#* media : the last of us part one .

[myrkkymato]

Yara's ghost

Yara definitely approves Abby as Lev's new big sister. Maybe she walks by their side as a ghost and tries to protect them both?

This started as a rough sketch centering Lev. I used photomode references that can be found below as links to the original posts:)

Yara: @saltlake-crew

Abby: @abbysthighs

Lev: @707selizabeth

#yara tlou #lev tlou #abby tlou #abby anderson #tlou2 #tlou fanart #fan art #sketch #illustration #mixed media #myrkkymato art #the last of us part 2 #the last of us #i cried last night when drawing this #it always hits home when older siblings make sacrifices for the younger ones in fiction #i would do almost anything for my siblings #but i have never felt strong enough to be the big sister #too much angst in the tags sorry

[arsenicflame]

like, idk. izzy fans have been having to "get over" the loss of their love for the show for months now, its hard to care now youre the ones losing something you loved.

#the saltier redux of the last post #nyxtalks #to be clear this isnt why /i/ dont care. i dont care because the second half of s2 destroyed my love for the actual text of the show #but it is in part why i dont care that other people are sad. its whatever this shit happens #media lets us down #the chance of it being picked up was so fucking small anyway its been gone since that announcement in my eyes #no tags no searchable words this ones for the dash Only

[kaus-quietis]

A Circus Library - quick recommendations of short stories, poems, comics and novels I've recently read #1

Hello there! I'm the circus resident poltergeist, Eliott, managing this blog until Lav comes back. Today I offer you a slightly different formula of my super awesome super rare super bookclub post, as Lav would say!

Hello hello hello! Is this a bookclub?! Is this chaotic ramble?! Ding ding! You got it wrong!

Writing full on reviews is tiedous and long, and while I appreciate doing it, I'm myself not always in the mood to read a long post explaining why a book is genius. Do I love that from time to time? Yes! Do I have the attention span to write one now? Nope! However, I still wanted to share some titles I recently (re)discovered, and that I think are marvellous reads for anyone wanting to dive into something new.

Here you'll find a few recommendations with the shortest of words to tell you why they are great, or just scream about it.

short disclaimer before I begin because this is tumblr and while I forgot a lot about this website, I remember how the TW thing works lol, it's at your own discretion to search for the works beforehand if you have any trigger you don't want to encounter.

Jack Spicer - Billy the kid

The master of my fate, captain of my soul as Timothée Chalamet would say idk I barely know the guy. Classic and gold, Spicer is an amazing writer and this poem is phenomenal. It's quite short and perfect if you want to know more about the wonder that was US American poetry during the 20th century. Of course I'd encourage you to read all of his works, but Billy the Kid is perfect to start somewhere.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa - Hell Screen

Classic and iconic, I've recently pushed further than Rashomon and boy oh boy am I never turning back. Hell Screen is a phenomenal short story displaying all the elegance and cruelty Akutagawa can incorporate in his works. It's mesmerizing, it aches, it's everything I love. I read this story in Jay Rubin's translation (Penguin Classics), and even though I do not speak Japanese so I cannot compare, I dare say it's a very good one.

Lucie Bryon, Thieves

I never recommended comic books before but I wanted to for a change! I am a huge comic book lover, but most of the ones I usually read are not available in english language. This one is, though. Thieves is a beautiful comic about growth, falling in love and finding acceptance in others and in yourself. It's light and heartwarming, like eating candy.

Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona

Now, this book exploits one of my biggest plot weaknesses ever, and that is fucked up people in medieval settings. Lapvona tells the story of Marek, a sheperd's son, who'll be caught in a series of unfortunate events, political struggles, and secrets, all inside the town of Lapvona. It's dark and unsettling, the characters are scandalous and horrible, yet sickeningly human. Now, I said to check the TW yourselves, but be very careful with this one, if you can think of a TW, then it's certainly in this book.

Osamu Dazai, Early Light

In the Storybook ND series, this book contains three short stories : Early Light, Three Hundred Views of Mount Fuji, and Villon’s Wife. I'd recommend the three of them, as it's a fantastic dive into Dazai's shorter works. I think that reading his short stories is very important to understand his work and the width of the subjects and stories he wrote about. It helps that once again, in my opinion, the translation chosen by this publishing house is so good.

