#i know threads are hard to read without a twitter account

[colorisbyshe]

An update from Bisan, posted today 11/05/23, saying she does not think she will survive long because Israel is bombing anything that may help people survive. Sources of electricity, solar panels, water. Bakeries are running out of petrol and wheat and any that obtain said materials are threatened with bombing.

There is no food and water and without electricity it is impossible to find or make any. The infrastructure is collapsing because 100-300 bombs happened last night, all over Gaza, and people are coughing and ill.

Today, they dropped posts saying this is their LAST CHANCE to evacuate to the south. People have no way to leave, nothing to sustain them, this is genocide. They are starving, injured, ill with gassed air with only the sea left to them. Aid is not reaching anyone.

Please watch all 7 videos across the three tweets in the thread, linked above. My summary cannot do this justice. If you do not have a twitter account, here's tweet one, tweet two, tweet three.

This is her instagram, the videos are also in her story.

[fashion-runways]

hi!! new pinned post, because the last one had gotten long again-- if you want to read previous posts, here's the first one, here's the second one. the tl;dr from those is that my dad got wrongfully imprisoned abruptly, our place was raided, the cops broke a bunch of shit and took a bunch of our things and still haven't returned them, they left all the broken things for us to spend money in repairing, we had to spend money on a lawyer, trips to visit him, new clothes, medicine and food for him in jail, etc. it was a mess, way more details in both posts. he's back home now, with an ankle monitor because technically his case isn't being investigated yet, they haven't done anything about it at all, the case hasn't moved one ounce lmao it's great, always trust the judicial system and cops!! ugh, anyway!

we found a therapist for my dad who can help her deal with all the stuff he had to deal with while in prison, all the bullying, the depression, the starving, the separation, etc. he needs to get a bunch of other medical appointments, has to get surgery, among other things, but for now things are much better on that front. that being said, he did lose his job and my old redbubble account got suspended without a warning months ago, plus argentina's economy is... really bad right now. food prices rise every day, public transportation prices went up like a 200% in a couple of weeks, salaries are low and stuck there, subsidies are gone, the local peso keeps falling, we have an absolute psychopath as a president who spends more time insulting or threatening anyone who oppose him than caring about people. it's a disaster. for updates on argentina in english, this person on twitter makes very good informative threads if you're interested.

anyway, i used to make around 30/40 dollars a month in redbubble, and that used to help adding up to the donations i got here, and it got suspended, so now i make like 1/2 dollars on teepublic monthly. so... it's a huge loss. there's a lot of things me and my mom are in charge of paying-- groceries, power and water and gas, medicine (she's diabetic, i have some sort of chronic sinusitis), our dog and cat's food and medicines, wifi, phone bills, public transportation, healthcare, my dad's new therapist... so, you know, i really need anything people can donate. even if it's just a single dollar, literally any amount helps. i love fashion so much and i love this blog, i work really hard on it even when my brain says no, and i really appreciate how much you guys love it too. i love seeing people discover new styles, new designers, new things to be inspired by. so, yeah... i'm never going anywhere, but i do need help to basically stay afloat.

as usual, my kofi link is this one: https://ko-fi.com/fashionrunways and my teepublic link is this one: https://www.teepublic.com/user/dinah-lance. thanks for being around and sharing and reblogging my posts, thanks for asking questions about fashion, and of course thanks for helping to the ones who can, and thanks to the ones who can't too, i know how that feels like, don't worry about it. love you 💖

[dayurno]

sorryyyy for bringing some type of discourse to your inbox but I just giggle whenever anyone brings up the fact that nora soad andrews a misogynist and their only argument is the fact that he's friends with renee and dating neil who said women are the strongest ppl i know, like i don't personally think he's a misogynist, but i feel like there has to be better arguments for it😭

maybe it's bc the fandom gets on my nerves so I'm more sensitive to any attempts a defanging and making characters more palatable bc I'm not a fan of the widespread fanon versions of the characters also it's sad I feel like the fandom made some sort of progress where discussions were being had about the problems in the series and now after tsc came out it feels like we're back to where the author can do no wrong and it's hard to criticise anything

what do you think about tsc being a triology, I feel like two books can hopefully give Jeremy the depth he needs i remember you found him a bit flat as well when you read the book, I see a lot of people saying he needs to have a mean side or a traumatic past but I feel like a kind, nice character can be interesting without those things and not every kind character needs to have this secret mean side anyway, personally I groaned out loud when I found out it was a triology bc that would mean the fandom would be alive for longer and it's so crazy out of any book fandom I've ever been in for some reason the aftg fandom feels the most obnoxious maybe it's bc the books deal with heavier topics close to the heart so there's more feelings involved🤔the only book fandom who has pissed me off a comparable amount would be asoiaf but that's a whole different thing

I really do try and be happy I'm not even in the fandom anymore and I've never followed aftg twitter accounts and I don't even check the tags I just go on certain blogs but i still see things it's horrible💔like I can't believeeee we're still discussing if Kevins a coward or not and how selfish he is for leaving the nest like we've already argued about this to death on tumblr back in like 2016 now it's the same thing again💔

LOL i understand honestly so many of these discussions are repackaged wide-spread 2015 opinions which don’t reflect the original text that it’s hard to do anything except use the we have this thread every week comrade image and let it go. andrew being misogynistic is not even hard to come to terms with considering it’s not an interpretation or a headcanon it’s the author’s own words and will for the character incorporated into canon. there are things to disagree with nora sakavic for, but ultimately there is a difference between disagreeing with the author and willfully ignoring the intention with which a character was written

& i didn’t really care much for the news, i think the lack of planning and the rushed way the books are coming along are grating on both the author and the fandom, but i don’t blame her for wanting to get this done and over with. it will show more insight on jeremy hopefully, but unfortunately i already don’t care 😭 i think the route tsc took was in general uninteresting and pedestrian enough to not warrant a second thought, and i’m not particularly interested in any plotline beyond what pertains to kevin and the ravens. what surprised me really is the total lack of impact tsc had on the fandom, which is to say, i think it was so in line with the same 3-5 headcanons passed around the last 10 years that it has genuinely done nothing for anyone aside from the people who were already very invested in jean and/or jeremy. it feels like a different fandom from aftg altogether, which i’m happy about if only because it keeps us all locked in different cages, but it still baffles me to see people dedicate so much thought to a book whose characters bar jean are, as of now, the very definition of Nothing burger. all in all the answer to that question and most questions pertaining to tsc is Who cares. because literally who cares

LMFAO staying away from aftg twt is really good for you & honestly all of us. it’s still so funny to me that not even nora sakavic herself wanted to touch that mess. mentally ill white suburbanite teenage shut-in echo chamber ass fandom

[nicegaai]

im attempting my fic reread today. im announcing this bc i will be liveblogging to keep my morale up, NOT THAT anyone cares but i personally need this, like ill only commit to do the thing if theres an imaginary audience holding me accountable. & i like to have fun :3

anyway. captains log, its a beautiful sunny july weekend. i just finished my morning coffee, and, i am dreading this so much. i dont like rereading my own writing but i shall get over it. ok here we go.

