#tumblr is making to make a post very difficult

[evilgabe29]

alright i uhh made a lil dude, again. based on @isobug 's aroace flag redesign. i've only posted one here before but I've done plenty of them (the lil robot dudes i mean), i just haven't posted them on tumblr.

ANYWAY, this was quit a bit more difficult since its only four colours including white (very nice off white btw) so i had to forgo the outline that i usually do. i made up the difference though by making it an 8 frame animation. anyways i hope you like it

also now that i actually have mutuals ima tag yall because this is what you signed up for (whether you knew that or not is irrelevant).

@ohnoitsslime @caligusabs @beloveddawn-blog

@illarian-rambling @theeccentricraven @kaylinalexanderbooks

@leahnardo-da-veggie @ratedn @weird-dork37

#aroace #aroace art #aromantic #aroace artist #aroacespec #asexual #pixel art #digital art #lil robot dude #im not procrastinating #i dont know what you are talking about #anyways i think thats more than enough tags

[burningvelvet]

Part 3 of PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE ROMANTICS, A TUMBLR HISTORY EXHIBIT: photos i've collected of people related to the english writers of the romantic period and/or who were part of the byron-shelley circle.

Edward John Trelawny (above: a photo of him as an elder compared to a portrait of him as a young man). A key member of the circle, celebrity/adventurer/writer, friend and biographer of Byron and Shelley. Outlived everyone. Proposed to both Mary Shelley and Claire Clairmont and remained in touch with them their whole lives. Really interesting person but also a chronic liar, making it difficult to tell which parts of his life stories are fact or fiction. He is buried next to Shelley (who is buried next to Keats); Trelawny bought the cemetery plot when Shelley died decades prior and later offered it to Mary Shelley who declined it. The last two portraits below were done by Joseph Severn, the artist who was friends with Keats, did most of his portraits, & took care of him as he was dying in Rome. I don't think Trelawny ever met Keats.

Jane Williams Hogg (née Cleveland). She was married to an abusive man named John Edward Johnson who she left for Edward Ellecker Williams, who was the father of her first two children and a friend of Percy Bysshe Shelley's cousin Thomas Medwin. The family then lived in the same household with the Shelley family (Mary, Percy, and their children) in Italy. Percy dedicated some of his last poems to Jane. After Percy and Edward died together in a boating accident she lived with Mary before partnering with Shelley's best friend from college Thomas Jefferson Hogg who she had two children with.

I think the similarity between her younger portrait (1822, age 24) & her photograph (date unknown, but she died in 1884 & seems like she could be in her 80s in the photo) are very striking; you can clearly see the nose, eyes, hair, and mouth are exactly the same, only older.

She also knew George Eliot and William Michael Rossetti; I mentioned the Rossettis in my last post. I wonder if she ever discussed Shelley's connection to John Polidori with them; I don't believe she ever met John Polidori, but maybe the Shelleys would have mentioned him to her.

Thomas Medwin, another key player of the Shelley-Byron circle in Italy. Cousin of Percy Bysshe Shelley and friend/biographer of Shelley and Byron.

Wilhelm Charles Gaulis Clairmont, the nephew of Clara Mary Jane Clairmont aka Claire Clairmont. Wilhelm was the son of her half-brother Charles Gaulis Clairmont.

#photographs of the romantics #literature #english literature #romanticism #lord byron #percy shelley #percy bysshe shelley #thomas medwin #jane williams hogg #thomas jefferson hogg #shelley #byron #mary shelley #mary godwin shelley #claire clairmont #edward trelawny #victorian #romantic #english romanticism #the romantics #romantic poets #victorian era #1800s photography #1800s #history #english poetry #poetry #romantics #shelley-byron circle

[wip]

Sometimes, on the app, when I see a post from a blog that has been deleted, it will still show the date it was made, whereas on desktop the same post will not show the date. I find it very helpful to see the date on a post even if the blog doesn't exist anymore. Is there a reason Tumblr doesn't show the date when it apparently still has that information?

Answer: Hey, @fourcheesecalzone!

First, a long story short. We didn’t start recording this timestamp in reblog trails until ~3 years ago, so any reblogs from before that time may not have the information in the trail. We do our best to “backfill” the timestamp, but in cases where the post or blog was deleted, we don’t have anything to look up, so we can’t backfill it.

