#I NEED MORE SHIT LIKE THIS ON DASH TUMBLR DOT COM

[valscodblog]

i have never been so blessed as to recive a Joe Bear Graves x reader fic on my fucking dash.....

THANK YOUOMFG THANK YOU YOU GODLY CREATOR.

7 minutes in heaven with bear that starts with him hauling you up onto the bathroom counter, crowding against you and kissing you slow and sloppy and deep and ends with him bending you over the counter, both still fully clothed, one big paw of his securing your wrists behind your back while the other keeps a firm hold at nape of your neck, biting and mouthing at your throat and shoulder, telling you to keep quiet lest they think you’re being mauled by a bear and you want to quip that you practically are, but the weight and heat of his cock makes your brain go fuzzy, and all you can do is whine low in your throat, desperately trying to arch back against him.

[rykhafirehand]

I'm realising that any time I go to Tumblr Dot Com these days, it's barely ever to reblog anything anymore. I spend most the time just screening the dash and when I see something iffy, I check the originating blog. And then, more often than not, I end up blocking them.

Basically, I'm just hurting myself here.

Any time I feel like I wanna engage with a community, it seems like I hit upon an undercurrent of horribly stupid Discourse that immediately saps any interest and makes me vigilant against such crap in the future. I'll just say, for people who like to call others feds, certain folks on this site sure do like to fall for weird pointless divisions that, at least to me, look like they could have come from a textbook on 'How To Do A Psy-Op'.

If that's the price of community, I'll just continue working shit out on my own, thanks.

All this to say, I'm taking a break from this site. I may not come back TBH. Maybe if I do, I'll carve down my follow list to a fraction of what it is currently. That's an evaluation to be made as I mull over a variety of things. I'll miss the funny animal vids, but I can find those elsewhere if I really need them anyway.

[navel-gazing-necromancer]

hey no need to answer this ask, I probably won't see it anyway, I just saw the most recent post you made due to tumblr putting random posts on my dash sometimes and it's none of my business BUT.

I know literally nothing about you or your situation so have that in mind. that being said, consider this ask a sign to do whatever you want to do. listen to your heart and all that disney fairytale shit. want a haircut? grab some scissors cowboy. wanna dye your hair? buy the hair dye at the nearest store and use it at 3 AM. anything that makes you happy? do it. life's too short and all that.

OBLIGATORY DISCLAIMER: AS LONG AS ITS FAIRLY SAFE OKAY ONLY YOU KNOW WHATS WITHIN THE REALM OF POSSIBILITY FOR YOU ALRIGHT IM JUST SOME GUY ON TUMBLR DOT COM WHO CANT MIND THEIR OWN BUSINESS 😭

ok sorry for bothering you I just. idk guess I'm playing fairy godmother russian roulette bc I'm insane. still. you can get through this soldier . whatever "this" might be. also in case you need to hear this your mom sucks and you should hate her instead of hating yourself. OKAY SORRY IM DONE NOW

GO GET SOME JOY AND WHIMSY IN YOUR LIFE!!!!!!!! (AS LONG AS ITS SAFE!!!!!!!!!!)

ok,

i fucking love you

i can try!! i don't trust myself to cut anything more than a bob, let alone layers (I've played with god before and it's worked 1/2 times) but I might be able to press her on that. i get dropped off at a store every day so I could probably find something... i don't know the first thing about dying hair but Brad Mondo as my witness I may try

thank you sm (for this whole thing and for calling me cowboy)

I don't know who you are, but I will find you, and I will add you (please don't let that reference be outdated bc otherwise I just look like a massive creep)

[finewalls]

me right now:

[astraeusx]

KNOWING YOUR PARTNER WELL CAN POTENTIALLY MAKE WRITING TOGETHER A LOT EASIER. REPOST DO NOT REBLOG !!

NAME:    erika

PRONOUNS:  she/her

PREFERENCE OF COMMUNICATION:  discord first, tumblr ims secondary. 

NAME OF MUSE(S): astraeus/aster! my other oc is atticus king, and he’s on an unspoken hiatus rn while i get out my jaguar brainworms lol. (lion man vs panther man FIGHT.)

RP EXPERIENCE/HOW LONG (MONTHS / YEARS?): time 2 feel old. my first memory of rping was when i was in third grade on neopets dot com. im gonna be twenty-six this year. jfc.

PLATFORMS YOU’VE USED:  neopets, email, skype, aim messenger (jfc i feel old), anatheria (did i even spell that right?? another Pet Place that a neopets friend rly liked but we had a nasty falling out and i never touched that again and that was late middle school early high school), tumblr, discord... forums galore as well. mostly email up until tumblr/discord happened.

BEST EXPERIENCE: i LOVE many of my tumblr rps and i miss having an active dash comm thing rolling, but funnily my happiest memory is when i was a kid writing on neopets. i rped the happy mask salesman in this super silly crossover fandom rp and he was like a goofy off-kilter father figure dicking around with these other charas. it was ur typical middle school silliness of OMG ROLFZ RAINBOWZ xDDD and the last memory i have of just. rly not caring how my writing was perceived or what i wrote, just whatever was super fun and to go for it.

RP PET PEEVES/DEALBREAKERS:  vague blogging, guilt tripping, a belief that we need to communicate constantly to write/be friends. i will stop talking for days, sometimes weeks, but will generally try to always reach out. i do not expect this of other ppl--reply when u want, exist when u want, idc!! we all got lives!!  likewise, when ppl get obsessive over shipping, upset when ships don’t work out, have an unhealthy expectation of both the relationship of muns and characters... pls im too old.

FLUFF, ANGST OR SMUT:  first two Always, third im honestly embarrassed to write smut nowadays. my teenage hormonal horny phase has long passed and now im more into emotional bonding tethered to physical (hand holding, cuddling, tame shit) than sexual. my muses are horny af but i am horny for some Deep Emotional Connections.

PLOTS OR MEMES:  both. i am a winging it kind of gal but i do like spit balling until there is some sort of base idea and then running with it as far as i can.

LONG OR SHORT REPLIES:  every reply i try to keep short ends up long. every reply i try to make long ends up short. life is suffering.

BEST TIME TO WRITE:  the moment the brain activates and until it gives up on me. the latter happens often. the former not so much. but im hoping with summer around the corner i will be more eager to write with classes temporarily out!!

ARE YOU LIKE YOUR MUSE(S):  they have my bisexual agenda, and i like to force my particular wants in writing down their throats. i.e. they WILL hold a hand at some point they do NOT have a choice.

tagged: @eternasci​ MY QUEEN... oh and synnie i guess tagging: take this and @ me pls my brain is slowly withering

[j-reau]

a hiatus or something

I didn’t want to post this. I told myself to give it until morning and sleep but I’ve been laying here for over an hour and I can’t sleep and I know I’m not going to sleep until I get it out. And I decided I’m not going to do the pretend things don’t bother us mentality that tumblr likes, the don’t show emotions on the dashboard, don’t let people know you’re hurt or angry out of fear it’ll be seen as ~drama or whatever thing stop me from just saying how I feel. Because I feel pretty shitty? I’ve been feeling shitty for a few days now. Maybe more. Last week I told myself that the drama that had randomly cropped up was just too much and I wasn’t going to let tumblr be something that made me cry or panic or kept me up at night over bullshit like arguing with someone over things that happened years ago. So I set my focus on my friends, on my dashboard, on reminding myself why I love RP and why I’ve been in it for this many years, for so long, with all of these people. Those Valentines I posted were part of that project for me. It was a reminder, for myself and my dash about all of the human connection that happens here, all the people we meet, all the little pieces of each other we take on and take with us, all the ships, all the conversations, however brief.  From the people we just see on our dash to the ones we talk to about all our fears and insecurities. And how all of it matters. 

