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If you live in the USA and you're pleading for donations to pay your rent, bills, or get food then dial 211! Please dial 211 before the last minute!

It's a toll free service with people who will help you find programs in your community to pay those bills, find food, and find housing! They will give you numbers to call so you can get help.

It is not 100% foolproof. Their job is to direct you to a program they believe will help your current issue, but it's still a step up from praying random strangers online will give you enough cash before a deadline! The added benefit of these community programs, which get funded by the local government most of the time, is if there are more people using them then they can get more money to help more people.

You're not taking resources from other people if you use your community services. Your taxes pay for them. Use them.

Dial 211 first to see if they can help, and if for some reason they can't, then make your donation posts!

https://www.211.org/

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"Is this Entertaining?!?!?!!"

Arcane - Bones (Imagine Dragons) 「AMV」 by Glassy

Hours to make. Seconds to comment. Click here to comment. They are reading every comment.

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dead serious the youtube app autoplays everything you scroll past? how am i supposed to scroll slowly and stop to read the thumbnails and titles. like actually wtf no wonder their algorithm is broken. if you stop scrolling long enough to actually read the title of a video it's just going to start playing without your permission

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The Arc of the Hive! 🐝

This is a trailer to a documentary about Archiving. Are you an Archivist and/or support Archiving efforts? Let this be the flame to your moth-like curiosity. Like and re-blog to see who else drawn to this flame of common & shared interest. Follow us too as we will seek opportunities to post about archiving in the future. This is currently 100% on rotten tomatoes with 11 Critics. Here is one of the reviews. Click here to view. [A] work marked by clear-eyed approaches to existential questions about the finite nature of human life, and our desperate attempts to extend it beyond our lifespans. - Clint Worthington - The spool

Are you already on Discord? Want to talk about the movie after you've seen it? Want to talk about archiving or join archiving projects run by actual fandom Archivists. We are few & far between, but our work has universal appeal. Join the community - Archivers Global. At the very least you can lurk that's what a lot of people on Discord do anyway 😊https://discord.gg/S6PRRcX6Rr

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would love to turn people on to nz on screen, a free archive of new zealand and māori content with over 4500 titles!

the site is accessible in both english and te reo, and it includes over 500 films, 3000 tv series & specials, 2000 documentaries, as well as history series & specials, chat shows, musicals, lgbtq+ content, standup, children's shows, historic news & sports, and more :)

new zealand and māori filmmaking & content, particularly from before the late 2000s, can be exceptionally hard to track down and haven't been given the archival attention they deserve, so this is an amazing resource!

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The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement.

Micrsoft & OpenAI Response?

"Microsoft and OpenAI claim that the Times’ works are considered 'fair use,' which gives them the ability to use copyrighted material for a 'transformative purpose'. . . "

Vidders:

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What you see above is what sharing a vid on VidRecs.com to Tumblr actually looks like. 

At the site the Original Byline that preserves the Vidder’s Avatar and name is kept. In addition, you can see who recc’d the vid. 

On the other side of the byline are buttons to leave a comment on AO3 if the reccer included the works ID. A view gets to watch the vid as if they were watching on You Tube and with 1 click can immediately be redirected to the comments section of the AO3 Page. The description is the original one posted on You Tube. 

Another distinction is the rec box where the reccer gets to say what they loved about the vid. 

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"And so, it begins . . ."

2023 in Film || Movie Mashup by Steven Golden

"Now we find ourselves in late December I believe that New Year's Eve will be the perfect time for their great surrender . . . I don't want to live like this, but I don't want to die."

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"I don't murder children . . . "

The Operative: I'm sorry. If your quarry goes to ground, leave no ground to go to. You should have taken my offer. Or did you think none of this was your fault? Mal: I don't murder children. The Operative: I do. If I have to. Mal: Why? Do you even know why they sent you? The Operative: It's not my place to ask. I believe in something greater than myself. A better world. A world without sin. Mal: So me and mine gotta lay down and die... so you can live in your better world? The Operative: I'm not going to live there. There's no place for me there... any more than there is for you. Malcolm... I'm a monster. What I do is evil. I have no illusions about it, but it must be done. Mal: Keep talking. You're not getting a location trace off this wave. The Operative: And every minute you keep River Tam from me more people will die- Mal: You think I care? The Operative: Of course you care. You're not a Reaver, Mal. You're a human man, and you will never understand how-

This scene from 2005 hits different in light of recent events.

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"Are you happy? . . . Why?". . . "What advice would you give out?"

A man asks a woman if she's happy, She says "Yes" and then he asks her why and what advice she'd have for others. Source: TikTok 93 year old woman talks about how she doesnt have much more time left.... | rosalind fox solomon | TikTok

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Join Our End of Year Editing Chat!

[ID: The background is black with a faint wood texture. Fairy lights hang from the top of the image, around the words “Join Fanlore for our End of year Editing Chat.” There are small icons of computers on either side of the text, and small sparkles, evoking a cute New Year’s party vibe. /End ID]

To celebrate the end of 2023, we'll be holding our annual end-of-year editing chat on our Discord!

Come join us on Friday December 29, 12:00am-2:00am UTC (what time is that for me?) to chat and and help expand and add to articles on Fanlore! Our theme for this editing chat is rarepairs and minor characters.

Everyone is welcome - you don't need to have any experience with editing Fanlore to join in! We'll be happy to help you.

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Sleepy Skunk 2023 Movie Trailer Mashup

"When you make art from a truthful place, people find out something about you." "Cats die. Music fades. But art is for keeps."

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VidRecs.com

The first rule of the Rec Club is that you talk about VidRecs.com.

The second rule of the Rec Club is that you hit the reblog button "as hard as you can."

