#good thing I have postblock

[giganotus]

man it's really annoying when you blacklist a bunch of words pertaining to something you don't want to see because it's giving you outrage fatigue but you keep seeing posts about it anyway because people are posting screenshots of Twitter threads with no captions instead so the blacklist doesn't catch it

[mangedog]

Image transcription:

Slide 1: So you just joined Tumblr: Duke’s guide to desktop setup (it takes a bit more setup than other websites).

Slide 2: Go into your Account Settings and scroll down. Check “show” for all labels you want to see. Mature, Drug & Alcohol Addiction, Violence, and Sexual Themes are hidden by default. Choose what you want to see.

Slide 3: Important Dashboard Settings:

Endless scrolling: makes it more like Twitter, you don’t have to go through pages and it makes everything easier

Show timestamps: Tumblr regurgitates old posts often so it’s fun to see when stuff happened

Shorten long posts: Tumblr has no word count cap, you can spam endless emojis. There are several joke posts that make rounds that will take minutes to scroll through

Messaging sounds: turn off messaging sounds, they’re obnoxious and staff sometimes changes them for Halloween into jumpscare noises

Best stuff first, include stuff in your orbit, include “Based On Your Likes!”, include followed tag posts, enable colorized tags: turn these off if you’re cool (except colorized tags, you can have those on)

This fundamentally changes your scrolling experience.

Slide 4: Just turn off all privacy shit. Don’t let people know you’re online. Don’t let Tumblr harvest your data. Privacy is important.

Slide 5: Blog customization stuff (1)

Important Notes:

Use an avatar: people will block default icons thinking you’re a bot

Blog descriptions do not have a word cap. Go ham.

Featured tags can be useful to organize your blog.

You can have multiple blogs for interests, fandoms, work and more.

Slide 6: Blog customization stuff (2)

Enable custom theme: Enable this, it will give your blog a unique page

Share posts you like & Share Tumblrs you’re following: keep your stuff private, it’s ok here

Let people ask questions, allow anonymous questions & allow asks with media: Asks are off by default. I recommend keeping anons off.

Only allow messages from Tumblrs you follow: Keeps bots away.

Hide [your account] from people without an account & hide [your account] from search results: if you want to keep your blog private.

All of this is by taste so play around with it.

Slide 7: Next Up: (New) XKit.

XKit is a browser extension that enhances your Tumblr experience. You can just google XKit and it’ll be the first thing but also I’ll add a link underneath ok?

Slide 8: What XKit extensions to use

Vanilla Videos & Audio+: gives videos and audio volume sliders

One-Click Postage & Quick Tags: easy reblogs

Anti-Capitalism: removes ads

NotificationBlock, PostBlock & Tweaks: general quality of life

Old Blue: old Tumblr colors (nice, soft)

There’s also funny ones too.

Slide 9: Some final notes:

Reblog things you like

Tags are great and useful for organizing

You can also use tags to basically whisper your opinion

There’s a lot of old inside jokes, just sit back and enjoy

Don’t censor words, especially trigger warnings

You have unlimited words, have fun!

Use the read more option, it’s awesome

Don’t trust every post

Use Kung Pow Penis responsibly

Enjoy your Tumblr experience

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My notes:

People in the reblogs have also recommended XKit Rewritten, since New XKit is having code compatibility problems apparently.

I recommend adding image descriptions to your photos (can be simple, like this one, or detailed), which can be done in the post itself or in the Alt Text function. Good for people with visual impairments, and when photos don’t load.

Turning off Endless Scrolling makes it easier for your brain to take breaks.

Look through the Help Center for basics and some tips and tricks!

Check out Tumblr’s theme documentation (the Custom Theme setting described above) - there’s official themes in the Theme Garden, but a lot more theme creators around.

Tags don’t go in the post itself like they do in Instagram! At the bottom of the post it says “#tags”, that’s where they go. You don’t have to type the hashtag and tags can be multiple separate words (no need for #TagsLikeThis).

