fizzing wizard 🦋

I had a shitty day yesterday, and a great day today. And if you asked me beforehand, I would have said I expected it to be the opposite. (just work stuff)

Pissed off.

Checked who I'm following because I didn't remember following the top blog. I am in no way bashing that blog!! I'm sure it's lovely. I just didn't follow it knowingly. I'd leave it at that - "oh, I clicked something by mistake" - BUT!

The other two blogs I am 100000% sure I didn't follow. First off, I'm not interested in them. Also they're blogs that Blaze and promote Tumblr merch regularly. I saw them all the time even when I wasn't following them. Actually!!! And this is concerning. I had BLOCKED notpikaman aaaaages ago because I was so annoyed with their blazed posts. But the block was undone when Tumblr force-followed them for me!

That's the only thing that could have happened. How the heck would I have accidentally clicked Follow on three blogs in a row, especially when two are blogs I go out of my way to avoid? And one I'd even blocked???

ridiculous. ridiiiiculous.

I've seen the Blazed posts about crab day and what not. I'm sadly too jaded to believe that, even if we did buy enough crabs to pay off all of Tumblr's debt, that Tumblr would then actually do user friendly things instead of going the way of Tiktok and Twitter and other more popular social media platforms. You can pay off the debt, sure. Doesn't make the potential of making a hell of a lot more money any less alluring. I don't believe for an instant that we'll do anything by buying crabs except part with our own dollars for pixels.

If in the end Tumblr can't make it. I'll be sad to lose my blogs. But I'll live. Hopefully I'll find somewhere else I like, but even if I always miss what Tumblr used to be, I'm not going to cry about. And I'm not going to entertain fantasies that user experience is prioritized, or that I really am accidentally hitting Follow all the time (and that being apparently such an easy mistake to make is nothing to do with that so-called "user experience" of course, lol)

(Complaining)

To me, this is just the most Snufkin-ish poem. Not one I think he'd necessarily write, but the spirit of it is the well his art springs from. Actually, I think this poem just embodies the spirit of the Moomin novels in general.

"Summer Story" Mary Oliver

When the hummingbird sinks its face into the trumpet vine, into the funnels

of the blossoms, and the tongue leaps out and throbs,

I am scorched to realize once again how many small, available things are in this world

that aren't pieces of gold or power - that nobody owns

or could buy even for a hillside of money - that just float about the world, or drift over the fields, or into the gardens, and into the tents of the vines, and now here I am

spending my time, as the saying goes, watching until the watching turns into feeling so that I feel I am myself

a small bird with a terrible hunger, with a thin beak probing and dipping and a heart that races so fast

it is only a heartbeat ahead of breaking - and I am the hunger and the assuagment, and also I am the leaves and the blossoms, and, like them, I am full of delight, and shaking.

absolutely Cannot today with idiots on tiktok setting back feminism fifty years

(especially when her complaint is not something that no feminism would solve - the only thing that will solve it for her is becoming filthy rich)

people like this tiktoker should have paid better attention at school during what little time is devoted to studying women's roles if they really think women in history "didn't work" and "lived in leisure." that was the aristocrat's wives you knob-heads. their husbands didn't do much either. they had servants to do all the household chores (which were much more demanding before electricity and indoor plumbing!). poor and lower middle class women had to do those chores themselves, AND help make a living. at some points there were even women working in mines. you know, that hellscape of men's jobs, spending all day doing hard labor in the dark breathing in cancerous fumes... also don't forget what was expected of women during wartime! suddenly we weren't all "delicate and dainty" anymore!

what we women of the 21st century have now is choice. we don't have to be rich to avoid jobs we don't want. we have no excuse for exploiting people as slaves and servants. (not that exploiting people is ever justified.) if you want to be a stay at home mom go for it. no, there isn't a guarantee you'll make it happen - any more than going for a degree is a guarantee you'll land your dream job - but guess what, even in the "good old days" there was no guarantee either. once in while, when you're sitting around convincing yourself you'd be so much happier frolicking in long skirts and warming your husband's slippers by the fire, spare a daydream or two for the alternative where no one wants to marry you and you have to pick one of like three monotonous jobs to work day in, day out, so you can support yourself as a sexless, childless old maid.

seriously just go get rich, i'm sure you'll be much happier as a miser than as an anti-feminist.