drowned and deranged

Install a reputable torrent client

Windows/Linux - qBittorrent

Android - Flud

(other clients exist, I use these ones and would always recommend qBittorrent first)

Go to a torrent site, find the shows you wanna watch or whatever

Helpful list of torrent sites and a lot more detailed advice can be found here

And that's it, you're done!

Your computer/phone will now download the files from other people online. Once you're finished, other people can download them from you and the circle of life continues.

Some additional tips

If you don't want to risk getting caught, ProtonVPN offers a free VPN service with no ads. This might impact your download speeds but it helps protect your privacy and prevent any snotty letters from your ISP.

Don't download software from torrents unless you're absolutely sure it's legit. This includes PC games. Installing a sketchy software crack is how people end up with malware doing this. Music, movies and TV shows are fine. When in doubt, just leave it.

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.

i am looking into your eyes, i am holding your hand. i absolutely promise.

Pronouns

An accent

happy mermay to this beautiful mermai-- what do you mean that's a seal. that's literally a mermaid look at her

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears