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Sofia

@vestiges-of-light / vestiges-of-light.tumblr.com

General shit posting. Musical theatre sideblog is @owlpuddle. 30, she/they.

Hello people I'm following from Twitter, I was/am ennui_matisse over there and you probably just saw me in your likes sometimes. If I'm following you for theatre stuff, my sideblog is @owlpuddle

Sometimes I look at my mutual’s hyperfixations that I don’t share and go “yeah, if I wasn’t so lazy I would mute this tag” but let me tell you, I could NEVER do that with supernatural. I can’t risk not being there when Misha Collins accidentally comes out as bisexual for a third time.

All these people on this website are so cool and diverse I love being here but I wish I could meet you all in person

There should be a tumblr convention

What a fun idea! There could even be an indoor playground... Maybe with a ball pit or something.....

Time is a circle we are always doomed to repeat it whether we learn the error of our ways or not

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I mean, the world is set on a course to repeat things much worse than dashcon anyway, so we might as well

If dashcon 2024 is the light in the darkness of this harsh world. Then we are surly headed down a grim path

dashcon 2024 is a beacon of hope in our dark, hopeless reality. unfortunately that beacon belongs to an anglerfish

I swear to god if this post breaches containment and inadvertently unleashes the fresh hell that is dashcon 2024 upon us. It will be the end of days

fuck yeah daschon 2024!!!!!!!!!!

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Don't call it dashcon 2024, call it dashcon 2015. It's important.

If this post reaches 100,000 notes, OP *has* to organize a Tumblr con! Let's get it up there!

I’m 19 and I do not have the money or time to do such a thing

Yes, that will make it Authentic!

I do love the phrase executive dysfunction bc the image it conjures is of a bunch of people wearing business suits around a long oval conference table  arguing with each other to the point where they’re getting into physical fights, but in the background there’s just a big empty whiteboard with a To Do list with one item on it and that item is “take shower”

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im really not trying to be mean here but this one tag from a reblog just so colossally missed the point i cant let it go unacknowledged

the whole message of this post is that the clothes are being made regardless of whether anybody is going to be purchasing them. they’re made in sweatshops, shipped to the other side of the globe, put on racks in thousands of stores, and whatever doesn’t sell is dumped in the fucking desert to make room on those racks for the next shipment.

“buy secondhand only” in response to this is such an egregious misunderstanding and it’s doing the exact fucking thing that is implicitly being criticized by this tweet, which is that individual consumer choices are totally disconnected from the global production of consumer goods and therefore moralizing about making the Correct choices and imploring people to go to fucking goodwill instead of tj maxx is meaningless

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Slave labor and borderline slave labor allow cheap junk to be made for so little that some companies can make up for the loss several times over by claiming it on insurance, getting government subsidies, or even selling certain things as scrap or filler to other industries. Companies are so frequently part of some vast network of brands owned by the same entity that they can waste a billion dollars without batting an eye. Just saturating a market with *your* unsellable shit can be seen as advantageous if it helps push out a competitor. Someone buying one new pair of shoes for $20 can mean they just covered the manufacturing cost for 500 pairs. Passive boycotting isn’t going to work ever again at this point. The only ways any of this can change will unfortunately require vastly, vastly more work from more people than just telling Twitter to stop buying pants or switching a fast food chain to paper straws.

Funny how as economic inequality increases capitalist society starts to look more and more like the dysfunctions we associate with the Soviet Union. Like, “socialism is bad because it causes production to become decoupled from demand” is one of the biggest right-wing and libertarian anti-socialist talking points.

Question for people who use screen readers or text to speech/audio

When a post on here has lots of emojis, special fonts/text or lots of keysmashes, what is a way to tag those posts so that you guys don't have to sit there listening to nonsense for a minute straight?

Thanks!

the best tag in my opinion would be "screenreader unsafe" !! and i would deeply appreciate things like that being tagged whenever possible , because ... it fully crashes cheaper screenreaders like mine and i have to restart it >_<

In the past couple weeks, watching most of reddit happily accept admins threatening and forcing communities back open, and now everyone signing up for a new Zuck product while the last Facebook privacy class action lawsuit is still open -- idfk man, I feel like I have such different standards for how I'd like to participate in the internet than everyone else. We survived the internet before "five websites exist and they're all owned by the most wretched manbabies known to God" and we can do it again.

even if you're not a supernatural fan, if you've been on tumblr long enough you are, like, culturally. like cultural christianity in america except it's the cw's supernatural. you may never have watched an episode or set foot inside the tag but your regular life shuts down on their holidays and all of your world news is delivered through that point of view. something to think about

companies underestimate how much locking their content behind needing an account will just make me go do something else. oh your website wants me to make an account to view this content? oh your website doesn't show media to logged-out users? okay. i didn't actually want to see it that bad. yeah. bye ✌️