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Hey, there. Rewatching Midnight Mass right now and it's got to be one of my favorite shows of all time. I'm cancelling Netflix soon for budget reasons, and I know there's been disputes and frustration over this, but if there was ever a DVD release, I would buy it in a heartbeat. Here's hoping.

I tried repeatedly over many years to get Netflix to do the right thing and release the original shows on physical media. For a long time they just said no, then they ignored me for a while, then they said no a few more times, then they said they would see what they could do...

At one point, they said they were actually going to do it - an executive told me they were going to package everything into a "Flanaverse" box set (man I hate that word, but I would have lived with it gladly if it meant physical media releases). I was overjoyed. But months went by without any further updates. When I finally followed up, they sent a single sentence email that basically said "oh yeah, never mind, we weren't able to get that going." I pushed for an explanation as to why but never got anything more specific than "physical media just isn't a priority for the company".

Both the outcome and the nonchalant delivery of the verdict were entirely demoralizing. We are seeing more and more movies and series being erased from existence as studios seek to save a little cash. This is only going to get worse.

The fact that Midnight Mass, The Midnight Club, Gerald's Game and Before I Wake (and the upcoming Fall of the House of Usher) are exclusively available ONLY on Netflix, and can disappear from the service at any time and be entirely erased from the world - is absolutely terrifying to me. Physical media is critical. Being available "exclusively" on a single platform is bad for the business, bad for cinema, and bad for all of us.

I used to be vehemently opposed to piracy.

I have completely changed my stance on that issue.

Yesterday's "pirates" are, in some cases, the only hope for archival preservation of a growing amount of shows and movies.

I have purchased several pirated blu-ray copies of Midnight Mass, am very impressed with the quality and presentation, and I am profoundly grateful they exist.

Godspeed, noble archivists.

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People make jokes about poorly made podcasts and how common it is now for people to try and make one but honestly I love a medium that any one can try. I love badly recorded audio. I love using a comforter or a closet as a sound booth. I love getting your friends together to make a low budget project. I love people being able to include more representation without having to go through the intensive process it might take to get characters and scenes approved in other mediums.

Nothing as small as a wall could ever have kept Nimona out if she wanted to get in, and Gloreth had to have known that

What kept Nimona away for a millennium was not the wall, but heartbreak and distrust and the hostile environment Gloreth and her followers had made of the kingdom; as soon as the boredom and the loneliness got too much, there was no stopping her flitting back over the wall

And in all that time, for all those generations, all the wall protected the kingdom from was the beauty of the world

woke up, mxster freethem... woke up and... smell the pronouns