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you’d think after a decade i’d be bored of experiencing the implosion of the spn fandom as a spectator sport, but no, it’s funny every time

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Look, I’ll be real, a part me is really glad that this website is going to be somewhat revitalized by the inevitable migration of Twitter refugees post-Elon purchase. Staff has been doing great! Tumblr deserves an active userbase because this website fucks harder than any other social media bar none! It is unequivocally the best social experience online! But oh my sweet Lord god in heaven help me the existential terror of having Twitter slither in its normalization of persistent social abuse, its puritanical means-testing of surface level ideological commitment, and its disgustingly narcissistic perpetuation of pervasive cultural pessimism is a genuine nightmare that I am not prepared to deal with.

Like, Tumblr has a such a unique and rare method of social interaction that disincentives the kind of low-effort, low-stakes (until it’s suddenly not) engagement that runs wild on Twitter. Somehow, beyond all odds, Tumblr’s culture of artful lowbrow mixed with thoughtful consideration has SOMEHOW managed to survive the whitewashing of the internet. We’re a living fossil in a fragile ecosystem. Twitter is an obliterate of any positive subculture; it panders exclusively to the lowest common denominator of online engagement, and then further feeds that into a toxic mentality of enabling the weaponization of internet clout. You can’t get clout on Tumblr because engagement is anonymized, and the userbase in general has deliberately fostered a culture of not giving a shit about being popular. And that is a good thing – that is something we should want to protect and encourage.

And don’t get me wrong, Tumblr is built on the fundamental lowbrow. We all appreciate being crass, being strange, being ‘unmarketable.’ But this is Shakespearean lowbrow at its core. It’s shitposting painted by Picasso way more often than it is shitposting sold as a fucking NFT. It actually somehow contributes positively and uniquely to engagement (most of the time), and that feeds into even more positive and unique engagement as users reblog and add their own contributions the post. Retweeting something will just never have that effect.

I cannot remember the number of one-off dumb jokes I’ve seen reblogged into beautiful efforts of collective poetry. I’ve seen posts asking if Ezra Pound and T.S Elliot fucked like rabid animals turned into significant contributions of literary analysis for their respective works. I’ve seen the stupidest fucking takes morphed into powerful pieces of social commentary by people who cared enough to contribute their time, their effort to do so: to create something worthwhile. That one post about the value of gold and silver in the post apocalypse comes to mind. Like, that’s the kind of thing that could never have survived, much less become prominent and valued, on Twitter. It would sink to the bottom of the bottom there and never resurface: digital echoes that promise something special, something unique, but are fundamentally wasted in the chaotic din of scramblingly awful takes. 

I guess I’m just saying that I don’t want that to happen here. I like Tumblr, and I want Tumblr to prosper, but not at the expense of all the things that make it wonderful in the first place.

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THE FURRIES ARE KILLING HARRY POTTER

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in this terrifying world you continuously have the power to offer someone else a little relief . why would you withhold that. do you remember what a little relief feels like? it feels like a lot

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“cursive is stupid and an unnecessary skill” you’re just mad bc i write fast and it looks sick af and you can’t read it. little bitch.

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#BIG ABBY ENERGY

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this entered my head and i felt it deep in my soul

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You never know when learning a new skill will come in handy. For example, I had a crush on a boy in middle school who loved Sonic so I learned how to draw him and the other characters so he'd sit by me. 16 years later I'm trying to take a kid's blood pressure multiple times. It's too high because he's scared, he hates it. I see mom's got Sonic playing on her phone. So while the dynamap is running I say "hey look at this!" Draw a quick Sonic on the exam table paper, he's so focused on me that he doesn't realize his BP was taken, now with beautiful numbers. Gotta do an EKG now and I bribe him, "i'll draw Tails if you sit still for me"... perfect EKG. Now coming to see a cardiologist is a lot less scary for a couple kids, all because of my middle school crush.

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Sicily, 1984.

Photographs by Ferdinando Scianna

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I follow the "leave nothing but footprints take nothing but photos" rule of state/national parks yeah because conservation. But also because when I was 11 i read a short story about a girl who went to a museum and stole a bandage flake off a mummy on display with the mentality of "im just one person one piece won't be missed" then at night she was visited by the mummy and it plucked a single hair from her head and then the next night a different mummy took another hair and she realized that there were only so many pieces to her before there would be nothing left and that story was forever wedged in my brain. Anyways leave cool rocks where you find them or the mummies will get you

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Desolated emptiness still stands there waiting to be loved again.

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this is making me delirious. I want to cry every time I read this

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I got a tumblr, it really was quite great

I blog about a lot of things, but mostly what I ate.

I thought it was a sweet gig, it really was quite cushy.

Then they went and banned me, ‘cause all I ate was pussy.

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