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— Matthew Gray Gubler

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This is a *really good* article that both handles anatomy concerns and presumes zero background makeup knowledge. Well done.

It’s amazing that the cover photo is showing both older women and people of color, something that the media consistently ignores regarding the trans community.

for my followers

It’s so weird to me that Alan Turing is one of the reasons we (the allies) won the war.

It’s so weird to me that we rarely talk about him.

Its so weird to me that Alan contributed to queer history and we never talk about this

It’s so odd we never talk about how he is one of the reasons for modern computers or machine intelligence

It’s so odd how he went to Cambridge because and in respect of his gay lover

Y'all: ugh I wish fandom content creators would post more 😩😩😩😩😩😩

Also y'all when someone posts fanart/fanfic/edits/etc:

look im not popular in any way when it comes to my content creating and i absolutely understand that more attention makes you feel good about the content you’re putting out but I think that one, depending on other people for your own drive to create content isn’t really okay. also there’s always going to be more likes then reblogs like I don’t know, I don’t think this is something worth complaining about.

The main issue here is that it didn’t used to be this way. At all. And I’m certain a lot of the people who are making a huge issue out of the like to reblog ratio are people who are been here for a while (like myself) and remember the days when reblogs dominated the hell out of likes. 

Up until around 2016 or so, the like to reblog ratio was the total opposite of how it is now. And it applied on posts with fewer notes and posts with a large amount of notes:

You get my point. But over the last few years it has flipped completely:

And, of course, see OP’s screenshot.

It doesn’t take rocket science to figure out that the posts with more reblogs have an astoundingly higher amount of notes because of increased exposure. Reblogging allows more people to see the content, that’s more people to either continue reblogging or at least give a like. For artists in particular who would benefit from the exposure in terms of commissions and patreon and all of that, this is a huge deal. It can make all the difference. 

Tumblr as a blogging platform was created with the intent to post and share content. It’s not meant to be a consume-only form of social media like Instagram. For fandom blogs in particular, it always boggles me that people don’t share content that they like. Tumblr was appealing for fandom in the first place because of the ability to plaster your blog with amazing things that other people made - this used to be unheard of. For me, it’s like saving something precious so you can always come back to it again. It’s giving the people who follow me something awesome to look at too. Creating and sharing content is the heart of fandom.

People rely primarily on their dash for content. Most people avoid going into tags/searches because of wanky fandom drama. So reblogs are crucial for exposure! Likes are a nice gesture, but they do nothing to help share and promote content. That’s why content creators are frustrated or moving to other platforms, or why they stop making content altogether. Tumblr has its issues, but it’s still one of the best places for exposure due to its reblog function and overall post formatting. It’s discouraging seeing content creators on Tumblr as a concept die off. This site is nothing without them.

We can enjoy making things as much as possible but when we share it and no one cares enough to show it to others, it does make us wonder why we bothered in the first place. And this isn’t a new complaint from content creators. But it has worsened over time as the likes started dominating the reblogs. 

It’s not that we don’t appreciate likes at all, notes are notes. But reblogs equal more notes, which equals more exposure, which equals happy content creators, which equals more content for fandom to consume. It’s a wholly positive chain of events that circles back around. Your reblog could be a deciding factor on whether that content creator chooses to keep contributing or to give up entirely.

Reblogs mean the world to us. They can really brighten our day a whole lot.

Op didn’t work on this for just 10 notes

This is exactly why we invented the gif.

Tránsito, 2016.  Cristina Francov. 

Jane Elliott giving a lecture on “Color Blindness”

seeing these white people squirm gave me joy.

Mad respect to her bc she made that vid FREE instead of making ppl pay her to repeat us like Tim wise does

Jane Elliot is the definition of a true anti-racism ally.

Loved this video. I also loved when the white girl started crying and she didn’t go running to make her feel better as she had no reason to be crying any way.

new followers, welcome. watch this.

Yeah for every 5 new followers I get I lose 4 because I stay posting shit like this. They think it’s all jokes with me and it’s not. I like to have fun but it’s real for me and if you can’t accept that then begone.

this was actually really gross those people could be gay, trans queer, mentally ill, disabled in a non visible way, abused ect and have to deal with that every day as well so i think she and the school doesn’t have th right to do this shit 

GAY WHITE PEOPLE CAN STILL BE RACIST

TRANS AND QUEER WHITE PEOPLE CAN STILL BE RACIST

MENTALLY ILL WHITE PEOPLE CAN STILL BE RACIST

DISABLED WHITE PEOPLE CAN STILL BE RACIST

WHITE VICTIMS OF ABUSE CAN STILL BE RACIST

BEING MARGINALIZED IN ONE WAY DOES NOT PREVENT YOU FROM PERPETUATING OPPRESSION IN ANOTHER WAY

BEING MARGINALIZED IN ONE WAY DOES NOT PREVENT YOU FROM PERPETUATING OPPRESSION IN ANOTHER WAY

BEING MARGINALIZED IN ONE WAY DOES NOT PREVENT YOU FROM PERPETUATING OPPRESSION IN ANOTHER WAY

Reblogging for the clap back pics

I fucking love this woman

BEING MARGINALIZED IN ONE WAY DOES NOT PREVENT YOU FROM PERPETUATING OPPRESSION IN ANOTHER WAY

help me out guys. reblog this, like this. for every note, everything is pushed back a day for him. I need your help. he doesn’t believe it’s possible to help him. but it’s entirely possible, especially with your help. I know these are so sporadic and cliché to an extent along with becoming so popular on here, but please. I appreciate every single note