I know how much we all love to say calm down gregg, it’s tumblr RP. I know how we all loathe this hellsite when we’re being our worst. I know how we all talk about how we’re too old for this now or we’re tired. We’re just here to write. I’m just here to write. I love writing. But what brings us all back time and time again, what keeps us here is the fact that it’s not just tumblr RP. It’s a community. Whether you have a real life that keeps you busy or your whole life is here, whether you have plenty of friends offline or all your closes people live on discord, we’re all people. And we all take this with us. We make friendships and we talk to each other. We open ourselves up to the constant trust and fear of interaction, of  plotting, of who is going to reach out or send the meme. We build friendships based on that, we care for each other, we see each other’s bad days on the dash, and great days and inspiration. And it means something. It may just be tumblr RP, but it matters to us. Because of the people here, because we give a fuck about each other. Or at least I’ve always liked to hope we do. I have friends on this website I’ve had for ten years, some just for 3, and others just a few months. It always floors me how we can always come back to it, how we stick with each other or don’t, how we see the good and the bad and the ugly. 

So to get on with it, I wrote those Valentines.  I hit refresh on my blog and put the weird random drama in the past and moved forward. I made this blog for JJ only about 3 months ago. I don’t know how I got 500 followers in that short time but I did. And it’s. been the wildest experience I can possibly explain, having that happen so quickly, finding so many people out in the RPC that I hadn’t before on my other blogs. I felt fucking good. I was excited. Not just to write a character I had wanted to and loved for years but to find so many people who I vibed with. I remember writing a post about a month in and being so fucking ... floored. By how much I loved you all, by how amazing it was to be received like that still, to find people my age and who wrote things I liked and loved their female characters. I fucking love JJ. I LOVE THE SHIT out of my partners on this blog, even the new people I’m still itching to write with. And yet, I did that little refresh, posted my valentines , got ready to go and felt .... sad. 

I tried to explain it. I tried to tell myself it was a bad mood. I hoped maybe it was medication. But I couldn’t shake the weird funk. And everywhere I looked it seemed like things were .... not good. My friends taking breaks, people feeling sad too, relationships splitting, people I liked and respected separating themselves. Tonight, one of my closest friends I’ve made on this blog blocked me. Someone I adored and trusted and absolutely loved to write with. Tumblr says we’re not supposed to care. That we’re supposed to let people draw their lines in the sand and take their leave and maybe we are. Maybe it’s important to let people make their choices. But I also think it’s important as fuck to talk to your friends, to mean what you say when you tell someone they’re important to you. I think it’s important that we remember on the other side of every blog and discord user is a person. Who has bad days and bad feelings and cries and feels insecure and tells themselves it’s just tumblr RP even when they know somehow it feels heavier when it’s bad. This was a friend I had talked to at length about all of those exact things, about how personal the community can feel sometimes, about feeling replaceable or invisible, even for the toughest most confident most take no shit people. I’ve always considered myself a pretty tough, confident, take no shit person. I think anyone who has known me for as many years as I’ve been around has seen that first hand. I don’t like how sad I’ve felt lately. I don’t like the insecurity that’s making me want to know why things feel way or why people vanish without so much as an explanation. I had to block a mutual last week I saw making fun of me on their twitter. A mutual. Someone who chose to follow me and on a public place where my other friends could see it made fun of what I posted. And I just don’t know what we’re doing anymore. It didn’t bother me. I don’t have hurt feelings over it. That’s the kind of stuff I definitely know I’m confident about. But .... it did really fucking floor me. Because here we are, on a sight where users talk about positivity and not sending anon hate, and we can treat each other like that. 

I’ve been sitting up in bed for hours trying to figure out what to say or what to do. That’s what I do I guess. I try to figure out what to do, how we fix it, like somehow there’s some unified we and some responsibility to make things better. A lot of you have only known me for a few months so this probably sounds all kinds of nuts. And you’re probably going JJ you’ve been an emotional mess since the moment we met you. Because I feel like that’s how it’s been for the last few months. But that’s not how it’s always been for me. That’s not who I am. So for now I guess I’m just trying to figure out what I do. Instead of sitting here and spinning and trying to figure out how we as a community fix these gaping holes and the way we talk about each other like we’re disposable and treat each other like names on a list instead of people. 

For now, I think what I do is take a little break. It’s the very thing I don’t want to do. Because it feels like quitting and it feels like being scared away. So I feel the need to promise whoever has read all of this and myself that that’s not what it is. Maybe I’ll be back in two days, maybe two weeks, who knows. But I need a break. From whatever this feeling is that seems to have come over things lately. I’ve loved these few months on this blog so much. And maybe that’s half the problem. Maybe I got spoiled and this is the come down. Maybe I’m just an idiot who thinks what we all want on this website is to find people and love each other and write together. I never knew that me -- the person often accused of being aloof and feelingsless and distant would somehow turn into the emotional bitch on this website but here we are I guess. I just don’t know how to navigate this anymore. I don’t know how to put my heart into relationships and friendships that can just be switched off like we can just stop caring about people. I don’t know how to ignore people who say horrible things and do horrible things to each other just because we don’t want to see it on our dashes. I don't know how to give enough of everything to everyone so that every single one of my mutuals and partners knows they’re valuable to me. I don’t know what I hope to accomplish. I don’t know when I got to be so much of a raw, frayed edge on tumblr dot com but that’s how I feel. And I hope in a few days or sometime soon I’ll have an answer or at least get my hard shell back.

I want to keep writing. I want to keep talking to you guys. I don’t want to lose anyone. I truly mean what I say when I say you’re all important to me. I plan to still be around on discord. I’ll write on discord if anyone wants to keep writing. If we aren’t discord friends yet and you want to be, send a message. I plan to come back. I don’t want to abandon anything. I’m so deeply fucking sorry for this rant, for all the overflow of feelings lately, for anyone that’s had to listen to them, for putting them on your dashes, for fucking all of it. Please be good to each other. Please talk to each other. Please remember that if we’ve crossed paths at any point on this blog, I value you. I value all of your friendships, your writing, your shitposts, your dash commentary, your tiktoks you dump at me on discord. I love you. Every last fucking one of you. 

[mittensmorgul]

Can’t everyone use tumblr how they want?

YES!

This site is exactly what people make of it for themselves. That was the exact point of that post. The fact that people reacted negatively to it at all proves my point. Seriously.

I have a number of other anons that are clearly from people who don't actually follow me, and are only here in a reactionary fashion having seen it on someone else's reblog, or else heard about it in passing and decided the best reaction to an ultimately harmless and rather bumbling post was to take personal offense and bring anonymous hate to a stranger on the internet. (and at least one not-anonymous "go kill yourself" type comment on the post itself)

THAT was the point of making that post.

For people who might be new to this fandom or new to tumblr in general (or even for people who have been here for years), your experience here is exactly what you make of it. I haven't seen that sort of vitriolic kneejerk reaction to anything I've written or posted in years. That post touched nerves. So it was a bit of an experiment, and I'm sorry to everyone who experienced any of that negativity second-hand. NOBODY should be made to feel like shit when engaging with something that is supposed to be fun. But I've learned over the years that that's exactly what some people consider fun.

There are new people to this fandom since the absolute free for all of the weeks after November 5th. We all reveled in those weeks before the show collapsed in on itself two weeks later. It was like 15 years worth of Hiatus Blogging followed by... well... some of the worst genuine hurt and disillusionment I've ever experienced or witnessed inflicted on a fandom by a piece of media.