This is it for today! Here you have five of the works I read (or re-read) this summer, and that I'd warmly recommend. There are two short stories (Dazai, Akutagawa), a comic book (Bryon), a novel (Moshfegh) and a poem (Spicer). 'Till next time!

#circusghost #here we go again #this is a shorter formula but i'm glad it allows me to talk about several books #really #i cannot stress it enough #please read Jack Spicer at least once in your life #i am not a fan of contemporary US american literature and media whatsoever #however there was a wave of poetry that's really interesting during the last century and Spicer was part of it #lololol anyway #i have a newfound love for Akutagawa these days and he makes me want to read Gogol again #these authors are the same dudes in different fonts #this summer i read mostly japanese and american lit and it shows lol #lapvona is a great book but it's also the darkest out of this list so beware! #its ending is phenomenal tho #let me know if you read any of these or if you have some book recs yourselves! #or if you want specific ones #my book year started again and we're currently sitting at 33 since july #hurray! #eliott

[hamofjustice]

it's nice that we're getting anything i guess, but, i'm gonna be what may come off as a little petty and whiny here; it'd be cool if either iteration of the gen 9 anime so far was actually about gen 9's characters instead of using them as cameos to promote original stories we have no investment in yet

it's like, i dunno, like the bait and switch with sonic appearing in wreck it ralph ads, except if wreck it ralph existing meant there would never be a sonic movie, and if you were invested in those characters and recognized they weren't generic platformer mascots, sucks for you, nobody cares

maybe they're just giving the DLC space to do its thing with them first (if they do anything at all...) but idk, i was cautiously optimistic about nemona in horizons, only for her to be a character of the day that the episode wasn't about, and pretty excited by "gen 9 prequel anime" only to find out it's going to be like, four short stories about OCs who have quick brushes with them. these are like the lacroix hint of what an anime about the game could've been like and you're left to imagine the rest yourself

i shouldn't be that surprised if the gen 8 anime reduced hero of galar hop to a character of the day with a level 5 wooloo in order to let the galaxy revolve around ash battling his brother because epic charizards, but man. what if it wasn't like that that now that ash is gone.

we haven't seen penny and team star at all because they're the hardest to talk about without bringing up the trauma of school bullying and the fear of being yourself at school when you're way too young to be dealing with all that drama responsibly. she's still learning to love and forgive herself and feel wanted.

arven's story is about, like, being a latchkey kid to a self-absorbed parent, being unsure how to feel about repairing the relationship or how seriously to take them saying they love him, and struggling to make friends due to misdirected resentment toward people he's jealous of for having apparently normal families and the stubborn self-reliance he was forced into. he's still trying to process things, find himself, and let people in.

nemona is supposed to have been a directionless lonely and depressed kid who hated being called gifted when everything was hard for her, until she met the player character and gained a peer who understood and appreciated she was a little different and she didn't have to mask her true self to have friends anymore. she's happy for now, but may still be under a little too much pressure to be perfect at the expense of her own personality, and probably won't deal well with being abandoned.

as much as they resonate with adults and are a little darker than usual pokemon fare, they're also smaller scale and realer. they are all stories that are explicitly about and meant to be relatable to kids going to school! y'know, your audience! you don't need to paint over them with 3-4 new characters and new stories every time like there was nothing there, or something shameful you need to sanitize and cover up! you can just use the game the way it is!

this got a little more heated than i intended, i just feel a little ridiculous waiting anxiously for loose scraps of a sign that this story isn't over and in the trash already and nemona's life-changing attachment to the player character isn't going to go totally ignored, as we are bombarded with what is supposed to be followup material that almost all seems eager to talk about literally anything else like they think the main story was a mistake they need to run away from

now, i'm not one to complain about original stories being told, but this was already a story that had room to grow. imagine a world where the gen 9 anime was actually about nemona, arven, penny, and the friend who brought them together. or what their lives were like before that friend came along. every episode. that would get me to watch the anime again and whatever movie came out for it. ask yourself why we don't have that, or even the traditional, like, 1-2 characters tagging along with the MCs per region thing that would leave us knowing them better than we know some irl friends

how was starting over with 100% original characters and new lore that might conflict hard with the upcoming DLC the safer bet? why is a 44 minute miniseries specifically for fans of the game making up OCs for them to get invested in and scrambling to tell their stories as quickly as possible before throwing them in the trash instead of being about the damn game?

