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remember to pay your respects to those pretending to be straight today

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For everyone’s information:

The plan for the 17th, when the adult content ban comes in, is to protest.

To do that, we are making as much noise either side of the 17th as possible, and using the site as normal.

On the 17th, dead silence.

People are saying log off but what they really mean is don’t open the site or the app.

But, on the 17th make as much noise as possible on every other platform. Tweet about it and post on facebook and instagram and everywhere else.

What this does is causes a massive dip in ad revenue for one single day. That does not make staff think ‘oh everyone’s gone let’s shut down.’ What it actually makes them think is ‘oh shit people aren’t happy and if people don’t keep using our site we’re out of money and out of jobs.’

A boycott reminds a company that the users (consumers) have the power to make their site (business) worthless with one single coordinated decision.

If you want to join in, here’s what to do:

Do:

Close all open instances of the app and site on all your devices before the 17th

Make posts before and after the 17th on tumblr and other platforms, talking about why this ban is bad

Make posts on other sites during the 17th. Flood the official tumblr staff twitter and facebook with your anger and your opinion

Come back on the 18th and check in

Don’t:

Delete the app from your phone (this doesn’t affect their revenue and since it’s off the store at the moment it’ll be hard to get back)

Delete your account. I mean you can if you want to, but if you keep your account and don’t use it you’re saying to staff that there’s still time to save it. If you delete it’s hard work to come back.

Open the app or website (including specific blogs)

Make any posts (turn down/off your queue and make sure nothing is scheduled)

Go quiet elsewhere. Make it clear that this is just about tumblr, not a mass move away from all social media.

Remember: the execs don’t care about anything but money. Shutting down the site means there’s $0 further income from it. That’s their last possible course of action. If we make it clear we’re not happy, they’ll have to do something or we can do more and more until it becomes too expensive.

Protests take commitment. They’re a defiant action against a business that is doing something wrong. They will try to scare you into not participating, because they’re scared. We hold all the power here, sometimes the execs just need to be reminded of that.

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@rose-tinted-wings what do you think? I had literally never heard of this one before.

okay im going through the rules and stuff on matsodon rn and

sexworkers are good here as long as what they post is tagged. the gore thing is :// but like the person said sexworkers are supported here.

all of this. all of this is hot as hell. 

they actually have specific rules disallowing pedophiles and nazis+the terfs from the last screenshot.

dogpiling and harrassment and stalking is listed as a no go thank fucking god??

there is not one specific staff account as each member of staff has their own thing so it’d be most likely easier to get in touch with them

and the best part

a peek at the list of blocked domains?

ive legit been on this site for ten minutes and i feel safer on this site than ive ever been on tumblr. again im not like, leaving tumblr but this place is nice as hell.

the site itself is https://mastodon.social/  and im @extinction on there lets get this bread in a safe and orderly manner gays

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So, I'm reading my fourth nonfiction book on the funeral industry and mortician work, and I have several more on my TBR list. Honestly, it is just making me want to write a series about a mortician, because why not put some of that knowledge to use, and it is all very fascinating.

Do you ever feel like you’ve read so much about a certain topic that you really should use it in writing of your own to justify how much time you’ve spent “researching” said topic?

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For @rose-tinted-wings

Studio Ghibli Stone Paintings

Createen Art Studio on Etsy

See our #Etsy or #Studio Ghibli tags

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I've never felt so called out in my life.

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Do you ever feel like you've read so much about a certain topic that you really should use it in writing of your own to justify how much time you've spent "researching" said topic?

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This is my baby, Sebastian. 💜

Pls reblog with a picture of your pet(s)

This is Maple :D

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@xoorpheus thought you'd enjoy this.

tim drake’s snapchat is 90% him making bruce wayne do normal middle-class american things and filming the results. popular youtube compilations include the one where they’re at denny’s at two in the morning and tim keeps trying to get bruce to order a moon over my hammy just so he’ll have to say it, the one where they’re at disneyworld and bruce gets increasingly frazzled culminating in him actually physically picking up gaston for reasons no one can entirely recall, and everyone’s favorite series “bruce wayne doesn’t understand walmart”

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True.

Some things I’ve noticed about certain art…

A character/NPC has canonically red hair.

*artist renderings have red hair*

A character/NPC has purple skin…

*artist renderings have purple skin*

A character/NPC is dirty…

*artist renderings have dirty character*

A character/NPC is a POC…

“The cast said we’re allowed to reimagine the characters however we want!!!”

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it’s 2018 please put the k back in thicc

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I’m writing my novel in fifth person, so every sentence starts with “I heard from this guy who told somebody...”

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you know what actually pisses me off? when I finally start to feel a smidge of confidence in my writing ability and then some JERK POSTS A SINGLE LINE FROM A TERRY PRATCHETT NOVEL AND IT’S BETTER THAN ANYTHING I WILL EVER WRITE NO MATTER HOW MANY MILLENNIA I SPEND TRYING!

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When your grammar is correct but spell-check still gives you shit. 

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this is… A Mood

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the popularity of reylo shows that people will do anything to push a black man out of his heroic lead role, that our culture romanticizes white male violence and the pain it causes women, and that white men can get away with the most heinous shit if they’re considered conventionally attractive enough. in this essay i will