When making a post it defaults to the Neue Post Editor - don’t be afraid to try the Legacy Editor!

Don’t follow or interact with brand blogs. We don’t like them here

Block people to your heart’s content, it’s ok! It’s your Tumblr!

Have fun!

Howdy newbies and welcome to Tumblr, it takes a bit of setup to get this site running well so here’s what works for me. One of the neat things about this site is that its a different experience for everyone, so tailor these settings towards what you want from this site. 

New XKit 

[fridge246]

....i really had not realized how much of my sanity was provided by xkit blacklist

[happiiest]

😷

[ladyoriza]

Listen we're all sick to death of Joshua Graham Discourse but I have a thought:

It's not the shipping itself that really bothers most people, some people sure but that's what postblock and blacklists are for. Nobody's making callouts just because you ship it. They're blocking and moving on because that's what adults with healthy boundaries do.

No, the real issue is several OTHER things like:

-Utterly butchering Joshua's character for shipping, ignoring his MANY war crimes and woobifying him without him facing any sort of accountability

-Being racist, which has long been an issue in the fandom and others have laid it out much better than I have. Yeah, your "raceplay kink" is something you need to unpack and examine, not indulge. I write Joshua as racist because he is a terrible person, I don't make it a fetish thing.

The "tribals" in New Vegas are 10000% based on american indigenous tribes. To say that there would be so much mixing in the wasteland that race doesn't exist is a flimsy, bad excuse for fetishizing racism. You know what they're based on. To pretend otherwise just makes you look ridiculous.

-There's a tendency with Legion fans to lessen their acts- to make them sound nicer than they are. To gloss over everything we see in game and to pretend that Joshua and Vulpes and every other major Legionary wouldn't be emotionally, physically, and sexually abusive AT BEST. These are things I believe can be written well! They just take a lot of nuance to get right. And I've said before- if you can pull off "what would it take for this person to become better?" Then by all means go for it. I love those arcs! And it's why The Good Place is such a good show.

But that's not what you're doing. You're bending over backwards to ignore, justify, and/or fetishize their acts. And the one former legionary that deserves sympathy and forgiveness?? Y'all ignore Ulysses.

To claim that you're getting hate or being called out just for shipping isn't true. Y'all just don't want to look at what you do critically.

[dogsliampaynedoesntinstagram]

Hi Ralph--Do you have any advice for dealing with all of the sexism and misogyny in the fandom? I feel like almost every day I run into a sexist post. I try to curate my dash, but it's just really fucking annoying when you see horribly sexist things said by young women who claim to be feminists, you know? Even more annoying is that these posts are then read and internalized by other women. It's all just very frustrating and upsetting, and I'm finding it hard to celebrate the joys of fandom :(

So I don't have any answers for this. There are two basic answers - the first is the obvious: postblock, unfollow and block. It's shitty, but you have to be very selective for your dash not to be a sea of misogyny. (Also occasionally choosing a particularly shitty post and blocking everyone who reblogged or liked it is quite a satisfying htings to do).

My other advice is to name what you see, at least sometimes. Don't let views that are hateful and uphold existing structures of power just fester inside you. Sometimes rage against how terrible what people are saying is. Lots of truly terrible opinions sit in fandom as if they're a perfectly reasonable thing to think and it's often really good to disrupt that illusion.

And if you don't mind, I'm going to take advantage of this anon to do just that. Because I am so tired of the misogynist dynamic around the way so many fans talk about Harry and Olivia and I want to name it.

What has seemed to me deeply cynical, without any interest in political principles, is the way fans have criticised Olivia and only Olivia's feminism. And then responded to anyone pointing out their misogyny, by saying 'it's not misogyny to hate on women if they're doing something wrong.'

I disagree with Olivia's politics a lot. If I talked about her often, then I would include those disagreements. But that's very different, from people who don't talk much about politics, very closely examining a woman's politics and criticising her, and not doing the same to men around her.

