don't look me in the eyes I'll cry

Tumblr, buddy, listen to me. This is an unprecedented opportunity. You can snap up all of the pie here, and become defacto internet goodguy easy. All you gotta do is... drop the nsfw ban. Unambiguously. Announce that dicks are back on the menu. You want people subscribed the blogs? You want people to actually use your Post+ function? Porn. Let us use it for porn. The youngins aren't joining this site anyway, you're not competing with tiktok. The vaguely horny 20-40 demographic though? You can have that. You can have all of that. Think about it.

Do you know how many pinup artists alone are itching to come back to tumblr, but dont because of the unclear, seemingly arbitrary application of your nsfw policy? These are insanely talented people who are practically begging to give you content. For free. But you gotta change the policy. We can't keep dancing around this. Just think of publicity. The drama. A complete 180. You'd kill it tumblr. You could make it happen. Please.

twitter is going to be shut down. half of reddit is locked or completely unmoderated. the entire first page of google search results are ads. tumblr does not and will never have a functioning search system and their content moderation is 100% automated. youtube only shares ad revenue with people who make snuff films for Youtube Kids. facebook is selling your grandma’s social security number under the table for like $5. web 2.0 is completely dead right

Man I hope today’s twitter thing is just temporary because otherwise that site is fucking cooked.

Y’all see the shit he pulled today? You can only load like 300-600 tweets a day before Twitter completely locks you out of reading any new posts or making searches for a whole ass like 24hours I guess

Yeah these numbers he’s giving are bogus, I logged into my main acc and maybe scrolled my tl for 3 minutes + clicked on a few different tweets and I was already locked out. I think this is a cap on how many tweets just load for you at a given time in general so if you open a thread with a boatload of comments you just get fucking vaporized instantly

lmfao everyone’s skeddadling onto bluesky so fast their servers are exploding and they had to disable signups. amazing

bluesky also allows hate groups on their platform, sadly...

oh my fucking god they have a racism level switch

I wish all the people tagging this as "4011" a very Hope you get out of retail hell soon

TEAM MILES ✨💯‼️

i would try human meat if there were no repercussions and i would fuck my clone and i would do any of the weird philosophical shit you guys put in your polls. im a real go-getter in this sense

me in any given ethical debate just wanting to have a little bit of fun

We are the grandsons of the twinks you couldn’t obliterate

remember when into the spiderverse first came out and people were itching for two dudes to ship so bad that they just had to ship the nic cage spiderman with a pig

an important addition

creacher

don't watch the credits they're useless they say

I think an interesting pivot from comic to movie is the main themes. The comic was about institutional abuse of people who governments deem as “lesser” — the queer and the disabled, especially. That’s not an absent theme in the movie by any means, in fact I think they tried to exacerbate it with the class divides and emphasis on nobility (aka coming from “the right sort of family”), but it definitely isn’t the main focus anymore.

Instead, the movie is about personal relationships, bonds and betrayals. It’s personal when Ambrosius chooses between Ballister and, not the Institute, but the director and his family legacy. It’s personal when Ballister chooses his identity as a knight over his relationship with the monster Nimona. Its just as personal when he calms her down and soothes her and accepts her — he chose to save her, not slay her. It’s personal when Nimona is called a monster by Gloreth, who was the one person she trusted with her true identity.

Heck, Nimona’s whole backstory shifts to accommodate the change. She wasn’t a girl experimented on in a lab — her powers, her oddities, her queerness were always a part of her. And it always made it hard for her to find a community, to have trusting relationships. She came out to a friend only for them to turn on her, along with a family and home she longed to be part of. It’s only with Ballister, a fellow outcast, that she’s finally accepted as herself.

But the rest of the world starts to accommodate outcasts too, bit by bit. Because they see her as she is — not a monster, just someone who’s been hurt too many times. This was a more personal backstory, and a kinder ending for Nimona as a result.

i know this meme is kinda dead now but i need to see ballister and nimona as barbie and ken 😭

shoutout to the saxaphone guy who played careless whisper at the train station in nimona. not only was it beautiful but this also implies that wham! canonically exists in this universe

nimona is a genderfluid legend apparently

Okay I’m gonna preface this by saying that while I have read the comic, it was quite a few years ago and I remember very little, so this will be based on the movie but

Holy shit. The Director’s nightmare. Can we talk about the Director’s nightmare? I’m dying to talk about the Director’s nightmare.

She dreams about a crack, she’s the only one who sees it, and it is what inevitably leads to the destruction of the walls that are so fundamental to the way her society is ordered. And I couldn’t imagine a better allegory for the slippery slope political opinions on gay and trans rights, especially in a kids’ movie.

Like, it’s a logical fallacy, and that’s made plain and clear. When she says it out loud, it clearly comes off as someone obsessing too much over one tiny thing, thinking that it will bring about destruction. Her own sense of self-importance, as well as the fact that she’s really only making vague speculations, is emphasized by the fact that she’s the only one who’s seeing it. She’s the only one who even perceives it as a crack. But after so long of fearing it, she lets that fear rule her logic, and even when she says it out loud, when it’s clear to anyone listening that it makes no actual sense, she’s too far gone to realize it herself.

It’s realistic in the way that she does sound like she believes it herself, and it echoes the speeches of actual harmful people spreading similar fear, so it brings to attention that, yes, there are people out there who believe this with all their heart, and you cannot easily, if at all, convince them otherwise.

But it’s also made clear that she’s wrong. Of course we see that Ballister and Nimona were always worthy of being heroes rather than villains, but even in that one scene, her logic is vague enough that it makes sense only to her. There’s no real discussion to be had here, it’s simply a person seeing something that isn’t there.

Idk I just love that some kids will watch this and become a bit more aware of the nuances of the many opinions that they’ll hear in their lives. And hopefully they won’t fall into similar traps of letting their fear rule them.

Anyway go watch Nimona it’s great

We started this pride month with Across the Spiderverse and ended it with Nimona, this was a fucking win