REBLOGGGGG LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT

BREAK THE POST BREAK THE POST!!!!

REBLOG LIKE YOUR LIFE IS ON THE LINE.

this could save a life!!! i have to rb this : V

help me out guys. reblog this, like this. for every note, everything is pushed back a day for him. I need your help. he doesn’t believe it’s possible to help him. but it’s entirely possible, especially with your help. I know these are so sporadic and cliché to an extent along with becoming so popular on here, but please. I appreciate every single note

REBLOGGGGG LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT

BREAK THE POST BREAK THE POST!!!!

REBLOG LIKE YOUR LIFE IS ON THE LINE.

this could save a life!!! i have to rb this : V

This is an important message.

I will never NOT reblog this.

That matinal SLAP ON YOUR FACE

Thank you

Ah, true perfection..

#the starter pack for ‘how to deal with villain apologists

Bonus:

“I’m having a very terrible childhood right now” was such a line.

this post is so fucked up because whenever it comes up on my dash i will without fail spend at least 30 seconds dragging a sponge around my screen like an idiot. no matter how many times i see this post it still gets me and now im about to do it again for good measure

Assert your domanance by printing out the sponge and rubbing it on your screen

All things he ever wished are left behind 

All the things his mama did to make him mind

EXCUSE ME, MISS, I KNOW IT’S NOT FUNNY BUT YOUR PERFUME SMELLS LIKE YOUR DADDY’S GOT MONEY!

( do NOT send these gifs to the actors, do not post on twitter. )

Super important for our sex worker friends out there!

anne sexton // richard siken// margaret atwood // virginia woolf

If y’all wanna know the true power of hate, just remember that Alan Turing, the breaker of the enigma code in WWII, was driven to suicide by being forced to undergo chemical castration as a punishment for his homosexuality.

Historians say he saved 14 to 21 million lives.

I’d also like to say in the time we studied WWII in school, the history textbooks never mentioned him. I had never heard of the guy until I watched “The Imitation Game” which I 110% recommend you watch if you haven’t.Alan Turing was a blessing to humanity who saved (once again) 14 to 21 million lives, and he is left out of history because he was gay.

And this is just one example?? So many brilliant and heroic people are left out of history because of their race, their gender, their sexuality, their religion, and it’s just because some bigots in positions of influence get to decide what parts of history are remembered.

This man has had a profound effect on the world, it’s estimated he shortened the war by 2 years, saved countless lives and was the father of modern computing. Without him the world would be a very different, and very dark place.

He wasn’t just chemically castrated. The injections they have him were intended to decrease his libido as part his sentence for “gross indecency”. About 2 years after his trial he was found dead in his apartment next to a half eaten apple that was filled with cyanide (which became the inspiration for the Apple logo).

Turing is one of the most amazing people in all of history. He developed our modern method of computing (see: the Turing Machine) and advanced computer science by immeasurable amounts. And he dies when he was 41. Just imagine if he lived in a world where he was accepted. Imagine the technology we would have today and how many more lives would have been saved. No person deserves what Turing got, especially not someone as brilliant as him.

TEACH. CHILDREN. ABOUT. ALAN. TURING! WHEN THEY LEARN ABOUT WWII, THEY DESERVE TO KNOW ABOUT THE MAN WHO ENDED IT!!!

Can you do something for me, please?

I want you to reblog this if you believe that two people can be very close and physically affectionate with one another, but still have a completely nonsexual, non-romantic relationship. 

Even if the two people in question are capable of being sexually or romantically attracted to one another. 

Because the friendship I share with someone I consider family in a way that transcends blood has been typecast as a romantic relationship ENTIRELY too many times, and I’m beginning to get sick of it. 

this

*thinks of like all my beans ever* this.

NYC Data Stories: Allyship

For when people say they’re sick of seeing gay stuff everywhere. Suck it up. 4 years. 4 years. And that’s just on the books, it’s legal. It doesn’t stop shitty attitudes, actions, or straight up violence.

4 years only covers being legally allowed to exist and marry

There are still 17 states that have no workplace protection for LGBT+ employees, and 10 state that only have protection if you’re a government employee. That means over half of the states in the U.S. still legally allow LGBT+ discrimination at almost every workplace

You can legally get married in those states and the next day you could legally be fired