#am i overreacting?? maybe!!

[oatm3al-c00kies]

everyone shut up i need to tell suzanne collins directly that the only part of 'the ballad of songbirds and snakes' that got an actual extended period of laughter in my theatre was the "tuberculosis on legs" joke, a joke made at the expense of a young, suffering, dying, sick tribute as she's about to accidentally ingest poison and kill herself because she's so thirsty and sees water and thinks it will make her feel better. this girl who's so sick because of the living conditions in her district, who was doomed as soon as her name was called, who was probably just so relieved to see an un-smashed bottle of water she didn't think anything of it, too exhausted and dehydrated to think anything of it.

a joke made by the capitol host of the hunger games to try and make capitol citizens laugh and make the horrific things happening in the arena better tv because they already don't see the tributes as people who have lives and who matter and maybe we're so close to her dystopia that we can actually fucking taste it

[lucky-clover-gazette]

another note on the premise of dot and bubble being a bait and switch: the black mirror episode nosedive (one of my favorite tv stories ever) has a protagonist named lacey pound, who is a young white woman with bangs. dot and bubble features lindy pepper, who is also a young white woman with bangs. both episodes include pastel colored and highly stylized clothing and environments. nosedive constructs a powerful satirical critique of influencer culture and social media; but in dot and bubble’s case, the criticism is a shallow and gimmicky imitation.

the point of dot and bubble is for you to expect a nosedive and a lacey pound—but instead you get an actual fucking white supremacist. and that is what the episode is really trying to say. whether you’re a person of color or not, whether you had any suspicion about the lack of poc in the utopia or the way lindy treated the doctor and ruby, you are forced by that ending to reckon with the complete dissolution of the story you expected to experience. and i am white! so i don’t want to assume the experiences of people of color. but i do have to wonder if that dissolution is even just a fraction of the betrayal so many people of color could have felt, how ncuti gatwa could have felt, how freema agyeman could have felt, when the fandom suddenly decided that their stories weren’t worth their respect or attention.

[colfy-wolfy]

someone reposted my art on twitter and got 2k likes without crediting me at all ?! help what do I do

do I report them ?! do I dm them what

[h0estar]

am i tripping, or is this the VERY FIRST TIME anya called damian by his name? 😭

[unoriginal-and-dumb]

I’m nawt gonna lie gang, with the day I’ve had today I realized I should stand up for myself against stuff that’s making me upset because I’ve had enough of not being joyous so im addressing it

I said before that I don’t mind if people draw inspiration from my infected design, but there has been a lot of times (so many today of all days of course) where it really is just my design and yes I am flattered but please, please credit me

I came up with the design as a whole on my own, based entirely on “oh that would be kinda cool” in my head, and when I first started drawing it I didn’t really see anyone else drawing rlly anything similar to my design at all so I mean.. I dunno man I kinda would like credit maybe please

adding on to part of the reason why im doin this cuz now im seeing other people given credits and it’s like hm ok 😮😕

It’s been happening for nearly every single fandom I’ve been in now and it’s like errr ok…

[silly-lil-scribbles]

geesussss can my brain chill out maybe like at this point people arent even doing anything im pretty sure its just pretending something is off so i can start panicking about if someone hates me and im not enough and they will leave and i am the worst person ever because of this. why. dude. please. nothing happened. why do you even do this. and worse why the fuck do i still believe you every time no matter what

[winryrockbellwannabe]

this guy is honestly making me question too much shit

bc there's no way in hell is just that nice, right?

at this point either: 1. he's being this nice and kind bc he has a crush on me, 2. he's honestly that nice, which will make me have a crush on him, bc omg. he's just the nicest person ever

[falsehuman-png]

If you know me, I'm not trans. For my safety, I'm not trans. Nor have I ever been. I feel so unsafe in my own country for being a disabled (not) trans hispanic person. I'm going to keep living but I do not hold any respect for my country.

[fionnalovesanimeboysandholo]

I finally finished watching Tower of god (the first season) and I was expecting that I would hate Rachel despite what people were saying about her. I mean like she was in the list of the most hated characters in anime but I don't really see it? Why? Because she pushed Bam ? Not gonna lie that scene gave me goosebumps.

I mean like I get it she betrayed him and she was even lying to him but I was expecting something way more. Like example laugh to his face or I don't know stab him perhaps but she didn't. People be really putting her in the same place as Bitch from The Rising of the Shield hero. The disrespect...I think Rachel is simply great villain to the story

[jadelemonadee]

i think about this a lot…,.,most of my thayne / seabury posts barely get any notes but whenever other people draw him they get way more attention and it’s frustrating me!!!! what must i do to get the tumblrpeople’s approval 😓😓

[itsahotminuteinbetween]

'...you know jokes like those actually hurt me, right?'

"who said I was joking?"

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'oh.'

[evansbby]

his politics is so fucking surface level and we all fucking knew this but still… the real celebs are the ones questioning and calling out genocide enablers like joe biden… not happily shaking hands with him despite everything that’s going on.

[suddencolds]

. not snz

on healing and on fear (tags)

[priapussdick]

THE VISCERAL REACTION I HAD WHEN I HEARD IT?????

EXCUSE ME???!!! THAT SONG DOES NOT BELONG TO YOU!!!!

THAT SONG BELONGS TO SUMMER OF 2022 AND TO MY BELOVED KP COUPLES.

THE AUDACITY

WHO THOUGHT THAT WAS A GOOD IDEA????

WRITE YOUR OWN FUCKING SONGS

[seiwas]

🎤 thoughts: is it normal for friends to kind of ~disappear after getting together with someone and is it normal to feel sad about it

[supernovasilence]

No. No no no no absolutely hell no.

(Diane Duane this is about tumblr not you you’re great)

Apparently tumblr has decided to give us note previews at the bottom of posts now and I hate it. Partly it’s annoying; if I wanted to see notes and replies I would click on the notes! The button’s right there! It takes an extra 0.2 second! This just clutters up the post layout without adding any functionality. But it’s also terrifying, because it is once again trying to make tumblr like other social media.

It’s trying to say “here is this Cool Thing (in our algorithmically-informed view). You don’t think/know yet you want to look at this Cool Thing but we know you want to look at this Cool Thing, because we know better than you what you should be looking at.”

See, this note is not the most recent note by a long shot, but it is by dduane/Diane Duane, who has been on tumblr a long time, pops up fairly regularly in the Star Trek fandom, and has written actual official Trek novels (among many other things). She’s probably the most “famous” note on this post (or what passes for famous/popular on tumblr). I’m guessing it’s not a coincidence hers was the note featured.

A quick look through the “tumblr update” tag shows people are also having issues like seeing terf comments previewed even though that’s the sort of content they would never willingly look at.

@staff @support​ @wip​ no thank you. We’re all still here because tumblr is the one social media that lets us choose what we see, not the algorithm. Get rid of note previews or give us a switch to turn them off. We don’t want them here.