#so many people tell me to get tiktok

[enbeemagical]

my irl friends keep being like "you should get tiktok!" and i do not want to get tiktok but i cannot explain to them that i am a tumblr girlie at heart

[originalartblog]

Apparently much-needed reminder that reposting artists' art (by saving the images or screenshotting them and reuploading them yourself) on other platforms without the artists' expressed permission and without credit is theft and an insult to their passion and craft. You are profiting (in views, in attention, in feedback) from someone else's work and ideas, who do not get that feedback for sharing their creation.

If you are an art reposter, you are a thief and I have no respect for you.

[marrfixated]

(More thoughts and drafting! Some weird formatting I know but it was all one block in my notes)

Emma is doing just fine. Average. It’s really not so bad.

She’s just been dealing with a lot of change. And with too many things not changing.

Which is… an odd thing to struggle with.

Because she likes change. Daunting challenges. The unpredictable. Doing new things every day and never being scared of them. And she likes independence.

She had thought so, at least.

After the show, she had been hit in the face with just how… isolated she was. She had only had two friends before the first season, but she had left them behind. Her mother wasn’t doing the best, and she didn’t have any nearby family.

She found herself laying in her bed in the middle of the day most of the time, scrolling through her contacts and old conversations.

Or scrolling through her comments on TikTok.

A few weeks ago, she had tried some stunt involving a motorcycle and an inflatable pool. She probably wouldn’t have messed it up if her hands weren’t trembling.

(She had forgot to check the breaks, and wasn’t sure if they were working.)

(They were.)

The blood dripping down her face and the gash in her lip didn’t sting as much as it did watching the video.

She looked ridiculous, and she probably always did. It was better when she had someone else to do it with. Maybe she was losing her touch.

She didn’t post the video.

She turned back to dancing instead, which did feel less embarassing, despite the constant mocking feedback. Sure, the jokes were “funny”, but she didn’t care about any of it. She didn’t feel the rush, she wasn’t planning every day, and she wasn’t known or loved for anything.

Except for what she lost.

And, the show, to an extent.

-Ugh, she misses the show. She shouldn’t, but as stupid as it sounds, she really did. She missed doing crazy things and talking to people. Having a chance of winning. Beating everyone. Being cheered on. It wasn’t always great, but at least it was something. She misses doing something.

And she really misses Bowie. She missed Bowie, but she knows better than anyone that she can’t go back to that. They just- have better things to do now. He probably does.

He’s got Raj- which is great! And she’s happy for him! She’s happy for everyone. For Wayne, however he’s doing, for Julia, despite everything.

And Caleb. For having Priya.

Emma is jealous that Bowie gets to have someone.

Emma is jealous that everyone else gets to have someone.

Emma is jealous that, unlike everyone else, winning the show probably wouldn’t have made her any happier.

She isn’t sure what would.

[ninjasmudge]

people really will say shit like 'the fic i found hasn't updated in a whole month so i think its been abandoned which is a shame, i wanted to read more' like where do you even get the nerve

[pinkniz]

Sometimes I wish I never complained about the amount of Freddy nsfw content bc ever since I did it I get called homophobic now and then and that i hate gay men because I said hes bi because he likes Heng Yue and Yun chuan in a NONcanon segment

Like

All I said was that i thought him getting lewd so much was becoming annoying

Im sorry, idk, it genuinely makes me sad sometimes because I know that mlm content is very limited and queer men have few safespaces and sometimes I feel like Im invading those safespaces and I really dont wanna upset anyone, Im a neodivergent bisexual woman, i know how much it sucks to have your safe space invaded and disrespected.

To be honest I think Im so defensive of Freddy for the same reason, I was SA and hes a character that brings me a lot of comfort and safety, he makes me feel stronger, hes my safespace. But I understand I must've overreacted, I never meaned to make everyone uncomfortable or to upset anyone and Im really sorry if I did

[damianmcgintleman]

husband and i started watching abbot elementary last week and we've almost finished season two and i think it's maybe the funniest show I've seen in like 10 years minimum

[coulsonlives]

I just had to share this video because holy shit, it hits the nail right on the head! So well spoken. This stuff needs to be circulated more, esp with the growing number of people thinking they have this because of misinformation, or just outright faking it.

[medicinemane]

Mike johnson has so god damn much blood on his hands, obviously Ukrainian blood, but also plenty of American blood

Refusing to renew something that helps vets exposed to atomic blast and Americans who were downwind of the fall out... it's just sick. I can't fucking stand mike johnson, he's one of the worst scum to ever be in congress, and that's fucking saying something

"Johnson refused to allow House members to vote on bipartisan legislation to renew and improve the program"

Fucking quivering little pimple seems to have a real MO for just wringing his hands while insisting it's not his fault, he just can't do the one fucking part of his job of putting shit up to a vote... oh boo hoo, so sad, he'll just have to unilaterally let funding expire on things instead of literally just putting it up to our elected representatives to see if they want to vote yay or nay

Single handedly make the choices but it's not his fault when they work out how they do

Murderer

[kittlyns]

I had yet another long, strenuous day yesterday and didn't finish work until super late and then I couldn't fall asleep until well past 2am cuz I was in so much pain from standing literally all day

[lavender---sunshine]

in all seriousness i 90% sure im going to quit my job tomorrow and for a while i will have just enough money to live on and will have to spruce up my resume and job hunt and stress but MY GOD i need to do something else because this is making me suicidal

[seeyouinthesoup]

Nope, Dropout/D20 isn’t classist for having a paywall. Just say you don’t believe artists should be paid for creating work how they want to create it.

[outlier-roddy]

It's actually very simple. I go to Twitter when I want multiple intense politically charged interactions with PVP enabled zones and niche hashtag feminisms (a subject I sadly neglected when I became a victim of wokeism). I go to tiktok when I need to turn my brain off and get fed serotonin and do funny little three-dimensional jokes with funny little audios and put my funny little three-dimensional face on the internet. I come to Tumblr when I need to see things specifically targeted to my immediate special interest so that I can separate them into individually decorated sideblogs with individually decorated themes and cool little titles and bios and I can write in the tags. I go to Instagram when I'm feeling narcissistic, and YouTube gets a turn when I'm in the shower or cleaning. So, will you be using cash or credit today

[roastedinmarch]

i love being alive and living in the world as a trans masculine person it’s so fun and everyone including the trans community definitely doesn’t either want me dead or think i’m simultaneously receiving male privilege and am basically a girl :)

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[glittertimes]

If no one’s got me random people liking my TikTok comments got me!

[grimmthorne]

say it with me class, guilt tripping someone into activism does nothing for them and makes them feel like they will never make a difference if they don't follow every single "trend" in activism then they will be a fraud of a leftist. guilt tripping someone into being a loud and proud activist denies them the chance to really work on themselves, because they are too busy trying to repost and reblog and use the right cute emojis for their online username and bios. idk about yall, I want every leftist to work together to achieve a greater future but I would greatly prefer it if they didn't have so much internalized guilt about it all that it paralyzed them so badly they couldn't say anything except for repeating the same 3 phrases from your little tiktok telling them if they don't say them every day they're going to your version of moral hell.