Þetta Reddast vagueblogged directors commentary edition

Ch 1:

*opens fic and starts convulsing immediately* god i wish i smoked weed rn. i cannot chill out ever for the life of me

My Mission For Today Is: to remember what plot threads I’ve left hanging so I can resolve this story properly. And also try n remember where the flow is going. I have the end plotted out, I just am a little lost … it’s been a while :-(

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Abrupt beginning!!!! I’m not mad because I have . I HAD. Almost no writing experience when I started this. it isn’t ideal but I refuse to be one of those fanfic writers that starts rewriting early chapters without finishing the last ones. Ive never seen one of those types actually finish a longfic. …I’d already rather yap than actually read LMAO AHH

Oh this is worse than I remember. thats cool that s great ok alright *coughs up blood*

"20 somethings" WOW I really did not know where I was going with this when I started huh

LKJSDLKSJDLGKGDJSLDGJK ??? Who authorized this. Who let me cook. What the hell

I could write this better now. I could edit this into something beautiful. <- devil on my shoulder

FORGOT I WAS MAKING RICE BRB

"generously offered nothing to the exchange." wait STOPPPP. I’m so funny

GRAMMAR ERROR DETECTED why is there two periods. I’ll be coming back to fix that …………………. :-(((

Fuck. This is a lot. Marge Simpson Hiding Her Face dot Png

Oh this is stupid this is gayyy this is fukcinnn . Who fucking did t his. What was wrong with me,. This is so good actually. what was i ONNNN. 

Im gonna throw up and I don’t know if thats like/. A complimentary thing or if im just cringing that hard . Im feeling emotions. I love my OTPs..OT3~5? I love them so so much

Ok as much as im like “eww bad writing” this is .. dare I say, rly good in places. Not to suck my own dick but maybe all hope isnt lost and imposter syndrome is an illusion

Grammar mistake #2. Goddddddd. they should ban me from the archive for this

EMILLLLL EMIL EMIL EMIL HIIIIII BABYYYY EMILLL I LOVE UUUU AWWHUUGHH everyone clap for my bewoved baby bruvver right FUCKING now

Urghhh gritting my teeth… Im fully expecting the flow of events to start not making any gd sense. There’s no way this came together the way I hoped in my head and .... For real I was never able to read this all the way thru. this is my first time, lol. and it was all disjointed on the authorial end to say the least. Im scared T-T

Jlxjvklsdkjfsjlkdkjlsjklkljzsdkjlgaskljdgjklasljkgdljkasljkdgjklasjlkdgljkaskljdgjakl?????????? 

Im not liking the ratio of dialogue to whatever the other stuff is. scene-setting I guess. prose maybe. i could have dragged this out way longer... By which I mean made it a more satisfying read. But WHATEVER !!!! 

TIMO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TIMOOOOOOOOOO NUMERO UNOOOO DO MUNDOOOOOO I really need to utilize him more. As soon as I finish this fic I need to write a Timo POV spinoff where he gets cancelled on furry twitter for proshipping in real life

Hmmmm chapter ending didn’t hit as hard in practice as it did in drafts. Oh well. God damn that was a lot to happen in one chapter LMAOO???

OH SHIT MY RICE IS STILL COOKING —— 

[hyunpic]

Hiii Vilma ✨ I’m sorry I don’t want to be a bother but would you mind listing some books that Hyunjin recommended at some point please? If you have some time?

I know some threads are very easily findable online so I don’t want you to think that I’m using you bc I know Google exists but the thing is that those threads are only visible by people who have Twitter / X and I don’t have an account so I can’t see it :( (with all not-due respect, fuck Elon Musk) Really feeling like the beggar ant meme lmao I’m so sorry

Thank you so much 💕

i got u!!!! don’t worry about about using me or anything 🫡💘💘 i put down some synopsis of the books too. i hope u can find something to read from there 🥹 also this probably isn’t a full list but i tried to include as much as possible!!

fire salamander by han kang: a collection of seven short stories tied to one keyword "recovery". the author shows the issues of a human's suffering and loss, as well as a human's will to lead a life without giving up despite the pain and frustration.

i want to die but i want to eat tteokboki by baek sehee: a successful young social media director at a publishing house begins seeing a psychiatrist about her depression. it is a book to keep close and to reach for in times of darkness. it will appeal to anyone who has ever felt alone or unjustified in their everyday despair.

temperature of language by lee kijoo: the author of this book claims that language has temperature. he encourages us to use words that can comfort others with warmth instead of cold words that hurt them.

the setting sun by osamu dazai: the setting sun deals with the decline of japan’s aristocracy in the wake of world war II, and portrays characters adrift in a world that no longer feels familiar.

no longer human by osamu dazai: the poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern japanese aristocratic family and the impact of western ideas.

almond by son wonpyeong: it tells the story of yunjae, a young boy born with a difference. yunjae has a brain condition called alexithymia that makes it hard for him to feel emotions like fear, anger, and empathy.

contradictions by yang guija: contradictions is a coming-of-age tale that explores the paradoxes and contradictions of the human condition and delves into the meaning of personal happiness

proof of gu by choi jinyoung: a heart-moving novel written with beautiful sentences, which questions the meaning of life or the meaning of death through the death of a lover and the subsequent feelings of loss and condolences.

the old man and the sea by ernest hemingway: through his struggle, santiago demonstrates the ability of the human spirit to endure hardship and suffering in order to win. it is also his deep love and knowledge of the sea, in its impassive cruelty and beneficence, that allows him to prevail

someone harmless to me by eun young choi: the novel collection portrays various relationships, especially relationships of women including a love story of a lesbian couple, a story of two girls who grew up in oppressive patriarchal atmosphere and a story of two sisters who spent their childhood persistently fighting but sometimes understanding each other.

