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Listen, I tag almost everything on my blog—especially things specific to fandoms. I don't do that so I can easily look up stuff on my own blog (though I've had occasion to). I do it so that my followers and mutuals can filter tags if they want. That's what I do. And I'm 100% down with people unfollowing or even blocking my blog because they're sick of my latest hyperfixation. That's fair. We're all here to have a good time.
What I am not okay with is a follower or mutual digging through my blog to find an old post about a fandom they don't care for, just so they can reblog to leave a rude comment to the OP. Especially when the OP has already gotten some pretty egregious and completely unearned anonymous messages and comments on their work. No. I don't care how long you've been following me, how much you've interacted with me or my fanworks, that's an instant block.
My blog is not a vehicle for your fandom hate.
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hussyknee · 1 year
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"You are not responsible for how other people experience the world" and "common decency calls for practicing harm reduction and informed consent in whatever you choose to do" are not opposing viewpoints actually.
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prokopetz · 1 year
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I think the real reason Tumblr is hung up on Heathcliff is that Heathcliff is like one of those smug, antiseptically suburban "all ages" newspaper comics written by a space alien who almost but not quite understood the assignment, and "extremely normie thing turned about ten degrees askew" is like 80% of Tumblr's sense of humour.
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bananonbinary · 10 months
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It's not like the crab post itself was in any way transphobic so you stealing it isn't perpetuating some hidden message in it or something. It literally makes no sense to act like you're bad for making a silly crab post just because someone shitty also made a crab post.
right? and just to be absolutely sure, i rewrote the whole thing instead of stealing it outright, so i'm not even using their words. this reaction is completely unthethered from any sort of logic or reality.
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verecunda · 2 years
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I hope the people who are appalled at Celebrimbor being ~old~ were equally furious about the Shadow of Mordor games making him, y’know, evil.
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troonwolf · 1 year
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idk why anyone likes TLOU it was genuinely always very boring and the sequel was atrocious. show also looks boring
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qqueenofhades · 4 months
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Hi! This question has been noodling in my head for a few weeks, and I’ve been really curious to hear your opinion. I’ve appreciated your very thoughtful commentary on the ways the online left in particular have hurt the real and concerted efforts that have been made to navigate through the Gaza war in support of Palestine. I’ve seen a lot of outrage online about Biden bypassing congress in order to make another emergency weapons sale to Israel, which does indeed read as counter to helping to the Palestinians facing endless and indiscriminate violence. I understand that you might not want to answer this ask, because the work that you already do in your life offline and the work that you do here on tumblr to respond to and explain these issues is exhausting enough. Thanks so much for your time and your thoughtful contributions! It’s always really helped me remember to slow down and think critically about the media I consume.
Because you have asked this thoughtfully and in good faith, I will return the favor and give you a careful and extensive answer to the best of my ability. However, obligatory top-of-post disclaimer that I will disable reblogs at the first hint of any wankery in the notes and I will not answer any follow-ups or secondary asks at this time (unless I decide to do so, but I engage with this topic sparingly, judiciously, and only in small doses, so don't count on it).
First, let me say that the moment, I disagree with substantial portions of how Biden is handling the two main foreign-policy crises (Ukraine and Gaza). In regard to Ukraine, I think he's backed off, taken his foot off the gas, and otherwise given Republicans ammunition to keep delaying or watering down a new aid bill, is refusing to disburse military aid packages from the $4 billion of funding remaining that was previously approved by Congress, hasn't sent long-range ATACMS and other critical military hardware that might bring the war to an end sooner, and is not (as of the moment, though recent reporting suggests this might change) pushing hard enough for frozen Russian assets to be transferred to Ukraine for military and/or humanitarian financial assistance. However, I am also aware (unlike, it seems, much of the left-leaning internet) that I am basing these judgments only on my personal impressions, on what is reported (or not reported) in the media (which has plenty of its own problems) and otherwise what is formed in my role as an ordinary American citizen without any kind of special, classified, high-level, or government access. I know nothing more than any of you, and I also know that a lot of what goes on behind closed doors does not appear on Political Twitter and/or the Washington Post or the Guardian or Daily Kos or whatever other aggregate sources of information I or any left-leaning person typically consumes. So it's highly possible (and this is my cautious academic instinct speaking) that I do not, in fact, have a full picture of events. There are also contributing factors that Biden cannot simply handwave aside, even if he did, say, dip back into the $4 billion pot in the meantime. Congress will need to pass a new funding bill for Ukraine aid and the MAGA Republicans have been enthusiastically blocking it to the point where Putin's cronies on Russian state TV praise them effusively for it. We all know about the Republicans and Russia's mutual love affair. So.
