#tumblr is a site that is interacted with in a very normal way

[catboybiologist]

Time for another just woke up half baked thought

But like idk. If you think that the core, the root, the main signal or red flag, of TERF ideology is "man hating" then I think you need to seriously reevaluate how you're identifying transphobia

The core of TERF ideology is, and always will be, misogyny. It's about cutting down the abilities of women to reinforce a gender binary. It's about demolishing any semblance of any other right when that binary is threatened.

One consequence of this is fearing men, and othering them- but very crucially, in ways that reinforce their role in a patriarchal society. Saying that men are implicitly violent still works within their patriarchal role, and reinforces the idea that this role cannot be broken.

But this is one of many, many consequences.

It can seem like the transmisogyny of TERFs is a consequence of man hating, in a first pass. But that crumbles when you realize two things- one, TERFs are more than willing to forget any other issue of women's empowerment to prioritize hating trans people, and two, TERF ideology is more afraid of trans people than they are of cis men. It's why they're more concerned with trans people existing in women's bathrooms than they are about cis men walking in. Or any actual cases of SA or violence cis men commit. The implicitly violent role that men occupy in the TERF mind is seen as a fact of life that they accept, and don't fear. Trans people are seen as something that can be "fixed".

It's all because trans people encroach on the gender binary.

Tbh, when I see posts treating man hating as the premier TERF dog whistle, it feels like mid-2010s anti-feminism memes.

Like yeah you shouldn't go around hating men. Obviously. But is your only way of identifying transphobia when it's about cis men?

Btw, this isn't about interacting with a Tumblr post. This is about identifying transphobic rhetoric in the wils. I've occasionally reblogged TERFs cuz yeah, I reblog a lot of stuff on this site and don't like. Extensively research every tap of my fingers.

More what I'm asking you to do is to identify TERF ideas that have become normalized. I've seen a lot of trans people themselves fall for bioessentialist BS, internalize transphobic talking points, and parrot back sanitized, "acceptable" versions of TERF logic because they fail to identify a lot of real dog whistles. Is this exclusively bc of what I'm talking about? Obviously not, but I think there should be more emphasis placed on it.

Anyways rant over

[nekropsii]

hey, question. Ive been out of homestuck fandom for a while- where does kankri say he’s aro? Ive checked in the openbound transcripts and havent seen anything and the homestuck site itself suuuucks rn so im just wonderin. ty if you know!

Easy. He explicitly puts himself on the spectrum here, no Alloromantic/Allosexual (especially at the time) would be apologizing for perpetuating Amatonormativity, and the "celibacy" thing was a common Aphobic joke at the time. The Alpha Troll segment also came out during a point in Tumblr's history where AroAce people were massive targets, and we were made into total jokes by Allos who refused to understand us or take us seriously. Kankri's existence is an example of this.

He's an Aphobic Caricature, with all of his ties to Aro/Aceness being made into a joke. Considering this, I think it's only fair to make him actually, fully AroAce, especially given the fact if this was a parody of literally any other marginalized group - especially one within the LGBT community - people would be accepting him as being wholly a part of that group, and taking his orientation seriously. I am 100% of the belief that any argument to the contrary is just blatant Aphobia.

Homophobic caricatures are common. They are, within fandoms, accepted as fully gay, and their gayness is taken seriously. Transphobic caricatures are common. They are, within fandoms, accepted as fully trans, and their transness is taken seriously. So on and so forth. The fact that Aros/Aces are seemingly excluded from this ruling of reclamation is entirely unfair, and reflective of the fact that fandoms are loudly, objectively hostile to the existence of Aros/Aces. Fandom's main interaction with Aro/Ace existence is total erasure - the most common response to the idea of a character being Aro is "Aros can date just like normal people, too!", and Aces get "Asexuals can have sex just like normal people, too!".

Kankri being AroAce is explicit. His existence as someone on that spectrum is canon and textual. He identifies that way, and his writing is very obviously intended to make a mockery of - for lack of a better term - total AroAces. Ergo: Kankri is AroAce, and denial of this is Aphobic.

Hopefully this helps! Have a nice day. o7

[moniquill]

On the topic of folks getting worked up over you reblogging things with commentary: i think general failure to learn to blend is a contributing factor, but I think another is that interaction on pretty much all social media is so *same-y* now... except tumblr.

You like, you comment, but if you retweet/share/whatever it's called on tiktok or whatever, you either a) do it without commentary in support or to spread a message, or b) you're dunking on the OP, usually not looking for discussion. Discussion happens in the comments, not on your own page - I feel like the kids, used to *those* social norms and having not bothered to learn the ones of tumblr (and possibly not even realizing that there are different norms) are kind of interpreting it as... like, dragging a discussion from their ground onto yours, trying to shift the home advantage.

And they're wrong, you're just interacting in a way that's normal and expected on tumblr, but there's I think a degree of not understanding that sites *can* be different in that way, especially since Tumblr does have a lot of the same superficial markers (likes, comments, an algorithm (even though it's optional). When I started online, and I presume when you did too, every site had its own set-up for how you interacted with other users - a guest book, an irc chat, a forum with threads that may or may not have been strictly enforced, a yahoo group mailing list... You never really knew your first time on a site how you talked to other users, so you *had* to watch, you had to see what this site's mode was, and how strictly it was enforced.

And the superficial similarities between tumblr and other social media is sort of giving the tiktokers the feeling that tumblr is tiktok but with words and they can treat it exactly the same. And i think you're being very clear every time you reblog one of them about what the culture and normal mode of interaction is, but i think it's also going to keep running up against all of their existing internet experience, as well as native human stubborness, especially since you're typically disagreeing on the OP about something.

^Hitting the nail on the head. This is why I keep posting links to Tumblr help/user guides and telling these kiddos to open up their blog settings.

