#Serious ask

[thehomeofstupidocs]

Hey, real quick,

In Twilight,

Do you think all those vampires all just starved when Covid-19/ Quarantine happened?

Like ???

The great famine of 2020????

[indigoipsum]

Is Grelle the only woman in Retrieval at the London branch??? Like… is it just cause it’s 1888 or what. Surely there are other female reapers????? They just work in different branches??????

[notafraidofredyellowandblue]

Is it me or does it feel like our fandom is slowly healing? Positive vibes everywhere and I have seen so many funny posts in a row, sometimes I can't stop laughing. I am glad that the boys can enjoy their break but the fandom is kinda coming back to life again <3

Well...i think it's also because the Rammstein tour is over and the band are out of the limelight, that always causes less fandom sharing, and also because of it the media attention (and with that the fandom attention) to the allegations has died down a bit.

'Our fandom' has always been pretty varied imo, and that's probably that way in many fandoms. People like the band for different reasons and that's okay; i know peoplewho went to the live shows because of the great show ("the music isn't really my thing"), some people like to watch the good looking pictures, some fans think Rammstein is Till and some random musicians (like when a while ago a part of the fandom leaked that Rammstein would do a cover of a spanish song, and i turned out that was for Till's other band), some are in it for the dark lyrics, some have no idea what the lyrics are about but like that they sound cool, and some find support in Rammstein in a difficult period in their life 🌺

The Rammstein fandom has probably changed over the years, especially social media wise. Some people post a lot quality stuff and at some point loose interest, move on with their life, don't spend as much time on social media. If i see some of the older posts here on Tumblr that easily got 300-400 notes, and now, especially out of tour season, you're lucky if you get 50-100. I'm glad i wasn't here during the Mutter era fall-out, because i'm sure i would have left knowing there was all that trouble in the band. There are some great Tumblr blogs i started following when i just got to Tumblr, who haven't posted in years, some stopped before 2018 (even before the Untitled album and the staidum tour), some we lost this year; some because they don't like the band anymore, some because they don't deal well with the negativity vibe of others.

Also, sometimes i'm amazed how different X, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, Tiktok or Tumblr are, fandom-wise... That already struck me before, but since the allegations surfaced it's imo more polarized than before. I saw some people (on other sm) join the discussions with 'I don't really follow the band, but am interested in what's happening now', some have made up their minds as soon as the allegations started and started cancelling Rammstein, some have gone the other extreme and, now that some allegations haven't been proven, consider anything that has come to light as untrue even stuff that has been plain to see for years (which has again others argue 'if it's plain to see for years, you knew that it happened and you condoned it, so you're just as bad'). Some are only now reading the lyrics and consider them 'reality'. Some condemn Schneider for sharing his IG post. Some have come up with conspiracy theories that it's all a controlled 'setup' from 'the left wing media' to bring down the band. Some right wing fans now consider Rammstein right-wing too, because left-wing people are vocal in the allegations (That last part is probably what annoys me most, that some make a political topic out of it.).

I think this allegations stuff changed the fandom, and i think it has changed the band as well. That is not necessarily a bad thing, life is change, and i think the fandom had a major reshuffle because of it. The band will build on this together, like Schneider said 'all six of us'. And so can we 🌺

Panta Rhei (Everything flows, nothing stays the same, you can't step into the same river twice)

[nicorosbergiscain]

but really someone explain to me why nico rosberg has essentially been erased or excluded from F1 discussions unless its to talk abt his rivalry with LH or abt how he didn't deserve his WDC?

and this is a genuine question because i'd like to figure out the best way to promote my nico rosberg revivalist movement. for real.

[without-any-title]

hi, that post by maxwell-o is a scam. they took another person’s photo and story from their gofundme: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-manuel-fight-leukemia

please delete your reblog as to not spread maxwell-o’s scam further. thank you.

Thanks for the info !

[cleverclove]

Hello, I am Abdel Muti Al-Habil from Gaza. My family is displaced in southern Gaza. I am married and have a daughter. My family are all in danger. Help me save my daughter. Please.https://gofund.me/f285fe86

My heart goes out to you, sir 🤍 I can only imagine your pain. I hope this can help, even a little bit.

[myheadhurtssodoesmyheart]

you guys would mind if i start posting my art in there?

[take-care-with-your-glasses]

Anyone here, guys, knows a good YouTube video about dysthymia that I could use as guidance to finally go back to coloring and linearting my art without feeling like dying on the proces?

