you're doing amazing!!!

Thank you to all the people who agree that having to viscerally reject a feature once a week is a part of tumblr culture we can all get behind (and loathe)

op turned off reblogs and deactivated but i cant let this one fade away

Twitter is bad but I'm realizing that if it dies then there will be zero mainstream social media platforms where NSFW content can be posted without restrictions (reddit doesn't really count, it's a combination forum host/link aggregator), and that really, really scares me with regards to where we are at as a society.

I am reminded of the famous burrito test, which states that "if you cannot get up at 3am and microwave a burrito, you live in an institution". I propose an analogous maxim for community and social spaces, both online and offline; if you cannot post hole for your friends to see, despite your mutual consent, you aren't in an "open social platform", you are being farmed as somebody's product.

Absolutely. The importance of being able to post adult content isn't Everyone Needs Porn Omg (though liking porn is fine and masturbation and sexual fantasy are normal for many humans), it's that that's one of the first ways that powerful people take control of what you hear and see.

You should ALWAYS be skeptical of it.

Also, queer people are often labeled 'adult content' when we're just existing in public. (even on this very site!) So any "you can't show adult content" policy, no matter how innocuously worded, can become a "sweep those icky queers under the rug" policy.

This has been a PSA.

I’m trying not to reblog posts on this blog but I feel that this is important to post here.

on a related note:

And for the people asking “Well if you don’t support it irl then why would you like it in fiction?!” Because when it’s happening irl real people are suffering and dying and that’s horrible and I’d never want that. But when it’s fiction, when no real people are being hurt or killed, it’s interesting to explore the experience, the effects it may have, and to an extent experience the emotions involved without actually having to experience the horrible thing. You explore scary, dangerous things from a safe distance.

Tbh if ur reaction to seeing that kids have an extremely easy to access and hard to detect method of cheating at school isn't "Haha, awesome" then you're a loser and a narc and a lame-o.

This isn't a joke, btw. School is a horrific unending nightmare and anything kids can do to make it just a little easier for themselves is a good thing.

Diversity win! The mercenary assassinating you for union organization is bisexual!

Honestly, genuinely, this is how the Pinkertons became the terror they are today. They literally do not care if you're white or black, gay or straight, polyamorous, monogamous, or any other combination of any traits imaginable, and some unimaginable. That's how they've been since they were founded. They ONLY thing they care about is you being a cold-hearted bastard willing to murder union organizers. In the goddamn 1850s, the Pinkertons were hiring women and black people because they were perfect as spies and would inevitably be loyal due to having so few opportunities otherwise. They're one hundred percent happy to hire you, bisexual nonbinary latino immigrant, as long as you're willing to threaten the life of a youtuber for daring to open a pack of playing cards that was legally purchased by and delivered to them and they, legally, own. They're perfectly delighted to hire you, asexual pre-everything black trans woman, as long as you're up to spy on Amazon workers to crush their unionization efforts. If you need a job, gay paraplegic genderfluid romani, they'll be happy to give you one, as long as they can think of a way to bust the Starbucks unionization efforts with you. That's how they've operated essentially since their founding.

'you have x many followers' those r cadavers girl. corpses. abandoned vessels of blogs who once were. its the apocalypse in there. its me and my 5 mutuals against the world.

Wow fans are so fucking done with blizzard

This was after they introduced the wow token for classic, a system that allows you to pay real money for an item that other players can buy from you for large amounts of in-game currency. They had previously promised not to do this because of the strong aversion to the feature in the classic community, but then did anyway, with no warning.

blizzard-try-not-to-be-the-worst-compagny-for-2-minutes-challenge (IMPOSSIBLE!!!!)

This user loves strawberries. Send me an ask for the userbox you'd like to see next!

Some userboxes that warmed my heart as I made them (go use without credit, have fun)

[id: a light pink userbox with a pastel pink border and pastel pink text that reads “this user loves apple juice.” on the left is an image of a glass of apple juice. /end id]

[id: a light pink userbox with a pastel pink border and pastel pink text that reads "this user thinks you deserve to be happy." on the left is an image of a pink heart with a black outline. /end id]

[id: a mustard yellow usebox with a dark red border and dark red text that reads "this user finds comfort in fictional characters <3". on the left is an image of a dark red star. /end id]

[id: a black userbox with a white border, and red text that reads “this user is jonah marshall.” on the left is an image of jonah marshall from the mandela catalogue/ end id]

[id: a black userbox with a white border, and white text that reads “this user loves adam murry.” on the left is an image of adam murry from the mandela catalogue/ end id] 

Barbie (2023) // The Good Place (2016-2020)

this looks like the same party

they’re shouting back and forth across the club

as a lot of you know, limbus company recently fired its CG illustrator for being a feminist, at 11 pm, via phone call, after a bunch of misogynists walked into the office earlier that day and demanded she be fired. on top of this, as per korean fans, her firing went against labor laws---in korea, you must have your dismissal in writing.

the korean fandom on twitter is, understandably, going scorched earth on project moon due to this. there's a lot currently going on to protest the decision, so i'm posting a list here of what's going on for those who want to limit their time on elon musk's $44 billion midlife crisis impulse purchase website (if you are on twitter, domuk is a good person to follow, as they translate important updates to english). a lot of the links are in korean, but generally they play nicely with machine translators. this should be current as of 8/2.

[note 1: there's a targeted english-language disinformation campaign by the website that started the hate mob. i have read the artist's tweets with machine translation, and they're talked about in the second hankyoreh article linked above: nowhere does she express any transphobic or similarly awful beliefs. likewise, be wary of any claims that she supported anything whose description makes you raise eyebrows--those claims are likely in reference to megalia, a korean feminist movement. for information on that, i'd recommend the NPR/BBC articles below and this google drive link of english-language scholarly papers on them. for the love of god don't get your information about a feminist movement from guys going on witch hunts for feminists.]

[note 2: i've seen a couple people argue that the firing was for the physical safety of the employees, citing the kyoani incident in japan. as per this korean fan, most fans there strongly do not believe this was the case. we have english-translated transcripts of the meeting between the mob and project moon; the threats the mob was making were to......brand project moon as a feminist company online. yes, really. male korean gamers aren't normal about feminism, and there's been an ongoing witch hunt for feminists in the industry since about 2016, something you see noted in both the labor union statements. both NPR and the BBC this phenomenon to gamergate, and i'd say it's a pretty apt comparison.]

let me know if anything needs correction or if anything should be added.

alrighty so this broke containment so i’m going to add a bit of context: project moon is an indie game company that made lobotomy corporation (SCP management type game), library of ruina (deckbuilding RPG), and most recently limbus company (gacha).

here’s what’s happened as of 8/3: