#WHY DOES EVERY WEBSITE DOES THIS FOR FUCK SAKE

[maburito]

????? What the fuck happened to deskpot youtube???

Why did they swap places of the comments and videos????

[genderqueerdykes]

honestly, as a trans woman who's running a fairly 'popular' or whatever queer blog, i've noticed so much shit in the past 2 years and i'm just gonna lay it out for y'all. it's a new year. it's 2025. i do NOT wanna carry any more of this bullshit forward. i'm calling everything for what it is. if this pisses you off, unfollow or block and move on.

as someone else put it in the tags on one of my other posts:

i am sick and tired of not talking about extremely important queer conversation topics for the sake of "keeping the peace".

this is not giving trans women and transfemmes a better quality of life to attack literally every every and all trans men for being trans men. it's making people fucking scared shitless of us. i hope people realize this isn't helping improve the opinion other people have on trans women and transfemmes. it's making people absolutely fucking terrified to even exist around us, because we've gotten to the point where we're attacking literally everyone and anyone who says something we don't like. people are fucking terrified of talking around transfemmes and trans women and it's time we broke the silence on that.

other transfemmes and trans women: do you seriously, really want other trans people to be scared to death of you? do you really want other trans people to be absolutely fucking terrified to speak around you because they're scared of getting fucking yelled at? do you really want other trans people to be utterly terrified to speak up about their own trans issues for fear of being told they hate you? do you really want other people around you to feel utterly terrified to talk about anything queer related at all for fear of being corrected, looked down upon, or verbally harassed?

i am just completely done with this environment we've fostered where basically everyone is on pins and goddamn needles holding themselves back from having real, genuine, impactful, substantial conversations about gender because they're absolutely scared shitless of being called transmisogynistic and publicly cancelled and harassed at all times for saying something as simple as "trans men don't have it easy" or talking about how AFAB people can also be trans. it really does not take much at all to set people off on this website and start accusing people of being transmisogynists left right and center.

i'm not participating in this weird mind game anymore. i do not like how this is being used to control the narrative on transness and trans experiences.

i am done with having to walk on eggshells in every. single. conversation. we have about gender.

i am done with acting like talking about transmasculinity and transmanhood is somehow magically attacking and silencing trans women and transfemmes.

i am done with people having to tack on massive disclaimers saying that they're not attacking trans women and transfemmes just for talking about their experiences on just about every post people write about gender.

i feel like every conversation about gender on here has to be so fucking sterile and calculated and meticulously planned out and stripped of most of its contents in order to not immediately get slammed with a "oh so you hate trans women" or a "oh so you're transmisogynstic." it's fine to point out genuine transmisogyny, i'm not gonna say you have to put up with it when it's real, but can we acknowledge that people are leveraging the fear other people have of being called transmisogynistic to shut people up?

at this point it's being used as a scare tactic and i'm so over it. i loathe how accusing people of being transmisogynistic is a default insult. trans men can't make a post about transmasculinity without someone getting pissed off and calling them transmisogynistic. trans men can't talk about a goddamn thing without being told to shut up, for some reason? why is this happening? like literally why are you doing this? trans men can't talk about ANYTHING at this point. like they needed to be able to coin words for the specific types of oppression they face so they could talk about it, and instead they just get fucking yelled at and told they're being copycats and that the violence they faced wasn't real? what the actual hell is this accomplishing?

why are we acting like we own oppression and no one else can even come close to understanding what its like? come on now, we don't own the goddamn concept of oppression. we also don't own transness. i am sick to death of this idea that transfemininity and trans womanhood are the only "real" ways to be trans. we do not own the concept of transness. it's not just about us. "trans rights" applies to more than just us. it can't be about us all the time. WE are the ones being self centered right now. WE are the ones who are forcing the conversation to be about us in situations where it's completely and totally inappropriate.

we need to say it for what it is: we're fostering an environment where, at this point, only trans women and transfemmes are allowed to talk about anything queer related at this point. like can we call it for what it is? for some reason, trans men and transmascs aren't allowed to talk about trans manhood or transmasculinity at all. ever. they're not allowed to say a fucking peep. they have to shut up and listen to a trans woman explain it to them, because for some reason, the trans woman knows trans manhood better than the trans man. this is out of fucking control, we should not have trans women explaining trans manhood to other people unless they are also a trans man. this is just unacceptable. transfems attack transmascs who speak for transfems, and yet this is seen as good and the norm?

you are not cool if you hate trans men and misgender them on purpose. this isn't feminist. this isn't progressive. you're not getting back at the patriarchy- most trans men do not benefit from patriarchy and never will- you would understand this if you listened to them. instead of talking over and for trans men, and listening to people who talk over and for trans men, if you listened to trans men, the source, you'd understand that no, transmasculine lives are NOT easy and no, trans men do not instantly benefit from patriarchal society if at all, ever. if you listened you'd understand that T doesn't make people aggressive and hostile and evil. if you listened you'd understand that there are a lot of wonderful, loving trans men out there are who are not transmisogynistic just by virtue of existing.

nobody is saying that we want to you prioritize men over trans women when we talk about trans men's rights. we're not saying that we need to talk about men all the time and never talk about women, and that men are the only ones allowed to talk, now. we really have to let multiple people participate in conversations. we can't keep doing this thing where One Gender Has To Be Superior Over another. that's gender essentialism. why must you keep yourself trapped inside the binary like that? why are you so desperate to stay stuck inside of the machine that's trying to destroy you?

challenging someone else's transphobia is not being transphobic. challenging someone else's behavior is not hating them or their gender. criticism is not an attack on trans womanhood and transfemininity. transfemmes are trans women are not immune to criticism and we need to stop acting like we are. we're not. we've created an echo chamber where only trans women and transfemmes are allowed to talk right now and it's not transmisogynistic to point that out, because it's literally happening before our eyes.

if we're demanding that other people treat us better, why are we treating other people like shit in the process to get it?

