Both Parties are not the same.
Sooooo we're *all* voting blue in 2024, R I G H T??
Me: should I send you to bed, my dear?
Them: that's probably not a bad idea
Me: I see, it is time to abandon me to my fate
Them: i am not abandoning you
Them: I am ... keeping the bed warm for when you get here
Me: smooth
Me: incorrect, but smooth
YES GOOD :D
Especially aimed at Florida, but available to anyone!
And if you want to help them out and have some extra cash, you can make a donation to help them continue their work:
Every reblog and donation is another slap to DeSantis.
If you can, it's time to warm up that pitching arm.
My mother does this to me 24/7. It's so fucking exhausting.
is anyone else on this hill or is it just me and sisyphus and kate bush?
Me: I'm just saying: Kevin McAllister is a murderer.
Me: There is no way those burglars walked out of that house alive
Them: I just don't understand
Them: how does one family lose their child not once, not even twice, but *three different times*
Them: and not even realize it until they're on the damn flight?
Me: well, when you have 7 kids...
Them: they should have thought twice about having 7 kids then!
Me: yeah, 7 is just. Too many.
Them: if we have kids, we're stopping at 2.
Me: fair. Even 3 is too many.
Them: ...no, dearest. 2. I'm putting my foot down. I am *not* going to Two Towers our children
Me: asdfgHJKL
Me: WHAT the FUCK does that even mean?
Them: of the LOTR books, Two Towers is the weakest. It moves the story along but its just kinda ... there.
Them: no one deserves to be the soggy middle child of our family.
Me: *incoherent screeching*
Very Brief Guide to [tumblr], for Reddit refugees
Shit You Must Do Right Fucking Now:
- Change your profile picture, blog header, and title to something other than the defaults. Do it right now. You will be mistaken for a bot otherwise, and blocked.
- Go into Settings -> Dashboard, scroll down to Preferences, and turn off the options in the picture. This will get rid of most of the algorithmic stuff.
- Turn off Tumblr Live. You have to snooze it once every 7 days for some stupid reason. It's hosted through another company and will steal your data if you use it.
- Go to your blog settings (under the little person menu) and turn off these two settings:
- Turn off infinite scroll (lags the site) and turn on timestamps on posts, in the same menu as Preferences.
Basic Features of the Site:
- Reblogs drive the entire site. If you'd upvote something on Reddit, you'd reblog it on Tumblr. You can add text, images, or tags to a reblog, but you're not required to.
- The dashboard is the equivalent to your Reddit feed, and contains the posts of all the people you follow, with the newest at the top
- You can send an ask to someone, and it'll appear in their askbox for them to answer. You can receive them too, or turn off the settings if you don't want.
- Tags aren't actually used for finding stuff (search function is dogshit), but are more for categorizing. People also talk in tags. Because Tumblr is weird, you can't use quotation marks (") or commas in them without fucking it up
- You can filter both tags and phrases under Account Settings; doing this will put a filter over a post that contains them, which you'll have to click through to see the post itself. Useful for avoiding hate speech or blocking out annoying stuff
- You can make polls in posts. Here's one now.
- Likes are useless. They literally do fuck-all except send a notification to the OP.
Stuff Tumblr Does That Other Sites Don't:
- Very old posts (I'm talking from like 2012) often circulate on this site. There's no such thing as a post being "too old" to reblog
- Blocking is highly encouraged; you can block someone for any reason. Even for just being annoying.
- If you and someone else are following each other, you are mutuals. Mutuals are fucking awesome and are treasured like friends. Mutuals are a thing on other sites but Tumblr treats em differently.
- You can screenshot someone's tags if you like them and add them to a reblog. This is called "peer review"
- Sometimes someone will find a blog and go through it and like/reblog a bunch of posts. This is totally fine and not "creepy" like it is seen as on other sites.
- Tumblr jokes often rely on Continuing The Bit and a "yes, and?" attitude. Goncharov is probably the best example of this.
- We are fucking infested with bots. They will either have totally blank profiles or be filled with porn. Block and report on sight.
- Censorship is pretty lax here. I can say "I want to brutally stab Elon Musk to death and watch him bleed out in front of a crowd" and nobody gives a shit.
General Etiquette:
- Don't try to do epic clapbacks here, you'll probably just get laughed at or blocked. If someone is bugging you or spouting bigoted bullshit, block them.
- Reblog art!!! Artists often struggle to gain traction on here; reblogging will give them a boost.
