In the Comfort of My Own Mind

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

MDZS link masterpost

Novel: Luoxia - CN raws (revised edition, complete). Note: cannot link to the official page on JJWXC as MXTX’s works remain locked there | CN paperback, vol. 1 currently sold out/TW paperback, special edition reprint (uncensored, 4 volumes - up to ch.122), TW paperback of the extra volume containing the rest of the chapters: book only/Collector’s Edition | Official English release began on December 14th 2021

Audio drama: MissEvan - S1, S2, S3 (buying guide) | English translation by SuibianSubs (main story and extras complete, apart from some S2 and S3 FTs)/Revision by Treasure Chest Subs
Audio drama, JP version (joint production by MaoEr FM and its new branch for JP localisations, MiMi FM): MiMi FM smartphone app (install guide)/MissEvan - S1 (first cour, second cour), S2 (first cour, second cour), S3 (first cour) | English translation by 3PASubs (S1 and all available S2 material up to S2E11 complete)

Audiobook: Ximalaya - CN edition (complete). Note: if you are on mobile, after installing the app please revoke location access to avoid geo-block. Narrated by Zhang Zhen [audio drama!JFM]

Manhua: Taobao - paperback, limited edition vol.1 (TW reprint of vol.1) | Kuaikanmanhua [interactive edition on Tencent Film - open through the mobile app] | WeComics [expect WeTV’s quality] | Official English release beginning on December 6th 2022

Donghua: Tencent Video | WeTV English (S1: E1-15, S2: E16-23, S3: E24-35) [Subs’ quality is questionable] | S1 and S2 fansubs done by GuodongSubs, S3 fansubs done by Treasure Chest Subs
JP dubbing of the donghua: Tencent Video (S1 and S2 only) | Blu-rays
Chibi shorts aka Q version: Tencent Video | WeTV English | English fansubs by Rabbit Mantou Subs (complete)

Live action: Tencent Video | WeTV English (WeTV’s exclusive - CQL Special Edition)/Rakuten VIKI [subs are not ideal either way]/Netflix (depends on your region) | English fansubs by SuibianSubs (complete)/Detailed episode comparisons between original CQL and Special Edition by 3PASubs
CQL movies: iQiyi - The Living Dead, Fatal Journey | iQiyi International (only through the smartphone app). Note: both versions come with decent subs

All streaming platforms require subscriptions for full access at best quality available (although most CQL and donghua content has also been uploaded to Tencent’s YouTube for free), while everything translated by the SuibianSubs, Treasure Chest Subs and 3PASubs groups is only accessible through their respective Discord channels. Please support the official channels first!

Pinned Post I've seen another masterpost floating around but it had some dead links in it so here is my own. With the ongoing tightening of censorship it's especially important to support the author I have bought the audio drama as soon as I realised I liked it (it is really cheap too!). Can't wait to complete the novel set! 魔道祖师 Mo Dao Zu Shi MDZS audio drama MDZS JP audio drama The Untamed
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grahamkennedy

I don't like thinking about the Criterion Collection for too long, because what do you mean there's a whole bunch of movies from around the world remastered and with special features, but those films are not legally distributed in the countries they came from because it's only available to the yanks???? And nobody's fucking pissed about this???? You lot are just fucken. Fine with monopolising art and history??? Like this is okay with everyone??? Get fucked. Fuck you.

grahamkennedy

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That's not the point, though? Personally, I'm the biggest advocate for piracy. BUT look at the message that it sends that a USAmerican company owns the distribution rights to a whole bunch of foreign films and does not allow these films to be distributed in THE COUNTRIES THEY WERE MADE. What does it say about how much they actually value these countries and their creators and their film industries? Let's not focus on the morality of piracy for a second, lets focus on the fucking optics.

And the fact is, a lot of these films are older. The people who watched them back in the day and might love to see it in 4K might not have the skills to pirate. My 72 year old, extremely offline father saw Picnic at Hanging Rock when it first came out. He's not gonna know how to use Mega. I'm not even sure he knows what Reddit is.

You might think these tags were helpful, but they aren't. Please read this post again and understand where the frustrations of those who live outside of North America actually lie.

rubylured

This post is fucking stupid. Guys. The companies that own the films don’t grant global distribution rights to criterion. Criterion doesn’t own the films. They are doing what their limited budget allows and frankly it’s lucky that anyone is doing this at all. I’m all for pirating all of it but framing fucking criterion as an evil company is nuts. At least they are making the films accessible somewhere. At least someone is restoring something.

Guys. Criterion is not barring distribution rights. God. You could know that if you researched anything for two seconds.

rubylured

Actually. Do also look at my tags on the previous rb of this. I’m just not fucking through with this. I hate companies as much as the next guy. But look. Criterion has like 40 workers. They are not a corporate monolith. I’m an artist, and it means something that this company goes out of its way to contact and hire independent individuals to illustrate its products in extremely creative ways. Do you understand how rare that is? This is not some faceless entity deliberately trying to keep your beloved movies from you. The companies doing that are the megacorps and enormous studios that let these films rot unseen for decades and then ask insane prices for the rights to clean up their catalogs and then only grant limited distribution. Criterion has made it their business to care about the arts. Direct your anger at the people who actually own the films.

spectrumtacular

Hey do you have any idea how cheap the rights are for every country in the world except the US (+ Canada)?? It costs more for a US exclusive distributor to license a movie from my production company for one year than it does for a global distributor to license that same movie for three years for every country in the world except the US, because the US is a much more competitive market so negotiating those rights is the tricky part. Criterion COULD branch into the international market if they wanted to--look at Mubi as a comparison--, but they've either decided there isn't enough money in it or it's too much of a legal hassle to take the company global (or both), EVEN THOUGH their whole schtick is making international cinema accessible.

