Thank you all for waiting, here is my report for the first night of Uta no Prince-sama Maji Love 7th Stage!! I wanted to make sure I covered it in as much detail as I could, however if you just want to see the setlist, you can see it here on tumblr. If anyone doesn’t know my personal history with this concert, I have been an Utapri fan for about 10 years, and for the first time ever, I finally managed to hit for tickets to view it in person back in 2020. Although I can no longer travel to Japan, I was lucky enough to be able to watch the first night’s performance (27/11/21) and exchange information with someone who saw the second night. I have also tried to include some information from tweets and other posts from people that attended day two, but this report will mostly focus on the first night.
The set list was the same on both nights. The main difference between the two live streams were apparently vastly different camera angles. The cast were also reportedly more confident and had slightly better vocals on the second night. Both live streams had some minor infrequent audio issues (mics being too quiet or mics occasionally cutting off others), but they were also seemingly slightly improved for the 2nd live stream. I believe these were livestream-only issues, and people who viewed live in the MetLife Dome did not experience this. I reccomend reading on the google doc linked below do you can see the proper formatting!
i see posts sometimes that say things like âwouldnât it be cool if ao3 would recommend you fics similar to the one you just read?â or âwouldnât it be cool if ao3 had a function similar to spotify wrapped that showed you your fic reading habits over the year?â etc. and while on one hand, yes, i can see how these functions might be neat & fun & helpful, i think the fact that ao3 *doesnât* do any of these typical media website things is actually utterly spectacular
like, i enjoy looking at my spotify wrapped as much as the next person, but when you start to think about that, it is honestly pretty horrifying that spotify collects & stores all this data about its users & can produce it at a momentâs notice. and netflix is not recommending you shows because it actually cares that you watch something you enjoy. itâs recommending them because in the digital age, attention is money & every website is fighting for as much of yours as it can get.
the fact that a website hosting as much media as ao3 doesnât try to analyze or predict or manipulate your content consumption in any way is truly an oasis in a landscape where user data is the most valuable commodity around. ao3 gives all of the agency to its users & i donât think we realize just how rare that is. you go looking for the content you want. you sort and filter based on your preferences. you subscribe to the story or author updates youâd like to see. so on and so forth. nothing is recommended for you. no algorithm is trying to maximize the time you spend on the website. you engage with it completely on your own terms. and given the way most media websites choose to operate, that is nothing short of a miracle.
Could we just sit and contemplate the term âarchiveâ here for a while? Because I think this is where a lot of people are approaching AO3 from the wrong perspective.Â
An archive is a storage space. That is its primary purpose. It exists to store material. Storage. Not retrieval (although retrieval is implied through storage). Not audience. Not social interaction. Storage.
AO3 was created as an archive by a group of people who were aware (some of them exquisitely aware) words have meanings. They could have called it anything - âfanfic hubâ, âyet another fanfic siteâ, etc etc etc. They chose to call it âAn Archive Of Our Ownâ.Â
crazy how India can have the largest labor strike in world history and it doesnât even make the news in the US. itâs almost like they donât want us to know we can demand better working conditions
How about we agree to pretend this is a proper description because we all know how hard writing one is.
