Dear Listeners

"His Majesty spoils you." "I know he does. But am I not worth it?"

"The Duke of Suffolk has taken it upon himself to repeat the gossip about you and Mr. Wyatt." "And you believe it to be true?" "If I did, would I be walking here with you?"

Sarah Bolger as Mary Tudor in a deleted scene from The Tudors season 3

Magnificent Century: Costume Appreciation

A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS

Like 85% of tumblr users hate and loathe embarrassment based comedy with every fiber of their beings, but never in my life have I ever seen an author reassure their audience that the embarrassing scenes are skippable.

Lots of people dislike tragedy but never in my life have I ever seen an author reassure the audience that the death and grieving scenes are skippable.

Stop trying to pass off self-censorship as “accommodation.” Stop trying to pass off pandering as “inclusivity.”

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

As for torrenting sites, yeah, one of the most annoying things is that they constantly get taken down, but you can always just type "[name of popular torrent site] proxy" on google, click on one of the top links, then keep checking out each proxy link until you find one that works, and then you might not need another one for many months or even a couple of years.

Also, if anybody needs to hear this: I promise you can just look it up yourself. You're not going to yet arrested for simply googling about it 😂 Reddit has a piracy sub with a lot of info, too. The information is out there, and it's free.

For a long time I did it with no VPN. But it did get me into trouble, and here's how.

Basically you only get into trouble for torrenting if a company who owns the content tracks who all is torrenting it, and goes to your ISP with a complaint. This doesn't happen often, but it DOES happen, depending on the rights holder.

What happened to me is that several years ago my ISP sent me a notice saying "we are declining to provide internet service to you anymore because you hit three strikes of rights infringement." I think it was Game of Thrones, actually, I downloaded like two episodes and HBO was tracking it and those two episodes were strike two and three. And I'd gotten a first strike ELEVEN YEARS BEFORE.

So yeah the problem is that there is no appeal or anything, your ISP just says we are kicking you effective yesterday, you broke the law.

I live in a rural area with limited providers so that can be a problem because if the big company most people use won't serve you, it's gonna be a problem. I got pretty lucky but I do pay more than I should for internet now because I know I can't switch providers cause I'm like blackballed with the other company.

this kind of policing is why ao3 was created

remember, kids, the three laws of fandom are:

- don’t like; don’t read

- your kink is not my kink

kink *but your kink is okay*

don’t forget that part