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@admiral-alby / admiral-alby.tumblr.com

what up this is my blog of stuff. Sometimes fandom, sometimes random. Basically everything that catches my eye. Spoilers if any are certainly tagged!
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bob fic recs galore

here’s the fruits of my labour. a working fic rec master-post containing multiple bob ships and many, many amazing fics. the writers in this fandom are absolutely incredible and their talent astounds me every time I read a new fic. all the kudos to y’all. keep on keeping on!

this is a long post. recs and some general notes are under the cut :)

#band of brothers#bob#fic rec#winnix#speirton#webgott#baberoe#luztoye#richard winters x lewis nixon#carwood lipton x ronald speirs#joseph liebgott x david webster#eugene roe x babe heffron#george luz x joe toye#charles grant x ronald speirs#bob fic rec#i did it#i only cried twice in the making of this post#or rather remaking x2#thanks to tungle.com#but i persevered#j posts#long post#i'm so happy#when I work on this instead of my assignments#shhhh#I sure hope all the links work properly#😅😅
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greelin

“the other day” could mean anything with me. literally yesterday. or a week ago. Seven years past.

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werewolfetone

One fallacy, I think, of anti piracy arguments is that a lot of them seem to assume that if I'm unable to pirate something I'm going to pay for it instead rather than going "oh! that's a terrible shame" and then quickly forgetting about it

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werewolfetone

"If you were not pirating [media] you'd be paying for it and therefore piracy is evil 😡" actually if I were not pirating that media I would be thinking about something else. I have made the decision to not spend any money on this and even god himself could not shake it

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3liza

the research on this was already done decades ago and then quickly squashed because the record labels did not like the finding that people who pirated music were spending way more money on actually buying music legally than people who did not pirate music. it turns out people who care enough to pirate media are generally big fans of that media and willing to spend money on it if they have the money to spend

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Study finds pirates 10 times more likely to buy music
According to research, those who download 'free' music are also the industry's largest audience for digital sales
the Guardian

article is from 2009 so we have known this for a LONG time.

The Norwegian study looked at almost 2,000 online music users, all over the age of 15. Researchers found that those who downloaded "free" music – whether from lawful or seedy sources – were also 10 times more likely to pay for music. This would make music pirates the industry's largest audience for digital sales. Wisely, the study did not rely on music pirates' honesty. Researchers asked music buyers to prove that they had proof of purchase.
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tragedyinmyveins

So weird. In my family, piracy is a right of passage. It is our god given right when we're doing our best to work hard each day and still not owing anything we purchase because everything is a subscription now. If the way I take back my purchasing power is unethical and unjust, my conscience will survive this burden.

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thesaltofcarthage

If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing.

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charlesoberonn

It's gonna be such a funny mess when Donald Trump dies of a stroke on April 1st, 2024.

  • Naturally everybody will think it's fake because of the date only to lose their minds (both positively and negatively based on their opinion of trump) when realizing it's real
  • There will be massive celebrations in the streets and on social media and lots of predictable "don't speak ill of the dead" discourse about those celebrations
  • Weird evangelicals will pull some weird number trick talking about how Jesus was conceived on April 1st and that makes Trump a sort of messiah and people will make fun of that
  • The Republicans (after they're done with the faux-sadness and faux-outrage) will stomp over each other to be his successor but none of them will succeed. They'll tear each other apart and have no single nominee for the November elections.
  • There will be discourse about if Biden and the living former presidents should go to his funeral (they won't, he was a traitor insurrectionist)
  • The Ukraine-Russia War immediately goes in favor of Ukraine as morale in the Kremlin is reduced. China similarly backs off from its threats on Taiwan.
  • Ten thousand new memes are made, some sticking around for years to come.
  • Not a month later a bunch of unofficial biographies of Trump hit the bookshelves, many with new details about just how awful he was.
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rivkann
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thisthinginabox

Like to charge, reblog to cast

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wilwheaton

Honestly? They had me at "Trump dies".

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ravioliwings
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stuckinapril

having short-term memory is like. this book profoundly affected me. that show bared my soul. i don’t remember a single thing about it. but it did

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ravioliwings
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cherryflavoredbutch

oh fuck *falls back into old habits* *screen fades to black* *level loading* TIP: your belief that you are incapable of changing for the better will become a self fulfilling prophecy if left unchallenged

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