#still sharing these since if they believe i have the platform to spread it i will

[deerspherestudios]

Hi 👋 🚨plz don’t scroll 🚨

Iam writing to you, appealing to our shared humanity, to help me to share and reblog my story and my family’s fundraising campaign. 🙏

Iam Samer Abu Ras, my wife Shorouq, and our three children, including a baby 👶🏻 who is not yet two years old.

We are enduring unimaginable suffering due to the ongoing war, constantly moving from place to place in search of safety. We live in harsh conditions within tents, having lost our home and everything we owned. Our eldest son, Qusay, has had heart problems 💔since birth and urgently needs medical 💊follow-up after undergoing several surgeries. I humbly request a donation of 50 kronor more if you can my friend and if u can’t just support us enough for me.🌹 to help us travel to a safe place where we can continue Qusay’s treatment and provide a better life for our children.

In conclusion, my family and I thank you 🌺from the bottom of our hearts for accepting our message. ❤️🌹❤️

Note: My friend, if you wish to donate, note that the currency used in the fundraising campaign is the Swedish krona. Every 50 kronor is equivalent to 5 $dollars, 100 kronor is equivalent to 10 $dollars, and so on.

My friends, my appeals may seem repetitive to you, and I apologize if my requests cause any inconvenience. However, I need your continuous support. Thank you for your understanding.🙏🌹❤️

Link to donate is HERE ! 🍉 This campaign has also been vetted ! 🇵🇸 An additional note from the blog:

“Please note, The goal of our fundraising campaign is to raise $43,000, which is = equivalent to 450,000 SEK. My friends, the currency used in the fundraising campaign is the Swedish Krona (SEK), and every 50 SEK is equivalent to 5 USD.” 10$ = 100 SEK 50$= 500 SEK 100$= 1000 SEK 200$= 2000 SEK

[yukirayu]

These I've also shared on Twitter, but I thought I'd share them here before someone tries any sort of libel.

You know what's funny about this whole discourse about the Slow Damage patch ? The whole discourse reminds me of game mods, in a way.

Game mods are made by fans, for free no less, for you to download, and only if you wanted, to help improve your experience with a game.

Whether it's improving the aesthetic (character or background design) or tweaking some of the gameplay elements itself. Or adding new elements, or even changing things purely for shits and giggles.

That way, mods are akin to patches. More often than not, mods are made because the base game had flaws in their design (technical or otherwise) that the mod intended to fix or improve.

But these mods are optional. And naturally, most mods are going to use preexisting assets from either the game they're modding or from another game, assets that they'll either refine or combine with other assets to make something better.

While some mods earn a raised brow, if the mod isn't to one's liking, most generally just ignore it.

Except in this specific instance, some don't like the mod that is the patch and feel that it doesn't sit right with them for whatever reason, believing that its existence would be "spitting" on the original game or because it no longer sounds as snarky as they themselves would like to read it as.

But instead of ignoring the patch, which they were explicitly advised to do if they take offense to it, they decide to make their dislike everyone else's problem, and by poisoning the well, no less.

And one quick way to ensure that is to accuse the patch of bigotry towards the LGBT community.

I'm already aware that this same accusation is spreading like wildfire, both in Reddit and especially in Twitter, and in some Discord spaces, most likely.

But did anyone, and this includes the accusers, even play at least 40% of the patched version, and intensively at that, before making that claim?

Oh, I'm all too aware that bigotry is a real, serious and widespread issue.

But in most online circles nowadays, accusing something of bigotry right off the gate is also one surefire method of turning people off of it before they can even check it out for themselves.

I mean, what better way of publicly dragging something you don't like through the mud than to spread accusations/misassumptions that are quick for others to believe before anyone can even try and personally fact-check anything?

Especially in a place like the internet itself.

The note stating the avoidance of using a specific pronoun for some characters to not assume their identity could've been phrased better, yes, and the patch team did clarify their stance on the matter. Alas, anything can still easily be misinterpreted and used as flame bait.

But what's odd is that the people who first touted this claim (either here or in other platforms) have one thing in common: they never checked out the patch (let alone played through one certain route in full) to personally confirm if that really is the case.

Taking all this into consideration, I think that no matter how the patch was presented, it'd get backlash.

Even long before any of us knew this patch was even going to be a thing, even giving constructive criticism about the localization and any mistakes/goofs it made already drew ire, and it's those same people who took offense that are spreading the hate about this patch.

It all really boils down to the matter of the patch even existing, since - as some detractors point out - it's what they call to be a disrespectful spit to the face, even without factoring the false accusations of transphobia and plagiarism.

Let's say they used the JP game files instead and have the patch work with that version. They'd get decried for copyright infringement and they risk a C&D order.

Use the EN files? We already get the claims that they barely did anything to the text, among other things. Why?

Because they didn't adjust every single syntax and change every single word in every single sentence… when English isn't exactly the most versatile language and there's only ways you can translate something, especially in the simpler sentences like "Who are you?".

Using a thesaurus on everything would make it sound weird. Heck, the patch being more verbose and detailed and impersonal (which is what's to be expected when it's third person and in a visual novel, no less) already got it accused of being no more than a fancy MTL.

And it doesn't help that many already assume that the statement that MTL can be a helpful tool is also the same as "MTL being the superior translator of all time", and people will find anything and I mean anything to hate on something and discredit it.

And as for the preferring 1st person over 3rd person and vice versa? It's a matter of preference, yes, and that can't be helped.

But let's get one fact out in the open: Out of N+C's 5 main VNs, only one is told in first person POV in the JP/original version, and that's DMMD.

The other game that used 1st person narration is Slow Damage's spinoff game, Clean Dishes, but not the main/parent game itself.

And even years before they got licensed, the fan patches followed the intended narration viewpoint of the first 4 VNs. Third person for Togainu no Chi, Lamento, and Sweet Pool, and first person for DMMD.

Their respective localized versions (except Lamento), also followed the intended narration viewpoint, and nobody complained because that was all they knew.

But because Slow Damage's localization took the creative liberty of changing the narration from third to first person, with people exposed to it, it's not really surprising some have gotten accustomed enough to end up preferring it.

Even when another version that retells the game in original narration comes up, for the past two years, the localization has been what they knew, and that is what many usually then decide to stick to.

In the scenario where the localization - even if it would still be a mess - never changed the narration, would people still say "Oh but they should've changed it to 1st person since it would've enhanced the story"?

It's telling that it never happened with Togainu no Chi, Sweet Pool and DMMD, no?

And before anyone tells me that I just hate localizations overall, you don't hear me complaining about the official translation of any of the BLVNs that Mangagamer licensed, do you? I also have plenty of gripes with DMMD's fan translation over what it did to Mink.

