#I think the people of Tumblr will enjoy this story

[mariacallous]

You seem wise. Any advice for avoiding doom scrolling and terrible coping mechanisms?

Yes - avoid most social media, first of all. I keep my accounts on places like facebook, twitter, instagram, bluesky but don't post hardly anything and at this point I only use the dm function for some people, and even then it's mostly memes and occasional updates. I don't read or repost anything on them from people I follow anymore, and I unfollowed a lot of accounts. I use tumblr primarily for a number of reasons, one of which is that I can do other fun stuff on here and see other fun stuff.

Disable push notifications for most of your apps, particularly news apps - choose a few that you really trust or rely on if you feel you need to, but otherwise limit the onslaught coming towards you.

Remember the stuff you do like and enjoy and re-embrace them. You like playing pokemon? Get back in and catch 'em all again. You're a fan of the Inspector Alleyn mysteries by Dame Nagio Marsh? Remember your favorites and re-read them, or see if there's new stories or series similar. Walking with children in nature? Go back out there and breathe the outdoors air, selecting your favorite walks or finding new paths.

Don't neglect yourself - make sure you eat enough as you're able to, sleep enough as you can, brush your teeth and shower regularly enough, listen to your favorite music. Spend time with your favorite people, and rebuild those connections if you need to.

Focus on what you can do - there are always some level of practical contribution anyone and everyone can make, and you can always level up to the next one if you're able and confident enough.

Don't think of yourself as being alone in this - don't isolate and separate.

[hazelfoureyes]

I get paralyzed sometimes replying to comments because saying thank you over and over feels so disengenuine and then time passes and I get embarrassed … hopefully on my long ride tomorrow I can catch up!

But I wanted to say, if you read our stories and interact, it really means the world. We don’t post stories for attention, but we want people to enjoy themselves and when we see that enjoyment we feel our cup fill up again. It makes me feel sure and confident in myself and that makes me feel safe to be inspired. Thank you for always drowning me in love and praise and please know every artist and creator ADORES getting kind feedback so don’t ever feel embarrassed or like a bother to express yourself to them.

I really do wonder which of my tumblr pals or ao3 sweeties are thinking of me when I suddenly feel the urge to write something new or have a spark of inspiration for the next scene. Because it hits like lightning, an instant spark sent from afar. Surely someone is sending it. I know it.

[nahida-flower-princess]

so we are going back to

shifting the blame again

encouraging harassment

looking away when your friends do degrade and harass people (I bet they felt good after making the death threat or calling all proshippers 50 year old men like its funny)

you ignored the conspiracy theory

and no you still generalized and pretend fanfiction turns people evil, and all proshippers defend evil.

I will not pretend that there aren't people who use fiction in a way that harms them, but the majority uses fiction to live out their fantasies and thoughts or deal with feelings they can't in real life.

Some of that might be uncomfortable, or sexual, or weird, or offensive, but unless it causes this person serious distress or harms someone around them, then you can't say that it is actually harmful. You still think what someone enjoys in fiction is a reflection of their irl morals when there is no proof of this

Again you (all) do not care about research, you do not care about mental health, you care about winning a fight that you know you can win. Winning feels good

It has everything to do with personal disgust (and I meant your friends, not you). Your friends are at an age where everything connected to sex will be gross to them (understandable), but that doesn't give them the right to go out and say "well every person who is not WITH me is AGAINST me and most likely a pedo/abuser"

There is a reason why you and your friends don't speak against Stephen King, or Colleen Hoover, or George R. R. Martin, or the director of the movie "Cuties", or why you people (not you star) went along with turning Epstein into a joke when a false story against Hawking became focus.

It's because you don't go after what's problematic, you go after battles you know you can win to feel good. You go after people who can't defend themselves or who are already looked down on by society

Your friends also called the author of the "Boyfriends" webtoon a fetishizer based on what OTHER people said about him, and even though they knew that he was frequently misgendered and called a "confused girl". They never read boyfriends or even attempted to understand why the author decided to characterize stereotypes, he did something "disgusting" in the past and associates with "disgusting" people and that's all that mattered. Simply saying "I don't like boyfriends" was not an option?

