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Obsidian Musings

@blackestglass / blackestglass.tumblr.com

Bless you, if you've made it here. This blog is a multifandom mess. Fandoms include 911, The Mandalorian, Critical Role, Dimension 20, The Murderbot Diaries, Leverage, Elementary, Brooklyn Nine Nine, LotR, Firefly, Sailor Moon, and many others.
I post A LOT of cute animals and babies, pictures of unfairly attractive celebrities, social justice posts, and pretty things that catch my eye. I REALLY like puns.
On Wednesdays, I do No White Dude Wednesdays (NWDW) where I spam my dash with pictures and historical posts of POC and transgender people.
Occasionally, I commit podfic.
Also, I apparently do fanfiction now.
I am also on Twitter and AO3.
Anonymous asked:

Hi Zoey. Asking from a place of ignorance, could you please explain why Threads is dogshit?

Threads is the Hot New Garbagedump by Certified Scum Of The Earth and Facebook/Meta owner Zuckerburg. It is like if twitter was even worse.

There is ONLY a For You page, meaning you can never just see the posts from your followed accounts who, yknow, you followed for the purpose of seeing their posts.You can't see those. you have to see the algorithm's posts ONLY. You also require an instagram to get full access to all the features like Posting Images. You need a separate social media account to properly access this new social media. And once you've done so, the only way to delete your Threads account, is to delete you instagram account. The Whole Thing. For Some Fucking Reason. Not to mention, obviously since it's zuckerburg, the thing syphons your personal information like crazy, worse still than twitter.

Like ALL your data. as much as it can get. (Love that it says "Other Data" btw. Nice subtle way of saying "whatever else we want") ALSO wouldn't you know it? It's fucking banned in the EU because it violates a bunch of fucking privacy laws!! So it's DEFINITELY not safe to use!

It is as predatory and exploitative as can be, created by someone that we collectively agreed Sucks Shit and Has No Empathy For Human Life and Individuality, and nobody should be touching it with a ten foot pole let alone sign up for it. Not even to test the waters or because it's where everyone is heading, or to see how bad it is for yourself. It doesn't matter if you're joining to get an account ready in case the platform ends up the new big thing. You're feeding the statistics. Even if you're not using that account, Zuckerburg can show the number of signups to shareholders and investors to prove to them that it's viable. Instead of jumping on the bandwagon in case it succeeds, inform people why they shouldn't join, to reduce its chance of success! It's like strikes and protests; The more of us get the word out, the more effective it'll be!

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man, the way some of the reddit refugees talk about moving to tumblr is kinda depressing; they're saying stuff like "No one has belittled me on tumblr yet" and "people actually talk to me here."

We've got to rehabilitate these users so that they can see what it's like to have a non-hostile internet experience.

reddit’s pvp experience was unmatched. i didn’t realize how naturally defensive and ready to fight on the internet i was until i didn’t have to any more

how dare you hide this in the tags

[image description: Tumblr tags #Tumblr feels like a warm cozy coffee shop #reddit felt like going to Walmart alone /end ID]

@0lavender-garden0's tags made me choke on my dinner laughing so here we are:

#To be fair tumblr pvp is just clown on clown violence when it happens#This is not a place of honor and definitely not respect

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oh. my god I was just writing a fic and I was about to say "he grimaced as if he'd bitten into a lemon" when it occurred to me, hang on, are there lemons in Star Wars? Or are they called something else? Despite the fact that it literally does not matter sksjs I went to google it and I typed in "Star Wars lemons" FORGETTING, in my brief naivety WHAT LEMONS USED TO MEAN

so you can imagine what came up

I don’t think you can fully understand transmisogyny without understanding how it’s weaponized against cis Black women.

When you find a transmisogynist you’ve found a racist who will use their ideals of the “normative female body” to demean and denigrate Black women. For years it was a popular right wing rumor/conspiracy/dick move to refer to Michelle Obama as a “tranny” and more recently sports organizations have repeatedly excluded cis Black women for not having “normative” hormone levels. Transmisogyny and antiblackness go hand in hand.

and hey, if you like what we do here, and you want to contribute to the “help mischief pay the prescription for the inhaler what lets her breathe good which continues to be $200 a pop because the healthcare system in america is fundamentally Broken 🙃” fund, consider buying me a ko-fi.

that’d be cool of you.

Sometimes, being lost is not knowing how to get from where we are to where we wanna be, where we need to be. A few choice words can sometimes be the life raft that gets you home. To be seen. To be found. Isn’t that what we’re all searching for?