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happy Thursday the 20th

I’d have to wait months or even years for another chance to reblog this, so why the fuck not?

next days you can reblog this on a Thursday the 20th

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You know, just in case you wanted to set your queue for the next 6 years

TODAY

Since it’s now August 20, 2020… The next days you can reblog this on a Thursday the 20th:

If you wanted to set your queue for the next six years.

I gotta take my chances

btw if you find yourself dehumanizing any person or group for any reason you've already lost

Ok, but how do you fight that once you’ve realized it?

The therapy answer: You can train yourself to follow unproductive thought patterns and you can retrain yourself to follow more productive ones instead. The first step is realizing what you're thinking and correcting it, and the next step is repeat step 1 until it starts happening automatically.

The sociological answer: people typically become less prejudiced when they spend extended time with groups of people they are prejudiced against, especially in a non-adversarial context.

the "tumblr is hard to use 🥺" comment from staff is so funny bc like. its not untrue. but the solution isnt to make everything algorithmic, its to stop hiding the FAQ pages deep inside the site. just like. explain shit to new users. a concept. also obviously just fix the search function

Anime studios need to strike next

Down with seasonal anime down with overconsumption down with every series regardless of how complex needing to be boiled down to fit into 12 episodes

there’s just too many shows

too many shows and they’re coming out at such an unprecedented rate that we can’t even fully appreciate them. and I KNOW that people are slaving away in unethical work conditions to make them, all so that nobody can even remember them, no matter how lovingly crafted or beautiful they really are

Streamer who says "And now just a little break for an ad read, sorry guys, brb" and then they just pull out a newspaper and silently read some of the ads while scowling because they don't enjoy this, occasionally muttering "That's not even a good deal" and then calmly folds it back up and starts playing again.

do you ever just

happy 10 year anniversary to this game changer thank u @joscribbles for your services

can’t believe it’s been 10 years since i learned to always put my name on my art, even if it’s just a shitpost, bc u never know what’s going to blow up

anyway here’s a signed version if you wanna use it to shut up people who are trying to tell you their Opinions

i am so tired of radical vulnerability discourse that locates empowerment in divulging personal pain and i really worry about the implications of a young creative culture where your influence and your popularity and your follower count is implicitly tied to your willingness to talk about your personal trauma, your willingness to let thousands and thousands of strangers know what happened to you, your willingness to make your most private pain public. 

like i really worry that our culture is commodifying trauma? a band i really like, led by a young woman about my age, they released a song in early 2015 that was quite clearly about sexual assault. and it was a great song, and it earned a very deserved warm reception, but interviewers would persistently ask the lead singer if it was “a personal account,” and she would always say that it was an observation on rape culture and leave it at that. and then about a year later she released a personal essay saying that, yes, it was about her own experience of sexual assault, and then there was another wave of secondary clickbait-y thinkpieces congratulating her for being so brave and so open.

so we have a great song addressing sexual assault, which can more than stand on its own as a piece of art. and we have a young woman who, after a year of getting the same question from reporters, says, “i was raped; the song is about me.” and then we have another wave of reporters coming in to write identical stories repeating her words, calling her brave, and collecting ad revenue.

and that’s what i mean: for every act of personal disclosure of trauma, there is this weird media apparatus that feeds on publicizing that trauma and collecting fat stacks of ad money. publications are taking what might be an empowering process for some people and they’re incentivizing and monetizing public trauma disclosure. it’s deeply fucked up.

so like. you don’t owe the world the story of your trauma. you don’t need to make your grieving and healing a public process. you are not less courageous or less creative or less empowered because you choose to go through something privately. and you should be very wary of publications that traffic in underpaying marginalized young people to describe their trauma in detail. imo.

i wrote this post four years ago and apparently it’s been getting notes recently. the really disheartening thing is that this phenomenon has not only intensified in the years since i wrote it, but actually gotten worse. there is an expectation now that you must disclose your own personal history of trauma in order to make any art at all about trauma, or else be treated as a suspect interloper - e.g., wendy ortiz’s shameful false accusation of plagiarism against kate elizabeth russell, which ultimately forced russell to publicly disclose her own history of CSA. even the personal essay industrial complex at its mid-2010s peak was never so draconian. 

and, of course, when i wrote this post, i was talking about the phenomenon of “publications that traffic in underpaying marginalized young people to describe their trauma in detail.” a lot of these publications no longer exist, and the personal essay boom is no longer in full swing. which, regrettably, means that marginalized young people are now just expected to publicly disclose their trauma on social media without any compensation whatsoever in the service of dedication to some amorphous “movement.”

anyway. to reiterate. you do not owe thousands and thousands of strangers the story of your trauma. you are allowed to grieve and heal in private. you are not failing any movement if you choose to do this. if you do choose to make art about your trauma, you don’t owe anyone the “real story” behind your art. imo.