If you have come to Tumblr from elsewhere, it's on you to learn about how to use this site and what appropriate behavior is -here-

https://www.tumblr.com/mojoflower/700559461967872000/so-you-want-to-tumbl

https://mishasminions.tumblr.com/post/25165190110

https://asimovsideburns.tumblr.com/post/679590067833126912/the-new-tumblrites-guide-to-the-modern-hellsite

https://www.tumblr.com/tittyblade/648581930564091904/tumblr-etiquette-101

https://help.tumblr.com/knowledge-base/getting-started-on-tumblr/

[skeletonahead]

i don't think I've ever had anyone consistently like every single post on my blog aside from you. are you a secret admirer, perhaps?~

UM

I WAS NOT AWARE. THAT WAS HOW THAT WORKED

I'M SO SORRY IF I'VE BEEN WEIRD MY EXPERIENCE OF TUMBLR SO FAR HAS BEEN VISITING BLOGS I LIKE FOR POSTS INSTEAD OF USING THE DASHBOARD LIKE A NORMAL PERSON

you do seem very cool though! i initially came from your and lambdaupsilon's fanfics to check for writing updates and such... they were quite lovely... but i also liked a lot of your posts and reblogs! your interests and interactions are cute and stuff and incidentally were part of what helped me find a lot more of the really inspiring transfeminist thought and transfem community i'd been wanting to engage with as that's hard to come across on other sites tbh, which has been nice and affirming for a lot of my own personal feelings :> see also learning about old military equipment and piloting i suppose? i am mostly unfamiliar otherwise

while i'm here i guess i want to say as well that your writing is really good!! it helped me get into btr as strange as that may sound, since i hadn't been exposed to a lot of the deeper aspects of the characters from what little i'd seen beforehand and the way you and her handle them really highlighted a lot of the most interesting readings of the series and its themes, especially in how grounded and understanding both the circumstances and internal thoughts of the characters come across if that makes sense? thinking of the ryo and nijika fic about nijika confessing in particular. and just the dynamics between them were very cute, the ways they read into each other and construct themselves between the drama and fluff is neat and girls with mental health Problems are rather endearing in general -u- so yeah! that encouraged me to start with the manga and everything which has been a lot of fun so far, so I wanted to thank you for that.

anyways! i apologize again if this was weird, i hope i didn't make you uncomfortable or anything. for transparency's sake i will make sure my admiration for you is fully public from now on 🫡

otherwise, if you'd prefer i not intrude as such, just let me know and i'll be more than happy to boppy kms out of respect 🫡

(/j + seriously though i want to make sure i'm not worrying anyone so feel free to do whatever you'd like not that you need my permission also i don't know if it's common etiquette to make responses like these private or not and i'm going to stop talking now okay thanks byebsbramrksjrkrn)

[neallo]

do you have any advice on how to make friends on tumblr, im finding it a bit hard and would appreciate some advice. thank you

hello my dear anon. i would be very happy to provide advice on how to make friends here on tumblr dot com! i will be focusing on how to make fandom friends, because that is all i have ever really done on this webbed site. i am not going to get into the nitty-gritty of social skills and manners, because i want to focus on the basics of fostering connections with other people in a fandom on tumblr, but i'll quickly say: don't be over-familiar in an invasive or jokey-mean way to people you don't know well, respect boundaries and social cues (don't repeatedly message someone you don't know well if they're not replying to you), and be generally niceys!! i know you probably know all that. but it's key, and i think not everyone is totally fully aware of social skills when it comes to interacting online in particular, so i felt it was worth saying (⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠)⁠❤

now we can move into the real advice :3c

first things first: actively participate in your fandom! you can do this by creating fanworks (writing fic, making art, etc)— and if you want to, you should give it a try! participating in the fandom doesn't need to involve making fanworks, though. plenty of people mainly participate in fandom by supporting creators and taking part in conversation about the characters or ships that they're interested in. on tumblr, you can do this by leaving your thoughts on fanworks that you like! you can do this by replying, or— even better— reblogging with comments in the tags!

other good forums to interact with the fandom include meta posts (you can add thoughts in the body of your reblog if you have something you want to say, or in the tags if you're shy / just want to go "hell yeah!!!" generally) and questions that people ask ("does anyone know if [character] ever [does/says something specific]?") — these are nice opportunities to find and connect with other fans who are talking about or want to talk about the things that interest you ❤️

of course, you can also post things in the tags! generally, best etiquette is to keep posts in the fandom, character, and ship tags kind / civil. you will see people saying things like "ugh [character or ship] is so annoying" or "i hate that people only write [character] as a [top/bottom/seme/uke]." however, this is not something i recommend doing or engaging with. everyone can do whatever they want forever, but i find this type of behavior unnecessary and unpleasant. people who center their tumblr experience around complaining about what other people like and do are frankly participating in fandom in a way that confuses me. i fail to understand why someone would choose to consistently focus on things that upset or annoy them; fandom is meant to be enjoyable.

try to talk about the characters and ships you like, and the dynamics you like for them. rather than going "ugh i hate it when people write [character] in [some specific way]," try talking about the dynamic or characterization you'd like to see more of. bonus points if you can resist saying "why doesn't anyone write [xyz thing you want]," because there's a good chance someone has written that, and if they see your post, they're not gonna know if you haven't seen their fic, or if you have seen it and just didn't like it. a better way to put that would be "does anyone have recs for fics where [xyz thing you want happens]?" do not say "i tried looking but couldn't find anything good." people aren't gonna want to rec you things if you're leading with a weird attitude. of course it can be difficult to find fic that you truly love which also aligns with your preferences, but especially in a tiny ship or fandom, it's best to have some tact. also, if you're really that pressed for stories you wanna read, it's a great reason to get into writing 🥰

all this said, everyone needs to bitch once in a while; that's normal. healthy even. this bitching is best left in DMs, though, or at the very least, on your blog, out of the tags. and don't let haterism consume you!!