The third rule of the Rec Club is that if you become member you have to rec.

VidRecs.com is a fan created project one stop shop for all your vid recs. Yeah, I got the domain. The passion didn't stop there. Vid Recs deserve a better place than our selective memories and random bookmarks on the internet. "What kind of features should a site called VidRecs.com have?" Remember, you wanted this.

A spot to put a blurb about why you recced/love the vid.

A recs page to showcase both You Tube & Vimeo recs in one spot.

The ability to rec vids with just the Video URL

A way to give proper credit to the original uploader & their description.

A profile page with my avatar and cover image

A profile page with my social network links if I want others to find elsewhere.

A way to find vid recs site-wide by fandom.

Had enough? No?

If the rec is on AO3 a comment button can be added to redirect viewers to the AO3 Comment page

On request you can get your own VidRecs.com profile URL (i.e. "VidRecs.com/yourfandomname" so viewers go directly to your rec page.

Everything you rec is automatically added to an automatically generated profile playlist so viewers can view it as a playlist.

You can create playlists using both your recs and recs of any other members on site.

You can sign up using Tumblr, Discord, Google or the regular email password combo.

Still not impressed. Gee, you're a tough cookie

You can rec vids directly from You Tube or Vimeo.

You can make your vid recs private to logged in users only.

You can make your vid recs private to only those who subscribe to your channel.

No ads!

You need a video overview? There is one below.

It's nearing the end of the year. It's so easy to forget vids you've enjoyed without a reliable place not only to reference but also share them with others. This can be what you want it to be. The groundwork has been done and it's still a work in progress but a lot closer to the ideal than most. All that's missing is a whole bunch of people willing the rec things and the site. Yeah, go ahead and rec the site. 😀

Membership is currently by approval. If you would like to speed things up just contact us at contactus@vidrecs.com. We are working on a way to make the registration process a lot more streamlined. Enough works now about the site to begin using it and if you run into any issues let us know. Thank you! Rec often. Rec hard. Our memories can fail us, and the internet is not reliable.

Additionally, there is also a greater chance vids recced here will be archived in case something happens to them in the future, but I am sure you are ll familiar with that. Reccing can be a democratic process that raises awareness about what should be archived or at least we hope.

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Vidding’s Grandchildren? Edits, corecore, and other video feels

Thinking about the descendants of vidding, since I was quoted in this recent article on fan edits, “Why Do Fan-Made Trailers Rule the Internet?” by Cat Zhang. The edits of the article, like the fanvids of old, are scenes from television shows and movies set to music.  But while these edits are typically much shorter and more feels-focused than vids, they seem to me clearly a descendant of the form. In my book, Vidding: A History (2018), I talk about the ways in which YouTube and the algorithms of the internet were already affecting the aesthetics of vids back in the 2010s (spoiler alert: they’ve became shorter & more intense) and we can clearly see this trend in the 2020s now that fans are firmly on short-form platforms like Insta and Tiktok.  The edits in Zhang’s article are all about the feels, and a sub-class of edits, corecore (as explained in this Mashable article by Chance Townsend, “Explaining corecore: How TikTok’s newest trend may be a genuine Gen-Z art form”) is often used to express chaotic or overwhelmed feels.  Townsend says that what makes corecore so interesting is that “one’s feelings that couldn't be expressed through words are instead presented through images. Whether that emotion is happiness, a fear of the future, or the excitement of falling in love, corecore edits, through the use of multimedia, speak to our common experience.”  The idea of expressing emotion by the artistic act of combining disparate clips with music–well, it sounds like vidding, but at the same time it seems a long way away, too. That said, a work like this hip-hop based edit of The Bear, made by an artist at the X/Twitter account “black boy cinematic universe,” seems to be doing the kind of reparative fannish media work vis a vis race that older vids did for gender and sexuality. Zhang quotes the artist as saying: “There’s an energy to the show where it’s being carried by the people of color. So in my edit, I want to make sure there’s a song that represents that.”  That’s a very similar (and familiar) vibe: that urge to make the thing that will Get. It. Right.

–Francesca Coppa, Fanhackers volunteer

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I think one of the things I heard that helped me the most with self promotion is that it takes a person seeing your promo 7 times before they click on it

...and like, that's bullshit, right? That is clearly a Truism. Why someone decides to click on your patreon or merch or whatever is highly subjective, at best. And it's not like everyone walks around with six invisible "ad-shields" you have to clear before you force them to surrender and give you money. But, it does speak to the reality of our circumstances.

If you are a creator on the internet, chances are some people will give you money for what you do. It might not be many people, and it might not be a lot of money, but they are more than happy to support you for a dollar a month if you ask. Let's say one of those people sees a promo for your patreon while scrolling through tumblr on the bus on their way home from work. They can't do anything about it right now, but they make a mental note to visit your patreon once they get home. And then they get home and forget because they just got home from work, are exhausted, and still need to make dinner. That might happen a couple of times. The fourth time it happens, that person gets fed up and goes "no, you know what, I'm going to go to this person's patreon and give them money first thing when I get home!" And then they do. And I know they do that, because I've been that person. Several times.

But you can see how even a person perfectly willing to give you money might need to be reminded a couple of times. If you only post your patreon link once, that not-so hypothetical person would see it, think "I should do that", and then forget. It is actually not very likely that someone has the means and the time to click on your promo the first time they see it. And if you only do it only once, that's the only chance you're giving them.

I know it can be disheartening to try and promote your work and feel like you aren't getting any response. And, yes, it is possible that there are ways you could improve, either your work or your advertising. But believe me, especially if you're a small creator, this is one area where persistence matters a lot more than you think.