- Not every reblog needs a comment or tag in it
- You can go all out with tagging your stuff to organize it, or you can just leave it all blank. Someone might ask "hey, can you tag these posts as [x]?" and you can decide if you want to do that or not. It's generally polite to oblige, but "no" is still reasonable.
- Avoid discourse like the plague. Filter it, block people who start it, scroll past it when you see it. Just don't get involved in it. Ever.
- Don't put fandom tags or jokes on someone's posts about serious matters or personal shit
- You're responsible for curating your own dashboard; if you complain about constantly seeing stuff you don't like, that's probably on you. Don't be afraid to unfollow.
- Follower count doesn't matter much here and you don't have to make yours known if you don't want to.
- Reblog, don't repost. Reblogging keeps the credit and doesn't "steal" engagement like Twitter retweets.
- If someone likes something a LOT, they might reblog it like 30 times in a row. This is normal
- Having a post blow up is actually kinda a bad thing, since it floods your notifications. There's a sort of in-joke about how having a big post is awful and people jokingly try to stop their own posts from blowing up, often in vain.
Tips:
- Get XKit Rewritten if you're on desktop, it's a really helpful extension
- In the little drop-down menu next to the 'Post now' button you can either save a draft, schedule a post, or add it to your queue. The queue lets you post things in order at a certain interval, which you can change. It's good for spreading stuff out over time.
- You can use Shift+R to quickly reblog stuff and Shift+Q to queue!
- Filter your notifications under Activity - you can also see some neat graphs
- Find each other! If you want your old Reddit communities to stick together, seek out other refugees and follow them.
Have fun on [tumblr], everyone!
the creators of Ted Lasso really said we’re going to make a football show using every rom-com trope and beat not about an actual romantic pairing but rather to tell a story about grown ups becoming better people through love, openness, mutual support, and therapy.
The indoctrination never stops.
Conservatives need a minority target to keep their followers focused/unified on hate. As the followers obsess on hate, their lives/emotions are much easier to manipulate.
Conservatives always vow to restore the country to some distant past that never existed.
It's an endless loop of failure.
Vegans of tumblr, listen up. Harvesting agave in the quantities required so you dont have to eat honey is killing mexican long-nosed bats. They feed off the nectar and pollinate the plants. They need the agave. You want to help the environment? Go back to honey. Your liver and thyroid will thank you, as well. Agave is 90% fructose, which can cause a host of issues. Bye.
lirisa
So let me get this straight ,vegans should stop eating the food of the Mexcian long-nosed bats, because the bats need it, and instead vegans should instead eat honey, the food of bees, that their larvae need, even though the bee populations are facing ecological issues as it stands. 10/10 post, dude.
keyhollow
Did you forget the whole part where only excess is taken and all their needs are met and then some orrrr?
Like, did you read it orrrrr?
Anyway, BUY HONEY SAVE BEES
404-son-of-a-shepherd-not-found
It is a 10/10 post. Because OP is right.
Bees do not suffer when beekeepers take their honey, because experienced beekeepers do not take all of their honey, in fact, they leave plenty of honey left for the bees to consume over the winter. If we do not collect their honey, 1 of two things will happen.
1. they will leave for a bigger home. Which at first seems fine until you remember that bees are dying very quickly out in the wild.
or
2. They will start using the areas that they reserve for their young as a place to make more honey. This is bad because if no more young are being produced, then the hive will start to die out because no new workers are coming into the world, and the average live only 150 days, so it would also mean the loss of more bees.
So yeah, eating honey isn’t inhumane at all. In fact, you’re helping the bees by eating what they produce and giving money to the bee keepers who are the ones making sure that the hive will keep being healthy.
LOUDER FOR THE VEGANS IN THE BACK: use honey, not agave! Bees need your support and other animals need agave! Using honey means more bees!!
Other animal products that are absolutely fine to use because they produce it in excess:
- Wool. Sheep need to be sheared or their wool will get excessively large, matted and gross. Its legit just a haircut. Calm down and use wool instead of whatever fake acrylic microplastic shit they have in stores now. Wool is super warm, insulating, and guess what! It grows back! Its a renewable resource and all the sheep want in return is some good pasture and protection from predators.
- Eggs. I’m not talking about storebought eggs. Go to your local farmer’s market. Find someone around with chickens/ducks. These birds produce eggs literally every day and will not stop unless they are molting, brooding, or kept in the dark for most of the day. Like I am not joking when I say you can very easily find someone with poultry and they will beg you to take some eggs. Theres so many. Please. Take some duck eggs. I dont want them. I had 8 laying ducks last year. Thats 8 eggs every day. Thats 2 dozen eggs every THREE DAYS. Thats SO MANY EGGS PLEASE TAKE SOME EGGS
Reducing animal cruelty does not mean abolish the use of animal products. Go eat honey. Go use wool. Go find a friend with birds and eat eggs, or get your own. Just because it comes from an animal does not make it cruel.