stop silencing other people talking about other trans experiences. transfemininity and trans womanhood are not the only ways to be trans. stop forcing yourself into conversations you don't belong in. if you don't want trans men do that, don't do it as a trans woman. don't barge into conversations you have literally 0 stock in just to be rude and mean and make the conversation about trans women instead. let other people talk. this has gone on for way too long.

let. other. trans. people. talk. we shouldn't have let it get this bad. but i'm not letting it stay this bad. if you want to accuse people having genuine conversations about transness of being transmisogynistic just because they're not a trans woman, then feel free, i'm not gonna stop you, but i'm not listening to you. i don't care anymore. i'm sick to death of not being able to have REAL conversations on here because some people don't like being reminded that they are not the only people who suffer under cisheteronormative patriarchy. if you can't accept that you are not the only one who suffers under patriarchy and that men need to be liberated from patriarchy as well, then i'm not interested in having a conversation with you to begin with.

seriously, if any of this bothers you, please just block me. i'm not participating in these dumb ass little mind games anymore. i do not give a singular shit about offending people who think this behavior is okay. i spent way too long being afraid to speak up about real world issues because of shitty internet trolls. i don't give a fuck if someone you don't like speaking about their experiences hurts your feelings- you are the problem here.

this is affecting real people in real time and i care about that. i care about people, not stupid ideologies and fighting over who is or isn't "really trans". i care about people, not fighting over labels. open your mind and understand that is is about real ass people, and not just ideologies. trans men and mascs are real ass people. they're not antagonists made specifically to attack and piss off transfemmes and trans women. enough of this.

[melonteee]

sometimes in your vid essays when you briefly diverge into the topic of powerscaling and such I find it hilarious in regards to One Piece specifically because that series is so allergic to that kind of discussion. like as someone who's well-versed in regards to How Powerscaling Works, OP straight up does not give numbers the way other series do and if you go to any powerscaling type wiki/website their OP pages are in fact just born from a million assumptions. One Piece will have a dude say "Im Big Dick McGee" and do one insanely cool thing that has everyone freaking out and powerscalers will be pulling their hair out because *they can't quantify that shit* and have to make a million assumptions as to how strong OP characters really are.

And i feel like Oda has the same mindset because he introduced the doriki system as an actual Power Scale System in water seven and then threw it the hell away mid arc with no reference to it ever again and YET because it's the single point of actual in-series power measuring youll find forums today still using it to make 15 more follow-up assumptions for characters in the current canon. no one can handle the silly goofines of this whole thing and thats not even counting how OP powerlevel discussions become lore discussions too bc how are they going to account for everyone being superhuman due to their planet being far more massive and thus having stronger gravity.

its so hilarious no other shonen could ever resist not introducing a consistent powerscaling system for 2+ decades

EXACTLY DFGHJKDF this is why I've been SAYING you can call One Piece a battle shonen all you want, because there ARE battles in it, but Oda so CLEARLY puts narrative over ANY sort of power system. Every time someone asks Oda any battle relevant question, he always answers with some bullshit JHKFGD like "how far can Luffy stretch?? oh about 20 gum gums" LIKE HHHH he so clearly DOESN'T care to stick to any strict power system. I mean the most recent huge fight was a TOM AND JERRY inspired fight for god's sake, Gear 5 throws any and all power scaling conversations out the window for all we know Gear 5 can do fucking ANYTHING.

I've literally seen One Piece guys and Dragonball guys fighting about whether Gear 5 could beat Goku, and it's like, mother fucker for all we know Gear 5 could just bugs bunny a kamehameha back at him JDFHGKD like we literally do not know the scale of Gear 5. Hell we don't know the scale of MOST characters in One Piece. I was SO confused as to why the term 'admiral level' was a thing cause we've barely seen the admirals...do anything?? Like yeah Akainu can turn into magma and whatever, but what else??? Why is this term even a thing if we haven't even seen the scale of what any of these guys can do JKFGDFGD I will admit I have a much more plot/narrative driven head but I truly cannot understand how One Piece power scalers get any of their arguments or data hhhhhh

[magnoliamyrrh]

sorry this is gonna be triggering

inevitably if youre on trauma tumblr you will come across eventually this photo of a little girl holding a cigarette and every. time. it makes me lose my mind because that photo and another photo of her is from a confirmed set of cp and before tumblr banned my old account i made abt a billion posts abt it and im not the only one who has and STILL i STILL come across those two photos out of that cp set which arent explicit all the god forsaken time

if i remember correctly that poor girl was killed after i dont even fucking remember

and its like???? first off why are u reblogging a photo of a child in a clearly weird setting smoking a cigarette and not thinking aha. this is actual child abuse and mayperhaps not some edgy aesthetic for my edgy asthetic blog

for fucks sake the cp set of this poor girl is on fucking google. its literally a google backwards image search away because the images of her abuse have become so widespread and for awhile they got scrubbed off of the top web but. not anymore. again.

In all the million posts that have been circulated about those photos on her and to not reblog them, with some basic fucking thinking,,,,,, can u not,,,, piece it together

so guess whose waking up tomorrow and fucking filing fbi reports on shady fucking websites which is insanely triggering and maybe it does nothing but thats literally all i Can fucking do and also im gonna fucking kill someone

[hindulivesmatter]

Hey anon, you threw a tantrum in my inbox at midnight. But you know what, I'll address your ask bit by bit, because I'm nice.

It's every news organization that is blatantly Hinduphobic and either refuses to cover actual cases or alters its headlines to be misleading. The Citizenship Amendment Bill you're speaking about is not taking away citizenship rights, oh my god. Do your goddamn research. Here is what it actually entails.

Next. I reblogged a-s fischer's reply because that was the one I was focusing on. Not to mention all the news articles in the other reblogs were all thinly veiled propaganda. My "sources" were all actual fucking cases, buddy. When did I pretend that's all there is. a-s fischer blocked me like a coward after replying to me.

