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Ah, Salutations Dearest!

My intro post if you may:

#cosmics rambles #introductory post #intro post #blog intro

yoki-loves-stars

Fork found in kitchen

#tma #the magnus archives

the urge to rewatch media’s that I haven’t had a hyperfixation on in a long time is strong

#cosmics rambles

polarity-disturbed

With the whole "Markiplier making his own DVD copies of Iron Lung to sell" thing, it's been fascinating and slightly concerning how many people seem to genuinely believe that if a physical release isn't coming from a giant corporation, it must automatically be a bootleg.

Look at me.

Look me directly in the eyes while I say this.

You can just make things.

You can simply create something and put it into the world.

That's allowed.

People have been doing it for centuries.

They sell blank VHS tapes. They sell blank DVDs. Blank CDs. You can buy flash drives by the bucketful if you really want to. If you create a movie, an album, a game, a documentary, or a four-hour video essay about the mating habits of fictional space goblins, you are entirely permitted to put that thing on physical media and sell it.

That is not piracy.

Piracy is taking something that belongs to someone else and reproducing or distributing it without permission.

If I buy a DVD of a movie, I own that copy of the movie. I do not own the movie itself. I didn't acquire the rights to duplicate it, press a thousand copies, and start selling them out of my garage like I've become the regional distributor for Warner Bros.

The copyright, distribution rights, and intellectual property still belong to whoever created it or whoever legally acquired those rights.

If I start burning copies of Iron Lung and selling them myself without Markiplier's permission, that's piracy.

If Markiplier, who made and owns the rights to Iron Lung, burns copies and sells them himself, that's just distribution.

He's the rights holder.

He's distributing his own work.

If you made it, if it came from your own mind, your own work, your own time, your own resources, then congratulations. You own the thing. You don't need a corporation to bless it with legitimacy.

The corporation is not what makes it real.

The fact that it exists is what makes it real.

I think we've accidentally spent so many years living inside a world dominated by mass-produced media that some people have developed the strange assumption that all media emerges from a factory somewhere. As if films naturally occur in shrink-wrapped plastic cases and descend from the heavens aboard a pallet truck.

But independent artists have been burning discs, dubbing tapes, printing books, pressing records, and mailing things directly to people for longer than many of us have been alive.

That's not a bootleg.

That's just a product.

It's not "bootleg."

It's just... leg.

The normal kind.

The original, free-range, locally sourced leg.

shittyiteratornames

"Rain World Tips" is an official Shitty Iterator Name

rainworldtips

well maybe its actually a Good iterator name or even one of tge Greatest i dont know who died and made you the grand authority on such thigns

#Rain world

dustyoldbones

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Uuhh I finished it. Somehow. Well, it could have used more polish. But I don't want to work on it anymore. So here it is? ._.

#utmv

pillowspace

Sometimes having an OC is like "this character is an outlet for my insecurity and trauma" and sometimes it's like "this character is an outlet for my love of vampires :)". Sometimes it's both

pillowspace

Sometimes you think it's "this character is an outlet for my love and nothing more :)" and then you look it over later like "shit. product of the deepest depths of my soul again"

unyieldingsilence

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purplegutz4

Had this in my head for a while

#Ohhh this is perfect #project hail mary #phm

whatever man. stay away from me

#cosmics rambles

cheesefromthegreatbeyond

IM BACK IN THE FUCKING BUILDING AGAIN

#malevolent podcast #malevolent

t00thpasteface

meme redraw. grace turn around your you is burning

#bloodymary

hello. I live somehow, I just wandered off for two weeks

#Polish summer camp………. Yipepeeeee!#cosmics rambles

leapfog1

No Voice to Cry Suffering

#Woagh…#hollow knight #deltarune

Ask game:

36 -- where would you like to live?

hmmmmm good question. Maybe Denmark or Scotland, someplace north in Europe would be nice….

also hiiiii! :D

#cosmics rambles #ask game response #Izaak Visits

inkyrainstorms

iron lung is at its core a criticism of the punitive justice system and how it screws over both the people under it who want to genuinely improve and rejoin society(Simon), and the people who want to help them get there (Ava) and in this essay I will

#iron lung