#Distribution Changes

[garvescope]

You Can’t Upload to Amazon Anymore, But You’re Not Out of Options

If you were hoping to release your indie film directly to Amazon Prime Video, it may already be too late. Amazon Prime Direct, once a wide-open platform for filmmakers to upload their work without a middleman, has quietly finished phasing out open submissions from independent creators. No fanfare. No press release. No dramatic public takedown. Just a slow fade into the background, replaced by a…

[narwhalsarefalling]

my (cis) brother is using my old license to buy wine and it has the gender marker F on there. so whenever he gets asked he just says “oh i’m trans”. its literally worked every single time.

[liph-zip]

absolutely criminal that he doesn’t have a froggy plushie so have this

[sanshofox]

Little summary so far of the elections, for my non german followers:

Germany is unfortunately one big step closer to become a right wing country.

The conservative party cdu won the election. But the problem is that they developed negatively just like the conservative party, the republicans, in the US. They are more extreme in their views; lots of it is has right wing characteristics. They were even willing to cooperate with the right wing party afd, on an anti-immigration bill, which led to a public backlash. So as for better chances to win in today’s election the cdu had to row back on their bill. The majority of voters were gen x and boomers.

Spd and grüne, which were part of the coalition we had until now, lost a lot of points and are now in the middle field/ third place of votings. Their coalition era was a difficult one. Also lots of decisions were blocked/boycotted by the other coalition party: fdp. Which are luckily now out of the bundestag because they weren‘t even able to get the 5% vote njehehehe (additionally: christian lindner, fdp leader, that was responsible for this mess is now „out of a job“ as he resigns. One of the very few good outcomes today.). Spd and grüne apparently had the most votes from millenials and gen z (correction: in recent releases we see that spd had lots of voters from older gens too).

Die linke (leftist party) garnered a lot more votes than usual with almost 9%. This uptake is due to former spd and grüne voters now voting for them. Lots of first time voters (gen z) voted for die linke. But also gen z in general and millenials.

And now to the very bad news: the afd , the full on right wing party, is the second most voted party with around 20%, which is of course very bad news for germany‘s history. Most votes came from boomers, gen x and sadly, first time voters. (Correction: in recent releases we see that in fact the younger generations voted for afd, not boomers :( )

Coalition possibilities: For the sake of preventing afd to gain even more power, we hope for a cdu, spd and grüne coalition. But as I said before, the cdu was willing to work with the afd not too long ago and only rowed back because of public demands, but the cdu‘s goals stay the same nontheless. Friedrich merz, cdu leader, lies and contradicts himself a lot to get more votes. You could say he uses the same tactics like trump. So it wouldn’t surprise me when he lied about the cdu, spd, grüne coalition too and would choose the afd (depending on the final percentage outcome of course). Let’s hope for the best.

[afloweroutofstone]

Where are my followers from?

I took the number of respondents from each location provided on my 2025 survey and extrapolated those results onto my entire follower base. I then took those numbers and divided them by the population of each country (and US state), providing me with an estimate of my followers per million people.

Within the US, I have the most followers per capita in: Washington DC, Vermont, Oregon, Washington, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Colorado, Minnesota, Virginia, and Maine. I had at least one reply from a follower in every state except the Dakotas, Hawaii, and Mississippi.

Among countries, my top three were the Iceland, the USA, and Brunei; the first and third entries are there because I had exactly one reply from a follower in each of these very small countries. Beyond that, the countries with the most followers per capita are: Canada, Estonia, New Zealand, Slovenia, Ireland, the Netherlands, Australia, the UK, Denmark, and Sweden. I got replies from multiple followers on every inhabited continent except Africa.

[haley-harrison]

so ticked off when I hear "the youth is too leftist" or "young people are radicalized". bitch if we were, we'd be seizing the means of production. i personally think we aren't left and radical enough

[aiqingdemeimiao]

limonov [2024] dir. kirill serebrennikov

[yandere-daydreams]

Not a request! But I would love to see your thoughts on the yandere batfam! X neglected reader trope that’s been popular in the tags lately.

it's not for me i fear T-T admittedly my headcanons for the batfam are so hyper-specific that i don't end up finishing about 98% of the fics i find for them so the problem is very clearly with me, but the idea of a reader being neglected at all is kinda goes against what i come to reader-insert fics for. that being said, i am intrigued by the idea of bruce's miserable spouse immediately starting an affair with socially anxious reporter clark kent seconds after meeting him and may consider exploring the topic sometime in the future.

