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Genuinely, guys, I want you to know that when people tell you things are hopeless and doomed and there’s nothing we can do and nobody can make it better…

That isn’t true. Those people are wrong.

Things are pretty bad here in the United States. They’re not so hot in Britain either, and let’s not even get into how horrible things are for the people in Ukraine and Palestine.

But for none of us is it over.

For none of us is the fight over, for none of us is it ‘lay down and die’ time.

Okay. There’s assholes out there. A lot of them. Many with a lot of money and in positions of power. That’s true. But there’s also a lot of us. There are people in positions of power who are willing to listen, even if not as much as might be ideal (some is better than none, and unfortunately for us in the United States there is no alternative most of the time; write ins do not work. Protest votes are tossing your vote in the trash and they almost always are basically a vote for the guy you don’t want).

We can work together and make things less bad, or at least delay the bad until it fizzles and the machine of fascism eats itself alive.

Fascism only wins when the people stop fighting it. Even a little resistance to it is abhorrent to it.

Keep fighting. When someone says it’s over, don’t listen. It’s not totally over until we accept defeat, and I won’t be doing that anytime soon.

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Fade Into You - Mazzy Star / Slow Like Honey - Fiona Apple

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From now on

You are not allow to complain about lack of content if you don't reblog content.

You're part of the problem. I don't care if it doesn't fit your aesthetic or you think that a like is "just as good". Reblogs are way more important than likes.

A like is like a quick almost mindless thing you do as a "neat" before you keep scrolling. At least that's what it feels like they are.

A reblog is telling that creator: Hey, I really like your stuff and want you to make more. I'll help by spreading your content around so more people can see it.

We all appreciate likes but they don't do any good if no one is sharing the content.

Every time I see such a difference in likes and reblogs it discourages me from writing more and I'm sure others feel the same.

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sometimes when i say “i’m okay”, what i really want is for someone to hold my hand, look me in the eyes and say “i know that you’re not okay, here is $1,000”.

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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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hate being the generation that remembers no ads on YouTube & the annoyance when we first saw 1 ad every 10 videos, then 1 every 5 videos, then on every video, then multiple ads within a single video, only for YouTube to market paying for Premium™️ to ‘get rid of ads!’ which weren’t even there at the start

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THE SPANISH PRINCESS 2x05: “Plague”

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You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.

- Anne Lamott

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Mutuals please tell your pets I said hi and give them a smooch on the head for me.

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buy her books and lingerie

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you deserve to heal from the small things, not just the big things. you deserve to have every little bit of hurt dissipate.

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i am a cute girl of course i am not immune to getting myself a little treat. and arson

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Bram Stoker`s Dracula (1992), director Francis Ford Coppola