keep seeing Temu ads on here so just to share cause idk if people are widely aware
going from the reddit star wars fandom to the tumblr star wars fandom is giving me insane whiplash. the upside is that people aren’t bitching about every single imperfect detail in the entire franchise, but the downside is that i’ve seen more fanart of obi wan and commander cody tenderly knowing each other than i have ever wanted to in my life in the last three hours and it has probably fundamentally altered the way i interact with the entire franchise
after the initial shock of being plunged into the icy cold lake of seeing my childhood action figures caressing each others sweaty chests in a gentle, hidden moment after a battle, i’ve been able to get my wits about me and realize that yeah, i’m kinda with it
obligatory welcome guide for redditors
A lot of the guides I've seen don't actually seem to understand how reddit works in comparison to tumblr so
- your blog is basically your own small subreddit. some people curate this heavily to fit a theme, like a sub, most people don't
- reblogs are culturally equivilant to upvotes but functionally equvilant to crossposting
- there is an algorithm. it sucks and nobody uses it. turn it off in settings. everything is generally chronological
- likes are functionally equivilant to saving a post
- you've probably already seen this but change your icon and put something in your bio or people WILL assume you're a bot. personal info not required
- generally, anything you would put as a comment on a thread should go in the tags or the replies of a post. only add comments in reblogs if you want it to become part of the base post
- tags are mostly equivilant to flairs, used for organization and commentary
- your dashboard is an aggregation of everyone you follow
- there is an r/all equivilant(trending page) but it sucks and nobody uses it
- our search also sucks. your best bet is using tumblr.com/tagged/[TAG] and not /search
- there are no mods
- by extension, reporting something doesn't put it in front of the mods, it sends it to staff, who may or may not do anything(usually they don't)
- there is no karma, there are no karma limits. anyone can reblog anything, comment/reply to anything, or post in any tag
- "reposting"(reblogging) old content doesn't matter. people can and will reblog the same post multiple times, including in a row
- CAVEAT. reposting someones art(NOT reblogging, making a new post) is a dick move. i know this is commonplace on fandom subs but its not necessary here. everything you post should be [OC] unless you are reblogging. or posting shitty memes
- we have our own sitelore, you'll pick it up
- (though im not opposed to bringing some over from reddit)
- our app also sucks. we do not have third party apps and any that claim to be are scams. sorry
- for desktop, most people use the XKit Rewritten extension for QoL improvements and to revert shitty aesthetic updates, much like old.reddit
- we have no idea where the porn rules are at either. add a mature content flag to anything you'd get fired for looking at at work, that's about it
finally, from the bottom of my heart, fuck u/spez
being a girl and hitting puberty is so traumatic. you go from being a genderless little free thing to being hit with shaving and makeup and growing breasts and skincare and menstruation and suddenly being sexualised when like a few years ago you could take your shirt off to play in the stream and trade yugioh cards with the boys and come home covered in mud and not even think about it. and then you spend years hating being a girl and hating everything puberty did to you and wishing you could be a boy or be completely genderless again and it takes you Many years to come to terms with yourself Or you simply try to Lean In to everything and do makeup tutorials on YouTube and claim it’s for fun. like how can this be treated as normal
trans people AND cis women 🤝 struggling to exist in a marked body which the world wants to shape, control and project meaning on to against your will
i think this pretty much sums it up.
i could go more in depth, but i'm not going to
I had some additions
Approximately 130,000 - 260,000 Americans have been forced to flee their homes because of legislation criminalizing trans existence.
That’s 8% of transgender Americans. An additional 43% of transgender Americans are seriously considering moving due to laws criminalizing our existence and healthcare.
“So many people are completely helpless to get out, even with all the bumps and roadblocks, the fact is I'm still one of the lucky ones.” Said Sheena, a trans woman who fled from from Florida.
“it's evident that the United States is in the throes of a swelling crisis of internally displaced political refugees. Over a million people, themselves contemplating relocation in the coming months, remain in a state of apprehensive vigilance, awaiting the potential signal that they too must bid farewell to their homes.”
Via Erin Reed, a professional policy tracker of transgender legislation. June 13, 2023.
have you tried to use youtube without an adblocker recently? i guarantee you’ll be leaving bombs and spraying question marks around the city like the riddler
sniffposts
for people lamenting about the mobile experience in the tags you can watch YouTube in browser with Firefox app with Ublock origin extension on android or Firefox Focus or Brave (?) on iPhone
missmangos-wonderland
for android users, there’s also youtube revanced, which mods the app itself to block ads as well as other helpful features you can pick from such as sponsorblock. ive been using it and it works like a dream
for some reason this post has me marked as deactivated. anyways. go use youtibe revanced. apkmirror has older builds of youtube’s app and if you reset the version installed on your phone it’ll let you downpatch to the version the manager recommends
on september 15, 1967, spock and kirk gave birth to a beautiful baby girl named slash fanfiction
twitter: currently owned by techbro pissman
tumblr: actively removing functionality and bloating the interface with things nobody uses
discord: being retooled by ex-Meta management who don't understand the appeal of the platform
youtube: neutered by advertisers and algorithms and also tiktokification
reddit: half of the site is down due to protests about the removal of third-party API support
facebook: my mom is on there
Deviantart: Supports AI
30 bucks to get the animation software used to make secret of kells and get away from using adobe animate and their terrible subscription model. Please reblog if you think you know someone who might get some use out of it.
