aratakareign

mar, 25, she/her, brazil. i used to be emmortals. i'm truly here to have a good time. mobile navigation

[aratakareign]

[timotaychalamet]

Burning (2018) dir. Lee Chang-dong

[gayedmundo]

sometimes u just gotta say fuck it and enjoy your embarrassing interest like you’re still living in 2012

[bakwaaas]

is anyone else like……. exhausted? just way too tired? mentally and physically? and you look at other people your age who seem to be doing fine and you feel so dysfunctional and broken because normal adult tasks and responsibilities just feel way too overwhelming and you can’t cope and

[kunikidaz]

MAD TRIGGER CREW

[butyouvealwaysbeenthecaretaker]

Semi regular reminder that "don't pirate music, pay artists!" was the moralistic/ideological background behind the shift towards platforms like Spotify; replacing free online music sharing (which did not benefit artists directly) with megacorp music streaming (which still does not benefit artists directly)

Piracy isn't the problem, it's how the ethical attacks on piracy are leveraged to justify big, powerful, unaccountable bodies like Spotify or Youtube music taking dominance in a way that gives individual musicians and bands far less power than they had originally (and that was never much), and consolidates power for these platforms.

Sign and share the demands; pirate yr music and find a way to get that same financial support directly to artists - be that concert attendance, buying merch directly from them, or in some cases, ensuring you're buying their music in a format and from a platform which is artist-centric - I understand bandcamp is quite good, and artists I follow frequently use boomkat.

If none of those are possible, being a vocal advocate for their work can help. Once in my home town I accentally booked my favourite band to headline our big-for-the-area festival. All it took was emailing both them and the festival organisers to say we thought it would be cool. I was stunned. But there's other options - using their lyrics in fic or fandom posts, creating art inspired by their music, blogging or reviewing them, including their tracks on mix tapes or end-of-year lists...

The key takeaway here is "don't pirate music, buy it legally instead to support the artist" is only a real moral argument if that money really does go towards the artist, or makes a meaningful impact on their chart position/algorithmic rating. As it stands, paying for a Spotify account truly does not do this: the artists get a pittance or nothing, and the algorithm is arbitrary and beyond scrutiny.

And then this pattern is played out all over the Internet, with varying degrees of platform evil.

[kdasource]

Akali that girl, ‘Kali go grr 'Kali don’t stop, 'Kali don’t skrrt 'Kali got a job, 'Kali go to work 뜨거워 언제나, don’t get burnt

[thereforealiar]

nothing brings me more joy than critically engaging with media that was clearly not designed with critical engagement in mind. it’s the media studies equivalent of like, idk, trying to skateboard up a flight of stairs.

[lightningstrikes-art]

[brendenswan]

Enjoy the Silence

[aegoismus]

Stevie photographed during Fleetwood Mac concert in 1978.

[nyctosaurid]

people are still trying to compare this show to supernatural and sherlock when dr who is on another plane of existence entirely

[adampvrrish]

congratulations supernatural on being a 15 year long hate crime

[hanwooz]

when you got the memo but still got it wrong

[brazilianism]

Brazil, the 20th of November. A Holiday - Feriado da Consciência Negra - Black Conscience day.

A 40 year old black man, João Alberto Silveira Freitas, was beaten to death by two security guards at a Carrefour supermarket after a discussion. 

This spiked up protests with the “black lives matter” motto translated into Portuguese - “vidas pretas importam” - all over the country. Also, we’re now burning a few supermarkets. 

[fyeahmovies]

I think something very important is happening and it’s deeply connected to my purpose.

Good Time (2017) dir. Josh and Benny Safdie

[gatabella]

Hedy Lamarr, Crossroads, 1942