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Start putting this in your credits if you do creative work, fellas.
hey here's a website for downloading any video or image from any website.
works w/ youtube, soundcloud, twitch, twitter (gifs and videos), tumblr (video and audio), and most other websites you're probably lookin to download stuff off of.
for anyone wondering about privacy and whatnot, i'm happy to say that the developers are pretty committed to have 0 trackers and 0 data retention. you can read more in their "about" section, but here's the basic important stuff:
Hey this let me download the videos of my band from a skate shop's instagram that I've been trying to get for like six years.
i already downloaded some of those YT music mixes (for productivity/lofi for ghosts/etc) so I can listen to them without running YT an dhaving my phone on for hours its great
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Reblogging partly for awesome computer shortcuts, and partly because I wish to once again take part in a Post That Broke The Notes.
DONT USE THE PIRATE BAY PLEASEEEE I BEG YOU.
Use 1337x.to rarbg or rutracker, highly moderated public torrent trackers, because Pirate Bay has long been shut down, unmoderated, and cloned by some shady actors AND use Mullvad VPN (or any other vpn but mullvad is the best definitely) to protect your ip address while you torrent, bind it to qbittorrent and do not use utorrent anymore either because it is littered with adware.
OR if you don’t want to pay for a VPN, use direct download or streaming sites. Please y’all just take one pass through on the r/piracy or r/freemediaheckyeah mega threads to find whatever you want for free and also not infect your computer with Trojan viruses.
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If any of those terms made you go ????? and you think pirating must be So Hard, I wrote a verbose but easy to follow guide a while back for total beginners!
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I wish Americans fucked with more foreign music. You don’t have to know the language to appreciate a good record. Folks in other countries listen to our music and don’t speak a lick of english. Music needs no translator
yall wont trick me into listening to kpop
You can try Radiooooo.com - The Musical Time Machine!!
choose a country, pick a decade, and GO!!
you’ll get an endless streaming of songs (ad free!).
I personally found myself loving 1970s Ghana, Senegal and Cote d’Ivoire! Also 1920s and 1970s Japan for sure! Cambodian music: spectacular. Love Armenia and Mali as well. I’ve been told 70s Germany is weird and 30s Algeria is cool but I haven’t gotten around to those yet. Italy’s 1960s is bomb ofc but I’m biased ;)
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On Viren, Evil Queens & Queer Coded Villains
In an interview with Cartoon Universe titled Season 3, Runaans Plan, and Aaravos Speech! The Dragon Prince Interview with Creators, Aaron Ehasz and Justin Richmond, talked about how an early concept for The Dragon Prince that they played with was the idea of “not evil step mother” (around the 26:35 mark).
This could relate to the creators’ desires to showcase non-traditional families and not to demonize stepparents. Harrow, for example, while keeping an unfortunate distance from Callum, is a loving stepdad. However, so far in The Dragon Prince we haven’t encountered a stepmother, good or evil. My theory is that “not an evil stepmother” relates to Viren.
In many ways, Viren epitomizes the evil queen/evil stepmother archetype. In fact, there are numerous scenes and aspects of Viren that directly parallel famous evil queens and stepmothers. Here are just some of the examples:
1. Like the Evil Queen in Snow White Viren has a magic mirror that he demands answers from. Mysterious all-knowing beings inside the mirrors answer back.
2. Viren orders his own “huntsman” (Soren) to kill a royal heir (Ezran) that has a deep connection to animals. Soren like the Huntsman can’t bring himself to kill the young royal.
3. Viren’s green voice stealing spell is an obvious reference to Ursula’s voice stealing spell in The Little Mermaid.
4. Like Mother Gothel in Tangled and Queen Ravenna in Snow White and the Huntsman, Viren hides his true appearance (which is “ugly” and scary) with glamour magic where he takes the life force of younger, beautiful beings and uses them to keep an attractive appearance.
5. Viren also shares visual similarities with the Evil Queen, Cinderella’s stepmother and Maleficent such as their circle jewel pendant, dramatic collar, black and purple colors, staffs, their scowls, postures, & attitudes.