OH! i almost forgot. send asks! send asks to people in the fandom that you think are interesting and nice. send asks for ask games when people reblog them, and send asks about fics or characters or fanart to other people in the fandom. if you're very shy, you can do this on anon, and then interact with the answer once it's posted by replying or reblogging.

okay. let's say that you've been engaging with fanart by reblogging and leaving your thoughts in the tags, engaging with fic by reblogging with thoughts in the tags and / or commenting on AO3, and interacting with other people in the tags for the characters and ships you like. and, best of all, sending asks! doing all of this, you'll get a sense for which people you might get along with, and who might be receptive to your friendship. if someone is replying to your tags, following you back, interacting with your posts, and so on for a while, that's a great opportunity to DM them!! (it's fine to keep things to asks and replies for a while if that feels easier, of course!)

once you have a person in mind that you would like to DM, it's up to you how you want to reach out. i'm an impulsive and somewhat outgoing person online, so in my early days in the DN fandom (and my last fandom) i would often just spontaneously DM people whose vibes i liked and introduce myself (hi, i'm neallo, i hope this isn't strange but i just wanted to pop in and introduce myself!). i would then let them know that i liked their blog, or their art, or their writing, often leaving a specific thought about the item in question ("i totally agree with your post about [character], he WOULD say that" or "i love how cute / pretty / impish you make [character] in your art" or "your writing style is so compelling, i've really been enjoying your fics"). i don't do this very much anymore, but it's not because it doesn't work. it's just that i have a finite amount of time and there are a lot of people in meronia now T__T so, generally, i only go out of my way to reach out to people i've already interacted with a good deal through posts / asks / comments on AO3 (aka people who i feel would possibly like to be friends with me).

you technically can cold DM people if you really like their blog or writing or fanart. i personally don't mind a DM from someone i haven't interacted with before, but i do always have to take a second to make sure they're not a child and not a spam bot or something. some people are put off by being messaged directly by someone they've never interacted with before, though, so i think it's generally best practice to kind of get a feel for things on the public side of tumblr before sending someone a message!!

now, a word of self-compassion and general caution. first: not everyone will reply to you. others may reply at first, but fall off (i am really bad about this myself, just because life has been getting in the way a whole lot recently). sometimes people are busy; sometimes they are just not really actively seeking friends or conversation; sometimes they maybe just don't think they'll vibe with you! it doesn't reflect poorly on you if someone doesn't respond to you or try to befriend you. it can be sad, or a little disappointing, but that's the way the cookie crumbles. don't take it personally, and try not to feel too dejected or hurt over it.

one more thing. ideally, this will not happen at all, but if it does, hopefully it will be seldom. in my experience, it has been very seldom! the thing is this: someone might be unkind to you. i personally am not that good at figuring out when someone is being mean to me unless they're insanely obvious about it! i will make excuses for someone doing or saying hurtful things several times ("i'm sure they didn't mean it like that" or "they're just kidding around") before i realize that they're being kind of an asshole. i don't actually think this is a bad trait, though-- i like to assume good intent from other people, and only rescind that assumption when i'm proven wrong. i only mention this to tell you: if someone routinely makes you feel bad about yourself, your art, your writing, or your thoughts, maybe they're not the best person to befriend.

[rahshande22]

So here I am, first time in my life on tumblr, just because I feel a very strong need to write sth about X-men movies.

I’ve never been much of a X-men girl, I watched the movies few years ago (turns out I’ve never seen The Dark Phoenix before lol). I remember being a little bored with the older movies (I’ve always been more into MCU's type of superhero stories), but actually liked the newer ones. Lately something reminded me about these movie and about the fact that I particularly liked Charles. So I watched all four newer X-men movie and here are some of my thoughts:

I was right. Charles is, for me, THE character in these movies.

Not gonna lie, what made them this enjoyable for me was the relationship between Charles and Erik. And I’m not even that much of a shiper, I just think the chemistry between these two was great, their interactions were interesting and pretty much carried all movies. I mostly give credit James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender who truly done a great job with bringing Charles and Erik back to life.

I really like how during the first three movies (FC, DoFP, Ap) we get the two opposite sites of the same coin. Both Charles and Erik want to preserve mutants, help them, give them safety, give them purpose ect… but they have very different ideas on how to do that, how to make that possible. I like how they are both wrong and right at the same time.

Erik is right, because we clearly see that “normal” people can’t really comprehend and accept “the other” (what a surprise). Mutants would never be entirely safe because they are different, they are in minority, they can be dangerous and they are beyond understanding of “normal” people (I guess I don’t need to elaborate more, we know how it works). But he is clearly wrong, because you can’t exterminate other just because they MAY be problematic in the future (or, ironically, because they are not like you). And then, there’s Charles, who's right, because aggression causes aggression. If you strive for war, that will be all you will ever have and sometimes you have to learn how to survive on different terms. But he is also wrong, because you cannot always have your peace, even though you want nothing more.

They were trying to live up to their dreams and beliefs and dynamics between then actually shaped the movies (ok, at last the first two). X-men Apocalypse was worst then two previous (I’d say that less Erik and Charles together made it that way), but wasn’t THAT bad. I like to think that Erik did in fact understand that Apocalypse was not a better option. Or he just didn’t want him to kill Charles, that reason is also fine.

But then we come to The Dark Phoenix, which was not good, at all.

I can skip the fact that in the previous movie Jean manifested Phoenix power (I mean, we can quarrel that it was only her, but why give it a shape of fiery wings then?), but generally her story arc was very similar to what we’ve already seen: Jean Grey doesn’t really know who she is and is scared of her power. As much as I respect Sophie Turner, I don’t consider her… well, a great actress, and her portrayal of Jean was sort of flat and boring.

