your annual reminder:

however!

happy autism awareness/acceptance month! go tell your local autistic pal that they’re awesome! if you’re autistic, remember to practice some self-love!

White Feminism

I wish more white people - and white women especially - would get over their white fragility and truly understand how words and actions like these do more harm than good to women of color. They need to stop making everything about themselves and catering to other whites women like women of color don’t exist.

Do autistic kids "grow out" of their autism? Why does it sometimes seem like there are so few autistic adults?

For Autism Acceptance Month, I covered this topic in this comic to help explain this disconnect! YouTube | TikTok | Instagram | Twitter

I actually think the real advantage tumblr has over other websites is the ability of "reblogging" to create posts with contributions from multiple users. This allows people to build on others' posts, whether that's derailing them with a terrible joke, drawing the scenario proposed as a comic, answering the question posed originally in lively essay format, or rewriting the previous interaction as a scene in Shakespearean iambic pentameter.

This is also why Tumblr is hard to make profitable. Individual users have relatively little power to create good content. It's interactions between users that actually creates the good content, and therefore, no one involved in the good stuff on Tumblr can really claim to "own" it or be the "creator."

Posts have to navigate through Tumblr to pick up the people that can add to them in a constructive way, and then when users interact, the whole interaction can spread across the website as a new evolution of the content. There's no way to simplify this process.

Theres a whole ecosystem running here. It's not as simple as Creators and Consumers, and you can't simplify it to that. That's not how ART works, let alone posts. There's symbiosis. The users that do the nitrogen fixation aren't the ones photosynthesizing. The detritivores can't also be the predators. The "rappers doing normal shit blog" has a different niche than the person that asks why Lil Wayne has socks on in the jacuzzi, who has a different niche than the person who says "those are his hooves, you bitch!"

It's like bioavailability, you see. The user that responds "Those are his hooves, you bitch" is like a predator on a high trophic level, unable to directly feed on producers, needing primary consumers to convert the post into a form that makes a punch line possible.

This is what I love about Tumblr. It feels more like discussing a common matter with the people you meet while out for a walk than trying to hold a conversation with twenty people at once in a crowded room

I have seen a lot of these "how Tumblr works"-posts going around lately, and I think this one says it really well. I'm not necessarily here for the original post but for the snowball effect of a reblog chain that hopefully follows

College dorms in the late 90s early 2000s had poster boards everywhere and everyone stuck random notes on, some that continued a conversation. Tumblr makes me think of college posterboards.

Tumblr is improv. We’re constantly yes-anding each other.

I knew a linguist once who did a study on conversations in bathroom graffiti and that’s something else tumblr conversations remind me of. 

oh but I adore how everyone in this stupid pirate show is just a guy

I haven't seen ppl talk about it much but. the absolute lack of shredded abs. people show tummy and cleavage and there's not the barest hint of muscle definition anywhere

obviously some of them are very fit but it never leaves "works a physically demanding job and happens to be naturally thin" territory

and guys are fat! guys have bellies and rounded shoulders and chubby cheeks and imperfect teeth and thinning hair and are styled weirdly (that's a whole different post but the crew especially look so unprofessional styled it's great)

and they are still all hot! they are hot and desirable and find each other hot and desirable and I love that

I love to see it! nobody in this show looks like they had a personal trainer. and not just the side characters, not just a token fat guy - obv Taika Waititi is the most beautiful man you've ever seen and that little bit of tummy pudge spilling out of his crop top made us all lose our collective minds. but it's everyone else too; and it's not the extend of it either. no other show would have let black pete within 10 feet of a romance arc, much less been this sweet and sincere about it

this show is so comfortable with the human body in all it's glorious imperfection and I am in love with it

So much about this show is groundbreaking, but the fact that they chose actors of all different shapes, sizes, and ages, and then even when those actors were already very attractive - see Vico and Taika for example, they kind of made them LESS attractive to fit this characterisation of kinda grubby pirates. I'm still awed over the decision to keep Taika's grey hair for his wig rather than just putting him in a fully black wig and beard (which would have been more historically accurate since blackbeard was no older than 35 in 1717 ) because the show isn't afraid to shy away from this idea that older people can still find love.

I adore the fact that there isn't a single traditional "CW style" overly attractive model young person with chisled cheekbones and abs for days like something out of an abercrombie & fitch advert and yet they still allow these characters to find love, and to find queer love at that.

I love the fact that even the women like Spanish Jackie, Evelyn Higgins, and even Mary Bonnet, aren't played by stick thing 20 somethings. They are still beautiful women but they also don't fit the "CW standard" as I like to call it.

Because I fucking hate that "CW standard". People don't look like that in real life so why should they in the media we watch? Why shouldn't the short bald slightly weird pirate with a lisp get to fall in love? Why shouldn't the kind hearted black pirate with a big belly also find romance? Its so beautiful and the more I think about this show the more I find myself tearing up at a creative team that actually put thought and care into their creation beyond what old white executives think is hot and what sells.

This show was so desperately needed. In an age where young people are killing themselves over whether they look "yassified" enough on their instagrams, where we are obsessed with filters and layering makeup on our faces like we're icing a cake, and obsessing about thigh gaps and the perfect "slim/thick" ratio. Where young men are suffering severe depression all because they don't have influencer style muscles, and in an age where love is cheap and easily dismissed by a simple swipe to the left, along comes this silly pirate show, that shows us that even the outcasts of society can find family, and acceptance, and love, and fucking hell, its beautiful.

