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[squishosaur]

hey man. i'm just saying. why would we put inexperienced teenagers with over-inflated egos and obvious emotional issues into combat classes and make them claw their way to the top of their dorms and expect things to just run smoothly. who actually thought this

[atopvisenyashill]

i found a terf in my followers and blocked them across all like 12 of my tumblrs, let that be a lesson to any of u annoying ass crypto terfs that think u can sneak by in fandom - im not engaging with u bc you’re a hateful idiot, i will find u, and i will block u, and i hope the door fucks your heel when it slams on the way out

[queerliblib]

happy 10 days ‘till your friendly nationwide queer digital library opens 🥰 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

[melkor-did-nothing-wrong]

The An/gbang tag: *goes a few days without being complete and utter bullshit*

Me: I can see myself enjoying this nice, calm, peacefu-

The An/gbang tag: nope actually never mind we're back to people posting here to tell you why this ship specifically never had a chance/would never ever work BUT THE OTHER SHIP that DOESN'T have that one EVIL in it is BETTER LMAO.

Me: but both of them are evil it's not the fault of one perso- ok nevermind I'm so glad I got a reminder about how inferior my ship is or whatever thank you.

[fadewalking]

Bellara lowkey pissing me off with all this feeling guilty bs

[cator99]

I always get detained at da border because PROFUNC never ended but basically I'm like if a targeted individual didn't even care

[justafriend-ql]

Are you longing for someone? NEVER LET ME GO Episode 12

[solradguy]

Sometimes the local radio station censors words like fuck and bitch and sometimes it just doesn't even try to censor them at all and I have no idea how they're getting away with it but it's so rock n roll of them

[fluffle-writes]

I wanna. Pick them up in my mouth and shake 'em around like a dog obliterating a squeaky toy

[milfbrainrot]

thinking a lot about separatist attitudes on here that have done more harm than good in the past

remembering how when i was younger it was common to reblog posts about discrimination etc with a disclaimer in ur tag that you don't personally experience what's being talked about, or at least something on ur blog listing out ur privileges. and like, privacy concerns aside, i also remember when it then became Problematic to do tags because it's a Reminder to the minority op that... other people exist and were trying to make the post about themselves or something?

like maybe the argument was that it came off like a way to get points for reblogging a post about oppression while not experiencing it urself, even though... in my experience the reason we did that was because our identity labels determined what we could/couldn't do in the eyes of our surveilling mutuals. if i reblogged a post about racism without clarifying my own identity, people might assume i wasn't white and put my opinions through a lens i shouldn't have had, because i also fully believed the idea that only people who experience a thing can have valid opinions on it.

it also determined whether you were Allowed to reblog posts with certain slurs, or reblog posts about something as simple as listening to music if it was from a blog with bpd in the handle but you didn't have bpd because listening to music with a mental illness makes it... different somehow. so you needed to be as transparent as possible so people could judge your morality appropriately and it was normal to want that because otherwise what are you trying to hide and don't you want to improve? etc. and i do think, superiority complexes aside, people did think they were doing a good thing when they'd send me asks like "hey you reblogged a video where a black person says the n slur but you're white so you shouldn't be communicating that by extension!!!"

like of course we have to keep our own privileges in mind when discussing certain topics. it does have an impact, something something intersectionality. but the culture around this being SO micromanagy and invasive seemed to create more divides because relating to people with different experiences was Bad and trying to be supportive was impossible to do in The Right Way.

we need to be more critical of the info we get, of course! but being in a tumblr sphere where you could only listen to minorities about their oppression meant that when some black blogger said it was fetishistic to find people of color attractive, i went "okay i won't do that then!!" instead of realizing... hey maybe barring myself off from finding anyone who isn't white attractive as an attempt to not be racist is in fact looping right back around to being racist. you need to be mindful of what that attraction entails and how to go about relationships fairly etc, but it was basically asking us to find people of color unattractive????? which kinda sounds fucked up!

and that doesn't even begin to cover how so many minorities have different opinions on things, and then i later realized if i could be wrong and change my opinions about things related to my own identity that's not a solid mindset to have. "listen to minorities instead of platforming oppressors about these matters" got totally misconstrued into listening to takes that make no sense from 15yr olds who had been identifying as lesbians for 2 months total, because ur made out to be an idiot who can't think for urself if you don't share an experience. i say this as a lesbian but lesbians seemed to spearhead so much aphobia that it was justified because welp, gotta listen to lesbians and other queer people about this even though they haven't yet unpacked the personal issues that come along with intersectionality yet! and ofc, ignoring the queer people who did support aces and aros because that was decided to be homophobic to do.

i think we can go forward into these conversations consciously without going so hard about it that we end up creating new walls between us and anyone different, but thinking it's okay because These Walls Say I'm A Good Person For It. like, back to the disclaimer tagging, i feel like if i made a post abt lesbian stuff and ppl were tagging it with a disclaimer abt being straight it would be weird but appreciated that it's solidarity from people i wouldn't have expected it from at the time.

i also think that having microlabels and split attraction and all these different ways of letting people embrace queer relatability (for example, since this applies to some things more than others) even if they're not the traditional definition of the label is a good thing because more investment and support for an oppressed community can only be a good thing in the end. but no, you can't have an icon of a character of color if ur white, even though doing so would help other people find the show and therefore support it!

we are all so much more similar than we are different and as long as people are mindful of their experiences versus those of others in the right contexts, and as much as i get why people did want to treat their tumblr circles like locked forums where they wouldn't have to deal with cis people asking questions or having misconceptions on their posts... i just don't think the infighty/hostile ways we went about it and still do go about it sometimes ended up as helpful as people treated it to be.

but whatever, tumblr is tumblr.

[thecedarchronicle]

as someone in the pining phase of childhood friends to lovers I do NOT recommend. 0/10 overrated

[boyfhee]

hellooo thank u so much for 2k?!?!?! honestly when i re-started this account, i didn't expect the experience to be better than the prev one ( i didn't even expect myself to stick around for a year, it was my blog's 1st anniv on 22nd ) anyway, i'd keep it short— thank u for reading my works and leaving your feedback, it really means a lot ♡

[lilworms]

I have the giggles

[austerulous]

I thought I was in a place to be here again, but I’m really not. I’ll be working on replies / asks in the background, but uninstalling the app and staying away from the dash. Take care of yourselves. ♡

[isimchi]

Simblr appreciation day!! My brain is too fried today to properly tag everyone but I just wanna say: if I follow you or if you follow me, I appreciate you! Your content, your style, your reblogs, your ~vibes~. And of course I am so grateful for my simblr mutuals and pals that have chatted with me, who will converse with me about their stories and creations, who pop show love to my posts, who are here and share their amazing wonderful pixelated gays and theys with the rest of us, and those who are just chilling but pop up with a reply or personal post once in a while… did I get everyone?

I hope this covered everyone :) i also appreciate all the other simblrs reading this long ass post right now ^_^ <3 grateful to have such a fun creative silly friendly and lovely little community with you all

[medicinemane]

Honestly a lot of the time, it's not even about people having to agree with me, it's about needing to know that they actually heard and listened to what I had to say even if it didn't persuade them

Just... some basic indication that there's enough respect to give a shit about what I said, and also to make sure that they disagree because they actually disagree and not cause they just didn't bother listening

It's all I really ask