There have to be at least a few people who floated into this fandom during that emotional roller coaster who want to make sense of it all, who were at least curious enough about how a show could've brought the characters to that emotional moment in 15.18 before effectively ignoring it all and burning the entire 15 year narrative to nothing just two episodes later.

Some folks stuck around to dig through the ashes of fandom in search of carrion, and that's fine. Some have zero desire to ever engage with the show or the fandom beyond mocking it for ever having existed at all, and that is also fine! But some folks? They might be wondering why anyone ever saw anything in this narrative to begin with, and they might be interested in knowing that there is this vast collection of information available to them (funny that none of my self-righteous anons even mentioned those, outside of one pointing out that my phrasing introducing that section of links was easily interpreted as condescending... which... yeah... again that was the point, and no I will not edit that language. none of us are free from sin).

Tumblr hasn't "changed." It was always this way. This site is not a monolith. Fandom is not a monolith. Even smaller groups within fandom aren't monoliths. Things that are considered "tumblr standard etiquette" do not exist across this entire website. And even within the supernatural fandom, and even within the tumblr-destiel-portion of the fandom there aren't "rules" dictating how you interact with anyone. Well, the one specific rule we should all be able to agree on is that you don't bring hate to real actual human beings, and yet...

There has ALWAYS been the option to engage with fandom here on whatever level an individual chooses. And that hasn't really changed since the finale aired. Anyone who thinks that Tumblr or the fandom has "evolved" or "changed" has likely just fallen in with a different fandom bubble then they'd existed within before. None of the bubbles have actually popped or disappeared. But which one you experience is entirely your own choice. You curate your experience here.

That was the point, illustrated by the vast array of comments I actually got on that post, structured with a little bit of everything including "tumblr mom from 2014." Everything pisses some people off, you know? Even the perception that some stranger on the internet might dare to lay down an arbitrary "rule" that zero people actually have to follow. See what I mean?

Because if any of the people who kneejerked at it actually followed me, or knew me at all, they wouldn't have kneejerked. They would've seen the point.

So your experience is what you make of it here. There are resources for people actually interested in engaging with the narrative or the fandom or the history of it. People mock "tumblr moms" or "fandom moms" all the time, but there wouldn't ~be~ a fandom without the people who actually build those resources. I.e. adults with the time, money, and personal investment in actually sustaining the fandom, instead of running around with torches trying to burn it down at every new whiff of perceived ~drama~ to latch on to.

For example, all of the scripts we've been acquiring and sharing with the entire fandom free of charge. I know that the fandom bubbles who seize on those scripts like hungry vultures to cough back up out of context "gotcha" posts postulating whatever theory of the differences between script and screen will dredge up the most drama or outrage in their fandom bubble... they haven't even considered how those scripts were acquired and made available to them. To them, they are "leaks." They are gifts that fell out of the sky and landed in their laps. There isn't even the barest curiosity about their origins or relevance beyond whatever social nourishment they derive by making up stuff and spouting it out with unearned authority. It's sad. But if that's how they enjoy the fandom, it's nice to remind them that none of the fandom they cannibalize would exist without the rest of us, too.

Yes, even the people you disagree with. Even the people who ship the things you find disgusting or repulsive. Even people who have an entirely different experience to your own. Even the people who are only here for those gotcha posts.

Fandom is not by nature a nihilistic shitshow, or no fandom would survive the amount of drama the 1% try to bring to it. Here have a fanlore article about this phenomenon. Right now, in Supernatural fandom, it feels like more than 1%, but I promise it really is only 1%. They're just really loud. There's actually other avenues to participatory fandom available to anyone who chooses to find them. Parts of this vast fandom that aren't focused on that 1% of reactionary leg-chewing at every turn. None of them are (as the linked article confirms) truly 100% free of unnecessary drama or bad behavior (including ME, I mean I MADE THAT POST!), but on tumblr you can curate your own experience. Fandom actually can be fun without burning down the thing you claim to be a fan of, or attacking other real human people for having the audacity to exist on the internet in a way you might believe is out of touch or pathetic. Seriously, nobody deserves to experience that from anyone over a fucking television show. Like seriously, take a step back and examine your life and your choices at that point.

Tumblr was exactly the same as a fandom community when I joined as it is now. Throughout my entire time here, I've curated my own personal experience to exactly what I derive the most personal satisfaction from. During that time I have had numerous friends and mutuals lament that their personal experience had become so toxic, but they were afraid to trim those blogs from their dash for fear of having no content left to engage with at all. For years there have been follow lists and blog recs and people desperate to find a more "peaceful and fun" fandom experience. People grow exhausted and embittered when their entire experience of fandom is an emotionally draining drama train. It's like pandemic doom scrolling, but for the thing that should be a respite from that sort of mindset, something that's supposed to be entertainment. The show did enough to us all, we don't have to turn around and re-inflict it on each other day in and day out on tumblr dot com.

So if even one person saw my post and thought well shit maybe I actually want to engage with a wider swath of fandom and see what's there, after seven months of post-finale drama, this whole other region of fandom is still here, still being the curators of the archives, the creators of stories and art and meta and gifs and videos and actually caring about it all that will keep this fandom going long after the current round of exhausting drama inevitably plays itself out.

The amount of in-group language in the negative replies I got was unsurprising. It's like folks are living in an alternate universe that doesn't mesh at all with what I experience on this exact same hellsite. Almost like we exist in entirely different bubbles of fandom, with entirely different purposes for existing at all. Everyone on this hellsite gets to pick which bubble (or bubbles) to take up residence in. Some people simply forget that their personal bubble isn't the universal defining experience of this site. Unfortunately, I doubt my little disruption to their bubbles will actually make any of them see that, but you anon... I think you did.

You are highly encouraged to engage with fandom EXACTLY THE WAY YOU CHOOSE. You have the ultimate power in controlling your entire experience here. Tumblr and Supernatural Fandom on tumblr is not Just One Thing that everyone who wants to participate in must conform to one specific code of ethics or behavior to be part of. And that NOBODY has the right to tell anyone else they're doing it wrong (including ME! I am 100% including myself in this!).

It's not MY job to dictate how anyone else experiences this fandom, as much as it was not the job of the people who reblogged my post (which I did not personally shove into their eyeballs with a demand for compliance... how did any of those people even *find* my post?) solely to tell me how *I* need to change how I experience the fandom, you see? Don'tcha love hypocrisy!

But the point was made for those who care, and a lot of people got to update their block lists (I still don't block anyone, as I said I curated my fandom space here and generally don't follow folks that don't personally make me happy and enrich my life by engaging with their content. However other people choose to engage with *my* content (any of it, going back nearly 50k posts over the last decade) is their business entirely. Sometimes I just feel the need to draw out people who are all too eager to expose their own whole asses in public. Mission accomplished.

[baddmintonsart]

can you tag photos of your "pets" or something. I didn't need to see something gross on my dash today

Woah woah okay first of all, fucking ouch dude. Wtf

Second of all, I did tag it as "my pets" which is what gordie is. He's my pet and I love him very much, same as my other lizards.

Would you go into someone else's inbox and say the same shit over a cat? Or a dog? Probably fucking not, so leave me alone. This goes for ALL reptile owners, insect owners, etc etc. Basically all the animals you'd label as "disgusting", which is kinda fucked up

People love and care for their pets no matter what the species and while I understand people with certain phobias, it's really hurtful to have to put warnings on pictures of the animals we love.

Not to mention people like you, who think it's okay to openly say shit like this on anon.

