#AND THE BOOPS ARE STILL ACTIVE !!!!!!!

[thegirlinprague]

missing her (tumblrs boop feature)

[godslush]

ah, that's a thing, I guess

cute

edit: oh my god @afniel

[electricea]

order has been restored, the old mutual checker logo has returned.

[queenharumiura]

"I want those badges but I'm a nervous bean who is afraid of making people mad so Imma just spam my own blogs for the badges".

[ermingarden]

guys i completed my boop laundering scheme* in the fucking NICK of time** holy cow

*carefully lining up the boop button on my blog with the boop button pop-up so i could boop myself repeatedly without needing to move the cursor; my boops/second skyrocketed

**approximately five minutes before the boop-o-meter vanished

[daenystheedreamer]

confession. i prefer science fiction to fantasy.

[pronounrespector]

Can I say something

[the-deviations]

I still boop the cat She does not - cannot - boop back …tappa tappa tap

[knightzp]

GOOD MORNING?????????? 😨😨😨😨😨😨

[lizwuzthere]

Oh my gosh I can’t believe I’ve gotten so many boops 😭 I wish I had more free time today to spam all you lovely people, this was such a fun April fools haha

[vxmpirehunterd]

"Its not enough to boop them. I must learn to EVIL BOOP."

[caspersickfanfics]

This boop feature... time for me to be a certified Menace >:)

@friends, if you get a boop from @casper-has-a-cat that's me being on brand as a human shaped cat - you've been warned =^.^=

[witchcraftingboop]

Me: Your boyfriend is cheating on you. Here's 2 pieces of proof.

Lil Sister: No, I need to prove it myself.

Her friend, 1 exact year later: Your boyfriend is cheating on you. Here's one 30sec video of him getting in his car for proof.

Lil Sister, sobbing: Omg, Boop! My boyfriend is cheating on me!

Me: .... Are you in a good emotional space for me to express my actual feelings?

Sister, through tears: Nooo

Me: Okay, you're gonna have to call the oldest. I need a couple minutes to get some good responses together.

[fiercynn]

this is both disingenuous and incredibly cruel given that bisan called for a global strike for palestine ON APRIL 1ST SPECIFICALLY. and you're getting mad at people who weren't even asking people to stop booping but were asking for the bare minimum of, like, at least reblogging information about it ALONGSIDE the fucking boops? seriously?????

i'm a lifelong activist and organizer, i've burned out before so i know what it looks like, and people absolutely do need to take breaks and take care of themselves. if you truly care about what you so callously put as "the problems" but want people to not destroy themselves in their efforts to fight for change, you know what you could do that would be actually helpful? provide resources on self-care (which is rooted in black feminist thought, and is not version that has been coopted by capitalism and white supremacy) and self-love and community care. here are some that i've found super meaningful:

caring for ourselves as political warfare and self love as a liberatory practice for the future by adrienne maree brown

communities of care, organizations for liberation and a round-up and re-frame of the community care conversation by yashna maya padamsee

the joyful intersections of disability justice, care, and pleasure and for badass disability justice, working-class and poor-led models of sustainable hustling for liberation, by leah lakshmi piepzna-samarasinha

those are literally just a handful of links i happen to have saved; definitely also explore more work by these authors (including their books!) and others they link to - alexis pauline gumbs's work also comes to mind.

you know what none of that tells you to do? "distract" yourself from genocide and injustice. because trying to distract yourself from such horrifying and infuriating things requires a violent dislocation of yourself from your own emotions. practicing radical self-care and community care are about finding things that help keep you grounded and surviving to fight another day, while still holding all the overwhelming things you are feeling, because those feelings are appropriate and understandable reactions to genocide and injustice! trying to deny them is just going to create more harm to yourself! personally, reading poetry – particularly by palestinian, black, indigenous, and decolonial poets – has been one of the things that helps me breathe, without forcing myself to bury my head in the sand. (if anyone wants poetry recommendations, feel free to jump into my asks.)

i'm not saying this is easy. there are days where i shut down. but you know what i don't do? lecture people who are already hurting because they and their people are being genocided on why i deserve a break, when they are just trying to raise attention to what they are going through!

like seriously. if you truly feel like you are doing what you can to fight genocide and injustice, and that the boop-fest was something you needed as a break, then fine, those posts weren't for you! but can you not conceive of there being anyone who might have needed a reminder, might have not known that there was a global strike, might have needed to see all the horrific things that israel did on april 1st itself, to galvanize them into action?

i saw people that i trust and respect engaging in the boops on april 1st alongside other things they were posting, including palestinian folks. the boops themselves weren't the problem! the problem was that tumblr was entirely taken over by boop memes on a day that was supposed to be a global strike, including by many people i have never seen post about the genocides in palestine and sudan and the democratic republic of congo.

and yet your reaction is not to decide that those posts weren't for you and just move on, but to condescend to people who have been constantly screaming into the void about how they and their people are being genocided and minimize their suffering???? wow.

Ok now that the boops are gone and i can be grumpy again

"yeah the boops are fun but don't let them distract you from--" PLEASE let them distract you. Please take one goddamn day off from thinking about the world's problems. And if you can't figure out how to do that, for the love of god don't insist that everyone else be stuck in "I'm not allowed to be happy about anything ever" hell with you

If you insist that everyone be focusing on "the problems" at all times that is at best performative and at worst actively harmful to the cause you're trying to support. Taking real action uses up energy, often times a LOT of it. Insisting that no one ever takes a break means insisting that no one ever take time to rest and begin to gather more energy for another actual action. Being "on" all the time isn't your duty, it's an impossibility.

Take a fucking break. And remind everyone that they need to take breaks too.

[maskofenigma]

still reeling over the last Boop day wherein i got booped like thirty times before id even posted about it. like where did they all come from how did they find me where did they go

[hobbitinthelibrary]

I need a boop report.

How many boops did I give and take?

How many evil boops and super boops?

Who boop spammed me the most?

I need the final numbers @staff