If you’re going to be vegan for the holier-than-thouness of it, then it might be a good idea to do your damn research first so you don’t wind up being ignoranter-than-thou instead. The most common lies the HTT vegans spread are so easily disproven.
Sure there are some animal cruelty issues with capitalist farming practices, but acting as if the harvesting of honey, milk, eggs, wool, etc. is intrinsically harmful to the animals is fucking ludicrous.
Reminders for the Anxious/Depressed Creatives
- You’re more than what you make.
- Your productivity does not determine your value.
- It’s okay to do nothing sometimes.
- Not everything you do has to result in a product.
- Not everything you make has to be important, significant, or even good.
- You can make things just for yourself.
- You can keep secrets for yourself, whether it’s not posting some of your projects or not sharing your techniques.
- You’re allowed to say no.
- You’re allowed to rest.
2023 Updates:
- Inspiration doesn’t cure burnout. Rest cures burnout.
- People will wait for you; take your time and come back when you are ready.
- It’s okay to scrap projects that no longer excite you, even if other people like them.
- It’s delightful and excellent to be openly proud of your work.
- Afford yourself the same gentleness that you would afford another creative - negative self-talk is counterproductive and frankly cruel.
- Self-indulgent creations are satisfying to others as well; don’t apologize for your own pleasure.
- Actually, don’t apologize for your work at all.
Always RB: because there is never enough love. And fanfic love is some of the purest.
pioneering something called "gritted teeth optimism" where everything is gonna turn out okay even if i have to bite and claw and gnash my way through it
Everything's gonna be fine and it's not negotiable.
fifty (oops again) questions for commander shepard
I said I was done!!! Alexa play Britney
Round one, two, three and four
OH spoilery things ahead n in all fyi
1. What is Shepard’s favorite store on the citadel?
2. What is the public’s opinion/awareness of Shepard?
3. Armax arsenal arena: do they participate? How do they like it?
4. Shepard wakes up in an alternate universe. What tips them off?
5. What kind of relationship does Shepard have with Javik?
6. The first thing a person notices about Shepard’s appearance:
7. How approachable are they?
8. What is the difference between me1 and me3 Shepard? Do they notice, or does someone have to point it out?
9. Did/does Shepard have any alien biases?
10. How do they handle a teammate being badly injured during a mission?
11. Who is in their inner circle?
12. What does Udina think of them?
13. What does Shepard think of Saren?
14. Is Shepard’s first death publicized? (Since in game seems both people know about it and the alliance covered it up)
15. Did they have any relationships pre-me1? Still around?
16. What additions did Cerberus give Shepard?
17. Have they done any interviews? How did the first one go? And the most recent?
18. What do they think of the alliance?
19. What are they like, when in a bad mood? How obvious is it?
20. Does Shepard’s armor hold any significance to them? What about a weapon?
21. What was Shepard like before the alliance?
22. What was the post-lazarus reunion between shepard and joker like?
23. Ever had a broken heart?
24. Are they funny?
25. Have they made pursuits into further education? Any degrees?
26. Does Shepard have a Twitter account
27. The last time they were rude to someone:
28. Does Shepard have any family?
29. Does the alliance use their image for propaganda/recruitment? Did they agree to/want it?
30. A moment that almost made Shepard quit:
31. Ask Dr. Chakwas: what kind of patient is Shepard?
32. Is Shepard the type to give speeches?
33. What does the council think of their first human spectre?
34. What was Jack’s first impression of shepard? And now?
35. How was that mako joyride from ilos to the citadel?
36. What was going through Shepard’s head, when they met Sovereign on Virmire?
37. What is their favorite way to eat potatoes
38. Lucky, or unlucky?
39. What would Shepard say their flaws are?
40. What’s their pain tolerance like?
41. Shepard’s been turned into an animal! What are they?
42. Does Shepard imagine what retirement will be like?
43. What would they rather: wake up four years into the past, or four years into the future? Why?
44. Does collateral damage matter to Shepard?
45. Do they vote?
46. Favorite bar/club in the galaxy and why:
47. Do they let others take care of them?
48. How does Shepard feel about paperwork?
49. What do they wear to sleep?
50. What was the last thing (non-email) shepard read? Book, play, poem, essay etc
(+1 would you bang your shepard? Lol jk we all know the answer to that. Share your favorite fact about them!)