And what makes the misogynist double standards very obvious is that there's a very easy test for this. If the criticisms of Olivia's feminism aren't based on misogynist double-standards, then those making them would be able to point to the posts where they criticise Harry in the same way as they criticise Olivia.

Because that's what is absolutely mindblowing hypocritical to me about the response. In fandom discussion of Olivia that mentions 'white feminism', they're not discussing her in context of PoC, or any other form of feminism. They're talking about her in the context of a white man, who occasionally makes references to girl power, but has never even explicitly talked about feminism. Who systematically discriminates against women and PoC in his employment. Who wanted MARGARET FUCKING THATCHER to rest in peace! It's ridiculous for people who are fans of Harry to criticise anyone else for white feminism. Because Harry isn't even at white feminism - he's white watered down girl power.

There are two reasonably serious political points I want to make here. The first is that using feminism as a stick to beat other women with, and only other women and not hold men to the same standards, is fucked up. It shouldn't be endorsed or normalised. This sort of piss-taking approach to politics undermines any fight for liberation.

And the other is someone took the meme of Eric Andre talking to Mel B and made it about Olivia Wilde. In it they suggested, without any evidence, that Olivia Wilde had forced Harry to pretend to date them. And that's not even the worse thing about the meme.

Because those of you who know the meme, know the original question was 'does Margaret Thatcher have girl power?' I think it would be bad enough to use a meme about the horrific politics of Margaret Thatcher to portray a rich white man that they've decided is a victim. But it's not just any rich white man, it's specificially Harry 'RIP Baroness Thatcher .x' Styles.

That use of the meme is incredibly cavailer to the millions of lives in the UK and around the world ended and forever harmed by Thatcher and her policies. I can't imagine clearer indication how much fandom discourse around Olivia and her politics doesn't care about politics, and instead just see it as a game that allows them to pretend there's some righteousness to hating someone they've decided to blame for a situation their fave has decided to be part of.

I will never get over the rank hypocrisy and contempt for milliions of people's oppression that is required to present Harry Styles as the victim in an Eric Andre Thatcher meme.

[andreabandrea]

alright so i'm going to respond once to the spider-man post replies for catharsis and then postblock that thing

1. regarding ppl pointing out other cases of peter parker having a shitty life: i have never played spider-man ps4 (i dont own a ps4 and i have no money to buy a new system) and im a casual fan so my shitpost didnt cover the entirety of the spider-man franchise. im glad that theres other media where peter parker suffers though. its funny and relatable (TM)

2. i didnt know that peter b is confirmed based off tobey maguire spider-man and that makes me happy. thank you spider-man side of tumblr for teaching me a lot about spider-man in the tags (genuine)

3. yes i understand that the appeal of spider-man has always since the 60s been that he's a good guy with a hard life. i recognize i said 'kids today' regardless. i recognize that there are children who like spider-man because he's heroic and funny too. and if you just like spidey because you wanna fuck him thats great, stop telling me about it. anyway the post was a joke and it will not cover the entirety of the human experience

[twinleafroyalty]

☀ , ♒?

i am not digging to find out what meme this is from because this is 9 months old <3

There are non-detailed mentions of non-con RP in the first answer, heed the tags.

☀ // What’s a roleplay pet peeve?

When muns make callouts over someone’s elses dark/’problematic’ RP threads, and somewhere in their callout they argue that I’m doing this to protect trauma survivors! Trauma survivors could see this and be triggered! I’m just making people aware that this person writes Nasty Fiction and that that’s Not Okay because of that!!!

All of my other opinions on the topic aside - such as that callouts for RP topics help nobody, that there are far more important things to be calling people out for than anime RP threads, or that censorship of dark RP topics hurts survivors more than it helps - I am so very annoyed seeing this message used in callouts.

As one of those people who doesn’t want to see this ‘icky fiction’, the odds of me stumbling upon leontittylover69’s ( oftentimes tagged / under the cut / off platform entirely ) non-con smut thread are very low. If I did stumble upon it, I could just... click off of their post, blacklist one tag, maybe block them, then go make myself a hot chocolate to cheer up and never have to think about it again.