[pixiecaps]

no bc im not usually involved w stuff like this and believe everyone should be held accountable for their actions no matter what. but seeing the way quackity has been seen as non human, any emotion or misstep he has being seen as manipulative or fake is like crazy. i don’t understand how people don’t see like wait, your actually just being racist you are not capable of seeing him as a person, why? it feels like he really could’ve handled this perfectly and there still would be this large crowd regarding him as a heartless fraud??

truly. i have closely observed this situation and listened to both sides and theres a lot of different opinions that can co exist and theres a lot of complexity to them.

one particular thing that has bothered me and made me uncomfortable is the projection of quackity as this scheming conniving figure. its gross. him having to explain that hes had previous experiences like this where he keeps any sort of bad situation with another creator private and that in turn has made him perceived as more manipulative is so sad. and this isnt surprising obviously since this is something ive witnessed. but overall i think with the internet nowadays theres a large mindset that everything needs to be public information and shared with the audience while they preach to solve things in the dms. people only care for a show and to watch creators destroy themselves. thats what twitter is and what a lot of people actively strive to do on that platform. specifically in regards to leak communities.

everyone should be aware enough that theyre allowed to criticize quackity and the decisions he’s made that people may not agree with. he acknowledges that himself. but to paint him as anything other then human and someone who has deeply fucked up reaches that level where it is racism. i dont think many people quite realize micro aggressions when they see them. so theres that. and then theres obviously the extremes of the situation when it came to the doxxing and death threats. people actively celebrating and saying it surely is an okay thing to spread because well he fucked up right? hypocrisy. this goes the same way for any admin or worker involved the situation that has been sent and told the same.

this entire situation has proved to me that nobody knows how to properly handle anything or how to properly react to anything and choosing instead to immediately jump to those extremes mentioned in the name of activism and moral superiority.

anyways support the admins. listen to their stories. criticize media you consume in a constructive manner. call out xenophobia and racism when you see it. and treat people like the humans they are. they will all make mistakes each side has made a mistake. yes this also applies to the people in the community. think for more than a second before you post anything for fucks sake.

[joannechocolat]

Dear Mr X...

It’s hard to give up a relationship, even when it has become toxic. Even when it brings you no joy, it’s hard to accept the fact that you’re better off without it. To look at the time you spent building it, to write off those years and start again can feel like jumping off a cliff into a bottomless precipice. You start to think of all the things you’ll lose if the relationship ends; the good times, the shared friends, the laughter and the memories. Your heart sinks at the thought of trying to rebuild all that from scratch. The time. The work. The energy. It feels like a bereavement.

I feel like that about Twitter now. A relationship that began fifteen years ago, when I was someone different, and the platform was new and hopeful and designed for communication, rather than spreading division. Sometimes I still find myself mourning that time; the friends I made; the stories I wrote, the thousands of incarnations of the Shed. Some of my friends have been left there for good, their Twitter accounts frozen in time; their words all that remains of them. Perhaps that’s why I’m reluctant to leave, even though the bluebirds have flown, and even the logo is changing to something that looks to me a lot like a modified swastika – an apt comparison, given the way in which certain voices and political views have been given unasked-for prominence, while others seem to have vanished altogether from my feed. Feed someone garbage for long enough, and they start to sicken and die. That’s what happening via this site. I have watched it happening ever since Elon Musk arrived - a man so cartoonishly self-obsessed that it’s hard to even believe he’s real, except that no writer of fiction or game designer would dream of creating such a crass and substandard character.

X. What a choice of symbol.

X marks the spot for pirates in search of buried treasure. X is the mark of a person who is unable to write their name. X is the identity of someone who needs to stay anonymous. It’s a voter’s mark; an erasure; a mystery; a chromosome.

And it’s also an occult symbol, a rune: the rune Gyfu according to the Old English Futhorc, and Gebo in the Elder Futhark; both of which translate as “gift”.

The Anglo-Saxon rune poem that accompanies it goes like this:

ᚷ Gẏfu gumena bẏþ gleng and herenẏs, ƿraþu and ƿẏrþscẏpe and ƿræcna gehƿam ar and ætƿist, ðe bẏþ oþra leas.

which translates as follows:

Generosity brings credit and honour, which support one's dignity; it furnishes help and subsistence to all broken men who are devoid of aught else.

At first glance, this seems the opposite of what Elon Musk has done for the world. A man who sees social media as his own personal platform; a man who sees the cosmos as his own personal joy-ride.

The mistake we made was believing that Twitter was our playground. Elon Musk has made it his, and is currently in the process of breaking the toys, chopping down the trees and nuking the site from orbit, just to prove that play is overrated, and that only money counts. I can’t help feeling sorry for the little boy he must have been, and to wonder what he might have been like if he’d actually had any friends. But it’s time: and the change of branding makes it even easier to step away.

So maybe this is a kind of gift to the ones of us leaving Twitter. Misinformation, misogyny, transphobia, conspiracy theories and other kinds of social media poison have already made it increasingly difficult to feel safe there. (And fun fact, the word Gift in German happens to mean “poison”.) Perhaps the ultimate gift of X is the freedom from the toxicity that has built up in this most volatile of media; the gift of better mental health; of greater connection to our world; an escape from a toxic fantasy back into the open air.

I won’t leave altogether – Threads still isn’t open to Europe, and the jury’s still out on Bluesky - but I don’t want to give any more of my content to a man who values power and money over human connection. I’m @joannechocolat across all my social media - that’s Threads, Bluesky, Tumblr and Instagram – and I’ll still be posting stories on my ko-fi account at: https://ko-fi.com/story. But if you want to know what I’m doing, then sign up to my free newsletter on my website at joanne-harris.co.uk. I’m coming to believe that social media as I once knew it may have run its course for me: I won’t leave it altogether, but from now on I plan to invest more of my time and energy elsewhere.

And as for Mr X - I doubt you’ll be around forever. But while you are, my gift to you is this final story: written live on Twitter, as was, for all the little bluebirds.

There once was a boy who had no friends. His father gave him everything money can buy: toy cars, model aeroplanes, even rockets that really flew, but friends were impossible to buy, and the boy was lonely, angry, and bored. 

One day, when he was playing alone with one of his expensive toys, he saw a group of children playing in a nearby park. They sounded so merry and carefree that the boy was jealous. 

“Why don’t I have friends?” he cried. “I shall buy the park, and then everyone will notice me.”

And so the boy asked his father to buy him the park for his very own; and he settled there with his expensive toys, and put a notice on the gate, saying: Entrance fee, 8 shillings.

The children of the neighbourhood looked enviously at the empty park. Some of the wealthier ones paid the entry fee, but many of the children did not; instead, they waited outside the gates, and looked into the place where once they had all played together.

But still the boy was not content. None of the new children played with him. Instead they played their own games, and climbed trees, or played hide and seek, or lay on the grass watching the clouds. None of this served the boy at all, and he was sulky and discontent.

“If I have all the trees cut down, then maybe the others will notice me,” he thought.

And so he ordered his servants to cut down all the trees in the park. But apart from a few toadies and flatterers, the children still did not play with him, but mocked him secretly from afar, and fell silent whenever he passed by.

“How ungrateful these children are,” said the boy, getting angry. “I bought this park for them, and still they refuse to play with me! Very well, I shall cease to pay the groundsmen and the gardeners. The park will be overrun with weeds. Wild animals will roam there.”

And so the boy did as he had promised, and the park became a wilderness. No-one wanted to pay for it, and even the toadies and flatterers and children of wealthy families went elsewhere to see their friends.