The same goes for Gaza, and even more because we have already had reporting about how the Biden administration is walking a behind-the-scenes tightrope in a number of seemingly impossible tasks: keeping the war from spreading to a larger theater, pressuring Netanyahu to dial down, y'know, the rampant genocide (when Netanyahu notoriously doesn't like Biden, was very close with Trump, and would be happy to keep the war going in order to boost Trump's chances of being re-elected and save Netanyahu himself from his own criminal prosecutions), and pursuing a complex policy toward the state of Israel that does not follow the antisemitic Western Online Left's fever dream of "Israel suddenly disappears overnight and falls into the ocean and all Jews die or disappear." We have had multiple credibly sourced reports about this. Blinken is back in the Middle East right now trying to keep the war from spreading. The US under Biden has criticized Israel's essentially empty policy document for post-war Gaza as not being remotely feasible (because it's so vague) and gone so far as to voice support for a two-state solution with Palestinian self-determination (which is itself quite radically different from previous administrations). However, they have also vetoed UN ceasefire resolutions and other essentially meaningless political theater (the UN as a whole has been ruthlessly exposed in the last few years for being completely useless) that are easy to gin up outrage about, and that's what the internet focuses on, rather than any of the other complicated actions taking place.
All of this is to say that no, in fact, I don't blindly support everything the Biden administration is doing in regard to either Ukraine or Israel right now, but I actually have a sense of real-world perspective about it and understand that there are certain immutable realities that we are working with and which will not be erased by some absolute jackasses yelling at Biden in a historically black church at the commemoration of an anti-black terrorist attack. Likewise, as I've said it before and I'll say it again, and as plenty of other people have noticed and pointed out, the Western left is using this as an orgy of pseudo-revolutionary fervor that focuses on using Hamas as a proxy for their own fantasies of violent uprising against their own governments. Because while yes, anti-zionism and antisemitism are two distinct things and represent different aims and goals, it's become more or less irrelevant in allegedly pro-Palestine Western leftist spaces. It's just increasingly rabid, accelerationist, and nihilistic antisemitism all the time, or the obvious usage of "Zionist" to mean "Jew." It's not good. There is no concept of actual restorative justice for Palestinians or other people, such as Ukrainians, Syrians, Uyghurs, Taiwanese, etc, either undergoing genocide or facing the threat of it, because Western leftists have latched onto this cause solely as a stick to beat the Democratic Party with and have no actual moral interest or concern in stopping genocide elsewhere in the world or repudiating it as a method overall. They just want the state of Israel (which they characterize as a "proxy state for white western colonialism" despite the many, many things historically, religiously, and politically wrong with that statement, because it means it now Contains the Right Buzzwords to Oppose It) to be destroyed altogether in the name of "opposing colonialism," but it really seems to be all about opposing Jews. Hmm.