[ibtisams]

Hi this is ACTUALLY Ibtisam. I was really not planning on returning to tumblr, but I have now been made aware of two people trying to pretend to be me since I have left. The most recent person has my old url @/ibtisams and is pretending to be me and asking for money. I need to make it clear that I have never and will never ask for money for myself on here. All fundraising efforts I have ever done have been for Palestinian families or organisations. Taking my name and acting like me to get money for yourself is vile and goes against everything I actually stand for. I don’t believe it’s fair for others to have to speak up on my behalf and warn people about these fake accounts, so I am hoping this post/account will end all of that.

I am not ready to be back on here, and I really don’t know what to even say. For the last week I have been in an inpatient programme, and I will continue to be here for the next 8 weeks. I have limited access to my phone/internet/etc during this time, so I can assure you that any new accounts that say they are me are just trying to scam for money or followers or whatever they think they can gain from pretending to be me. 

Deleting my blog was a choice I made solely to benefit myself and there is a lot I apologise for, but there is also a lot I don’t apologise for. If I do ever return to tumblr, it will be on this account and I will never ever be asking for money for myself. I wish all of you the best, and Free Palestine.

[stuckinapril]

lol I can’t fucking afford groceries, so sorry my attention isn’t 24/7 on Palestine 🙄

listen i feel u. i do. but i honestly cannot get over how immature these asks are (and i've received a few of them by now, cannot imagine the volume of them actual palestinians get) bc it should be an unspoken caveat that a lot of these posts are not targeted at people who're living paycheck to paycheck, working busy lives, have copious amounts of shit to deal w etc etc. the problem comes in when you go out of your way to ridicule genocide by sending asks like this, especially to people who lost family members to israeli attacks. i know this isn't the social etiquette site, but someone has to tell you it's incredibly rude, distasteful, tone deaf, disrespectful...

if you can't afford to do anything, okay. keep it pushing instead of going to people's inboxes trying to make an obvious point.

and if you do have time or money and you're not doing nearly enough, you are the problem.

it's literally that simple.

[opikiquu]

iknow my comics are ugly please just hear me out

[jihadmilk]

genuinely concerning that people think "intifada," which means revolution is somehow an extremely violent antisemitic word. These phases of treating the simple fact of something being in Arabic and being seen as violent are concerning and will infact lead to Arabs facing extreme rates of violence. We've seen this with "Allahu Akbar" and we need to call out attempts of framing Arabic as a violent language

[scraps-n-starters]

Trapped in a book this and sentient marble shenanigans that

Give me sentient 'cursed' sword Danny. Give me a tragedy broken Danny who had to choose whether to allow the observants to use him or trap him or end him and Clockwork give him another option. To hide and grieve and rest.

The Cursed Sword left in the League vaults that slides uselessly through any innocent and if you push? If you keep trying to raise it's blade against an undeserving opponent? Will bite back on it's wielder with frost and reflected fear

Gifted or found, give me Damian carefully cleaning a neglected old blade. Give me Danny waking once more to the gentle grind of a whetstone, a sliver of electric green shining in the space that shouldn't be. A magic blade that has never resonated with anyone that sings in Robin's hand, freezing over those with cruelty in their hearts

(Dealer's choice what reverts Danny back to his humanoid form. True love's kiss? Legitimately wanting to be a person again? A tricky situation where the Bats are stuck and he's left lying useless on the floor, unable to save anyone, this time of his own volition?)

(Bonus for if the first time he's wielded against the Joker Danny just. Mimick style eats him. Blade splits down the center, cavernous maw, swallows whole. Nobody realized that could happen.)

[illchoosedismaythanks]

If this wasn’t on clickhole I think I’d pretty easily believe he actually said this

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

anyone else have multiple traumatic memories associated specifically with holidays/family vacations? because that is a topic I never see discussed in all the So You Had A Shitty Childhood, Now What? self-help books i've been reading. but for me, it was a significant thing. and the more i think about it the more it seems like this would be an (unfortunately) common experience. would be grateful to hear if this matches other peoples' experiences...

[milk-lover]

Sobbing uncontrollably reading through a dissertation about the college experience of students with ADHD. It is like reading a report about my life that just says over and over "My experiences are real. My hardships are real. I am not lazy, I am not dumb. My struggles were not my fault, and they were not a moral failing. The failure was with the system, not with me."

Here's a line that got me in particular:

"Hotez et al.(2022) compared the health, academic, and non-academic capacities of a nationally representative sample of U.S. first-year college students with ADHD and without ADHD. Students with ADHD self-reported lower academic aspirations and more feelings of depression and overwhelm, ranking themselves lower in their general emotional health. The fact that students with ADHD scored in the highest 10th percentile for many non-academic traits, such as artistic ability, computer skills, creativity, public speaking, social confidence, self-understanding and understanding of others, compassion, and risk-tasking, suggests that this population has strengths that are frequently underappreciated in academia."

(the paper is a thesis called "Understanding the Collegiate Experience for Students With ADHD" by Gia Long, 2022)