The boy was very angry at this, but there was no-one to be angry with. All the other children had gone. And so he took out his rage on the deer who had begun to roam in the park, shooting them with his toy crossbow, and became known throughout the land as a mighty hunter.

[seresinsbabe]

Conveniently Yours

Pairing: Jake Seresin x fem!reader

Synopsis: In a desperate attempt to pay for your mom's cancer treatment you take a job as a dancer at one of NYC's prestigious strip clubs where you meet Jake Seresin who just happens to need a wife.

Warnings: Allusions to cancer and cancer treatment, mentions of money, weddings mentioned, nothing really in this chapter.

Word count: 2.6k

THIS BLOG AND ITS FICS ARE 18+! MINORS DNI!

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“Are we going to have to share a bed?”

There was a glint in Jake’s eye once the question had registered. With a laugh he shook his head. You let out a sigh of relief and watched as Jake’s face changed from amused to confused and slightly insulted. “Well don’t sound so relieved,” he murmured as he lifted a bite of chicken up to his mouth. 

You realized how that must have sounded and your eyes immediately went wide. “Oh, n-no it’s not tha- I w-wouldn’t mind…” Another sigh left you but this was out of embarrassment and you saw Jake’s mouth twitching in an urge to smile. You let out a gasp, a smile tugging at the corner of your own lips. Without thinking you grabbed the napkin that had been spread across your lap and lightly tossed it at him. The little action caused him to let out a full belly laugh, his hand coming up to block the napkin. It was then that you really looked at him, noticing the way his eyes crinkled in the corner as he laughed, the way his chuckles gave way for deeper, longer laughs and the way his cheeks started to turn red.

He really was beautiful. In so many ways.

Silently you wondered how many other small details about him you would notice over time. Honestly you figure that might help you guys to play this whole thing off. That it would be more believable if you took note of all the little intricacies that made up Jake Seresin. Things no one would know or take the time to notice. 

Jake handed your napkin back to you, still chuckling as he did so. “I’m sorry, I couldn’t resist.” He stopped himself before he complimented you on how cute you looked all flustered. It was heavy on the forefront of his mind, though.

“I’ll get you back,” you taunted. Perhaps you and Jake would come out the other side of this as good friends. 

“Alright, so we’ll leak the news of the engagement later this week, then a couple, two or three months down the road we’ll have the wedding.” Listening to Jake go over the plan felt surreal. It was almost like you were having an out of body experience. Like you were watching yourself from above as you sat in Jake’s office, his business partner and lawyer all situated with you.

It had been two days since you accepted Jake’s offer, but it felt like he’d already had everything planned out in advance. As if he just knew you’d say yes. Then again, maybe he was just used to having all of his bases covered. 

Javy was the first one to notice the look on your face. Honestly you hadn’t even realized you were making a face. “Are you alright, Y/N?” He asked softly and you took notice of the ring on his left hand. No wonder he was the first one to notice. You didn’t see a ring on the lawyer’s hand and the only other man in the room was Jake.

“Yeah, I’m fine…” you trailed off softly, pulling your lip between your teeth. “What about my old job? I mean I-I assume it wouldn’t be good if word got out that Jake and I met because I was a stripper.” If that were to ever get out you were sure the media would be all over it and it would make things worse instead of helping Jake.

From beside you Jake let out a soft chuckle, his hand came out to pat yours. “We’ve got that figured out, just make sure anyone close to you doesn’t have loose lips.” You nodded slowly, digesting it all. There were only two things left to discuss and they were the two most nerve wracking items to discuss: the wedding and the money. Admittedly the wedding shouldn’t have worried as much as the money, but it did. You had no idea if this was going to have to be some big to do or if you guys could get away with staging a private elopement. You were hoping for the latter. 

“For the wedding, how do we want to go about that?” It was Javy that asked. You turned to Jake, expecting him to take the lead and answer. Because ultimately this was his decision. He was the one that would be fronting the bill for it all. Only instead of him speaking, you found him staring back at you, nodding softly in your direction as an urge for you to speak. And you felt all their eyes on you, 3 pairs focused on you and wanting to hear what you had to say.

You picked at your nails nervously, looking down at them as they fidgeted in your lap. “I think something smaller, more private would make more sense,” you were trying to word it so that it didn’t seem like you were doing this for your own comfort. Even though you had never once put your own needs first. If Jake had spoken up and said he wanted a big wedding, you would have sucked it up and given him a big wedding. Not just because he was the one that could make or break you, but because it would have made him happy. You couldn’t remember the last time you’d done something for yourself. At the end of the day it had always been about what was better for everyone else. Not what was going to make Y/N happy. 

“I mean, think about it, we’re going through the trouble of making it seem like thus far we’ve kept our relationship extremely private.” The plan was to make it out as though you’d been hiding in the shadows because you valued your privacy. And that all those times Jake was spotted with other women was to prevent the media from suspecting you existed and trying to snuff you out. And that the engagement was the reason you were finally stepping out of the shadows. “It wouldn’t make sense that we suddenly want to have this giant wedding.”

Suddenly your throat felt tight and your nerves shot up. Their eyes never stayed on you and you watched as Jake’s thumb rubbed over his bottom lip, pulling it one way and then the other. Whether or not they agreed with you, you weren’t sure of. The silence in the room only made your nerves shoot up more. 

“I think she’s right,” Jake was the first one to speak, his hand falling down to lay flat against the table with a slight smack. “A big wedding would raise suspicion.” You let out a breath you hadn’t realized you’d been holding and smiled softly at Jake. If he continued to act like this with you, so nice and accommodating then this wouldn’t be as awkward as you had originally thought it to be.

When you had done you recon on him you remembered seeing articles about how much of an asshole he could really be. About how he was upfront with women, he seduced them and then he tossed them. So far, you hadn’t seen that side of Jake. You were hopeful you never would, you didn’t want the image of him you had in your head now to be tarnished. 

Javy and the lawyer nodded. “Alright, we can hash out the finer details of that closer to time.” Thank God. The last thing you wanted to do was take more time in this stuffy board room to plan out a fake wedding. 

Your body tensed up again, because you knew what the final discussion was going to be. Going into this you knew it was about the money, but actually discussing it felt wrong. You’d been raised not to discuss money, that it was polite. Yet here you were, pretty much selling yourself to save your mother. A position you never once thought you’d find yourself in. Then again, did anyone really ever plan on having to sell themselves for something like this? No. ‘

Even knowing this was a purely financial transaction didn’t make it easier for you to talk about it. 

The lawyer opened his folder and pushed a thick stack of papers towards you. The words Prenuptial Agreement headed the page. As far as you had been concerned prenups only existed in television and movies. They were never something you ever thought you would need. Simply because you had never envisioned yourself marrying a man that was rich enough to need a prenup. 

Slowly you reached over, sliding the prenup all the way over so you could read through it. There were little sticky note tabs, the ones with the arrows that had SIGN HERE in all red on them, stuck in different places on different pages. Another wave of realization hit you and you felt your stomach do a flip. 

Your eyes slowly scanned the pages. Reading it and trying to digest it all. It wasn’t that you were shocked or upset. It was just a lot. Everything laid out, of what you would and wouldn’t get. Of course, you honestly hadn’t thought you were going to get anything other than what Jake had offered already. So when you read the lines that stated you would legally be entitled to any residential real estate obtained by Jacob Seresin during the course of your marriage you felt your eyes grow wide. And then they grew even wider at the final term.

