im gonna be real i do think we need to spend more time as a society encouraging adults to play pretend in structured ways bc what i’m getting from a variety of sources is we all like to make fake shit and pretend to be people we are not

Discussion Questions:

Tiffany Aching,

I Shall Wear Midnight

, Terry Pratchett (via

lilyhandmaiden

)

im taking media away from some of u guys until you can pass a 6th grade literary analysis test

you guys think im fucking joking but im not. i cannot deal with another second of people complaining about stories "glorifying" their subject matter just because no one turned to the camera and said, "hey guys, just so you know, this thing is Bad and Not Good, and this story is about Why it is Bad and Not Good."

i say this with love in my heart. But i genuinely do believe some of you on this horrid webbedsite are so used to only consuming media that explicitly tells you what you are supposed to take away from it (i.e. children's media) that youve lost the ability to examine media beyond a surface level

this is not to say that children's media is bad. or that adults can't enjoy it. i'm an adult, i love cartoons, and i probably always will. but if all you are consuming is tv shows made to teach children about kindness, you are going to rot your brain

If ur annoying on this post you will owe me 300USD

Discussion questions:

1) When OP says "I'm taking media away from some of you guys until you can pass a 6th grade literary analysis test," this is an example of a rhetorical device. Which rhetorical device is an example of? Is it effective? Why or why not?

2) Why might OP only mention the website he is posting on? Does this mean he thinks every other website is without these issues, or is it in order to make it relevant to the viewers?

can't believe this is the first time i've drawn the rocks sisters. but also i can totally believe it

Cancelled Netflix Showdown, Semi-Finals

Lockwood & Co: Cancelled after 1 season, A girl with psychic abilities joins two teen boys a the ghost-hunting agency Lockwood & Co. to fight the deadly spirits plaguing London, doing their best to save the day.

The Get Down: Cancelled after 1 season, Set in the late 1970s, when New York was at the brink of bankruptcy and disco was dying out, the rise of hip-hop is told through the lives, art, music and dance of a group of young people in the South Bronx.

i'm not including warrior nun, just because it's been kind of saved, but anything else is fair game!

This is way better. Grab yerself the Tampermonkey extension, stick this bad boy in there, breathe a huge sigh of relief. Thank you @dragongirlsnout, you are absolutely AMAZING.

Generally speaking I try not to be annoyed at tumblr features experiments but also removing avatars in certain contexts is so funny I'm sorry it has been ten years and I don't know anyone's handle, I love you, approximate shapes and colors with a series of letters after.

Like most feature updates, there's a post about this on @changes and this is something that is in the lab, not being rolled out for everyone. But my good sir, this is the website for Jared, 19, and if you take our pictures away we will have no choice but to piss on the poor (our dear friends whose tone we read wrong because that's not blue swirly on a black background or still from an anime I'm not familiar with or geometric orange owl; that's some rando whose name I have never read and retained once in my life and what right do they have to call me a corndog stabbing bitch, that level of insult is reserved for my bosom mutuals, trans pride mandelbrot and dual bunsen burners).

I'm not worried that this will become widespread, but I do think it's very funny.

@staff give us the icons back that's how we recognise each other

#all of tumblr: i would know him in the dark i would recognise him by touch alone etc etc#staff: bet | xx

This is the best thing I have ever made, that’s it I’ve peaked at art. (Sound on)

sometimes you put together with your wife that the play it by ear is gonna be a Merrily Parody and then pause get up close all the doors and windows cuz you know your gonna get a little weird. Unpause and screech

the funniest thing about the bisexual Obama debacle is that Homestuck predicted it a few years ago

i love when smthing makes u mad and then u eat food and ur like okay that was still wrong but im normal about it now

my dark twisted secret is i always use my turn signals whenever possible because i believe they were included in vehicles for a reason. i’m a bit of a freak this way. a weirdo

many funny and true things going on in the notes. but also

what the hell is going on up there.

Why do gif search engines only have the most millenial normcore shit

If I could kill you through the internet you’d be dead

[robot with the biggest eyebags ever] ill be fine as soon as i organize my wires nothing a bit of cable management camt fix. yeah hold on i just gotta allocate more ram and reset my internal clock and plug this usb stick in. ya im fine i just need to recharge and turn this dial and do a quick system reset. the diagnostics of that script i ran are a lie btw im fine. do you have any cigarettes

they removed icons???????????????????????

i literally have no fucking idea who any of you people are without them and i cannot fucking fathom who tumblr staff thinks this change would appeal to

every post just looks like this

So, from the staff blog:

l suspect they accidentally reintroduced whatever this bug was?

edit: also this is their change notes from Friday, August 18th, 2023.

Cyle's blog today says it isn't a bug:

What a bizarre thing to take away.

SOLIDARITY WORKS!!!