#tumblr is my shithole

[dreadintensifies]

someone whos never seen the disastrous life of saiki k tell me whats going on

[chewytoothmeats]

Miami Miku! ¡Azúcar!

[wolfythewitch]

When I visit your blog form time to time it feels like I'm watching an episode of "Wolfy's crumbs and talks"

And we are in the season "Odyssey etm."

(also etm. is literal latin shortname for "and shit" AND I LOVE IT-/pos)

KEKW yeah this blog has been through some shit

[highqueenofashandstars]

Tumblr is a weird place where you have mutuals and friends you’ve made solely by liking and reblogging each others posts for years, yet have never actually talked before. It’s like we’re all hibernating goblins that come out of our shitholes to shitpost and reblog for five minutes and then disappear back into the void for the next 24 hours to marinate again.

[windandwater]

I know various people have talked about how insular people around here are but like. we need to actually incorporate this fact into our behavior, and change it. and what I mean by this is. people who aren't online all the time have an extremely different perspective on almost everything we take for granted here.

like. my parents watched Sherlock. they enjoyed it a lot and my mom still makes jokes related to it without any irony or self-loathing. to them it was just. a fun detective show, a modern take on an old story. watch once and move on with life. she and my dad didn't spend several years knee-deep in navel-gazing meta that ruined it for everyone so now they can't talk about it without feeling like everyone's going to judge them for ever liking it in the first place.

partially this is a function of a lot of people here being teens & kids when it came out, but we (my parents & me) were adults. I was having a good time in fandom and look back on the 2010s pretty fondly while a lot of people here are still going through the process of hating their past selves, and you tend to project that onto the things you used to like. I did that too. and then I came around to forgiving & loving my past selves--all of them--which is why I have no problem admitting to all the things I loved in the early 90s & early 2000s but would have had a hard time admitting to 15 years ago.

but it's not just that. the weird refusal to pretend certain things never happened--Harry Potter. a smaller example, Firefly. etcetera. people think if you even mention HP at all you're automatically terf? like...if you go into the outside world, I'm sorry, but JKR's shit beliefs are not common knowledge. and like it or not that book kinda changed the world. and not all for the worse.

(I will NOT go off here on why Joss Whedon seems to get a pass for Buffy & Avengers but someone mentioned a bad thing about Firefly and now we can't talk about it at all--not to mention that it's apparently still okay for him to actively profit off of his work--but. that's off topic.)

(for the record my views are thus: neither of these creators should get any more money or attention as creators, but we shouldn't pretend that the stuff they made had zero effect on us as a culture or as individuals.)

this isn't really about any of these pieces of media specifically, it's more like. this weird insular culture that believes certain things are common knowledge and therefore if you ever talk about them except for in the Approved ways, You're Bad. it's not healthy here and it's not healthy if you ever plan to have a conversation with any living human.

I'm tired of like. if you post a gif of the wrong show you're cringe. if you reference a the wrong book you hate queer people. if you quote the wrong show you're racist. no matter what the actual gif or quote or reference is. it's not like that outside the internet and on the internet it feels like walking on very stupid eggshells.

I know how we got here but it's dumb. the past happened. it wasn't always perfect but we were still part of it. if we erase it we'll never learn from it but we'll also never get comfy with good the ways it shaped us.

we're so busy molding ourselves into a perfect future that we don't realize that the imperfect past got us here in the first place. let it exist. in all the ways it was.

[johnwatersvhs]

is there anyway to make tumblr stop showing me posts from ppl i dont follow?

[theboywasallalone]

is the mcl fandom still a thing on this hell platform

[puzzlingphronistes]

Have you

[undeadhousewife]

There are shitty ads and then there's what ever this is. The fucking peanut butter killed me

[boundless-n-bare]

i FUCKING hate it here

[illwilledomen]

Quick Jane portrait. Notorious and powerful kingpin who has connections throughout the slums and merchant district of Gane. Immensely wealthy thanks to shooting her competitors ‘fulla lead*. She’s also a very good businesswoman. Cold, calculating and mirthful. Her scars, and her leg injury which requires her to have a cane (obviously not shown in this pic) are from her days as a young woman in the military.

*In Gane, my fictional nation, immensely wealthy people like company owners, landlords whom own serfs and land, etc, will, by law, transfer their wealth to the person who kills them in a duel. The murderer who inherits the wealth is called a blood heir. Otherwise, the money will go to their of-age chosen biological descendant, either child or niece/nephew

[bog-boyy]

this website is going to be fucking insufferable for the next 6 months

[timegears-moved]

okay post is deleted im not mentally ill anymore

[bechloyeah]

@ all the people migrating over from twitter rn: Hi there 👋

[nugatorysheep]

Me? A call out post? Nooo.....

Has anyone ever made a callout post about you?

[swag-system]

Might quit my job