[demodraws0606]

What Cyberpunk DeadBoy Means and What it's Potentially Foreshadowing (aka very complicated analysis that makes a lot of sense and could happen depending on how colorpalet is feeling while writing the story)

Now I'm seeing so many people like running around wondering what this event could mean for the future for multiple reasons and like I've made like one post throwing my hat into the ring.

I've been frustrated with people's unwillingness to realise that this comm is prob foreshadowing because this is not the first time Colorpalet has hidden foreshadowing into comms weither subtely or not

Exemple's being :

-Akito's second comm foreshadowing his third event

-Lower's cover art literally foreshadowing what would happen to Mafuyu's phone in her event

-88 vocals being emurui and nenekasa foreshadowing the kind of dynamic the disbandement arc had with nenekasa wanting to move forward with emurui being scared of isolation

-Probably way better exemples that I forgot

I've seen people make Some assumptions which I don't agree with but there is one thing I think is true

There is 100 pourcent gonna be struggle between corporation/reality and WxS.

Purely because that's been WxS's entire theme since the beginning. They constantly bash you over the head with the theme of compromising with reality and the importance of dreams. In fact the pick of Maiki-P is not at all surprising as he basically has the same message WxS has just... well harsher.

The Big thing people have ignored however is by focusing on the lyrics, they've ignored something that's personally to me even more telling and that's the line distribution

We know for a fact colorpalet loves to mess around with line distribution, weither it's to make characters say lines that fit them or to kind of foreshadow their headspace.

Now something Big happens with the line distribution of Cyberpunk Deadboy that i've seen NO ONE notice and that's in the last chorus (that and also Tsukasa's lines which people have pointed out but it works less on it's own which is why I'm gonna analyse his lines afterwards).

This is the only time the chorus is like that, the others have a much more even distribution.

In fact the distribution choice makes it look like the rest of WxS is Talking to Rui.

It's even more evident considering the lines they chose to make WxS sing compared to only just Rui

Emu/Tsukasa/Nene saying kimi (you)

Rui saying boku (i)

Which honestly makes me think this is colorpalet foreshadowing some kind of issue reguarding specifically Rui. Remember Emu's second event ? The story of Rilley whose imagination was crippled by the industry to the point where he didn't really have any artistic vision until Emu's grandpa helped him.

In fact remember how the flashback that showcases that has Rilley working on a film

Now we get to Tsukasa's line which have been pointed out to be kind of sus but it's not just his lines.

Tsukasa refuses to sing with Rui (unless it's a line they all sing together but i consider those exceptions). In fact pretty much everyone has a duo line with each other except those two.

In fact in the section where Rui has duo lines with everybody, Tsukasa is the only one he doesnt sing with and the visuals make it clear that it's something that we're supposed to find strange

And then we of course have Tsukasa's solo lines

Tsukasa is the only one that say "fuzakeruna" outside of Rui (of course ignoring entire group WxS lines) and i've seen some people pointed out how it sounds like he's saying it in response to Rui's lines. Which I agree with.

Then we got his big boy solo lines

These lines will make more sense with my theory/analysis but right now if we go with the idea that WxS in the last chorus were speaking to Rui and Tsukasa in this comm refuses to sing with Rui then this implies those lines are Tsukasa speaking to Rui.

And this is where the insanity begins because people have pointed out a concerning trend with Ruikasa that I know some people use for shipping fuel but for me kinda feels more so like foreshadowing.

IGNORING all the ARG ass weirdness of the Fixer 2dmv, this choice to switch Ruikasa's colors have to mean something in my opinion outside of just wholesome shipping influence especially considering the two songs they do this are less than jovial.

What this kind of color switching signifies to me is that, Ruikasa somehow are/or will switch places.

And with that let me bring back Tsukasa's lines

These lines stand out because Tsukasa before remembering his dreams was extremely shallow only doing things for fame and probably the money that would come with it.

