can stream from Bandcamp, you can keep your music! Download the mp3 and it's yours forever.

Also also, there's no ads!

Also also also, there's no AI!

WHY are you giving money to Spotify??

[ralfmaximus]

Guess what today is?

MAY 1st 2026 - BANDCAMP FRIDAY!!

[jameswoodall]

Is 'The Sandman' Unadaptable

[jameswoodall]

Is 'The Sandman' Unadaptable? | James Woodall

Get more from James Woodall on Patreon

New Year's Treat. Is 'The Sandman' Unadaptable? Out now on Patreon.

[jameswoodall]

[jameswoodall]

What Does Harry Potter Mean Now?

This video was a beast.

[jameswoodall]

The Most Interesting Scene NOT in The Devil Wears Prada Musical

[andthusliberated]

painting of the girl. Full piece, original sketch and detail close-up.

real happy with her face on this one.

[andthusliberated]

forgot to post this when i did it

futzing about in krita animating concepts for the big project

[andthusliberated]

[sloppystyle]

[andthusliberated]

Hurd Ya Saw Episode 103 - Megalopolis

Hurd Ya Saw returns with a look at Megalopolis! Truly a creative way to set 150 million dollars on fire. Did we have a good time or a bad ti

we watched the weird movie and had a... well a weird time.

I maintain that this is a stealth live action Jojo's Bizarre Adventure movie.

[andthusliberated]

Hurd Ya Saw Episode 101 - Love Lies Bleeding

We forgot we recorded this one. Natalie, Nick and Jim discuss the wonderful Love Lies Bleeding and drink margeritas.

listen to my discontinued podcast, any new episodes are bonus content at this point haha

[andthusliberated]

Hurd Ya Saw Episode 100 - Van Helsing

The Podcast finally reaches 100 episodes so the crew watch Van Helsing and prepare for the end of regular podcast business. Thank you for co

100 episodes.

see ya space cowboy

[andthusliberated]

Hurd Ya Saw Episode 99 - Noah

For our penultimate podcast, Nick and Natalie watched the truly wild and highly entertaining Noah by Darren Aronofsky and had a lovely time.

99th episode about a weird movie that is a lot of fun.

next is the 100th after which we will cease normal podcast production

[andthusliberated]

was having a hard time with regular art, so went back and did a little animation instead