Erik’s story arc is kinda non existent: he’s there just for the sake of being there. He’s only motive is “to kill Jean for killing Raven” (I’m not sure if it’s that good of a motivation for him; Raven spent much more time on her own or with Charles than with Erik, so him carrying for her so much felt more like a forced plot point than genuine feelings).

I have a feeling they made Charles dirty in this movie, and I'm not referring to his controversial decisions about Jean. Charles always wants to help others, sometimes to the extent it’s not a real help. He wants it so badly that he might lose the person he's helping along the way. Thant’s an interesting take, and some new layer to Charles Xavier. His methods are not always good, even when he does something in good faith, we’ve seen that clearly with Jean (though without Dark Phoenix power it could work). But one of his most important traits is that he CARES about others. Here? Not so much. He's definitely more... detached that usual, less involved in his students well being. And what about Raven? She was his sister, and he loved her dearly, this was shown very, very clearly in the previous three movies. And here what? One tear or two after her death? We got Hank and Erik (!) going crazy after Raven’s death and not even a proper cry from Charles? Am I supposed to believe that? And there, there's more: he made some mistakes and then lives the school? "By, you’re on your own now, have a nice time?" Like, what? These two things alone make him feel not like himself. And I pity that, cause we got three decent (good even) stories and there’s this one. It’s not even the fact that McAvoy cannot act, we perfectly know he can (we got three other movies in the franchise to confirm that), so what actually happened here?

Probably the only good thing in this movie is the ending and the scene in Paris.

[wishmaker-astra]

Name: Astra Tsiolkovsky

Pronouns

• Default Preference: she/her

• Friends Can Use: it/its

• Though honestly as long as you're not a dick about it whatever works

Species: "Jirachi" (?)

Occupation: Astrophysics Doctoral Student

Other: Mute, psychic, former human

[Credit: Amber Aria: https://www.sunset-aria.com/]

Hey internet, I'm Astra Tsiolkovsky. I'm a doctoral student studying astrophysics in Unova. Ask me about science, engineering, and Space Stuff™ if you want rambles.

See my full about page (might be stale, I probably need to update this)

My Website (same)

I use the "cw: topic" format for tagging that kind of thing. The main exception is "suggestive" will not have a "cw:" in front of it.

I am a jirachi, and accept the labels of mythical and legendary, but I do not accept the label of deity/goddess/divine/etc.

I would ask you do not use the phrase "I wish" with when talking with me unless I give you permission as a courtesy. Text may not set off anything or do anything, but it has associations with physical impacts IRL.

That said, I understand if you do not believe I am a jirachi, just be respectful, alright?

SINCE THIS POS SITE HAS IMPLEMENTED AN ASK LIMIT, HERE'S THE POST IM USING AS THE ASK BOX IF YOU HIT YOUR 10 PER HOUR LIMIT: [X]

//Mail: [off]•Mystery Gift: [off]•Magic Anon: [off]•Union Circle: [off]

//[OOC Notes Below Cut]

EXTREMELY IMPORTANT

Check with me OOCly before sending anything ICly transphobic to her. After a couple instances of this, and one OOC Totally Normal ask, you guys have lost privilege of me accepting and rejecting on the fly with the hope you'd know when to stop.

I'm mandating all asks that might be IC transphobic stuff get approval OFF ANON first and will block anons over not asking OOCly. That said, I know some of these are hard to recognize for those of you who've never had to think about it in depth. Just think twice on if need to ask please?

Similar applies to her jirachi status. I'm a bit more lenient and open to this one, but, like, please use your brains. I've had incidents with this as well.

Mail and mystery gift has been turned off due to repeated incidents of ignoring conditions on them. If you have my discord, or history of tumblr DM chat, I might be open to in advance arrangements.

Will Not Interact:

Magic Anon

Fae deals/name stealing

Meta Horror

Most forms of body horror

4th Wall Shenanigans

• I will just OOCly block a character's blog if you start having said character ICly talk about my OOC posts/notes/etc and there's no reasonable way it could have been mistaken as an IC post

Unambiguously confirmed bloodline curses

Glitch topics

• Note that glitch topics means more directly glitches-are-real in a setting, not say, making a fakemon inspired by a glitch

Very dark topics

• This includes post-apocalyptic stuff to be clear

Mental Alteration/Mind Control related subjects

• I WILL just ignore things, have Astra behave utterly OOC, blanket refuse to interact with characters, and/or just suddenly drop interaction as if never happened if required for this

Other Notes:

I try to treat her experiencing rotomblr as *just a website* as much as possible. Granted, one with weird multiversal connection that she will assume is due to ultrahole shenanigans she doesn't understand yet

Generally speaking I do not have her or blogs connected to her that I write participate in or acknowledge MMM

Lose combination of games and anime setting, leaning more towards the games

The Ultimate Weapon does not and never did exist in her universe

If I ever agree to accept a pelipper mail, it will be interpreted as regular parcel mail being sent to her via student services.

Please keep mystery gift pitches to minor items at most. She's a grad student as part of her character, part of that is putting up with tight money situation.

Astra's got the full abilities of a jirachi potentially, but is unable to use the vast majority of them yet. Think of it as getting a new limb suddenly.

Assumes sentient pokemon are rare, and mostly limited to:

• Ones with decent canon support (rotom inhabiting devices with a CPU, mewtwo, one off instances such as Meowth, latias, etc)

• Certain humanoid and/or psychic types raised in human society in a way that  "bootstraps" them during critical development periods (e.g. Gardevoir line treated as effectively human from birth)

Feel free to treat her as a kid screwing around on the net with a character if you want or similar if it makes sense for your character's setup or personality

She's an adult lesbian, please block the tags "suggestive", "cw: boob joke", "cw: dick joke", "cw: sex joke", and "cw: sex mention" if you are not comfortable with those topics. Please let me know if you need something tagged.

