#tumblr dot com the app and website

[lady-harrowhark]

1-800-R-U-SLAPPIN

[corvimae]

i love how often tumblr recommends a blog i'm already following "you might like their posts" yea thats why i have them show up on my dash actually

[krash-and-co]

i relate to lockwood in the sense that I can't sit in a chair like a normal person, there is a giant box of costumes somewhere in my room, i always wear this one stupid jacket, people have placed bets on my adhd diagnosis, and nobody knows wtf is wrong with me except for this one girl but it took her like 3 years and even then

[pyreo]

Ok so you know when you're presenting a scenario in the narrative that your audience is supposed to disagree with. and, you know, 'shaking my head while reading on the train so everyone knows I don't agree' etc, you aren't presenting this for children, the audience is supposed to know what's going on.

good writing doesn't have something in-universe that points out when bad things are bad.

but there is a loophole.

if you want to make sure, if you feel like adding a failsafe to make sure nobody starts throwing accusations, you have the character with the incorrect view say something else, earlier or in the same scene, that is wildly, brutally obviously incorrect.

you brand them with the idea that they are Wrong and the audience will absorb that trait and apply it to everything else they do.

There's a great example of this in the Sopranos episode "Christopher", about christopher columbus and how defensive people are about him, where Tony disagrees with his son's columbus-critical school book. Tony rants "he discovered America, is what he did. He was a brave Italian explorer", with absolute conviction. But just a moment ago, Tony tried to excuse columbus's actions by saying that 500 years ago everyone was less aware - "people thought the earth was flat, for crying out loud", when arguments about the shape of the earth belong to ancient Greece, around 300 BC.

He also then mentions something about "remember when we went to Florida - the heat? and those bugs?" seemingly implying that mass murder is as excusable as swatting annoying insects. an abhorrent, disgusting view - informing us in concrete terms that Tony's impassioned defense of columbus is based on flimsy logic and his mentality is flawed.

another example I like is The Nicest Kids In Town from Hairspray. a toe-tapping number about the vast opportunities for young people in 1950s Baltimore - as long as you're white!

You'd better come on down and meet the nicest kids in town! Nice white kids who like to lead the way

Other than a little zoomed-in emphasis on the singer, it's just baked into the song. It's got the same jaunty beat as everything else. So just in case you somehow didn't get how amazingly racist this situation is, Corny Collins goes on to sing:

Every afternoon drop everything, Who needs to read and write when you can dance and sing! Forget about your algebra and calculus, You can always do your homework on the morning bus, Can't tell a verb from a noun- They're the nicest kids in town!

Playing it as a joke is a good way to couch the meaning, but this is no holds barred irresponsible in a way that explains why parents don't want their children watching Corny's show. But the link is there - this guy jokingly insists that children should watch tv instead of learning to read and write. With that in the same song, are you going to trust him on any other topic? On the racial divide of 1950s america? He's the face of the show, and given the time period, what he sings isn't shocking in-universe - but it should be outside of that, and his regressive humour clues you in that the correct stance is opposing this guy.

so there you go. if you want an audience to be assured a character is in the wrong... just... make them unbelievably wrong about something unrelated.

[saturnitepumpkinhead]

I've watched 270+ horror films. Here are my favorites of all time.

Hell video, proudly served, posted late. There are more than 30 films on this video, and if you count the Saw Franchise as 9 movies in one entry, there's actually 44. I couldn't tag all the movies though :(

[tblrtwt]

[serenenecrosis-twt]

[kneecap-homicide]

When will Tumblr stop making us block each other so we can return from the war bro 😔

Cant, too busy crying and throwing up over tumblr live

[paranoidmarvin]

[lady-harrowhark]

if they want me off this website they’re gonna have to kill me first

[hahndlewithcare]

juza ita bag coming with me to the dentist today for emotional support... pray for me besties 🙏

[princess-rising-chaos]

Randomly and incoherently angry about the idea that you can “solve” the Ship of Theseus thought experiment, because you can’t! It’s not even REALLY a question! The purpose is to reflect on yourself and your values as they relate to the objects around us!

If you say yes. Congrats! you have revealed that you believe objects are more than the sum of their parts, that you believe specific things to carry a quantity of their own separate from their material construction. You have revealed something about yourself and hopefully interrogated it in a way that brings you greater self understanding.

If you say no. Congratz! You have revealed that you believe the material construction of an object is of paramount importance. I don’t share this belief so I have less insight into it, but it is a perfectly valid and reasonable stance to take. Good work! Hope you learned something about yourself.

But neither person fundamentally answered the question! They are just personal takes. You can tell because “Is it still the same ship” is an undefinable quantity that has no absolute, mathematical proof that we can point to,m and so it’s existence is inherently and will always be subjective!

[risaonda]

any time ppl talk about the follower count on here like it means anything is so insane to me...the number isn't even real

[netscapenavigator-official]

Finally some normal content on Tumblr Dot Com the Website and App.

[pento]

How to get the bells on mobile:

Open tumblr.com in your mobile browser. No need to login if you can’t be bothered.

Rotate your phone to landscape (wide) mode.

Zoom put a bit. I need to zoom to 75% on my phone, it’ll probably change depending on your screen size and browser.

You might need to refresh the page to make it work properly as you change the zoom level.

Voila!

Listen up, friends. You may have noticed that some little elves here at Tumblr HQ have decorated your dashboard with enchanted bells. We told them not to, but elves are notoriously single-minded. (You might even say jingle-minded if you were so inclined, which we most certainly are not.)

So here’s the deal. You can find the bells on web on your desktop by clicking “Click for bells.” You can look at them. You can jangle them. Heck, you can even play whole songs on ’em if you so please. They’ll be up for a short time only. If you clicked for bells and hate them, refresh your page, and it will be blissfully bell-free.

Rumor has it that crabs enjoy bells, while elfish legend speaks of excessive tolling bringing little miracles down from above. This is all hearsay, though, and not to be believed (we all know how elves like to tell tall tales. You have been warned).

(thanks to freesfx for the dulcet chimes)

[serenenecrosis-twt]

Wait until Elon finds out that the less time people spend looking at tweets, the less time they spend looking at ads, therefore the less money he gets paid, from the people who pay money for him to show us their ads next to our best buddies' posts, until eventually, Twitter as a company is actually spending more monthly than it's getting paid, and we witness the very first major bankruptcy case of a Social Media Titan.

Makes me want to research myspace