my partner does beautiful leatherwork but is bad at promoting himself, so i’m here to do it for him
Everything is made from real leather - no plastic! - that is veg-tanned, meaning no ecologically damaging chemicals are used in the tanning process. He makes pieces both as fashion statements for casual daily use and for BDSM / leather fetish wear. Everything can be made to order and adjusted for sizing and accessibility needs - larger sizes of any piece do not incur an upcharge, and any needed or wanted customizations are welcome and encouraged, whether it be accommodating for mobility limitations or doing a custom paintjob.
He regularly makes chest harnesses, strap-ons, and collars, but he has also done full-body sets, buckle corsets, garters, and more, and is always enthusiastic to make unique custom pieces of any kind.
he doesn’t post his work on tumblr, but you can follow him on twitter or instagram. he also has a shop of ready-to-ship items as well as commission info for strap-ons and chest harnesses on his kofi!
dimitri is a disabled trans person who makes everything with the lens of those groups, so a piece that fits your body and your needs at an attainable price is extremely important to him. his pieces are priced quite low for what they are to make them as accessible as possible. if you’re a sex worker, reach out to either of us about receiving a discount, and anyone can pay in installments if needed. thanks for looking <3
do you guys know about an unauthorised fan treatise.
okay an unauthorised fan treatise is a mystery that makes you feel like a fly on the wall to the world's most batshit fandom drama. the whole thing is told through blog posts from the perspective of gottie, a fan attempting to prove that two of the lead actors in her favorite show are dating, as she uncovers far far more than a relationship
it's got everything: fictitious comment sections full of frighteningly realistic discourse, commentary on invasive and parasocial fan relationships, Ye Olde Flame Wars, fanfic of a show that doesn't exist, and a twist that made me scream irl. i want to study gottie under a microscope
1) Width. Add it.
2) Width. Just. Yeah. If you want to draw a really big guy - do it. The third guy is ok, but it's just a small guy with belly!
3) Gravity! More fat - more soft - gravity goes brr.
4) Basic shapes and clothes would definitely help you to draw a big comfy soft guy!
Miaou
/cackling/
Why are yall surprised about sans undertale on the sans undertale website??
I choose to incorporate this into my worldview.
Adam Sandler, magnificent bastard, was not a sentence I ever expected to say but here we are.
Man's got talent
babe wake up new adam sandler lore just dropped
Huh.
Everyone who works with him talks about what a mensch he is, so, like... that scans.
i bought the goncharov poster immediately because even if this meme ends there will never ever be a period of time where having a poster for a Scorsese film that doesn't exist won't be funny. the idea of someone who has no idea about this tumblr movement coming over and seeing it and being like what the fuck? is that? is insanely funny to me as someone who loves lying. I am going to frame the poster and protect it like a newborn child. i want to have it placed so that whenever im on a work zoom call everyone can see it and wonder whwt the fuck it is. i love lying and drama.
link to where you can buy a goncharov poster (or shirt) from the person who made the goncharov poster (art-of-beelz | beelzebub)
In case only children are trying to write realistic sibling interactions : remember this card and the fact that this person's sibling saw their illiterate child buy this, in fact probably paid for it, and said nothing
happy PRIDE i’m here i’m queer and i believe the land should be given back to the proper indigenous stewards.
Non-Natives reblogging this are great and wonderful
Please remember that "land back" does not mean "indigenous people are mystical elves with innate epigenetic wisdom of land stewardship and they don't belong in big cities," nor does it mean "non-indigenous people can't be farmers." What it DOES mean is that "non-indigenous farmers should be paying the equivalent of property taxes to the native governments their land was stolen from." It means, "there's a great deal of indigenous scholarship on sustainable agricultural practices that farmers should be taking into account, because indigenous agriculture was more advanced than European agriculture at the time Europe invaded the Americas and western agriculture *still* hasn't caught up in terms of figuring out how to produce equivalently high crop yields without compromising the ecosystem." It means, "non-indigenous farmers should be in an intellectual discourse with indigenous agricultural scientists and indigenous peoples that still do traditional farming, figuring how to repair the damage western farming practices have done to the ecosystem."
It also means that indigenous peoples should regain the right to sustain themselves on the land according to the practices they want, and they should have free reign to perform their cultural practices and protect their holy sites, as opposed to the current model where if they try to honor their dead on public lands they get violently removed.