Huh. I'd love to know what your definition of Islamophobia is, because it seems like NOBODY ON THIS DAMN WEBSITE CAN SEEM TO AGREE ON A DEFINITION. I've defended every single thing Modi does? Absolutely not. BJP is a political party in the end, and they have members who are absolute pieces of shit. For example, Brij Bhushan Singh. I hate who he is as a human being, and he deserves absolutely no power. He deserves NOTHING. Understand this. Just because I talk about the positive side of BJP does not mean I won't condemn them when it is required. I will bash them when it's necessary, you condescending ass.

Yeah, we are educating people about our cultures, because currently, all I've seen over Tumblr is hatred for our own religion, Hinduphobia and antisemitism running WILD.

Also, I am Indian? I'm literally Marathi. I wasn't even replying to tikkunolamorgtfo, i was replying to a-s fischer. The OP wasn't even who I was talking about. Why can't a Jewish person be Indian? When did I ever assume that? a-s fischer was literally calling Hindutva "Hinduva" for god's sake.

Bro, you think we have an agenda, I promise you we don't. I'm an 18-year-old girl in college who's trying to spread awareness about Hinduphobia. That's literally it. Go piss your pants and cry about it somewhere else.

Liar liar pants on fire. Let's not pretend that the media in India isn't heavily skewed. The prejudice is real, and the media is perfectly happy to twist headlines to frame us as villains. I'd tell you to use your critical thinking skills, but from this long-ass rant you sent me, I can tell you don't have any.

[thoroughlyskeptic]

I am getting tired of the same damned arguments from the nannies every damn time we mention things might not be copacetic in the fucking house of cards that is the Cumberbatches.

First, the harping on Occam's Razor. For fuck's sake. It doesn't mean what you think it does.

When you hear hoofbeats, think horses. We have all seen or heard this phrase. The conclusion you can draw by Occam's razor does not exclude the idea of zebra. The simplest explanation is that there was a sound. Regardless of what made the noise. To make any other statement is to assume facts not in evidence.

So what is the fucking point of all of this? Why the hell does it matter?

You harp on the facts as you see them. House said it best. People lie. It's the human condition. Trust none of what you hear and half of what you see.

The facts are thus.

A religious wedding ceremony(not a secular marriage) was celebrated. The reading made a reference to a date that was 9 months before the reported date of a child that is reported to be Benedict and Sophie's.

There was a christening for one bundle of white fabric.

There have been names reported for 3 children.

Benedict has repeatedly said 2 boys.

Sophie has made comments about not being motherly.

Benedict has appeared less in public then previously as judged by random tweets, selfies and social media posts.

There have been very limited sighting of Benedict with varying numbers of children, and sometimes with Sophie.

The children are reported to be school aged.

The links below are reddit threads and a website that may prove educational. One of the prevailing arguments used by the fucking nannies is that no person in today's society would ever fake a fucking marriage.

Well, I beg to differ.

Also an argument, some skeptics believe that Benedict might be gay. They argued that he married for his career and for children. The nannies countered that no one in this day and age does that.

I beg to differ.

Another argument is that Benedict wanted children and this was a means to an end or Sophie might have baby-trapped him. The nannies countered that no one gets married because they get knocked up.

I beg to fucking differ.

The nannies have stated that Benedict has stayed with Sophie so they must love each other. They believe that people don't stay married if they hate each other.

I fucking beg to fucking differ.

These aren't isolated posts either. There are specific examples when search parameters were entered. There is also a whole damn website set up to facilitate marriages of convenience.

So next time you're spouting off that drivel about true love forever and how long they've been married think about some of these stories and maybe have a point of view that is not the same as everyone else.

https://www.reddit.com/r/confession/s/3OWyxVepa0

https://www.reddit.com/r/offmychest/s/V0AdZ70e1p

https://www.reddit.com/r/Marriage/s/KGFqfOunVF

https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueOffMyChest/s/J7A0qomZZf

https://www.reddit.com/r/regretfulparents/s/lOEYNcRrLH

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/s/1GgP7gNhWE

https://www.reddit.com/r/Arrangedmarriage/s/LkG9qtNuHH

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/s/XbzsTKi5ME

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/s/0RrqNtX21U

https://www.reddit.com/r/lgbt/s/xig3vA5FxP

https://www.reddit.com/r/LesbianActually/s/VDX9057rTC

https://www.reddit.com/r/LesbianActually/s/PAF1A01UCM

https://www.reddit.com/r/weddingshaming/s/QL9Csezfa4

https://www.reddit.com/r/childfree/s/d3ghHhRrUc

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/supreme-court/marriage-of-convenience-finding-does-not-make-marriage-a-legal-nullity-court-rules-1.4314801

https://lgbtmoc.com/

[motorclit]

Got some advice for a lot of Gen Z and Gen Alpha: learn your technology.

No. I mean actually LEARN it, not just how to navigate it. Learn how it works, why it works the way it does, learn to code, learn even the laws, what it's like to run a website, servers, etc.

Cuz if you want online alternatives to the same 5 websites or some shit, you're gonna have to be the ones who come together and do it. If you got time to scroll endless hours on Twitter and tiktok, you got time to ban together with like-minded people and learn how to take back the internet. (Fellow Millennials who remember MySpace, take note as well!)

I advise you learn the history of what the internet has been like. Don't just read blog posts, articles, and watch YouTube videos. Talk to us Millennials about it! Many of us learned very basic coding from just wanting a better-looking MySpace profile! YOU CAN STILL CODE YOUR TUMBLR BLOG TO LOOK COOL FOR WEB BROWSERS.

Learn to understand that the internet is more than touchscreens and apps! The internet was NEVER supposed to be what it is today! Several people sounded the alarm about big companies creeping into the internet! What we are living through is why! Because guess what: THE INTERNET USED TO BE FUN!

Please please PLEASE try this for a while! I'm even trying to learn more basic coding myself! This book from 2006 helps break down the basics into something that's understandable:

If the pic doesn't load, the book is called "Head First: HTML with CSS and XHTML", a learner's guide to creating standards-based web pages. The authors listed on the cover are Elisabeth Freeman and Eric Freeman.