sigh. i shouldn't get invested in a series that's about selling monster plushies just because it had one story that stuck with me

#paldean winds seems to mostly be making fun of the infodumping fat pokemon nerd character until he gets his own episode #y'know. the one that represents a lot of their viewers #while nemona is right there outside the window hyping up little kids about battles as usual because they don't hate her like her peers #honestly her overhearing the conversation and looking a little uncomfortable about it would've been a good touch #confirmation that the subtext i noticed is actually considered part of the canon and not a happy accident they'll never talk about again #something i have only gotten from pokemon masters so far #pokemon sv #pokemon #nemonaposting #pokemon scarvi #pokemon scarlet and violet #yada yada ten million other tags #'well at least there's the manga' the manga that inserted its own wacky main character that will probably also revolve around him #idk that one could still be good but it's also an AU and not the versions of the characters i'm invested in if that makes sense #i've been begging for pokemon to feel in touch with its audience forever and as soon as it is they treat it like a hot potato #i feel fucking obsessed because of how long this tease has been stretching on for no good reason #they could've just let us ACTUALLY hang out with the friend trio in vanilla postgame and shown them in the DLC a single time #and i could have had a normal social media presence for the past 3-6 months #instead of dreaming about a pokemon npc last night because of how little faith i have in her getting any justice outside of a fucking gacha #i am so sorry that this is who i am now except for the 2-3 of you who follow me specifically because i post these things #pennyposting #arvenposting

[honeysucklebuttons]

Saigokuweek2022: Day 6 - Light & Dark ( @saigokuweek )

“That can’t be right!!”

#can you tell I'm trying to use different media for each one? #ie: TRYING lol #today was sharpie! #saigoku #saigokuweek2022 #gonta gokuhara #shuichi saihara #danganronpa #danganronpa v3 #drv3 #I always forget how bad sharpies smell until I use them #elliottart #also it is SO hard to tell #but Gonta has angry eyebrows #they didn't show up well #sad #also I know today the 21st is the sort of last day for the last prompt #but #my last part is Halloween-y so #>:3

[fatvamp]

taking a moment to ask for more advice (see last post) but um. has anyone else had a period of their life that felt.. utterly dominated by fear / anxiety. like having daily fear and anxiety / panic attacks. and if so, does it end? does it ever get better?

#🕯️ #there was a moment today. where i felt like id rather be dead than keep dealing with this. which i know isnt true. i havent been truly #s/cidal in a long time. im actually the opposite!! im so scared of death and pain that its dominated my life for the past year and a half #i accidentally called 911 twice. bc i just kept typing the number in just in case. bc my panic attack was so bad it felt like the last gasp #i havent had one that bad in months and im so exhausted by it. i want to sleep and heal and have a beautiful happy life. im desperate #my therapist says ive made progress but if i have then why does it feel like smthn happens every day. and its severe every time it happens. #i use social media as a way to express the worst most desperate parts of my health and life anxiety sorry

[fourteenthz]

A whole lot of 6.55 spoilers on the tags !!

