#sometimes gatekeeping is good

[gobackimhaunted]

if Taylor comes back to tumblr how long until you think people start using tumblr blaze to get noticed

[apesoformythoughts]

It kinda gears my grinds when people use a word (the word Catholic) without respecting its meaning (cf. “Catholics For Choice” and those “Catholic saints” polls going around with santa muerte as an actual option).

[unscharf-an-den-raendern]

Nicht jede Band, die auf Deutsch singt und Synthesizer benutzt, ist Neue Neue Deutsche Welle und vor allem nicht Bilderbuch, die völlig andere musikalische Einflüsse und komplett anderen Vibes haben.

[cairoscene]

Brian David Gilbert on Sad Boyz

feels fandom relevant.

[ID: A series of screen captures of Brian David Gilbert speaking on a podcast: "The thing that you invest your time in can feel so important to your identity that occasionally you feel, like, you need to close it off from other people in order to keep it safe. And I think that's where a lot of nerd culture, all that gatekeeping stuff, all of the toxicity stems from that thing where it's like, "In high school I didn't have a lot of friends or connect with a lot of people, but I did have this comic book, and now this comic book is super popular, but these people don't like me. That must be because they're not real fans."" End ID]

[tvckerwash]

I like to think that during pfl (using his s9 characterization, not s10) wash is the guy you go to when you want to know something (ah la a line in the fall of reach novel I believe where chief says the enlisted personnel always seem to know stuff bc wash is clearly enlisted).

he's in a position where he's privy to information from the higher-ups, and he's friendly enough with the lower rungs that he knows the gossip going around. as a bonus though, wash ain't no narc, so if you want that information you need to offer him something of equivalent exchange (consequently fueling the 'guy who knows things' thing). for example, north had to tell him about using equipment in the field in order to get him to tell him what his meeting with internals was about.

wash isn't the only guy who knows things, of course, but he's the guy who has the widest base of general knowledge. ct is also someone who knows things, but she's a lot more specific, and what she lacks in scale she more than makes up for with how in-depth her knowledge is. wash is where you learn about something from, ct is where you get all the juicy details (to the point of it almost being tmi). she also has an equivalent exchange policy, but people tend to be a bit more reluctant to get information from her because of what her knowledge is (and the borderline 'insane conspiracy theorist' energy doesn't help either).

florida? well...you don't wanna know what he knows. the cost is simply too high.

[v0id-echoes]

just found out Scarlet and Violet are rerunning the Walking Wake and Iron Leaves raids AGAIN soon

first off, here are the times for anyone who still hasn’t caught them, hope you can get them this time :3

but also since it’s clear they care about making these two accessible (surprisingly) given that this is the second time they’ve redone this event, why the hell weren’t they made natively available in Indigo Disk? you could’ve just added them to base game Area Zero with the update, problem solved, wouldn’t that have been easier 😭

[everlastiingiimmortals]

good morning, just saw the most braindead complaints on twitter from people discovering that the alliance is not actually this paragon of goodness that they deluded themselves into believing, and mourning the fact that the astral express seems to be the only "good" faction, so i think i'm starting my day off alright

[azurendays]

I need everyone that blasted Z-library’s existence on Tiktok to get their knees taken out

[stinkrascal]

Could you upload vlad 😭? I've been doing everything in my power to make him look hot and he looks... like he likes boys. istg i'll pay atp.

"he looks like he likes boys" anon im giving u the benefit of the doubt but idk if you should say stuff like this😭😭 if we're mutuals i will send him to you but tbh i don't want to put my sims for public download for random ppl to use, that's just my preference. i hope u understand!

[cheezestixk]

"Go to hell" is basic. "I hope your favorite emotionally devastating song about girlhood gets put in a Some Fucking Guy™ playlist" Is a very possible threat. It's scary. It happened to me. It can happen to you.

[batemanofficial]

hello upper middle class northern usamerican tumblr user. i want to play a game. you will notice that you are in a super america convenience store in rural kentucky - you have three minutes to purchase a snack and drink of your choice and make normal small talk with the cashier. however, if you use the word "cryptid" or generally make reference to appalachia and its inhabitants as "wild", uncivilized, or lacking restraint around alcoholic beverages during your time here, i will personally tie you to the chassis of a four wheeler and tip it into the river. live or die. make your choice

[mobydyke]

not to vaguepost but not everything is a symptom of ADHD or autism! some things are just normal human experiences!! get off of tiktok and have a conversation with irl people!!!!

[raindropsandseahorses]

The angry people commenting on Pedro’s post are giving me life. Tell me you don’t know anything about him without telling me

[lastonthebrakes]

we as the motogp girlies (gn) should try to prevent whatever the hell jorge and aleix (and rins) have going on from breaching containment tnx for coming to my ted talk

[sadisticyouko]

this is a totally random psa but !! one thing to keep in mind about me is that im always gonna support ur guys’ selfships and ocs and regular ships and etc !! I love to see yyh content in general and I love to see how u guys interact with the world too ♡

[raynawolfen]

Sometimes, I have to take a breath and remind myself that just because one of my favorite games is getting rereleased, remastered or anything that gets people more into it.. that doesn't mean I should be anxious or angry about it.

Yes, I want to keep that thing secret to myself. But I also want other people to feel how I feel about it. I don't want people to dislike it because it's my special thing, so I hope my favorite things never come out again and everyone but me forgets about it. I don't want the discourse, I don't want people mischaracterizing my favorite characters that helped build my personality as a kid. I don't want people to hate it. I just want to keep it locked up where no one can touch it.

But that's not right. Think of all the new fans, the fanart, the theories and all that other stuff. New kids might see it and it might change them how it changed me. Yes, that specific character was chosen by my best friend. Yes, I stayed up late nights imagining me and that character being friends and going out together. Yes, if I see someone else pick them or love them, it'll hurt because it feels like *our* thing , my thing and not theirs. But that's not right.

I have to remind myself that I was allowed the chance to enjoy it and other people should have the change to enjoy it, too. I just hope they're nice to it.. if that makes sense.