But, whenever someone makes a callout post to -checks notes- protect survivors from seeing this icky fiction, I have to see posts featuring said icky fiction popping up on my dash, in the general fandom RP tags, in the ‘in your orbit’ section, over and over again. I can’t block just one tag or one mun or ignore just one thread, because I am now having it pushed into my face repeatedly by potentially dozens of muns who supposedly want to protect people like me from seeing this content.

It doesn’t help that sometimes muns will choose not to tag these callouts because they’re apparently too important to be filtered, or they’ll tag it but censor the tag. I cannot anticipate needing to block thirty different censored versions of ‘non-con’ or ‘dub-con’ or whatever else! And sure, I can PostBlock the post, but that doesn’t help when the callout writer chooses to make an entirely different post on the topic to add more evidence of the mun’s anime crimes to be signal boosted, or when there’s a dozen blogs on dash all commenting on the situation.

I will protect trauma survivors from seeing traumatic fiction... by pushing the traumatic fiction onto their dashboards! You can all thank me later!

Seriously though, I see less non-con from my mutuals who actually write non-con than I do from muns who apparently want to protect survivors’ eyes from seeing said content. I’ve had to PostBlock two non-con threads on my dash since I started this blog in January last year... And the other few-dozen times I’ve found said content, it’s because of Fandom Saviours taking it outside of warned-for spaces and throwing it onto dash/into the RP tags while encouraging people to reblog it.

♒ // Thoughts on the fandom you’re currently rping in? 

Like any fandom there’s the good and the bad. On the Tumblr side of things, this is one of the better ones I’ve been in, actually!

The large size of the fandom means there are lots of blogs for me to follow - so I don’t have to be mutuals with people who I just tolerate. Every mun I’m mutuals with is someone whose writing I’m interested in. The size also means that I can hardblock whoever I want, for whatever reason, and still have plenty of blogs to write with. I’ve got 80-something blogs blocked in the Pokémon side of the RPC, most of which I’ve never interacted with, all because I more or less didn’t like the mun, and I’ve still got tons of people to write with!

The Discord side of the pkmn RPC is kinda... eh... it exists, that’s for sure.

Discord is great if you’re in a closed group with a few friends, or if you’ve stumbled upon the one white whale server that runs smoothly. But past that, it’s a lot harder to curate your experience on Discord, and you’re effectively kind of stuck being around people who you just tolerate if you opt to write in public servers.

I... join RP servers fairly often, most of the time I leave within 5 minutes because there are one or two people who I can tell I won’t like being around.

The Twitter fandom is... it’s something, alright. I've looked into RPing there, and I absolutely refuse to touch it. I don’t really see people actually roleplaying that much? It feels like most of the time the accounts will make a few IC tweets and then devolve into quote-tweeting each other and slinging death threats and slurs while trying to force other muns to unfollow accounts that they don’t like. Maybe I’m just looking at the wrong accounts? Either way I couldn’t handle the stress that being in that part of the fandom would cause me.

The Twitter stuff does make me very thankful for one thing : the fact that Tumblr lets you hide your follows and likes.

I swear, if someone who I’ve never interacted with, who has 400 followers, was to make a post tagging me and going um @twinleaf-royalty why did you like this 5-month-old ask meme from @.rp-memes-for-muns-with-big-dicks?? the admin is mutuals with someone who watches minecraft youtubers which is problematic?? :/ please unfollow, then I honestly think I would explode on the spot.

I’m... not saying I haven’t seen that on this platform, but I will say it would be a lot more common if Tumblr decided to throw our likes onto dash and make it clear who-follows-who.