And now a little longer version. Reblogs store copies of the previous items in the reblog trail. So if I make a post, and then you reblog it, your reblog has a copy of my post content. This leads to some fun things: like if I edit my post, your reblog of it won’t be updated, and if someone clicks the original post in your reblog, they’ll see a new post. Fun! We did this to increase the performance of the whole platform. It means we don’t have to look up every post in the reblog trail, which can be dozens to hundreds of posts long.

Unfortunately, it also means things like what you’re describing can happen. If we make a change to what we’re storing in the reblog trail (like we did with NPF in ~2017), it’s incredibly difficult for us to update the tens of billions of posts on Tumblr. Recording timestamps in reblog trails is a very similar problem. It would take us years to go through each reblog across Tumblr to update them, and we don’t feel like it’s that big of a deal for it to be sometimes missing.

Thanks for getting in touch, and we hope this clarifies things.

#feature #posting #desktop

[stormoflina]

re: Stef/ @macallisters

It's quite sad to find out that the lfc community here is still unnecessarily toxic due to one person's constant, never ending antics. Yes, Stef, I'm talking about you, if you are reading this by any chance, from one of your many side accounts. I have kept my silence for months, not once did I make nasty or even slightly suggestive posts about my experience with you, but what is enough is enough. Despite the kindness people showed you, despite the many chances you were given, it seems like you just don't learn. I'm tired of the anons, the rants and rumbles, the side accounts or seeing people I care about having to waste their precious time on this. I even care about those who are perhaps not even on this app yet. The Euros is coming soon, and with that most likely a new wave of people interested in the players/the club, dipping their toes into our community, and I don't want the same to happen to them what  happened to me and many others, having what is supposed to be a fun experience turned into some laughable internet drama.

You keep mentioning February, well, let's talk about February then. You know, it's one thing that you sent me weird or mean anons for months, while you were being all nice and kind in my DMs, but it's a completely different matter when one day you decided to message a close friend of mine here, with the intention of spreading lies about me and trying to paint a picture of me, that was and sadly still is, a picture of you. You very well know that I never sent you hateful messages, either as anons or ones with “forgetting” my name there. It was you who did it, to me, to many others, and sadly, you still keep doing this. After you got called out by others you blocked me, before I could have personally messaged you. I tried to let it go, even if for some time you did make me a bit paranoid, leaving me thinking about to how many others you tried to sully my name. We tried to move on, but you kept sending them to my friends, even getting  meaner, more hateful, and now, despite deactivating your old account, you keep doing the same thing.

You keep mentioning your poor mental health and your current struggles in life. If that is true, Stef, then please, first of all and most importantly, for your own sake and well-being quit this website for a while. I understand how hard it can be, when you are going through a difficult part of life, but this is not an acceptable form of dealing with it. To me, it seems having a tumblr blog is a great joy to you, so please, don't ruin your own fun. Take responsibility for your actions, admit your wrong doings, and reflect on your time spent here. I promise you, having a football tumblr is not that deep. Would you stop sending anons and creating unnecessary drama and perhaps as I mentioned, take responsibility and change, nobody would have a bad word to say to you. Sharing our bad experience is not bullying you, simply sharing the truth. There were a lot of people who were supportive, kind and helpful to you, and by the looks of it, there are still many who do the same. Don’t limit the number of these people in your life by petty internet stuff, time changes and so can you.

[jiungweb]

ᨳ  ׂ   𓈒  ⠀𝗉ᧉ𝗍ꪱ𝗍ᧉ 𝖽𝗈𝗅𝗅 ㅤׂ  ✽   ੭

#tumblr is making to make a post very difficult #i almost gave up #but i hope y'all enjoy the icons :) #p1harmony #p1h #p1h jiung #choi jiung #p1harmony icons #p1h icons #jiung icons #kpop icons #p1h packs #jiung packs #circle icons #png icons #coquette aesthetic #black and white icons #dividers

[royalarchivist]

If you aren't already aware, Tumblr is pulling some BS stuff with AI, and I'm not a fan. I've been on this website for over a decade, but I'll be upfront and say I will not continue using Tumblr if they go through with this AI garbage.

What social media alternatives do people recommend? I've heard folks talk about Bluesky and Cohost, but I'm curious to know if people have other recommendations and/or if they have opinions on Bluesky / Cohost.

