#but isn't everyone on this godawful site

[ineedmentalhelp724]

Has anyone ever read a fanfic that spelled a character's name differently and then you have to remind yourself that other people's interpretations exist

I'll give an example, therefore exposing what type of fanfiction I actually read:

Other fanfics: Din Djarin 😁👍

That one fanfic: Dyn Jarren 😈⛓️🔥

I love the writer but I will not stand for this.

PROOF

[daxite]

it’s always been hilarious to me that for a website that likes to jerk itself off endlessly for apparently being one of the most “accepting” and “open” places on the internet, tumblr sure is fucking cutthroat with telling people how they should/shouldn’t present themselves, how or what they should/shouldn’t draw or create, and what media they should/shouldn’t consume

[cipheramnesia]

I saw you tagged the post re: X with 'stop joining Bluesky' -- can I ask why that is?

Because Twitter has always been a godawful form of social media, news, and networking. Elon Musk turned it into something unusable but in its usable state it had and continues to have an appalling effect on complex ideas and nuanced information. The nature of its character limit forced everything to a reductive sound-bite which effectively enshittified information propagation online, and its enshrinement as the "official" social media site for any person or entity to issue information or communication through dragged everyone down into the same level of garbage communication and analytical skills.

A website like Bluesky which only has "the same interface as Twitter prior to Elon Musk" as a selling point, isn't better for anyone. A short form character limited blogging site is fine as a gimmick and okay for simple person to person communication, which was more or less the original purpose of Twitter. It's absolutely shit for a central hub site for global information. The idea that Twitter's short form format and layout made it useful and popular needs to die immediately. The idea that information should be shared universally in short bites needs to die immediately.

What happened with Twitter, not with Elon Musk's purchase, but from the instant it gained media dominance, is fucking horrible, possibly one of the worst things to happen to online communication in its entirety. Go anywhere you want to get away from X, but for all that is good and hopeful in the world do not put any version of whatever constitutes your "personal official online presence" onto any site resembling any iteration of Twitter.

There is a window of opportunity to finally, finally be free from what Twitter did, but it is closing fast. I don't think very many people remember what it has been like watching information literacy collapsing in real time around Twitter, and I don't think there is much hope of killing that format, and I don't think it's going to solve every problem. But if somehow we do find a way to drive a stake not just through Twitter itself but the foundational ideals it represents, we will have made forward progress.

Kill the idea of Twitter that lives in your head. Don't reproduce the same mistakes just because it's familiar to use. For all our sakes, tweets must die.

[the80srewinders]

oh for sure !! I'm not saying tiktok isn't godawful (it is lol, so much misinfo), I just don't think the idea of it being banned is something to be celebrated :p

I don't know if we think it should be celebrated per se. It wouldn't be good for everyone, theres people on TikTok who truly use it to educate people on mental health and neurodivergence. There's people who truly use it to entertain in a family friendly way (those Vine-like comedy videos.) But unfortunately TikTok has contributed to more misinformation about DID than any other social media site we've seen (minus systemscringe on reddit, which ironically uses TikTok as why "most people are faking DID.") That last sentence alone shows the damage its done. Really TikTok should only be banned if they cant get their act together and ban misinformation accounts, not just mental health misinformation accounts but other misinformation accounts as well. I know TikTok has some good sides and being banned would be bittersweet. We just hold anger and avoidance toward it because of what its turned out to be. Thanks for the asks tho this is actually something we've always wanted to post about in such detail and just get off our chest.

[llycaons]

blazed posts don't show up in the Blog Subs tab of your dashboard, so if you hit "get notifications" on every blog you follow, you can use that to have the experience of your dashboard without the blazed posts. (this will also by default turn push notifications on for any time any of those blogs post, but that part can be turned off). Being mean to people for their harmless blazed posts is unlikely to be at all effective for improving your tumblr experience, though.

hi, anon. I appreciate that you sent this. this workaround is genuinely going to be incredibly helpful, not just for me but for my followers and mutuals who also can't stand this feature. it's a shame we have to jump through so many loopholes to escape the ever-encroaching capitalization of the site, but I suppose we adapt

to anyone reading this - if you enable tumblr labs, you can activate 'blog subs', which is the second option listed. it appears to the right of the 'your tags' tab. it looks like it's working for me so far!

to address the other part of your ask, this isn't just about improving my personal experience. I dislike the feature itself and everyone who engages in it by 1. giving money to this godawful website and 2. using a new format to create advertisements. even if I like a blazed post (rare, they are 99% of the time godawful), I don't consider it harmless at all. it's contributing to the problem no matter the content of the post itself. you can blaze almost anything, and if it’s profitable, people will continue to do it. the moderation on this site is already terrible, and supporting blaze will absolutely make it worse. a big appeal of this site is being able to choose exactly what you see. blaze ruins that. and to bring it back to a personal experience, any intrusion onto my space I do consider harmful. I will block and unfollow for many things other people might consider petty

I do get the instant gratification of telling these people off. they're being annoying to me, they paid to directly disrupt my experience in a carefully curated space, and unlike most advertisers I now have direct access to them personally to tell them what I feel about it. so yeah, I'm going to use it. they paid for access to my and my opinions, so they'll face me and my opinions. play stupid games win stupid prizes, I guess

but you're right in that being mean to users blazing posts will not, in the long run, improve my experience. I do not have the time or energy to get into slap fights on the internet. and usually I don't like being rude to people directly, and I like to think I don't do it unless they're doing something that bothers me first. after this I'll go back to simply blocking and sometimes reporting blazes, like I have been. but I still have the right to complain to people who put unwanted content on my dash, and I will support that for anyone else as well. it's about the principle of the thing, I guess

again, thank you for your ask and the information. I'll definitely use it and try to make sure others do as well

[lunatriense]

What drew you to Pyrrha in the first place? And what led you to making your Pyrrha blog?

