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a majority of you know nothing about how porn is made and distributed and the people in power are counting on you not knowing. i’m so tired.

one of the major things they count on you not knowing is that tube sites do not produce even a decimal of the content you consume. tube sites are just video platforms. they are access to content that isn’t put behind a paywall in the first place. mainstream studios that can often do put shortened versions of their films on tube sites for advertisement. these only make up a fraction of the content that people actively consume as well - much more of it is independently created than folks realize.

with pornhub’s model program, a MASSIVE amount of the content there is uploaded consensually by independent performers themselves. we get ad revenue and, as previously stated, it makes for decent advertisement. i believe the other big tube sites have programs that are similar. and yes, we are age verified when we apply to become part of the model program. every single thing we upload has to go through approval before it goes public.

i’m saying this because every single time a porn-related post goes around someone brings up tube sites before anything else, and they often bring up dated or entirely false information. PH and all of the big tube sites used to have MASSIVE issues (that we warned people about back then - nobody listened) with non-consensually uploaded content but they’ve long since had to change their stance on this and become fairly strict. i’m not saying there’s zero content of that nature. it’s just not all that different than any platform that has video content. all of them face issues of copyright and non-consensual media. (and i’d say they enforce their rules arguably better than platforms like say, facebook.)

and that’s not even to mention how it isn’t even a small facet of the industry despite the general public grouping it altogether. you cannot accept any kind of profit on onlyfans, manyvids, apclips, etc unless you go through a process that includes identity verification. you cannot upload any content involving another person besides who you already have paperwork for. that paperwork includes age verification. and while i’m absolutely there are people that find ways around this… that’s literally everywhere lol. in no other industry does that small outlier define the whole practice.

like… ALL of the propaganda, all the proposed legislation against sex work and specifically porn paints the exact opposite picture of what i’m telling you and so many of you are eating it up. they want you to have a visceral reaction so you don’t think critically and now - watching it hurt people outside the porn industry - we’re seeing what that does in the long term.

we have warned you. we will continue to warn you. the choice to stay ignorant is the choice to condemn yourself to a discriminatory society that’ll be overall worse off in the long run. it will run you over the moment it sees you as perverse, too.

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THE PRISONER EP9: “CHECKMATE” (1967) dir DON CHAFFEY

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i restore your heart(i restore it in my heart)

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Legacies don't exist, Mercedes! One day, we will all turn to dust and be forgotten. We're all gonna die, Mercedes! Don't you get it? All that matters is one moment. The moment where you step in to this ring, and you look me in the eye, and you realize...

AEW DYNAMITE | 07.09.25

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Leverage 2.12 — “The Zanzibar Marketplace Job”

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OK so. It is the Longest Day today, in the Northern Hemisphere. This is the highest, or midpoint of summer, hence Midsummer, seasonally speaking. 1st of June to the 31st August.

AND YET

It's THE FIRST DAY of ASTRONOMICAL Summer. 21st June to 22nd September.

Now you know the difference my 'ansoms!

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misclicked on a bunch of shit in quick succession and was met with a somewhat harrowing prompt

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officially the best line in The Odyssey

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officially the best line in The Odyssey

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its crazy how nobody has ever been as objectively beautiful as danny john-jules in red dwarf and nobody ever will be again

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this is absolutely not true.

1. look up what facial expressions mean. i mean if youre that far behind then sure checking a basic chart is going to help. but you can also just get this information from any movie or television show in your own language because people onscreen will announce how they feel and then the actor will make a face about it. you will see millions of these images in a row by watching television and movies with living humans in them. it's only an interim step because acting and expressing actual feeling are two different modes of human expression, however they are closely related.

2. human facial expressions VARY by culture but are partially involuntary and physiological, and can be broadly generalized across the species the same way cat, dog, horse, or any other animal has a generalized set of expressions that denote their emotional and physiological state. pain grimacing is on the list of emergency medicine symptoms for both humans and animals for a reason (because at a certain pain level you cannot stop yourself from making that face)

you dont need to interpret the lines and shapes of a human face as a "face" or as a member of your own species in order to read it. all you have to do is familiarize yourself with the symbol set, just like learning any other language. "this person's eyebrows are now closer to their eyes than they were 30 seconds go. according to my research this can indicate displeasure, concentration, or confusion. now i can try to use context clues to figure out which option is most likely". that's literally it. it's a logic puzzle. its like learning that red means stop and green means go. collections of angled lines form meaningful symbols, so do colors and shapes. there are humans on earth who are incapable of learning symbol meanings entirely, but none of them are posting on tumblr because posting on tumblr requires that at some point you learned a set of meanings for a set of symbols, probably the alphabet, or if you're Blind but hearing then phonemes and maybe braille versions of your written language. and knowing 26 different faces (for example, if you use the English alphabet) and what they generally indicate is a pretty good start

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Gotta say, I wouldn't trust that old fellow, hero.

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DOCTOR WHO Wish World

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Plus, that palace is some FACTION PARADOX stuff and I love it.

RTD just out and out summing up one's entire crip thesis in the show that is literally intergenerational in my family, while pulling on the 7th son wizard shit, while pulling all the unseen bits of deep cut DW I've sort of been obsessed with since the Virgin New Adventures in the 90s is just. Godsdamn.