Simply put, Biden is not ever going to pursue a policy of "let's totally abandon Israel tomorrow, never sell it any weapons or allow it to defend its own civilians, and agree that Hamas is actually a good representation or advocate for the Palestinian people" in the way a number of Western Online Leftists seem to think he should do. There is still the fact that Israeli civilians do exist and that Hamas has continued to launch missiles at them daily, inconvenient as that fact might be for the Hamas fanboys (and fangirls) who now populate much of what passes for Western leftist discourse spaces. (Either that or they don't care, because in their view, Israeli civilians are fully acceptable collateral damage by virtue of simply living in Israel in the first place, which -- yikes. Fucking yikes. That is all.) The number of people professing to be lifelong leftists who are Just Shocked at all the antisemitism, or thinking that any and all antisemitism is just artificially introduced into leftist spaces by bad-faith right-wing/Nazi psyops either has not spent any actual time around leftists, or (more likely) simply does not listen to what they openly say. The antisemitism is virulent, constant, and only getting worse. On the most basic level, regardless of the other difficulties around the founding of Israel as a state in 1948 and the fact that doing so on some of the most bitterly religiously, politically, ethnically, and culturally contested territory in the world for over two thousand years was always going to be a massive clusterfuck, the fact of its immediate post-Holocaust creation simply cannot be ignored the way many Online Leftists do. Israel exists because of the worst antisemitic mass murder in recorded history (and that's a high bar). That fact must be incorporated into any actual discussions about its right either to exist or to protect its own civilians. But this gets turned into "Israel exists only as a puppet state of white western colonialists" which is just bad on so, so many levels.
The collective Western Online Leftist feeling seems to be that Hamas are innocent and wronged freedom fighters who are begging for a ceasefire and the cruel Israelis aren't granting them one. This is not true. Hamas has rejected multiple ceasefire opportunities, and continued to launch missiles and retaliatory attacks, because they are terrorists and they do not want or represent any serious opportunity to negotiate in the framework of western liberal democracy. They are treated as helpless woobified blorbos by much of the Western leftist-leaning internet. They are not. In that case, Biden bypassing Congress to sell Israel weapons (which was just something like 100 million of artillery shells, which is not nothing but still not a huge systematic thing like, say, Reagan's Iran-Contra scandal) is not great. I do not support anything Israel is doing to Gaza. It is abhorrent. However, there are reasons for Biden to provide some limited amount of weapons to Israel without congressional approval that do not automatically and mindlessly equate to BIDEN SUPPORTS TOTAL GENOCIDE IN GAZA!!!!!!1 Especially when as I've said, the Online Leftists only care about stopping genocide when it fits their political self-righteousness, and absolutely not at all the rest of the time.
This is representative of the fact that Western Online Leftism has now completed its all-out descent into blind Noam Chomskyism. Chomsky has never met a "leftist" or "anti-Western" genocide he couldn't deny, excuse, or openly cheerlead (going all the way back to the 1970s and Pol Pot/the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and going up to the minute with Russia/Ukraine and Israel/Palestine). Noam Chomsky is the leftist Henry Kissinger. His ethics and morals are equally abhorrent, he's just as willing to justify total genocide in the name of advancing his preferred political ideology, and while there were (justifiably) celebrations and gloating memes across Tumblr when Kissinger finally bit the dust, Chomsky's beliefs are replicated with slavish adoration in many other Tumblr spaces and spread in some form or another to the rest of the website, which now takes them as leftist gospel (and let's not even talk about Twitter). This represents my absolute frustration with the fact that Western Online Leftism has devolved to such a degraded, mindless, useless, and malevolent level that "cheerlead for any anti-western/Leftist TM terrorist group or state" is taken to be the be-all and end-all of their moral philosophy. Someone remarked that ISIS peaked too early; if they were still at the height of their powers today, they would have a legion of devoted white so-called progressive Twitter users shilling earnestly and angrily for them, and Christ, isn't that the fucking truth.
I know we live in a hard, frightening, complex, and difficult world, and it's hard to sort out what our moral responsibility and action should be at any given time, especially since the answer is always so frustratingly partial and incomplete. Nobody of basic good sense and decency wants to see Gaza leveled while the Israeli state continues to apply a number of violently cruel collective punishments even outside the actual daily bombing of civilians. But for the love of god, let's get rid of the idea that the continued mindless violence doesn't benefit Hamas (because it does; unsurprisingly, sympathy for their cause has soared in Gaza) as much as it does Israel, or that Hamas is some kind of benevolent peacemaker that is being thwarted by the cruel imperialist US/West. And going back to the incident that prompted you to send me this ask: white leftists have often and repeatedly demonstrated their withering disdain for black people, Democratic voters, "mainstream" Americans, and anyone else doesn't buy into the twisted tankie fantasy land where getting rid of Biden would somehow be a massive coup for social justice (by getting Trump, now openly announcing at every turn that he will be a dictator, back into office! Very praxis, much justice. Wow.)
