#privately

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

"We fall privately before we ever fall publicly." - R.C. Sproul

[ryanthedemiboy]

Both can be true. It can potentially be objectifying (you ever seen how some women treat m/m fiction? I find it gross!), but here's the thing: so long as they don't act like that to real people in the real world, it doesn't matter! It doesn't matter what I think or how I feel, because the only way I can be hurt by it is by engaging with it!

There's a nice big back button I can press if it's something I don't want to engage with. Because I find it gross! And that's okay!

If i'm offended by the content, I can even block and/or mute them! I have tools at my disposal to avoid interacting with media I don't want.

And that responsibility is on me. And it's on you to do the same for yourself.

If you want to complain to a friend privately, sure, go for it. But fiction is the land of "do whatever the fuck you want" so leave whoever makes shit you find gross alone.

Find something you enjoy instead, and move on.

I really think everyone needs to truly internalize this:

Fictional characters are objects.

They are not people. You cannot "objectify" them, because they have no personhood to be deprived of. They have no humanity to be erased. You cannot "disrespect" them, because they are not real.

[never-quite-buried]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

16 hours later:

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

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

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

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

[angelofdumpsterfires]

presented without comment

[possessesnightshift]

maybe if that united healthcare shooter knocks out 33 more CEOs he'll be up to 34 felonies and he can run for president...

[classicfilmsource]

The Private Life of a Cat 1946 | dir. Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid

[odinsblog]

[nathaniacolver]

*edited for clarity since this blew up

y'all they found the killer A SUSPECT IN THE CASE apparently and he's a hot Italian right wing tech bro at Penn and twitter is making me SCREAM WITH LAUGHTER

guys i'm so sorry, i love tumblr with all my heart but NO ONE does REAL journalism (and quicker resulting memes) as well as twitter does. No one

[jesncin]

"Who Is Superman? A Private Interview with Lois Lane" a fancomic about hope and connection. I've had this story in mind for so long and I'm very excited to be able to share it at last. Thank you for reading, and happy Lunar New Year!

[uwudonoodle]

[defyed]

can i hc that elphaba wrote to g(a)linda in a journal and g(a)linda wrote letters to elphaba that she kept in a box?

[golyadkin]

Sons Of The Labyrinth or The Things Our Fathers Do To Us

[letmetellyouaboutmyfeels]

*walks up to a couple* so which one of you is the cheetah and which one of you is the golden retriever who keeps the cheetah from stressing themselves to death

[gumy-shark]

i wish all my mutuals who @ me in those tag games a very i swear i see it and i love being thought of even though i rarely if ever do them. i love you.

[elderinternetresurrection]

Btw, privatization is stealing from *you.* You are the public in "publicly owned." Oligarchs are coming in to take the things we all share ownership of as Americans, like Medicare, Social Security, National Parks, PBS and scrapping them for parts they find profitable.

The right is planning to rob us and quite literally want us to thank them for the privilege by calling it "government efficiency."