Yes, this teaches you how to make a very simple web pages from the mid-00s and it only works on a web browser, but my gods, the sense of satisfaction you get from making this shit work...

YOU ALSO DONT NEED FANCY FUCKING SOFTWARE. EVERY COMPUTER COMES WITH THE PROGRAM TO MAKE WEBPAGES.

AND THAT PROGRAM IS CALLED NOTEPAD.

I AM NOT KIDDING. NOTEPAD IS SPECIFICALLY FOR CODING. YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET TO DO THIS EITHER. YOU CAN MAKE IT AND TWEAK IT TO YOUR HEART'S CONTENT UNTIL IT'S READY TO GO ONTO THE INTERNET!

Be aware: the server thing you can upload your practice website to listed in this book is defunct. The images for examples in this book might be, too. With this in mind, I chose a subject I knew something about for practice, and that was simply the topic of sunflowers. (I didn't upload it to the internet. I liked practicing with it as I learned in this book... and I gotta revise while I get back into it.)

Pick a topic for the sake of practice because you'll wanna learn how to link your custom pages together in order to navigate your own site and such.

I PROMISE YOU that this will feel very satisfactory if you give this a shot!

LET THIS BE YOUR GATEWAY INTO TRULY LEARNING HOW THE TECH YOU GREW UP WITH WORKS SO THAT YOU CAN POTENTIALLY HELP THE INTERNET AS A WHOLE! BECAUSE TECH KNOWLEDGE IS MORE THAN JUST NAVIGATING AN APP!

Please consider this. Help make the internet a less shitty place. Get together with friends (in person or online) and learn together!

We are the internet!

[eruhamster]

Yknow I feel like the people on here that try to argue that the whole "your brain isn't finished developing until your 20s" thing is a myth (it really isn't, it's just not a specific dedicated age, but calling it bullshit is the equivalent of saying it's bullshit that girls hit puberty at about 12), really just... Don't comprehend that not everything needs to be or is actively solved with the law.

The argument I always see is 'if you say this it makes it more likely you get your rights taken away until you're 25' but like. There is no reason to believe that's true. Everyone has always known for long before MRIs were developed that a 20yo is a fucking idiot kid. There is a reason why we say "college kid," not "college adult." There is a reason why we say "frat boy," not "frat man." There is a reason why you can't run for president until 35.

Any rational person knows that kids from 18-25 tend to be idiots who still tend to act on impulse. It's been long recorded that those are some of the prime ages for crime, and people only start to become less impulsive and less likely to commit crime from their 30s onward. And I think if you are 25 or older, it really does become clear to you just how dumb college-age kids are. For me, I could definitely tell a change in my thinking around my mid 20s. I could tell I stopped acting as impulsively as I used to and if I did something stupid like eat dairy (lactose intolerant), I tended to be fully aware of how I'd feel in 30 min, versus before where I'd say... I was aware, but would downplay it in my head as 'it won't be that bad'(it always was.)

We have ALWAYS known that 18yos are not complete adults. It's only these people on the internet who obsess over numbers so much and get this weird hangup about reaching 18, who don't seem to realize the law does not need to be used to police every aspect of your life. Existing age guidelines are cutoffs for when it's your own business. It's not the government's problem if a 21yo gets their heart broken because a 40yo was taking advantage of them with no plans of commitment, for instance. The drinking age sitting at 21 is because when it was lower, college kids were going on drunken joy rides and getting people killed because suddenly being given all the rights of an adult made dumbass college kids go buck wild. But there's no reason anyone would ever argue to increase it higher. The smoking age was only increased for simplicity's sake and to prevent 18yos in high school from acting as a gateway for their underage friends to get access to vapes or cigarettes.

It's not like any rational politician has ever argued that the legal age of majority should be over 18. It just doesn't happen, people on this website just obsess way too much over the law and think that just an acknowledgement that 18 isn't a magic number that makes you perfectly sound and capable and rational versus a 17yo means that the government is gonna take their rights away

[madeimpact]

👽👨‍👨‍👧‍👧🗝🥂

It is Munday, my dudes || @vitrumbra

👽 AUs

Dude are you KIDDING??? I love AUs so much that back before I shortened my alias to not be an embarrassing Google Translate mishap, a running joke with my friends was (in the voice of "randy your sticks") NEGAU YOUR AU!!!!!

I'm a sucker for them. I love them. ESPECIALLY ones that stick guys from one fandom in the universe of another. My Madoka AU for the Evangelion kids is my precious baby brain child that I will cherish for the rest of forever and hopefully one day actually finish a fic or doujin or SOMETHING of. Bonus points if I can take the lore and fucking run with it like we're doing with the FFXV guys in Pokémon :^)

👨‍👨‍👧‍👧 fankids

Again: are you kidding? Not to put an RP partner on blast here, but @novuscaelum is a joy for me to interact with and bounce off of. Fankids are great! Just...with the caveat that it's mostly (not entirely but mostly) on the fankid to make sure that they're not forcing the parent to compromise too much on their portrayal. A little give and take on both ends makes for a happy RPing, but chances are if you're the fankid, you came up with your OC based on some preconceived notions you have about the canon parent(s) which you may not share with the person you're writing with. TL;DR: Communication is key!

🗝 selectiveness in the RPC

I think there's a tendency to equate selectiveness with elitism, which. It's just Not. People have boundaries, and it's important to make your own clear and respect those of others. I've been the person who didn't get followed back or got softblocked before, and it sucks!! I know it does!! But nobody on this website owes you RP interactions, and for every one person that passes on you, there will be five others that are more than willing to write with you.

