#is this considered tag spam

[armoralor]

Happy Lesbian Visibility Week! (part two) ✰ sending all the love to lesbians today and every other day of the year ✰ reminder that T*RFs can fuck off, only interact if you love trans & nonbinary folks ♡ more characters under the cut!

Tumblr only allows 30 images per post, so this was the max number of characters I could include BUT if there is anyone you would like to see made into one of these edits that isn't here, just let me know and I'll make it separately ♡

[simpjaes]

my bias is Hee but lately Sunghoon has been making weak, there's an intensity to this man, I CANT DEAL WITH HIM

do you think he would be into breeding??? i would just love for him to go raw on me and watch him go wild

imma be honest, i think heeseung, sunghoon, jake, and jay would all be into breeding in their own way.

like whether they're getting off on the danger of it, wanting to baby trap you, or just straight up trying to wife u up.........they all wanna see it drip out of you so they can fuck it back in.

sunghoon specifically? when you talk about intensity all i can think about is him wanting to inspect how much cum he pumps into you, wanting to know it's enough to both spill out of you and be deep inside of you. like fr, bro would probably be ready to go again the second he sees it.

again, playing off the word of intense. he would hold off when you're away. thinking it's a huge waste to cum on or in someone/something that isn't you. like man, you take him so good, why would he go around coming all over the place and ruining his fantasy of keeping you forever? Like? Such a fucking waste. If he's fucking anything, it's not gonna be his hand, it's not gonna be someone else, it's gonna be you.

would probably edge himself for days to fill you up.

yea, :| im just saying.

[poorlydrawninstarsandtime]

now put snacks in his enclosure!

you guys shouldve seen him eat it it was horrifying.

[id in alt]

[a-dragons-journal]

tumblr users stop posting completely unrelated posts in the otherkin tag challenge, especially when they're blatant bot "donation" scam asks

[mxtxfanatic]

Jc stans: Jiang Cheng should have adopted A-Yuan, he would have been a great uncle to the kid!

People who read: Jiang Cheng would have killed A-Yuan had he been given the chance. He is said to have “no love in him” the moment lovable A-Yuan runs to greet him. He tells Wei Wuxian to return A-Yuan and the rest of the Wen remnants to the labor camps, with his “mercy” being that he’ll turn a blind eye if Wei Wuxian decides to sneak a few away. After Wei Wuxian refuses, he leads a siege that kills all of the Wen remnants. A-Yuan escapes the same fate only because his loved ones successfully hid him away beforehand. Even if A-Yuan was somehow not a Wen, Jiang Cheng hates everything associated with Wei Wuxian, as well. He tortures random people who remind him of his former martial brother, and he tears down the building in Lotus Pier that used to hold Wei Wuxian’s room. And finally, Jiang Cheng is an abusive guardian to Jin Ling, his only living blood relative. He would never adopt A-Yuan.

Jc stans: Welll! Well! Did you ever think about how Wei Wuxian uses the resentment of CHILDREN for revenge?!?!? Sounds pretty demented to me 😤

[i3utterflyeffect]

HEY, INDIE GAME TUMBLR

so i want to let y'all know something-- unity has started a per-install fee for game developers. what this means is anytime someone installs a dev's game that they paid for, a fee comes out of the developers pockets.

yeah. you can guess how bad this is.

I don't have a very far reach but i urge y'all to reblog and research this stuff.

Many game devs, including Cult Of The Lamb and Rain World are talking about removing their games from install pages because of this, and a lot of games could be lost because of this. So many games could be lost from this.

Please spread the word and talk about this. Game developers are pissed and you should be too.

[polar-bears-making-pancakes]

why I haven't seen more people talk about this?

Google very possibly is using youtuber's content to train generative ai. Hank Green did a very interesting video about it:

there's also a survey for youtubers and creators in the description. he is going to use this data in his talks with youtube

what he presents as a solution is simply an option to opt out. because there's an issue with youtube's tos that they interpret in their favour. this happened already with reddit where all the content posted by users is understood as the property of reddit. and they can sell their property to further clients like databases for generative ai

[feedingicetothedog]

i also don't feel like the ending somehow made the interview NOT about claudia considering it ends w louis in that room w the rocks and claudia's dress displayed in the back like a museum artifact (along w paul's portrait). the season literally ends w louis sitting in a room dedicated to his grief. the louis/lestat reunion was about their shared grief over claudia. i think for me, louis wanted to do the interview to gain closure but he was talking to 2 ppl who didn't know her like he knew her so he finishes the interview and goes to see the one person who could possibly remember her like he did and they talk about what happened and then louis leaves bc that scene is not about him and lestat getting back together, it's about louis gaining some catharsis after almost 80 years