[paragonrobits]

postblocking that ‘aang not killing Ozai was selfish and that’s how he won’ because i am so very sick of fandom constantly interpreting him in the worst light possible and treating his very serious desire to not betray the last remnants of his civilization as him being selfish

i mean, if you want to talk selfishness, where’s the meta demanding that everyone else sacrifice what is most personally, spiritually and vitally important to themselves?

where’s the meta demanding that Sokka or Katara let each other or the rest of their family die horrible for the war effort; where’s the meta criticizing Sokka as not leaving his dad to rot in a prison as selfish?

where’s the meta of Katara being angry about her mother being dead as selfish when there’s so much worse going on?

where is the meta about Toph being selfish by, i dunno, not turning herself in for reward money. that’s honestly not the best comparison since she’s happy in herself, isn’t particularly patriotic and would be fine living in the swamp for the rest of her life, probably. but, yeah.

but, oh yes, there is so much meta praising the slightest thing Zuko or Azula do as either heroic or indicative of ‘she could have been a good person given the chance or if Ozai wasn’t around’, yet somehow, Aang is always treated in the most critical, the most mean-spirited, the most vicious light possible.

just... fuck, ease off on him already, why does the fanbase hate him so much and go out of their way to be so nasty towards him?

[gemsofthegalaxy]

Tbh i love how many times we all get to reblog one thing and it is funny when all the girlies put one post on your dash 10 times.

but i wonder the impact seeing the same type of negativity and arguments again and again and again has on your opinion of them.

Because, like, the first time i see "marvel is the death of cinema" i'm, like, yeah, definitely an attention grabbing way to put it. but even as a fan, there are absolutely valid points about how marvel films pander to the lowest common denominator and are manufactered to be appealing to almost anyone. Its art for the sake of making money, not telling a good or fulfilling story, that kinda sucks.

But when you see the same argument- maybe made into three separate posts by three different people but theyre saying the same thing, and they each come onto your dash at least two times because people you follow follow each other, its like, OKAY ive seen this 12 times now. i fucking get it.

Now OBVIOUSLY op isnt talking to me directly. And people like to share things they agree with or things that make them think, its their blog. They should keep it up. but that doesnt mean repetition isnt, like, irriating? Or tiresome? Or may make us turn negative towards a sentiment we originally agreed with?? I mean, thats why jokes and memes get old, right? and those are neutral or positive experiences.

And i am using this as just One example, because it happens with more politicized discourse (for instance, why is there such a small amount of f/f fanfic?). And the repetitions are usually, like, less frequent but over a longer amount of time, or may be things that happen when new people join a fandom and notice something that people who have been here a while have sort of talked to death but its new to Them and thats still fair, too...

Its just, like. Interesting!

And i wonder if anyone else has this experience, where the same argument that you do, or at least did agree with, you start to get really tired of really quick due to overexposure? Or is that just me sometimes lmao

Please note im not trying to say people shouldnt talk about things or share things etc. If anything the only thing id agrue is to make Postblock a real thing on tumblr, including mobile, because i like to block individual posts more than unfollow 25% of blogs i generally do like. Im posting more about the phenomenon of, like, seeing things so much you get annoyed by them or dislike them outta spike but applying that to legitmate discussion or takes rather than Pop Music .

[gretchensinister]

Kind of random but I urge everyone to install xkit and use postblock freely. It’s good that tumblr has a built-in blacklist now, but that won’t filter everything you need filtered (twitter screenshots are my sworn enemy) and being able to eliminate even small sources of stress by sending posts to the shadow zone is GREAT

You have a choice in how you interact with any post on tumblr--even if it’s about something you agree is important, you don’t need share it, and you don’t even need to read it more than once. This is a weird little chaos corner of the internet, and it is never going to be the only source for important, factual, current information.

Here’s a public domain image of a cat. Cats bat anything they don’t like the look of off of flat surfaces. You can do the same thing with posts when you have postblock. This cat will also protect you from any bad consequences in chain reblog posts. 

[starrose17]

What is it that makes me nope so fast out of the yennskier ship?  I’m not hating on it don’t get me wrong, in fact it’s unusual for me to not ship a favourite character with every other character possible (I’ve felt no problem sharing my favs around in the past), but Jaskier with Yennefer? DOES not work! At all! Nope! Zip! 