🥂 my favorite part of the canon

I'll go with KH since that's one of my main things right now and you didn't specify LOL /nm

It's hard to pick one favorite thing no matter how I interpret this question. I could go with meta-wise what's my favorite thing about KH as a series, or in-universe what's my favorite plot beat, lore, etc. I'll go with the latter interpretation for the purposes of this meme, and for KH...one of my favorite things is how very not chosen one Sora is. The story goes out of its way to say that Sora is an ordinary kid who likes taking naps on the beach and is content with his life on the islands, if anything mostly going along with Riku's hunger to see what else is out there. For fuck's sake, the Kingdom Key was meant to be RIKU'S at first, and it chose his heart instead in the wake of what happened to the Islands. "I know that the Keyblade didn't choose me, and I don't care. I'm proud to be a small part of something bigger — the people it did choose."

The fact that he's just a kid who, through sheer force of will and desire to protect what matters to him, strong armed his way into being the hero is way more powerful than the Chosen One trope will ever be, in my humble opinion. It's why I'm so scared of the murmurs of theories that Sora will have some grand ties to some UX / ML era characters or be reincarnated or some shit, that would be such a massive shit on everything that the previous games set up and I hope to GOD it doesn't end up happening.

[transvampireboyfriend]

website rambles

yknow i get that most people were super rude to staff and all and they are just people, that's true.

but i just saw a post aggressively saying we need to be nicer bc we wouldn't survive in other social media websites and like? that's a little ironic that you'd tell the userbase they can't take the heat when staff clearly couldn't take it either.

you think we're rude? what do you think employees at twitter get?? life threats I'm sure.

The whole thing is just another sign that management sucks. because staff was left to navigate the hate on their own and face the angry users in their personal blog because all other methods of contact were met with silence.

For fucks sake, there were many user-created polls that clearly showed the changes were tanking, that's a sign to change course not to dig your heels.

"Tumblr needs to stay relevant, what did you expect would happen?" um, for it to become relevant as it was? you know you can educate people on your product right??? or at least if you wanna treat every user as fucking stupid then I'd expect ui changes sure, but not changes that were CLEARLY biased against trans, queer and poc content.

what did i expect? i expected good management of a website, silly me.

they keep acting like the bare minimum is a tall fucking order and it's not. This is not a big ask to have a website that is not inherently fascist c'mon.

I know the website was already doomed in terms of profits and it would've been a big feat to get it to thrive (not that their attempt was even half-decent) but that does not imply minorities need to be the ones bearing the brunt. shut the fuck up i hate them so much

acting like this is all about how dash looks, like I'm not putting money into here because i didn't have polls before LMAO NO. it's because you're racist and transphobic and queerphobic like what? why would i throw my money at you? rot in hell.

this is NOT HARD. if a team wants to make an algorithm that is not fucking bigoted THEY CAN DO THAT. IT HAS BEEN DONE.

"queerest place on earth" or whatever, if you would've cared about your userbase they would've brought more people in. growing a website is not impossible, you babies.

[lesbiangummybearmafia]

Ok so 1953 was 70 years ago... 2053 is only 29 years away. This is my point the conservatives and Republicans in this country want to drag us all back 70 years ago if they had their way. I chose 1953 out of thin air, but pretty much any year of 50s. Because white men controlled everything back then. It's the 21st century for fuck sake, we're closer to 2053 now, are we all going to sit idly by allow them to this? Y'all realize we could easily vote all those old white bastards out of congress if enough got up off our butts and actually went out and voted, no matter what it takes. The only reason they stay in Congress and everywhere else is because more old conservatives and Republicans get out and vote. And I get those fuckers make impossible in alot of places to vote if we aren't one of them. But we gotta be fuck you, we're stronger, smarter, better, younger, more determined to have a better future. So we're not going to let their bullshit trickery and straight up cheating stop us from voting we'll get it done. Even just to piss those motherfuckers off. Vote for people of color, lgbtqia+ candidates, trans candidates, vote for not Republicans or Democratic candidates (if they get enough votes they'll win), vote for candidates that are younger then 50!! Just fucking vote, because even if think it does nothing, if dislike/hate conservatives/republican/fascist politicians voting against them will piss them the fuck off, prove them wrong about all of us, make them look stupid (which is always fun) and hopefully save our democracy. Because those motherfuckers are chipping away at it, it now huge fucking pieces their taking off not little pebbles. Just look at all laws they've passed at the state level to restrict our civil liberties, control free speech by banning books, passing laws to control women's reproductive rights, first the Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade now having state after state passing insane laws banning abortions. In every case is a clear indication how much conservatives man don't care about women or our lives. Then the onslaught of laws targeting the trans community, limiting their access to health care they need and unleashing a wave of transphobic all over ourcountry. Also laws targeting the lgbtqia+ community, banning drag shows, that in theit history never hurt anyone. There a celebration.

We the people, remember there are way more of us then any political party, any amount of politicians, no matter how much powerful they think they are. We our number them! We are louder, we are angry, we are feed up, we are tried of the lies, we are tried of all the bullshit, we done being told what America should be like. Because that definition doesn't work anymore, we're gonna give America a new definition for right now! For the 21st century, for 2023 because we're not going the fuck backwards no fucking more. The only direction is forward, into the future, we want to know what America can be in 5, 10, 15, 20 years from now. That is not some conservative, Republican, fascist, authoritarian old white man wet dream!!! Nope, not happening not on our watch assholes!

We will not go gentle into that good night! We will rage, rage against the dying of the light!! In other words will not allow our democracy to be killed by traitors to our country that even now spit fascist ideals in Congress, in Governor offices, state legislators, mayors officials, city councils, school districts. Just look at horrors that been unleashed on Florida because of Ron DeSantis who is without doubt a fascist and an authoritarian!

That why the next elections are so important. Why it's so important to register to vote at

And go out vote or to make it easier if your state allows voting by mail, that what I do. I'm in Arizona, they send me a ballot in mail, I fill it out. I can either mail it or drop it off. It's great!! To see if your state has voting by mail go to.