Upon the end of marriage, Y/N Byers will receive monthly alimony payments of 100,000.00 a month for the year following divorce. 

You looked over at Jake, your finger sitting on the paper and pointing towards the dollar amount. Jake just shrugged in response as if that was pocket change to him. In reality, it probably was pocket change to someone as rich as he was.

Three weeks had passed since you moved into Jake’s. At first you were hesitant to leave your mother, but Jake had arranged for someone to come when you couldn’t. Besides, with all the free time you had now you went over as much as you could. Which was a little harder with the constant paparazzi you had hounding you the second you stepped outside.

The engagement had been leaked just as planned and ever since then things had changed drastically. You suddenly saw your face everywhere. On magazine covers, on tv, all over social media. Anywhere that people like Jake were discussed you were now spotted. It was hard not letting the things they said about you bring you down. It was as if they didn’t see you as a real human. Like you were just some character in their little fantasy world that they could poke and prod. Like you would never read or hear the mean things said about you.

Going into this you had some idea that they would talk about you. That they would compare you to the women Jake had been spotted with before. Half of the things they said about you, you had thought about yourself. That you were a little mousy, that you just looked plain. Your hair wasn’t shiny and perfectly styled every day. You didn’t have a perfect hourglass shape. Sure you had a decent rack and a half decent amount of ass, but you were no Emily Ratajkowski, or Hadid sister, or anyone like that. Yet, even though you’d said these things to yourself, it hurt that much more seeing them plastered somewhere for the whole world to read. 

Living a rich life was something you were still getting accustomed to. True to his word, Jake had hired a stylist for you and the day after you’d moved in your closet was filled with clothes with price tags that made you flinch. Seeing yourself in clothes so nice was a learning curve and the second you stepped back inside the penthouse you were slipping the heels off and running to change into something more you.

What you hadn’t expected to be the hard part was the way that Jake had changed. 

For the first week he was as nice as he had been. He was accommodating, helping you navigate things as you were learning. The more comfortable you became, the more distant he became. Then suddenly it was as if he didn’t want anything to do with you behind closed doors.

It wasn’t as if you had expected him to act the same at home as he did in public, but you also hadn’t expected him to completely ignore you. Every so often you would get a passing greeting, but other than that it was radio silence. At first you tried to play it off that he was nervous about his parents and the board buying the story. And admittedly, you were nervous about it too. His parents were off somewhere, you think in Europe or something, and they were due back someday this week. But you stopped believing that was it the first night some pretty heiress walked past you in the hall and headed straight towards Jake’s bedroom. 

Jake paid no attention to you because he didn’t want to. And why would he when he had women that looked like they were worth more than gold spreading their legs for him every night?

You weren’t fooled into thinking that he was going to fall for you. That wasn’t even something you wanted. It just, for some odd reason, hurt when he would go from the doting and infatuated fiancé he would play in public to a man that could care less about your existence in private. Jake could at least act like he wanted to be around you.

Normally at this time you would have eaten your dinner and retreated to your room before Jake and his date for the night even came home, but tonight was a little off schedule. Your mom’s chemo treatment had taken longer than usual and when you got home to decompress you immediately started blaring music as you cooked.

Bootylicious was currently helping you zone out everything around you except for the task at hand. So much so that you didn’t hear the door open or the footsteps approaching until you heard an unfamiliar voice behind you.

“So is this the “fiancée”?” You jumped and turned around, eyes wide and a hand over your heart as you focused on who was here with you now. The first face you saw was Jake’s, one eyebrow raised as he took in your current attire: an old Oklahoma University t-shirt, oversized as it had been your fathers, your hair up in a claw clip, some of it falling out around your face, and a pair of boyshorts. Something you were sure he hadn’t seen a girl wear in years.

Instead of focusing on Jake’s expression and trying to read the impossible, you turned to look at who spoke. A curly headed brunette with a pornstache and a boyish grin on his face was drinking you in with honey brown eyes. He was a bit taller than Jake, but not by much and he was just as muscular. The way he was looking at you had your face blushing while you turned down the music.

“Bradley, but you can call me Rooster,” he shoved his hand out in your direction with a wink.

“Y/N.” His hand practically swallowed yours as you shook it. “You sure you want to shack it up with Hangman here? I’m available,” suddenly he was leaning in close, his mouth by your ear. “And you won’t have to fake it with me.” The hidden meaning wasn’t lost on you, but you didn’t have time to respond because Jake was quickly pulling Bradley out of the kitchen. Leaving you standing there blushing while Beyoncé sang about having a big ass.

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[milky-rozen]

Hello Dear ❤️😊, 🇵🇸

With many followers and admirers, your platform holds incredible power. I reach out to you today with a heart heavy with both pain and hope, seeking your help to save my family from the horrors of war in Gaza. We are a family that includes women and children, living every day under the weight of fear and destruction. 🙏 I write to you because I believe that humanity and compassion are our shared strengths, and when we unite, we can achieve miracles. ❤️

Our story is not just our own; it is the story of every family living under the shadow of conflict and war. We are facing a real danger that threatens our lives and the future of our children. 🥹 Sharing our story could be the lifeline we desperately need. I kindly ask you to spread our story far and wide, so it may reach those who can offer help, and to remind the world that every soul deserves life and safety. 🌹

As influential bloggers with many followers, your voice could be the difference between life and death for my family. 🌺 A simple reblog of my pinned post on your account could amplify our plea and bring us the help we urgently need. 😊 We humbly ask you to be a beacon of light in this darkness, extending a helping hand in any way you can. We rely on your kind hearts and support to survive, and to provide our children with a chance for a safe and bright future. 🍉

Thank you from the depths of our hearts. 💐

With sincere gratitude,

🌹☺️🙏

I don't think I'm this influential, and I have no idea how someone can tell how many followers you have on Tumblr since, by default, you can't do that, there's literally no option to do that at all, but--

If this post is true and it's verified, and it's not made by any vicious bot which is taking advantage of the whole situation in Gaza to scam people, I will gladly share this with all of my followers.

I do not have the tools to determine if this is 100% reliable, but I still want to give it a try if it can help 🇵🇸

[beardedmrbean]

TikTok star Montana Tucker has been using her platform to spread awareness about antisemitism in the months after the October 7 attack on Israel.

The singer, dancer and social media activist, who grew her social media following to 14 million by singing and dancing videos, recently made her Jewish heritage a bigger part of her content, she told Fox News Digital in an interview. Since October 7, she has recognized the need for more education about the history of antisemitism and Holocaust denialism among America's youth.

Tucker grew up in Boca Raton, Florida, with two grandparents who survived the Holocaust. They often told her about the horrors of the Holocaust and the importance of never forgetting the genocide of six million Jews during World War II. When her grandfather, whom she called Zadie, passed away at 97 four years ago, she felt compelled to continue his legacy by reminding people they should "never forget." 

