My (joke) headcanon for why Rouge keeps trying her flirtatious thief thing with Espio despite it continually not working is she's frustrated that he's seemingly immune to her charms and is trying to prove otherwise out of ego and spite.
At this point it's a matter of pride more than any actual desire to date him or use him for her mission. She HAS to prove she's so good at what she does she can even get him wrapped around her finger.
Unfortunately, Espio's mind is a steel trap due to warding off Vector's and Charmy's attempts to steal the Chaotix's one brain cell.
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This isn’t a fic or anything, I just have to get it out of my brain so I can move on with my day.
Okay so, currently being not normal™️ about Ghost’s mask.
Look, I don’t have a big thing for masks or anything — If anything it’s one of the reasons why Ghost was the last member of the 141 to click with me (that’s a story for another day, moving on) — that being said, I love love love when Ghost’s mask is used as a narrative tool.
Like, as much as it’s to keep his identity hidden, it’s obviously a way he keeps people at arm’s length, right? How can they actually know him if they couldn’t even pick his face out of a crowd?
To me, that intentionally or not puts so much weight into how it’s handled the first time he kisses someone in a fic. (Doesn’t matter if it’s Soap, a reader/self-insert, Gaz, Price, ect.) As much as I love when whoever’s kissing him flips up his mask, or gently pushes his smoke/drink/whatever out of the way— I find it so much more impactful when they kiss him through his mask.
Bonus points if he had it flipped up for whatever reason, and they gently pull it back down first.
I just—
(Not my drawing)
Because to me it’s saying, ‘I know you have walls, and I don’t know everything, maybe I never will but I love every little bit of you that you let me see anyway,’
And then, then, when the kiss breaks, if Ghost pulls his mask back up over his nose, and kisses them again? Especially if it’s slow and soft?
I’m fucking dead.
Gone.
Deceased.
Because maybe they don’t know everything about him, maybe they never will, but he’s willing to try and trust them a little bit more time and time again and they’re willing to respect that, love that he’s trying for them, and are grateful for what he does let them see. And I just—
Uuggghhh.
It’s so good. Love it so much. Eat that shit up every time, inject it right into my grey matter.
Will I go and use this in my own fics with Ghost in it? Perchance. (I will. Probably too much. It will become a thing in my stories like me kidnapping characters, or lighting things on fire, or writing characters hanging out in bars. Do I care? No. Because it’s awesome and amazing and more of y’all should join me in being not normal ™️ about it.)
My brain woke me up at 2:48 am and was like HERE ARE 2K WORDS OF YOUR SYDCARMY FIC HOPE YOU LOVE TAPPING THEM OUT ON YOUR PHONE IN THE DARK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT WITH A SNORING CORGI PINNING DOWN YOUR ARM. So then I typed them out and eventually fell back asleep. I'm happy and grateful for those words, sure, but gdi, this Sydcarmy related insomnia is something else.
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Help me understand the math. If the revenue is divided up by the label according to percent of streams the artist has, isn’t that still basically the same as an artist being paid a rate per stream? Just that ppl with the same # of streams at different labels may be earning different rates depending on who else is on their label? So in that case wouldn’t it be *good* to be at the same label as someone like Drake? I’m confused.
The short answer is yes, it’s better for a streaming artist to be on a major, who can negotiate favorable rates for their artists.
As best I understand it, let’s say you are Zayn, at #116 currently and at a Sony imprint label the same as Drake at #2. Let’s say that all Sony artists got 100 streams for the month of July (for math simplicity) and that Drake at #2 is going to get paid for 50 of those streams, because he accounted for 50% of Sony’s streams in July. Zayn, at #116, will get paid for 8 of those streams, because he accounted for 8% of the total (for illustration purposes only since I have no idea what his percentage would be). The better Drake does, the lower the percentage Zayn and all other artists get. Let’s say Drake has a huge single and in July he gets 60% of the Sony pot. There’s a smaller pot for all the other artists to divvy up. It isn’t unfair, at least in theory, because Drake got all those streams for his new single. But it means that my Zayn streaming as an individual consumer means nothing, since he doesn’t get paid by his streams but rather by his percentage of the total. There’s no one to one correspondence between my streams and Zayn’s paycheck, because all the streams go into the same Sony pot. The argument for transparency, as I understand it, is that artists get paid per stream, no matter who is on their label with them. Feel free to correct me.
It’s why Tom Gray says it’s good to be Ed Sheeran. You get paid first and most because your percentage of the total is higher, regardless of individual consumer behavior. I’d like the artists I stream, many of whom are not in the top 500, to get paid every time I listen to them regardless of how Drake or any other top streamer is doing. Does that make sense? I’m not good at math, but I get the idea of pots of money and getting paid based on the total pot.