Now if you think about everything I've layed out I think you can gain a pretty clear picture.

Of Rui falling into the trap Rilley did, becoming jaded and losing the true motivation of his dream (or at least starting to have doubts). Becoming stuck with the struggle of managing dreams and reality.

Rui's costume even has a mask which can be a metaphor for his artistic voice and individuality being silenced .

Which now you get into the line distribution where WxS is implied to be talking to Rui.

And you get to Tsukasa, who is refusing to sing with Rui and in fact seems to be arguing with Rui if we really want to overthink it. In fact almost switching their roles from the main story.

Because Tsukasa has grown now and how else to show that growth than to switch Rui and Tsukasa's perspectives/roles.

Now how this would happen really depends since there are multiple ways they can go about it with the time they have.

There is obviously mystery dude dude (who i know now is sakaki) who still gives me bad vibes. However there is actually two way they can make mystery dude trigger this sort of plot :

-Mystery dude is malicious and actively manipulates/confronts Rui to make him rethink his worldview

-Mystery dude isn't malicious but instead is just jaded/has been through a lot of industry bullshit which ends up rubbing off on Rui accidentally

But you can even just not have mystery dude involved with this at all (which i doubt but still) because you know what loose plotpoint is still lingering over WxS, fucking Asahi

Rui still has not talked about Asahi to WxS, in fact Curtain Call ends on an explicit cliffhanger which is never really emotionally concluded (at least in Rui's own events, technically the arc ender did but there are still a lot of loose threads from that arc). Why would Colorpalet make Asahi come back after Rui graduates, they could've just had him disappear into the sunset but instead they hint at his potential comeback.

Unless Rui will be forced to again confront similar feelings he did during Curtain Call this time with possibly an added layer of whatever happens during WxS's freelance arc.

Anyways yeah this is overly complicated but then again colorpalet is not being easy with us so...yeah.

[1995lahaine]

a video about a24's 'style' came up on my youtube recommended and i got so angry i considered for 15 minutes doing something humiliating such as making a video essay about how fucking stupid you people who have built a brand FOR a corporation and thus created another monster in the war of suits against creatives in art are.

[raybeam-littlebean]

Okay, I posted about my Ocs yesterday and now I really wanna talk about so I'm going to talk about my first: Void

Void is a bit.. gender ambitious, so if I range from them to him to her– We're still talking about the same person, I just don't know what gender I want them to be in my head

Their name is Ray Flores, yes, I know, so original– It's a play on Sunflower, their family runs a florist shop and has for generations.

Their family is of Mexican Hispanic descent, when their grandparents came to America they became florists because Americans liked the strange flowers they brought with them

Thus, the family business was born. Something that Ray finds suffocating because she hates taking care of the flowers in the shop, ending up having to do everything. Her mother, an interesting character of a woman, kills everything she touches but Ray has a magic green thumb with anything plant

Her mother doesn't like her very much because of that, being the favorite of her in-laws, Ray's paternal grandparents because she takes better care of the shop than her mom

Backing up a little, Ray was a strange little kid. Very accident prone, even by herself, always getting in the most trouble. She would swear up and down that it wasn't her when something happened, broke or fell or something, that it was her new friend. But no one ever believed her, thinking she was just lying and a difficult kid. The drawings she'd make about her all dark shadowy friend were.. disturbing to say the least.

All that seemed to fade into forgotten memories until some time in her teens when things started to get strange around the shop. Things breaking down, disappearing, pots falling over, the works. The mother tries to spin the story that Ray is starting to act out again because she hates the shop and it trying to run it into the ground. It gets to the point that even the grandparents start to believe it with a heavy heart.

Mexicans being a religious bunch think that maybe Ray is possessed by a spirit or being followed by one. Their LGBTQ+ status being cited as a reason and that just breaks Ray's heart that thought they were all accepting of her and they run away.

Fast forward a bit, they end up finding out that she's actually a Homo Magi, the thing Zatanna is. It's like, a sub species of humans, they're just born with magic ability instead of learning it. The little shadowy thing was her magic manifesting as an actual being of sorts. This is where the Umbrakinesis comes in, it's the controlling of darkness and shadows, but I'm limiting it greatly because she doesn't know much. So for now, it's a semi sentient familiar situation that feeds off her emotions for the most part and protects her. Think of Venom, it's kinda like that.