Honestly? Fuck you man. My pets are not gross. Nobody's pet are gross. Block my pet tag, or unfollow. I have too many ppl rag on my lizards irl to want to spend more energy dealing with some asshole on Tumblr dot com

[jayshq]

So, if you look at my followers I actually have 1,183, but that’s because this hasn’t always been Poe. I started this blog way back on Nov. 8, 2014 as Dean Winchester. It has gone through AT LEAST ten characters since then. So, a lot of these followers are dead accounts or abandoned accounts. However, when I started up Poe on here I made note that I had 1,083 followers. So, this is for the 100 of you that came here for my baby.

So, let’s get the follow forever out of the way. Let me start off by saying I’m going to forget people, I’m human. Also, I don't do very big follow forevers whenever I do them because I firmly believe in only having people who have had a very strong impact on me or Poe should be present on the list. That said, if you’re not on this list you are still very loved.

special mention of @bondforce for making this happen, thanks for being my 100th follower, lol.

REYS:

@dawnsabered : so, despite us not having any threads you’re first on this list because you re-sparked my love of the sequels and made me want to hop into this fandom again. Rping with you on Steve made me just adore the fandom more and more and made me want to bring back Poe. I’m eternally grateful to you for that. I have found such an amazing and welcoming home in this community and I wouldn’t have it without you, I love you loads, thanks a bunch.

@jedirisen : okay, so we met pretty early in and thank god we did. i adore your Rey, but more than anything you’ve been such an incredible friend. You’re always down to plot and create and just talk. You put up with my constant recommendations and are just one of the sweetest humans I’ve ever met. I’m super pumped that we found each other and I hope we have many great years of friendship ahead of us.

@fxrcefound​ : you’re a babe, you know that? Like, just such a good bean! Thank you for putting up with all my bullshit and being so fucking welcoming. I showed up in the fandom and within the first week we had multiple threads. I adore you, as does my Ben. Love’s his princess wife so much, tbh. But, no honestly I’m so glad I’ve found a friend in you. A gem, truly.

@scavenger-warrior : Ahhhh! Hi, I love you. So, first of all let me just say that our beautiful time leap verse (that all of our followers are currently being deprived of bc discord is so much better lol) is one of my all time favourite verses I’ve EVER done. It makes me so immensely happy and Ben is just in love.

@choosenskywalker : I’m TRASH! I’m so excited for the verses we have started, I’m just awful at replying. But, I really am so excited and I adore your writing, you’re very talented. You’re also super sweet and have the patience of a god. Thank you for being lovely, and I swear I’ll get better because I’m so excited to see where these things go.

@aequusjedi & @killingpast​  : you guys get a joint one because i love our poly babies despite me being a lazy bitch and not writing much with them yet. Nah, can I just say how excited I was when you joined our group Cas. I’m so excited to see how this develops and watch our babies fall in love. Aside from that though, both of you have been just lovely people OOC. I’m so lucky to have such wonderful partners like yourselves.

BENS:

@sithroyal : hey there! We also met in my early days here, and you’ve been such a joy to write with, no matter what character it’s on. You’re portrayal is one of pure perfection. I love writing with you and any reply always makes me so excited. On top of that you’ve been so kind and inviting and it really meant a lot since I was HELLA INTIMIDATED by you when I first got here.

@endheir : LOOK EVERYONE, IT’S J.J. ABRAMS EVIL TWIN, come to fix all the shit J.J. broke. No, seriously I am so impressed and will never not be intimidated by how amazing you and your writing is! THIS IS THE BEN SOLO WE DESERVED! But, you’re such a peach and so nice and I adore plotting with you. Thanks for being the bomb dot com.

@dyadalone : WE ARE CRACK ROYALTY, thank you very much. No, really though I love when we (and our friends) get up to our shenanigans. But, aside from that Poe is also just IN LOVE! And, I adore you OOC. Such a kind and loving person, you da best! I am so happy we found each other through this hellsite and can’t wait to see what nonsense our future brings.

@brokendyad : HELLO I LOVE YOU! You’re such a solid friend and such a talented writer. I’m so happy we get to have so much fun writing and plotting. You’re an absolute dear and I’ll never get over how lucky I am to have such amazing friends. Thanks for being great and I hope we stay close forever.

@lghtpulled : okay, so i can’t explain my infinite love for you. I can’t. All my characters over here being obsessed over your Ben. I’ve told you how much I adore your Ben, but I can’t say it enough. Also, our high school verse GIVES ME LIFE! But, nah you’re just so talented and SO KIND! I’m so glad that despite being SO FUCKING INTIMIDATED by you we managed to form this amazing friendship. I’m keeping you.

THE FAM:

@kesdameronn : SCARF DAD! No, lol I love that Poe’s dad is around. We haven’t done much yet but we have all the time in the world for the Dameron bros to get up to shit together. Also, Zep you are such a kind and cute soul and I just love ya!

@lieutenantxbey : Mama Dameron, how could we not love? Poe loves his mama so much and lowkey wants to be just like her. I love seeing Shara on the dash. And the few times we’ve spoken you’ve been just a ray of light, so keep being awesome.

@legacybeyne : this little shit! No, I’m kidding, Poe loves his cousin. Like wants to throw him out an airlock sometimes, but loves him. I adore this character so much and I’m so happy Poe has more family around. Also, OOC you seem like a super cool person, so definitely don’t stop that.

LUKE:

@jedishope​ : SHANE! I don’t know if I could tell you how much I actually adore you? Like, I don’t think I could. And, I low-key don’t want to because it would deffo scare you off, lol. But, no you’re just an absolute ray of sunshine and such a beautiful person. A person only has to talk to you for a second to see how just full or love and kindness you are. You bring so much joy to my dash and I’m forever thankful for it! Not to mention your Luke is hands down the best Luke I’ve ever seen. Absolutely perfect! I was so scared to approach you at first because you were just so fucking talented and obviously still are! I love your Luke with my whole heart and so does Poe.

HUX:

@muddledbloodlines : I am so excited for the verse we’ve created for our lonely babies and can’t wait to see where it goes. You have such an interesting take on this character and I love it! I’m so excited to get to know you better and really explore this. I’m honestly just in love with your writing and imagination.

OCS:

 @congeriemgriseo : so it won’t tag you, which is RUDE! But, anyway: I adore Any. Such an incredibly well thought out and beautiful OC. I’m quite picky when it comes to OCs, despite having one of my own. But, I was enraptured from the moment I read her bio, and you have not disappointed! She’s such a beautiful little chaos machine and I love her.

@orderengineer : okay, so I actually usually despise OCs that are really kind. Because as much as Mary Sue characters are fine to write, I personally can’t write opposite them. However, that’s not what Syla is! She’s so much more complex than that and I adore her. Both Ben and Orion find her insanely interesting and think she’s super fucking talented. I love this character you've created. It’s also just insane to see my characters name on the dash lol. You’re also such a sweetheart OOC and it always makes my day.

@petitehux : so for anyone who doesn’t know? I LOVE Kat. Like, I am obsessed, I have 100s of photos of her saved on my phone. I am just in love. Her and Dove Cameron are my two ultimate celebrity crushes. Which was the original reason I decided to check out your blog, and I’m so fucking happy I did. Ryann is so fucking cool and I think she brings such an interesting dynamic to the whole trilogy story. I can’t wait for myself to stop being lazy and get some bomb shit going with this incredible OC.

I’M A STALKER (also we need to rp!):

@hopedyad : I love seeing you on my dash and I adore keeping up with your posts. You’re a super talented writer and I hope in the future I stop being a shy bean and we can actually do cool things lol. You seem super sweet and like you’ve got a wicked sense of humor OOC too.