#im about to be so normal about thancred rivalry vibes you guys need to understand this. so normal. #do you think the senior scions will go with him like maybe its us vs urianger + thancred + yshtola AND NGL.. KINDA SAD ABT G'RAHA BUT MAN #I don't believe they are letting him so so easily. maybe he will show up by the end of the expansion #can we.... have the scions fighting or like... genuinely being rivals ad competitive pls square... square pls... can we 🥺 #estinien going too is just so fucking funny. for no reason. hes going to see krile walking around tural and flip his shit #I LOVE HROTHMOTHER THO she is so sweet I looove the pretending to be strong vibes #and all of graha this patch is just so nice. im so happy likei really don't think hes going to do nothing this expanc HE DOESNT #DESERVE THAT But im 90% sure hes the one that will help us with that second part of msq idk #also him and krile.... bestest of friends.. i love this and MAN... I CAN'T WAIT TO LIKE WRITE RANDOM GEN BTS FICS ABT DAWNTRIAL #seeing more of erenville is making me sooo unwell he is sooo thesa-before-the-twins coded #he is so done. absolute beloved. also NO ONE TALK TO ME ABT THANURI THEY ARE SOOOOO AUAGSHSH #that ending thancred is genuinely the most charming xiv man ever existed im sooo silly abt him #being excited by this. I WANT THEM TO BE COMPETITIVE SO BAD SQUARE PLEASE I BEG U #also uri being supportive he is so. the fact we had 0 yshtolla tho man WHAT WAS THAT. anyway i had a feeling dawntrial was like #a lil thingie so we could genuinely start the new xiv theme on like 8.0 or so now... im unsure #mostly bc i was afraid they didn't give much attention to the scions so i was like 'they are letting them go' #and now than being all over this expansion im like NOOOO ITS A GOODBYE SCIONS NOO #sorry im traumatized abt my favorite media killing off my faves. anyway ill stop overthinking now #THE LAST CUTSCENE THO.... FUCK YOU EMET #THEY KEEP BRINGING THIS BACK AND MAKING ME CRY FUCK YOUUUU SQUARE :) #the wol cares................ so much..... throwing up. #now if you excuse me i have a gifset to finish bc I may love all of xiv a lot but I'm easily thancred distracted #and then manderville gunblade MY BELOVED LETS GO #kelly says #kelly plays xiv

[stemmmm]

If you ever find urself organizing a project that involves coordinating 100+ people (or even 50. Or 20. Or 5.) that definitely won't take more than a year to complete, for the love of god do yourself a favor and take the time to properly label and organize everything into easily navigated folder systems because that project is going to take 6 years and navigating through hundreds of unorganized files that you haven't made sense of in 2 years will fuck your mind up in ways hitherto unimaginable

#m.txt #taz animated is now complete if you consider one of the parts being made of 4 massively compressed gifs complete #im damn lucky op still uses social media bc half the people on that project seemed to change their addresses within 6 months of joining #i have to contend with credits after this last piece is sorted and i promise you they will not be accurate

[thefiresofpompeii]

i don’t want to kill myself but looking at the future sometimes i feel like i have no other option. i fucked it up too far without anticipating consequences and it’s too late to make a change or strive towards any kind of hopeful meaningful existence. there is no way out for someone like me who has nothing going for them, squandered any opportunity, any talent, everything that was handed to them on a silver platter. no interesting personality traits, no aptitudes, nothing to make up for the gaping void where motivation and will to live and thrive and put in effort towards a goal should be. even the most basic steps are a pipe dream. i don’t want to die because i fear the possibility of hell but i no longer see any tolerable way of living.

#i reread parts of mark fisher’s capitalist realism last night and i know it’s unhealthy for theory to cement your own depressive spiral but #i’m thinking of him. even an accomplished thinker and it’s all the fucking same #i’m goinh to listen to swans and cry. i skipped class again and for fucking what #notice how it’s all i i i i i. i have no community no support network no close friends no partner nothing #only my parents who are affluent enough to support me financially but that support is conditional because if #they knew about what i was really like and even parts of my identity that support would be cut off and because i #have no marketable skills i would be left penniless to beg on the street #how long can i keep pretending to be cis and depending on them for vital necessities? until i’m 22? 25? #dropping out isn’t even an option because a bachelors’ degree is prerequisite to getting ANY job that pays above minimum wage but i #feel no passion for the subject i’m studying despite it being literally one of the only things i used to be GREAT at (media analysis; so — #lit major; on foundations for liberal arts; which should be all about PASSION FOR THE SUBJECT) #i’m teetering on the precipice of a steep cliff that drops down into the abyss of abject poverty with no way out #i don’t know what i enjoy doing; what to dedicate my resources and energy to; if i have none left. i don’t even smoke or drink or do drugs #it’s just sober suffering in silence. of course the meds don’t fucking help; meds can’t alter the world around us or our circumstances #this fucking close to going out and buying a rope. i have free will :)) hell can’t be real; it can’t be. worst that could #happen is reincarnation and honestly i could go for a second chance #jamie.txt #tw suicidal ideation