Honestly, it's kind of a mystery to me. Pyrrha isn't the type of character I usually click with; normally I'd be a fan of Weiss and Cinder (which are like my 2nd and 3rd, in the early seasons) but for some reason Pyrrha just grabbed me. Maybe it's because there are certain things about her that I see myself in, and other things I wish I saw myself in.

As for my blog, that's because Pyrrha broke through the walls I'd built up to protect myself over decades of emotional abuse and gaslighting. I don't know why, but for some reason I resonate so strongly with her that she's made me able to feel again, when for the longest time I could only feel echoes of emotions other than bitterness. Nevertheless, I recognise that she was treated abysmally by the writers, utterly wasted as a character and reduced to the misogynistic trope of the fridged girlfriend, and for the sake of one of my most disliked characters at that. Everything about her death was handled so poorly — its messages, its impact on the show and the characters, its meaning in the story, the way they've brought everyone else back but not her, everything — that I've been stewing and seething over it ever since.

I needed somewhere to vent, somewhere to talk to others who understood how heinous her treatment was, and initially that was the RWBY forum on the old RT community site, but then RT took that down with their new, godawful site. Since that was no longer a viable option, I turned to reddit and twitter, but the former was full of rabid stans who wouldn't accept any criticism of RWBY whatsoever and the latter didn't have a way to separate RWBY stuff from everything else and got way too exhausting to keep up with. Buuuuuut picture links from reddit kept taking me to tumblr, so I decided to make one and I found the rwde community, and others who understood, so here I am.

[black-water-simping-ships]

bless very legal streaming sites that get me access to what i will predict to be a very quality movie

we open on basic 'US in space' footage, followed by a site... *checks notes* 'near moscow', except it looks like your generic siberian wilderness lmao. then again i don't know what the moscow suburbs look like do i?

the electrical fence не работает. that is the literal translation of 'does not work'. it does not have a job. i do not kno how to say 'does not function' in russian so maybe не работает is the perfect phrase to use. but because i do not know it looks like a hilarious case of google translate

"boy howdy am i glad those sharks are behind an electrified fence"

8/10 on the bucket toss, i expected it to be dented

"speak english, they won't understand you"

a man just got cut in half by a shark fin maybe?

there. um. there is a conveniently parked spaceship there. right in the complex where they research mutated sharks. lads this is the soviet union i.

"how do i fly this thing?" "don't you remember your cosmonaut training? start the engines and hit the gas"

this was said in english. one of the actors is trying a light russian accent, the other doesn't even bother

oh yes and we have seen a woman take off her high heels to fight a shark that looks like the reused suicide squad shark guy model

timestamp: 04:17. thisd will be a long movie

present time! mission: tabula rasa, aboard a spaceship that looks straight out of alien, none of those guys are in space gear,

oh hey the engineer got appenditis just before launch. because of a food truck?

the alternate is a Cool Guy. we know that he is a Cool Guy because he rides between the two lanes on a fast street. unfortunately there is no traffic to maim him fatally for being a right tit

same third shot of a guy smirking and shaking his head, same third scene with two so far name- and speechless extras strapped into their seats

MOSS BALLS

everyone has had a line so far but the smirking guy's main job still seems to be to shake his head in amusement

"we'll shoot to the far side of the moon in t-95s" no. no, in 95 seconds. t minus x represents a fucking moment, not a timespan, do you say "oh, i'll go to the store in 5 pm", motherfucker?

only-tree-in-200-km-of-desert-hit-by-a-truck dot pee en gee

yeah so far they mentioned a LOT of the chinese moon equipment (TIL about the 鹊桥 satelite and the 玉兔 rover) but their pronounciation is godawful except for one woman

on that note, i hope henri isn't french because he wouldn't deserve americans butering his name for 88 minutes

how is a spectrometer lifesaving

ok the editing on the moonwalk is nearly acceptable but the acting is shit and dialogue is missing according to the subs

I TAKE IT BACK

moon shark moon shark moon shark m

where's vijay when you need him smh

even if you're...under a magma chamber? you sure bud? you mightn't be above it? no? no. ok.

god i wanna listen to their debut single

fyi sound needs a medium to move, the moon has barely any atmosphere, this. yeh

i'm calling it, he fucked a shark. his daughter is half mutant shark, which is why she can live without oxygen unlike him

yeah it took .5 seconds to reveal she has a fin

let us speak in english instead of russian before the american crew, papá, especially when we express doubts about their sincerity

ok yeah i'm stopping this for now, the 'russian' accent has become unbearable