#one day i will destroy you tumblr

[worm-on-my-way]

do drugs kids :)

[aterfish]

Show me how to be whole again

[discjude]

guess my favourite sge chapter challenge (impossible edition). yes i think aric shouldve had long hair he was in that cave for nine whole ass years leave me alone

[thetardisisnotourdivision]

When you see a post about romance or kissing or sm and just for a second you can't help but think of the person you're in unrequited love with.

[jadelemonadee]

do you ever have people online that just. frustrate you for no reason😭😭like this person didn’t do anything to me personally but whenever i see their comments or anything im just like oh it’s YOU again 😒😒😒

[memesomething]

yet another reminder callout posts don't work

they do contribute to radicalisation because you're actively seeking to cold-turkey cut someone out of their community (and people find community wherever they can find it) (this is a statement of fact it is not debated at all in academic circles. we Know it contributes to radicalisation)

other adults do not need you to tell them who it's "safe" to interact with because they are capable of communicating and emotional management/using the block button

children and young people are largely not your target audience when you make a callout post, and even if they were, using a callout to reach those target audiences is one of the most irresponsible and reckless ways to reach them. accessing these communities of people with reactionary, angry media, and normalising this response (or normalising that it could, or should, happen to them or their friends whenever someone is 'toxic') does not support their health and safety online or in their communities

also the percentage of time where I've seen a callout post whose literally devastating destruction of social networks and support systems has been proportional to the "wrongdoing" listed - is zero. I have never seen that be proportional. 'oh you said/did something dumb (or outright meanspirited) one time, nobody you have relied on for emotional support for the past several months or years will ever like you again, you're a horrible person irretrievably forever'

You are targeting people in a setting (a website) where statistically they are far far more likely in the first place to be neurodivergent, mentally ill and/or other minorities, you are constructing this impact for people who are already some of the most vulnerable, people literally die to this bullshit.

the only thing callout posts achieve is you get to be angry out loud a bit longer and try to dictate who your friends "get" to speak to (and if they have any sense they say "absolutely not" and leave, which mustn't be any fun for you, either). "i wish I didn't have to say this--" you do not. just don't. just do not say it. vent privately to a friend if you desperately need to.

callout posts are insidious, dangerous, and they don't work. stop making them.

[camelspit]

happy brant day babygirls

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[alien-til-i-stage]

WIAT YOUR. NINTENDO SWITCH. ITS A BLUE ONE??? I ALSO HAVE A BLUE ONE

ITS DESTINT!!! IM YOU AND YOUR ME!!!

[pokeformerz]

I have such a love/hate relationship with HH...

love the huge step forward it has taken for indie animation,

hate how crazy it makes people

[philiponmycracker]

It physically hurts how pretty Tom Hulce is in Echo Park (1985)

[wild-at-mind]

I wonder if I could develop a fetish for being the sheltered loser kid who needs to be taught to live a little in a teen movie.

[rosicheeks]

😵‍💫

[arts-i-enjoy]

Something I've noticed from subbing to just a couple of very small patreons (like fewer than 50 members) is how SHY people are about talking to the creator that they are paying! What's up with that? I wonder if it's because most of these patrons come via tumblr, where there is the culture of talking in the tags/reblogs and comments being your "outdoor voice"/basically it being RUDE to talk to people.

I think that's fucked up, especially in the context of artists (just to be clear every time I say artists that is inclusive of writers). Like these are people that are making a thing and showing it to you, they don't just want silent nods of approval by way of reblogs/likes. They want FEEDBACK. They want CONNECTION. I think a fundamental part of creating and sharing art is the goal of connection. And I don't think people realize how truly disheartening it is to post something and then get completely silent likes/reblogs.

For the love of God they are TALKING TO YOU. TALK BACK!!!!

[randomclod]

being on tumblr so much I almost forget being autistic or at least viewing autistic people as people isn't the norm in the rest of the internet. just saw a youtube comment section that reminded me of that :(

[thebibliosphere]

To be clear, unless staff trips over the trail of extension cords keeping the servers running, Tumblr likely isn't going anywhere any time soon.

What the info we've seen suggests is that updates are going to slow down, maintenance is maybe going to get a little shaky, and we're going to see more glitches as time goes on and the remaining staff gets further behind their workload.

Is this a good thing? No, absolutely not.

Should you be panicking, jumping overboard, running for the hills, etc? Also no.

So what does it mean?

Well, for myself and several other creatives you all saw tagged in that post, it means we're looking around trying to figure out what to do in the long run. We're not running for the lifeboats. We're just eyeing the iceberg in the distance and getting our shit together in the event that the worst comes to pass.

Speaking for myself, I intend to crawl through the walls of Tumblr until they pry me out of the air vents armed with a broom and oven mitts. I'm not going anywhere until the lights go out, and even then, I'll be chewing on the wires.

But that doesn't mean I'm not looking around for somewhere to land when the time comes.

Myself and several others are not panicking about this, but we are trying to be organized about it.

I'm just old enough to remember when fandom websites being nuked overnight was a very real thing. You'd go to bed one night and wake up the next day to find friends you'd known for years were just gone with no means of contacting them because the site you'd been using got wiped. Entire collections of fandom history were just destroyed in the blink of an eye.

We don't want that again. And the good news is, we have time. We have time to back up our shit, time to swap contact info with our friends, and time to find a new place to exist within our communities while also staying here because Tumblr ain't dead yet.

She's just slowly going to wind down over time.

Unless, of course, they trip over the cables. Then we're fucked.

[thisbreakableheaven]

I just think politicians should spend more time on tumblr. That's all.