the preciousness of everyday words by kim eana: through the use of everyday words, lyricist kim eana finds solutions to the complex emotions and frustrations in relationships encountered in life. (<- this was recommended to him by stay but he ordered it so i included it here too )

[timingmatters]

As ririka is more introduced into the anime i see a lot of manga readers giving their opinion and i wanted to share mine too. Btw i’m trying to make this without spoilers but i think is inevitable that some spoilers or hints will be there so read with caution if you aren’t a manga reader:

A lot of people give ririka more grace than i think she deserves? There’s a thread on twitter that’s incredibly well made making the rounds about her being a villainess vs a trauma victim. And i can agree with most of it to an extent. However I do think Ririka clealy as romantic feelings for shima. And also clearly blames him. I understand she was really young, and that due to sexism she caught all the hate whereas Shima, who was the one with the idea to be at that place and was on the same level of fame as her, managed to not be too hated on and to quietly disappear and live his life. But i do think she bares responsibility on the aftermath with Shima. She trauma was NOT shima’s fault, she herself admits he had told her not to go. And he was a child himself. However she completely blames him for the hate and harassment she got, and even if subconsciously she 100000% blames him. She holds him on a leash because she thinks he should be feeling guilt and shame forever. Numerous times she expressed discontent at the idea that Shima might be happy with his high school life, and discontent at the idea he might have another important girl in his life. She wants him to feel guilty, and yet also wants him to love her. Someone said due to trauma as a young child the only way she knows how to keep him in her life (or the only way she THINKS she has) is to use his guilt on her favor to manipulate him. But you see, to me the fact that she went through all that trauma doesn’t excuse that. At all. She becomes overprotective with the mom, and KNOWS how hard his family situation is, yet she willingly manipulates all the guilt she knows he feels so that she has control over him. She quite literally emotionally abuses him. And i know she is still a child, but simultaneously she is also grown enough to know she should not be doing that.

Trauma to me is a reason, but not a justification. I do not look at her and feel like she is a helpless victim in the whole thing. She WAS a victim, but now she quite literally emotionally manipulates Shima and she is aware of it to an extent. It was never Shima’s fault that she was there in the first place, or that the media harassed her more than him. It is unfair she expects Shima to always carry around guilt to the point she thinks he shouldn’t deserve to enjoy life. It is extremely fucked up. Especially because she simultaneously loves him and wants his love. Is toxic. She needs therapy. And again, I understand the way, but that is not an excuse. Her redemption should not be to be forgiven, but to take accountability of the damage she has caused on him too and step away. She needs to let go of shima to heal herself too. And maybe come back years later, but surely not now.

[dessertgeek]

The Mari Lwyd Twitter saga (2021)

This is part of my efforts to transcribe @seananmcguire's annual holiday Mari Lwyd Twitter threads/poetry battles. The hashtag for now is #Mari Lwyd Project, the first post is here, this thread's source is here.

This round is Seanan + @tkingfisher back for another round of cheese and rhymes! And 2021's is the one that inspired me to work on this, as the non-Twitter versions I could find, though there be plenty, were all screenshots.

As always, credit to the authors/poets/cheese protectors. CWs for food and caps. Settle in for a read. (And if there are more 2021 poetry battles can someone please link me or transcribe and send me a link? I'm not finding more yet.)

Seanan: HELLO MY SWEET, IT'S BEEN A YEAR. I KNOW YOU MISSED ME: NOW I'M HERE. YOU HEARD MY BELLS UPON THE BREEZE. I HOPE YOU'RE WELL PREPARED WITH CHEESE.

Ursula: I’ve blockaded the pantry, I’ve bolted the door I’ve piled up the padlocks ‘til they’ll padlock no more, It may be quite churlish, but this cheese I’ll defend From equine depredations ‘til the cold bitter end.

Seanan: THE WIND THROUGH MY BONES HAS BEEN FREEZING AND CRUEL, IT BLOWS DOWN THE CANDLES AND KINDNESS OF YULE, AND I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU'D BE QUITE THIS UNKIND. YOU'LL SPARE NOT A CRUMB, NOR A SLIVER OF RIND?

Ursula: If you asked me for money, I’d write you a check, And the clothes off my back, I’d pile on your neck. But my cheese—! I’m sorry, but that is the bar, I’m all for charity, but you’re going too far!

Seanan: IF YOU HAVE MONEY, CHEESE IS SIMPLE: IN YOUR ACCOUNT IT LEAVES NO DIMPLE. IT'S HARD TO SHOP WHEN YOU'RE JUST BONES, YOU'RE MET WITH LOATHING, STICKS AND STONES.

Ursula: In that case, my friend, I will now blow your mind For cheese can be had, from the curd to the rind. With the power of the internet, your torment will end, If you’re a skeleton, online shopping’s your friend!

Seanan: AND YET I FIND THAT SHOPPING'S HARD WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE A CREDIT CARD FOR "WINTER SPIRIT'S" MY PROFESSION, BUT PUTS NO CASH IN MY POSSESSION.

Ursula: That seems like a problem, I freely admit, The solution, I fear, not within my remit. But if your profession’s not a matter of choice, Have you tried sending Winter some kind of invoice?

Seanan: THE SOLUTION FOR NOW IS RIGHT THERE IN YOUR HAND: OFFER ME CHEESE, DOESN'T MATTER WHAT BRAND, AND I'LL SPEAK TO THE SPIRITS OF COLD AND OF FROST AND ASK THEY SPARE ROOTS, LEST YOUR GARDEN BE LOST.

Ursula: So we’re moving to threats now, is that what I hear? Menacing my garden which you know I hold dear? It’s on now, bone horse, forget the Brie— You mess with my plants and you’re messing with ME.

Seanan: I OFFER NO THREATS, BUT THE BLESSINGS OF SPRING: FOR FROST COMES WITHOUT ME, IT'S THAW THAT I BRING. I ASK FOR A TOKEN, ONE YOU CAN REPLACE, AND MOVE WITH THE WINTER TO SOME OTHER PLACE.

Ursula: This type of wording is really quite damnable Like a Mafia Don saying “This places looks...flammable.” Leaving my garden so the frost won’t attack it? Cold bone horse, you’re running a protection racket!

Seanan: YOUR POINT IS VALID, THAT SEEMS PLAIN, AND YET IT SEEMS I MUST REMAIN. I'LL SIT HERE IN MY CHEESELESS CORNER, AND SO THE YEAR WILL GROW NO WARMER.

Ursula: It’s true I long for Spring’s return Yet Necessity must sometimes burn Seems to me this vein’s untapped… What happens if I keep Winter trapped?