Also let's be real, accusing someone of being a "pedophile" with no evidence other than the fiction they like is also a loaded accusation. Pedophilia is exclusively the attraction to a prepubescent child and has 0 to do with fiction (excluding AI and art based on real children). People are going to defend themselves if you're going to call them that

I also highly doubt you encourage your friends to educate themselves considering that this education goes against everything they/you believe in. Besides, your friends refuse to even call the abuse of children with the correct term, have been told by antishippers why you should not use "degenerate" as a word and ignored it

Also the radical obsession was again targeted to your friends. You don't make constant posts about hating proshippers and you're not assuming they're going to violate someone. I am not accusing you of being radical, I said the arguments you all use are mostly spread by radical feminists, who also follow/defend some of your friends

There is an overlap. there is a mountain of evidence of radfems influencing you people, none of you are arguing in good faith. I don't want to have this discourse either, but the constant and hateful obsession with total strangers has to stop

It has only gotten worse over the years. You're not even using a platform where a lot of nsfw is allowed (cause of the tumblr purge in 2018) and most of the things you fight against are illegal. No one is defending the real deal, people use fiction to redirect their thoughts and feelings instead of causing a crime

Again, it has very little to do with "problematic" things. It has more to do if the person who likes transgressive fiction is LGBTQ+ and or if they defend letting people be

and yes, in most cases it is "just fiction". If you are afraid that the media you consume turns you into an immoral person, that says more about you than the media. This is what neither of you understands, you are quick to blame people for your own inability to separate fiction from reality

i'm not even spicebeast or whoever the fuck LOL i'm literally one of rainbow-starheart's followers. you people are so insecure that it's not even laughable. all i did was follow you guys from a blank sideblog and now rainbow-starheart is rallying an entire fucking paragraph of her goons on me because she feels vaguely threatened and wants to use this as a chance to puff up her ego, exactly like i thought she would. rainbow-starheart is a hollow narcissist who has nothing underneath her delicate facade of being a protector and a ringleader. and honestly? it's fucking sad! i genuinely feel sorry for her. how much does your actual life have to suck for you to waste hours of your youth typing up petty callouts, arguing with strangers, and flooding your friends' dashboards with all the turmoil you willingly get involved in (and often cause)? you could be drawing, playing games, hanging out with your friends, learning a new hobby, whatever. but no, it's more important that you log in and earn your special internet points. does anything matter to you besides hollow approval, @rainbow-blocklists?

anyway, i hope you guys enjoy knowing that i'm one of your mutuals and that i'll be laughing about this behind your backs. you'll probably never know it's me lol. you can be baited into believing and trusting ANYONE as long as they seem to be following your song and dance

[foldingfittedsheets]

I used to worry people wouldn’t like my silly nsfw stories if they followed me for cute long gay comics and now that two of my sex shop stories are blowing up I’m fretting all the new followers will get annoyed about the long gay comics.

Repeating my mantra: this is my blog and I post what I want to.

[cultivating-wildflowers]

tagged by @thejonderettegirl to share six books I want to read in 2025 (and Gigi, your six books are all EXCELLENT choices 👏🏻)

tagging @eddis-not-eeddis, @rubyintheskywithdiamonds, @stormsouls, and anyone else who wants to join (yes, that means you!)

[somefisher]

Fuck my stupid lonely gay life

[tommyriddleobsessed]

everytime something like this shows up on my feed, I'm reminded of this argument between my parents.

My dad had said something about what would happen to my mom and I if he died and my mom just went NUTS and all I can recall from this now is when she said "YOU KNOW SHE HAS DADDY ISSUES" referring to me (obviously) since I'd get really REALLY upset anytime he talked about that.

