#i mean there's the kneejerk reaction

[laurenfoxmakesthings]

I just learned of a specific moment in the latest Doctor Who episode (I've been too busy to keep up). And if anyone uses it to essentially go 'See! He can't be ace!' or treat it as a 'win' for queer rep like we aces aren't queer...

Folks, we can tell people are hot. We just don't find them hot to us subjectively on a personal level.

I'm not saying there can't be interpretations, I'm saying please don't use it as an excuse to erase ours.

[foundfamilywhump]

truly i don't care who thinks it's stupid or boring or "doesn't count" or can't be as intense as what they think of as "real whump" or whatever else, whump with comfort and recovery and caretaker(s) is always going to be my style of whump and i'm gonna have a blast vibing with people who also enjoy that

[elfelt-valentine]

First Aid's pacifism being transferred into IDW isn't as obvious (medic violent and snarky so funny) cuz when defining pacifism it's not just about opposition of violence but doing things for sake of that, which First Aid, like, still does. He's way more compassionate than most of the medics we know and if there's an opportunity to reduce harm he takes it (him pulling out a gun in a moment of self-defense is not unique to him), even if it means taking it the hard way, and his comedic resortion to violence is not a bug of his pacifism but a feature.

And its not even that he's a big fan of it. Him killing Pharma i know was extremely traumatic. He's in a situation where resolving anything with words is not an option and he does his best with it.

[13eyond13]

I just LOVE getting enraged by characters who won't admit their soft feelings to each other / who refuse to have an honest conversation about it and therefore ruin their own lives over it, as if I'm not the epitome of "I'd literally rather die than let this person know I want or need them" myself lol

[otherpeoplesheartachept-2]

I'm reading a non-fiction book and it mentions a "David Salisbury" which caught me so off guard, like The Mage is here??? In real life???? And he's a British civil servant??

[hexabeast]

Hey Tumblr, from a UI Designer:

This update sucks nuts and not because it's new or different, but because it's too busy. It's too noisy and cluttered and HOLY SHIT WHAT DO I FOCUS ON

THIS? Hot garbage. It's NOISE. There's too much happening. What the fuck am i supposed to focus on here? Not only that, but the information doesn't even fit on the page entirely. You talked about wanting to get more 'new' or 'unknown' posts in front of people and yet the radar is hidden and the 'check out these' section just reads as more noise, Don't even get me started on how the Tumblr Live feed just looks like if I click on it i will get nothing but viruses.

So. Let's do some tweaking.

Still cluttered, but less terrifying! This is 15 minutes shuffling things around. Give me a full day and I could do more but this is just to get the idea across,

You got too many visual elements going on rn and it's Too Much. And a lot of it users just CAN'T get rid of. So. Let them. A collapseable sidebar of Discover will let them choose whether they want to engage with it or not, while still keeping the site balanced visually.

Condensing the Stupid live feed into a section along with your following tags and the for you tab keeps it all together, again so people who want to engage in that media CAN,

Like i really cannot stress how terrible this update is from a clutter standpoint. Please. Less is more. I get you wanna be twitter, you want to be friendly to the folks who use twitter, but do you even know what parts of twitter they engaged with??

I'm begging y'all to do better. Please.

[spxcesuits]

devastating when ur otp and notp are constantly brought up in association with e/o just bc they both have the same character and are compared even tho the dynamics are not that similar at all 😔

[bloodanddiscoballs]

Kim is a,fascist

are you stupid

[stressedjester]

The day people realize treating trans people as a whole like perfect angels who can never do any wrong is also a form of dehumanization is the day I can rest easy

[aeide-thea]

like, someone posted an article recently that was like 'i didn't like these books because the main characters were women who slept with women but weren't sufficiently enlightened about it for me as a queer woman to feel Represented,' and i just felt like. i bet i wouldn't enjoy those books either, judging from the reviewer's description! but faced with a review that's like 'these characters had attitudes i found unpleasant'—iirc a tendency to ironic detachment and internalized fatphobia respectively, which, to be clear, i expect i would also find unpleasant! but those are attitudes that plenty of real young women do have; are we arguing it's only acceptable to tell stories about the sort of people we'd personally want to befriend?—'so i didn't find their stories nourishing,' it's hard for me not to think, okay, fair enough, but—should 'nourishing' really be the definitive metric for art? should 'savory'? an author's job is, after all, to make art, not food…

[forbiddenwestern]

Oooof like you rationally cannot dislike the Fireflies for robbing Ellie of her autonomy and excuse the exact same thing from Joel. The whole point of TLOU was that Ellie habits a hostile world and has no autonomy whatsoever, and the person she comes to love like family only further robbed her of whatever autonomy she could’ve had. ELLIE decided to go to the hospital, not Joel, even after he asked if she didn’t want to go. She was prepared for anything! My God like Ellie faces death at every turn and will for the rest of her life and it was CLEAR she wanted a death that actually meant something.