Seanan: YOUR PATHS STAY SLICK, YOUR WINDOWS FREEZE, AND ALL BECAUSE YOU WON'T SHARE CHEESE. YOUR FIELDS ARE FALLOW, GRASS UNSPROUTED WHEN YOU WON'T LET ME BE RE-ROUTED.

Ursula: Ah, but think of Winter in Summer’s home— The savings on AC alone! A captive winter’s a useful tool, Just much climate could you cool?

Seanan: NOT QUITE AS MUCH AS YOU'RE NOW THINKING, AND I'D FAR RATHER JUST BE DRINKING, IT'S EASY TO BE FREE OF ME. JUST GIVE A SINGLE BITE OF BRIE.

Ursula: I don’t fear winter’s icy blast When it’s 72 and overcast But consider this with empty eyes How about a compromise?

Seanan: ...WHAT COMPROMISE ARE YOU PROPOSING? IT'S NOT LIKE I'LL BE DECOMPOSING. BUT AS THE SNOWFLAKES GLEAM AND GLISTEN, THIS I SAY TO YOU: I'LL LISTEN.

Ursula: I’ll write the word “cheese” on the back of a napkin And slide the note under this door you’re attackin’. And don’t argue with me that the cheese is synthetic— The best magic always has been sympathetic.

Seanan: WHILE IT STILL SEEMS A TAD BIT MEAN, IT SUITS ENOUGH TO MATCH THE SCENE. THE THING THAT'S WRIT THE THING IN FACT, AND SO I'LL GO...BUT I'LL BE BACK.

Ursula: Goodbye, bone horse, the season moves Its icy wheel beneath your hooves. And as I devour this cheese with chives I feel I should apologize. ‘Twas wrong to plot to see you imprisoned— But there’s no ethical consumption in capitalism.

[lyxthen]

The year is 2023 and I am still mourning the loss of Nuestro Futuro Perdido, a Hamilton RPF Wattpad fic that had a whole micro-fandom of its own with a wonderful comunity and fanart and even a fucking animatic that's still up in YouTube and the most hard-hitting lines to ever be written down in the Spanish language and its all GONE. IT'S GONE NOW. Only ghosts of it remain. A mention on a Twitter thread. An Amino post discussing what could happen in the upcoming chapters. Fanarts and edits scattered across Pinterest. But no matter how hard I try, I cannot so much as to find the cover.

This was big, my friends. This was THE author in the Spanish Speaking Hamilton comunity. I would wait for every chapter to come weekly and the whole fandom would come together to read it at once, as though it was some grand event, leaving comments on it LIVE (you know, that is how Wattpad works, and the only reason that damned site was worthwhile, if I'm honest).

The sheer size of the community and the passion they had about the works of this one author, was absolutely insane. You cannot comprehend. You had to be there.

Indeed, ever since I left that fandom (which I am fairly embarrassed to admit I was a part of in the first place, but bear with me) and found out the fics got deleted, I have found not only one but TWO whole fans of this author out in the wild in complelty separate accounts and in completely different fandoms in different platforms on different accounts: One in TikTok (in the Pokémon fandom, and who I recognized by their gorgeous artstyle) and another in Discord (we were talking about songs that reminded us of Sam and Frodo. They brought up "Who Lives Who Dies Who Tells Your Story" and it went downhill from there). Oh, and of course, I forgot about the time I found a Lisaki00 fan in the Ace Attorney subreddit! So that'd be three.

Like, these fics got me through middle school. I cried so bad reading the endings, I have some scenes embedded on my fucking brain, and genuinely heart wrenching quotes, and it's all gone. There's only an echo of what it once was. And the fact that to this day I keep finding people that were involved in the community without even looking for them, who made art and commented and grieved when the author disappeared out of nowhere, speaks to how wonderful it all was, at least from the lens of a depressed 13 year old. And I would love to revisit them for the sake of nostalgia alone but they are gone forever.

What I mean to say is: AUTHOR PLEASE COME BACK YOU DRAGGED ME I TO READING GAY FANFICTION OF DEAD RACIST PEOPLE AND YOU MADE ME LIKE IT SO PLEASE. PLEASE. AUGH.

[halfax-a]

Lin and tumblr

The past year has changed how i use this website quite a lot, and i have feelings about it.  Here, i’m writing a mini essay to help me make my mind up what to do about it all.

The first big painful truth i have to face is: i don’t like my dashboard anymore. I find it increasingly hard to sit and just scroll through and pay attention. I know that a few years ago it used to be better balanced - divided into fandom content, meme content and music content. 

This year, more than ever, saw the absolutely bonkers avalanche of fandom content, which cannibalised both music and meme side of things. I experienced genuine mass hysteria with the flood of people, and i don’t regret that or hate that, but all of it ended up feeling more like witnessing a group of friends having an absolutely insane party - through the front window of their hourse, having your nose pressed to the glass. 

Why it felt so much like that, can be anointed to how i chose to interact with tumblr - 2022 was the year i fully turned to blog-crawling. It ended up impacting me a lot - in ways you can see (7 fandom posts in a row reblogged from one blog), and in ways you can’t (all those hours reading and internalising and the r word). Waking up every day, obsessively searching up 5 to 12 different blogs and spending up to 3 hours just reading updates (combined with my brief stint on twitter in the summer) fucked me up quite well, i think. 

Well. Actually. This is not new behaviour for me. Obsessive checking of tumblr blogs, forum threads and twitter accounts dates back well into 2016. But this is the first time it has fucked with my enjoyment of this site, and i am at a loss what to do.

I feel trapped. My brain does not think it can go without tumblr, because twitter, instagram, even the mighty youtube have surrendered to this blue hellsite, and let it reign the supreme doom scroll hole of my life. 

At the same time, i recognise that i am not really truly having a good time on here(or at least as much as i used to). The more time i spend on specific blogs, the less i am on my dash, which means the less opportunities i have to make connections with my remaining mutuals, and to make new ones.

I feel trapped and i feel isolated. A few years ago i used to know at least 5 blogs that were guaranteed to appear in my notes at any given time. There were more tag games, more casual @/ing and more interaction. Nowadays i feel quite alone. Yes, i did bring this onto myself with 1. aforementioned blog crawling and 2. jumping into excessive fandom posting. I’m just afraid that getting out of there is not as easy as it used to be. 

