The moment brown leftist folks start carrying guns at protests, the right starts liking gun control.
They don’t start liking gun control, they like ‘people who aren’t like me’ control. They’re not advocating for people at protests to not be armed, they’re calling for the protests to be disbanded.
I can’t speak for other social media webbed sites but I really enjoy how tumblr seems to just completely spin a wheel on whatever media is hot right now. Like yeah sometimes it’s a new show that’s big and actively coming out but also sometimes there will be a solid month where half my dash is Columbo memes. Defy authority. Get really into an book from the 1800s. Watch shows that haven’t aired in 40 years. Celebrate the anniversary of the Boston Molasses Flood. Become unmarketable
i’m begging you guys to start pirating shit from streaming platforms. there are so many websites where you can stream that shit for free, here’s a quick HOW TO:
1) Search for: watch TITLE OF WORK free online
2) Scroll to the bottom of results. Click any of the “Complaint” links
3) You will be taken to a long list of links that were removed for copyright infringement. Use the ‘find’ function to search for the name of the show/movie you were originally searching for. You will get something like this (specifics removed because if you love an illegal streaming site you don’t post its url on social media)
4) each of these links is to a website where you can stream shit for free. go to the individual websites and search for your show/movie. you might have to copy-paste a few before you find exactly what you’re looking, but the whole process only takes a minute. the speed/quality is usually the same as on netflix/whatever, and they even have subtitles! (make sure to use an adblocker though, these sites are funded by annoying popups)
In conclusion, if you do this often enough you will start recognizing the most dependable websites, and you can just bookmark those instead. (note: this is completely separate from torrenting, which is also a beautiful thing but requires different software and a vpn)
you can also download the media in question (look for a “download” button built into the video window, or use a browser extension such as Video DownloadHelper.)
if the “Complaint” links are not visible for you:
Option 1: try the DuckDuckGo search engine instead (bonus: dedicated to privacy! doesn’t track your data!)
Option 2: go directly to LumenDatabase.org (the website that collects the complaints–and therefore the removed links) and search for the title you want. look for results titled “DMCA (Copyright) Complaint to Google” featuring the media you’re looking for. Proceed to Step 3 (above).
personally, i’m a huge fan of r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH. they keep their links up to date and they also rank them, basically. they also have all kinds of little pages explaining how to safely pirate shit.
^^^^what they said. I’m surprised people are still reblogging this post now that google’s flushed itself down the toilet. so here is your
2026 UPDATE:
just go to r/FreeMediaHeckYeah and r/Piracy. it’s easier, more reliable, and will take care of all your piracy needs!
I was forced to watch all the twilight movies on new Years (my best friend really wanted us to watch them cause I’d never seen them and they keep claiming I’m uncultured because of that) anyways the way people talk about twilight, even l the really die hard fans, you’d think it was like the worst thing ever, but it’s actually just so fun, like, it’s bizarre yeah, but really fun. I think there are definitely flaws in it but that’s just basically the case for everything. watching the movies had made me realize that I probably would in fact really like to at least read the books once. Anyways I got a copy of twilight for a dollar from a library book sale, so uh wish me luck.
What a lot of “power-hungry Azula after the throne” takes miss is that Azula was already securely the heir before the series started. Not only was she Ozai’s favorite child, but Zuko had already lost his birthright by being banished. Although throughout Book 1 there is a small chance that Zuko might regain Ozai’s favor and his status as Crown Prince by capturing the Avatar, at the end of Book 1 Ozai declares Zuko a traitor and has him hunted as a fugitive. From that point on, Zuko regaining Ozai’s favor is extremely unlikely, at least without Azula putting her thumbs on the scale. Iroh also theoretically has a claim to the throne, but he has persistently failed to press it, so any direct threat from his corner also seems unlikely, and of course Ozai would never recognize Iroh as his heir.
With Zuko completely disgraced and Iroh a non-threat, the biggest potential threat to Azula’s “right to the throne” actually comes from another quarter. If Ozai remarried or took a concubine, their children might threaten Azula’s position, especially if they were male. Ozai might even desire a male heir and favor one over Azula. Azula would still have 14 years and many accomplishments on them, but this would still be more dangerous than “traitor Zuko” making his return to grace. However, since Ozai seems to have shown little interest in having more children in the many years since Ursa left, this is strictly a hypothetical threat.
Without these hypothetical half siblings of Azula, Ozai is essentially stuck with her as his heir. Aside from the disgraced Zuko, Ozai has no one other to choose, even if he wanted. There might be some distant relatives of the royal family available, but they would have weak claims and Ozai would have to be truly desperate to choose them over his own, prodigious daughter.
Azula’s status as the next Firelord is thus essentially secure at the beginning of Book 2. All she needs to do is keep breathing, not screw up in an absolutely horrific way, and not get her only potential competitor back into her father’s favor. Even if she wants the throne, she already essentially has it in the bag. It doesn’t make sense for her to do anything particularly crazy or desperate to secure it, or even really expend much energy or thought on an already “solved” problem.
Meanwhile, Zuko desperately wants to be crown prince again but is literally a traitor marked for death, so him doing something crazy to try to regain his “rightful place” makes perfect sense.