He doesn't become a Anti-Hero on purpose, she doesn't see her new powers and go "I can change the world"– No, he actually doesn't give much of a shit about any of that. They just want to lay low for the most part in this little studio apartment he may or may not just be squatting in. They become an anti-hero on accident, helping out here and there when they come across it. A mugging here, a robbery there–After a while it just keeps getting more and more until they wake up one day ans they have a completed vigilante suit ans they just sigh

"Shit."

[sirensoul-min]

Many of us who were voting on IG knew something felt off when AMAs posted that BTS picture (where Jimin got cut off) celebrating a past win, with an emphasis on RM's face. From the moment that went down, we all got a bad feeling that we were slowly seeing another Scammys situation where the scammy official acc AND scooter braun uploaded the same pic where Jimin was also cut off to only show OT6.

We know the drill, everytime scooter or Bongo are behind the scheme they upload or share Ot6 group photos intentionally excluding Jimin. They do it like clockwork. That award had scooter's dirty money all over it.

I feel a type of cynical pity for all the "armys" celebrating this win, thinking their 50K accs did something against the 370K+ accs on pjms side. When in reality it was MONEY that did the talking.

before the awarding took place i was lurking on twt and also saw some pjms talking about how this photo was like a premonition. seeing how everything is sus then and now, i don't blame them and anon for feeling the same. that photo may or may not mean anything, but, at the risk of sounding conspirational (😅), it's weird that of all of bts' photos in AMAs history, they chose this one and not another photo that has all the members in it. it could be that they did not find one that fits IG's new layout, yes, but you're telling me there's not a single photo of the entire group looking shocked when they were announced as winners? they have been attending AMAs since 2017 and began winning in 2018, and not one photo of them all in the frame was available? (that photo was also taken during bts' last appearance on AMAs in 2021, but the photos of the other winners weren't (at least halsey's).)

using that photo was a choice. but was it done with malice or not? we can't be sure. regardless, it indeed fueled the doubts and speculation that started due to RM's questionable nomination.

the data from jimin's fanbases and armys did not help either. like what anon has said, they show the massive difference of the number of accounts they have distributed, and the lead that we've always had in IG. we don't have the final tally of valid votes, but those numbers should warrant one to at least pause and think about the results.

one can draw conclusions about the validity of the results from all these, as well as from the overall results from other categories; the reactions of the media and critics, insiders, viewers, and fans; and from the politics (and people) behind this award. scooter (and bangpd) isn't known as a saint and a fair person in the industry, and knowing the things that he did in the past (particularly his and hybe's shady behaviour towards jimin), it's unsurprising if he indeed pulled some strings.

all these could be coincidental and yes, they do not make the theory 100% true, but they do not debunk it either. the recent AMAs could very well be like the grammys, especially if the questionable noms and results would be the recurring pattern from now on.

let me reiterate though that pointing out these things does not make us sore losers, or us just beating the dead horse. we've worked hard for this and we have numbers, among others, to back us up. we aren't so delusional to make accusations that has little to no claim. we can also admit that we most likely will never get to prove the theory (unless something happens in the future) and we have to accept that. maybe it's all water under the bridge, but we could also use all that's happened during and after AMAs as a learning experience and as a motivator to support jimin, especially now that more people are working against him.

[jackfrostimposter]

genuinely why is there so much misinformation about the guardians of childhood book series?

[profmadscientist]

I love drawing her in her godtier outfit

[ladyofthenoodle]

i think it’s good and healthy actually for this fandom to run favorite side of the square polls every few weeks to remind people that not matter how many marichat critical posts you see, marichat is not and will never be the underdog and your marichat fics and arts are still going to be popular even if antimarichatstan87 wrote an essay about all the marichat tropes they hate. take a deep breath.

[tsukasalover]

no why would i try and figure out the line distribution for the full version of wxs reincarnation apple lolol thats not happening any time soon haha 😂😅

im so happy. pinocchiop + wxs = perfection