AwSam Weston

mitigate!

Y'ALL THE HOUSE IS STILL IN PLAY REMEMBER HOW BIG A DEAL IT WAS TO WIN THE HOUSE IN 2018 IT'S STILL POSSIBLE

The fact that you can’t raise taxes on billionaires even slightly without them pouring money into fascist political movements is, of itself, evidence that billionaires as a class shouldn’t be allowed to exist in the first place.

I’d just like to point out that every single thing that has happened in the 6 years since I created this post has only reinscribed its absolute moral correctness in my mind.

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Checked to confirm. It’s true, it’s recent, and the source is beautiful

(also the ‘children’s charity’ Lumos doesn’t recognize trans children, so this failed fundraising event is an all around good thing)

Oh gods, alright. Of course Livraria Lello would be the one to have it. I wonder if they were trying to get rid of it?

I actually would like to talk about Lello and their relationship with Harry Potter and also just ask you to visit the bookstore.

So, anyway, Lello opened in 1906 in Porto, North of Portugal.

JK. Rowling lived in Porto for a bit in the 90’s, where she first started writing the Harry Potter series. It was said she might have frequented it and some important stairs from the book were based on Lello’s stairs. In fact: The book release of Harry Potter and The Cursed Child happened in Lello.

What this meant is that this bookstore ended up having to fight to remain a bookstore. There are so many tourists, a lot of them that only wanted to look at it because it was Harry Potter related somehow and buy nothing. There were (and still are) insane queues to enter the bookstore.

Lello, who wasn’t particularly interested in becoming a Harry Potter museum, ended up having to make a system where people have to pay to enter. If you buy a book that goes above the price you paid for the ticket, the money you paid will be deducted from the book price.

I can tell from going there fairly frequently that they try to be less connected to Harry Potter as possible if they can manage. Yeah they have the books for sale but they also have a plethora of books and their own merchandise to choose from.

Despite JK. Rowling’s involvement with the bookstore, in the Portuguese Wikipedia page, even in the part about the famous writers that went there, there isn’t a single mention of her. Zero. Not in the history nor anywhere else. It’s beautiful.

Last time I went they had an exhibition about José Saramago’s work (portuguese author who won the Nobel Prize) and on the upper side of the stairs had an enormous collection of winners of the Nobel Prize and authors Lello concidered had the quality to also have won (it the Nobel Prize existed when they were alive) and authors that might win.

It’s quite interesting because all was very thought out and you had a whole reason as to why those books were there. Me and my mother ended up chatting for a long while with one of the bookshop employees (they have a lot of young employees btw) and we even ended up chatting with other foreigners that went there shopping.

Also, did I mention the bookshop is gorgeous?

As are their book editions (my English edition of Tom Sawyer I bought there)

Have also a photo of the bookstore from 1906 :)

So, if you go there, please don’t go because of Harry Potter. And please don’t shit on it because of Harry Potter too. It’s a very good bookstore and it deserves recognition, but not from there.

piracy would probably be extremely popular in america if most americans understood how creatives and such are compensated (or not) for their labor

"if you pirate this movie then you're taking money from the crew who worked on it!" is such a bizarrely common take, as if they ever see a fraction of the revenue that movies make and instead are usually exploited in their labor via predatory contracts and crunch.

a few years ago (like 2017-ish) I saw some disney adult dipshit make a super high-horsey post about how, paraphrasing, "yeah, we all agree that disney as a company sucks, disney executives suck, but what pro-piracy people don't understand is that when you pirate you're not taking money away from the company and the bigshot executives you wanna hurt, you're taking it from the employees who actually do all the work to make their movies" and to this day it legitimately astounds me how someone could so confidently say literally the wrongest thing anyone has ever said about anything. Like that's literally the opposite of how it works.

By the time a movie comes out, the only people whose paycheck is affected by how many sales it makes are the executives and studio heads, they're generally the only ones who stand to make money from it at that point. The cast and crew who actually did all the work on the movie? They already got paid. They've already made as much money from that thing as they're ever going to make.

That being said, I don't REALLY think that's the reason why piracy isn't more popualr in the first world. Piracy isn't more popular in the USA and the first world in general because, simply, people there are on average wealthier, which has created a culture where not pirating entertainment is the cultural norm.

The reason why places like Latin America, SE Asia, and Eastern Europe have a stronger priacy culture is not because people are more familiar with how production in various entertainment industires works (I'd bet the contrary is true) but because historic economic disadvantages have resulted in a culture where a lot of people see paying for a piece of entertainment you could be getting for free on the internet as being a rube and getting ripped off.

I honestly and truly believe all good AUs should be a little “”””ooc”””” in the sense that good characterisation involves understanding that changes a characters backstory and circumstances will have an effect on how they respond to the world around them

Good characterisation isn’t about creating a perfect 1:1 canon replica it’s about understanding why a character is different in your work and about grounding the changes you do deliberately choose to make in canon character traits

#big fan of putting people into situations #and seeing how that changes them #I can believe a lot of supposed ooc behaviour if you show me how you got there (x)

Anyway, I don’t just bring this up when I talk about Twilight, but I do bring it up every time I talk about Twilight:

Reminder that the Quileute tribe, whose sacred stories made author Stephanie Meyer a multi-millionaire, never received any money from the enormous success of the Twilight books or films.

Their entire community is located in a Tsunami disaster zone, in a region where a world-changing earthquake and tsunami are expected to hit perhaps within our lifetimes.