I’ve seen a lot of people move on, or drift out of my circles over the years, which makes reconnecting with old acquintances/old topics of interest difficult or downright impossible. And as i get on in age (in my old age of 22), i get increasingly nervous seeing 16,15, 14-year-old on here, and interacting with their blogs.

I am also a bit at a loss for how to curate my dash to regain that optimal meme/fandom/music equilibrium. Meme culture has changed a dizzying amount since 2018, and i know i have been left behind. With music and fandom cannibalising and engulfing each other (in that shiver-inducing mass of conciousness known as “mcr fandom”), i am left to try and find some “general” content. But from where??????

All of these things combined has made me feel like i might have to ditch tumblr soon. Either i put in massive amounts of energy, overhaul my dash and find out what i enjoy (while being concious of how to keep the parts of fandom that are truly enriching for me, when the mass hysteria inevitably starts again), or i log off, block, and try to keep my doomscrolling urges fed on fanfiction and youtube shorts.

With my unfortunate mental state, i sure know which seems easier

Now. Why am i still here at this very moment then?

It’s because of drafts! 

See, in my mind, it is possible to Finish Tumblr. During my years here, i have amassed a significant amount of drafts - gifsets, link masterlists, audio, video and photos, and each of them serves a purpose - to remind me to Consume that thing. The day i listen to the final album, final song, the day i watch the final tv show, movie, the day i let that final draft go; that’s when i can say i have Completed Tumblr, and can log off with a light heart. 

So, i haven’t acknowledged it, but i actually have a concrete goal in mind here, and as long as i work on that, i’ll be shackled to this blue hellsite

[fallynleaf]

i just passed my one year anniversary of becoming a fan translator!! 🥳

we found out at the end of november last year that Mr. Haku was leaving CyberFight, so there wouldn’t be any more DDT or Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling translations coming from him, which basically meant the end of being able to properly follow those companies if you don’t speak Japanese. this news basically came at the worst possible time for me, because in addition to essentially losing access to two of my favorite wrestling companies, everything else in my life was also collapsing, and i had essentially no social support network whatsoever. so last december marked the beginning of the worst depression i’ve ever experienced, which then led into the worst year of my life.

i had at that point been learning Japanese for technically just over a year, though effectively i’d only been seriously studying the language for about nine months. i could read a bunch of kanji but had below N5 grammar lol so naturally i thought “well if no one else is stepping up, i guess i’m gonna try my best to translate what i can!” 🤪

i was, as previously mentioned, also xtremely depressed at the time, so it’s honestly miraculous that i was able to keep up the translations, especially while continuing to self-study Japanese (and Spanish) and keeping up with my part time job.

i started out translating DDT show recaps, then took over for TJPW when DDT actually got a proper translator again. i literally cried out of relief when i saw the new DDT translator start doing live translation threads again. 🥲

at first, my translations weren’t very good at all (they were just moderately edited machine translation, basically), but i’d started to get more and more help on them from someone on a Japanese language learning forum who is also a wrestling fan and who is the kindest stranger i’ve ever met, who has basically been checking over my translations and patiently explaining grammar and vocab to me, and looking up answers to questions that were too hard for me to find answers to myself.

thanks to this person’s help, my translations are actually decent quality!! eventually i got brave enough to sort of take them actually public (beyond just sharing the blog in private discord servers, and of course publicly rough drafting all of the translations in a language learning forum lol). i sort of soft-launched the translation blog on tumblr in march, where there is no Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling fandom to speak of, so it got quite literally zero traction 😅

by the end of july, TJPW’s singles tournament, the Tokyo Princess Cup, was just wrapping up, and the discourse surrounding the company in the English-speaking internet wrestling community was driving me up the wall because none of the other fans knew what was actually going on in the stories because they didn’t have translation. i quite literally had access to information that other people didn’t have! because i had translated it!!

i finally got so fed up that i overcame my insecurity and took the translations public on twitter 😅. i figured, well, even though my work isn’t perfect, it’s way, way better than what the fandom has without me, which is a whole lotta nothing! unlike with DDT, no one else had stepped up to translate. it was just me.

that was back in august. the translation account has 170 followers now, and that’s a bit scary!! i’m glad that it exists as a public resource now, though, because i basically created the resource that i wish existed for me to use.

in total, i’ve finished 9 translations for DDT and then 53 for TJPW (for a total of 62 😱). only about 25 of the TJPW ones were “full text” translations (or as close as i could get), which is basically what Mr. Haku was doing, except i still can’t live translate like he does. i don’t know how many thousands of characters i’ve translated, but just the past 23 translations (all full text) are 38k words in English, so i have definitely translated more than an entire novel worth of Japanese this year...

i’m still worried about twitter’s survival, though in some way, Mr. Haku leaving sort of forced me to prepare for a world without twitter live translation of wrestling. i’ve learned that i actually can survive on my own, with TJPW at least. well, i still need help from a friend, at least for now, haha.

i’ve come a very long way! i had many times where i’d watch a show and then look at the recap for it and just break down crying because the workload was far too much for me and i didn’t know how i was ever going to do it. somehow, i still managed to finish it every time. i still kept going.

i would gladly hand over the reins in a heartbeat lol if an actually competent translator stepped up to cover TJPW, but for now, i actually think i got this? i managed to survive november despite continuing my language studies, doing the translations, working part time, and doing NaNoWriMo. slowly but surely, Japanese is getting easier.

i’m glad i made it a whole year. i almost can’t even believe it. but i’m glad that i did.

[whitedemontobirama]

Guidelines/Rules

- Non-RP rules

💧 I'm 21+, so I don't feel comfortable interacting with minors. This blog will certainly feature some NSFW content so absolutely no minors. 💧 I follow everything and everyone, so don't feel pressured to follow me back. I just like my dashboard to be lively so I don't feel alone. 💧 I don't really block anyone because I'm very open and rarely get offended. But, if you've become annoying, I won't hesitate to block you. I like to live a carefree life and I'm not escaping the real world to get into more trouble here. And you can block me without any hesitation just as well if I became troublesome for you. 💧 I'm really chill. In fact, I like to interact with people! Don't feel afraid to message me, my DMs are open for everyone! If you're shy, you can anonymously use the ask box.

💧 If you have a problem with me and you won't block me, please don't give me a hard time in public. I really hate discourse and cyberbullying. If you do that, I will ignore whatever you're doing and block you. We're all adults here, let's settle our problems like responsible people.