Astra generally understands Plasma and especially Flare as fascist movements and will react accordingly

Astra does know what the block button is, and will block ICly. Check the tag "astra blocks" for what blogs are on her block list, as each IC block gets a post labeled that declaring she blocked the blog

[mesetacadre]

you mentioned discussing student unionism with a comrade a while back, any thoughts on that that you’d be willing to share on tumblr

—a student who is very depressed about the current state of student organizing

I think this is pretty obvious but on this site it always feels necessary to say explicitly: All my knowledge, experience and opinion are almost exclusively regarding the student movement in Spain. The student movements across the imperial core are somewhat similar, and the dynamics as far as I've seen and heard are essentially also similar to those in the imperial periphery, except it's modified by a general bigger will to actually be combative and a more conflictive social climate. For example, last academic year we had a Chilean at our uni and it wasn't too dissimilar to what he knew in Chile, with the considerations I said earlier. But still, specifities between countries are many, even between different universities in the same country or region, since they tend to have a certain culture, and aspects like the way a campus is designed have more influence than most people think.

The first problem or obstacle I identify with student unionism is the lack or seriousness. Actual student unions, unions in the sense of the word, are few and far between. What's far more common is to have leftist horizontalist etc types of orgs acting as a poor proxy or the exact same types of orgs as the previous ones but while calling themselves a "union". In my opinion the main thing these orgs lack is placing the worker's movement at the center of their activity. Students are workers as well, and worker and student issues are very often more connected than those solipsistic orgs like to pretend. Universities and lower education have lots of workers in their respective environments, often also unionized, and if a student union can find common ground with these workers, their demands can go so much further. Of course, that comes with a drawback, that these are all worker aristocratic unions and consequently also tend heavily towards minimizing combativity and place too much faith in institutional bureaucracy.

The second big obstacle is external to the unions themselves, which is that legally and socially they don't have anywhere near the same respect and rights as the regular worker unions. In terms of legality, student unions in universities often have to be registered as a normal student association, such as a tabletop games club. And most people don't really register that difference which does (or is supposed to) exist. I've had to explain the concept of a student union to people much more often than the concept of a worker union.

The student movement as a whole has a lot of particularities that are as interesting to discuss as they are annoying to deal with, and those of course interact a lot with student unionism. For example, the widespread tendency towards localisms and horizontalisms means that, because most students don't generally look out that much outside their faculty, university or high school, unionization is either very hard to achieve or materializes in more of a loose assembly of students from different places unable to coordinate anything. Being in an actual student union with a proper structure really does make you realize how baffling and inefficient it is to have these localisms and individualism. It's a trade-off between how much you want to do as you please and achieve actual results, a trade-off that most people don't even recognize as real. This time the 17th anti-hierarchichal horizontalist and anti-patriarchal assembly will really save us

[kynimdraws]

INFO POST

Name: Kylee (they/them). 30+

A totally normal Korean American mostly known for my drawings, specifically my Pokemon nuzlocke comics. But I will talk about other things on occasion because I do have periods of being fixated on certain topics. I also am a doctor!

Interests: Pokemon, League of Legends (everything except the game lmao), Fire Emblem, Advance Wars, Animal Crossing, Mother series, Korean history/culture, character design

General FYIs: 

General inquiries/commission work/etc should be sent thru kynimdraws [at] gmail [dot] com! Tumblr messaging/asks/etc is not 100% reliable

I will not follow NSFW accounts but I am fine talking/interacting with them. There may be suggestive shitposting but I like keeping my content on the SFW side

I am VERY picky about who I follow/interact with online. Fandom content in particular is a minefield for me aka I have many things I dislike and don’t want to see, even if it might be a popular thing in media that I otherwise enjoy. Therefore, I will unfollow/block/mute liberally. There are times I accidentally block a blog bc I mistake them for bots. So if you got hit with that, just send me an ask or email me

I am very open about what I like and dislike, and none of those things are a direct attack on your sensibilities. I have never gone out of my way to directly send hate or whatever have you if I end up seeing shit I don’t like. My complaints in my little online space ain't a personal attack on you.

My ask/submission box/DMs  are open for criticisms if you have any issues you want to resolve in private. No one is perfect and I may have done ignorant shit that needs to be pointed out. I have deleted or edited posts in the past if people tell me what I did wrong. PS I get that some of my stuff may upset you, but try to act civil when pointing shit out please.

I try to tag all my things whenever I can. Again, send me a message if anything bothers you. I am all for good debate but if you send me excessive hate or threats bc I have different opinions about matters that are trivial, I will block/delete them.

If you wish to use any of my hcs, please credit me. And if you are comfortable with it, send me the works so I can check them out! Or @ me if that is easier.

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FIRE EMBLEM FYI: Specifically for 3Houses/3Hopes because I need a separate one for this franchise specificially given how many crazy things I got due to being involved in this fanbase via my fanworks:

DO NOT try to convince me to like or tolerate Byleth/student ships, ESPECIALLY the ones with the lords (aka CIaude, Dimitri, EdeIgard). I already summarized why I don’t like FE3H Byleth ships with student chars here. While the spinoff game FEW3H has now removed that teacher/student problematic situation, the fandom keeps putting the FE3H elements into the FEW3H fanworks (i.e. remembering Byleth from “another life” trope)...so no thanks!! DO NOT SHOW ME IT!!!

As for the Byleth ships with faculty members, my response is here so don’t try to bait me about that topic either thanks.

