So I See You All Are Exhausted By Streaming Services Effectively Recreating Cable. I See Youre All Tired

So I see you all are exhausted by streaming services effectively recreating cable. I see you’re all tired of ads. Pirating is a great alternative, but I have another fantastic option for you all!

I live in Seattle. And in Seattle we have America’s largest physical media store, Scarecrow Video. They are a non-profit that has pretty much any film or tv show you can imagine. Like, everything. So much so that one of our local cinemas does a program with them called “Unstreamable” where they show a film from Scarecrow’a archive that you can’t access anywhere online. It’s a bit overwhelming to go to their store, which is two levels of every program under the sun.

ANYWAY, I bring this up because they recently started a Rent-by-Mail program. It’s pretty similar to what Netflix used to do. You can rent up to six titles (barring their super rare stuff and pornos) and they will ship it to you, then you return it in the included pre-paid envelope.

Why does this rock? Sure, you still have to pay money, BUT you are supporting a non-profit that is dedicated to preserving media instead of some corporation looking for endless profit. They can also expand your palette with their vast selection. And if you have a favorite piece of media, you never have to worry about it disappearing! All their stuff is there in perpetuity.

So this is all to say, now that Scarecrow has expanded their reach beyond the Greater Seattle Area, I implore you to check them out. If you don’t want to rent right now, the could always use donations to keep them afloat.

You can check out their catalogue HERE!

"People value different things and to each their complexes. School is a space where people from the same generation closely go about their daily lives and I wanted to write about how they influence each other. The people you get along with do not necessarily have spotless integrity but could also have something of a bad personality. I would like to carefully depict a school life where you can't tell who will save whom, who will get noticed and who will be moved into growing." Takamatsu Misaki for an interview, translated by @/shinkanes on Twitter.

Trained animal

Darkness falls across the land...

Look at my therapy group, dawg. ( I'm never improving my social functioning )

(Regarding Heathcliff but also some of the other characters you’ve drawn) okay the way you draw big-shouldered men is just SO phenomenal like—😭🤌🏼

thank you for your service (for the many of us who love that sorta thing)

I'm happy to be of service.

When I was a child and he was a teenager, my brother would occasionally watch Batman the Animated Series before we departed for school. I remember very little of the show itself but the boxy silhouettes certain characters cut has always stuck with me - I love those barrel-chested, broad-shouldered figures !