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Dreamer… Is there anything else? Currently having a Roswell Rewatch during quarantine. Every Roswellian is welcome to join.

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ROSWELL // 2.21 & 3.18

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A while ago, that little story that I never paid too much attention to (because I was bored by it) got a new life as a TV show.

I read this manga once. I was not impressed. I saw it as 'dumb teenagers doing stupid things', and it bored me. These kids' problems weren't real, and they just needed therapy. The second half of the story was much better than the first, which is funny, because most people feel like the first part of the story is better than anything they've ever read and the second part sucks.

After the manga, there was a very crappy anime and a very lukewarm movie, which didn't improve my opinion about this story at all.

When the TV show was announced, I rolled my eyes thinking 'here we go again'. But there was a heartwarming interview by Shūzō Oshimi that gave me pause. Then, I realized, there was one thing I never did try at that time... The source of all of this...

Maybe I was unfair to it, and that doesn't sit well with me.

So, I'm gonna give this manga another shot. My conclusions will be on my blog.

[shewhowatches-stars]

"I'm Liz Parker... and I'm happy"

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Discussões Inglórias

Considero esta uma discussão inglória que só traz ao de cima o pior de todos. A lógica desaparece, as emoções exaltam-se e nada de bom resulta destas discussões.

Esta ideia de que consumir qualquer produto cultural sem pagar faz de ti um ladrão é incompreensível e absurda.

Lembro-me de um mundo sem internet, onde todos gravavam os seus programas de televisão favoritos em cassetes VHS, gravavam as suas músicas favoritas da rádio e liam milhares de livros em bibliotecas públicas... Tudo isto sem gastar um tostão.

O mundo sempre funcionou assim! O mundo ainda funciona assim; a única coisa que a internet trouxe foi a globalização deste fenómeno.

Vivemos num mundo onde não precisamos de ir a França para ver uma pintura de Da Vinci. Basta pesquisar "Mona Lisa" no Google. Simples!

É impossível passar uma hora nas redes sociais sem ser bombardeado por cultura de todos os tipos, e ninguém paga por ver um vídeo ou uma imagem ou um .gif.

A questão moral reside em saber se as pessoas que navegam na internet estão ou não a lucrar com o trabalho de outra pessoa. Esta é a linha divisória que todos devem ter em mente. 1% da população adquire cultura alheia e partilha-a na internet, ganhando dinheiro com isso. Os outros 99% são acusados de ladrões, apesar de não lucrarem com o trabalho alheio.

Um dia, há alguns anos, vi um vídeo no YouTube sobre a filosofia do Dragon Ball. O vídeo seguinte era a filosofia de Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood; um vídeo feito por um desses indivíduos que lucram com uma obra que não lhes pertence. Ele não devia ganhar dinheiro com aquele vídeo, mas também não devia ficar sem a conta no Youtube. Algumas editoras japonesas queixam-se para que o Youtube elimine essas contas.

Se eu não tivesse visto aquele vídeo, se eu simplesmente tivesse entrado numa livraria, nunca teria saído de lá com um exemplar de Fullmetal Alchemist, porque nem sabia que a obra existia! E se eu não soubesse da existência de Fullmetal Alchemist, não teria chegado até Silver Spoon.

Para pessoas como eu (e somos muitos, eu sei) foi uma alegria poder dar o meu dinheiro à Hiromu Arakawa para completar a minha colecção de Fullmetal Alchemist! Quer dizer, espero que ela tenha recebido uma percentagem justa.

A colecção de Silver Spoon vai demorar um pouco mais, mas espero conseguir terminá-la.

O meu único arrependimento na vida é não ter dado o meu dinheiro ao Akira Toriyama, mas o Dragon Ball é uma colecção demasiado grande para começar quando se está no desemprego.

Assim, dos 99% de pessoas que consomem cultura sem pagar, há uma divisão em dois grupos: os que nunca pagarão um centavo e os que eventualmente pagarão se encontrarem algo de que gostam. Sempre houve pessoas que entravam nas livrarias e nas lojas de música e saíam com livros e CDs escondidos debaixo do casaco. É por isso que as lojas de música começaram a instalar capas protectoras nas capas de CDs e alarmes nas portas.

