I'm right 85% of the time

Shit I like. Yeah, I came crawling back. Whatever.

[enki2]

[sproince]

And then we're not even upset over not being included, we're just so used to it.

[diabloku]

Lucifer: *enters the hotel*

Alastor: I cast vicious mockery 😈

An animation my sis and I made for fun

Music is Perception Check by Tom Cardy.

[diabloku]

The link to the YouTube video:

https://youtu.be/3HYCvIU0puo?si=p3dYRjw-fAqeRSi-

[xiranjayzhao]

Here's the video version of my discussion of the leaked emails that prove the Hugo Awards removed finalists (me, RF Kuang, Paul Weimer, Neil Gaiman & Ep 6 of Sandman) for political reasons, despite us having the required votes. Because too many of you are making assumptions without bothering to read the full exposé.

There's a lot of nuance in this case that I hope people can acknowledge. No, it is not "sinophobic" to criticize the Chinese government's severe censorship policies when anyone who's spent more than ten minutes on the Chinese internet knows how bad it is, and there IS evidence of pressure in this case. There's nothing to accomplish by pretending like it's not a thing. You're not furthering the world proletarian revolution by speaking over the lived experiences of Chinese comrades and denying factually shitty aspects of your favorite AES.

Yes, the Western and presumably white members of the Hugo admin team DID circle back to racism by trying so hard to appease the Chinese government that they preemptively censored Chinese diaspora ~ to be safe ~ on extremely flimsy reasons without even reading our books. And of course, confusing Nepal for Tibet.

It's really not one or the other.

[thebibliosphere]

I just realized something really heinous about the Spotify announcement.

So, they gave us exactly 30 days' notice to withdraw our work from the new ToS agreement.

Except it can take up to 30 days for them to process that request.

So, if you didn't do it yesterday when it was announced, your work will remain up past the 30-day limit and be considered acceptance of the new ToS.

...

That's evil. And the thing is, they know we don't have anywhere else to go. Even Author's Republic requires me to sign a ToS with Findaway/Spotify (Spotify bought Findaway) to maintain library access.

Oh, I fucking hate it here.

[shadowmaat]

I can also guarantee that they don't have the staff to handle the mass exodus taking place, so that'll add to the amount of time it takes to process requests. Ugh.

[thebibliosphere]

They absolutely do not, not least of all because they laid off 17% of their workforce, approximately 1500 jobs, right before Christmas. This follows on the heels of a year of rolling layoffs. (600 employees in January of 2023, and another 200-ish people in June.)

Spotify to cut 17% of staff in the latest round of tech layoffs

In a memo addressed to staff, CEO Daniel Ek said it was necessary for the company to "rightsize" after hiring too many people during 2020 an

They were already operating at the bare minimum before, it's going to be a catastrophe now.

And I'm just going to take a moment to say, as angry as we (authors, voice actors, consumers) are, what we are not going to do is take it out on the customer service reps who are absolutely not getting paid enough to deal with any of this.

We're going to keep our complaints and our requests to withdraw from the service as polite and businesslike as possible because none of the people who will be reading our emails have any say in any of this.

Worker solidarity, friends. It's not the little people on the ground screwing us over.

[digitaldiscipline]

IANAL, but:

If they (Spotify's lawyers, not the CSRs) try to fuck you on the timing, you could point to the timestamp of when the request was submitted. That way, if they try to claim it wasn't done in a timely manner, you can tell them to fuck themselves, because they're the ones who slow-walked it.

(sorry, I am feeling court-feisty after devouring the summary judgment against TFG for a zillion dollars and may be giddy)

[thebibliosphere]

Yeah, that would be the first thing I'd think, too.

I just wouldn't put it past the company to try and pull something like this/they're banking on people not having the time/energy/know-how about what to do about the changes they're making.

I will state here, as I did on the other post I made about it, that they are apparently walking this back. We got an email 11 hours after the initial one going "oh our bad the language wasn't clear, we're totes not stealing your stuff" but the language was pretty clear, imo.

They just weren't banking on the immediate mass outrage.

We'll see what the new "clarified" ToS will say, but honestly, I won't be using Spotify streaming ever again, either as a customer or a client. If they force me to withdraw from Findaway entirely, that's a financial loss I'll just have to take because fuck everything about the proposed changes to licensing and distribution.

Not even Amazon tries to retain the rights to make translations and derivatives of our works. The bar for what authors are already putting up with from the industry is already so low it's in Hell, and Spotify really just tried to limbo under it.

[sproince]

Started playing more with collage style, taking images from the only magazine I'm still physically receiving (aka an ad lol) and utilizing some pages from a ephemera book that I'd normally be too anxious to use. My theme for this year artistically is "use the damn thing". I'm terrible at hoarding resources that I love but am afraid to use because they're "too nice" or I want to "save" them for something that never ends up materializing. Just use the damn thing!