Tucker visited Poland where she filmed a docuseries called "How to Never Forget" that was released in 10 mini-episodes on her social media. The series included a visit to Auschwitz and personal stories about her grandparents, with the goal of educating America's youth about the Holocaust. 

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"Antisemitism has always been here, it has always been here," she said. "When I released that series, that was kind of the first time I introduced my followers really to my family's background. A lot of them never knew that I was Jewish. My name is Montana Tucker. My content, at the time, wasn't specifically Jewish content."

"Then a year later, with everything that happened on October 7, I felt that it was my responsibility, it was my duty to make sure that I share personal stories of what was happening," she continued. "This is my people, my grandparents didn't have a voice back during the Holocaust, and now I have a voice and I'm able to stand up for what I believe in and speak out for people who don't have a voice."

In December, Tucker went to Israel to meet with survivors of the October 7 attack and their families. She used the opportunity to spread the message of what happened and share their personal stories, which she said is of upmost importance given some have downplayed or denied certain aspects of the attack or attempted to justify it. 

"When I always heard Holocaust denial, I couldn't believe it," Tucker said. "That's why, with what's going on now in the world with all the denial, even though we were live-streamed what happened on October 7, there's still denial about it or still denial of what is going on. I never understood that concept of people denying something that was so obviously shown with evidence of survivors, but now living in it, people denying what happened on October 7, it's really scary and it's even more of a reason why I keep using my voice."

Tucker also said she has heard from people in Hollywood who've thanked her for what she has done in speaking out for Jewish people since October 7, but explained it makes her upset that people are afraid to share or talk about what they believe in. 

"I've had people in Hollywood come up to me that are, I'm here [motions down] and they're there [motions up], they're on a whole different level than me in their careers, and they come up to me and say, 'Thank you so much for what you're doing, you're amazing, you're really taking one for the team.' And I'm like, 'What do you mean? Like, have you shared anything? Have you posted anything?' And they said they did in the beginning [but] when they got so much hate from it and lost business, followers, whatever it is and now they're scared to post. In my mind I'm like ‘do hear how crazy that sounds?’"

"Especially when there are so many awesome, powerful Jews in Hollywood … I think people absolutely need to stop being scared," she said. "If you're going to lose business over you talking about being Jewish or you talking about innocent lives that were taken, then you shouldn't want to do business with those people. Point-blank."

Tucker pointed to social media as a huge reason why antisemitism has been allowed to proliferate, making it "popular to be anti-Israel" and "popular to be anti-Jew." 

"With Gen Z and younger generations, we live in this day and age of what's trending, what's popular and if you look at popular hashtags on these apps ... #hitlerwasright was a massive trending hashtag on TikTok, #osamabinladen was a massive trending hashtag on TikTok, all pro-Palestine content was super trending, billions of views, versus Israel or anything to do with pro-Israel was like super, super low."

She said a lot of people discussing the conflict on social media aren't educated on the issues, so when an average user comes across a viral video with 30 million views sharing one person’s opinion about Israel or Gaza, "all of a sudden now it's a ripple effect of everyone that just saw that video now believes that because they don't know better."

Tucker said the impact of social media needs to be taken seriously, since it is where so much information is shared and news is consumed, allowing antisemitism to proliferate in the months following October 7. 

"Even with October 7, think about if we didn't have social media nowadays, how different that could have been with what spiraled after," she said. "I think what happened on October 7 was the start, and now we're a hundred and how many days in, and it's only gotten worse with everyone's opinions and everyone's thoughts in these videos … being fed to people every single day [there is] so much propaganda that I see."

"Fortunately, I heard from survivors, but my grandma was 13 when she was taken to the Holocaust, and she's 95 [now], so in a few years, there are going to be no more survivors left," she said. "Imagine the denial that's going to happen then with literally no survivors."

Tucker said one of the ways to combat antisemitism is to teach America's youth about the Holocaust in schools.

"I grew up in Florida, which is one of the states that did have it, thankfully, and my grandparents used to speak at all the schools … But there are a lot of people who don't," she said. "It's hard to blame these kids that just genuinely don't know better because they weren't taught it in school."

"Then they come across this TikTok video that denies the Holocaust or says Jews are terrible … and that's all they're going to know and that's all they're going to believe," she said. "If their favorite rapper or their favorite athlete spews out antisemitic comments, they look up to that athlete, they look up to that rapper, they're going to say, 'That must be true.'"

Tucker encouraged Americans to do their own research and continue to learn about the long and difficult conflict in Israel and the Middle East. She also said people should be easier on each other because there is "so much hate" in the world and in the U.S., specifically. 

[0alanasworld0]

Always always always free Palestine

i ofc havent been active on here at all these past couple of months but i am online elsewhere and have seen the same horrific things as you have. i do make an effort on other platforms to share what i can and i do try to donate within my means as well.

i will always maintain the fact that this is not a war. it is not a conflict. it is an attempted ethnic cleansing of the INDIGENOUS palestinian people by a state founded upon the principles of settler colonialism and white supremacy. as if the past 75+ years of torment under israeli occupation havent been enough, the bombing raids since October the 7th have been reported to be the most brutal since it all began. the images and videos being shared across the internet are very real and beyond horrifying. the palestinian people do not have the time to grieve, they dont have the dignity of a proper burial. theyre forced to raise the bodies of their martyrs to the cameras and even then they're not believed.

the bombing raids alongside a complete blockade of any food, water and aid imports only solidifies what has been said from the very beginning. israel is constantly commiting war crimes on the palestinian people under the false pretense that they have a right to the land. Israelis have to steal palestinian homes because, "If i dont, someone else will" to quote one of them.

zionists constantly spread false information about palestinians and their resistance movements. some of the most blatant propaganda ever crafted and palestinians are still doubted regarding their plight. livelihoods are put at risk in countries that flaunt the principles of free speech. safety is jeopardised and palestinians and their supporters will always be villified no matter how careful they are with their wording.

there are no two sides. the attack on october 7th did not happen in a vacuum. its a culmination of 75+ years of corruption, vilification and gaslighting by israel and the west. you cannot condemn them without condeming israeli first and attributing fault to the vile regime.

as a muslim, my only comfort is that these people are incredibly strong in their faith. they are killed in their thousands but i believe that they will be among the very first to enter the highest levels of jannah. may their suffering not go in vain, may their oppressors be punished in the dunya and akhirah and may the people of palestine see justice in the dunya and akhirah and may allah help us all and grant us strength and protection from all evil as we stand with palestine. Ameen.

[tshifty]

I actually do blame people for staying home. Trump will be even worse for Palestinians. Choosing not to go vote for Kamala is going to result in more harm for EVERYONE. If you can even help any number of marginalized people suffer less by voting and you don’t, I just can’t understand that thought process. This isn’t at you since I know you said you would be voting. But also from a strategic standpoint, democrats aren’t doing to start listening to leftist until they can show they are a reliable voting block and that takes time. I wish liberals/leftists could play the long game like republicans always do and look how far they’ve moved the party right.

I think this is a really important conversation to have right now, so I am going to answer this very earnestly in a long form. And I don't purport to know the right answer-- honestly I don't think anyone knows the "right answer" or if there really is one atp. But I do want to share my perspective on this, which is a bit contrary to yours.