Some other voting resources:

https://rockthevote.org

https://vote411.org

(Helps if your homeless and want to vote)

(Helps people with disabilities to vote)

[asymmetryestablished]

I’m late as hell to the party and literally nobody asked but I’ve finally delivered. here is my Totally Very Official™

One Piece Film Red Song Ranking

from worst to best because tradition or something

I’m going off the original japanese versions, from the album rather than the movie because I feel like it. also that way I get to include Binks’ Brew which everyone knows is a banger

#8 (track 6) The World’s Continuation. this is a good song and I like it! it’s also the only song from Film Red whose melody I can’t consistently call to mind, which makes it by default the worst one. also when I’m listening to the album in the car it’s the one I have to skip because it puts me to sleep, which probably has something to do with why I can’t remember it, but listen, it doesn’t matter. it’s still a lovely song, if a little forgettable

#7 (track 8) BINKUSUNO SAKE. listen I love Binks’ Brew as much as the next pirate but it simply does not suit Ado’s studio-recorded voice as well as it suits drunken sing-alongs. really this just goes to show what bangers every other track on this album is bc from here on out the ratings are all super close

#6 (track 1) New Genesis. GOOD fuckin song. highly recommend starting your road trip with this. for maximum drama, try and time it so the drums kick in just as you hit the highway and step on the gas

#5 (track 2) I’m Invincible. errbody loves a villain song, right? also I would absolutely have ranked this below New Genesis if not for the week or so where it got stuck in my head like twelve times. New Genesis is great but New Genesis did not give me that level of earworm so clearly this track was doing something right

#4 (track 7) Where the Wind Blows. this song is fucking gorgeous and I love it. still gets stuck in my head regularly. the only reason it’s not ranked higher is because fucking look at what is, my dude, cut me some slack. 10/10 ballad, absolutely stellar, literally the only downside is that I can’t bop to it

#3 (track 4) Fleeting Lullaby. SPEAKING OF SONGS I CAN BOP TO. HOT DAMN. this song is so fucking weird and funky and energetic and insane and I love it. a musical fever dream. Uta is insane, Ado’s voice is insane, this song is a total banger

#2 (track 5) Tot Musica. YEAHHHHHHHH BABY. the first song I heard from Film Red, & the first thing that convinced me it’d be worth my time to actually watch the movie. everybody loves Tot Musica. it’s the eardrum-blowing-out song. also it was composed by Hiroyuki motherfucking Sawano which explains So Much. but yeah this song fucks so hard

#1 (track 3) Backlight. listen. LISTEN. Tot Musica may hold a very special place in my heart, and I do love the drama, but I will ALWAYS be a slut for a good rock number. also the whole second verse (which they cut out of the movie for whatever reason) is about being obsessed with “red”. wonder who that could be. anyway this song was my fav even before I looked up the lyrics, it’s just such an absolute banger and I love it so much. the perfect mix of showy, yet singable, & funky, & angry as hell, & so many lines just scratch my brain itches so good, like the lyrics just sound good you know? good fuckin song

Final Thoughts: good songs, great album, literally better than the movie tbh. highly recommend buying it if you’re a CD-buying kinda guy, it’s available on Interscope Records’ website for only like $14USD or something like that

[gemstone9-ao3]

I see this post go around a lot and normally I ignore it because its genuinely the stupidest, most bad-faith, crock of shit I've read on this website -- but I'm beginning to post about ASOIAF on my blog after finally starting to read the books, and so I figure I'll just put all of my thoughts down now and I won't have to think about it again.

GRRM does not claim that the books are "historically accurate". At least no in the way that everyone is saying it here.

Martin HAS said that the books are based off of historical events or aspects of history. The first couple of books are explicitly based off the War of the Roses. Martin HAS said that he thinks medieval history gets "disney-fied" and hand-waved and he's trying to portray a more realistic look at the time period. But he has never said that the way the world works is "historically accurate" -- its not supposed to be our world. It's a medieval fantasy setting, its inevitably going to be different for the sake of creating the story and he is well aware of that fact.

2. GRRM has never claimed that his world was ecologically accurate.

Yes, years long winters would change a lot of things about the world that would make it significantly different. But its a fantasy setting. It's allowed to not be ecologically accurate. Sometimes, in writing, rule of cool wins. The idea of years long winters that the people have to prepare for is cool as hell. And Martin has never made the claim that such a thing would be possible because its a fantasy setting. He doesn't need to.

3. The long winters are not nearly as much of an issue as everyone here is making them.

The winters are mostly an issue for the North. The winters don't hit nearly as long or as hard for more southern areas like King's Landing or Dorne (which is basically a desert). Therefore, the extreme ecological impact that people are describing here wouldn't be nearly as extreme.

4. The long winters in ASOIAF play a huge role in characterizing the actions and thoughts of many people in the world.

Because the north gets hit the hardest by the long winters, every ruler of Winterfell has it as their number one priority (with the exception of war time which can be even worse for them). Ned is explicitly worried about becoming hand of the King because he doesn't want to leave Winterfell at a crucial time of preparing for winter. It's constantly on his mind. In contrast, people who live in the more southern areas, kind of don't give a shit about winter. And this parallels the ways that the politics play out in the world. Lords of Winterfell are always trying to help with the Wall. When Jon joins the Night's Watch, the Others are always his top priority. And by contrast, the south doesn't give a shit about the wall, they don't worry about sending people there or about the warnings the Wall sends. Most of the people in King's Landing explicitly don't believe a zombie problem is happening because they don't care to investigate it.

On top of all that, the long winters are used to characterize individuals as well. Bran is described as a "summer child" because he's never experienced a winter as long as he's been alive. And the idea of only having experienced summers is tied to ideas of peacefulness, joy, and naivety. Renly as his knight peers are described as "the summer knights" because they're young adults who have never fought in war before. They glorify the idea of war because they don't understand its hardships. AND THAT CHARACTERIZATION IS DIRECTLY TIED WITH THEIR INEXPERIENCE WITH WINTER. The long winters in ASOIAF are much more a literary tool in the series and that's part of the reason that its cool as fuck. And part of the reason why rule of cool won in this case.