[tiredsadpeach]

Losing my fp is gonna fucking hurt but I just idk I can’t find a way this is gonna end well so I’m coming to terms with it

#it’s was a fine 4 years #the last year was already hard as fuck lmao #funny we got into a fight exactly a year ago too over him saying if you’re too sensitive don’t be on social media #I still have his Christmas present because we haven’t gotten to see eachother since #October I think is when we last met in person #just a week ago he was offering to hang out because of all the shit my mom said to me #I also have the other friend that’s involved in all of this’s Christmas gift #I was gonna mail it to him #oh well I guess #I just idk I’m so hurt #but this feels like what I’d been worried would happen ever since their obsession with each other got worse and worse #like I get it bpd does that you get obsessed believe me I know but y’all have been feeding into it with these ‘jokes’ lately and well #all the times y’all have said to each other you don’t need friend you only need me as a haha joke is gonna become true if y’all don’t get #some help and soon and like I think one of their psychiatrists said that their relationship was unhealthy and also one sided once #which unhealthy YES one sided?? nah not at all #but they both were like baffled and just didn’t believe the unhealthy part #I commented on it only saying how was it one sided because I knew if I agreed with the unhealthy part they’d both hate me lol #because believe it or not mutual obsession is not healthy lmao idc how romanticized it’s been getting it will never be healthy #I have a bf now and I strive to never be like that to him because i don’t want us to become mutually obsessed like that I don’t want us to #isolate ourselves for eachother whether knowingly or unknowingly just today he apologized because he’s been busy and I always let him know #it’s perfectly okay if he just never has time to message me one day because I know that’s healthy even if my brain is screaming #like yeah I still have intrusive thoughts I get jealous of his friends like way too jealous and I want him all to myself but I stop myself #from acting on any of those thoughts because I know it leads to a controlling abusive realtionship and I don’t want to be that he doesn’t #deserve that so it is so fucking confusing when they ‘joke’ and tell the other to delete a photo or tweet and then the other actually does #idk how they can’t see that that’s fucked #okay sorry lol but hey if y’all read the tags on the I’m so lost post and know what I did wrong please tell me because no one else will!

[linagram]

i was in a silly goofy mood last night so have some memes :) okay maybe not some. maybe a lot victims and side characters are also included!

#“why is there so many memes but no aimi naomi and eiji ones” i don't know. #it's really hard to make jokes about aimi honestly 😭 #listen. i've never mentioned this before but i think kei and yurika's dynamic is so funny. #LIKE ITS JUST KEI SAYING SOMETHING AND YURIKA EITHER GLARES AT HIM OR BEATS HIM UP #or it's just kei seeing yurika and getting scared for no reason #(their dynamic won't be that funny in season 2 though.) #just realized that a lot of these is just yurika bullying the male characters. okay girlboss #THAT SATSUKI ONE ISN'T EVEN THAT ACCURATE BUT IT WAS FUNNY IN MY HEAD #man. i've just realized that shun and reina's dynamic would be so funny. #“oh i'm a serial killer btw” “omg thanks for reminding me i forgot about that” #IT'S JUST A FUNNY SILLY GIRL AND A GUY WHO IS SOOOO PATHETIC I LOVE THEM #“would akio and arata actually have matching pfps” let's be honest here i doubt that akio would even use any social media #he probably just uses youtube and only for those study with me videos + asmr (but he'd never admit that last part) #also the “we'll never be royals” one is pure comedy to me because of his t2 mv #🌼guard 002: andou miki 🌼 #👑prisoner 001: miyagawa akio👑 #💔prisoner 003: ishizu shun 💔 #🍓prisoner 005: sanada kei 🍓 #💎prisoner 006: yoshioka eiko💎 #🍬prisoner 007: yano asahi 🍬 #🎀prisoner 008: maruyama yurika 🎀 #🎸prisoner 009: kuroki riku 🎸 #🎭prisoner 010: himura reina🎭