TLDR; bc this is very long: I think that political and social change is more nuanced than simply "voting is right or wrong", and I think that we are about a decade into fundamental systems change in this country which does add a layer to the conversation.

I think as a baseline, we can agree on a few points:

Voting is an important tool that we have in the system we live in

Trump is objectively, on every issue, worse than Harris

If Trump gets elected, more people will die, and faster

Shifting our political culture and system is long-game

So now a few of your points that I am going to disagree with.

"Democrats aren't going to listen to leftists until they can show they are a reliable voting block" -- this is something that I used to also believe to be true, but I don't anymore. I don't think the Democratic party is ever going to in truth embrace leftist policies, because those policies by nature weaken the grip of our 2-party system, and thus lose democratic party leaders and politicians a lot of money. The Democratic party has shown time and time again that they are very willing to do whatever it takes to prevent a leftist, or a democratic socialist, or a progressive whatever label you use, to rise through the party ranks and succeed. The party endorses in down-ballot elections against progressives; the party bankrolls moderates to defeat progressives; the party spreads disinformation and works to cause fragmenting within left spaces. Unfortunately, the Democratic party is at the end of the day one side of the electoral machine; and while the GOP is worse on policy issues, I would say that the parties operate the same in many functioning ways.

"People who choose not to vote are (at least partially) to blame for the result" -- again, something I wholly used to believe, but don't entirely anymore. At the end of the day, I believe the blame lies with those in power. I blame the Democratic party and elected officials for being morally decrepit and absolutely incomprehensibly unstrategic. I blame politicians for being spineless fucking freaks who either are actively trying to harm people, or refuse to do what is needed to actually create the change they run their platforms on every few years. While I do personally still believe that voting is an important tool even given the context we are seeing in 2024, I cannot bring myself anymore to blame those who are continually spit on by the Democratic party, for not voting for them. So while I do agree with the sentiment that voting is important to the extent that we vote to choose our enemy, I do not believe that it is really those who don't vote that are wholly to blame. I think this system is designed to hurt people, and I can't blame people for refusing to vote for politicians who continue to harm them and their communities.

"Liberals/leftists should play the long game in a similar way that republicans have"-- I halfway agree with this and halfway think we may disagree. I agree that Republicans, as fucking morally decrepit as they are, have as a collective deployed some pretty brilliant and terrifying political strategy over the past many decades to achieve their goals. I agree that the Republican party plays politics much better than Democrats, and that it's pretty embarrassing to watch Democrats and leftists etc. fail to do so. However. I disagree in the sense that, I don't think this political system that we have is even worth fighting for. I think that fascism is knocking at our door red or blue; one is just going to happen faster and more intensely than the other. The Dems are running towards fascism at 20mph; the GOP is running towards fascism at 200mph. So while I am going to vote for the 20mph option bc that buys us more time to prepare, I do unfortunately now believe that we have crossed that point of no return. Our politics will never be "as they were". I think that for the past 10-15 years, the US has been in a stage of political and social revolution (and let me be clear, NOT in the way i have seen many self-proclaimed communists talk about in that revolution is some big event, that shit is stupid as fuck), and that we also have a long ways to go. The US is a very young country, and historically we have been due for this for a while. I think the next 4-8 years are going to dramatically accelerate our democratic backsliding, and I honestly am at a point where I am going to spend my energy to prepare for how to operate in that reality, than I am going to spend my energy trying to save an outdated system. I do think we have to play the long-game, and to me that looks like reimagining how we want our government and politics to operate, and being extremely pragmatic about what that will entail and how we can leverage power to get there. I believe that social and political revolution and change takes DECADES, and ultimately that the change will not come from within our current system but from outside it. Also to be clear I believe that armed revolution in the context of the United States would be fucking stupid bc that means going up against the US military and ultimately that is truly just some stupid half-baked notion coming from very privileged people who don't believe they will be the first to get shot.

So this has gotten extremely long and I do apologize for that lol.

[rainbowtechnadrome]

Thought for a minute the largest public platform that hosts CSEM of me was down maybe for good and was relieved .

But AO3 is still up. My hell is still written by my abuser.

It is shared in circles of those who enjoy kid’s suffering. I know other survivors with my same experience. Many who have tired to contact the platform without result.

CSEM is in spaces you don’t want to think it is. It is a non-zero chance that you by mistake may have read this thinking its yet another story. Especially when your platform may not prioritize survivors over absolute freedom of speech.

To clarify again the content describing how my abusers abused me as a child. Mostly one of them has made a name for himself in certain spaces by publishing retellings of the events for years and I’ve had to follow with take down requests every year since. And AO3 is the one of the only platforms not catered specifically to spread of CSEM that has been the WORST in lack of response.

Not an attack on you if you engage with the site but a warning I guess? My abusers publish under different usernames barely changing the events of time they hurt children changing their name ( sometimes not all the time)to random child characters at times that the person liked as a child as a form of control.

I started having to engage with this and not ignore it because I realized people with no connection to my abuser were incidentally finding the material and thinking it was fiction. People were finding it and sharing it thinking it’s just like anything else, reading my pain, often maybe engaging with it sexually unaware it is CSEM.

Maybe! I’d like AO3 to stop allowing the general population to access the Worst Time of my life for gratification. Maybe I wouldn’t like to see comments about it. Or even if I could confidently say no one so wasn’t setting out to read the contents of my police report from my abusers view not wanting to.

Sorry but yeah, I’m not fond of it! Or any platform that allows sexual content of minors, especially without a believe survivor’s first policy. And possibly if I see someone donating to AO3 I will want to scream.

I really am of the opinion that in order to prevent CSEM from being wildly shared, material for sexual gratification describing kids needs more HEAVY review. And if you’re not going to moderate it insanely well and prioritize survivors you don’t need to allow that content. Otherwise yes people with less than stellar goals will use it as a safe haven.

But yeah sorry. If you like AO3 maybe considering Just Not Donating, or engaging with sexual content involving child characters while their mod team is rough that’d be cool .

[sweaterkittensahoy]

I understand the need to fight back against anti semitism in this country, especially against people who don’t care about Palestinians, but are happy to use them to make people think their bigotry is somehow morally justified. But it feels like ultimately, people still don’t care about Palestine. Israel has a right to defend itself from Hamas. I don’t think they should just lie down and accept terrorist attacks happening in their country. But they don’t have a right to attack innocent civilians for the crime of being in the same place Hamas is located. And I’m having a hard time believing that people aren’t being as terrible towards Muslims as they are towards Jewish people. I don’t think they need an excuse to hate somewhere with a mostly Islamic population. But that doesn’t seem to be as huge a concern. I understand where you’re coming from in that some pro Palestinian platforms in leftist spaces are dancing in just being loudly anti Semitic or for whatever reason think that the terrorists have a point when they want to spread fear by mass murdering innocents for their “cause”, but the rising rhetoric that supporting Palestine means you hate Jewish people when Palestinian lives are being wiped out in huge numbers feels wrong to me. It shouldn’t be a fight of which innocent lives in which country matters more, but that’s what it’s starting to feel like.

