#which includes me

[vengencefilledwriter]

Remember making your Tav a masochist is necessary for those sweet bonuses.

[eldesperadont]

hm :/ i dont think id mind the devil reveal if they went about it differently the weeks beforehand, like everyone was so tired of it

[wombtowaste]

the best most fun part of self isolation is realizing nobody really is capable of seeing outside themselves and so everyone takes it personally instead of thinking "oh maybe _ isnt feeling good"

[minhosimthings]

The day I stop imbibing my daddy issues into reading Chan fics is the day the Sun will die.

[lunapwrites]

an interesting thing that i've realized through playing the sims: the art that i prefer to decorate a home with does not equal the art that i love.

what i mean by this is that while i'm putting a room together, and i'm considering all the lines and colors and shapes and cohesion of everything, 9 times out of 10 the classical portraits that i flock to at the museum do not work as well on the wall as the canvas with the paint splatters on a simple gradient background. it just doesn't. and part of me is upset about this because i am an absolute whore for baroque art. like, vermeer? gentileschi? bernini? render them unto me that i might gaze upon their beauty.

but would i put a copy of Judith Slaying Holofernes in my living room? no, it clashes with the upholstery.

too dark for the hallway.

sending mixed messages in the dining room.

so yeah, idk, having a big funky color block a la rothko has some aesthetic value on a day to day home use basis, and i'll probably die mad about it loll

[jaynovz]

what can I say, when ppl start mass meta posting about John Silver I get a little rabid and spam my backstory over and over

Like sure I COULD rant about it in a tumblr post...

but I already wrote 23k words and they’re veryyyyy pretty and well-researched and resonant so yknow -pointing-

[talaricula]

Things I've seen tumblr memeing about James Somerton doing à la "How did no one see how bigoted he was!" as if those things haven't been a significant part of tumblr culture for over a decade :

Presenting untrue and bordering on conspiratorial versions of (queer or otherwise marginalised) history without any sources

Completely disregarding and disrespecting any expertise on socio-cultural topics/humanities and distrusting academics and historians (incl. acting as if no academics or historians could be queer or marginalised)

Downplaying the role misogyny played in the historical oppression of queer women and concluding that queer men must have been more oppressed than queer women

Bi women are, at best, not as queer as "real" queer ppl, and at worst, simply equivalent to straight women

Despite nominal trans inclusivity, transmasculine ppl are functionally women when convenient (combined with the above, bi transmascs are functionally straight women)

Despite nominal trans inclusivity (bis), shamelessly attacking, threatening and actively endangering any trans woman who questions them or smth they find important (often by unfairly presenting her as violent or as a threat)

Having absolutely fucking wild and reductive takes about ace ppl, the oppression they face and their place in the queer community

Stating that marriage equality is an assimilationist fight while completely ignoring its direct roots in the horrifying consequences of the AIDS crisis for partners of ppl who died of AIDS

Praising western media creators from the past for queer coding even under censure and in the same breath condemning current non western media creators for being homophobic bc their representation isn't explicit enough

Blaming China for all existing homophobic censoring in western media

Assuming all queer media would be better told by western creators and by western standards

Only out queer ppl get to tell queer stories

Heavily criticising almost all queer media created by women or ppl they see as such (see above points about trans ppl) or involving/starring a significant amount of women for any perceived or real amount of "problematicness", but fawning over and praising and negating criticism of queer media created by and starring mostly or even functionally exclusively men (even when it could be argued that, you know, not involving/seriously sidelining women is a pretty clear example of misogyny which should probably be considered "problematic")

And I'm probably forgetting stuff or there's stuff I have internalised myself and don't recognise as an issue

Like idk but I feel like the takeaway from Hbomberguy and Toddintheshadow's videos should maybe be "be aware of such patterns in your communities bc they definitely exist" and not "this guy is uniquely awful" and I feel like a lot of the discussion I've seen surrounding this has been severely failing at that. Most ppl who've spent any significant amount of time on tumblr prob either have internalised at least one of those thought patterns, have had to de-internalise them, or have had to be extremely vigilant to not internalise them (which is done by, you know, seeking out other sources, which also seemed like an important takeaway from the videos)

[lemongogo]

dont forget what happened to icarus

[stil-lindigo]

the fox god.

a comic about a trickster.

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[ms-demeanor]

I don't care about data scraping from ao3 (or tbh from anywhere) because it's fair use to take preexisting works and transform them (including by using them to train an LLM), which is the entire legal basis of how the OTW functions.

[christadeguchi]

j… jesus oppa ;____;

[caruliaa]

staff still hasn't given me polls, what should i do?

🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 their moms 69%

🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 their dads 31%

grace image os i get to look at her

[azuremist]

Autism is a spectrum and Laios and Kabru are at opposite ends of it. “Consistently offputting to everyone around him due to his autistic traits” vs “masking is literally his special interest”

[scarlct-vvitch]

i know i attract more ace followers than anything else lmao so y'all better show up for this one

[adobe-outdesign]

was reading up on deleted Muppet scenes. this one's my favorite

[anastacialy]

guys, i think the hermits are going to accidentally start a prank war again. because just like last time, a game of telephone has begun. first, false made iskall's build into ''false beans,'' her shop from the previous season. however, to give herself plausible deniability, she signs it with "love, Joel. x" due to his username, smallishbeans.

next, iskall sees this, and completely believes it. he thinks it was joel who pranked him, and as he says to pearl while showing off the sign, which he kept even after tearing the prank down, "joel gave me a kiss." in his most recent video, he pranks joel by sending him loads of anonymous messages in order to completely spam and fill his inbox, preventing him from getting any more mail, with notes such as "thinking about you. x"

of course, joel is going to have absolutely no context for this, because he didn't make the initial prank. so who is joel going to assume sent him all those messages while he was away on holiday? well, i have a guess.

etho.