In short: if you, a white person, stand up in Mother Emanuel AME -- one of the most sacred sites for Black churchgoers, who are indeed often heavily Democratic voters -- in the middle of a remembrance service for victims of white supremacist terrorism, after the Black pastor has asked you not to protest inside the church out of respect for the Black community coming together to relive its trauma -- just so you can heckle Biden and feel good about yourself, then Jesus Christ. You don't care about restorative justice for people of color, or literally any justice at all, much less "stopping genocide." You just want to use them as props for your Chomsky cosplay revolutionary fantasies and your sense of self-righteous superiority over literally everyone else, regardless of the real-world consequences. So I have no hesitation whatsoever in telling those people to get fucked. Often and repeatedly.
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I'm new to a fandom's tumblr. I draw sometimes. After joining and posting my art I realised there wasn't much of a community here despite the fandom being fairly big. I'm basically unknown, still I got anons asking if I shipped others things and one persistent anon trying to know why I'm into a certain unpopular dynamic. Not my first rodeo, I blocked the anon and turned off asks for the time being.
Then I made a couple friends and joined a few discords from tumblr and twitter where I learned about some inner politics. Turns out there's a very popular artist (late twenties) who is one of those situationally leftist, functionally conservative types. They selectively highlight marginalized voices they themselves agree with, speak over the rest, harass people over fandom wankery, is an Asian but is known to hate Asians in mainland because we're all fetishizers or wrong kind of queers (for example they don't follow a single native Asian artist in a manga fandom because we're all gross "proshitters"), very big into cyberbullying people over fiction and idpol etc. They're trans too.
I've been to 10+ fandoms before and this is most puritanical one. This place is fractured and miserable. The community is built around hating people and characters.
This artist who is a fandom leader of sorts, with over 40k followers on twitter and of course a large following on tumblr, has a lot of fans who got popular by mimicing their style and that's a way to get endorsed by them. You're either a fan of them and in their community or you're a rogue fan who will not see one millionth of the notes they get, they'll actively avoid you if you indicate you're into things they explicitly hate, worse of all they'll flood you with anon hate on all platforms. Many of their fans are young adults or teens who keep secret accounts to view said gross things and secretly support said gross artists while harassing those artists and some writers in the name of this leadar. They say they're scared to disagree.
The more I learn (with proof) about what sort of community they have the more I want to leave this fandom wholly, which they'd like so I'm not gonna do that technically.
Instead I'm thinking about doing something I saw another anon here do, which is to make an image of myself as all the things this person hates, maybe make arts of ships and dynamics they hate and that way get all their friends and their two faced coattail rider fans to leave me alone, potentially gain likeminded friends in the process.
WIBTA if I did that because that'd be lying to the masses?
What are these acronyms?
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lost-technology · 4 days
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Issues of Fandom Past
I am sorry if I am feeling a little jumpy about blocks lately. (Turns out I solved the mystery as to why so many of my blogs are blanked out on some reblogs / replies from a mutual I've seen - the ops aren't doing it, it's because the moot apparently has a privacy setup for only moot reblogs / replies and I just realized it! Tumblr mechanics stuff. I swear, I've been on this site for years and learn something new every day. It's like playing Skyrim...) I think it's because I did run into, a couple of days ago, someone who didn't have my main blocked (didn't know about it) but had this blog / the Trigun blog blocked and I know why. I saw an old name from SPOOOOOOKY fandom-past come up on Ao3 and was all "Oh, I know that name!" and looked at their profile and saw their listed tumblr profile name, which I recognised when I tried to reblog something insightful I saw them say in terms of a '98 episode-review without commentary. And, nope, they had me blocked. I thought they would have forgotten about me or just not know me anymore / not find or care about the new username. Oh, well.