6. Like Cinderella’s stepmother Viren has two children that are kind of dopes & are sometimes mean to the princes. He expects a lot from them.
7. Viren’s magic is often visually like evil queens’ magic, both are presented as dark & disturbing.
8. Like Viren, evil queens make magic with suspicious, “disgusting” ingredients & cast spells w/ staffs. Both seem to take from nature & threaten & exploit youthful & natural “innocence.”
I would argue that Viren was the “not evil stepmother” that was one of the starting ideas behind The Dragon Prince. He’s technically not one because he’s a man. But he embodies the role in significant ways. For me, this is another layer that adds to Viren’s queer coding. (If you want to read the other parts of my Viren is Queer analysis, you can read them here (Part 1) and here (Part 2). Here’s why:
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"Immature people crave and demand moral certainty: This is bad, this is good. Kids and adolescents struggle to find a sure moral foothold in this bewildering world; they long to feel they’re on the winning side, or at least a member of the team. To them, heroic fantasy may offer a vision of moral clarity. Unfortunately, the pretended Battle Between (unquestioned) Good and (unexamined) Evil obscures instead of clarifying, serving as a mere excuse for violence — as brainless, useless, and base as aggressive war in the real world."
Ursula K Le Guin at it again, being right as always
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You can take a 'Joey joins the team pre-Tara and figures out what's happening when she joins' AU in two directions.
The first is the realistic one. This involves Joey and his mom slowly working to take Deathstroke out while trying to convince Tara he's abusing her without letting her know they're onto her because she'll snitch. Afterwards, Tara gets adopted by Adeline and starts working through her trauma, while Joey tries to work through the complicated feelings he has towards his father.
The second one is the one where Joey figures out his dad's a pedophile and goes 'by god I don't kill people BUT MY MOM DOES', Adeline lands her shot this time, and Tara becomes yet another murderous addition to the Kane family and the human embodiment of 'excuse me, he asked for NO PICKLES'.
ok but what if i’d die to see that?
Meanwhile my problem with Terra storyline
is how much slut-shaming and this idea of what girls “should be” was wrapped so deeply in it in the comics
The cartoon wasn’t perfect either, there was the whole deal where she couldn’t control her powers- women with power are dangerous!!! And the whole trope of how young girls are easily taken in by predatory men and girls down’t want power it makes life hard- but Terra was supposed to be a sympathetic character and a hero and Slade wasn’t. And it was totally about her journey and she was relatable and she had an ending where she chose that she wanted.
The comics tho it was like- complete “Terra is the worst person ever” and Slade is a totes sympathetic dude who Gar has lunch with and bonds with and he gets off scot-free despite the fact the whole fucking betrayal and murder was his idea and oh yeah he committed statuatory rape on a sixteen year old girl and manipulated her and exploited her anger and hatred to get what he wanted. But he was doing it to like…honor his son or something! For the organization that KILLED HIS SON! SO THAT’S OKAY.
Also, I love George Perez, but he specifically said we were supposed to totes know Terra was evil when she was done up in heavy makeup and skimpy clothing and having sex with Slade. Because trying to betray your friends isn’t a sign of evil BUT OMG SHE’S HAVING SEX AND WEARING MAKEUP BURN HER BUUUURN. So much fucking slut shaming there. And never mind that I felt it was more proof that Slade was evil as he was having sex with a teenager. at fifty. And then he totally used the “but she came on to me!” to justify it. Fuck you.
And then there was the whole thing of Terra being flat-chested and tomboyish with an overbite and therefore seethingly jealous of all the prettier girls on the team. Because tomboys secretly hate all feminine women and want to kill them and plus are so unnatractive omg. “Ugly” women are evil!In the cartoon she was also tomboyish and flat chested, but it was…like not a negative thing, she was never resentful of the other girls because of it (in fact she actually forged friendships with the other girls le gasp), it was never even mentioned, and yeah.
