#this place is not a place of honor .... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here

[sweetmeatdale]

I feel like the sign hanging above really sells it

[saintmouthed]

Say peacock and society says nothing... Say poopcock and society... SOCIETY... SOCIETY CALLS ME GAY.

[psych-is-the-name]

this post is very long

so long that im quite confident that this is the longest post on tumblr

there's a 50/50 chance that this post will crash the app

and FOR THE LOVE OF GOD make sure your phone is connected to wifi and isnt using your data

you have been warned

not even god can help you now

[ceilingcow]

37 !!!

Genuinely I was afraid somebody would hit a Baby Gravy song alsikdfjasf

This is like sinking a ship on the first round of Battleship.

[kineticpenguin]

Do not eat this.

[unmakingandincorporeality]

do y'ever think about how anthropologists of a distant future culture might find a nuclear waste site and read the messages on it and go "oh I recognize this from the digital fragments of memes we keep finding, this place must have been a really popular comedy venue"

[404ormula]

Shoutout to Long-term nuclear waste warning messages, gotta be one of my favorite wikipedia pages

[slaygentford]

episodes of television that RUIN. YOUR. AND I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH. DINNER

[coupleofdays]

One interesting visual in Tron: Legacy is near the beginning, when you see a number of televisions on a black reflective surface with power cords stretching off into the distance, each with a different report on Kevin Flynn's mysterious disappearance and the fallout of it. It's most likely intended to be symbolic, but part of me likes the thought that in some obscure corner of the Grid, there is the fabled "plain of televisions", now ancient and abandoned, with strange black monoliths that the Programs don't know the true purpose of. Perhaps an early experiment by Flynn, when he was testing what was possible to create in his digital wonderland, abandoned and forgotten when he began working on "the perfect system" instead.

[the-bone-theif]

i am of a place which is not a place of honor, and a place in which no great deed shall ever be commemorated. The place from whence I came is repulsive to me. It shall be shunned.

[sparingiscaring]

I'm just staring at the starting storylet for Heart's Desire and going

am i really willing to submit myself to this again

[magicmagica]

“i’m just trying not to fucking die” had me laughing so hard, so real my dude

Listen. Listen. Its been that. Since 2012.

Its aged by standing next to the chernobyl elephants foot

[fromacatastrophe]

Ah! The first superfund website.

The most hilarious possibility discrimination lawsuit outcome would be to require for Tumblr to remain online until the various discriminatory practices were redressed, and having this somehow inadvertantly lead to Tumblr became the first government utility website. A preposterous idea in all dimensions but entertaining for me. Yeah sorry this godsawful thing is a protected digital historic landmark but you're welcome to sign up and join other users destroying it from the inside.

[runestele]

FEELING A LOT. A LARGE AMOUNT

[phantomrose96]

I'm thinking about Tumblr Live again and ruminating on WHY it's such a huge flop and I think I've figured it out: They've completely refused to make it a tumblr feature...

By which I mean (begrudgingly goes to unsnooze Tumblr live) this:

^This is meant with zero insult or derision to the people above, but these are absolutely not Tumblr users.

Every single thumbnail I've ever seen for Tumblr live seems to say "This is for clout!" "This is for a thirst trap!" "This is for influencers!" "This is for Tiktok wannabe stars!" "This is for showing your pretty filtered face and reaping what people on Instagram and Tiktok are desperately chasing!"

I'm remembering that Reddit has (or had) livestreams you could tune into like this. I've tapped into some. Ones I remember offhand include:

a guy just wandering around downtown in his city silently showing people the streets and stuff

a guy streaming his attempt to beat the last level of Celeste

a guy streaming his dog he was petting

And that, that was Reddit. That was undoubtedly just regular Reddit users going "oh stream feature? yeah okay. here's my dog." "here's my video game." "here's my street corner in Prague."

And when I think of all the recent successful Tumblr features, they're all things that correctly tapped into actual Tumblr user interests. Blaze had people go "haha yeah here's my dog." "here's my advertisement for a horse lawyer (lawyer who is a horse)." They let us buy crabs because, fuck it, crabs. The blue checkmarks were funny. Polls turned into the fandom brackets people have desperately wanted to make for a decade+. I'd wager the merch that calls on old Tumblr memes is at least decently successful.

If Tumblr Live wanted the chance to be successful, it should have been angled toward Tumblr users. "Here, you can livestream your cat if you want." "You can livestream yourself working on some fanart and chatting." "You can livestream yourself going bird watching because birds are your hyperfixation and you can identify them all by their song to all your followers who want to tune in for bird facts."

But Tumblr Live has never tried to be that. It ONLY seems like it wants to be a Tiktok-clone, Instagram-clone, clout-chaser baited-hook trying to pull converts over from Tiktok/Insta/etc who are trying to grow their influencer brand, which Tumblr is lethally hostile to.

(And ALL of this is only touching on the concept behind what's happening here. I haven't even touched on the third-party streaming service and questionable data protection.)

Like fine, I guess I get it from a business model of trying to grow your userbase--since catering to your existing userbase doesn't pull in new meat. But this will not work. Because anyone, tumblr-native or not, trying to grow themselves as an influencer will NOT find success here. This place is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here. Nothing valued is here. What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. We will not watch your Shein haul stream.

[virsancte]

took a nap instead. i am sorry for abandoning you, my love. please don't take the street cars and deco sims in the divorce

class got cancelled apparently so seems like today it's just me, leftovers of this wine and my beautiful wife T.O.O.L.