We had beef, like, 20 years ago. Over 20 years ago. This was someone who was part of a friend group in the old fandom I had a lot of fighting with and, ultimately, I came away with it feeling that I was the one who was mostly if not wholly in the wrong. My fighting started with the friend group when a then-friend of mine would antagonise people and then act like the bullied victim when they responded and would then rely on me as a "good friend" and a more aggressive person to fight their battles for them. Well, that's how it started and not where it ended. I got into it on my own with this set of friends and did my own wankery. I got into it with even more people because I used to have what I'll just lay out as "church-views" and hadn't yet accepted / contended with / or even knew it was a term - my own asexuality with mild sex-repulsion and got really pissy about people's ships and kinks in fandom and harped about the "immorality" of putting non-canon kinks into mah fandom! Yes, I was one of THOSE. But we all get older and hopefully wiser. Cringe dies (or gives way to new and hopefully more benign forms of cringe), but is forever remembered. I do remember, at some point, emailing a letter of apology to one of the friends in this friend-group addressing all and it being taken with gratitude, but I still hadn't examined everything that I needed to deal with at the time. I moved on since then, but I guess this is why my guts clenched when I saw one of the folks I used to know popping up again out of the Internet woodwork over on ol' Ao3 with updated fic-sets and on tumblr. I found out about the block when I was testing the waters on a comment-less reblog, in hopes I was forgotten, maybe, that my new username was unknown, or that we'd reached, after all this time, a level of truce. I don't want to try to be friends, but I think it would be nice if people in the old guard fandom could just pass each other in the hall, wave to each other and move on. Enjoy each others' art and insights, even. I see some people pop up from the old guard fandom. I haven't seen any of my old friends so far and have seen people I do not know who were apparently in other parts of the Internet in OG Trigun fandom who talk about it... but there are a few people who I see a name I recognize and gut-clench. No desire to fight because I'm like "Yeah, I was wrong, you were right, I've moved on," but get that clench because I am filled with shame over it all and am reminded of it. And then there's the matter of people whom I'd probably had problems with probably do have new usernames / different usernames on here and it's almost like? I'd like a list? So that maybe we can preemptively block each other so we don't accidentally share from each other and recoil from it if one or more of us aren't ready to clean-slate each other? I'd like to be clean-slated, but that is only something that guilty people want.
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archerygun · 2 months
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Ah yeah I drew this one time lmao
Do not look at the comments for anything Life on Mars related. A lot of ‘anti-pc’ wankery from the blokes who worship the ground Gene Hunt walks on. He’s literally a tumblr sad girl for The Sun’s target audience.
But hey it’s not all bad it inspired me to make this.
It’s literally 3am here I want to kill myself.
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hussyknee · 2 years
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Reminder that trigger warnings are an act of courtesy rather than an obligation.
That nobody else is responsible for your triggers, and if something triggers you that you can't manage to avoid, it's your responsibility to leave that space no matter how much you want to be in it.
That triggers are value negative, i.e it's not shameful to be triggered, but it being a trigger also doesn't mean it's objectively bad or immoral, or that other people should also avoid it if it triggers enough people.
That if something objectively bad triggers you, the pain you're experiencing by being triggered has little to do with its actual capacity to harm you.
That you can't make objective assessments or moral judgements from a place of trauma, because it obliterates distance. The only thing you can do with triggers is either work on them or avoid them.
That treating trauma as a sacrosanct thing that should never disturbed or questioned makes it worse and can turn you toxic.
That the whole point of PTSD is that it's an irrational and disproportionate reaction to stimuli, because your brain is hyperaroused and vanishes emotional, physical and temporal distance whenever it thinks it sees a pattern. That it sucks and hurts like a bitch but you are not in active danger by internetrando69 with a wrong opinion. PTSD is a mental illness, which by definition means that your very real pain is the result of your brain is lying to you.