They should be set for life financially based on the use of their stories in Twilight. Instead, they have to publicly raise funds to move to higher ground and have been raising the same funds for years.

Anyone is encouraged to donate, but if you have personally purchased a physical or digital copy of any Twilight media or Twilight merchandise, I recommend matching the purchase with an equal donation to the Quileute People.

Recently, they successfully moved their school to higher ground! It was a major accomplishment to ensure Quileute children can learn in a safe environment! But there is still much to be done .

Statement from the Tribe (link to the source):

“Living in a tsunami zone at the edge of the Pacific Ocean, a catastrophic earthquake can wipe out our community in less than 10 minutes – an entire generation of the Quileute people will cease to exist.”

You can even set up a monthly donation. I don’t have much, but I’ve had a small monthly donation coming out of my PayPal for a few years now.

Many people don’t realize that the tribe didn’t profit off of Twilight, so I mention it whenever I bring up the series!

If you want to read more about how Twilight impacted the Quileute People, check out “The Truth vs. Twilight.”

Now that the school is safely moved, Phase 2 of the move to higher ground aims to relocate the senior center out of the tsunami zone, as well provide housing for the community in the safety zone.

The Quileute Tribe has been fundraising to save its community for years. Let’s make this happen!

Once again, if you purchase any Twilight media or merchandise—even from independent fanartists—please match with a donation to the Quileute people!

Everyone is encouraged to donate! ♥️

i think the key difference between george lucas’s star wars and disney’s star wars is that lucas is a man with an ideology. someone with a point of view, and all that entails. which comes with ideas of revolution, anti-imperialism, challenging the status quo, cultural appropriation and racist stereotypes. complex and contradictory ideas because that’s how artists are: complex and complicated people. disney is not. disney is a corporation. a corporation can’t have ideology, because ideology defeats the purpose of profit. and when the only thing you do is to turn on the movie manufacturing machine before you sit down and plan what ideas are you trying to convey to the audience, then your results are going to be washed out corporate garbage. and because when you’re a giant corporation who only cares about selling to the widest audience possible, you can’t take sides. you can’t decide on an idea. because you want to sell your product to people who are on the entire political spectrum. which results in movies without ideology, without purpose, without soul.

I have been looking for this post for years after I came across it and it’s finally here and I need to reblog this because it is absolutely and entirely accurate.

I feel like someone is standing next to me talking about how I'm dead

The chemical they put on ants and all the other ants think they're dead that's what happened to tumblr except the chemical is unmarketability

tumblr may have censored porn but check this out

i hope Elon musk KILLS himself and DIES a thousand DEATHS. and i hope every other billionaire a very merry DIE DIE DEATH KILL MURDER DEATH KILL

In this week’s absolute chonker of an episode, we explain (part of) why movie budgets are so bloated.

We are SO back!

Have you heard about Lilly Wachowski's trans fantasy film? Looks like it's gonna be a blast.

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This is like an evolved version of that old “Animator vs. Animation” flash cartoon from the 2000s and I am HERE FOR IT

During the editing stage for Monday's episode of This Week in Fantasy Movies, Sam received an offer to work on a film set out of town.

We are thrilled for him to have this work (he's got bills to pay!) but unfortunately this means the show will be diminished in strength until his return.

The next 2 episodes will be delayed a day, to release on September 10 and September 17. These pared-down episodes will only include The Numbers, the upcoming weekly calendar, and a playlist containing the week's trailers.

This Week in Fantasy Movies will return from its exile on Monday, September 23rd, at a new time: 2pm Central (US) Time.

In our special Labor Day episode, we remember the reason for the season: Organized labor!

This would be a uniformly and unimaginably bad thing btw

we popping the biggest bottles when Disney finally gets to claim one billion art styles as their own and sue all independent artists to death 🍾

the absurdity of the widest support base for this stuff being fanartists is just amazing, too. society's most suicidal strata

Disney could already go after fan artists for Using Their Copyrighted Material.

I’m not saying your concerns are unfounded, just that the energy is misplaced — We need to reshape copyright itself to be loose enough that regular people don’t get slapped for doing what artists do and imitating art, but strong enough that corporations can’t profit off our work without our consent.

HORSE GIRLS OF ROHAN! RIDE! RIDE FOR WRATH! RIDE FOR RUIN! AND A RED DAWN! DEAAAAAAATH!

We’re back for another This Week in Fantasy Movies! This week features a bunch of anime and Disney news, Fantasia Fest awards, and an EXCLUSIVE interview with George R.R. Martin’s producer!

Concept: Depressing dystopian factory where everything is gray and samey and the workers are called by their employee numbers by an ominous deep voice.

But it's a really great place to work with high salaries, excellent benefits, and a flexible working schedule with plenty of paid leave. They just like the dystopian aesthetic.

PA system: Worker 72094. Leave your working station and report to the Supervisor immediately.

Supervisor: Worker 72094. You failed to meet your quota for 3 weeks in a row now.

Worker 72094: I can explain!

Supervisor: You're clearly burned out. I heard you moved recently. Take a mandatory two weeks paid vacation to readjust and report to me then.

Worker 72094: I... thank you?

Shadowy Board Member: Worker 11335. Do you know why you were summoned?

Worker 11335: Is it because I badmouthed the company during lunch?

Shadowy Board Member: That is correct. We are very displeased, Worker 11335...

Shadowy Board Member: ...with ourselves, that is. We hold ourselves to high standards of excellence which we clearly failed to meet. We were hoping you could advise us on necessary improvements. You will receive appropriate compensation, of course.