#Specific to Social Media

[abhijitdivate1]

[good-advice-ganondorf]

[halogalopaghost]

TIL that you can assign an AO3 next of kin to control your account in case of your death???

[fungi-maestro]

Happy tdov to fat trans people. 🏳️‍⚧️ Biggest thing that helped me as a trans kid was seeing older fat trans people. There were a lot of really irritating "advice" posts going around early in my time on the internet with a lot of misinformation in them, but one that I constantly saw (in addition to people claiming you should wear your pants rediculously low or only wear button ups) were posts saying you had to lose weight to transition. Can confidently confirm that is completely untrue. 👍

[letters-to-lgbt-kids]

My dear lgbt+ kids, 

“My therapist told me that, according to psychology, girls who often stay up til 3 am for no reason actually show a trauma response. You lacked a loving mother figure in childhood, so you deprive yourself of sleep because you weren’t taught to love yourself.” 

I came across that piece of info on social media recently, and I’d like to offer an addition: 

My therapist told me that, according to psychology, you can make up random things and pass them off as scientific… if you just put enough meaningless phrases in front of it. 

You probably caught the irony here. In fact, “according to psychology” and “my therapist told me” are completely meaningless phrases in my statement here! They make it seem like I’m presenting a scientific fact, but there’s no substance behind them. I’m just telling you my own thought. 

I did it on purpose and wanted you to catch it, but it can be more tricky to spot out there in the wild (or, well, on social media) - because intuitively, that quote up there sounds pretty trustworthy, doesn’t it? We are taught to look for a source and it conveniently provides one for us: psychology. Psychology says this, so it’s legit! 

But phrases like “according to psychology”, “my therapist says” or even “studies say” may only pose as sources. Let’s look into it a bit closer: 

“According to psychology” - Psychology is not really a source that can be quoted like that. Psychology is an immense field of study that covers lots of different areas (biological psychology, neuroscience, social psychology, behavioral psychology etc.), so who or what exactly is being cited here? A specific expert? A specific study? A specific book? 

“My therapist said” - in which context? Therapists usually give advice that’s tailored to the patient’s individual situation which likely looks different to yours (since no two people lead the exact same life), so how do you know this specific piece of information is also applicable to your situation (let alone applicable to everyone)?

The next one is especially tricky:

“Studies say” - studies can be a great source, but which study are we talking about? Who did the study? How was it done? How many people participated in it? Are the results generalizable in the way the post claims? (And before all that: is there even any specific study being cited at all here, or is this just a fully meaningless claim?) 

While we are on the topic of generalization: obviously I’m not trying to make some blanket statement that everyone who ever uses these phrases is a liar with evil intentions. Sometimes we just use simple phrases for complex concepts to make them more accessible or easily digestible, and that’s fine. 

And just as importantly, sometimes we are just human and make some thinking mistakes (such as “this connection my therapist made about MY childhood and MY behavior in adulthood must be applicable to everyone who shows that behavior. Making that connection helped me, so surely I’m helping others by posting about it!”) without any bad intentions. 

I’m just encouraging you to critically think about the information you read or share online - even beyond the basic “is there a source” check. 

With all my love, 

Your Tumblr Dad 

[gothiccharmschool]

Real talk: you know why one of my recurring pieces of advice is to not seek out the social media of people you’ve removed from your life? Because I need to remind myself of it.

[fawfulydoo]

i got an LG ice cream smart!!!!!!!! >:3 i intend to make it work despite the fact that the android version it runs (4.4.2 aka kitkat) is outdated cuz there's ways around it

[prokopetz]

One of the quintessential Tumblr experiences is running into a cluster of blogs with extremely similar avatars who all use the same distinctive turns of phrase and constantly reblog each other and having to ask, okay, is this an extended friend group who have identical taste in media, or a single very dedicated blogger doing an arcane bit?

[divinemachina]

doodle

[pigeonedlilac]

don’t get your hopes up, a simple slip up

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I may have a favorite trope and it’s definitely not both of them being flustered about what one of them did. That’s not a common theme in my art at all what are you talking about haha I don’t even draw what are you saying ur crazy

First part actually happened btw the rest is my very real-in-my-heart extrapolation ^^

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Sorry it’s been quite a while!!! I’ve been in the process of getting a new laptop and I had some very rare commissions for irls.. but I’m glad to be back and mdyz pilled as always o7

[0nsyu-archive]

Horii goes into Pirate Yakuza’s end card in detail (I'm inconsiderate)

[sengenism]

I'm dropping this because I can

Senku, I believe, canonically uses emotions (⁠☉⁠｡⁠☉⁠)⁠!

Okay byee!

DEFINITELYYYYYYYY!!!! HE LITERALLY SAYS "KINDA LIKE WE USED TO DO!"

in the manga the picture depicts him and gen chatting solely through emoticons while the anime has emoticons + messages! so yup, ABSOLUTELY CANON FACTS (⁠つ⁠✧⁠ω⁠✧⁠)⁠つ

[compress1repress]

part 3 of the reader x tashi x art x patrick band au - they shoot a music video and discuss rodents <3

(their profiles, part 1, part 2, part 4)

[jeanmoroses]

tsc social media au part six !!

projecting through aaron minyard. apologies

[sha-brytols]

its really weird that i keep bringing steven universe up like at this rate i'm gonna make people believe i used to be a steven universe superfan but i swear i'm not i actually mostly only knew of it through osmosis its just. steven universe and dragon age exist on eerily similar planes both on a writer's and consumer's scale so it just tends to come up a lot when i think about the state of fandom and death of the author and whatever you get it .

anyways remember when the fanbase for steven universe (primarily on tumblr) became inundated with discourse and was littered with teenagers overreacting to character flaws and using them to apply malicious intent to the creators and branding it as a form of sociopolitical propaganda against themselves. and then the showrunners seeing this very small pocket of fans demanding complete ideological purity from a cartoon actually for some very odd reason took their demands seriously and tried to rewrite the show's core narrative and characters to fit this impossible standard until the later seasons became so messy and narratively incoherent that it became obvious even to that same small pocket of fans that they were being pandered to

so anyways dragon age veilguard right

[batfam-stuff-posts-0]

(Curious because I have 4 (this is my main one but I had a tumblr once before and realized putting all my obsessions in one blog doesn't really work for me))