I'll keep running Royal Archivist as usual for now, but I wanted to give people a heads up about this AI stuff.

#mod talk #I'd really rather NOT leave Tumblr but as I said: I am not a fan of the current decisions this website is making re: AI #Anyways make sure to opt out of that BS. I've linked resources in this post #I apologize for the lack of clips lately it has been a Very Difficult month for me IRL #Regardless of my opinion of Tumblr's management and AI nonsense I promise not to suddenly disappear. You guys will get a heads up #but like I said: I'd prefer not to leave. We'll see where this thing goes #* tbh I'm not a fan of a lot of decisions this website has been making. it's not just the AI stuff. #but it's the final straw for me

[sincerelyandyourstruly]

shame, devotion, and venxiao

it is not a sin to want.

yet somehow, there is such shame to it.

maybe it's just me, but "desire" is such a loaded word. i think that's why i find it so difficult to deal with. to want something so earnestly, from so deep within one's heart… how is that not simply THE most mortifying thing on the planet?

it's kind of funny. xiaoven— though most particularly xiao— must come to terms with their selfish desires that are not going to go away n be vulnerable w/each other abt their ugliest selves in order to be accepted n truly loved, at which point shame loses its incredible power over them, and they can be together forever in love for realsies.

because it's easy to imagine a xiao, who, out of love and devotion towards venti, his savior and the god of freedom, might feel like he can only express the sheer depth of his emotions by tugging down the stiff collar of his shirt to bare his own neck for execution.

(that is how one feels towards a god, is it not? this sort of vulnerability, a willingness to die for them, born from a desire to be good.)

and i use the imagery of undressing and invoke the sense of waiting for someone else's actions upon you intentionally here. it ties xiao's sense of intimacy up with power over his life, and as a being who struggles to separate his very sense of self from violence itself, i think it would make sense that death and intimacy are linked to him.

i think a big reason why he's so reluctant to give up his duty to someday die quelling demons for the peace and prosperity of liyue is because he's afraid that wanting something, anything might break the centuries of rigid discipline that's kept him alive after all this time. to love something, to want something, is to then die for it.

and like. i think it's pretty obvious that venti would not want to hold that power over xiao, if xiao tried to express his love by essentially giving over his entire life into venti's hands. it's so lacking in boundaries on xiao's end that even if that's what xiao himself wants, it would ultimately be the most horrifying (yet still earnest!!!) show of devotion to venti.

and so. it's probably fairly obvious from all this that this push-n-pull of desires is part of what makes xiao n venti's relationship so compelling to me personally. they're arguing abt things that are so deeply a part of them: xiao's self-destructive obedience vs. venti's bleeding heart and ideal of freedom. it's kind of... dare i say... yaoi.

obviously, in the context of fandom, there is a difference btwn xiaoven and venxiao. like, technically it's about top and bottom discourse, but outside of nsfw contexts, it's more about power dynamics, about who follows and who leads in a relationship.

i tend not to care too much, since i get weirded out if it feels too… overt? controlling? one-sided? n it starts feeling like the characters are just becoming bastardized "Any Two Guys."

but, like, as may be obvious by the common ship name being xiaoven, fandoms typically have a preference. it makes sense— xiao is v physically strong, n he has this very curt, no-nonsense, straightforward way of doing things, while venti is usually mistaken for a girl by people new to genshin. in concept, it could be fun to see xiao lead a more uncertain venti around n be the more decisive, aggressive pursuer of the relationship.

HOWEVER. relationships are based in feelings n are therefore much more human things. that is definitely not smth xiao is familiar with or experienced in at all. that is venti's area of expertise.

n xiao is a character i like to characterize by his devotion n his obedience. he's not the type to come up w/a procedure for acting in situations where he is totally unfamiliar w/what's happening bc his procedure will probably be aggressive "hit it 'till it dies." in situations involving others, he can't do that, so he's left pretty helpless in situations all about ~feelings~ and stuff.

now, venti is the more human one, in the sense that he has a much greater understanding of how we chase our whims on the breeze. he knows how to navigate these kinds of emotional, dare i say intimate, situations— which is why xiao would look to him for guidance in navigating these things. he wants to be told what to do bc he is a weapon, a violent tool w/no agency of his own (or at least as he likes to think).