[starryjkoo]

It’s really funny when people are like - but JK hung out with x person 10 times this year! - and it’s like, okay, and then he chose to spend the next 18 months, 547~ days with Jimin? 😭 You might really want to rethink that argument friend. JK had other options, other people he could have gone with, other programs he could have tried for, a later date he could have enlisted on, and yet he chose JM, and vice versa. They didn’t even have to enlist with anyone, they could have gone individually like everyone else in the group. No one was expecting them to enlist together. And this is also probably the furthest thing there is from company content or fanservice considering we’re not even going to be seeing them for the next 18 months and I doubt they’ll even talk about their time in the military. It’s just so silly. “JK and JM were never together this year!” buddy, they’re literally together RIGHT NOW 😭

[sirius-arter]

Happy lil fella

[ifchuckthenonlysneed]

(used to be @ifuckingloveherpees)

I'm Helene, 18yrs old and I'm french. I post DST Fanart !

On my blog, you will see a LOT of Fanart of Wendy, Maxwell, Abigail and Jack- just, the Carter family in general.

I am also a BIG willowson shipper, so you'll see a lot of that as well.

Other ships I like are maxlie, maxwil, maxwillow (yes, I know no one else but me ships this), willowfrid and wesfrid- but I don't draw them very often, so you won't see it as much.

I really love Higurashi and Umineko, but I don't post fanart of it very often anymore, so keep that in mind before following me.

Feel free to send me art requests, questions, or DM me, I am happy to make friends (though, I might answer infrequently, I am a bad texter).

That's it, thank you!

[doloresdisparue]

its a symptom of the godawful state of the lolita and dolores haze tags being flooded with weird lana del rey type stuff but i always think its just a little funny when these not even lolita related posts end up in the general nabokov tag like yes so true doesnt this just scream teenage dream demure sweet girlblogging cocaine glitter angel trailer park princess who will never die #femcel #hell is a teenage girl

[sdmsims]

RIP POKEPETS MOD 2023-2023

earlier this year, i was working on a functional pokemon mod! and i got pretty far, but then my health declined and then EA released babies and also now horses. so it's safe to say the tuning is screwed up now, but there's no reason to keep the actual pokemon i converted for the project hidden away

some are considerably more cursed than others. you've been warned

REQUIRES cats & dogs EP (duh)

mesh conversions from scarlet & violet, all have moving jaws and eyelids!

2 swatches for each mon (normal and shiny), disabled for random

mesh edits + retextures are cool but credit is appreciated! do not put these behind paywalls

DL : SFS (no ads, as always)

[astronomodome]

Tumblr Poll Tournaments & MCYT

So a while ago I made a post expressing my frustration with the way a lot of tumblr poll tournaments seem to exclude mcyt characters- or if they are included, people in the notes are rude about it. The first situation of these- the poll organizer including rules against submitting characters from mcyt- is something I can easily quantify. I've crunched some numbers in order to find out two things:

How common is this phenomenon, really?

Why does this happen in the first place?

A note before I start: I'm not blaming the poll organizers for this, and I don't want anyone to get angry at them for excluding mcyt. At the end of the day, it's up to them to curate what they want their poll to be, and if they don't want to deal with the toxicity that often comes with letting mcyt characters run (or if they just don't like it for whatever reason), that's their decision. Trust me- poll organizers have to put up with a lot of shit already, and I don't want to add to it, regardless of their opinions on mcyt. If any poll organizers recognize their own words in the later part of this overview, they can contact me and I'll remove it. This is also why I have chosen not to identify the blogs from which I took the examples- I mean no harm to any poll organizer. They are a symptom of a much larger problem and they haven't done anything wrong except be a little misinformed at worst.

Excluding mcyt characters from poll tournaments really isn't that big of a deal on its own- though it is frustrating- but it does speak to the larger attitude of the general tumblr population towards mcyt. While not without its flaws, this can be used as a metric to measure the extent of this attitude and maybe get a hint of why it exists.

...Please note, also, that most of these polls date back to around March-June 2023, when poll tournaments were a big thing on Tumblr. Not super outdated, but I still should note that opinions might have changed since then.

Also also, be warned that there are examples below of some organizers being pretty toxic! It's not a whole lot, but if you don't want to expose yourself to that, maybe pass on this post!

With that out of the way, let's get started.

Part One: The Numbers

The first thing I decided to do was figure out a rough percentage of how many poll tournaments have a rule that excludes mcyt characters from being submitted. To get a sample batch of poll blogs, I used one of the blogs that pits the winners of tournaments against each other and checked each blog included in that. This ended up being a more tedious process than I had thought, since there's a lot of variation in the way poll organizers, well, organize. I ended up with 123 blogs sorted into three categories.

