#tumbr culture

[dj--bj]

Canon Tumblr event

[blackbird-brewster]

I have a proposal. You know how we all use this emoji 🥵 to indicate we're hot and horny? Well what if we make this emoji🥶 to indicate the opposite. The squick-factor. The 'I don't ship it' factor. The equivalent of a cold shower. Feeling chilly and chaste, if you will.

[petrenocka]

So many comments on Tumblr about how fast the passage of time is, have you ever considered that you're just getting old?

Don't you remember your parents making absurd remarks about how a few years isn't that much time or something like that?

[thelilithvitaleshow]

My name is Lilith Giselle Vitale. I am from the breathtaking and beautiful bayous of South Louisiana, USA. I am a model, actress, artist, photographer, Showgirl, and YouTuber. I am creating this page to share my art and I hope that it can resonate with like minded souls. 🙏🏽💖🌘

[privateolives]

When media only represented lgbt people as sassy and promiscuous, everyone cried for more wholesome stories. Now that the norm is wholesome falling in love stories, people are demanding kinks again.

Girl, your enemy isn't one or the other. Your enemy is The Single Narrative and pretending that either representation is Bad is a fool's game.

Just because something is more prevalent at the moment doesn't make it inherently bad. It's perfectly good to represent that parts of the experience. We just need to recognise that we need to start diversifying our stories when one particular narrative starts becoming too prevalent, instead of declaring one thing Bad Representation and going into the exact opposite camp to show how Not That we are. If that's the only attitude we have, then we risk making this new Opposite the only new narrative.

Prevalent depictions tend to come in waves of reactions to things happening in society but also very much in relation to previous depictions. You see this not just inside LGBT narratives but also in media representation of racial stereotypes, focus on masculine and feminen tendencies in fashion history, etc.

Lately though, I've been seeing posts getting more and more hostile towards the Previous Representation as if it's that experience's fault for existing - such as lgbt people who "pass straight" vs "incredibly queercoded", narratives of people who want to heal troubled family relations and a general tendency for creative work (especially in writing prompts) to just take one trope and inverting it, then calling that the peak of creativity, even when there's not necesarrily any bottomline thought to what this new story is trying to say beyond "being the opposite".

That's not to say any one person who wants to try turning tropes on their heads are inherently Problematic or anything of the sort, but it's worth examining if one representation makes that representation inherently problematic, or just in need of more diversity.

More diversity than just pointing at the opposite camp and making that the new norm until we're all sick to death of that one. Lest we just repeat the same cycle without creating actual diverse representation; Or even worse, start creating the idea that the beautiful, multi-faceted experience that is the LGBT community as a whole just falls into new binaries of experiences than just sex and preference.

[the-planet-mercury]

kind of a shame Tumblr doesnt have a bigger sportsball community because u know the trash talk would be off the goddamn charts. we already know tumblr is a pvp enabled zone and that we love nothing more than pettiness. now imagine if such petty rivalries had already existed for 50-100 years and we were continuing that on. really a shame

[nokingsonlyfooles]

Let's Agitate the Hell Out of This Snake!

I said to myself, "Self, you have never Tumblred effectively, and you exist only on the fringes of this culture. But you know if you engage negatively, it will will become a constant source of stress. And you know there are a lot of stressed-out people here who are being fed negative things across multiple platforms. Do not, DO NOT criticize left-leaning institutions around here until you have established some kind of cred as a well-meaning leftist yourself."

Yeah, well, but I read the news and I'm not ready to format the cites for an article about the woman we call "La Malinche." I wanted to say something on this other topic while it's still fresh in my mind.

So, first, if you're interested, here is the position from which I comment on Indigenous matters: My tribe didn't want me because my blood isn't pure enough. And if you don't wanna hear about that, that's fine. You don't hafta click.

Genealogically-speaking, no matter what ethno-cultural mix my great-grandfather had in his blood, he was in the tribe, so he counts as 100% by their standards. (I'm not gonna call them out by name. I've lost all connection with my family, I don't know who's on the Council now, and I don't know if they'd still reject me, but I'm not inclined to go back and beg. They're in Mexico and Arizona, and they have reservations and at least one casino, so there is a government-incentivized reason to split what they have as few ways as possible.)

My grandmother never bothered to get officially recognized and join the tribe. My tribe is not fond of Mexicans and her father married one, and she married one, and according to the stereotype she looks it (My tribe believes they are tall and Mexicans are short, I kid you not. My family on that side is a mix of tall and short and my dad got stonewalled trying to do genealogical research more than once because he got the short genes. Race-based caste systems are truly hilarious.) so I can relate. My aunt decided she wanted to join the tribe, and since she could point to her grandfather as 100%, she got in, adopted her kids from them, and got a seat on the Council. Her biological son was also eligible to join, although she married a Pacific Islander.