xiao's repression is very internalized. he knows he is someday doomed, so why bother letting himself want anything. (why dare to hope when he doesn't believe himself worthy of venti's love in return?)

despite the horrifying levels of devotion i believe xiao to be capable of, i also firmly believe that he can later learn to rein in the self-destructive aspects of it w/o diminishing the value of those feelings. there's something oh-so lovely about self-love taught through loving others and others loving you, about watching something self-destructive and dangerous fall victim in love to something that can withstand its horrors and love it anyway, love it enough to make destroying itself no longer feel worth it.

after all, one of the most romantic answers one could give to the old, "i would die for you" absolutely has to be, "we are going to make it out of this together."

and in my opinion, that's pretty venxiao.

#xiaoven #i've been agonizing over how to adapt this for tumblr bc it was originally a diary entry from almost two years ago now #but it's kind of a prerequisite reading for one of my fave xv essays; the one abt 'no switch' that i've been wanting to xpost for MONTHS #the other reason this one's been crazy hard to adapt is bc i built it off a bit of unpublished fic i was working on actively at the time #but i'm not abt to analyze my own unpublished fic here on tumblr for meta so i had to extricate it (difficult) #long post #this post is still kind of all over the place which makes sense. i'm very all over the place and its origins as a diary entry #obvs make it very personal. and also subsequently all over the place. hopefully i balanced the personal aspects properly

[generationa1trauma]

I am kissing u all on the forehead

#i have an internal desire 2 chat but unfortunately my internal desire 2 not put effort into anything is winning #no chats no vibes i am lying here staring into space #watching something is 2 much work socializing makes me exhausted this has been a rough week #its very easy for me 2 make little jokey jokes but multiple days in a row of missing breaks or taking them late #and being overworked bc my department depends on me has been #its been difficult #and mentally i am just. im so exhausted #also w rooster teeth closing even tho i havent been big in the fandom for a while its just kinda heavy #i also. i am feeling. i dont know if tumblr rp is all that it used to be for me #i adore the muses i adore the writing i adore my partners #theres just. theres something somewhere being a road block i just dont know what #i dont know if its just life being a lot so im struggling to keep up or if it's just like. im outgrowing it or its outgrowing me #i fell in love w rping bc of the community but i fear these days its. it doesnt Feel like a community anymore #some people do and are trying and it means the world but there is an overwhelming loneliness on this site these days #idk if thats just me or what #and i understand the harsh circle of not being here means no attention means not being here #but just. idk. idk what i am trying to say idk what the vibes r this post like my life is a mess w no coherent outcomes

[queseraphita]

#hmm will tumblr censor my for drawing badonkers.... #ffxiv #wol #themis ffxiv #anyway i enjoy creating lore nonsense that will only make sense to me #but it pre-arr wol mikhail met post-ew love interest at some point i think he would be very confused #pre-arr mikhail is only starting to grow draconic features and it makes his life going to the village in dravania very difficult #at some point he runs away from home with zero and starts accepting his power as his reincarnation in his new life merges with his old life #anyway booba #i think if anyone deserves to be transmasc viera with badonkers its elidibus #i have a hc that gender is just whatever to the viera and they just choose whatever is comfortable for them and its just whatever the dress #very nonbinary of they/themis if i say so (says the nonbinary guy also projecting) #i could get real deep into dod lore and how i tie themis with it but i dont wanna i play timetravel shenanigans #mikh draws #ffxiv fanart

[theworstcreature]

If there is a heaven, then I can assure you that every adult or older person in a fandom or online community who is kind, supportive, friendly, and helpful to teens and younger members WITHOUT being weird about it is going to be there

#writing this bc a super popular person who makes STUNNING edits and jewelry and other various cool stuff was super nice to me today =D #I’m still happy about it =DD #so here’s the story #this person made a super pretty necklace and posted about it #that necklace stuck with me and made me feel ✨INSPIRED✨ so I decided to make my own (not a copy ofc) #and I posted to my story going ‘in gonna make a neotheater necklace bc I was feeljng inspired after seeing -username-‘s awesome necklace #and so I made it #attaching the clasp and chain onto the necklace at the end proved to be super difficult (the chain would NOT stay attached 😭😭) #and the person who inspired me responded and was all like ‘I’m so glad you got inspiration from me! I bet its gonna turn out super pretty!! #since you’re having trouble with the clasp you should do XYZ and it’ll make it stay on better #my friend showed me that tip a while back and now I’m giving it to you :)’ #everything said was very paraphrased bc I’m too lazy to make it lesserso #but I’m still super happy about it #anyways the point is #be good to younger people #the world sucks but you don’t have to contribute to that fact #textpost #positivity #fandom #fandoms #community #online community #communities #online communities #art #artist #artists on tumblr #artists of tumblr #creatives on tumblr #this post is probably tagged super shittily

