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“do i get callous or do i stay tender” - julien baker, “relative fiction” • “you stay soft, get beaten / only natural to harden up / you stay soft, get eaten / only natural to harden up” - mitski, “stay soft”

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dichotomy of “nothing in the digital age is permanent, we are losing physicality and thus part of ourselves” vs. “everything in the digital age is permanent, everything you do is recorded and stored for later use against you or to exploit you”

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“spent the winter writing songs about getting better / well, if i’m being honest, i’m getting there” - the wonder years, “came out swinging” • “i get lonely but i, i get used to it, i / i get bored and i start some fires outside” - sydney sprague, “object permanence” • “삶에 지친 내 모습 또 비춰 지네 / 사람들이 네게 행복 하냐 물어 보네” - peggy gou, “i go”

Fuck your horoscope, your prediction for next year is determined by the songs on your spotify wrapped for your birthdate (m/d/yy)

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borderline evil when artists print designs onto gildan shirts, etc like why do u punish me for supporting u, i am so aware of my body bc i can feel the texture of this shirt every place it is touching me this is not okay!

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genius is like if azlyrics & songmeanings had a really good looking child w excellent memory recall but terrible analysis skills. ultimately poo for brain baby.

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spotify wrapped is out and everybody is always posting their top 5 songs….. let’s see some love for number 6 that didn’t make the cut. rb and add your number 6

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A brief summary of how user engagement is tracked on Tumblr, for the newcomer:

When you like or reblog a post, that counts as user engagement for the person you liked or reblogged from, and shows up in their notifications.  

If the person you liked or reblogged a post from wasn’t the original poster (i.e., you’re liking or reblogging a reblog), it also counts as user engagement for the original poster, and shows up in their notifications as well.  

This means that user engagement from your likes and reblogs can potential accrue to two different people, the original poster and the person you liked or reblogged from.  

Consequently, you cannot “steal” user engagement from someone by reblogging their post.  

This is one of the very few areas where Tumblr is actually functions more reasonably than other social media platforms.  

Note that this is only true if you use Tumblr’s built-in reblogging function. If you save someone else’s content to your local device and append it to a new post, you effectively become the original poster from that point on.  

This means that on Tumblr, “reblogging” and “reposting” are two different things; if you see someone complaining about “reposting”, this is not the same as reblogging.  

Commenting when reblogging does not affect any of this – unlike, say, Twitter, where quote-retweeting causes user engagement to accrue to the quote-retweet and not to the original tweet – and you can and should do so freely.  

However, every Tumblr user can see who exactly you reblogged a post from, which functions as a soft disincentive against making inane comments; if you make a dumb comment on a reblog, people who see your reblog may “back up” one step in the reblog chain to reblog a version of the post without your comment.  

Nobody understands tags, and there’s a fair amount of evidence that how tags work changes periodically and without warning.  

Tags are a divine mystery.

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i’ve always been uncomfy w the phrasing of “slide into the dm’s” like besides the sexual connotations, it gives off a weirdly combined attitude of boldness *alongside* sneakiness?

i would prefer someone “crawl into my dm’s” which is less flirty while also implying an intriguing creaturely existence of the person (?) doing the crawling…

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from “on summer crushing,” an essay by hanif abdurraqib

“i can hold a crush longer than most of my friends can hold a grudge. i don’t really need or even want to know whether a person shares my affection. i’m content just letting the situation play itself out at its own pace. i get that for most people, this seems agonizing.”

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hey. hey i got smth. is the tumblr equivalent to “listening & learning”

………….. “lurking & liking”?

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honestly i feel like it’s a disservice to just have my takeaway be “omg oviposition!” from this short story tho, like she explores some v interesting ideas here & elaborates on it in the afterword, but i am just not equipped to discuss it that articulately.

that being said, in the afterword she says the idea for “bloodchild” came from her fear of the botfly & i just appreciated this:

“when i have to deal with something that disturbs me as much as the botfly did, i write about it. i sort out my problems by writing about them. in a high school classroom on november 22, 1963, i remember grabbing a notebook and beginning to write my response to news of john kennedy’s assassination. whether i write journal pages, an essay, a short story, or weave my problems into a novel, i find the writing helps me get through the trouble and get on with my life. writing “bloodchild” didn’t make me like botflies, but for a while, it made them seem more interesting than horrifying.”

went to the beach & started reading octavia butler’s short story collection “bloodchild” & what i was Not expecting was the titular short story to involve oviposition. so now what i want to know is. is octavia butler the mother of oviposition fic & if not, when did oviposition even emerge as a kink in fic at large.

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went to the beach & started reading octavia butler’s short story collection “bloodchild” & what i was Not expecting was the titular short story to involve oviposition. so now what i want to know is. is octavia butler the mother of oviposition fic & if not, when did oviposition even emerge as a kink in fic at large.

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it took me like all of yesterday & the day before that to figure out goncharov wasn’t real bc i have “unreality” filtered for ai art reasons & i just figured ppl were ai art discoursing. naturally, i also made no connections to the fact that coinciding w all this was some scorsese movie that apparently had just been made available to the public again after years of being held up for legal reasons in france & ofc i read some of the analysis, thinking to myself ooohohoooo this sounds GOOD perhaps i also! will watch this goncharov!

it wasn’t until the end of the day that finally i peeked into a filtered post &…………. ough.

……. i can’t tell u exactly what emotions i felt in that moment…… some indescribable medley of deep, existential loss & forlorn, betrayal & hopelessness.