I do not care whom you ingame S-support. 3Houses limits the dating-sim part of the game to that character, so I cannot care less about how you play the game. The main issue I have is when people treat Byleth the “character” as a legit ship material when I personally think they are a cool character ruined by fans who are too obsessed with badly executed self insert otome tropes bc they self-project super hard onto them. Just to be clear, any FE3H or FEW3H OC/Canon >>>>>>Byleth ships personally. Even Byleth-sonas that remove the teacher/student aspects are better than canon FE3H!Byleth

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Please don't drag FE VA statements as some sort of “gotcha” on my opinions like this post here. IDC what other people prefer with ship shit, that’s their problem and not mine. I am not gonna bother them about it. So don’t bother ME about it. 

Links to check out:

Myths of Unova + Episode Grey (Pkmn White/White2 Comic)

Tales of Sinnoh (Pkmn Diamond Comic)

Art Site (Portfolio)

Bluesky

[yinyuedijun]

Mao I've come to you for internet wisdom

I have a friend who writes on Tumblr, they've had to make new blogs due to getting hate and even switch online personas. The hate they're getting isn't normal either. The person sending hate anons knows their irl identity and keeps doxxing them in the asks (obviously they've only posted covered screenshots whenever they showed their ask box) they've tried everything, switching blogs and deleting old ones, having someone else filter their askbox, closing their askbox for a while, etc but whenever they reopen asks for the sake of writing they receive hate again, no matter how much they use the block button. The content they write isn't even too dark imo (and even if it was that doesn't warrant the hate, but what I mean is this anon is dead set on harassing them regardless of reason) I'm genuinely mad if seeing this happen to my online friend though I'm not that good on Tumblr.

Do you know anything that could help or have any advice? I'm just really sad and want to hug them every time this happens because the anxiety they have from these experiences have made them ill.

first of all, I'm deeply sorry that this is happening to your friend. I can never understand why people choose to chronically harass writers on this site. it literally ruins the experience of the website and makes it so much worse for everyone involved - people write less, read less, interact less. and most importantly, it's simply not an acceptable way to treat another human being.

my foremost advice to anyone receiving hate is just to delete it and ignore it, or else turn off anon and block whatever accounts send you shit. however, in this particular case, I strongly recommend that your friend prioritizes their personal safety by deleting their account and laying low for a while. I have seen doxxing cases in this community escalate pretty extremely, and while it sucks a lot to delete a writing blog, I guarantee it will suck way worse if the wrong irl finds your writing blog and identifies you as the author. trust me on this one.

if your friend ever returns to writing after deleting, they need to be very serious about changing personas - by which I mean, they should write for other fandoms, ideally post on another website, and not tell old mutuals about their new url. they need to make it genuinely impossible to trace their new identity to their old one. you have to treat it like a data breach (because it is).

I wish I could say something more comforting 😭 but this is my honest advice. I know your friend's case isn't motivated by dark content, but I do think all dark content writers need to take privacy concerns seriously.

I hope things get better for your friend soon.

[dianight]

It's a good point to bring up but ultimately I disagree so I can't reblog it. Because I don't see tumblr as "exceptionally transmisogynistic", if anything it is mundanely transmisogynistic. I think the being segregated part is true but that is the logical conclusion of being able to follow/block whoever you want, curate your dashboard and who interacts with your posts (almost) guaranteeing that certain communities don't get to touch them (or you) at all, so if one "breaks containment" as the girls say it'll go through the circles that you haven't pruned (aka the "segregated transfem community") giving the impression that it's in fact a community (which in a way it is) that has it's own tiny groups and the only thing in common among all of us is that we haven't gone on a blocking spree (which still happen) cutting us off from said "community".

Getting into demographics could be very complicated but I am ultra skeptical that tumblr has a lower transfem demographic to be significant compared to any other social media platform. I just cannot see the logic there and it doesn't align with my experiences, the ones from transfems I know or the ones I read about. I've been in discord communities with thousands of people where hundreds of them would be active and the lack of a transfem presence IS noticeable. If it's not a space made for transfems by transfems we are always going to be a statistical anomaly because most spaces will be hostile to us so you either "hide" or leave, we are actively excluded from them, especially from transinclusive ones. Read that again. Especially from transinclusive ones. Read it again. Especially from transinclusive ones. Do you get it yet?

What isn't "normal" is being able to curate your online experience to the point where you get to interact almost exclusively with transfems or actual, for real and not saying this ironically, allies who know and make an effort to understand transmisogyny. Tumblr is exceptional in that regard. The site still fucking sucks and hates us at large, but so does every other online platform.

To be blunt that post seems myopic in scope. I get it and I'm not defending how much this website sucks, but it's still wrong to think it's "exceptionally" hostile to us. Incorrect.

[howlsofbloodhounds]

Why do you like Killer?

Well first off my fixation on the guy started because i got curious about his story while watching Gacha React videos and kept coming across conflicting accounts. And then I realized, wow no one really knows anything but this silly guy.

So I did my own research. And I realized, wow. He is severely misunderstood. This poor man has been through hell and is struggling with himself, lost in his disorientation, losing his grasp on his reality and himself due to outside factors. And the way he has responded and reacted to his trauma is not pretty or even easy to understand.

He hates what he’s become so much, and it isn’t pretty what he’s been made into against his will—yet he struggles to tell if it was truly against his will or not. He’s so lost he struggles to even realize that he was manipulated and coerced, unable to differentiate between memory and reality anymore.

And yet he also refuses to admit that he was ever any type of victim—instead reclaiming control by leaning into the identity he has formed, finding security with the belief that this is something he chose rather than something that was done to him.

His emotional states (or capacity for emotion), mindset, personality, belief system—those things change in response to his circumstances and the world around him, reflected in his soul’s Stages. Parts of him are still stuck in the past, while he’s trying to outrun it.