5. The point of ASOIAF is NOT that "people just suck".

Martin, at the end of the day, is an idealist. He's a humanist. He believes in the inherent good of people. But he also believes in the inherent corruptibility of power. The point of ASOIAF is not that "the real world and people suck", the point is that "people who are in power will inevitably become selfish and exploit those who aren't in power". Martin does not believe that people are evil. He believes that the elite are evil. And it just so happens that we're largely dealing with the elite in ASOIAF so a lot of people suck in these books.

Remember, Martin was a young man in the midst of the Vietnam war, and heavily opposed it. A large body of his work is inspired by the corruption and evil that he, and many other Americans, witnessed and discovered during that time. ASOIAF focuses a lot on evil and power and the complications of war and propaganda. But its also about people trying to be good. People trying to oppose evil. People doing everything in their power to not be corruptible, but also being flawed and not having the answers to such an overpowering system.

6. ASOIAF is not "realistic" because its dark.

Martin's best trait in all of his writing, but in ASOIAF especially, is his character writing. The world is not "realistic" because there is violence and death and rape. It's because the characters are so complex and hold so much depth. We have to keep in mind that Game of Thrones was published in the mid-90s. Before the 90s, popular fantasy was largely a genre of black and white -- good and evil. Characters who are good people and characters who are bad people with little to no in between. Even Lord of the Rings, which is well written from a character stand point, falls into this category. Frodo has flaws, but you'd be hard pressed to find anyone calling Frodo a bad person.

Conversely, ASOIAF is full of characters that the fanbase is constantly debating about whether they are good people or not. Tyrion, in the first few books is one of the most sympathetic characters in the series because he's a man who's been mistreated and discriminated against his entire life. He's also incredibly good and kind in many many ways, such as inventing a saddle for Bran so he can ride a horse again. But slowly, over the course of the books, he is mistreated and betrayed by every single person who he thought cared about him. And it pushes him to the point of basically radicalization. And now he's slowly become the worst person in the series. That is what people mean when they say the series is "realistic" where other media typically isn't. It's that so many characters are developed with this level of complexity and interaction with each other's complexity.

7. GRRM does not hate Tolkien. Nor does he think he's better than Tolkien.

Martin has extreme reverence for Tolkien. I recently read an anthology of Martin's short stories where, in between sections of short story, Martin gives mini-biographies about different parts of his life. And its a fascinating read because its almost like watching the entire history of nerdom in one man. (I highly recommend it but that's besides the point.) In one of these mini-biographies he talks about being a kid and reading the pirated American copy of Lord of the Rings that got published before the real publication happened and talks about how in awe he was the entire time he was reading it. At that point in his life, he had already decided he wanted to be a writer and describes getting depressed and discouraged reading LotR because "I will never be able to write as well as this". Martin adores LotR.

I can concede that sometimes Martin gets a little in his head about his characters (claiming Jaime could beat Aragorn in a fight is actually absurd). But at the end of the day, he's never claimed his writing is better than Tolkien. Absolutely not.

What Martin has done is describe ASOIAF being inspired from the political implications of LotR. Many people quote the "What is Aragorn's tax policy?" thing. But what people don't acknowledge is what the point of that quote is. LotR is (partially) about the goodness of people and Aragorn being the One True King is part of that. Martin, who opposes the concept of Kings and the feudal system as both an American and a man living in the post-modern art movement, had questions about the implications of power, what makes a good leader versus what makes a good man. Aragorn is obviously a good man, but what does his reign as King actually look like.

Ned Stark, partially, is an investigation into those questions. Ned Stark is objectively a good man. He's honorable, kind, compassionate, reasonable, all the things that Aragorn is and is supposed to be. But Ned Stark does not live in middle earth. He lives in a world where giving a woman a chance to escape with her bastard children ends with your head in a basket. Ned is a good man, but he fails as Robert's hand of King because he's compassionate and honorable to people who stab him in the back. This is one weaknesses as a leader and the thing that gets him killed.

Again, Martin never claims that this is better writing than Tolkien. ASOIAF is just asking a different question than LotR is. That's what he's saying when he's talking about Aragorn's tax policy.

8. GRRM does not have a rape fetish. Nor is he a rape apologist.

Listen, I don't know the man personally. I suppose he could be/have either of those things, but there's certainly nothing in the text of ASOIAF (or any of his other work I've read) that indicates either of those things to me. I really don't understand either of these critics.

First, very little of the series actually has rape. I can think of three examples off the top of my head and that's very little rape for five VERY LONG books. Sure, rape is mentioned fairly often as something that happens or can happen, but there isn't very much rape "on screen" in the books.

Second, none of those scenes are portrayed as sexy or okay. Some of them are complicated, and exist in strange grey areas. But they certainly aren't something that I think a reasonable person could call Martin a rape apologist for. And definitely not a rape fetishist.

Third, rape is something that happens kind of often to people. Even in the modern day, let alone in a feudalistic system where women had much less rights. Marital rape (which is two or three examples I mentioned) probably happened very often because is was normalized and acceptable. Especially in the case of political marriages (which is the case for those same two examples). Martin portraying something that definitely happened in history (and still happens in many parts of the world) is not some indication of being a rape obsessed writer. He's portraying something that is a genuine threat to the women in the series. Depiction =/= Glorification

None of this is to say people aren't allowed to dislike the books. Or even dislike Martin. I just get so annoyed with this post in particular because its such a bad faith interpretation of both the series and everything GRRM has ever said.

Anyway, there's probably more I could touch on, but those are the main things that bother me in this post. And now I can have a record of my thoughts so I don't have to worry about it in the future when this post inevitably becomes popular again.

Someone over on Discord asked, "I'm morbidly curious: How BAD is A Song of Ice and Fire in terms of the authenticity George claims it to be?"