- RP Rules

💧 If you're interested in an RP, send me a DM or tag me in a starter. I have a discord, a Twitter account and a Facebook account all dedicated to my Tobirama muse. We can RP anywhere: (discord, Facebook Messenger, Facebook posts, Twitter DMs, Twitter tweets)

💧 We don't have to be mutuals to RP. If you want a Tobirama to RP with, then here I am! Just read my rules, headcanons and verses to be well-acquainted with my muse. And we can plot something together!

💧 If you're also a Tobirama RPer, it will be interesting to do an AU RP! I don't mind doubles, in fact, talk to me! We can share ideas.

💧 OCs are completely fine! Just have a good, detailed bio so I know who I'm RPing with. I don't want to offend you or your character.

💧 Take your time in replying because I expect to be also given time to reply. I work an administrative job and sometimes it takes its toll on me so I go home and sleep to be mentally ready for the next day. We are adults, and I know everyone is just as busy. Real life happens.

💧 Things I'm uncomfortable with:

Incest. (HashiTobi) or shipping Tobirama with one of their other brothers (Itama and Kawarama). I have nothing against the ships, and I have nothing against the shippers. But, I do have 3 younger siblings in real life and I feel sick thinking about that. I know it's just fiction, but yeah.

No exclusives. I want to be able to RP with everyone. Every thread has its own plotline unless stated otherwise.

(I will probably add/remove RP rules as I go! People are changeable.)

Overall, I like to have fun and I want people to enjoy RPing with me!

[madxwonderland]

SHIPPING INFO // Answer the following for your muse(s) so people know how shipping works on your blog.

REPOST. Don’t reblog.

What’s your OTP for your Muse(s)?

I really don't know if I have an OTP with Alice. I've shipped her with a few characters back in the day when I mostly RPed her on twitter. One of my favorites was her with Hatter from syfy's Alice.

What are you willing to RP when it comes to shipping?

The biggest is probably angst and fluff. Alice is very reserved when it comes to romance but if someone can crack her then she is very devoted and loving. She is also very protective over those she cares about. Her ptsd and demisexuality make it hard for her to find any romantic prospects.

However she is always looking for friendships and other platonic relationships

How large does the age gap have to be to make it uncomfortable?

Probably no bigger than 5-10 years. 10 years would be pushing it. I personally don't get super uncomfortable with age gaps as long as both parties are over 21 and it's completely consensual. When the older party knew the younger when they were under 18 that's when I get uncomfortable.

Alice's personal preference probably won't go past 10 years older than her and she definitely wouldn't involve herself with anyone 18 or younger. She is 21 in all of my verses now.

Are you selective when shipping?

With Alice, I am probably more selective than any of my other muses. I ship chemistry but I am always open to exploring romance with her if she and the other person get along really well.

How far do steamy moments have to go before they’re considered NSFW?

With Alice I prefer to do a fade to black but will sometimes put it under a read more. It really just depends. But really once it goes past making out and the fourplay starts then I try to stick it under a read more or fade to black.

I don't do a whole lot of smut with Alice just because she rarely gets herself involves in such relationships.

Who are other muses you ship your muse with?

There has been a few that I would have threads with and think 'oh this would be cute if things went this direction' without anything going in a romantic direction. I don't want anyone to think that I'm throwing Alice at their muse intending to ship. But sometimes if I know the character then I have moments where I think them and Alice would be a cute couple.

But really no specific muse comes to mind at the moment

Does one have to ask to ship with you?,

You can ask if you like! Or we can just rp it out in a thread and build that chemistry. Either works for me!

How often do you like to ship?

I would love to have more ships with Alice! But like I said, it can be hard for her. It takes a lot of trust for her to open up in such a way. But I do really want my girl to fall in love.

Like I said earlier, I am also always wanting more platonic and familial ships with her as well!

Are you multiship?

Yep!

Are you ship obsessed or ship more-or-less?

Probably ship more or less with her? I like to focus on many different dynamics with Alice and shipping isn't my priority.

What is your favorite ship in your current fandom?

Sadly there really aren't a lot of ships in my fandom. To be fair most of the characters opposite of Alice are in her head. I've seen a lot of fan ships with Alice and Carpenter or Alice and the Cheshire cat in human form. But for me personally, all of the Wonderland occupants are like Alice's children more or less. They are just her companions. She doesn't see any of them in a romantic light.

The only other ship I ever see is Alice and Bumby and that one is disgusting and has no place on my blog.

Finally, how does one ship with you?

Build up that chemistry in some threads, send in memes with a more shippy tone or if anything you can just ask if I can see anything going anywhere with our muses!

Tagged by: stole it from my other account

Tagging: i'm too lazy to tag. steal it.

[mylawcitrus]

About Threads

Interesting network.

I just made a wrong move. I thought "well, maybe I could join with my work account and try talking to people like I did on Twitter". I was presented with more and more hatred and mockery towards Musk, to a point where I was like "wait, if they can do this to him, what can they do to me?" and do I lost part of my respect for a few journalists and came to the conclusion that trends are a phenomenon, an illusion, not reality. At the same time, I did read, watch and consume content that was drawing criticism to the platform I once had as my home and all.

I started to share personal information, and maybe the facts that 1) I followed therapists and coaches; 2) I talked about mental health and literally showed my pills, played a role in my decision to delete the account.

There were some good things, but sometimes I looked back and thought "damn, shit's kinda hard lately isn't it?"

And so that makes me think of volume of posting, time on the screen, number of contacts... a lot of stuff. And it kinda, slightly makes me think that the AI stuff could help? But you have to have a mind for that. And I wanted to fight those people because they were banning porn.

And so Tumblr was "pivotal" in the decision to ban porn. But here I am, talking about like, "did you know that Chaturbate has videos tackling social anxiety" and I think it's valid, but I have to kinda reassess my WordPress blog. I usually write more seriously on there, in a traditional format (sometimes, following everything I ever learned from the academia and reading journalism), but if I have to pick a topic and debate it more seriously, I'll have to switch to long format. And I've already decided what issues need to be tackled, but I can't keep going on Substack cause I don't have the money to buy the books I wanna reference. I just kinda suggested an approach for a course in Media, that's pretty much it. The storytelling part was like, totally what made it interesting, but it's also where it's vulnerable.

So I don't know. I need a "filler".

I spent days rolling in bed waiting for a freaking Skype message... it's clear that I can't live like this. So I don't know, for sure something had to change but I'm wondering what kind of new habit can produce new contacts that I can actually trust (Tumblr people are pretty cool and I miss Mastodon a bit), because I don't think Facebook is appropriate for any of the discussions I wanna bring up. If someone in the family reads, they'll either ignore or completely rage over it, and there's nothing more pathetic than my family pissed off, believe me. They don't have legitimate reasons. They make shit up. I'm tired of talking about this without talking about this.