[vodid]

ok i keep seeing awfully targeted vagueposts about me pertaining to my silly idw-exclusionary prowlsweep campaign — which i didn't expect to have gained so much traction and negative reactions — so, while yes, i understand lighthearted jokes may still hit home a little too closely, i'm not responsible for your feelings /neu. but i get it. we're protective of our blorbos and i have a hard time with the jokes too. especially about prowl and especially especially about idw prowl, believe it or not. i do get upset over them, which i suppose was why i ran my campaign like that. many of the polls (from what i could see, i probably missed a lot) were just "my blorbo is so sweet he deserves to win" but swervesweep was solidly "do not vote for prowl he is a shit man" you can't tell me there wasn't some sort of bias because of idw prowl. there's a difference between lifting up a contender and slandering another so horribly. voting because you hate, not because you love.

so yeah, just like some had gotten upset over my campaign (even if it was a joke), i got upset upon seeing all the negative tags (even if they were jokes). i admit to getting defensive and decided to run a funny campaign focused on g1 and tfa, because there was more love for them and i wanted to try to make something a little silly but positive out of it. like "hey, ignore idw for just a second because i promise there are husband-material prowls." i do admit i may have let my saltiness show through that campaign too much, so this is a bit hypocritical of me and i fully acknowledge that.

i got more to say tho shdfdsfs this got long and messy, sorry. i'll put it under a cut. i don't usually talk this in depth about my opinion of idw prowl (or just. any opinion.) ironically for this exact reason but,,

i so desperately want to like idw prowl. i really do. and in some way, i do like him (surprising, i know). but i can't look past the way the writers and the fandom treat him. that's what i truly hate. he gets insanely (and imo undeserved) bad rep and i was just sick and tired of seeing all the unreasonable hate for him from cherrypickers. so if idw prowl is going to severely /neg affect people's opinions of prowl as a whole, then i'd prefer he didn't exist. that's my harsh and albeit a bit childish truth but i'm not sorry for it.

i dislike his portrayal for a number of reasons in that it's just not him to me. i can certainly acknowledge a character doesn't have to be consistently the same every time, and that idw was meant to be an expansion of these characters and what they can be. but it doesn't mean i like the direction they took with him. what they did to him/had him do. it was like they took his core being, what made his character solidly his, threw it at the mirror to reverse it and wondered why it shattered.

if it weren't prowl, i wouldn't have as much of a problem with his character in idw. but unfortunately, he is. in concept, he is a very interesting character with a beautifully tragic story and maybe i would've liked his skrunkly ass /affectionate. but he's just not my rodrick.

also i can't get past the ableism of his portrayal 🫶 that's not a page in my book i'd like to add besties. and not a page i'm getting into in this post.

it goes so much deeper than "wahh big titty cop man is so mean" like cmoooon. i'm not a coward for asking people to look past his wrongdoings in idw they unequivocally hate him for when literally everybody else in idw has in some way done equally bad or worse things ...but are still unconditionally loved? nah. if they can stop their bias for one (1) second, maybe they could see more. thus, idw-exclusionary campaign. in an attempt to get people to stop seeing every prowl as bad. because like i said, idw taints the fuck out of non-idw prowls. how is that any fair? (and how are we prowl lovers supposed to feel seeing all that?)