My reply was straightforward:

The long and the short of it is that ASOIAF is basically a vehicle for GRRM to present both his rape fetish and his Hobbesian view on human nature and has less historical accuracy than Frozen or most other Disney movies.

That's actually a good way to think of it, now that I've said it--he's Family Unfriendly, they're Family Friendly, but both have the same relationship with History: just Pure Aesthetic with no consideration for how the worldbuilding would work.

[hypnoticcastiel]

Open message to the idiot at Collider.com who works on 9-1-1 articles and the idiot at Collider.com who does NOT oversee the first idiot or turns a blind eye on spoilers in the main title for articles about one of todays biggest shows, whether U.S. region or internationally. For fucks sake, not even every American who watches the show might have seen the big and shocking current ep!!! Why do you fucking idiots at Collider.com blur and hide stuff about other shows or movies regardless of their release date when you write titles for articles and choose preview thumbnail images... but NOT FOR 9-1-1?!

Thnx for ruining the current season for me, this might be the last time that i visit your piece of shit of a media website. Others aren't perfect either, but Collider repeatedly spoils very new and recently released plot twists in movies or shows. Guess no more clicks from me.

[emilyaxford]

okay i actually have too many thoughts about the last two severance eps so i'm just gonna bullet point them under the cut

wow i missed real helly so much. "did you guys all sever your balls in the elevator"

the calling each other hun/attila thing is actually very cute

it threw me off because i've never seen a chinese restaurant in such a white building. and i know that it's probably just because the set design of the show is big on stark whites but it got me thinking about how in chinese culture white can be associated with death. hmmm.

this dinner rapidly turning into whose afraid of virginia woolf. i'm obsessed

the last few episodes i was iffy on but this is winning me back. finally every scene is accomplishing multiple narrative purposes at once

did devon just say she had a crush on a lady at camp. a WIN

mark's amateur brain surgery is stressing me OUT i need this man to do what reghabi says aaaaand he's stroking out. of course.

wow i know we talking about old men fucking a lot on this website but it's beautiful to see some truly old men flirt.

okay onto the latest ep. i always thought they gave mark that haircut because it looks like when your short haircut is growing out (aka me when i was growing out my pixie). and i figured it was his depression making him not get a haircut. and now i'm vindicated!!

wow they're really just dead-wife-montaging this to the absolute gills

kind of funny that from what we've seen of gemma so far, helly is way more like mark's sister than his dead wife

WHY are they giving gemma these insane outfits to wear. why does she need a different hairstyle. it's like the show is being weird for the sake of it which i think is stupid

i really miss miss cobel. i think the show is definitely missing something without her

ugh man okay i don't like this episode and i don't think it was very good. one of the things i enjoyed about severance was that it didn't make me worry about its female characters experiencing gendered violence but i guess that was too good to be true :( anyways stream slow horses for a show where that IS the case

[areyoutheregoditsmejessica]

your post re canonbuddie stans ♥

you liking bucktaylor & megan west ♥♥

you liking bucktalia ♥♥♥

you not liking eddie ♥♥♥♥

you liking marisol ♥♥♥♥♥

your take on canonbuddie overall ♥♥♥♥♥♥

i agree with it all so wholeheartedly!!! buck and eddie literally feel like bros to me. yes, they are besties, and yes, buck has a very lovely bond with chris! but at every single point in the past 6 seasons that could have been used to give Hints to the audience that buck or eddie could ever be romantically involved with a man (or even each other), the show never took it. zero jealousy, zero hesitation to date somebody else, zero insecurity of their "family dynamic" changing when they date again, zero flirtation or appreciative looks or past experiences with men. buck and eddie are both so painfully heterosexual to this day that everybody who honestly thinks of buddie being a feasible option for a canon endgame couple is just delusional to me at this point. and i want to stress that this does not mean that people cannot enjoy and ship buddie to their hearts content! but i need people to fucking learn how to watch and comprehend a narrative realistically because things have gotten so extremely exhausting, even in the tags that are not even meant for buddie! it is everywhere, and i am so so so tired of it.

also, god, i am always so happy whenever i see somebody who enjoys buck and canon buck ships but also shares my disinterest in eddie dfjdsfk; i loved him sm in s2 but that love dwindled more with each new season, s4 and s5 eddie bored me to death. today, i am mostly just indifferent to him. i believe in marisol's power to make his scenes better lmao.

you have any wishes for bucktalia moving forward or some type of scene you'd like to see them in? i personally must see her in lingerie and/or in some really sexy outfit. i just want to stare at them being pretty and cute together, frankly speaking.

legit haven't gotten an anon ask in well over a decade hahaha so this was super neat to open the website and see <3

yes in s2, that character was one of the best male characters i had the pleasure of watching and that dwindled quickly, to the point i wish for the s1 118.

i don't wanna touch on the sexuality of anyone, even fictional characters but the writers have not gone out of their way in anyway to say they aren't straight and i think 7 seasons in, if it was in their plan it would've been done. it's a ryan murphy creation for goodness sake, if he wanted to he would've from ground zero.

i don't have much thought about them yet! they are very aesthetically pleasing. i just want them to stop having buck reinvent himself. we're on buck 345.0 at this point. (i love him and think oliver is GREAT at portraying him, but enough) i was really excited to see where buck and taylor could've gone especially given their history and how we had already been introduced to the audience and had a story independent of his. i also like how she wasn't falling at his feet and also in s4 when he basically used her and she called him out and told him he actually needed to treat her like a friend. why they just decided to take their story in the direction they did, i'll never know. they've written bathena AMAZINGLY and have done a wonderful job with madney, not sure why they aren't doing the same with buck. because after AB, PK, and JLH who came with an already established fanbase, buck/OS seems to be highly popular among the audience and deserves better writing. he was single majority of season 6, so i guess i can't say i wish he was single much longer. i hope natalia becomes a character we can invest in separately from buck. i'm pleased with what very little we've seen so far.

whoever, you are thank you for sending this! and here's to hoping we get season 7 by january 2024.