Narrow Road to the Exterior

(tags via @the-tardis-is-blue )

YES. ALL OF THIS. THIS IS MY FAVORITE AU

Someone pointed out that article's from 2023, and that's my mistake! Here is one that describes better where we are today.

So.

Downloads are still available as of time of writing. If you have music you want to keep, maybe go download it.

If your favorites sell music directly, go buy it there.

Do NOT go yell at musicians for being on Bandcamp. Where, one day after this broke, do you expect them to go? Where else can we get DRM-free files?

If the new owners keep Bandcamp Friday and DRM-free downloads, I will keep buying music from them.

Think of it this way: who are we trying to help? Musicians, right?

It won't help musicians to boycott Bandcamp and I have not (as of this writing) seen a call for it that's actually from a musician.

It really won't help musicians to yell at them about being on Bandcamp.

Next Bandcamp Friday I'm going to go buy albums I'd miss if they disappeared.

Modern guy: actually this stuff is so valuable you don't even need patronage

Alchemist:

@castaneary im not putting you on blast I just hate talking in the replies function

You're right, this is the most grace I have ever seen a fandom give a female character ever. Gonna try real hard not to jinx it.

That said, I am judging the movie on its own merits, without any word of god or supplemental material to cover up the holes. Stratt is reacting to plot points that aren't there and that casts her actions in a wildly different light. Not only is movie!Grace a drastically worse option than book!Grace she has a candidate pool that is orders of magnitude larger. The choice she makes isn't between a distillery worker with a bachelor's and the guy who's spent the last few years of his life managing mission critical science, its Grace versus every other relevant microbiologist.

Grace clings really hard to the idea that hes just some little guy and woe is me how could this happen to some rank-and-file nobody, and part of what makes the book so entertaining is that every other chapter or so he gets wacked over the back of the head with a recently recovered memory that confirms No the fuck you are not some little guy, you in fact spent years intentionally and painstakingly crafting this torment nexus you find yourself in. Movie!Grace on the other hand, kinda is just some dude. Alot of the decisions the book narrative has him directly participating in, (notably the coma gene discussion) are already made and presented as a done deal. He does his little science experiments in a mostly contextless space, where he gets to be oblivious Microbio Oppenheimer, and then is completely blindsided by why the powers that be would send some interchangeable cog that happens to be him.