these are entirely my opinions. i'm entitled to mine just as you are yours, and i am entitled to spin the campaign in any way i want. idw-exclusionary, pro-jazzprowl, boob-loving 💖, what have you. if you didn't like it, then you were more than welcome to start your own campaign alongside me! you didn't have to leave it to me. should i have maybe tried to convince people why idw prowl's wrongdoings don't make him deserving of such hatred? sure, that'd been nice. but i'm not well enough equipped for that. you can do that tho, i'd love to see it

i can't stop you from vagueposting and i won't tell you your opinions are invalid. but if you get to share your thoughts, i'd like to as well. we can both be critical of these topics in our own way and it'd be nice to come to an understanding instead of having to resort to blocking and vagueposting. (me? the coward? /j) you have every right to do that though, especially if its for your own comfort, and i really can't stop you. but it'd be real nice if we didn't outright attack the person and call them names. this problem is bigger than me. i just happened to speak on it.

all in all, it's not that serious of a situation — or rather, i wish it wasn't and i'm upset that i'm even writing this. i shouldn't have to write this, but you guys cannot for the life of yourselves understand the basic reason behind the campaign. or do you just refuse to? did you think to ask why?

we're both protective of prowl. idw or not. we were on the same team and it's not an awful thing to want to encourage people to consider other prowls before idw. i want them to see he can be good! i want them to see what i see in him. he's just a little blorbo man and it's funny in a bit of a sad way that i'm getting so heated over a fictional character and a silly poll.

sorry to poll ops. i didn't want it to spiral like that. i truly did have a lot of fun running my little campaign, even if it looked a bit (lightheartedly) aggressive. i just wanted my blorbo to win fandom favor for once 💔 jazz vs prowl would have been absolutely hilarious too. even as a non-j/p shipper, i hope you'll agree it'd have been funny to see us losing our minds over having to choose but that's besides the point!

in the end (it didn't even matter) we're all robot lovers. and it's sad we tend to have such a difficult time getting along. i'm here to make art and it's all supposed to be fun and games.

sorry to my many new followers too, this isn't the best first impression. i try to keep this stuff off my blog. i hope u like my art and thanks for sticking around — yes, even u swervesweepers (you absolute TRAITORS /lh /lh 💕)

take care of yourselves

#prowlsweep #tf tumblr fandom is massively idw leaning i shouldnt have expected this to turn out any other way 💀 #i just saw the opportunity to try to get him to win since he got demolished in the first husband poll over on twt #long post #whoops #honestly idw as a whole isn't for me. not just because of the writing but i also hsdfsdfs struggle with comics in general #they're very difficult for me to parse. so i rely on word of mouth and that mouth paints prowl in a horrid light like makes me go :( #and (tldr) i get upset over it #i'm very over prowl being seen as inherently bad and now i'm already very over being called a coward for a joke LOL #i was just gonna let this whole thing boil over but idk. i think i need to talk about it. therapy 🫶 #somebodys gonna find something wrong with my post but at this point i don't think i care. it's not my problem anymore. #u get a cookie and a smooch from prowl if u read it all

[optogeneticist-sketchbook]

Do you ship Redcloak with anyone?

i like these two

2023.01.14

#order of the stick #redcloak #oona oots #the only other redcloak ship i've seen is redcloak/vaarsuvius #which I never had enough interest in to sit down and consider #I could mayyybe be sold on a very dark and depressing xykon/redcloak. I haven't seen it before and idk how it would work exactly but there #is potential (thanks tumblr for cutting off my tag when i pressed post without any indication you were going to do that) #but yeah oona and redcloak is good imo #im not sure how compatible they would ACTUALLY be but their interactions are just so charming #he gives off huge Do Not Touch vibes #so the way he lets her manhandle him is... honestly... cute #when im having redcloak brainworms the part where she gives him a noogie is on constant repeat inside my head #something about it makes me wonder if he's touch starved. Anyway #i think oona is one of the very few characters he even marginally relaxes around #so much of his screentime is spent interacting with people he actively hates #and if he doesn't hate them then there's a certain professionalism at play that makes genuine connection difficult (eg with jirix) #there's something very fragile and very special about redcloak actually listening to someone. and I like seeing it #(that fragile special something may just be her race. but um let's pretend it isn't lmao) #oots #oona #also sorry for the late reply... irl stuff #csp

[hella1975]

id like it to be known that i wholeheartedly support abortion. i support abortion for the person whose pregnancy has become too dangerous to come to term. i support abortion for the victim of rape. i support abortion for those who don't have the financial means to have a child. i support abortion for those underage. i support abortion for someone middle-aged with a stable family and finances and loving partner who quite simply does not want a child. i support abortion for people who sleep around. i support abortion for someone who thought they wanted a child but changed their mind. i support abortion in all its infinitely different situations. if it comes to me picking between a bunch of cells that look like fish eggs and an actual living breathing person with a name and future then babe we're having caviar