i don’t tell people online about my trauma because your audience is not your friend and you don’t deserve to live inside-out, with all your guts in public. fuck anyone who pushes for disclosure, fuck anyone who wants to profit from your pain. you don’t owe them anything. 

there are posts on this website older than some of its users

the shitpost you wrote at 15 can now be reblogged by 15 year olds born the day you posted it

you want to help stop tumblr from murdering itself? here's how!

i encourage you to reblog this so we can get as many people leaving feedback as humanly possible. we need to let staff know this is an utterly terrible idea

by the way, tumblr has turned off asks on all of their staff blogs, so this is the only way to tell tumblr how you feel

here it is again because uh. seems relevant.

i think kids online should really get back to making internetsonas instead of whatever fuckshit this is with putting their entire real faces, names, ages, and such everywhere. you're not gonna realize how nice internet privacy is until you dont have it anymore and no chance at getting it back. make up a guy and a name and just be that online. make up conflicting details about your completely made up backstory. make a fursona or something

This inaccurate. Should be obsidian.

When water hits flowing lava it turns to cobblestone. Its only obsidian when it touches a source block, which clearly lava pouring out of a soda machine would not be. NEVER fuck with real Minecraft fans you fake gamer

how can anyone feel remotely inconvenienced by the strikes when there is quite literally more existing media than any single person could ever consume in multiple lifetimes, let alone just the one we’re given like. What the fuck

reading news about the strike is just as entertaining to me as new tv tbh!!!!!!!!!!!!

it’s 10:42 PST. it’s beer crab time

Like if you’d top off his Guinness.

Reblog to have this one with him.

Ignore to step on a really sharp rock next time you’re at the beach.

this leaves out the most crucial tip you'll ever need:

-site:pinterest.*

excludes the entirety of pinterest's evil domainverse from image search

Reblogging for the Pinterest addition

ILU for that Pinterest tip. 🧡

Reblogging for the Pinterest.

Anyone else ever notice how like, fatohobes and transphobes and like, every other weird puritanical rightwing-adjacent asshole talks about bodies like they're gonna get trade-in value for the damn thing in the afterlife?

Like, as if the body is a "starter home" that they're gonna flip when they die or some shit?

Your body should show no signs of having lived. No scars, no tattoos, no stretch marks, no wrinkles, no piercings. If you MUST alter it then you can ONLY make changes that increase curb appeal and adhere to current market trends.

Just like your home should be white walls and shiplap and open modernist floorplans with no sign of personality because omg, what if that lowers the resale value!?

Sorry but the body isn't an investment. St. Peter is not going to give you a coupon or some shit if you die and your body is Like New still.

For people migrating to tumblr from twitter or reddit, here's a little PSA:

The op of a post not only sees your replies in their activity, they also see your tags! So if you feel like insulting or mocking the op or talking about how you disagree with every single aspect of the post, probably make your own post! Because I can guarantee you that the op is not gonna appreciate seeing those tags and that there is a good chance that you'll get a response.

The way he SLAYYEDD

Ai could never give us “we put the greed in ingredients”

just a reminder - do NOT boycott streaming services or not watch new things. the unions have not called for one for a reason. for one, it affects residual payments, which as minimal as those currently are, actors are still getting them during this time, and for two, studios will use lack of viewership as an excuse to cancel shows because you are showing them there is no demand. it deeply affects the industry the writers and actors stand to come back to once the strike is over

Also: going to these places puts pressure and demand on the company. Demand they can't meet without actors and writers. That puts stress on them, and stress is good.

^^^^ive been looking for a rb with this addition because YES. if a customer wants a burger and there is no cook to make it, that puts pressure on the owner to pay the cook what they want so the customer will still give them money. if there is no customer, the owner has no reason for the cook to make burgers

Stop watching IF AND ONLY IF the unions call for a boycott. For the time being since they haven't, streaming the shows actually helps. You're not crossing a picket line to watch because that picket line does not exist unless a boycott is called for.

Hey, PSA for my fellow disabled people: UPS workers are trying to negotiate a new contract, and it looks like it's leading to a strike soon. Now, I am absolutely all for this, they need safe working conditions and should strike if need be, but for us?

Please contact your doctors and make sure you're prepared in any way possible. This will affect many of you, whether that's through med deliveries, oxygen tanks, or other one-use supplies. If you live in America, try to get in contact with an insurance case worker for resources and advice if you're able.

Stay safe, and hope that the precaution isn't necessary.

One of my meds has to be delivered overnight UPS premiere gold refrigerated… time to call up the company and get this sorted.

I fully support the strike, because I’ve been following the development and the conditions they work under are truly egregious (I don’t know why OSHA hasn’t cracked down honestly), but I’ve also literally seen the drivers about to collapse in the heat. But it makes me furious how fragile our medical supply system is that one strike like this could literally be putting so many people in grave danger. That’s on the medical supply and shipping companies, not the UPS workers OR the medical providers.