#that one staff post

[tedkaczynskiofficial]

This isn't directed at OP, since this is just one of the many "Actually, don't change Tumblr," posts I've seen lately, but y'all need to get your heads out of your butts. Tumblr is making changes because the website is failing. They literally said in a live that the website isn't doing well financially.

Y'all can cry about "evil corporations" or whatever destroying things for profit motive, but Tumblr isn't a communist passion project (that would be cool, but it's not). It costs money to run the site for everything from servers (or server space, assuming Tumblr just rents it) to programmers to moderators. They're making changes because the current userbase is not enough to support the site. They have to recruit more people who don't necessarily like Tumblr's quirky features.

I have been around a long time, and some of the changes aren't my favorite. Some of y'all are being incredibly whiny, though. The For You page that you don't even have to look at isn't something to complain about. Having to click a couple buttons to curate your feed isn't something to complain about (the Tumblr live thing is). The second one is so ironic because half of these posts are saying new users should just put in the effort to build up and curate their dash but at the same time are complaining about going into the settings (in the same general area they would go to block tags and whatnot anyway) to click a few buttons. I'm building my dash for the second time (it evaporated after the porn ban, so I took a break, then deleted my blog, and now have to start over), and it's much harder to manually cultivate an interesting dash than it is to turn off the algorithm features.

Y'all also have to realize that there are longtime users that do like a lot of the changes. I don't think the For You dash is the best (mostly because it'll show me the same posts for weeks and then maybe they'll pop up again for weeks later, lol), but I appreciate having it because it does expose me to content that isn't from the blogs or tags I follow, and often helps me find new blogs/tags to follow.

tumblr developers cranking it into overdrive to make sure one of the few unique and usable social media sites remaining becomes a half-formed failed homunculus clone of tiktok like every other fucking website

[zanmor]

We are well beyond canary in the coalmine warning levels with the way trans people and particularly trans women are treated on this site.

Maybe you've heard the metaphor of allowing wolves and sheep to share the same space, welcoming everyone. You end up with just wolves because allowing them in that space makes it unsafe for any sheep. Or the story about how a nazi goes into a dive bar and is refused service. The bartender then explains to someone else at the bar that if you serve them once they tell their friends and before you know it you're the nazi bar they all go to and normal customers don't feel safe.

Terfs and other bigots are seeing these targeted harassment campaigns succeed against trans women and rejoicing. They see Tumblr ban them and officially stand by those decisions as endorsement for their harassment. It's a sign to bigots across the internet that Tumblr is a good place for them.

And what's more is that a lot of us probably don't realize just how much trans women contribute to Tumblr. The women banned recently were sources of site-wide memes and posts I wasn't even aware originated from them.any years old memes and references can be traced back to trans women on this site.

How many of these folks have to be removed before this is no longer a site you want to be a part of it? Sure you cultivate your own experience, but you can't follow or interact with people who aren't here. And if I wanted to interact with the nazis and terfs I'd go to reddit.

I encourage everyone to reblog this. Trans women shouldn't have to be the only ones speaking out against the bigotry they're experiencing. They shouldn't be the only ones risking their blogs being nuked by staff. We have to stand with them.

[hemipenal-system]

taking the moment to archive my entire blog tonight! trans people i recommend y'all do too. you know. just in case.

[neo--queen--serenity]

Lena losing her patience and furiously berating Gwen for potentially endangering the staff members of the OAIR is quite literally the opposite of how Elias ran the Archives.

Elias used the Archival staff—as well as his Archivist—as pawns that can be readily replaced as needed. His patron offered them minimal protections at best (the Archivist’s privileges notwithstanding), and even then, he would never actually intervene to save any of them if they were in danger, much less take precautions to protect them at their headquarters. They are used as bait, as sacrifices, as currency, as objects. The listener knows, eventually, how easily he could discard them if his plans called for it.

But Lena. This episode showed us that Lena keeps her entire organization running through keeping her subordinates hidden, safe, and unnoticed by the Externals. It’s quite clear through her conversation with Gwen that such a safety risk has never happened before.

As far as we know, Lena has successfully kept all of her employees alive, watched them come and go, bemoaned the turnover rate, and then got them to look the other way while they documented and dutifully filed the horrors.

But most impressive of all, she’s kept her real work hidden from her subordinates, and her subordinates hidden from her real work—a feat Elias had no interest or desire to accomplish.

[salamispots]

dream wip

[caruliaa]

staff still hasn't given me polls, what should i do?

🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 their moms 69%

🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 their dads 31%

grace image os i get to look at her

[sandumilfshous]

momo has scary dog privilege

but okarun also has scary momo privilege

[khaopybara]

i have nothing to say in my defense. just look at them.

FIRST KANAPHAN as KANT PATTANAWAT and KHAOTUNG THANAWAT as BISON music video for DESTROY LOVE and episode 3 of THE HEART KILLERS

[xitty]

This is the !! era Visual Fanbook vol. 1 cover art. I love it so much. 🩷

[trashvinnie]

inspired by @where-does-the-heart-lie and given courage by @wolf-eared-fangirl and their own wonderful rendition of the asl kpop au.

i got inspired a whole lot by the notes and artworks from whery but also tried to make it my own by making it increasingly impossible realistically. one of those it’s a fanfic and i can make anything possible vibes.

all of these are just concept notes and ideas i was able to keep down for the past what? two months or so? there are a lot more wips and ideas, and i wanted to see if there was anyone who wanted to bump brains with me or was willing to indulge seeing my messy thoughts/notes.

i made law important because i am obsessed with not only asl but him too. no escape from the brain worms, really. even if he doesn’t really pop up in a lot of my current wips for this au…

i should make storyboards but my brain has latched to grps like exo or atz for like. clothes inspo. i have multiple concert wips that needed me to make an entire fake asl concert setlist so that was fun, considering how i ended up adding eng and jp songs… i cannot contain myself and have been repeatedly editing everything I have on this for months ,,,

[rileyclaw]

new scars, new facepaint

[yeonjune]

Yeonjun about the strain he felt while preparing for his debut solo project ✙ "GGUM" MAKING FILM

[mossy-paws]

I miss clementine. I miss vinestaff's adopted creature. Could we see some new clementine. I just want to give the cuty a second hug.

(Bias towards the past? what's that :) )

funny enough! Guess what I’ve been forgetting to post for quite some time now :)

[luna-loveboop]

Linktober day three- Zelda

Skyward sword Zelda my baby <3 I carved her riding her loftwing and didn't like it too much, so I did her playing her harp on the egg as well.

The top two lines of music have the notes for the Ballad of the Goddess, and the bottom three are Zelda's lullaby. The Ballad of the Goddess is Zelda's lullaby backwards so I wanted to have both :)

@hero-of-the-wolf @la-sera

[pinacoladamatata]

i apologize in advance for any psychic damage you may take from olive garden solas bussing tables

[gearbroth]

post-deathshroud doodle thingy (+feat my crossover sole ig hsdkjhfgf)