“After all that’s happened, all the things I’ve done, it can’t be for nothing.” —Ellie literally last night + 10 years ago

But it was, because Joel thought his feelings were more important than Ellie’s purpose (which she had willingly accepted for herself). He taught Ellie it’s okay to go on murderous rampages if your feelings are hurt, which does Ellie so much more harm than good (I suspect a lot of people defending Joel haven’t played the second game which is ok but you are NOT fully informed of the consequences sorry.) She goes on to ruin many lives including her own because she follows Joel’s example.

Piss poor discourse surrounding this. We worked through this ten then three years ago, picked apart both stories and connected the dots and found there’s no rational way to defend Joel’s actions in that hospital. Ellie resents him until he gets killed over it because she KNEW he LIED TO HER FACE, and hearing the truth was her SINGLE condition for following him any further. He deceived her just as badly as the Fireflies did. Worse, considering Ellie trusted him so much more than she trusted them.

That being said I won’t defend Abby’s hole in one either. Did Joel deserve to die for killing her dad? That’s not the question. The question is what is the worth of getting revenge? If you’ve played TLOU2 you’d get that the whole message is that crimes of passion are for fools. They ruin lives and make the world a much worse place. And that’s what makes TLOU so good: it tackles these tough themes by making you defend psychopaths then witnessing the consequences of their actions to the point where you cannot defend them anymore and still keep some moral dignity. Joel in TLOU then Ellie in TLOU2. Passing the worst torch possible.

There’s no worth in Joel’s action. Sure Ellie lives and gets a girlfriend (not even gonna get into how that ends up because it’ll just make me even madder at Joel) but she’s a shell of a person because of it. He did her no favors, and she rightfully never forgave him while he was alive. I’ve said my piece.

[aimmyarrowshigh]

🌈 upside down cake!

🌈 What inspired you to write [Upside-Down Cake]?

I was writing five alternate-dystopia AUs for the help_japan auction (and I only finished three. So far. SO FAR. Someday I will write the other two. I will). And this is just a very obvious AU variant -- swapping the roles that Katniss and Peeta play in THG. Who is Katniss, in particular, without having been hardened by the Seam, her father's death, and starvation? What other aspects of her personality would come out more? Her loyalty, probably, and the way that she so actively shows love (like Volunteering for Prim and jumping in front of the whip for Gale). Likewise, a Peeta whose manipulative intelligence WAS hardened by the Seam and starvation and having to make deals in the Hob was an interesting prospect.

[bigskydreaming]

That trope where one guy didn’t realize the other guy was gay or bi and thus even an option, and gets UPSET over not knowing the other was gay/bi before, but then at the same time....has never said or done anything to make the other guy know that he too was gay or bi and thus an option, so....what right does he have to be...upset? Exactly?

I will never understand this trope, I hate it so much, like, is this just a thing where my experiences are not universal and maybe this is actually an experience many mlm have faced in real life, b/c in my experience not knowing another guy was interested in men before might be cause for like, being MUTUALLY frustrated over missed opportunities/wasted time, but not ONE of them getting MAD at the other like this is THEIR fault, but idk maybe that IS more common than I realize?

Or is this actually just a really dumb trope that’s just drama for the sake of drama and doesn’t actually put much thought or attention into the idea of the closet as like, an actual bad thing vs just an opportunity for miscommunication shenanigans and drama.

[nyarmand]

some people reeeeaaaaaaally need to stop throwing words around because they know it'll get people's attention. thanks

[sholb]

never been more protective of a character than i have of percy jackson

[mirage-coordinator]

post about how censorship is a dangerous thing, and that throwing out “what if a CHILD saw this?” about things you don’t like is parroting conservative rhetoric (because it’s true, some things are going to be uncomfortable, and will make you uncomfortable, but should not be forbidden on the grounds of that discomfort)

it’s some stupid fuckwit covertly arguing that actually, they shouldn’t have to face any criticism for posting their shitty incest fanfic under the guise of a take that any average person would think is perfectly reasonable (they’re idiots who put that shit out in public and are not immune to people pointing out Hey That’s Weird)