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And why did the value plummet, Marissa? Why did it plummet?
Would like to know how exactly she wouldn't fuck up Netflix or Hulu
Yahoo thought Tumblr would be the next PDF
What does that even mean? PDF as in Portable Document Format?
i cannot stress enough that i dont think yahoo even knew what a pdf was
I am kind of surprised that "D&D: Honor Among Thieves" isn't getting as much [tumblr] love as it deserves. This is my contribution:
My mother, who understands D&D only as that loud nerd event which takes over the dining room four nights a month, loved the movie.
me - any time i feel sleepy - in the year of our lord 2023:
Hey if you ever feel that your opinions on something are silly or dumb or too much for one random subject that doesn't really matter just remember! there are people out there who are monarchists in 2023. it can't possibly be as bad as that
Your opinions on fanfiction may be a wee bit extreme or ridiculous but at least you don't believe in the divine right of kings #positivity
you just dont see guys walking around wearing nothing but a barrel held up by suspenders any more
Happy late Revenge of The Sith. Here's captain era Tarkin being all beat up + his numerous scars.
Slutty Tarkin is so powerful
i love when they draw a carrot on top of the carrot cake just to remind you this aint no ordinary fuckin cake youre dealing with
you can't oppression olympics your way out of how your trauma affected you.
"other people had it worse" bitch! I don't care! just from looking at you it's plain and obvious that you've had a time of it! a person can drown in six inches of water, it doesn't matter if someone else is drowning in ten feet! you're both still fucking drowning! show yourself a little bit of compassion before I come over there and do it for you. this is a threat
“Wait, there are people blaming the writers?”
Are you surprised? Fandoms have become notorious anti-writer spaces. Studios love you guys. They can cut the budgets, cut the number of writers, cut the wages of the writers, and you guys always blame the writers. “The writers ruined the show!” It’s never “the studios ruined the show.”
I hate to break it to you: more than half the shows you complain were “ruined by the writers”, were ruined by the studios. Studios cut the scenes and arcs you were excited for. Studios cut the budget of the show, or even raise the budget of the show and force a “bigger, louder, bolder” tone on shows that were unexpected hits (this is where we get “the Netflix look” on every show post-Stranger Things and Queen’s Gambit).
You guys do not do your research. Half your fanfics are tagged with bad faith digs at the writers, when a few searches would reveal how strapped that show was and how poorly the writers were treated. Writers are being given a single week to write each episode—I’m not kidding, one-week-per-episode is one of the reasons for the strike. How are good arcs and scenes supposed to happen under that time limit, with a max of only four writers?
Tumblr, the self-proclaimed “pro-union, pro-worker, pro-artist” site is also a major fandom site. You guys rarely practice good faith consumer etiquette for television and film writers, because your fandom salt always turns you against writers. And studios love you for it.
Yeah, individual writers do create bad writing from time to time. But so do painters, chefs, and musicians. Directors and actors sometimes refuse to film certain scenes or follow a show’s projected style and arc, and the writers always get the crap for a bad performance or a poorly directed episode. This isn’t to blame actors or directors; it’s to point out that you guys have one villain, and it’s always the writers. You guys never give writers the same grace you give animators, designers, directors, actors, composers, and editors.
Studios love you every time you say “the writers ruined the show.” Every single popular fandom is guilty of this. View any of the “why did the writers cut this scene, they hate my characters” talk when leaked scenes hit the internet. Writers barely get paid for what they do write. You think they’re writing scenes and then happily throwing them in the shredder? You guys just eat the talk that studios put out. Always have.
In 20 years we’re going to find out that “no kink at pride” discourse was a CIA psyop to reintroduce more traditional forms of homophobia (i.e. the defense of the innocence of children, Gays as sexually predative, etc) to millennial and gen z aged influencers.
Hoooboy did this post age like fine wine. We didn’t even have the groomer panic yet when I originally wrote this.
My God, this is from 2021. It's useful to be reminded that the current high-pitched assault on rights is about three years old, if that.
Things used to be different and we can undo what's been done. We just need to Keep Resisting and Stay Loud.
Move the Overton Window back to the left so we can get the sun in the morning again!
Stained glass bathtubs are impractical at best but that doesn’t mean I don’t still want one
shoutout to boring queer people who don’t do shit. just go to work or school and then come home to watch shows. while gay
ideologically i disagree with outside cats but i cannot deny the allure of being able to just meet a little guy anytime anywhere