Also the whole relationship with Beast Boy- in the comics, she made it clear she wasn’t interested and constantly insulting him, but he kept like, creeping on her. Because he’s a creeper. And there was really no reason for him to have a crush on her because she hated him and yeah, but apparently he liked her because she was you know the only girl around his age he had a chance with. In the cartoon, it was clear why he liked her, they bonded over peppy attitudes and huge eating habits. But in the comics, we’re supposed to feel so sorry for Gar and it was so shitty Terra betrayed him except she always made it clear she thought he was a creep and he was completey delusional not to see that.
And then the Titans are painted like perfect angels who were OMG BETRAYED UNJUSTLY in the comics despite the fact they treated Terra pretty shitty (see Beast Boy, see calling her on things they let the rest of the team get away with) and in the cartoon, it was made clear that they weren’t angels and their actions helped lead Terra to this point- what with Robin being all insensitive about “OH AND I REALIZE YOU HAVE PROBLEMS” and her running off as a result, and Beast Boy’s reaction to her betrayal completely scaring her off despite her begging him for support and help (and he owned that) and finally her rant to Robin about how goddamn condescending he can be was basically spot on and I think the viewer was supposed to know that.
And finally the fact that the twist was just “Terra is insane and hates everyone and totally deserves to die and she let herself to her own death WITH HER OWN POWERS just so we can make it clear she’s every evil female stereotype”. How…super edgy and complex. A one dimensional evil character! A woman we’re supposed to hate! Never seen that before! It’s ridic lazy and not a “moral” at all. Also the idea that insanity and mental instability naturally equals violent and hateful. ALSO WE SHOULD TOTALLY BLAME PEOPLE FOR THEIR MENTAL ILLNESS.
And like I said Slade gets off scot free, despite being sane the whole time and really doing nothing to redeem himself. In the cartoon, Slade was murdered by the girl he manipulated at least. He came back later, but so did Terra, and she got the life she wanted. Maybe. Possibly?
So yeah, the cartoon story line had it’s problems, but at least Terra wasn’t a one dimensional mass of stereotypes and the storyline wasn’t basically “dudes do what they want, chicks die for their sins”
So I just rewatched the Terra cartoon storyline and yep, still feel this way. Plus gosh do I adore Terra and her relationship with Beast Boy in the cartoon (at the end he calls her the “one of the bravest person I ever knew” asdfghjkl;) and the fact her relationship with Raven was pretty complicated and explored well? <3
also I um cried at the end. IT WAS SUPER EMOTIONAL OKAY. I remember back in my early days of fandom I was part of this forum and people laughed at us for crying at a kid’s cartoon and like
I cry over bad grades and sometimes literally for no reason at all
of course I cry for kid’s cartoons
I ain’t ashamed.
In the comics, Slade did not manipulate Terra. Pt1
Do not mistake the animated Terra from Teen Titans with the 1980s comic version of her.
They are not the same person except for their background where she is the daughter of a king’s mistress, and the half-sister to Geo-force!
Teen Titan’s Terra was a victim. She feared her own power, and needed someone to help her gain control.
80s Comic’s Terra wasn’t a victim. She was evil and bitter with full control of her abilities and potential.
Also do not mistake Teen Titan’s Slade with the 80s-90s Deathstroke.
Teen Titan’s Slade is a mysterious villain who wants to gain power through any means necessary.
Deathstroke is a mercenary with an ambiguous code of ethics who just wants a soldier’s job of his choosing.
Their only similarities is that their super, badass, old men with Joey and Rose as their children, Wintergreen as his butler, and have a relationship with the Teen Titans.
(I do not hate this version of Slade bc I grew up with him, and he isn’t a moron. Go ahead and make him a bad guy, just don’t make him a moron.)
Their relationship is drastically different!
TT Slade manipulated terra to join him. Deathstroke recruited her, and she willingly joined. Why?
She was corrupted that even Slade feared her, and they used each other. It was a sick, MUTUAL relationship.
