Petrichoooooor yes
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I read (well, skimmed, really) a few critiques of Amazon's Rings of Power, all of them calling the series horrible, unenjoyable, a travesty of Tolkien's Legacy, and all that. They all, without exception, assert that a True Tolkien Fan would not enjoy t...@algernon I would be very down for Harfoot tales, they are SO fun and their culture so rich even with just what we've already seen!
Something the foaming doesn't allow for is the idea that sometimes you're going to hit a more magical, meaningful story with a looser adaptation, particularly when you can't even get rights access to all of the world at once. If we get a living, breathing new tale by retconning a few lines somewhere, that seems a very fair trade... one the author would happily have done, too, and I think he'd have quite enjoyed this, honestly, Tolkien's world is literally remixes of the creative works of others. He LOVED adaptations!
It's funny, in a few areas where RoP is being dismissed I find it IS actually being fairly true to the source, and just doing an amazing job highlighting how readers take home different things. In this adaptation, they happen to hew very close to Galadriel's personality and behavior as I've always read her and imagined her experiences, this woman of conflicting traits to the point of almost a dual nature. (Womanhood in a nutshell, tbh). She's instantly recognizable to me as that character here. Others insist she's a complete stranger. An interesting reminder that no two people ever truly read the same book.
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Re: "sub club" as described here https://indiepocalypse.social/@tamitha/113051148012795548Re: "sub club" as described here https://indiepocalypse.social/@tamitha/113051148012795548
I am pleased to announce an alternative, whereby we can all continue to make our premium content available to ALL through the use of ongoing sponsorship. Instead of a walled garden, you'll be helping to release those posts into a sort of freely-accessible "commons" where they maintain copyright but will make their posts and media available entirely outside commercial means!
It's simple! You identify users in need relevant to your own personal interests and community via context clues (for example, your friends discussing low supplies of vital medication such as HRT, or writing about substandard living conditions or abusive family members, couch-hopping, those in a caregiving role or ill instead of drawing a salary, or someone you know is on a fixed income insufficient to meet their needs)
And then you just give them money regularly based on what you have that you don't need and in exchange, the wolf no longer at their door, they'll post their thoughts and dreams and participate in the community, learning and making and sharing and caring! It will actually improve the content of their posts, replacing negative sentiment with positive and unlocking an entire category of extra posts about relief, security and improving health and wellbeing!
Best of all, you'll find they'll automatically redistribute whatever they can do without from your sponsorship to other members of that community and you don't even have to do anything, those networks all already exist!
What would you pay, to keep the dream of an open community alive?