It's not "rising rhetoric" that to support Palestine means you hate Israel. It's a huge fucking problem that loud antisemites have taken over the largest, loudest parts of the movement to support and bring peace to Palestine and unquestionably turned it into an antisemitic shitshow. The only fix for that is people who support Palestine and don't hate Jews is to get louder and clean their fucking house.

That being said very directly, I will be focusing the rest of my answer on this portion of your ask, which I think is the most important chunk because you are sharing incorrect and intentionally wrong information, and I don't think you realize that's happening. I'll also be answering about the rise in Anti-Muslim activity because I think it's important we don't ignore what Anti-Muslim activity looks like right now versus Antisemitic activity. Because it's all fucking terrible, but it's important to consider that getting dinged by a car turning a corner is bad (happened to me) and getting hit by a car doing 20 mph is really fucking bad.

But they don’t have a right to attack innocent civilians for the crime of being in the same place Hamas is located. And I’m having a hard time believing that people aren’t being as terrible towards Muslims as they are towards Jewish people.

Israel isn't aiming at civilians on purpose. Hamas put military targets next to civilian targets to be able to claim Israel is aiming at civilians when they're bombing. This is a very well-known tactic of Hamas, and calling it "Israel bombing civilians" puts the fault of the situation on Israel, when they aren't the ones who did it. Hamas doesn't give a fuck about civilians. That's why the military installations are next to schools and hospitals. So they can point at the plie of bodies and go, "Look! Look what Israel did!" and fuck up the narrative to "Israel bombed a school!" and not "We very intentionally put a military installation next to this school because we will do anything we can to discredit Jewish people even if it means causing the death of our own civilians." This is a war crime, by the way. Putting military installations in places where they are likely to cause civilian harm. The Geneva Convention considers this sort of action a war crime.

I looked up Anti-Muslim stats for 2023 and found this article from ABC news that discusses a rise in Anti-Muslim and Anti-Sematic bias and attacks since October 7. I think this paragraph breaks it down well: There were 11 confirmed anti-Muslim hate crimes in New York City from Oct. 7, 2023, to Dec. 30, 2023, according to the NYPD, and 26 confirmed antisemitic hate crimes over the same time period -- a total of one anti-Muslim hate crime every 7.7 days, and one antisemitic hate crime every 3.3 days. There were just five confirmed anti-Muslim hate crimes from Jan. 1, 2023, to Oct. 6, 2023, according to the NYPD, and 49 confirmed antisemitic hate crimes (one every 5.7 days) over the same time period. So, yes, there has been a rise in bias against Muslims, and that's fucking bad. They shouldn't be bearing the brunt of Hamas's choices any more than every Jew in the world having to answer for anything Israel does. But--and this is incredibly important to this conversation--While Muslims are facing bias, Jews are facing VIOLENCE, and it was happening at a noticeably higher rate than violence against Muslims even BEFORE October 7. They are being told they should be eradicated. They are being told they should "go back to Poland" (what an astounding statement to make to Israeli Jews especially). They are being threatened for walking down the street and looking Jewish. It is a false equivalency to say "Well, there's a rise in Anti-Muslim bias, and no one is talking about it." Because the difference is--as detailed by the article linked above--bias on the job and in education along with immigration issues--and constant death threats and attacks on synagogues and Jewish businesses. Both things are wrong and awful, but one group is being told they should be murdered en masse AGAIN, and the other is not.

[welcome-to-green-hills]

Slow Activity…

Hello Everyone,

I do apologize for the inactivity here. I’ve been… reflecting. Please expect some relatively slow activity. I have rewritten this post quite a few times in attempt to articulate the exact words of how I feel. No matter how many times I’ve rewritten this post, I find that it’s become harder and harder to tame the explanation. The original intent of this post was meant to be an explanation how I wanted to leave Tumblr. That’s not the answer. Leaving isn’t an answer. In order to fix a problem, the problem has to be acknowledged.

A while ago, I used to be an AU/Ask blog that centered around Sonic and his family. It was a fun and happy little place that I could call my second home. Months after the blog was made and the first film came out, I’ve started receiving asks that proclaimed love and suggestive material. This made me uncomfortable. I had to block. When I added Knuckles to the AU, the asks (though always in the form of anon) became… violent. I had to stop RPing as my AU Sonic for the sake of my mental health and turn off anon.

I’ve shared in the past that I’ve been experiencing some concerns my end. These concerns and problems have been ongoing since 2020. Some have to do in the form of call-out posts, engagements with my friends, and violent asks sent my inbox. I feel that, perhaps, I’ve gained these asks, call-out posts, and harassment due to blocking an account years ago. I also feel that the harassments made to other SCU fans were made because of the block being taken personally.

A block is a block.

I should not have to owe anyone an explanation on why I’ve blocked someone. However, I can see that an explanation has been the demand for years. I can see that if I don’t supply an explanation now on why I’ve blocked you, then you will continue to harass my friends and others in the SCU Fandom. The only explanation that I can supply is this: the asks that we’re sent to me years ago made me uncomfortable. I’ve expressed that plenty of times in the past. I’ve shared this in posts since 2021. I do not owe you an explanation other than that. That continues to be my answer to this day.

A belief was fabricated that I’ve, somehow (?), “influenced” a movement of fans liking Movie!Knuckles and hating Sonic Wachowski. The belief was taken and made into a movement. I’ve seen it here and spread onto other social media platforms. Where this belief came from will forever be a mystery to me. I’m not sure of where these began. These posts on saving Sonic in the second (and upcoming) third film, the artwork, the harassments of other fans, the movie’s actors and writers… these are made out of anger of being blocked.

I understand that a block can hurt. I do. I can completely understand why you’re angry at me to this day still. And I’m sorry that it hurt. The block was made… and they were made to the other accounts that were made in attempt to follow me again. I can understand that the anger still exists to this day. You have every right to be angry at me. All that I ask is that the anger and frustration that lies within your heart is not directed at members of the SCU fandom anymore.

I hate creating drama. I do. But this post needs to be made public. I can see that blocking, reporting, an turning off DMs/anon is not enough anymore. I do believe that as soon as I publish this post, I will be selectively active here.

This needs to stop. This is not okay.

[spankingtheatre]

hey there! As a fellow writer, have you also noticed regressing reblogs on your stories? When I first started I had very few followers but my stories still got lots of notes. Now, I've gained more followers but still the reblogs get few and far in between. I'm interested if this is a me-problem and people just don't like my stories anymore of if it's a more global phenomenom.

I hope you have a great day! Love your stories and games and thank you for sharing them (I swear I reblog) :)

That is such a great question!

My answer is yes, I have seen a drop in engagement (reblogs and likes) since I started writing, even though I think the quality of my stories has actually improved, and the number who follow me has greatly increased (although one can never tell how many are bots!)

So I'd be very interested to hear what others believe is the reason for this, both creators and readers. Feel free to reply and add your own thoughts below.

Personally, I think the main reason is fewer people now engage with Tumblr regularly, especially given the hostile attitude to sexual content. Communities are fragile coalitions of people, hard to build and build and easy to shatter. Being a member of a community requires effort, and if we don't feel our interactions are valued, we stop commenting and curating, and become merely consumers.