But you know, sometimes my family can be pretty supportive. And the friends I counted on leave me behind and talk behind my back...

So yeah, it's starting to feel like... I replaced Twitter with Tumblr and nobody has the patience. They already didn't, but like...

What a dead end, right? When I think that my brother has no idea I wrote this down I'm like "Jesus... things are not okay in this household" but actual Jesus would say "what's not okay is the things you've said to strangers" and I'm like... not again, man. Not again.

Cause if we don't collectively calm the fuck down, then how are we even gonna have conversations in the future? Remember what was happening? "I know where you live". -- brother... shit was going crazy. And now they wanna present so many ways to monetize video but we can't make friends, just do business. And fuck if we act like we have rights!

I know this was long, but just some stuff that I was thinking about.

[greatdamecygnus]

I’m back after 8 years, jesus christ.

(I can’t believe these are words I’m going to write)

Since the Twitpocalypse seems to actually be happening this time, I have returned to the Tumblrsphere. I went through some of my posts and you know what’s funny? I didn’t cringe too much at them. I do miss writing poems and prose about some of the dreams I’ve had when I was battling the peak of my depression. I was going to delete them but decided to keep them for you all to read if you’re someone I know from Twitter. You can get a glimpse of 2016 Cygnus: please don’t judge her, she was going through a hard time. Also, Alan Rickman, the only actor I’ve ever really love and adored so much inside and outside acting, just passed away that year and it really hit me hard. Maybe I’ll get into that a little at some point.

Honestly, a small part of me is happy to be back. I have so many topics that I love talking and chatting about, and sometimes I do want to share some of my personal thoughts without it being contained in multiple threads @ 280 characters a piece. I think a part of me hated Twitter because there was never a way to separate myself without having to make different accounts, and it limited my personal expression and feelings, too.

If you decide to follow me on here and you’re from Twitter: awesome! I might actually have an incentive to actually post meaningful shit for once and not be limited to honking and DDR scores. Time for a new beginning! 🤍🦢

[rage-against-the-cistem]

Spiralling all the way down

So basically, here I was reading some old dms, sat near a hospital, and suddently I start to feel anxious. I try to knock it off as usual and it didn't work. So I spent 4 hours enduring an rootless anxiety attack. I only calmed down when I started to text a friend of mine.

I was perplexed by why i couldn't manage the anxiety as I used to. Then, I realized there was no underlying thought that was triggering as it tends to be the case. I couldn't supress the thought that would cause anxiety. I was doomed. Tried to crying. Walking. Reading stuff. Nothing was working but I knew what it was happening.

Earlier that morning, I was on Twitter and found a thread made by an autistic account. That thread basically described a type of OCD without *visible* compulsions, which uhm...... apparently the possibility of having it was plausible. If we are talking about terrifying intrusive thoughts (occasionally), rumination, avoidant behavior and thought supression, I'm the person that is ruminating all this xD. I initially thought I didn't have visible compulsions. I do a lot of supression. I avoid talking about certain topics. I do escapism.... oh wait xD

I do have compulsions that are well hidden from people. I avoid emails because if I open one, I don't what is going to happen, but it's likely a terrible thing (that one is very connected to my trauma so that is why i didn't thought as compulsion). I avoid playing video games. I don't wear certain clothes if I know something bad will happen. I go out of my house because being there makes me anxious. I avoid people that tend to ruminate about hard topics. I run or dance to tire me as much as I can. I enter school by the backdoor instead of the main entrance. I skipped one semester of classes. I avoid many things that I can't count.

I disregarded these behaviors as trauma induced ones (they are but they don't explain what I'm going to mention).

My most common spiralling comes from realizing how hostile and dehumanizing capitalism is. I don't stop thinking about it and feeling hopeless when the day that my parents will not sustain me (i'm autistic and ADHDer young adult). It made sense to spiral, overall i'm a easy victim of capitalism for being disabled. It was rational and even required at some extent. I'm an anarchist and I was an avid Twitter user. Politics is one of my special interests. Political Twitter tends to bring the most horrifying stories from victims of capitalism. I couldn't help those people, I can't abolish a well established socioeconomical system by my own. But here I was being exposed to the most vile things that the human being could do, and if I did complain, they would think I cannot face reality.

Realizing that I might have OCD makes me resent more performative activism that is just keyboard wars, doxxing and shaming people online, as if the issue that was being discussed wasn't bad enough. It also makes me feel mad to ruminating people (ironically I know it's projecting xD).

But there other ones that are more sneaky and I tend to forget I have them. Tics (the bug) is a bad one but it used to be so much worse. I got scared twice for thinking I had one in my body. I knew about Lyme's Disease and a fatal fever, caused by a tic's bite. Not just scared, asking my mom if I had one and checking any symptoms, after a walk near a swamp. I was 19.

I used to go to swimming classes and one day, after a Science class when someone talked about jellyfish being mortal and not easily visible (not correct), I started to think there was jellyfish in the pool. So I would not touch the pool's ground so I didn't get bitten (always swimming or holding myself in the wall). Eventually I lost that one after some self reassurement. I was 10.

One time, I bought blueberry's juice from a sketchy supermarket. The package was a bit dusty and, after some sips, it started to leak. The package had a hole and I immediately thought there was rat piss, years after a former friend of mine telling me that rat piss is a poison and it's common to find rats in supermarkets. So I thrown away the package. I was 20. There is an actually ironic undertone there. I used to avoid sugary drinks (now I crave for them) because of fear of getting diabetes when I was 7/8/9. This example gives me hope for the fact that I can shift my obsessions.

Basically... i have been dealing with this for a while xD. I was afraid of choking myself because I was afraid I would abruptly stop breathing. I was 11. I never told anyone because I would be labelled as hyponcondriac and weak. But sometimes it's too terrifying to deal with them alone. I can recall times I went to bed, thinking some illness will kill me overnight. I have less of those, but how they are hard to cope, for how realitistic they are.

I deal more with demons that happen to be violent, tempting and convincing than ghosts that are more like the previously described thoughts. I can't tell if the thought is mine or theirs. This, sadly, tends to occur more in relationships. Thoughts like "your partner is lying", "they left you on read for a reason that it's your fault", "maybe they are going to end the relationship after this argument", "don't say you love them because it's silly and probably they don't share the same feelings" you get the drill. That shit... is so terrifying. Don't get me wrong. My two close partners support me and love me. It's just this stupid brain. I can't always ask for their reassurement when my brain is betraying me, it's tiresome.