#fun fact! 9/10 abortions happen before 12 weeks #and over half happen in the first 8 weeks #at 12 weeks your fetus (bc it's not even a baby yet if u want to be technical) is the size of a lime. a fucking lime #i wasnt going to make a post about this bc i dont like bringing politics onto tumblr #bc after how jaded i got with covid and now Everythign Else i wanted a site that could be safe from real world shit #and also it's very tiring that an American Issue suddenly becomes Everyone's Issue and it can be quite frustrating #when that energy isn't met for literally any other country. and i didnt want to contribute to the en masse posting about roe v wade atm #for those two reasons (at least on tumblr. im not actually spiteful about this and obviously really care about the topic. it's just tiring) #but it's come to my attention that somehow i have pro-lifers in these parts #and i want to make it very fucking clear that i dont want them here #me and this blog are completely wholeheartedly pro-choice in any form it may show itself as #because i have enough critical thinking skills to know two basic facts #1) that people have ALWAYS had abortions. the only thing that's changed is the safety in which they're carried out #you will NEVER get rid of them you will only ever endanger the people and women you're trying so hard to 'protect' #and 2) i have never heard of a single person that was happy to get an abortion. not one. it's not a fun experience #it's incredibly hard and traumatic but oftentimes necessary for whatever personal reason specific to that person #stop fucking making laws about other people's bodies #it really shouldn't be difficult

[elaena]

as a general idea I think Tumblr is the best social media for art as a hobby. Sure if you want the chance at professional opportunities you may bet for Twitter, but if you just want to post random art you did just for fun or love it's great. It gets a lot of attention years down the line, and while it's kind of embarrassing seeing my first pieces of art pop up on my notes frequently considering how I've improved, it's great that there's still an audience for it. You don't need to "learn" the algorithm or tame it or whatever, you can just. Post it. Maybe add some tags for people to find you, but that's all the work you gotta do

#not counting artstation because i think it's on its own league #and yeah i understand the likes to reblog ratio is frustrating to a lot of people but like #Twitter its like. very difficult for art. #you get a massive influx and then it dies within days! #the way i see it it's just a marketing tool not actually an art environment. idk #i still see art posts from 2014 being reblogged with tags like 'op this is beautiful' #not even 2014 just. years before #if tumblr changes the 'algorithm' to make it more fast paced I'm going to be heartbroken #again im sure i said nothing nobody hasn't said before but i kinda love Tumblr let's go tumblr

[bookishmuggleborn]

hello?🧍🏻‍♀️

#I'll write in the tags because uhhh- #idk #sorry for being gone for so long #I MISSED TUMBLR😭😭😭😭😭 #I'll reply to msgs/asks/everything in a while #thanks for staying around #and to everyone new?? idk why you're here but heyyyy hello #the last time i left was for some very random reason idk but those sem exams weren't so difficult that I had to get off tumblr??? #I would've returned last year around Jan but then I had to move out and everything was overwhelming and and and #I'll try not leaving again because it's so difficult to return once you see it isn't necessary??? #(I'm not using the right words but I hope it makes sense somehow) #ALSO if you've dropped by at some point then there's a good chance that it was noticed #thank you for checking up on me <333 #it didn't always feel like that but I was okayyyy #just too lost #lol #and btwww missing tumblr meant I would come back sometimes and stalk people/posts so my already-filled drafts are more filled now haha #all the notifications I'm going to drop will be annoying #bear with me :3 #AND OKAY what's with tumblr and its updates? #@staff are OKAY?? #what's this mess T-T #+ issokayyy if you didn't notice i was gone. HAPPENS <3 #(assuming you care) it's so much easier to not know you have to miss someone until they are back and you no longer have to do it

[aeide-thea]

very much an off-the-cuff post so there may well be bugs, i'm still workshopping my thinking here, but—

i seem to see posts fairly regularly in which a member of some marginalized group A is objecting to attempts by less marginalized group B to make connections between discrimination against A and harm experienced by B (the main thing i have in mind here is when people attempt to align themselves with visibly-trans people by pointing out the ways that transphobic legislation also impacts gnc cis people, theatrical crossdressing, &c, but there are definitely also examples along other axes)—

and like. the main objection i've seen from A is 'why do they have to connect my experience to their experience in order to care about it? why can't they just agree that i shouldn't be discriminated against as a matter of, like, compassion for fellow humanity?'