@tornbetweenthestorm : So, I LOVE FN! It’s so great to see such an interesting OC. I adore the work and thought you’ve put into this character and his struggles. Anytime I stop to read one of your replies to a partner I’m just overcome by your brilliance. I’m so happy I stumbled across your blog (thank you tumblr recs) and have been lucky enough to be mutuals with you.

@iamthecrder : well hello there. So, yeah I think your Hux is super cool and right on the money. It’s so interesting to see a different version of him and I honestly think you’re so incredibly talented! Keep being awesome, my good dude.

OTHER:

@mangohub : Monroe. My love, what can I say? You’ve followed me from my original Alec all the way to here. Despite not being a Star Wars fan you still follow me on multiple of your blogs. I will always love you. I will also never stop being astounded by your talent and world building capabilities. In case there was any confusion, YOU ARE  MY FAVOURITE PERSON ON TUMBLR. Also, you are the most talented person I’ve ever followed. I will never stop being so happy to see you, no matter the blog, on my dash. On top of being the most talented writer I know, you also happen to be the sweetest human on the planet. You have so much love in your heart and you pour into your friends like it’s going out of style. I’m so so lucky to have you and I love you, okay?

Obviously I don't talk to you lads enough, but a special shoutout to @poewingsdameron, @lightskipped, , @flyjacket, @sprklit & @vuuelo for playing this amazing bean alongside me. 

Okay, now onto the giveaway. So, friendly reminder that I make all my own stuff, so if you want examples of my work just check out across my blogs. That being said, when it comes to graphics, icons, etc I’m not very talented with creating stuff myself, so I use other peoples free templates, borders, psds and so on. I think I’m decently talented at putting them together, though. Also, having me do it just saves you a stupid amount of time lol.

Simply enter by liking AND/OR reblogging, the winners will be chosen using a random number generator. I will contact each of you via IM (or discord if we have each other) to discuss getting to work on the prizes. The only real rule is DO NOT SPAM YOUR FOLLOWERS. I’m not gonna put a limit on how many times you can reblog, but be fucking courteous to your followers, okay? This giveaway ends on APRIL 10th at NOON GMT-6.

1st PLACE: 200 icons of the character of your choosing, a promo & a dash icon.

2nd PLACE:  100 icons of the character of your choosing & a dash icon.

3rd PLACE:  100 icons of the character of your choosing.

[logray]

i think a large part of the reason people on this web site act like they aren’t allowed to enjoy flawed media at all any more is because tumblr users are largely completely technologically incompetent when it comes to like... piracy

it’s something I started to notice when the mandalorian dropped & many people on my dash were going “god I want to watch this new star wars show so bad but I can’t afford Disney+ 😔😔” and I’ve now seen a few people say they’re upset that they won’t be able to see Mulan AT ALL now that it’s streaming on Disney+ instead of having a cinema release... as if the solution isn’t just to torrent it 30 minutes after it airs. and I thought 18-35 year olds especially grew up on pirating shit (I’ve had plenty of friends who grew up consuming media that way, most of our parents taught us to do it) & seeing how few people on tumblr dot com seem to know that it’s even an OPTION is fucking staggering

and so we put across this very well intentioned & PRACTICAL advice like “we encourage you to continue to consume your favourite media but under a more critical eye & without supporting it financially! for example don’t see any new Wizard Movies in the cinema and don’t buy the blu rays” and the reaction to that from people across EVERY aspect of the political spectrum is “oh so I can never watch a harry potter movie again? guess I’ll fucking kill myself this is why no one takes the left wing seriously” as if that’s what you come to if you follow that advice through to its logical conclusion

but half of the point of becoming more progressive & critical of media is SO that we can continue consuming our favourite media in a more positive & constructive way. rewatch all your old favourite films, now with sociopolitical awareness and an eagerness to identify and discuss bigotry where you find it, and as someone who engages with media through a progressive activist lens. I’m not talking just “I know JK Rowling is racist and transmisogynistic and antisemitic so I am Critical of Harry Potter as a product of her mind, but at least I can watch my $20 blu rays of each movie acting as if that bigotry isn’t implicit in the text and that my own personal meanings that I attached to it are the real ones :)” which is what this fucking website’s users have interpreted it as because they both don’t know how to think critically and also outright refuse to -- no, I’m talking about continuing to enjoy the media (if you really have to I guess lol) but your sociopolitical awareness and your nuanced media lens NEED to affect how you view the art & NEED to affect your enjoyment. like yeah I continued to like Rogue One a lot as a movie after I watched it with my partner and they pointed out that the narrative is racist, but I enjoy it a lot less now! it’s now something that I’ll bring up if I discuss the movie with people! art consumption requires critical thinking and you need to be willing to actively address the bigotry in shit that you love rather than just generally admitting that it’s Flawed but continuing to enjoy it to the exact same extent & in the exact same ways. progressive mindsets aren’t progressive if there’s no... progress. condemning JKR as a transphobe and an antisemite and a racist is fucking futile if you actively continue to pour money down her throat. progressive mindsets needs to have an actual impact! 

I saw a quote a while back saying that it’s actually MORE patriotic to address the problems with your country and think about what needs to change and how it can be fixed, & the same is true for media. I think engaging with your favourite content in that capacity and regarding it in a more complex & nuanced & informed way demonstrates a deeper appreciation of the art and a desire to see it improve. identifying & eliminating flaws (especially wrt bigotry) is an act of improvement, not an act of hostility. wanting your favourite art to reflect a progressive attitude & communicate progressive meanings & themes & stories is not a condemnation of the art, it’s a desire to see the artist do better, or for the media to be taken over by someone who will make it better. it all comes from a place of hope & a place of appreciation 

& so of COURSE we aren’t saying that people need to completely cut their favourite media out of their lives entirely. this type of critical thinking ONLY really works to its fullest potential if you keep engaging with your favourite content, really. we’re just encouraging people to engage with it in ways that aren’t financially beneficial to the bigots responsible for creating bigoted & harmful art -- ie in ways that are FREE. but nobody on fucking tumblr knows what piracy is and thinks the options are A. support it financially or B. eradicate it from your life entirely. and now here we are with everyone refusing to take a closer look at films they like, or identifying it as Problematic Art and thinking that’s enough progressive activism for one little uwu soft fandom baby to do for one lifetime, because they think that identifying actual specific instances of bigotry (and ESPECIALLY identifying it as something which actively makes the art worse) would mean they could never consume it again. it doesn’t help that these people also seem to incorrectly believe that being able to continue uncritically enjoying books they liked when they were 12 is more important than removing media that actively harms real people from the public consciousness anyway, but that’s an issue for another time

god just pirate films and books lol fuck

[spectralarchers]

There's a new post in the Laura Barton tag, that's anti-Laura and uses the phrase "Both Laura and Nat want is to have a normal life with kids and a husband?! Like that's not how women work" and it was recommended to me, on my dash, because I follow the Laura Barton tag.

And, at first I dismissed it because I was like "I don't need this" but it just kept sitting at the back of my head how this person assumed that wanting kids and a husband was "not how women work".

I know that a lot of females on Tumblr dot Com do not want the life of a stay-at-home mom with a husband and a bunch of kids running around, and I understand it 100%. Kids are a fuck yes or hell no scenario, and I honestly don't care what you do with your body and your ability to procreate as long as you're happy with the life you're living.

A husband, I mean, I am an ace and aro person who wants a platonic life partner to grow old with. I don't care what their gender is, but I do imagine myself having a husband I can have kids with. If it turns out the person who finds me and thinks 'I can grow old with her' isn't male or male presenting, then... I mean, I'll have someone to grow old with. And have kids with.

