fogsrollingin ☁️

The real point is that you OWN a CD. You do NOT own anything digital you purchase.

Google Play stole hundreds of dollars worth of music I paid them for from me by forcing me to upload it to YouTube Music (or lose it entirely) which is behind a subscription paywall, requiring me now to pay more money every month if I want to listen to MY music I PAID for without constant advertising.

You do not own anything digitally purchased. It can be taken back from you at any time and it is fully legal for big corporations to do so for some reason.

CDs can't be taken from you unless they come into your house or car in person to physically pry them out of your cold dead hands.

Empty cd in the slot

Open cd on desktop

Drag music files in

CDs are useful, my lambs.

Most home-burned CDs have a lifespan of under 5 years, and since they’re an analogue medium, you end up with a lot of data loss if you re-burn new ones from old CDs. Hard drives/SSDs actually have a much longer shelf life than most commercial read/write CDs, and unless you shell out for expensive stuff, are actually much better for long-term data storage: an HDD kept on a shelf and plugged in once a year will last upwards of a decade, where standard home-burned cds might wear out as soon as 6 months.

With regular use, a microSSD or decent thumb drive should be good for at least 5 years, and since it’s a digital non-lossy medium, you can copy the files to new drives almost indefinitely. AND! if you get music/videos (in non-drm formats) onto drives using any of the methods listed above, you own those exactly as much as you’d own a cd: iTunes/google/Spotify/etc can’t take your music away if it’s not stored in their systems.

Introducing "No Romo" Fest: a creative celebration of aromanticism 💚

Let's celebrate Valentine's Day with our own definition of love (or a lack thereof)! No Romo Fest is a creative event taking place from February 8th to 14th, open to anyone and everyone who would like to center aromanticism in their work.

Works can be posted under the #no romo fest tag and/or in the AO3 collection throughout the week.

Guidelines & (optional) prompts below the cut: