#Site Ground

[chrisullrich]

New Home, Same Stuff

Hello to all of you who follow this blog. I do appreciate you. Just wanted to take a minute to let you know I’ve left Media Temple and moved my whole operation to new hosting. Why did I do this? Well, one big reason and a few smaller ones. The big one is Media Temple was purchased by Go Daddy. I don’t like Go Daddy. Never have, never will. So, that’s a big “No” for me. The smaller reasons have to…

[bookinit02]

i really do think there’s a huge disconnect on here w/ people who have never used tiktok as to what it actually is and who actually uses it. the number of people i’ve seen call it a “teen dancing app” is actually insane. it has not been a teen dancing app since i was in high school, around 2016 - 2020. the main communities i saw on a daily basis were 1) black history/anti-racism educators, 2) high school & college teachers sharing in-classroom strategies and frustrations with the education system, 3) local/state political leaders giving real-time updates on behind-the-scenes government decisions, & 4) community activism & leadership. like tiktok is an adult platform. almost every person i interacted with was my age or older. and yes it completely depends on your fyp and how you interact with the app, yes there’s still teenagers and dance videos and literally anything else you can think of. but these communities of adults aren’t insubstantial at all, they have literally millions of interactions on a daily basis. there’s about a million other types of communities that i could name just off the top of my head, because the range of users was SO diverse and thriving. it’s a long-distance community tool, just like any other social media—and honestly much better than any other social media, because it relies primarily on the kindness of strangers. i saw at least 5-10 videos today of queer people in rural areas panicking because they don’t have any access to queer community on any other platform or in real life. and before i end this i do want to say i think tiktok is coming back, i think this is a highly orchestrated political move, etc., but i do know it won’t ever be exactly the same. people are panicking about free speech violations because tiktok was a place where people fucking SPEAK. i have never seen mass mobilization and communication in this same way for as long as i’ve been alive. it is the people’s app, not just a silly teenage thing. if you’re not on tiktok and never have been, please stop talking about it like you know anything at all😭

[crocodiller]

When you invite Barcus to camp, and for some reason he decides to stand around next to the biggest hater of gnomes. But I'm sure if he can put up with Wulbren, he can handle Astarion.

[incandescentflower]

One of the best parts of watching Thamepo is seeing the fandom reactions to Jun. He is the most nonthreatening love rival ever. But also the most endearing pain in the ass.

Po on the regular makes gross-out faces at him and heart eyes at Thame. The show is freaking literally called ThamePo and yet I see so many people despising Jun as if he could actually be an obstacle or sobbing that it won't be JunPo.

I find him to be one of the most fun antagonists I have seen in a long time and honestly, all he's done is be annoying and flirt. And people either want to die for him or want to bury him.

[thesilicontribesman]

Bryn Celli Ddu Neolithic Burial Chamber, Anglesey, Wales

[lesbinewren]

this isn’t necessarily new, but i think a big problem we are going to have to grapple with is that a lot of young people on both sides of the aisle who truly believe they are well-informed and plugged in simply do not even look at the news unless it’s pushed onto them via social media. that isn’t to say any news outlets are perfect (lol) but it does mean that what they know is decided by random people on the internet and a social media algorithm’s idea on what will get the most engagement

either young people need to start actually looking at the news (which is easy! a lot of places have free email subscriptions!) or we need to make tiktoks about the boring policy shit that impacts our lives the most year-round

[kanjichris]

ARMANDSTAT: my kink is karma

[one-time-i-dreamt]

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I've never wanted anything more than this shell hair clip

[literallyjusttoa]

Left this abandoned in the drafts (which is a bit ironic) but it's a spin on this post, where instead of Apollo just being locked in some room on Olympus somewhere, he's bound to the ruins of an abandoned Ancient Greek city. Maybe somewhere near Delphi, maybe Troy, idk.

[theladyinwhite13]

the whole “all cis men are bad and therefore all women are perfect and can do no wrong” (regardless of a persons actual beliefs or actions) ideology that i keep seeing in queer spaces is extremely toxic and unhealthy--especially coming from a community that generally criticizes gender and it’s accompanied stereotypes

and also all this does is refuse to acknowledge that abuse CAN and DOES happen in lgbtq relationships, the only difference is that by refusing to talk about it, people don’t know how to identify it, because no. abuse only comes at the hands of cishet men to cishet women right? but ignoring that something is happening is never a progressive way to address it.

and its wild that a community that can agree that gender is a societal construct will also use gender stereotypes to suppress people WITHIN their own community, even when it means being transphobic and biphobic

[lesbian-ashe]

who else is tired of all these posts going around like "[X celebrity man] looks like such a butch lesbian omg" like can we reblog some actual butch lesbians you guys are annoying

[aeolianblues]

Mad that my magazine's first ever full publish is going to be an Oasis article........

[phagodyke]

tumblr refusing to upload pics of me flexing is pureeee dykephobia. the world NEEDS to know how crazy my pump was yesterday its critical people will die if they cant see my forearm definition!!!!

[kvetch19]

x

[menacingearthwork]

if nosferatu 2024 sucks im straight up killing myself