[demadogs]

i never post tiktoks anymore and i have a big following bc i made videos of my cats like talking to each other with the text to speech thing and i hyped up that id be home for summer to post but i havent been creative so ive barely made any and i feel guilty like im depriving 600k people of wholesome cat content but i cant get myself to make one

#i also was gonna make merch when i was at my Peak but then i never went through with it and i always feel so guilty for not bc i worked with #an artist and everything and she was great #she still got paid but i feel like i didnt do my part but now im not even posting so they wouldnt even sell much #this is the epitome of first world problems but like yea #mot much other than fictional universes make me super happy #that and the sky. and music. and still photography but not like it used to #i used to do photography way more id go out with my dad and take pics but i dont really wanna spend time with my dad but i cant drive #i still hold a grudge against him for being mad at me for posting a happy pride video on my tiktok last year #that was the biggest fight ive ever had with anyone he thought that i wouldnt be hired anywhere if i had a gay pride video on tiktok #bc my tiktoks on my fucking resume bc im in the ONE major where having a big social media following is actually pretty beneficial #and he was like ‘now you wont get internships!!’ blah blah and we were in the car and i was fucking screaming at him i hated him so much #and he doesnt know it cuz i pretend but ive never let that go #so i dont want him to drive me to places so i can take more photos #plz like this if you read all that i just need to know

[scattered-winter]

I gotta say that this is probably one of the coolest zombie infections in anything I've ever watched

#thats part of what i like abt zombie media because you can get SOOOO in depth w how the infection actually spreads #and usually its a virus and there isnt really much more to it but sometimes. Sometimes. #you get a really cool one. #i looooved the parasite worm in kingdom because of how much detail they put into it #but i think this one takes the cake. its sooo fucking scary #winter watches the last of us

[an-aura-about-you]

I'm so conflicted by the use of The Blue Danube in popular media because it seems like they always always always just use the part in the beginning and it's gotten so overused it's cliche but it came on the radio recently and I listened the whole way through (not for the first time by a longshot) and I always get so choked up at the ending.

#the last part of The Blue Danube is the most beautiful part #and the only piece of media I can think of that actually uses that part is Princess Tutu #that alone makes Princess Tutu one of the best pieces of media for classical music lovers out there

[getvalentined]

An open letter to @staff

I already submitted this to Support under "Feedback," but I'm sharing it here too as I don't expect it to get a response, and I feel like putting in out in public may be more effective than sending it off into the void.

The recent post on the Staff blog about changing tumblr to an algorithmic feed features a large amount of misinformation that I feel staff needs to address, openly and honestly, with information on where this data was sourced at the very least.

Claim 1: Algorithms help small creators.

This is false, as algorithms are designed to push content that gets engagement in order to get it more engagement, thereby assuring that the popular remain popular and the small remain small except in instances of extreme luck.

This can already be seen on the tumblr radar, which is a combination of staff picks (usually the same half-dozen fandoms or niche special interests like Lego photography) which already have a ton of engagement, or posts that are getting enough engagement to hit the radar organically. Tumblr has an algorithm that runs like every other socmed algorithm on the planet, and it will decimate the reach of small creators just like every other platform before it.

Claim 2: Only a small portion of users utilize the chronological feed.

You can find a poll by user @darkwood-sleddog here that at the time of writing this, sits at over 40 THOUSAND responses showing that over 96 percent of them use the chronological feed*. Claiming otherwise isn't just a misstatement, it's a lie. You are lying to your core userbase and expecting them to accept it as fact. It's not just unethical, it's insulting to people who have been supporting your platform for over a decade.

Claim 3: Tumblr is not easy to use.