Four little babies, to be precise.

Because, ever since I was seven years old, I've wanted babies of my own. Small children to love, cherish and care for, with all my entire soul - someone I could watch grow into a whole new galaxy of thoughts and who could be a sunshine in at least one other person's world. If many of my friends don't want kids of their own, they're going to be aunties and uncles to mine instead.

So, when I see Laura Barton and Clint Barton living that domestic life, with their two children, and in the case of Age of Ultron, one more on the way: my heart and my soul aches because I have never felt more represented in a character than both Clint Barton and Laura Barton.

Was the introduction of the family handled like it should have, storytelling-wise and politics-wise in the Era the movie came out? Absolutely not. Laura deserved to be introduced as a character rather than a plot device, and the established relationship between Clint and Natasha deserved its own storyline to be acknowledged. That's on Whedon and Whedon only.

But if you're going to tell me that Laura wanting a husband and kids is bad, because "that's not how women work", I am going to be angry at you because that's how I work. I want nothing more than a partner, whom I can go to the beach with and watch as our children build sandcastles and shriek over a startled crab skidding along the waterline.

I want nothing more than a partner, whom I can moan at, in the middle of the night and tell "babe, it's your turn" when the baby wakes up and cries for someone to come hold them.

I want nothing more than a partner, who can hold my hand and tell me we got this, as we watch precious little human beings run around on the lawn, on the pavement, on the sand or anywhere else little humans are allowed to run around.

So, to the person who put that in the Laura Barton tag: you don't speak for me. You don't get to decide whether or not other women want or don't want kids and a husband. You don't get to do that.

Get your anti-Laura shit off the Laura Barton tag and into the anti-Laura Barton tag.

Laura Barton is a wonderful, amazing, beautiful person and as much as the MCU fucked her over, I will not let Fandom and fans trample over her because she represents something that's simply having a husband and kids, because that's all the representation I ever wanted.

I just wanted a happy husband, a happy wife and happy kids.

That's all.

Note (because I know this is going to be brought up) : Natasha's storyline is entirely different than this whole post. I don't have an opinion on it and I don't want to discuss it. This is solely about Laura Barton and not Natasha Romanoff. Thank you.

[ardentlythieving]

HEWWO EVERYBODY IT’S END OF YEAR RECAP TIME WITH ME: UR PAL ARDO

First of all if ur reading this, merry christmas if u celebrate it and happy holidays if u don’t!!! Y’all are amazing people and I hope this time of year is a good one for you, and if it’s not I hope you find the time to do smth nice for urself!!

Dam this year has been crazy tho. I mean if ur dash is anything like mine you’ve prob seen all those posts talking about how long this year has felt re: the sheer amount of stuff happening. But on a more individual level there’s some stuff I wanna say I guess so in no particular order here is my Thoughts™ coz there’s been some good, some bad, and some weird this year. 

So, this year has been a kind of wild one for me in terms of things changing. The big one being that I started university and kinda lost contact with most of my pals from high school. All goods tho, coz I met some amazing new people thru tabletop gaming who idk if I’m at the friends point with yet, but I defo wanna try and get there coz they’re cool as heck. It’s true what people say that starting university is a big change coz DAM things have been wild and hopefully are gonna keep being wild next year espc coz one of my online friends is moving down to start at my university and I’m super excited to meet her in person!! Speaking of meeting people in person I finally got to hang out with @chipmunkwithwings at her place and that was one of the highlights of my year for sure! She’s a super cool person and that week was just utterly brilliant.

Anyways while we’re on the topic of friends this year sure has been exciting for that as well. I’ve made some amazing new ones, gotten closer with some older ones, had some drift apart and thru it all I’ve learnt something important. Namely that, there’s nothing wrong with the friends I had before, but I’ve felt so much better and it’s just been so much healthier for me now I’ve also started pursuing and focusing on friendships with people around my age. It sounds weird to say, but despite having a good collection of close friends there was a part of me that was lonely, and that part has kinda stopped being so much now not all my friends are 10ish years older than me. 

That’s one thing I’ve discovered, but this year has been a big one for discovery for me. I tried a bunch of different papers and found out that I hate international relations and love philosophy. I’ve started learning Swedish!! And probably the biggest and most important discovery: thanks to my friends telling me “dude you really need to do this” I’ve gotten on anti-depressants!!! Which have really been helping me so much. That’s probably.... my biggest regret is that I didn’t get on them a few years ago. Still, I’m on them now and my head is just working so much better. Also, and I’ve talked about this in an earlier post so if you wanna kno deets you can go read it, I properly I guess remembered? stopped repressing? how a friend abused me a few years ago and started working thru the issues I have because of that.  

At this point I’m gonna put things under a cut coz this is where shit is gonna get long. 

Some letters, to the people I’ve known this year. I know a LOT of people so I’m prob gonna not mention anyone so if I don’t mention you: I love y’all. Ur so so fucking brilliant all of u and I’m honored to know you and to have had this chance to be in contact with y’all. I’m deeply sorry for any way I might have wronged you over this year, and if any of you wronged ME I forgive you entirely. If any of you haven’t really talked to me, but want to; or if we’ve drifted outta contact and you wanna pick things back up or ANYTHING at all feel free to msg me anytime. My discord is ardentlyThieving#4893 and this is an open invitation to anyone reading this coz there’s a ton of cool ppl on here who I haven’t talked to as much as I��d like. Anyways onto the individual stuff.

To the afternoon gang. You guys all mean so so fucking much to me, more than probably anyone else. Ur my best support network, my greatest pals. Being friends with you all is a fucking delight. I know I’m not always active in our server, but trust me that it’s nothing on you. I’ve enjoyed every moment hanging out with you guys. Or well, most of them at least :P. We have the wildest conversations and trust me, I wouldn’t have it any other way. I know some of you guys have had a hard time this year and I’m so sorry that you guys are going thru that shit coz y’all deserve so much better. It’s my deepest hope that next year is a good one for all of you and if there’s every anything I can do you guys know where to find me. I love you so so so so so much and I hope these last few days of 2018 are as good for you as they can possibly be.

To the people of Eff’s servers. You guys are super duper cool. Being salty with y’all is so much fun and also so deeply annoying that people keep pulling this shit that we gotta be salty about. I love the fact that we can go from shitty meme posting (usually my fault) to having in depth n thoughtful conversations about just about anything (hopefully usually not my fault). Y’all are amazing people and it feels like you’ve all found urselves a bit more this year, which I’m so happy for you about.

To Sakshi. That’s right, u get an individual one. Ur like, my hero. Srsly dude the fact that ur so fucking patient with the utter dumbasses msging you and that u started this whole deep conversation that ur not backing down from? I’m so proud of you, I admire you so much, and you have my utmost support. Hmu if you ever need me to drag someone for you. Also i’m sorry to out you as a gamer to the fine people of tumblr dot com (actually I’m not that sorry) but it’s been so much fun playing swtor with you. And salt watching things with you. I love how fun our friendship is and also how we can have proper deep conversations like 10/10 A+ content. 

To Hammi. Dude you are awesomesauce. My fave lesbian pal. I love memeing with you and gaming with you and chatting with you. Here’s to another great year broski!

To Clare. We’ve only just met at the very end of this year and I’m so glad we did. Ur super cool and funny and I love ur art n posts.

To my swtor guild. Another group of wonderful people who I’ve only just met. i’m so fucking excited to get to know all of you better coz y’all have such great swtor opinions and are so much fun to play with. Sorry about what I did to the Gizka flagship bridge lmao.