Some arguments were caused because I trusted those thoughts and confront them with that. It's still my fault. I was not thinking logically, not understanding what they meant as I was reading too much what he said and gult tripping them for said reactive behavior of mine and eventual spiralling. I still feel disgusted by what i did. They didn't deserve to deal with me on my most illogical and obsessive state. When someone is a special interest of mine (a positive obsession from me being autistic), I'm so afraid of mixing that with my negative obsessive tendencies (it does sadly), so I try to tone down so I don't cross that boundary and the person's own boundaries. Most often, it's me mistrusting or just getting full of doubting and malicious thoughts about the person's character, intentions, or even more commonly, mistrusting their compliments. Also miscommunicating and avoiding expressing my needs.

The most tragic part is that I can't distinguish what thoughts are mine and what thoughts are from somewhere, in many cases. I feel like i'm going to be a slave to them. I can't feel joy because they keep haunting me. I long for the day I don't have them to ruin the free time that I have. I long the day I don't dread a fictional impending relationship breakup. I long the day when I go out is to seize the sunset and not to run from a potencial anxiety attack.

I told some of my obsessive thought patterns to psychiatrists but none of them said that I could be sus of OCD and just prescribed me SSRI's. And this comes my very very bad decision. I stopped taking them 2 months after. I'm now taking ADHD meds, which oh well who would thought it makes you more prone to spiral?

I KNOW I DID THE TERRIBLE MISTAKE OF THINKING I COULD MANAGE MY THOUGHT PATTERNS AND PROBABLY AFTER THE THESIS I WOULD BE NO LONGER HAVING THOSE RUMINATIVE THOUGHTS. I'm very pro at neglecting myself and I hate that this is not even the second time it happens. So i'm taking the meds I was supposed to take and see if I get better. I'm just mad that no doctor presented me the hypothesis of having OCD. I will not touch the most likely reasons to that.

But now knowing that I might have a very serious mental ilness will make more attentive and more cautious with myself. Because I can't deal with this shit, just by doing my little compulsions. It's out of my control, therefore it just doesn't go away like i used to believe and I'm afraid of believing it again.

I wrote this big ass thing for someone who needs it but mostly to convince myself. I know that it's not a very obvious dx, it overlaps with my anxiety, ADHD and autism. I'm afraid of someone telling me I'm making it up like one of those tik tok trends. I'm afraid of feeling like this forever, in which I live the moments my brain allows to live. I'm afraid of acting according to my obsessive thoughts and harimg others. I will be better in the future, now that I know wtf is going on. If you know me irl, well if you were suspecting or bewildered by the shit i did, I hope this gives you some answers.

Stay cool

[bogkeep]

i talk a lot of shit about twitter, and it's my other main social media so i'm Allowed To!!!! however. i am feeling charitable today

twitter PROS:

- if you're actually interested in networking and opportunities, that's where the people are. it's a more public space. i am mutuals with some really cool people and i get most of my commissions through there.

- artist twitter is a thriving community!! there's designated hashtag posting days like portfolio day, women artists/nb artists/transmasc artists, drawing while black, and random art challenges and many other fun ways to discover and be discovered.

- muting and blocking functions that actually work! you can even turn off retweets from specific people on your feed if you only want their original posts!

- locking your account (or making a Secret Locked Side Account) is Quick Easy and Free

- there is good content on there. otherwise there wouldn't be so many screenshots of tweets on tumblr

- has not banned nsfw content as of yet

twitter CONS:

- all the cr*ptobros are there. oh god there's so many of them.

- all the celebrities are there too. there's also a bigger and bigger overlap with said cry*tobros.

- n*zis and t*rfs galore

- i was going to say "it's hell" but hell is empty and all the devils are on twitter

- everything happens so much.

- everything happens so much ALL THE TIME.

- as much as i enjoy artist side of twitter. if we have to debate whether or not using references is cheating one more time i am going to implode. every week there is a new art discourse. i am so sick of art takes and i studied art history for four years.

- the discourse cycle is unfortunately not exclusive to art twitter. every corner of twitter has its own set of discussions that it just feels the need to rehash on a regular basis, i'm sure. if you are a regular tweeter you will feel pressured and compelled to Add Your Take because it's the topic of the day and it feels weird to just ignore it and talk about other things. i'm not immune either! it's a hard life!

- tumblr is not the only site riddled with bad faith and poor reading comprehension. i'm pretty sure that's a curse upon every public space on the internet, and twitter is VERY public. also, tweets have a character limit, so if you want to say anything with any nuance at all, you're probably going to have to write a whole thread. know what else twitter has? a quote retweet function. the PERFECT way to take a statement out of context and recontextualize it. you can actually limit who replies to your tweets or turn off replies completely, but you cannot limit quote retweets.

- there's certain words that trigger bots to reply. if you say the word 'essay' uncensored, you'll immediately have five replies with "PAY FOR ESSAYS HERE!!!". or famously if you reply to art with "i want this on a t shirt" the print on demand sites pop up instantly.

- similarly, there's lots of shitheads who are not bots but don't have anything better to do with their life than to search for certain words and then harass anyone talking about these topics. i made an incredibly lukewarm tweet about t*rfs in like 2014 and immediately got some awful quote retweets. my friend said she wanted to punch t*rfs in 2017 and t*rfs mass reported her account until she got locked out of it. if your account isn't locked, you do actually have to be careful with what you tweet. i can't even make jokes about norwegian culture without getting some real weirdos in my mentions who are a litte TOO protective of Dear Precious White Scandinavian Culture

- if a tumblr post is good, it will circulate. it will be brought back every now and then. it will be immortalized in our museums and mausoleums. if a tweet is good, you will see it posted every couple months by different twitter users. not as memes, just plagiarism. i know Joke Credit isn't a big deal but it grinds my gears.

- you can see who other people follow, their follower counts, and their liked posts. terrible design really

- never meet your heroes

- this may be a pro for some, since it can Also be used for good: tweets can get Featured in news and articles or otherwise impact irl events. isn't it horrifying how much of a role twitter has on politics and things outside the internet sometimes? the only site using tumblr posts for anything is buzzfeed

- i'm so exhausted

IN CONCLUSION - different platforms are good for different things. twitter can be a genuinely useful tool. but also

twitter bad.