That, while you deserve empathy and accomodation for your disability, you're still responsible for your actions. That trauma does not give you license to hurt people, not even yourself.
That understanding all of these things does not invalidate your pain or what happened to you, but is essential to helping manage it and heal from it.
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prokopetz · 2 years
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I look at my feed and see you. On one side there's this deep, frankly kind of engaging of the X-Men and wizard schools. On the other.
On the other side it's Conflation porn.
Arguing that The X-Men belongs to the same literary genre as The Worst Witch is in fact an example of conflation porn.
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eisforeidolon · 8 months
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Hello I'm the anon who sent in the curious question about the lawsuit. Sorry for weirding you out I think a lot of the ask went into fandom wank which could have been maybe another separate question. I have been in the fandom for a little over a year and trying to find positive blogs to follow has not always been easy. Thanks for your response and I agree with everything you said perfectly. Enjoy your day!
It's okay, anon, and you don't need to apologize.
If I elected myself Supreme Monarch of tumblr and condemned people for being unclear in text, I'd have to throw my own self into the ballpit for a few of my posts if I didn't want to be a raging hypocrite. I know it's not always easy to convey what you mean as clearly as you want - especially when you're trying to wrestle related but separate concepts into submission!
It's just that the waters are muddied by at least a few trolls who attempt to bury their trollpinions in a veneer of reasonableness. So when an ask comes in with a bunch of fandom wankery interspersed it's not always easy to tell underlying intent. Which is exactly why I generally try to err on the side of good faith but might note if the tone seems weird. It's not you particularly so much as the circumstances of the fandom and the limitations of the medium.
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Grumpy-Old-Fandommom-->grumpy-ass-fandom-old
Yeah, I lost my account in Tumblr Strikethrough 2018 mates, but I'm back for all your entertainment 👍👀😝
Decided to go with a new username since "fandom mom" is rather maligned even in pro-shipper circles.
If you've any of my old posts, feel free to tag me for a bump!
@huntypastellance @romelle-against-antis @olderthannetfic @youareagoodperson @yoonbum-in-drag @andilaugh @antis-delete-your-blogs-pls-thx @discoursecatharsis @voltron-thy-name-is-discourse @shidgephobe @princesses-against-antis can I get a boost please? OwO
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madramaut · 5 years
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Okay everyone, I know a lot of people are jumping ship (and honestly I can’t blame them) and leaving for greener pastures, but I’m not quite there yet. Oh, don’t worry, I’m furious at tumblr, this is dumbest knee-jerk solution I’ve ever encountered in all my fandom purges (I was there for FFN and LJ and that was enough), but for all it’s limitless flaws, tumblr has practically the only interface I actually enjoy using, so I’ll be sticking around here even as I start crossposting to other platforms.
Speaking of, here are alternative places you can find me in the future:
Twitter
Pillowfort
Please, keep in mind that I’m currently going through a full month of my mid year exam project, so I probably won’t be posting my stuff for a while. Also, pillowfort is experiencing extremely high levels of traffic, as expected when tumblr has pushed everyone away, but it makes the site completely impossible to use as it cannot even load a page.
In conclusion, here are my alternatives, they’re empty, it’ll be a while before I get around to filling them up with my shit.
For all of my followers who are going to be gone permanently, thanks for coming along for the ride so far, I wish you the best.
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zombeesknees · 2 years
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i routinely go through all of my likes in an effort to clear stuff out/throw things into the queue so i’ll be able to find it later on my blog via my tags. and it absolutely INFURIATES ME that I have shit in the very back of the thing that i can never unlike. if you liked a post directly from a blog that has since deactivated, you can never unlike it. so there are like fifty posts from ten years ago that are just there FOREVER and every time i get to that point in my likes i get irrationally upset again. tl;dr: tell me you have OCD compulsions without actually TELLING ME you have OCD compulsions.
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