My dad, on the other had, did not bother to get recognized, and he married a Czech-German lady. When I was a young teenager, I asked my aunt what it would take for me to get in. She looked my fair-skinned ass up and down, shook her head and said, "It's too far." I only have a great-grandparent, with uncertain lineage, so I'm 12.5% or less. Maybe if my dad asked to be recognized first, I might have a chance, but my tribe isn't super fond of white people either, so that was a non-starter with my mom being who she was. My aunt smiled and said, "But you could marry in! We've got to get you a husband!"

At that age, with that level of security in my complex identity, I just laughed it off. OK, if they didn't want me, that was their right. A lot of places didn't want me. I didn't have much of the culture anyway. Although, had they been willing to accept me, I would've been willing to learn. After the attempted genocide, you'd think they'd be motivated to hand down those traditions to as many kids as possible, no matter how dislocated. The dislocation is a feature of the genocide, not my choice, nor is the genetic makeup of my parents, my height, or the colour of my skin.

Tribe used to be a matter of culture, not blood. You could take a new name and learn new traditions (sometimes against your will, but let's not get into that) and after a brief period of suspicion (or after your wounds healed up) you were in. Then European colonizers rolled up and said, "Hey, we've invented the concept of race and organized our whole society based on heritage and skin colour. You want some of that?" I have yet to stray across a tribe or Council who said, "Nah, we're gonna keep distributing our culture to whoever wants to learn." The tribe I can lay claim to by blood sure doesn't. They have so little left, they only want to share it with real Indigenous people. And they are defining "real" by the standards imposed upon them by a culture that tried to wipe them off the face of the planet.

What these colonizers have failed to do by forced marches, imprisonment and murder, they might manage to do by imposing an artificial scarcity of resources. If they can isolate each Indigenous society and coax them to hand their traditions down only to people who have been selectively bred to look how they think we ought to look, Indigenous people will never recover the rich cultural tapestry their ancestors enjoyed. Every generation, there will be fewer of them (they already lost me, so I can't say "us"), and they will grow more isolated, until they are gone.

That is the context which causes me to look at Indigenous cultures through a much more jaded lens than a lot of my peers, who only know enough to pity them.

So let's take a look at this opinion piece right here. You can read the whole thing if you want, but please forgive me for snipping a few quotes for the Tumblers. This post is gonna be long enough as it is.

Oh, dear god. "Mostly" is doing a LOT of heavy lifting in that sentence! Right away. I know this person is privileged with an a identity less complex than mine, with most of their experiences in being excluded stemming from being Indigenous, period. I am super sure he never had his aunt smile at him and say his tribe didn't want him, but he might be acceptable as breeding stock. He doesn't have to consider the intersections, and he will have to do some more learning and growing before he realizes how silly it is to call Canada mostly a world leader in fairness and equality. I've barely been here a year and I already know that ain't so.

It should be obvious that Indigenous people are being fed a disproportionate amount of shit, and they deserve their land and autonomy back. But if we're talking about unfairness and inequality, that's just a few pixels of a huge image that this Indigenous law student isn't seeing. (Yet! I'm willing to give him time, but his views right now are a matter of public record and contributing to the public understanding, or lack thereof.)

And then, ah, we have a slight issue with fairness, equality, and legal representation edging into theocracy.

Okay. I gotta say, conflating laws of man with laws of gods and our forefathers does not get you a real good system of justice. We've seen this more than once, and I'm watching my home country slide into fundamentalist rule a little more each day, so - with all due respect to cultural preservation in the face of an attempted genocide - maybe it's better to write that stuff down and allow your society to evolve. Our ancestors didn't know everything, we don't know everything, and a Law revealed to one in an ecstatic religious state does not lend itself to reason, objection, or nuance.

Let's say, just spitballing here, your Council has set up a Powwow that doesn't allow Two-Spirits or other gender-diverse people to dress and dance as they choose. How do you construct a legal argument against a Council that chooses to cite, not just tradition, but the will of God and the spirits of your ancestors? "Uh... pretty sure my ancestors didn't say AMAB means you can't wear a ribbon skirt. I mean, I think the very concept is..." "WELL, WE ARE YOUR ELDERS AND WE SAY THEY DID." "Maybe they were wrong?" "STOP DISRESPECTING OUR CULTURE AND GET OUT." "Isn't it also my culture?" "NOT IF IT INCLUDES YOU WEARING A RIBBON SKIRT!"

The conservative impulse to regress to an imaginary past is not unique to Evangelical Christians. Tribal Councils, like most governments, skew conservative. If all their decisions can be attributed to unassailable spiritual revelations, there isn't going to be much progress. And these imposed gender roles and castes will be set in stone, just like they are in the colonizers' governments.