This is also 100% false and you ABSOLUTELY know it. Tumblr is EXTREMELY easy to use, the issue is that the documentation, the explanations of features, and often even the stability of the service is subpar. All of this would be very easy for staff to fix, if they would invest in the creation of walkthroughs and clear explanations of how various site features work, as well as finally fixing the search function. Your inability to explain how your service works should not result in completely ignoring the needs and wants of your core long-term userbase. The fact that you're more willing to invest in the very systems that have made every other form of social media so horrifically toxic than in trying to make it easier for people to use the service AS IT WORKS NOW and fixing the parts that don't work as well speaks volumes toward what tumblr staff actually cares about.

You will not get a paycheck if your platform becomes defunct, and the thing that makes it special right now is that it is the ONLY large-scale socmed platform on THE ENTIRE INTERNET with a true chronological feed and no aggressive algorithmic content serving. The recent post from staff indicates that you are going to kill that, and are insisting that it's what we want. It is not. I'd hazard to guess that most of the dev team knows it isn't what we want, but I assume the money people don't care. The user base isn't relevant, just how much money they can bring in.

The CEO stated he wanted this to remain as sort of the last bastion of the Old Internet, and yet here we are, watching you declare you intend to burn it to the ground.

You can do so much better than this.

Response to the Update

Under the cut for readability, because everything said above still applies.

I already said this in a reblog on the post itself, but I'm adding it to this one for easy access: people read it that way because that's what you said.

Staff considers the main feed as it exists to be "outdated," to the point that you literally used that word to describe it, and the main goals expressed in this announcement is to figure out what makes "high-quality content" and serve that to users moving forward.

People read it that way because that is what you said.

*The final results of the poll, after 24 hours:

136,635 votes breaks down thusly:

An algorithm based feed where I get "the best of tumblr." @ 1.3% (roughly 1,776 votes)

Chronological feed that only features blogs I follow. @ 95.2% (roughly 130,077 votes)

This doesn't affect me personally. @ 3.5% (roughly 4,782 votes)

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[heritageposts]

Since the beginning of the genocide in Gaza in October, Israeli soldiers have been posting what can only be described as snuff videos on social media platforms. In the videos, soldiers can be seen – often gleefully – committing war crimes against Palestinians. In one video, an Israeli soldier dressed in a dinosaur costume loads artillery shells into a tank and dances as the shells are fired in the direction of Gaza. In another video, a soldier is filmed dedicating an explosion to his two-year-old daughter for her birthday. Seconds later, a Palestinian residential building behind him is blown up. Other videos show Israeli soldiers setting alight Palestinian food supplies during a starvation campaign and mocking stripped, rounded-up and blindfolded Palestinian civilians. [...] And there is another aspect of Israeli impunity that is often overlooked: Israeli soldiers routinely admit to horrific crimes they commit against the Palestinians to clear their conscience and absolve themselves of personal responsibility but never face any accountability. Israelis themselves describe the practice as “yorim ve bochim”, which translates from Hebrew as “shooting and crying”. A favourite pastime of the Zionist left, it takes centre stage in dozens of Israeli films and documentaries. Take the widely celebrated film Tantura, named after a Palestinian fishing village that was subjected to a massacre in 1948. In this film, several Israeli veterans talk with ease about the fact that they killed hundreds of Palestinian civilians. Others openly admit to participating in ethnic cleansing, yet all are portrayed as complicated individuals who are traumatised by the trauma they inflicted on Palestinians. “Yorim ve bochim” is also epitomised in the work of the Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence. A darling of the liberal West, the organisation of Israeli army veterans tries to expose the reality of the “Occupied Territories” by providing a space to Israeli soldiers to confidentially recount their experiences in the Israeli army and at times admit to taking part in systematic abuse and destruction. The testimonies on its website make for incredibly difficult reading, particularly in this moment when we are seeing what is happening in Gaza. And yet nowhere does this organisation call for accountability or address what justice might look like for the Palestinians whom the soldiers they work with have systematically abused over decades. The reality is that over the last seven and a half decades, there has been complete impunity for brutalising and slaughtering Palestinians. The ongoing genocide in Gaza and the way in which it is being so brazenly shared on social media by the perpetrators is a manifestation of that impunity. The only way to make sure that it stops and never happens again is to hold not only those who have taken part in the genocide accountable but also those who are complicit.

. . . continues on al jazeera (24 Jan, 2024)

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