and this reaction does honestly always just seem a little, idk, naive to me?? like, i don't know, it's gotten very popular ime to complain about normies' clumsy attempts to Understand Instead of Just Accepting [this feels potentially linked to like. the way many of us now prefer silently clicking 'like' to producing our own original, maybe clumsy, responses? but don't @ me on that point], probably because a lot of the time they aren't genuinely seeking to Understand but just to point out all the ways our queerness &c doesn't fit their received (unexaminedly conservative) understanding of the world, which feels to us (very reasonably!) like renewed pressure from the establishment to make ourselves fit that established framework, and so we resist… but at the same time, idk, maybe i'm just outing myself as lesser-than-thou here, but for every sort of person i was raised to distrust and have since arrived at genuine loving acceptance/appreciation of, it's involved first coming to understand their frame of reference at least a little? not to say that there isn't a place for shutting up and listening while you're still working to understand, because there definitely is! but i do kind of think this idea that's become popular in certain liberal circles of like, 'you don't have to understand my experience, you just have to respect it,' is fine and true for keeping peace with strangers, but really isn't a recipe for winning friends or influencing people—it's a recipe for keeping people at arm's length where they can't hit you. and then people turn around and want to apply that rule to coalition-building, and get all shocked-pikachu-face when others seek to identify more active points of connection.

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another ~Radical Objection to Liberal Approaches~ i've seen, though often not specifically in this context (of discussing the way attempts to oppress A have knock-on effects for B), is like—'there's no point in deconstructing their logic because it's fundamentally illogical! insert that sartre quote abt anti-semites!' and like. no, there's absolutely no point in debating their logic with them. but fundamentally when people assert a logical resistance to bigoted positions they are not doing it to Own The Bigots, imo, or at any rate shouldn't be; they're (we're) doing it to reaffirm the basis of their/our own camp's position, namely, we see your knee-jerk fears and reject them; we substitute instead a patient allegiance to logic, that reasons its way into compassion.

that said, obviously there's a conversation to be had here about, like, platforming bad positions, and to what extent deconstructing them is implicitly platforming them! but. i do think that complaining that logic won't win over bigots is missing the very fundamental point that the logic isn't for the bigots: it's for us. we're talking to ourselves; we're affirming ourselves. and yeah, we need to understand that this sort of intra-party discussion doesn't, on its own, constitute sufficient activism! messages need to be communicated beyond the bounds of the party! but i do think i disagree that there's no place for it.

#anyway i'm just sticking this all under a cut bc it got very long and i didn't arrive at a nice tidy overarching conclusion #but i guess i just think like. i'm not convinced that resisting people's attempts to understand a struggle as linked with theirs #is ever going to be a strategy that makes any sense— #i just think it's coming from a place of woundedness that wants its pain to be Seen and Matter In Itself #and not get ignored until someone else is also impacted #and like. that's SO emotionally valid! god! but also like. that's feelings and not a basis for politics??? #and the second point here— #which honestly could've been its own post; i was just thinking abt the two points together bc i saw a post that made them together— #really feels to me like. showing up at an internal org meeting and then complaining that it doesn't constitute effective public messaging #like yeah‚ people pass posts around on here that aren't gonna convince conservatives #but like. (a) how much convincing of conservatives do you really think is gonna happen on tumblr anyway? #and also (b) then make your own posts that *are* angled at convincing conservatives! or‚ you know‚ do something that isn't posting! #(in b4 'some of us have disabilities' yeah‚ me too! i emailed my representatives the other day! there's stuff you can do!) #but like. everybody just wants to critique other people's efforts (and obviously as per this very post i'm not immune!) #when it's like. most of what we're doing *isn't* activism—what it could be is the tentative social basis for a real coalition #on which activism could then be founded #but most of us would rather suspiciously snipingly in-fight than let these tentative social filaments thicken into binding ties! #anyway. a great example of a post by someone with adhd that will probably be prohibitively difficult for other ppl with adhd to read!