I just don't think it's a good idea. But, heh, what do I know? I'm not even allowed to call myself "Two-Spirit," because my blood's too impure.

(I will be posting Tumblr content on days beginning with T, if you care. Probably shorter content than this, but who knows?)

[travelinmyword]

Happy Merry Christmas 🎄

[starberrydreamx]

Is it just me, or does anyone else feel like tumblr is a lot different from most social media platforms. I’m not talking about the way it runs or the content, I just feel like it’s more of a community then anything else. I mean, there’s little community’s on almost every platform but here, no matter what fandom your in or whatever your here for, your still part of the overall community, which is something I don’t see from a lot of other sites.

This kind of feeling shows a lot by the fact that we have so many trends and inside jokes that are specific to tumblr. Like I bet if you said something about “poor little meow meows” to someone who doesn’t use tumblr, they wouldn’t know shit about what you were talking about. There’s also the staff who all know and get our jokes, and really seem like their one of us which I don’t see anywhere else. I’m honestly surprised that tumblr isn’t a more popular platform, but I’m also kinda glad because, not the site itself, but what goes on on it, feels like our little inside secret. <3

[eclipse-coqu]

[verybearlyawake]

Any character in any context: exists

Tumblr: Seems pretty trans to me~

[janmisali]

Is the degradation of twitter the line between the third- and fourth- eras of tumbr?

for those unfamiliar,

I've previously divided tumblr into three "eras", with the first era of tumblr ending with dashcon, and the second era of tumblr ending with the 2018 nsfw ban.

I think the fall of twitter is a significant event, but at this point it's hard to say if this is enough to cause a sitewide culture shift like the other two major events. so, ask me again in a year or two!

[ruu-minate]

I cannot wait to see this community tear itself apart and engage in a political culture war for the ages once more. I can't wait to listen to the most unhinged and insane political takes again for the first time in a decade. One single trailer dropped and within moments the tumbr tag has divided into factions. I'm already disengaging from online discussion in an effort to save myself. Welcome back dragon age fandom. I am so ready

[miyamiwu]

I don’t talk much about Yuri on Ice here, but it was one of my most memorable fandoms and also what got me into fanfiction.

I joined the fandom a bit late, at post-episode 9, but the show was still airing then at least. And the fandom was crazy. After every new episode, you’d immediately see every scene in gifs. And this was before the Tumblr porn ban, so there were much more active users.

Every post on my dash would be about Yuri on Ice, and there was just so much interaction between different fans. One of the most popular YOI fanfics even developed a fandom of its own. The writer’s entire Tumblr blog was practically full of asks from their readers. I myself had a yoi-centric blog.

Honestly, I don’t really miss YOI, having found new different stories that I fell more in love with. And I’ve long moved on from the fandom as well.

What I do miss, though, is the kind of fandom activity it had that I don’t really see much here on Tumbr anymore. People reblogged more. Fanfic readers interacted with writers. Gifmakers everywhere. It was… just so alive, you know?

Later, I deleted my Tumblr account to focus on college. It wasn’t until late 2019 that I came back here, but I wasn’t really active then. It was just so quiet here...

Then in 2022, my desire to be part of a Tumblr fandom was rekindled. Blue Lock had just started airing, and I was invested. I came here on Tumblr, hoping to see the kind of energy I once saw in the YOI fandom but… there was none. Posts about it were few, and I didn’t often see gifs after each ep… I created @fyeahbachisagi to help fill in this gap in the fandom, but when I just started, it was honestly like me talking at a wall...

Fandom culture has changed so much since YOI’s time. You can still find joy, of course, but it’s just so much more different now...

[fromchaostocosmos]

I don't know how to word or express my feeling and thoughts fully, but none the less I'm going to try and get them out.

I want to have some discussion or like acknowledgment in regards to things like Supernatural and Good Omens and similar works about how they reinforce Christian Supersessionism, theft of Jewish cultural practices and just theft of Judaism in general, the continued use of mistranslations, christian antisemitism, more along this line.

Yes I do know that Neil Gaiman is Jewish, but that really doesn't change anything.

This is not me trying to say you can't enjoy these things this me saying that there is broader context to which they exist in and I think there needs to be a conversation about it.

I want for non-Jews to understand the context these things are existing in and what harm it can be reinforcing that they might not be aware of.

Good Omens is right now tumbr's it thing so it is really hard to avoid it and when ever I see stuff for it, to be honest I feel a type of emotional pain I suppose is the best way I can describe it.

[Judaism is an ethno-religion and closed culture that is over 4,000 years old and dates to early bronze age, it is not 'just a religion' for anyone who is going to try and pull that card.]

[lyman-garfiel]

if i ever make like a carrd or strawpage or whatever you're going to have to take a quiz on tumblr culture to get my account. if you're not aquainted with tumbr you do not need to see my blog.