And he struggles to integrate it all into a sense of a coherent self—which only gets worse when others are wanting things from him, too, and won’t take no for an answer. He’s always wanting someone to help him make sense of things, to ‘save’ him, and yet he doesn’t trust anyone and doesn’t trust himself even more.

And killer doesn’t even see ‘no’ as a valid answer either. Learned helplessness in Stage 1, believing choice is a privilege constantly out of reach in Stage 2. Maybe not even having a concept of choice or free will in Stage 4.

I would say more but tbh I think this post (and its later additions) said so much that I agree with already. I like that Killer is not in any sense of the word, a “perfect” victim. He has normalized a lot of what was done to him and tends to normalize it when done to others, as well. He tends to externalize his trauma quite a lot.

Other than that, by sharing everything I could find on his canon in various sites and apps like Tumblr or TikTok, I met and interacted with a lotta cool people. Made some pretty cool friends.

Even met my late girlfriend through Killer, who related quite a lot to Killer’s circumstances and felt seen by someone being able to see him the way she did—and she gave me the best months of my life.

Killer is very dear to me not only for the rep of how trauma can completely destroy or change a person not always for the best, the age old question of ‘can even the worst person change for the better?’, but also cuz of the people I met through him.

[thesocklesswonder]

Idk if anyone has already posted this link, but everyone needs to see the videos in it. In the video, chatgpt's analysis of that big, stupid bill the gops are voting for is read. It's not good.

I'm not normally someone who uses AI for anything, but this is one good way to make use of it. It's a tool that should work for us, but not as us. This is how it should be used.

There are other analyses of the bill. They should also be sought out and read/listened to. More analyses mean we have a better picture of what this bill is going to do to the U.S.A.

Here's another analysis (by a human):

Some highlights:

Big cuts to Medicaid ~8 million people will have their medical care coverage taken away (to make the rich richer)

Tax cuts that will ultimately benefit ONLY the very rich

Energy and climate provisions to cut protections for our environment (to make it so companies can pollute all they want so they can be richer)

Defunding Planned Parenthood

Immigrants could be forced to pay $1,000 to claim asylum -- just one way they've cooked up to fund immigration enforcement

A ban on regulation of AI for 10 years (this one is a head scratcher - we NEED to legislate to control AI)

Millions will lose their access to SNAP (food stamps) benefits

Rich people will get richer and richer; the poor will get poorer and poorer and/or die

We need to do something. Call your congress people. Email, maybe. However we can get it across. The senate MUST NOT pass this!

Go to this site to find your state's U.S. senators. I know many ppl here on tumblr have phone anxiety, but a lot of the senators have web contact forms you can fill out. If you think you can do calls, try 5calls. They make it really easy. Here's another one that's easy to use - it has an interactive map.

We need to speak out and keep speaking out or we're going to end up in a dystopian hell for real

[aiscapades]

putting this under a cut bc i'm going off the rails (this turned into me x you fanfic) ?? happy new year

gonna take this moment to appreciate tumblr (and all of you). this is a fucking hell site and it always has been, but i've been here since 2012 and it's the only social media i actually use anymore.

my writing instagram account that i used extensively during nanowrimo 2022 was hacked and i had to fight this person for control over it (i lost my art account like this in 2018). but it's all mine again :) all my posts about my gay cowboys and me finally being proud of my writing (after giving it up for years) and all the cute stories i posted abt my characters (the only time i've ever talked like that abt my ocs on the internet) REMAIN ALL MINE !!!

AND YOU KNOW WHAT?

if i want to mention nasty gay sex and tell the hacker to eat butt and die I WILL! i won't be censored. even a story i posted got a popup warning me about the language. saying bitch is a fucking internet crime now???? mark zuckerberg's internet is fucking BLEAK y'all.

this is so baffling to me. how do people live like this??? i stopped using ig years ago (rip my photography hobby!) because it just kept getting worse and worse. tumblr is infamous for never really meeting its users' expectations but at least i can say luigi should be freed without a quirky lil popup message asking "are you sure??? you could get in trouble!!!" mark zuckerberg you are an actual ai lizard robot abomination and you are ruining humanity and our planet. i would skin you in an instant. no hesitation no remorse. you would become a human skin rug and i would stand on you with muddy boots and remark about how you don't fit the space very well then let my 3 pit bull mutts piss all over you. then i'd piss on you too. the things i would do to elon musk (and others) would actually get me banned off tumblr and i think that says enough.

i love this stupid ass website because at least i can be a person here and not be gaslit or brainrotted by an algorithm. i can share whatever media i'm currently obsessed with and see other people obsessing over it too and forge actual community and friendships. i may be alone every day irl but at least y'all think i'm worth interacting with (🩷). this is an unhinged rant about how much i hate rich people who are ruining all of our lives BUT IT'S ALSO an appreciation post for every single person who has ever even looked at me here.

i'm in love with you platonically and we're kissing platonically on the mouth or on the cheeks and forehead or whatever. i'm open to whatever if it's with you. you are everything bright and beautiful to me. i take your hands in mine (no bandages) and run my thumbs along your knuckles. i read your tags and it made me laugh out loud. i don't know why that shit post about the ts cast's eye colors has 300 notes and i'm worried for all of you but also that's hilarious and i appreciate the love. it's really cool that you draw and post fanart for all of us to fawn over. i admire you. i take your wrists now and pull you in for a hug. my boobs are big and i smell like aluminum-free deodorant but there's love in the way i hold you gently, and i hope you remember that feeling when you're sad. i would wait outside while you robbed a bank and be the best damn getaway driver even though i don't have my license. i would dig a footer with my bare hands then construct my own mud blocks to give you shelter when we finally run away from it all and find a nice spot out in the woods. the sun is warm on your skin and butterflies keep thinking you're a pretty flower. your ais fanart made me horny. also your leander fanart. and that was honestly unexpected but it happened! i ain't a liar. some of you i view as gods (in like a totally normal average way) and i hope you don't notice how my whole being trembles when you say something to me. i would sacrifice my firstborn for you if pregnancy didn't scare me. i hope you like the mark zuckerberg rug i put in our sitting room (in our shack in the woods where we escape everything bad). i know you said you prefer cozy minimalism but i want our feet to stay warm and i hope his glassy eyes don't scare you too much. if they do, i'll just hold you tighter :) you're safe with me. thank you for being you and sharing your interests with the rest of us. i hope you have a wonderful new year.

