In brightest day, in blackest night

Entwined 🧡

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.

“Why doesn’t Odo change into—?” Cause he’s bad at it and has rigid moral reasoning.

“Why doesn’t Data just rip that guy’s head off?” Cause he’s not violent.

“Why doesn’t Q just save that planet?” Cause he’s a bit of a dick.

The POINT is that this platform runs on reblogs.

You don't reblog - you keep the "tumblr fever" from spreading further and people - potential fans who could have joined us and the creators who don't get enough feedback and decide to move on and leave - get cured, become normal and return to their lives doing normal stuff, and our weird little community dies out. Fandoms die.

I don't want this one to die as this ship gives me life, so while it's nice to see you showing some appreciation for the content creators work in the form of LIKES, I'd really appreciate it if you helped me share the good stuff with the world.

For it to stay alive the blood needs to be circulating.

If you're still wondering why I keep reblogging things repeatedly - consider this me performing CPR on the fandom XD