It’s gotten to the point I’m postblocking posts that have it and don’t tag it (and I’m not going to ask people to tag because I am the worst person for tagging so I’m not going to be a hypocrite and complain people don’t tag cos i never do). It literally gets a physical repulsion out of me, I’ve never had that reaction to any pairing of anything ever in my entire history of fandom, and suddenly everyone who I followed for geraskier is posting yennskier!

I dunno what it is, their chemistry for being physically/romantically involved does not work for me, nope, all the nopes, wrong wrong wrong. But yeah, anyway it’s just me, I’m not telling people not to ship it this isn’t a ship war thing it’s all good, I just...I dunno. No likey. Not my cup of tea.

[fierceawakening]

3000s mentioned you in a post

@fierceawakening ur prob seeing posts like this because ppl r getting tired of random strangers online acting like their personal posts are intended to hurt them or speak to them when in reality its more like..... i dont know u, i'm not trying to give u a panic attack by going on my account making fun of an anime i don't watch or smthn like that

That’s fair, and thanks for stopping by.

I must’ve misunderstood the post, because when I see posts that are like “why don’t you want me to have fun” they’re almost always replies to “this thing you like is problematic and i don’t just hate it i imbue it with all kinds of meaning which i will now expound about”

which, like... it’s not that I don’t think people get to do that on their own blogs! Postblock is a thing! But sometimes when I’m looking for fandom content or something and what I run across (or worse, what tumblr recs me!) turns out to be hate, yeah my first thought is “why do some people HATE FUN OH MY GOD.”

Which... is not always a fair thought to have, particularly if Tumblr is just... plucking a random post about Character X out of the ether or whatever, but I was just... surprised to see what seemed like intense backlash against that because I don’t think I’ve met a single person on here who hasn’t had their good mood ruined by “actually everyone you need to hate this thing you like AND I WILL NOW TELL YOU WHY”

[earlgraytay]

ellieintheskywithdiamonds

replied to your post

“thank fuck for postblock. ”

'grats, but which post blew up so hard?

The rant about Disney sucking re: copyright law and using their deep pockets and licenses to stamp out competition, using Ever After High vs. Disney Descendants as a clear example. 

I regret that post a little mostly because I simplified things, and the truth as usual is more complicated- Mattel had made a number of other decisions that pissed Disney off and the Ever After High thing was just the straw that broke the mouse’s back; Mattel as a company were not in the best shape at the time anyway, due to a number of bad decisions; Mattel is (obvs) also a megacorporation and has done the same thing to other, smaller companies in turn *cough BRATZ cough*; and since Disney isn’t making their own toys, they weren’t actually taking a financial hit from switching manufacturers like I implied they were. 

(I was thinking, when I wrote that, about some of Disney’s more questionable theme park decisions. According to Defunctland, during the 90s, a lot of Disney’s most... interesting choices boiled down to “one of our competitors is doing something. Let’s do it in a Disney park, but bigger and better!” And ofc they spent a lot of money on stuff that had to be closed down or repurposed in a few years.)

but of course, BECAUSE it was oversimplified, anti-capitalist, and an easy good-guys-vs-bad-guys narrative, it spread like wildfire. and now in the 5 seconds before notificationblock and postblock kick in, I can see all the tumblr kids with Strong Opinions about capitalism in my notes.

(...the really sad thing is that I don’t hate Disney. Walt Disney was one of my childhood heroes; even now that I’m older and know that he did a lot of shady shit to achieve what he did, I admire his drive and his passion for building a better future. dude had a vision.

i don’t think anyone should have the kind of power that Disney has, but if they do, they should use it for good.  if I thought for even a second that the Walt Disney Corporation was trying to live up to that vision, I’d be a lot less hard on them. probably a lot less hard than they deserve. but they so very clearly ain’t that it’s painful to watch. ) 

[sugar-petals]

Could you like, explain what “warning signs” you’ve seen? It’s all well and good that you know, but maybe some other blogs are experiencing the same things but just don’t know them for what they are... is it related to that empty stats page you showed?