To Sofa. DUDE HI! becoming friends with you this year has been one of the highlights. Thank you for all the support you’ve given me and for all the fun times we’ve had. I adore playing video games with you and I fucking love ur swtor ocs. You’ve been there for me so much, and I hope I’ve been there for you as well. Thank you for everything.

To Marie. Yet another person I met later on this year and haven’t had the chance to get so close with. Defo my bad there I need to msg you more often. Thanks for being there for me, even though I was kind of a shitty friend to you at one point. I didn’t deserve ur patience but you gave it to me anyway and I’m so fuckin grateful for that. I hope to make that up to you in the coming year. <3

To Jason. We were tight at the start of the year and kinda drifted apart which I regret. Msg me anytime dude and if you ever reinstall swtor you should totally hmu coz playing it with you was a ton of fun!! 

To Traya. I know we’ve only talked on and off this year, but I’m so excited for you to be at my university and to hang out in person!! Hang in there dude, coz there’s so many cool people for you to meet and take it from me that university really is so much better than college.

Ok this is where the happy positivity ends!! Again I love y’all so much and I hope that next year is better for all of you then this one was!!! Thanks for being pals with me, I appreciate it so much even when I’m not great at showing it.

Coz there’s one more letter I gotta write coz after however many years I want closure. This is where it ends.

To Teri. Wow. I never thought I’d be saying ur name again. Well typing, but w/e. That first year we were friends was so fucking good and I’m glad we had that, coz you were a pretty cool person. I dunno why you decided to change all that and start hurting me and I’m probably never gonna understand but you know what? That’s ok. I don’t need to. You hurt me, I got out. I’m not sure, but I think you were being hurt by people as well and I hope you got out like I did. No matter how badly you treated me you still don’t deserve to be abused urself. Nobody deserves that. I don’t know if I forgive you, and I don’t know if I ever will, but I hope things are better for you now. I’m sorry for the times I wronged you while we were friends. This isn’t me saying I deserved to be abused by you, because I sure as hell didn’t, but well. Two wrongs don’t make a right and ur abuse doesn’t magically erase the times I wasn’t the greatest friend. I thought ignoring the things you did to me would make things better, but instead I let it all fester inside me and change my behaviour without realizing that’s what happened. So this is me letting go of it all. Coz you don’t get to fuckin take anything else away from me. I’m better now than I was then despite everything you did to me. This is me, making a conscious choice to heal and move on and grow. It’s not gonna be easy, but imma do it and it’s gonna be so fucking wonderful. This is Arden signing out because you don’t GET to have any control over my life anymore. Never ever again.

[cadyrocks]

Every time I see a post like this I'm grateful for how aggressively I curate my dash.

"Stop Ace erasure" buddy I only see ace affirmation and occasional "stop erasing us" posts

"Stop transmasc erasure" accounts that pull that shit tend to eat a block; I try to follow accounts that are inclusive and affirming and it makes my browsing experience so much better

"Discourse has gotten weirdly right-wing and puritan" the closest I get to most discourse topics these days is admiring @official-kircheis for their uranium posting and occasionally shutting on pundits I dislike, then reminding myself of what I'm doing by noting that it's self-indulgent and not the most healthy thing for me.

"These puriteens badly need to learn their history" yeah they do but I won't be the one to give them a decent lesson for a lot of reasons so I just tend to block on sight

So I miss out on this stuff, or only hear about it third hand from people asking for more representation.

Good.

My mental health sucks enough without it. I will enjoy my limited degree of blissful ignorance when using social media. Imma be over here looking at fun memes and reading intersectional affirmation posts and selfies of hot queer people, because I use this hellsite to relax, and many of these issues are things I can't address at all, let alone while blogging on Tumblr dot com.

Have a picture of a massive chocolate dong.

Are people realizing how utterly right wing so many of the cultural discourses passed around this site have been and adding an asterisk saying “I support authentically marginalized identities!” didn’t make it less right wing

[captain-lonagan]

omg another discourse post but what’s this it’s a heavily medicated discourse On the discourse omgggg some bitch trying to understand and summarize both argument while also being biased by what side of the argument they’re on omgggg i apologize in advance

i feel like there are two primary points of divide in the dsmp fandom over whether dream replying directly to assholes on twitter is okay.

the first is:

1. Team Dream Is Correct refers to the twitter assholes nearly exclusively as the ones that do death threats and try to dox him or reply with gore

2. Team Dream Needs PR Aide refers to the twitter assholes that are just standard people being bitchy on the internet as well as the death threat/dox/gore squad, although the primary focus is on the standard bitchy people

and divide two is

1. Team Dream Is Correct completely separates fandom from dream. each encounter between dream and the people he replies to is 1v1 and any fandom interaction that follows is coincidental since dream has no control over what fans do. + he has publicly disavowed those of his fans who harass and dox.

2. Team Dream Needs PR Aide says that since dream has (on his priv) tweeted about getting satisfaction from seeing assholes he replies to going priv because of harassment and he knows what happens to people he directly replies to it’s his responsibility to put some amount of distance between his response and the original asshole’s tweet. his public tweets about disavowing harassers are contradicted by his private encouragement of the behavior that makes assholes go priv. he knows what the consequences of his actions are and should plan his actions accordingly.

like i think most of us agree that the people being god awful in his replies and qrt’s suck and the whole situation is messy. the things that divide us are what kind of people are fair game to be harassed/doxxed and should dream be answering that first question based on someone’s replies to his tweets. his priv tweets have really boosted that second question because now we all know that he knows the people he replies to get doxxed, harassed, death threats etc.

the first divide from above i get why it exists. Team 1 refers to the people who do the most awful replies and Team 2 refers to the people most frequently caught in The Swarm. whichever type of reply you’re focusing most on changes the context quite a bit.

and then there’s the animosity between sides which is just. wonderful really wow we have such an understanding and empathetic community here on tumblr dot com wowowow both sides are doing soooo great.

Team 1 (but #NotAllTeam1) has a tendency to call Team 2 obnoxious or self-absorbed for not being able to put themselves in dream’s shoes and see how much pressure and hate he’s getting. dream easily gets more hate than any other cc at the moment and that no doubt fucks with his head.

Team 2 (but #NotAllTeam2) has a tendency to call Team 1…well there’s not as specific a set of common insults as Team 1 but there’s a lot of implying that Team 1 are just crazy parasocial stans or naive sheep.

so the discourse is going Great.

i don’t know where i’m going with this anymore god help me

Team 1 says “It’s Dream’s replies and his own life, he’s under a lot of pressure and he’s constantly harassed, he should be allowed to dish it out a bit himself,” or, as quite a few people on my dash have said more concisely: “Talk shit get hit”

Team 2 says “Eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. Dream is under pressure so he should see a therapist and set a time limit on his twitter app instead of setting this kind of example for all his fans to follow. He called watching his fans harass people a petting zoo.”

i’m trying to represent team 1 fairly but yeah i’m. im on Team 2 in case you couldn’t tell.

tldr: i think calling everyone on Team Delete Twitter an obnoxious asshole is disingenuous and i think treating Team Dream Good like they’re stupid babies is unhelpful.

[jetsetwife]

The Avocado (avocado!lin x reader)

word count: 1346 words im gonna kms

note: dont read this im begging u do not read this its hell on earth literally there is no explanation for this except that me and dixie have really weird conversations 

summary: on what seems to be a boring sunday afternoon, the emo gods decide to bless you with an avocado. little did you know, that avocado would change your life forever.

