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i do not at all mean this in a perjorative manner, but i do think it’s important to be able to consume a piece of media and go, “i’m not the audience for this” and be able to just walk away 

there doesn’t have to be something wrong or “problematic” about something for a person to not like it. personal taste is personal taste. but something not doing it for you doesn’t mean it automatically has to be wrong or bad. it’s just not for you. 

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Acknowledging that “critical thinking” means “thinking about things in a thorough way from different perspectives” and not “finding every flaw in a thing and fixating on it until all the joy is gone” is so liberating.

It’s supposed to be about intellectual curiosity, not about finding ways to devalue things that aren’t perfect or that we personally dislike.

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Trump voters and Musk supporters are not welcome here.

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to those of you who are moving here from tiktok, from someone whos used both tiktok and tumbr for years...

1. DO NOT censor your posts

dont censor sex, abuse, suicide, dont censor it. we dont have censors like tiktok does, you wont be banned for talking about these things and tagging them properly helps people avoid them (also, we dont have shadowbanning here)

2. we dont really have an algorithm

you follow who you follow, and you see posts from who you follow or what you search. the 'for you page' is basically useless here. this also brings me to my next two points

3. dont crosstag

we get it, on tiktok you have to crosstag for reach, but thats not really a thing here. just tag your posts properly (also posters often leave more info about the post in the tags!! and when you reblog stuff you can leave your own notes in the tags, kind of like the old "repost comments" on tiktok)

4. dont expect to go viral/be famous

"viral" isnt really a thing on here (at least not for the average blogger). your posts will probably get 2-10 likes and you wont get nearly as many followers than on tiktok. thats just how tumblr is

5. blocking is your best friend

tiktok is VERY discussion based, and while tumblr is much more discussion based than other social medias, its still not a good place for ragebait/discourse. dont interact, itll make your experience worse in the end, just block and move on

6. you cant go into someone elses house and start rearranging their furniture

this is tumblr, not tiktok. dont diss old tumblr users for how they use the site or try to change them, thats like going into someone elses house and trying to rearrange their furniture. we've been here longer and we're familiar with the site and its culture, either find your niche, adapt, or find a different app

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For anyone who is unclear on the matter or needs to hear this: fictional characters, while awesome, are literally not real. They do not exist and therefore are not worth sending death threats and suicide bait to real people over. There are 0 exceptions to this rule.

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TRANSITION HELP

With him back in power and now most of every source of power in the country being Red Majority, me and my family are rushing to get Adrian's ( my husband, @medicillin ) gender marker and legal name change before it becomes near impossible to do so.

The gender marker change should be decent thanks to our supportive PCP. Name change is a different matter. The majority of the cost comes to about $200 which is doable but also daunting with our current economy. Bellow will be links to various money apps I have, if anyone would like to donate so we can get this done sooner rather than later, that would be greatly appreciated. Anything helps.

paypal: @/sugarhicccup

cashapp: $hippiphin

venmo: @/badautobot

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The Sound of Music (1965) dir. Robert Wise

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official elon musk hate post reblog to hate like to hate reply to hate

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Feelings tonight

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There’s a lot of fandom meta and analysis that is so predicated on people starting from their conclusion and working backwards, so you get these bizarrely sanctimonious posts that are all like “lmao do Just Friends look at each other like this???????” and “if [Plot Point] isn’t true, then how do you explain the look on this character’s face?” and these metas or gifs or whatever become Canonical Proof of the thing they were reverse engineered to conclude, so that eventually there’s entire subgroups of fandoms who’ll be like “don’t believe us?? lemme show you the receipts” and I feel like the clerk at the returns desk at Target who’s like “these are lovely receipts, really, you put a lot of thought into them and I can clearly see your inspiration and interpretation, but I can’t give you store credit, my dude, you drew the damn things yourself” 

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since it’s a scary time to be trans: refuge restrooms is an app which maps gender-neutral/single-stall restrooms. it’s community-mapped, so it’s possible you might be the first person to log the restroom locations, but hopefully it’ll help some people.

please reblog this post if you’ve got trans followers. stay safe.

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Forgot to post this in New Years, so I'll post it in my birthday

Things will suck, but they won't always suck. It's something I gotta remind myself and so will many others

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there’s a big difference between “i’m sad because a character i was emotionally invested in was killed off” and “this character’s death served no purpose, was used for shock value, and is the product of bad writing and i’m upset about that”