So now all I can hear when I see a really hot, older guy on my feed is my mom yelling at the top of her lungs about me having daddy issues 💀

NEED THAT OLD MAN IN THOSE SLUTTY GLASSES

[fungi-maestro]

a few fun gifs from True Stories (1986)

[edge-oftheworld]

when I was in high school there was a tendency whenever there was an attractive boy to simply fan over him. in a way that talked over everything he might say for himself and created a narrative that completely ignored, the fact in some cases, that he was really struggling—or if he was struggling, to pin all the blame on the girl he’s dating and completely ignore the thousands of other factors (no it can’t be mental illness or unaccommodated disability or systemic abuse or exploitation and if he is in an abusive relationship we won’t ever consider the factors that put him at risk for that)

and I’m not saying this fandom is like that. I get the need for privacy around some things and how in public conversations sometimes it’s a lot more respectful to stick to the positives (everyone who does that, I admire you) or even the struggles that are talked about publicly, show respect by not reading too far into them. there’s a time and place for that. but sometimes I feel like our only options are shitty and ableist gossip or totally ignoring the systemic and structural issues we know exist in something like the music industry until someone dies and then we’re looking for someone to blame. friends, there is a point where the respectful thing is to listen to what someone says and come together to make things better. and you can learn how to have that conversation respectfully. please do

[shannonsketches]

Terrible news gang after the passing of Toriyama sensei my DBZ brainrot is back

[cuteniaarts]

What if… Suiren in Vaatu’s colours 😳👀

[chocolate-cream-soldier]

-.-

[musical-chick-13]

"This show is SO good, you should watch it!!"

I gotta be honest. If I look at a character list on Wikipedia and get five characters down without seeing a single woman, it's probably not for me.

[deepsixsquid]

Would you fuck with Splatoon the way that you do if you didn't have anyone to play/talk about the game with? No splat social media, forums, discord, or friends. Just you, Nocchan, and the solo queue

THAT is a really good question, had to think about this one for a long time For about as long as I can remember, I've been fine with enjoying a vast majority of things by myself, still kinda do even now. BUT, while I know that I would still enjoy Splatoon if I were completely solo, as I went into this series on my own in the first place, I would definitely NOT be as into it as I am now if I were on my own the whole time. A lot would be different if I didn't have places for clips/videos, talking with people, learning from people and, most importantly, if I didn't have my team. Honestly, without them, Nocchan probably wouldn't be here, I'd probably have an entirely different, and far less intense, squid being my main OC, and I definitely wouldn't be as confident, or as much of a fighter, if I didn't have all this.

I could ramble A LOT about this one, it got me thinkin about so many things But, to sum it up, nah, I wouldn't be as into it as I am without everything else, especially my friends It'd be more like "Man, this game's fun~" instead of "This series has gone on to have a profound impact on my life and changed me, as a a person, on a fundamental level"

[brood-mother]

if you’re ever worried about your fic not being good enough, i beg you to scroll through literally any ao3 tag and you will see  - and i mean this in the nicest way possible - that your work doesn’t have to be great or even by many accounts ‘good’ for people to enjoy it and engage with it in a meaningful way. the two cake effect is so so real. if you write it, people will read it. 

[la-nute]

I returned to Mio in 2017 and began testing the waters. The space plants have gone through the wringer and I am still working on them. Gonna shove some worldbuilding below the cut.

So far the concept is that the people have plant like growths on their heads which produce energy via photosynthesis. This suppliments their limited diet due to living atop a mountain. The air is thin and vegetation sparse so they have a hard time gaining all of their nutrition from external sources. When the clouds are thin or the sun is out many stop consuming meals to save them for the inevitable weeks of cloud cover that will roll in.

Another idea was to have them be able to digest rocks for sustenance, but I'm not quite content with that. I prefer to keep the rocks as a resource for producing thread, paper, houses, and a few technological devices.

Currently the plant growths are only limited by placement, but I will probably circle back and reconsider this. There are a few different tribes of the space plant people so having different plant styles for each may be helpful in differenciating them.