[bobipineman]

TL:DR but this had to go out

I'm not really fond on callout culture but this have gone too far. For anyone who follow bogleech he mentionned, in a very hysterical way I must mention, that he was perpetually harassed/stalked by someone called hepativore(he's not on tumblr as I know). Here the post + screencap in case he delete the evidence https://bogleech.tumblr.com/post/784037133714325504/so-heppo-feels-that-i-illogically-single-him-out

Note bawg is widely exagerating Hep barely post on the bogleech KF thread now the majority of it were either responce or reaction why? Becuase bog legit harrass him on da. Yeah bawg send angry message toward hep many time then act all flabbergasted when hep complain on kf. Way of putting more oil on the fire bog..

This is all on deviantart note that hepativore never directly interacted with bog, on any site beside on KF(and those were all indirect rambling on bawg's antic). Also scythemantis is bogleech,this is his old DA account you can see his old art but he doesn't upload anymore https://www.deviantart.com/scythemantis Heck when me and hep talk on discord and even kf is convo is mostly normal and unrelated to bog unless said grimlins decide to harrass him again on his abandoned da. It all remember me the situation when bawg started to do callout post after callout post both on his tumblr and bluesky for week on Mr A and this happened very recently. Mr A didn,t interact with bawg for years he even blocked him. The only thing 'wrong'' he dared to do was post on KF only once and it was more than 5 year ago [edit] He still hasn't moved one :o ! https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:674xxcdcwmceyinzgubusm3b/post/3lpkg2k4usk2n Also please don't harass bog not because that would be mean but mainly that would be pointless, bawg isn't a creature that can be reasoned with. And even if you want to stay polite or have legit question. Bawg is know to pester and harrass people non stop in their DM when he ''dosen't understand people' IR when thing don't get his way In the end even if bog blocked me, I blocked him as well mainly because knowing him I'm sure he will unblock me just to throw long tldr insult in my dm. He may not see this post (unless he hatewatch me in incognito mode) but this had to go out. I can't stand his nasty behavour anymore

[sarumans]

my brothers in arms. after over 13 years on this cursed webbed site (?!!!!!??????!) i finally have a story worthy of — if any of my posts were ever to break containment, so to speak — getting anons calling me a liar but i swear on my bones this is a true story.......

so....the other day i had a weird dream *let it be known, all my dreams are pretty weird and unpredictable and this one dream isn't very out of the ordinary for me in terms of plausibility yknow. (cliffs notes of the entire dream recited here for posterity's sake, though it's not all relevant to the story)

(author's note: anyone psychoanalytically-inclined wanna read the shit out of me, feel free, i'd love to hear your theories lmao)

in the dream, something about being on a greyhound sort of bus, on a trip to some big house, i'm assuming i'm fresh out of surgery because i have to put all my piercings back in. halfway through and the dad (a/n: whose dad? idk? the dad of the chalet?) tells me i need to do some task for him right now (a/n: what task? unclear) so i lose half my piercings because i cant finish putting them back in (distressing) and there are 1000000 bathrooms and i cannot figure out Which One i am allowed to shower in. (presumably i shower?idk) in the living room, all of us (colleagues? classmates? cohort? idk) and it is a huge elaborate blanket/pillow fort. chatting with this person, who is very hot and we are really vibing or whatever the kids say, and they tell me they have a gf but they need to break up with her in the next couple days (no details just the vibes are Bad) so we both agree we shan't cross any boundaries and end up laying beside each other under a table in the blanket fort (not in a clandestine type of way but this was normal in the context of the dream i guess? idk) /end of dream

i woke up feeling emotionally rollercoastered bc i feel like i experienced such Yearning but it was a dream (this "emotional whiplash" is common upon awakening from a dream for me) but the weird part is normally it's been directed towards an ex or a friend or generally someone i know and have interacted with irl, OR a dreamsona that doesn't exist in my waking life. but this person seemed familiar. and later when scrolling through instagram i saw it is one of my mutuals that we recently started following each other. but we have never talked. most has been liking a story post or two. so i'm like. wtf whomt are you, dream intruder !!!

after talking it over w a pal i decided what do i have to lose and messaged them being like Hello hope this isnt weird but you were in my dream and i need to find out who you are ??? and their response was very positive and after chatting find out theyre longtime close friends with a pal of mine so i'm like Hey WhAt if we hang out ????

and we literally met irl yesterday evening. chatted, had a couple beers, exchanged lore, etc. turns out the dream persona was pretty accurate vibes wise??? i'm absolutely mindblown. they also speak fluent tumblr having spent a good long while on here, and we have many bizarre commonalities. they literally read h*mestuck......can you believe this........the year of our lord twenty twenty five......another homestuck in the wild. it's definitely unlocked a lot of buried memories of a bygone era lmao

anyway. long story short. i have a new hot friend now !!!!!! this is so exciting!!!! but like. from a fucking drEAM???!! HOW did this happen. oh god what if this entire thing us a dream. even this blog post on tumblr dot com. is this the real life.....is this just fantasy.......whatever the case i'm having a grand old time and feeling incredibly grateful whatever comes of this meeting aaaaa

ok thanks for bearing with me for this long post but is this not the most tumblr coded story ever??? haters will say its fake.....