did everyone just forget the time tumblr went scorched earth on a blog for making fun of a staff member for being an hp fan

To be more specific, it was saying "Maybe the Harry Potter fan on staff has something to do with the transmisogyny", to which they did the not at all suspicious response of using never before seen moderation tools to silence said blog and post.

Animal Rights Activism 🤝 Radical Feminism

inherently conservative, colonialist, overall extremely harmful ideologies that are dressed up in a “progressive” package to make people buy into them

animal rights activism is different from animal welfare activism.

animal rights is stuff like peta, which focuses on shaming people for eating meat and doing big performative things that cost lots of money but help zero animals. animal rights people yell about beekeeping being abusive and exploitative.

whereas animal welfare is working on ending factory farms, improving the lives of our food animals, and other things like that. many humans can't be vegan. accepting our place in the food chain and honoring the lives that feed us is more sustainable and just makes more sense in the long run.

the comparison here is that radical feminism often ends up harming women, the same way animal rights activism harms animals. radfems often act from a place of hate, as opposed to actually wanting to help women.

this is a very very barebones explanation but i hope it helps. i am...very tired. so this might make very little sense.

My usual example is about how animal rights groups manage to "raise awareness" and lobby hard enough to impact the seal hunt and trade of seal products, mostly affecting indigenous people carrying out sustainable hunts and trading for their basic needs.

Meanwhile, when the fishing industry wants to cull a half million seals with no evidence to support their claim that it will help the fish population, the animal rights groups are either unwilling or unable to do anything about it.

I know everyone says it’s best to just stick to “said” as a dialogue tag bc it disappears and that’s true and I mostly do but I want to take a moment for my all-time favorite dialogue tag, “lied.” Absolutely nothing hits like “‘I’m here to help,’ he lied.” NOTHING.

ABSOLUTELY one of my favourites.

ykno the thing about poetry is that 99% of it is bullshit and the other 1% will cut you like a material knife, and for every person that 1% is a different section of the whole. this is probably true about all art.

my music taste is so banger i will listen to songs i like and be like hey i really like those

BEAUTIFUL HEART SHAPED ROCKS I WANT TO PUT THEM ALL IN MY POCKETS AND RUN AWAY AND THROW THEM IN THE SEA TO BE FOUND BY CURIOUS LITTLE GIRLS EVERYWHERE

it's good for your mental health to have mutuals who are wildly horny about kinks which do nothing at all for you

this is both as in. sometimes you will realise that actually these kinks do do something for you and that can be very eye-opening and liberating

and also as in. sometimes you will hear someone decry these kinks as indicative of moral failing, and being friends with people like this makes you immune to that sort of knee-jerk outrage

Also primes you for awareness that there are a lot of people who like a lot of things you don’t like or even that make you uncomfortable, and that is okay, has nothing to do with their character, and is also none of your business.

It’s always good practice. Remember that minding your own business costs $0 and has numerous health benefits.

“Having freaky friends to immunise you against moral panic” is a take so good I can’t believe I don’t hear it more often.

"I have been attending the Devil's sacrament with you perverts for three weeks straight and you haven't awakened a fucking thing in me."

refugees from other websites will never understand that tumblr at its core is about sharing pics like this

my favorite AITA ruling comments

I’m a fan of this one.

would like to add this one

extremely funny when AI artists feel the need to put watermarks on their images

like oh you're worried about misattribution and image theft huh. you're worried that someone's gonna take the image you made and claim it as their own. or strip away the context and your name. or use it in ways you didn't consent to. boy that sure would suck huh. i bet that would feel really bad. i bet that would be really annoying. i b

take some time to notice your vision. see how easily you detect motion. focus on something in your peripheral (without moving your eyes to it). see how it works. look at your hands. pick something up with your fingers. appreciate how ridiculously specialized they are in fine motor skills (even if your personal motor skills are lackluster). think about how you have a body built to be an apex predator through use of tools. think about how the brain of your kind has created a digital hivemind uniting the whole world. now look back at the screen.  look at the tab where you are in an argument about cartoons on tumblr. close the tab. open a new tab. google “tribute to anomalocaris”. watch the video that comes up. leave a like. subscribe even though the channel has been inactive for 8 years. you will need it in the coming times

"But are you SURE you can call youself" buddy, I'm ambivalent about labels you've never even heard of.

it sure fucking is buddy

So horny I need to be molded like clay into a perfectly ornate vase but intentionally given an air pocket so I explode in the kiln

So horny I need to be repotted in a pot that's just slightly too small for my weak and feeble roots and left in the window for the world to see

So horny I need to be locked up in the keef catcher and made to use my small and gentle lego hands to scoop keef onto the bowls of anyone who wants it

So horny I need to be spun into thread and made into a colorful and stunning blanket and used for a picnic on a muddy day

So horny I need to be cut up with child-safe zig zag pattern scissors and hung up as holiday decorations

So horny I need to be liquefied with an immersion blender and strained for my nutrients and used as a hydrating face mask peel after a hot shower

So horny I need different parts of my body dried, ground up, and mixed with oils and used to paint a modern rendition of the Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian (1525)

So horny I need to be kept on a treadmill contraption which harvests my sweat to be used to fuel zippo lighters

Good morning the answer is a resounding no

my shirt that says “not a danger to myself and others” getting me asked a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

some bitch is binding spirits on my post

Ads for weight loss should be illegal. Hope this helps.