And she was worse than Slade! As pointed out in the middle of Slade’s and Garfield’s conversation:
And with the whole sexual relationship, she was 16. It was unlawful sex with a minor, and I won’t deny that.
But she was not forced. She was not manipulated either. It was consensual, and it would make sense that Terra was the one who wanted to be lovers first. Anyone who likes to stay alive and keep their plans in action would not reject a crazy girl like Terra. Just saying.
80s Comic’s Terra wasn’t a victim. She was evil and bitter with full control of her abilities and potential.
She was fifteen years old when we met her (still a child), had a mental illness that she’d lived who knows how long with, was living on her own, had no support system since her own father had her sent to America and dumped off somewhere out of fear of scandal if anyone found out she was his illegitimate daughter, only had her powers and a lot of her mental instability in the first place due to questionable experiments and medication back in Markovia, and was sexually abused (read: raped) by a 40-50 year old man who also exploited her insanity and cruelty for his plans to turn the Teen Titans over to the HIVE and collect the money that was offered to his late son when he’d taken up the contract. Oh, and she died in an accidental suicide. Dead at age sixteen. Sounds like a victim to me.
Deathstroke is a mercenary with an ambiguous code of ethics who just wants a soldier’s job of his choosing.
So in other words, he’s a sociopath who desperately wants to keep living in his glory days where he got to test his capabilities and kill people, but he also wants to view himself as a hero and “good soldier” so he clings to this morally ambigiuous ethics code to deny and disguise the fact that he is, in truth, a self-serving, greedy, skeevy, immoral creep. Is that right? ‘Cause that’s the Slade Wilson that I know and love best.
She was corrupted that even Slade feared her, and they used each other. It was a sick, MUTUAL relationship.
In the actual Judas Contract story, Slade only feared Terra because he feared what she might be capable of if her insanity and powers were turned against HIM - he never displayed any moral standards against her corrupt nature other than thinking of her as being beneath him because of it. Yes they used each other, it was sick and it was mutual, but it was not at all equatable since Slade is a grown ass adult who was far more sound of mind and had a wider range of choices and resources than Tara, the mentally ill child, did. Tara’s fucked up actions were due to her nature, while Slade’s fucked up actions were due to his choices. One is clearly more despicable than the other, and it sure ain’t Tara.
And she was worse than Slade! As pointed out in the middle of Slade’s and Garfield’s conversation:
I’ve just covered why Slade is worse, and another thing: Slade is a lying liar who lies, just like Terra was. In the conversation with Gar, Marv Wolfman was intending for him to be sincere and for readers to take him at his word when he wrote it, but given his prior characterization and later characterization, and the fact that he gave Gar no actual evidence for any of what he was saying, particularly about Tawaba, it’s more than likely that Slade was bullshitting his way through that whole talk and emotionally manipulating Gar into seeing things his way, so that he comes out looking like a better man than he is and that his deceased teenage assistant and victim of his statutory rape looks worse and has her memory spat on. It was a disgusting story that singlehandedly killed TNTT quality-wise and killed Marv Wolfman’s credibility as a writer and as a person.
And with the whole sexual relationship, she was 16. It was unlawful sex with a minor, and I won’t deny that.
Well at least you’re not so blinded by your Slade love to deny that pa….
But she was not forced. She was not manipulated either. It was consensual, and it would make sense that Terra was the one who wanted to be lovers first. Anyone who likes to stay alive and keep their plans in action would not reject a crazy girl like Terra. Just saying.
….A 15/16 year old is legally a child and a child cannot legally consent to having sex with someone above the age of 18. Don’t give me that “it was consensual” crap because Tara literally could not consent to sex. Tara’s “yes” to sexual affairs with an older man would have no sway there, only the “no” that Slade did not say would. And what you said afterwards is just vile. Excusing a child’s rape with “she wanted it!” and excusing the rapist by claiming said rapist couldn’t say “no” or else his child victim might do something awful to him? That is the very definition of victim blaming, abuse erasure, rapist apologism and rape culture.
Fuck. You.