The first category included tournaments where a rule for or against mcyt characters wouldn't really make sense, for a variety of reasons. Most commonly, the tournament was between letters of the alphabet or animo acids or government agencies, not fictional characters, so I counted them out. There were also a handful of blogs where the contestants were determined by the organizer, not by nomination at all. Combined, blogs that did not fit my criteria made up 60/123 of my samples.

The second and third categories were the blogs that either had a rule against mcyt characters, or didn't. Most of the blogs I looked through had rules I could find, and some were more thorough about it than others. For my purposes, I counted the blog as a no only if they explicitly had a rule against mcyt characters, or clarified later that they weren't allowed. Most poll blogs didn't mention mcyt at all. (This will become relevant later.)

Of the 63 blogs that fit my criteria, 11 (17.5%) of them had a rule against mcyt characters, while the remaining 52 (82.5%) did not.

To me, this seems like pretty good news! I had honestly expected the percentage of blogs that excluded mcyt to be much higher. This is definitely a good sign! But I wouldn't really jump to assuming that mcyt characters would actually be accepted in all of these blogs. I will explain this in the next part of my research.

Part Two: The Examples

The second thing I wanted to find out with this research was why organizers end up having rules against mcyt in the first place. Is it just the bad reputation the mcyt space has (largely a result of one green man in particular)? Let's look at a few examples of poll rules against mcyt characters. Some of them are from my sample blogs and some of them aren't.

Type 1: Not understanding the difference between real people and characters in mcyt

The majority of the rules against mcyt I saw were of this type, and honestly, it's pretty reasonable. It's a pretty major debate in the mcyt community over whether mcyts' characters are separate enough from their content creators to count as fictional. However, there are a considerable number of mcyt characters who are explicitly stated to be different from their cc in the same way as a character in a movie played by an actor is different from the actor playing them. Excluding all mcyt characters for being 'real people' is just incorrect, though I can kinda understand where the organizers were coming from with this one.

It should also be noted that the vast majority of poll blogs had a rule against submitting real people. There's a possibility that some poll organizers might have lumped mcyt characters as real people even if they didn't specify it explicitly. Therefore, an attempt to actually submit an mcyt character into one of these tournaments might be against the rules based on what the organizer thinks. I have no way to quantify this, which is why I said earlier that the results of my initial test might not be accurate.

Type 2: 'Problematic fandom' (toxicity warning for some of these)

This type of rule is usually broader than just mcyt, but lumps it in with other fandoms known for being associated with bigotry (often hp, which is... yeah i'm definitely not going to argue in favor of harry potter but yikes. really? we're as bad as terfy potter? really.) At least one of them let dsmp characters in with the exception of dream, which is a lot fairer than... some of the others.

If we want to give the organizers benefit of the doubt here, we can say that these rules are made to keep the poll less toxic than it would be otherwise... but to be perfectly honest, some of these might be more about that phenomenon of purity culture that has had a habit of popping up in fandom spaces since forever. That's a whole other conversation I'm not ready to have now, but it comes as no surprise to me that mcyt has become a little taboo in some places (likely to a large extent because of dream and all the drama he's generated). There's also no telling whether the poll organizers in these cases even know that there are other smps besides dsmp... but that's besides the point, since there are other dsmp characters that aren't associated with dream at all. Excluding them reveals a misconception about the mcyt genre anyway. And of course, I think we can all agree that some of these are just pretty rude.

Which brings us to our conclusion.

I feel like a lot of the toxicity towards mcyt as a genre and mcyt characters boils down to people either not really understanding what mcyt is (i.e. mcyt -> minecraft youtubers -> real people) or hearing stuff about dream and assuming the entire mcyt space is reflective of that. Of course, it's a frustrating issue that some people think this way. I think it's nice to be reminded, though, that this sort of thing isn't very widespread. Alongside the bad examples, I saw a lot of organizers confronting their preconceived notions: one organizer let in an mcyt character after admitting their 'unfamiliarity with the source material', another allowed mcyt characters 'on the condition that you can explain how they are a separate character' and a few others fiercely defended mcyt characters against toxicity in their polls. Every day we grow as a community and we can't let a few people with misguided notions of what we are keep us down. Keep watching, keep creating, and as Zedaph once said, It's okay to be silly!

[timeboundterra]

Does ANYONE know who made the splatoon comic with Pearl and Marina where they’re playing video games and there’s voice chat, and pearl absolutely OBLITERATES Marina’s headphones and she just goes “I’m loud” >:3 like the little gremlin she is?

Like could someone link it or like. Reblog it and tag me???

[backslashdelta]

I simply think that you should tag your posts with the things you talk about in them, and not with things you don't talk about in the hopes of more people seeing them