Wow there’s some fucking bullshit going on in the replies here. Moderate your fucking spaces on the internet, kick racists and other bad actors to the kerb or you risk losing everyone else. This guy has the right of it (scroll up to top).

Quit thinking you need to be fair to unfair voices

For anyone who can’t/won’t read that twitter thread, it’s by Michael B. Tager (@IamRageSparkle) and it says: 

I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, “no. get out.”

And the dude next to me says, “hey i’m not doing anything, i’m a paying customer.” and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat or something and says, “out. now.” and the dude leaves, kind of yelling. And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed

Anyway, I asked what that was about and the bartender was like, “you didn’t see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff. You get to recognize them.” And i was like, ohok and he continues.

“you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it’s always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don’t want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.

And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it’s too late because they’re entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.

And i was like, ‘oh damn.’ and he said “yeah, you have to ignore their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people.” And then he went back to ignoring me. But I haven’t forgotten that at all.

[ID: Screenshot of a tweet from @/AmazonChique that reads ‘Pathfinder FB fan group banned all racist members. The next week, they saw a drop in harassing & threatening posts of ALL kinds. From the mod: “I encourage every community to quit thinking you need to be fair to unfair voices. Get the rot out and you’ll have a healthier community” End ID]

I was thinking about this post again and I remembered something I’d read somewhere else.

When people complain that you’re not being “tolerant” of their hateful nonsense, it’s important to remember that tolerance is a peace treaty between all parties.

If one side is trying to get another killed, they’re not owed shit.

go to this random coordinates generator and say in the tags how you would fare if you were dropped where it generates without warning. i’ll go first i’d be dropped in the middle of the fucking south atlantic ocean and perish

I got put just a few miles east of a town. Unless I got murdered or taken by wild animals, I'd say.... a good 70% survival. Lol

Dragon Age: Absolution + In-Game Spells

We here at Sylph Co. are proud to announce the opening of an official tumblr account. By manufacturing and distributing Pokéballs and Trainer Acessories, we're not just selling supplies, we're selling connections between people and pokémon

Art Nouveau gold and abalone pendant with an opal (via).

This is very elven to me. I really love it

We've all gotten just a bit too comfortable being jerks to strangers on the internet I think

So I've hidden this reply, both because it's obnoxious and because I don't want the person who wrote it being harassed for it, but I need you to understand: I don't know you. We are not friends. This is not fun or cute, we are not sharing a charming joke together. You are just being an asshole.

no defense of the quote intended here but i think this is a fundamentally unrealistic goal for the anonymized internet and hoping/intending for it to get better is not gonna pan out

I think if you see someone say "we should be nicer to each other" and your immediate reaction is "yeah but we won't," then you are part of the problem

They did it perfectly

I understand the sentiment but I’m not embarrassed to promote myself and my work. Art is my passion but it’s also my job. I had tumblr years ago with 750k organic followers but I deleted it cuz I was getting death threats. When I signed up again yesterday I paid to have a post promoted. Art is my career, why shouldn’t I promote myself? And guess what? It worked. This post is doing well and I got a nice little boost of followers. 🥰

already got a blazed marvel post. the adpocalypse is closer than we think so heres your daily PSA

don't interact with corporate tumblr accounts

yes even to dunk on them. i don't care if you have the sickest burn of the century lined up, don't even give them the time of day

the eventual and inevitable fall of twitter marks a change in the advertising industry, and tumblr is unclaimed territory. if we want tumblr to remain the social media bastion it has become, it needs to remain as unappealing to corporations as possible. do not engage. in a marketing strategist's eyes, any kind of attention is good attention. don't "silence, brand" them. don't kungpowpenis them. don't send them hate anons. don't hate-follow them. corporate tumblrs are not a single entity and they will not be harassed off this site. we only have a shot at repelling them because of tumblr's lack of an algorithm. so turn off recommended posts on your dashboard, put it chronological order, and install an adblocker. if you don't seek out these blazed posts and actively ignore them when they happen upon you, the corporations will starve. in this case, the best kind of protest is a silent one

Misogyny is never about a shared standard.

The misogynist hates women no matter what they do. A woman will be severely judged while a ridiculously mediocre man will be given bigger and bigger advantages just to compete.

A misogynist as head of state will be given the biggest doubles standards imaginable.

a lot of people (esp. americans) make fun of british cuisine and most of the time it’s fair, but a lot of the time the food they’re making fun of is poverty food or working-class food… so really the joke’s on them because our terrible terrible peasant food is gonna come in real handy with the current cost of living crisis!!!

Poverty didn’t force you to name your food “spotted dick”

Yeah like that… 👆🏻

Samuel l. Jackson @ Supreme Court justices rn:

Imagine being the employee who got to do this. I would treasure this memory for the rest of my life.

the slap that almost knocked him over and killed him :/

Rudy screamed ASSAULT so the cops arrested & detained the guy. But upon viewing the surveillance footage up there, released him.

This is their modus operandi: cite every tiny outrage suffered as criminal assault, while simultaneously dismissing the actual injury & murder of others. Rudy played a huge part in organizing the Jan 6th Insurrection where 5 people died and hundreds more injured… yet claims it was a “peaceful protest”.

Marjorie Taylor Greene is currently trying to get people arrested for putting stickers on her anti-trans sign outside her office.

They call everyone “snowflakes!” but really it’s 100% projection.

the onion going hard in its landing page layout again...

i felt this in my soul:

noticing how many of solas’ banters are him quietly probing for political common ground with the other companions. like he’s the second-best friend that blackwall has in the inner circle because solas, with his revolutionary sympathies, has recognized this guy as someone who’s been similarly radicalized by his experiences as a foot soldier. a lot of his sera banters are attempts to give unsolicited advice, but my favorite is the one where he tries to help her build an effective guerrilla force because he assumes that she’s pushing for regime change/attempting to foment a peasant revolt (she never says or even implies this, but solas assumes it must be the case because that’s what he’d be doing in her position). he questions varric on kal-sharok and dwarven reform movements. he’s disappointed to hear that they’re less robust than he assumed and that varric remains uninterested in the political landscape underground.

i don’t think he’s actively recruiting - the character who agrees with him most is human, and therefore doomed if solas is successful in his attempt to tear down the veil and liberate the elven underclass - but it’s interesting how this is his primary mode of interpersonal interaction even when it’s not necessary or useful for him to start these arguments. he cannot turn it off even when it risks blowing his cover. love that for him

Get fucked, Bill Kristol. You built the foundation for all of this horror.

Tweet from Bill Kristol (American neoconservative writer):

Reply from @jenresisted:

I remember watching footage on how Act Up and other queer rights groups and healthcare advocates organized Die-Ins at prominent cathedrals at the height of the AIDS crisis, in protest of the Church’s homophobia and ban on life-saving condoms. So by all means, continue to protest churches, you’re following in a fine tradition of activism

Here’s all of my quick Dragon Age postcards together! I’ll be taking a break from this project but definitely not forever. The idea of fictional destination posters is ingrained into my soul  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

As always, prints are available on RB and Inprnt through my linktree.