#i get it. i get it i get it.

[thevegetablewhichnoonedaresname]

anyway so i'm doing a literature class right now that i'm really enjoying, and i love the professor for the most part, but he is dead set against bringing up disney movies in class. and by disney movies he means any animated movie ever. (given that disney owns a whole host of live action stuff now and he did not ever shut anyone down when they brought something up... as far as i remember? i don't think he has beef with live action movies. which. okay.)

i was trying to give him the benefit of the doubt that maybe he just wanted to steer the class away from overly common comparisons or examples in media, but honestly? i felt like people were bringing up obscure stuff, popular stuff, other novels from the 19th century, TV shows from the '60s, modern movies: he didn't even have to enforce his rule more than once because nobody was even reaching for animated movies.

but then this one kid brought up puss in boots: the last wish (i forget why, but it was relevant enough) and the professor's like, "nope, no disney movies"

and i'm sitting there like oh. okay. first of all, that's dreamworks, and second of all, so you did actually just mean no animated movies point blank period. I kicked around the idea of "um, actually"ing him, but I didn't want to derail the class or be obnoxious. because the point wasn't so much that he wasn't distinguishing between animation studios, it was that why in the everloving heck would you just put a blanket ban on animated films. especially when the question is just something simple like "what other stories can you think of that have this trope?" and that is a whole 'nother discussion.

but then the kid. the kid who brought up puss in boots. he jokingly literally pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose and was like, "um, actually, first of all it's dreamworks, not disney-"

and the professor kinda laughed and was like "okay, you know what i meant" (then why did you SAY disney movies. my guy)

and the kid laughed too and he was like "-i promise it's relevant though. can i just say it quickly?"

and the professor let him. so that was a win i guess. i wish i'd gotten the chance to tell that guy he was my hero though. he managed to do the obnoxious thing in a friendly way and kept me from combusting in my seat

[bloodbending]

can’t believe tiktok is actually getting banned, twitter is infested with bots and brainworm-infested musk bootlickers, facebook is king of QAnon, instagram caught the plague from facebook and is dying a slow death in real time… and as the dust settles… only Miss Tumblr is left standing… failing upwards once again

[great-and-small]

Trends on other social media sites:

Try this new dance challenge! Post your glow-up! Get Ready With Me!

Trends on Tumblr:

[never-quite-buried]

Nope now it’s at the point that i’m shocked that people off tt don’t know what’s going down. I have no reach but i’ll sum it up anyway.

SCOTUS is hearing on the constitutionality of the ban as tiktok and creators are arguing that it is a violation of our first amendment rights to free speech, freedom of the press and freedom to assemble.

SCOTUS: tiktok bad, big security concern because china bad!

Tiktok lawyers: if china is such a concern why are you singling us out? Why not SHEIN or temu which collect far more information and are less transparent with their users?

SCOTUS (out loud): well you see we don’t like how users are communicating with each other, it’s making them more anti-american and china could disseminate pro china propaganda (get it? They literally said they do not like how we Speak or how we Assemble. Independent journalists reach their audience on tt meaning they have Press they want to suppress)

Tiktok users: this is fucking bullshit i don’t want to lose this community what should we do? We don’t want to go to meta or x because they both lobbied congress to ban tiktok (free market capitalism amirite? Paying off your local congressmen to suppress the competition is totally what the free market is about) but nothing else is like TikTok

A few users: what about xiaohongshu? It’s the Chinese version of tiktok (not quite, douyin is the chinese tiktok but it’s primarily for younger users so xiaohongshu was chosen)

16 hours later:

Tiktok as a community has chosen to collectively migrate TO a chinese owned app that is purely in Chinese out of utter spite and contempt for meta/x and the gov that is backing them.

My fyp is a mix of “i would rather mail memes to my friends than ever return to instagram reels” and “i will xerox my data to xi jinping myself i do not care i share my ss# with 5 other people anyway” and “im just getting ready for my day with my chinese made coffee maker and my Chinese made blowdryer and my chinese made clothing and listening to a podcast on my chinese made phone and get in my car running on chinese manufactured microchips but logging into a chinese social media? Too much for our gov!” etc.

So the government was scared that tiktok was creating a sense of class consciousness and tried to kill it but by doing so they sent us all to xiaohongshu. And now? Oh it’s adorable seeing this gov-manufactured divide be crossed in such a way.

This is adorable and so not what they were expecting. Im sure they were expecting a reluctant return to reels and shorts to fill the void but tiktokers said fuck that, we will forge connections across the world. Who you tell me is my enemy i will make my friend. That’s pretty damn cool.

[humming-fly]

was thinking about that one blind professor post earlier today and how well it applied to the aptly named Team Dark

(really 'Team Dark' just sounds a lot cooler than 'Team Saves-On-Electricity')

[mysillycomics]

[tawnysoup]

Found my fav Slay the Princess route recently. Dragon my beloved. Your horrifying beak mouth was an impossible-to-refuse lip syncing challenge 💖

Shoutouts to @blacktabbygames for making such a cool game!

[charbroiledchicken]

if it's good enough for you, then it deserves to be made. don't let anyone else decide if your story is worth it or not.

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

staff: our april fools joke this year is a silly feature that doesn't really do anything but give you a button to boop other users! they have to opt-in first though :)

me:

[cartoonsinthemorning]

Since you guys liked Marcille as Kermit that much, it seems fitting to thank you for my 12k milestone with MORE Kercille. And this time, Miss Falin is also here.

Thank you so much again everybody! MWAH 💗

[regina-cordium]

Guy just walked in with a shirt that said “I don’t question my wife’s choices because I’m one of them” and frankly I’m obsessed

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

the curse of summer is buying and eating an inadvisable amount of fruit in single sittings.

[ladyshinga]

[pallettown]

genuinely so scary that you can't access the page on the ssc website that guides you through changing your sex designation. so so fucking scary. they are already making our lives harder. they are already taking what little resources we have.

[bl00dline]

the whole tiktok situation is EXACTLY why media literacy and education on propaganda is so important. the notifications about tiktok going down and then coming back use VERY propagandistic language, and with a literal fascist coming into power in the us tomorrow we need to be even more critical of the information we’re consuming and stay on the lookout for political stunts like this