[sproince]

[sproince]

[sproince]

[bizarrelittlemew]

it honestly is incredibly refreshing to talk about ofmd with non-fandom people sometimes. somehow got on the topic of Izzy while talking to my husband and i mentioned the drama and discourse around his death. he looked like one big question mark and just said:

"but it made perfect sense? his arc was complete and his death makes space for new things to come"

now bear in mind that this is a man who 1) has watched season 2 only once as it came out, 2) isn't big on media analysis in general and mostly watches marvel and star wars stuff for casual enjoyment, and 3) enjoyed Izzy's arc in s2 (so much that i suspect it was his favorite part of the season, definitely what he commented on the most) and teared up when he died

and he fucking nailed it

he was also very confused there was discourse at all because "but it's so obvious?!"

i just felt this immense relief that yes, it really is obvious and makes sense to the casual viewer who hasn't marinated their brain in meta and fic for 18 months

[hashtagloveloses]

you’re laughing. everybody has come back to tumblr bc every other social media site is breaking just as homestuck comes back, david tennant comes back to doctor who, news is conveyed via canon destiel meme, and a show about MCU loki is airing, in a full revival of the 2012 tumblr era, and you’re laughing.

[little-tunny]

Incredible! Scientists Discover B-Man As Far Down As 4,000 Meters!

[little-tunny]

NOOOOOO!! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!!! WHY DID YOU BRING HIM UP HERE!!!!!!!

[housecatincarnate]

[musicalmelody22]

Fun Story: My director kept telling me and my tenor sax buddy to play softer. No matter what we did, it wasn’t soft enough for him. So getting frustrated, I told my buddy “Dont play this time. Just fake it” 

Our Band Director then informed us we sounded perfect. 

[fororchestra]

To my readers: “p” means quiet, “pp” means really quiet. I’ve never seen “pppp” before haha.

On the contrast, “f” means loud, and “ffff” probably means so loud you go unconscious.

[corruptbucky]

I had ffff in a piece once and my conductor told me to play as loudly as physically possible without falling off my chair…

[justtkeepcalmm-deactivated20250]

Me and my trombone buddies had “ffff” and he sat next to me and played so hard that he fell out of his chair.

The lengths we go for music.

[lady-gorthaur]

Okay yeah so I play the bass clarinet and the amount of air you have to move and the stiffness of the reed means it only has two settings and that is loud and louder, with an optional LOUDEST that includes a 50% probability of HORRIBLE CROAKING NOISE which is the bass equivalent of the ubiquitous clarinet shriek.

[elsajeni]

One day, when I was in concert band in high school, we got a new piece handed out for the first time, and there was a strange little commotion back in the tuba section — whispering, and pointing at something in the music, and swatting at each other’s hands all shhh don’t call attention to it. And although they did attract the attention of basically everyone else in the band, they managed to avoid being noticed by the band director, who gave us a few minutes to look over our parts and then said, “All right, let’s run through it up to section A.”

And here we are, cheerfully playing along, sounding reasonably competent — but everyone, when they have the attention to spare, is keeping an eye on the tuba players. They don’t come in for the first eight measures or so, and then when they do come in, what we see is:

[stifled giggling]

[reeeeeeally deep breath]

[COLOSSAL FOGHORN NOISE]

The entire band stops dead, in the cacophonous kind of way that a band stops when it hasn’t actually been cued to stop. The band director doesn’t even say anything, just looks straight back at the tubas and makes a helpless sort of why gesture.

In unison, the tuba players defend themselves: “THERE WERE FOUR F’S.”

FFFF is not really a rational dynamic marking for any instrument, but for the love of all that is holy why would you put it in a tuba part.

[minguskingus]

This is the best band post 

Everyone else go home

[oxboold-deactivated20180729]

Oh man, so I play trombone, and we got this piece called Florentiner Marsch by Julius Fucik, and we saw this

which is 8 fortes. We were shocked until,

that is 24 fortes who the fuck does that

[prokopetz]

Who does that?

This guy. Take a good look - that is the moustache of a man with nothing to lose.

[vivelafat]

Julius IdontgivaFucik

[septemberbells]

More like Julius Fuckit

[zohbugg]

this post just kept getting better and better

[davidsvlogs]

Christine is me whenever i see anything mildly upsetting on tv

[cuncinnity]

Uruk, Iraq 

[f0rgemaster]

The sorta literal translation from the arabic is so much more beautiful

“From here rose the first written letter, (finding its way) to every point on earth”

I like this version more

[stream]

Black Mirror: A Summary

[tchaikovskaya]

yall my world was just turned upside down i just found out the mongols used colors for directions and west was white and thats the best proposed theory for why belarus is called belarus ie white [west] russia

[tchaikovskaya]

[sirfrogsworth]

How do I describe this video of toads eating worms?

Umm…

Hey! How dare you!? NO! How dare YOU!? How dare me? HOW DARE YOU? HOWWW DARRRRE YOUUU!!? How DARE you? HOW dare you? How dare YOU?

Basically that for about 5 minutes.