It’s a cluster of bugs that has been progressively getting worse. Either it’s tumblr imploding as always with their updates, the actual deactivation like one anon said happened to them with the same bugs showing, or my dumbass running too many applications on desktop. The stats page is counting visits as of now. But I see no activity. No post likes and reblogs, just an analytics board. It collected data for two days, now it’s frozen again. It tells me I’m earning a nonexistent currency 😷

Replies are gone from my posts, out of nowhere since yesterday. The network has a ‘deactivated’ batch next to it on my dash but it still works. Mlist has been wonky for longer, I stopped counting the things that went wrong with it, especially for android users even after i reduced the number of links in it. 

Tags don’t always direct to my posts here and on the rec account, my blog doesn’t show up in the search generally while my fics do. XKit isn’t running smoothly (e.g. postblock gives me an immediate empty screen). I don’t receive alerts for comments, the theme editor freezes often for 20 seconds when i do as much as type in a letter. The same happens in the mass editor when selecting a post. 

Tumblr savior collapses any tag search as soon as I scroll, only plain white post outlines appear. I can’t access the blog archive on safari but chrome works. More and more asks disappear, I can’t run grammarly on my posts since yesterday, edit appearances deletes any bio links even when I just want to change the banner or icon (so I have to use the theme editor). Something is definitely off since Monday in particular.

[thelegendofclarke]

a) “Hi not here to start shit”... I know, I know you probably believe that anon.

b) I have never not once seen anyone reblog a J/D edit with D edited in over Sansa and call them stupid and pathetic and disgusting or whatever else. Nor have I ever seen anyone reblog a J/D quote swap set and tell the artist (who worked hard on their edit and deserves none of this bullshit) to “stop stealing quotes” like character and OTP quotes are some kind of fandom intellectual property. Never. (And it’s not fanellectual property btw. Trust me, I’m a lawyer.) I have, however, seen several instances of Jon/Sansa made fanart and fic being reblogged with downright nasty and hateful comments. I literally once saw someone steal Jon/Sansa edits and photoshop people puking in front of them. And you know, I’m sure the opposite does happen, but ya know what? That’s not ok either. Seriously, no one is saying “it’s only ok when I do it,” and tbh that is completely and totally beside the point here. Leave fanartists alone, seriously. Let them post their edits and gif sets in peace like the Good Lord intended. If you see something you don’t like, postblock it or scroll past it. If it REALLY bothers you that much, use the unfollow and block buttons. “Reblog it and be a dick” is NEVER the appropriate course of action. No one is here just to piss in YOUR cheerios, so kindly refrain from crapping on their cocoa puffs ok.

c) As far as I understand, the issue with past specific J/D edits was not that D was being manipped in. Because you’re right, that’s a super common thing. People do it ALL THE TIME. The issue was that the fans doing the manipping were simultaneously doing that and shit talking, vague blogging, dog piling, and being straight up hateful to the fandom, ship, and characters they were using to make scenes for their own otp and calling those shippers delusional for loving those scenes and thinking they were anything special. That’s some straight up, full throttle nonsense. Generally, no one is going to gaf about you making your edits and gifs and whatever else however you want to make them. They do, however, tend to gaf about being treated like shit and endlessly harassed, vagued about, and dog piled on. 

d) You can get upset, pissed off, annoyed, or infuriated about whatever the hell you want my dude, no one is stopping you. But here’s a tip: find like minded people who hate the same things you do to talk shit and be an asshole with in private so that you don’t act like an even bigger asshole in public. (That’s an ancient proverb btw.)

I am getting really, really tired of the ENDLESS selective outrage and “BUT THEY STARTED IT!” style bullshit here. Reblogging someone’s art to be an asshole about it is always going to be a dick move and beyond unnecessary. Always. No matter the ship or character or circumstances.

In the end this is not about shipping or stanning or being an anti or whatever else... Just being a decent fellow fan.