I strongly suspect there are other contributing reasons too. One of my core mental principles is if I ever want to understand why something is the way it is, I consider whether it's due to the Matthew Effect first, (aka the principle of accumulated advantage).

Popularity begets popularity. Attention is finite, and people tend to invest theirs in the places with the highest social proof. We writers are the small independent bookshops in the backstreets, not the hot buzzy nightclubs. So we rely on people who share our taste to spread the word of our existence. Likes give content an algorithmic boost, helping newcomers discover new content, whilst following builds an enduring audience.

But choosing to share on social media is a very personal choice, since you're effectively putting the words of others on your own blog. My Tumblr blog is a showcase of what I create, rather than what I curate, so I don't share much to avoid confusion. Whereas my Twitter feed does include content I retweet from others. People use different platforms in different ways, and that's OK.

So, in answer to the original question, I wouldn't take the drop in sharing personally. Sometimes great things go unseen.

I know I could get far more likes and reblogs if I "marketed myself properly". But I'm a modest guy at heart, who's uncomfortable shouting for attention. I just want to write, and excite the minds of those who read me.

The marvellous Maya Angelou once said, “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you”. I've never been motivated by popularity, I write because it's agony not to write.

But we are social creatures, and validation still matters. Any performer who walked off a stage as the audience sat in silence would feel terribly anxious and insecure. That's why we have the social convention of applause. and why social media has likes.

So thank you to everyone who applauds what I do, it helps me feel so much less weird, especially when I write about weird thing we all do.

[perfectdreamlandbird]

I think life is such a beautiful GIFT !!! God is wiser than you think he has a plans for you, things to experience, people you haven't met yet, happy moments to live, I've seen someone on TikTok 2 days ago!! he was talking about his experience with suicidal thoughts and how he tried multiple times to commit it but he couldn't do it he already prepared for killing himself he wrote goodbye letters to his family and friends and designed the way he's gonna die !!! but luckily he stopped for some reason that's GOOD happy for him I'm glad he still here and he shared his experience with on public platform to spread awareness, cuz I can feel him I've struggled with mental breakdowns and depression since I was 16 I got this thoughts too sometimes but I'm a believer I have faith in GOD firstly and life secondly, life is beautiful even though with bad days and sad moments they all go by time they say time will heal everything be patient enjoy every moment of your life cuz we've got one life don't waste it;!! we're on earth for reason I'm hopeful great days are yet to COME !!!!

[homiro]

[Picture ID: Tag that reads, trans women started speaking up. End ID]

Basically.

I'm talking out of my ass here, this isn't an opinion. I can be educated politely since I don't think I'm the all-knowing being like some people seem to, but if you'll call me names and mock me for being wrong, keep that to yourself, thanks. I just want to muse about it.

So, what I've observed here is that, not only are trans girls and women silenced here, they're sometimes even straight up deleted for no reason, but also this stuff? It's kind of not surprising, if I'm being completely honest here. Back then only the transphobes would say things like that, and the TERFs were spreading their insidious tentacles of vitriolic ideology across the platform and poisoning the minds of impressionable kids with their transphobic, INCEL ideology repackaged as "radical feminism" and sweet talk.

But this about being NB was commonplace. Everyone who identified as non-binary would say this kind of stuff. And it was fine. Now suddenly some people believe acknowledging that some people are affected by transmisogyny and others aren't is a new binary (which stops making sense when you think about how many flavours of people fit in the 'exempt' category so how can it be a binary?). What is the issue, really? Why do you want to have another kind of oppression so badly? Why does it bother you to be told 'you're exempt from this kind of oppression and bigotry'? And this is widely accepted which is just... what? Do you also get upset if you're white (or passing) and people say you have white privilege when literally no other kind of people have privilege based on the colour of their skin? Is that a binary? Do you believe 'reverse racism' is real? If you do, well, lost cause, won't waste time even talking to you.

And now 'egg jokes are conversion therapy'. That's insane. Like wow really leaning into those fallacies, aren't we? But that straw man is easily set on fire. How many conversion camps to make people trans exist or have ever existed? Yeah. "Oh, but they see it online! A lie told a million times becomes a truth! People become trans and LGTV!", shit do I have some news for you, chief! I've been alive for almost 32 years, grew up in the countryside, poor, with a backwards family, all I saw were cisgender, straight people around me and on TV and I still turned out to be queer and trans. Because you don't become anything, that's born with you. And you won't believe how many queer people share the same story, regardless of personal background! /sarcasm/

And honestly, I'm starting to miss the days when kids had lists of stuff they'd self-diagnosed with and made up their own genders and pronouns and I never even referred to people with pronouns. Nobody cared. Back then a lot of people didn't even have pronouns in bio, which was kind of a sign that they were either ignorant or transphobic. These days, well, I'm sorry, but if there are no pronouns in bio, I assume that's a transphobe unless the pronouns are implied or said elsewhere. And it's easier to have it in bio because then you just hover the pfp or click it for a second and see it immediately.

Circling back to the top, yeah, the fallacies and the radicalisation of the self-proclaimed progressive people and the specifically anti trans women sentiment with this kind of take about supposed new binaries and straw man fallacies, is just transmisogyny. And from what I am able to see and saw, it stems from the insidious TERF rhetoric that started gaining momentum in around 2014, before that, there was hardly any discourse about any of this stuff. It's bearing fruits now, I suppose. Congrats to them! /sarcasm

why did tumblr went from "i'm non binary so everyone who is attracted to me is gay" to "if you call someone an egg you're doing conversion therapy to them"

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Right! Like what was the reason? What reaction or response were they expecting out of him?

These people are called "delulus" and "attention whores"! THEY EXPECTED HIM TO REPLY TO THEM OR SAY STH TO THEM! THEY WANT HIS ATTENTION SOOOOOO BAD!

Only one person was nagging about all his kids here. She was saying:

1. Those kids aren't his, why? Cause he stays away from Alida and lives away from her.

2. Those kids don't exist anymore, why? Cause we just don't see them!! ( it was the same for Oona when we didn't see her for a while )

3. Those are fake bellies so sure those pregnancies are fake and those kids don't exist and if they do, Bill is not the father.

Her name starts with M and ends with X! She is so sick and we all hate her. She is also the one stopping Bill from posting! She must be so proud now!

Someone lock that bitch in a room and throw the key continents away from her. THAT BITCH IS SO NOSY AND A LITERAL ASSHOLE SPREADING SHITS EVERYWHERE. How sick she must be to be active on EVERY platform to spread hates and lies?! Hmm?! to have a whole website for her to say bullshits and make drama? To call Bill's kids with animals names?! Is this a normal person?! IS THIS NORMAL?????? For real????????? And here we still have some believe in her bullshits! These people are sick too! Really! I'm happy that we have u here and we can share same opinions! I'm happy were here safe from her SO CALLED REPEATED THEORIES!

These four questions are similar so I put them all together.

I don't know, I have a feeling Mortox wasn't the one behind this. I have a theory as to who it could be but since I can't prove it, I'm not going to say anything.

Thank you to the anons who took the time to write this and send it to me and I'm sorry I don't have a full thought out answer for you. I've already said what I needed to say. It's wrong and it shouldn't have been done, plain and simple.