É impossível eliminar a pirataria neste universo. Se a Walt Disney não consegue controlar os direitos de autor dos seus produtos, nenhuma empresa no mundo vai conseguir.

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It's my 11 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

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Quadras ao Gosto Popular

Fernando Pessoa

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[Quarantine Marathon] "Four Square" Part 5

Kyle: Well, what do you say we start speaking the most ancient language known to man?

— Geez, Kyle has the corniest pick-up line ever! 🤣

Kyle: So, what language is this? Tess: It's a lost language. Kyle: Then no one will mind if we don't find it.

— He has a great sense of humor, though! 🤣

Max: Michael, if Nasedo is doing anything to you, you can't trust it. Michael: Hey, I remembered it, ok? I had a flash.

—Maybe, but where did that flash come from? I call these flashes 'shenanigans' just like the dreams in this episode, and I am blaming it all on Tess. 🤔

Max: I said nothing happened. We'll talk to Isabel in the morning.

— What's there to talk about if nothing happened?! Michael doesn't question this. 😏

— This conversation between Isabel and Michael is truly terrifying. It mirrors perfectly the conversations between young couples (not aliens) when confronted with unwanted pregnancies. Social commentary at its finest! Anyway, I always found little bit silly for Isabel to think she could get pregnant in a dream…

Tess: It's time. You understand, don't you? Max: Tell me. Tell me what I'm feeling.

— If you don't know how you feel, it's not some alien stranger that's going to tell you. I mean, why would anyone trust a stranger like that? 🙄

Max: How many other victims will there be after tonight? Alex?

— These were the times I truly believed that the show was prophetic. In reality, it's a lot more 'chaotic writing'. This was an unhappy accident that turned out to be true… #RIP #AlexWhitman

— Even if that memory is genuine, there's a big difference between realizing that the little girl in the pod grew up to be Tess and understanding the reason why they were put in the pods to begin with…

Michael: Hey. What the hell did you do to him? To all of us?

— It's called a 'mindwarp'. #RoswellSpeak

Max: Michael, stop it. She's not Nasedo. Isabel: Then who is she, Max? Max: She's one of us.

— She's a member of the pod-squad, but she's not one of you; meaning, there's nothing humane about her. She's as alien as they come. 👽

[starryeyesxx]

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#escrita #fragmentos #pensamentos #blog #blogger #blogpost

A Mordaça

As ditaduras entram de mansinho e com boas intenções.

#escrita #fragmentos #pensamentos #blog #blogger #blogpost

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The English dub is on a whole other level! 🤣

ム・ソーヤーの冒険 #TomuSōyāNoBōken #TheAdventuresOfTomSawyer #TomSawyer #SidSawyer #siblingrivalry #NipponAnimation #anime #80sanime

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O Sid é mesmo um paspalhão. Bem o mereceu! 🤣

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Episódio 9: A Tia Polly Está Doente

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French fries heaven! 🍟 😋

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[Quarantine Marathon] "Four Square" Part 4

— Michael's brain is pretty scrambled by those dreams. He usually takes Maria's humor in stride, but he's so freaked out that nothing she says sounds funny to him.

Alex: The word glacial comes to mind.

— This always makes me sad, because Isabel is just having this attitude due to being freaked out by the dreams. She didn't have any epiphany on how good Alex is or how great a relationship with him would be. Poor Alex... 😢

Maria: Ok. You should have more of these tortured sleepless nights.

— They were not sleepless, Maria… Tortured, yes. 🥴

Isabel: Alex and I are together now. Michael: Maria and I are going steady. Maria: Must be something in the water.

— It's better that neither Maria nor Alex know the truth, although that's inevitable…

Max: He won't listen to you. Liz: You know, he might. He trusted me once. Maria: Did you listen to him when he warned you about Max?

— Touché! 🎯 Except, Max was the good guy, and Kyle was wrong about him... and jealous.

— it would be expected that Kyle wouldn't listen to Liz about Tess, but it's not like Liz has any proof that Tess is a bad faith character. 🤔