The most conventionally, symmetrical, becheekboned attractive person on this show is David Jenkins, the creator/showrunner:

And they get rid of him in the pilot.

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i dont know when it happened but somewhere along the way “shipping” got a new meaning for younger folk that seems to translate to “i want these people together for real asap”. i think the media had something to do with it. but guys.

guys.

shipping absolutely Does Not mean demanding anything from people/creators. shipping isn’t about expecting and waiting for the day it will certainly happen. it is not a direct translation to Happen Or Die.

shipping means you like the idea of two (or more) people together. you like the concept. you find it fun to imagine the dynamics. you even create fanon content of it (fic, art, edits). it’s all in your head and it’s Fine that way.

is it nice to have a ship become canon? oh my god, yes. but that’s not what shipping is about and yall need to take a step back and breathe because being a jerk to people aint gonna change their mind about ships.

have a good night.

I wish lesbians were as easy to find in real life as they are on tumblr

11 FUCKING THOUSAND NOTES ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME WHERE ARE YOU ALL COME DATE ME

ok

update: we are dating

update: we are married

update: we knocked up

This is the cutest story on the entirety of Tumblr, I swear to god!!!!!

Update: had a baby together

Update: he’s 1 year old today

Well this is adorable!

This is the top quality I want on my dash. No other post besides this and Mash Potato the dog matters on this site.

the fact that the original post was made back in 2012 and the 1-year-old baby update was as recent as 2021, the development and plot that happened within this post in an almost nine year timespan …this person truly Won tumblr

Beautiful

Y'all in the notes acting like this happened in the span of like a month when the orignal post was made in 2012 and they got married in 2018, that’s not fast that’s a lovely relationship

Reblogged this countless of times BUT THIS IS SO CUTEEEEE I CANT NOT REBLOG

bonus:

Jane Austen really said ‘I respect the “I can fix him” movement but that’s just not me. He’ll fix himself if knows what’s good for him’ and that’s why her works are still calling the shots today.

Meanwhile Emily Brönte just said “We can make each other worse.” 

Mary Shelley said, "I can make him

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DO NOT KNOW

THIS IS A TRUMPET

THIS IS A TROMBONE

THIS IS A TUBA

AND THIS IS A FRENCH HORN

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME

You mean trumpet

Slidey Trumpet

Big ass trumpet

Drunk Trumpet

I’M GONNA PUNCH YOU

My sides

AT LEAST YOUR INSTRUMENTS LOOK DIFFERENT 

those are some fancy guitars

EXCUSE YOU THAT IS A BASS, A VIOLIN, A FIDDLE, AND A VIOLA

Those are big mama violin and her little violings

String trumpets.

THATS NOT A BASS YOU DICK THATS A CELLO GET UR FUCKIN STRING INSTRUMENTS RIGHT JFC

things heating up in the orchestra fandom

I know what a trumpet is I play one

Time to reblog this and give my friends a stroke

Being a past trumpet player and now a French horn this post makes me very angery

I tap keys

But hey what about

Wow… Those are really strange trumpets, where did you get them from?

What about this six-string viola I found?

acoustic trumpet

#m gonna punch you

Violins is never the solution

my favourite instrument is this weird fiddle

oh look its gotten worse since I last seen it

Those are all some pretty weird saxophones

Don’t bring sax into it, there are children on this site. Sax and violins, that’s all y’all ever want to talk about on this site.

$29.99

dinosaur of head empty no thoughts.

actually that caption was a lie.

#i need to find a way to watch this show

Here is a link and here is another link and another one.

I wish I had access to HBO so I could watch it there to improve ratings, but alas. It's ok though, Taika won't mind.

What an absolute legend

FOLKS THIS IS SUCH A GOOD ARTICLE

the child who reads 500 books a year to 20 something adult who only reads fanfic pipeline

So a week ago there were less than 50 Stede/Ed stories on the AO3 and now there are 328 and an hour ago there were 320 and I love fandom so fucking much, man

We’re six away from 400!

482 Works in Blackbeard | Edward Teach/Stede Bonnet

Can we get 18 more before this day is over?

The fandom is generating 100 stories per day for just this one pairing. 100 a day.

Will we get 21 more before midnight

100 stories in a day, three days running.

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK

Good morning everyone look at what our fandom has brought us for breakfast in bed

This fandom is a fucking supernova

Good afternoon OFMD fandom how’s your day going

So we’re gonna go from 50 stories to 1,000 in two weeks - and just in this one pairing - this fandom is a fucking supernova

History books: Stede Bonnet suddenly left his wife and kids, bought a boat, became a "gentleman" pirate, was terrible at it, became a "guest" on Blackbeard's ship for several months because Blackbeard thought he was neat? We guess?

Taika Waititi and David Jenkins - There's no heterosexual explanation for any of this.

I put just about every spare moment of my schedule this week into making some very special pirates 💙🖤. I’d like to do cuddle style too, at some point. If you wanna check out more dolls, visit The Stitchy Button shop