And okay, fine, you want to argue they're an American company doing American things and blah blah blah. But like, Criterion does very much have distribution rights in Canada, yet you STILL can't buy most of their Canadian movies here!!! The only dvd release of Brand Upon the Brain EVER cannot be purchased in a country that is very much included in Criterion's distribution scheme, because Criterion's Canadian seller only bothers importing the guaranteed moneymakers in the collection. So you as an American can walk into a Barnes and Noble or whatever RIGHT NOW to buy this movie-- one that was partially funded by my government, might I add--, but I as a Canadian have to pay an arm and a leg to have it imported here, to the country that footed the bill, and that's still the best case scenario for a non-US film fan because this is the ONLY country where you can do even that. They literally are gatekeeping our cinema, and we're the lucky ones!!!

Like do you not see how bogus that is?? That the company that positions itself as cinema's foremost champion demonstrably doesn't care about the countries it gets its movies from??

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donnieisaprettyboy

“what if kids identify with something and it ends up just being a phase-?” good. stop teaching and expecting kids (and adults honestly) to formulate permanent traits and ideas of themselves. everything in life is a phase. that doesn’t make it any less legitimate while you experience it. let people explore themselves and know it’s okay if what you think about yourself changes.

thebibliosphere
thebibliosphere

Watching the UK results roll in and seeing the voter turnout and just how many votes the Reform party is getting like:

The Lisa Simpson Staring meme where Lisa stares in horror at an empty plate in front of her.ALT

Jesus Christ.

beneathhergaze

THANK YOU. This is legit giving me fits bc sure, they only got 4 seats, blah blah, but if you look at the actual breakdown of voters, they're literally the third highest voting bloc:


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And if you look at the vote tallies of individual constituencies, especially ones that flipped CON>LAB, you repeatedly see where it's obvious that if there hadn't been a schism between the Tories and Reform, Labour wouldn't have even remotely had the votes to succeed. Examples:


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Everyone celebrating Labour sweeping really needs to analyze this for what it actually is and plan/act accordingly before the pendulum swings back again!! The evil hasn't been defeated by a long shot!!

thebibliosphere

Christ, I hadn’t seen the final numbers yet. 4 million people voted for the fascist party. I’m not even being hyperbolic. The Reform party ran on the platform that the Tories/Cons were too liberal.

Fucking hell.

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spacecoyote
jakeperalta

‼️ if you live in the UK please vote in the general election (4th july) ‼️

  • when can I vote? 7am to 10pm
  • where can I vote? check your poll card or visit wheredoivote.co.uk (if you're a student registered at your home and term time addresses, you can vote at either but not both)
  • who should I vote for? visit getvoting.org for your candidates and tactical voting info
  • what do I need to take with me? just photo id is required (list of valid id here), your poll card is NOT required
  • what if I can't make it? you can register for an emergency proxy vote until 5pm
can't go vote but anyone else living here: it's time UK
tciddaemina
batmanisagatewaydrug

as is tradition I would like to wish a happy pride month specifically to this Indian guy I used to work with who came SPRINTING to find me when there was some buzz in India about gay marriage being legalized (this was in like 2018ish, it's sadly ended up not panning out) to ECSTATICALLY say "you know what this means??? it means men better start acting better, or their wives are going to leave them for women!!!" he was so excited for all of these hypothetical women who were about to finally leave their loser husbands and lez out. that's a true ally, I hope he's thriving wherever he is.

ilikesallydonovan
hiveswap

You're not immune to being the bully btw. You're not immune to being in the wrong

hiveswap

"But i'm-" there is no identity or state of being that makes you immune to hurting someone. You can be convinced that you are in the right for doing so. You can be convinced that you're defending someone by doing so. You have always got to examine if you're taking pleasure in hurting someone or if you're actually doing something good.

inkyzuzi
aokozaki

It's actually kinda mesmerizing how the popular sentiment around visual novels is that they simultaneously have no gameplay, and also are too hard to get into.

theballmighty

Imagine the looks you’d get if you said books were an inherently shitty medium, because there’s too many words and reading is hard.

aokozaki

"Book fans after they turn pages for 20 hours! Like seriously, imagine finding that entertaining!" - guy who would somehow be uncontroversial if he was talking about electronic entertainment

knitmeapony
floral-ashes

🚨 Important new article on gender self-determination as a medical right in CMAJ! I argue that people have a right to gender-affirming care and that many common barriers aren’t justified by evidence. Trans health needs to centre human rights more! 🏳️‍⚧️

(Audio version.)

Gender self-determination as a medical right
[See related editorial at www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.240878][1] Transgender people face many formal barriers to gender-affirming c
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floral-ashes

Feels especially important, too, in the midst of bad faith attacks on the “quality of evidence” of trans health. If gender self-determination is a medical right, the conversation is very different.