It was a boring Sunday afternoon. You had nothing to do since you’d watched literally everything on Netflix and it wasn’t like you had friends to hang out with, so you opened Tumblr (on your COMPUTER, because even though your life was a mess, at least you still had high enough standards not to use the app- okay, you used it sometimes, but it wasn’t like this was a recurring thing, but that’s irrelevant and does nothing to move the story along) and started to scroll through your dash. Everything was going fine, or at least as fine as things can go on tumblr dot com, when a specific post caught your eye.

@worldseemedtoburrn: avocados are ugly fucking green rat potatoes that can go to hell rawr xD

You stared at the screen in shock as a wave of disgust rolled over you. The only conscious thought that ran through your mind was fuck you fuck you fuck you fUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCKI YOU UKFCI YOU FUKC YOU KFUK OYU FCK U, as you clicked onto Dixie’s blog and punched the unfollow button so hard that you nearly smashed your computer.

And then you blocked and reported her for good measure, because fuck her if she can’t appreciate avocados.

After having thought so much about avocados, you were beginning to crave them, so you went to the kitchen to get an avocado, but upon opening the refrigerator, you realized the devastating truth: you’d eaten the last avocado last night.

You sank to the floor and began to cry; all you wanted was an avocado, was that too fucking much to ask? Your body shook with sobs, you’d never get your avocado, and besides that, you were still in a state of shock at Dixie’s tumblr post.

You knew that at this point, the only thing that could make you feel better was Andy Biersack’s sexy chainsaw voice, and so, slowly and with far too much effort, you picked yourself up off the floor and stumbled over to the table where you’d left your phone. You scrolled through your iTunes library until you found your favorite playlist: songs that make me want to be murdered by daddy biersack xD.

You hit play and let Andy’s chainsaw voice wash over you like waves of happiness, his voice was so beautiful… so inspiring… the chainsaw-ness of it made you want to shove a chainsaw up your ass…

“In the end, as we fade into the night… who will tell the story of your life…”

You were so inspired. You walked back to the kitchen and then you saw it.

An avocado. A perfect, beautiful avocado.

“I have given my heart for a moment of glory”

You finally understood the meaning of Andy’s beautiful words. You had given your heart to Andy, and you were finally having your moment of glory.

Slowly, you walked towards the avocado. You picked it up and as you stared at it, tears filled your eyes. It was the most beautiful avocado you had ever seen in your life.

You picked up a knife and began to cut into the avocado…

Suddenly you gasped, letting the avocado roll to the floor. You stared at it in shock. More specifically, you stared at the stone in the middle…

But it wasn’t a stone. It was the face of a man.

“What the fuck!” you shouted.

The face in the avocado stared at you. “Hi,” he said.

There were only two thoughts running through your mind. One of them was what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck. The other was damn, he’s even hotter than Andy Biersack.

“... hi?” you said, your voice trembling. “Sorry I dropped you, I-” You picked the avocado back up and put it back on the counter. “Sorry.”

The avocado smiled at you and your heart sped up. “Thank you. My name’s Lin.”

You blushed and ran your hand through your hair. “Hi, Lin,” you said. “I’m (Y/N).”

“That’s a pretty name,” Lin said. “Almost as pretty as Andy Biersack’s sexy chainsaw voice.”

You gasped. “You like Andy Biersack too?” you exclaimed.

Lin smiled. “I am Andy Biersack.”

“You fucking fake!” you shouted. It had been 5 minutes since Lin told you that he was Andy Biersack and that was the only thing you’d said to him. “You aren’t Andy! You don’t have a sexy chainsaw voice!”

“Oh yeah?” Lin raised an eyebrow. “Fucking listen.”

And he began to sing.

“As long as I’m alive, (Y/N), swear to god you’ll never feel so helpless.”

You gasped. He was Andy Biersack! But then why did he also say he was Lin?

“I’m not actually Andy Biersack,” Lin admitted, as if he could read your mind. “I’m the reincarnation of him. See, the real Andy Biersack died thirty seven years ago, the same year that i was born. 

“Andy is twenty six,” you pointed out.

“No he’s not he’s fucking dead,��� Lin said. “He died thirty seven years ago. And I’m the reincarnation of him.”

“You’re an avocado though.”

Lin let out a dramatic sigh and cast his gaze downwards. “Yes… many years ago, when I first realized I was the reincarnation of Andy, I wanted to see if it was true. So I went to a psychic and asked her if I really was Andy.”

You stared at him, eyes wide with wonder. “And what did she say?”

“She said that I really am Andy. But then she asked me to pay her and I didn’t have enough money, so she turned me into an avocado to get her revenge. I’ll never get to do anything I’d planned on doing… I wanted to write musicals, be an actor… but that’s never going to happen.”

“Oh my god, Lin…” You let out a sigh. “I’m so sorry.”

“It’s alright, it’s not like it’s your fault…” Lin trailed off sadly.

You bit at your lip and looked at Lin with a hopeful look in your eyes. “Lin? There’s something I’ve always wanted Andy Biersack to do to me, but Andy is dead and you’re the next best thing, so… would you?”

“Of course,” Lin said. “I would do anything for you. What do you want me to do?”

“Can you shove a chainsaw up my ass?”

Lin stared at you as if you were crazy. “I am a literal avocado, how the fuck would I shove a chainsaw up your ass?”

You shrugged. “I don’t know. I just really want my chainsaw daddy to shove a chainsaw up my ass.”

“I’m sorry.” Lin stared down at the ground with a sad look in his eyes. “I wish I could do that for you. I would do anything for you, but that’s just not possible.”

He looked like he was about to cry, so you quickly said, “No, no! It’s okay! I don’t need to fuck a chainsaw to be complete in life…” You took a deep breath before continuing. “I only need to fuck you.”

Never in your life had you ever imagined that you’d wake up naked in bed with an avocado, but life was full of surprises.

“Did you sleep well?” Lin asked.

You nodded. “You?”

“Yeah. Especially because I was with you.”

“Aww.” You smiled. “I love you, Lin.” 

“I love you too, (Y/N).”

Suddenly you had an idea. “Wait!” You sat up and grabbed your phone from your bedside table. Before Lin could ask what you were doing, you snapped a quick selfie of the two of you in your bed. Then you opened the tumblr app, even though it’s absolute dog shit, and found Dixie’s blog. You unblocked her and sent her the selfie with the caption: just fucked an avocado, get absolutely rekt. 

You fell back against the mattress and a smile spread across your face. You’d finally gotten your revenge on Dixie after she’d insulted avocados, and you’d found the love of your life, who you loved with your whole heart despite him being a vegetable.

Everything was finally good.

if u read this,,, im so sorry

[the-rolling-libero]

Loved your tags on the post about the CIA dissolving the Iranian democracy, they were very good points and very well said

Thank you! (Lowkey surprised that people actually read my tags) History and history education are things I care a lot about so when stuff like that comes on my dash I feel a need to interject. I agree with the main points that are made there that america needs a more comprehensive and international education system, but Americans talk a lot of shit about their own country, and hello guilty yes, but it's also not as dystopian as people here on tumblr dot com make it seem. The thing about the reblog system is that normally one pervasive point of view is granted authority through notes, and therefore people don't think critically about the posts they see here. So many times I've seen decisive 'take downs' of sexist or racist argument that are immediately countered by sexist and racist ppl, which only seem powerful or decisive because they exist in that bubble of self-affirming note based approval. Anyhow. That's my daily reminder to *finger guns* engage in critical thinking and refrain from immediately absorbing the opinions of others!! (Also thank you again for the nice ask honestly it was v kind of you to say so)