#you will just be preaching to the choir

[gyokujyn]

CATWS 10th Anniversary | April 2nd » Prompts: Bucky Barnes for @catws-anniversary

a loving homage to A Softer World and @asofteravenger

[baravaggio]

yeah I can’t do this anymore

[stuckinapril]

why is the extreme reactionary opposite opinion the one yall seem to be taking? i dont think anyone has EVER said that ALL of the fundraisers are fake, but do you legitimately believe that every single one is real? is that not an equally silly stance on the scam website?

Can you shut the fuck up im actually so sick of you people who lack reading comprehension

[theforsakenprince]

why does everyone assume all destiny players hate destiny. the damage "haha I hate destiny it's my favorite game" jokes has done tbh. no I actually like playing it I have fun that is the point of playing a video game. don't assume anything just because you're having an awful time

[mkzmerryfriend]

*cracks knuckles* we know Tyler isn’t the original Clancy right? Y’all caught that? Clancy’s bishop was Keons, Tyler’s is Nico, and now “Clancy” is Tyler. Because “scaled and icy” is an anagram for “Clancy is dead” and that album was the one where dema was using Tyler’s popularity for their own purposes. Clancy failed to stop the cycle on his own, and despite already being used as a figurehead for dema, Tyler decided to take up the role of “Clancy” in the wake of what seemed like a total collapse of the Banditos. Their leader had been taken out, and now they had no one to organize them.

But Tyler taking on the name Clancy isn’t him taking on the role of leader or even organizer. He is showing us (the Banditos) that we all can be our own inspiration, we don’t need a figure to follow, we don’t need a leader to lead us. We can do this, fight dema, ourselves.

Y’all got that, right?

[staticrevelations]

Imogen and Laudna at the Solstice / "Everything" by MUNA

[wuntrum]

that post about digital art brushes has breached containment and i can tell because people in the tags are like but what about texture brushes :( have you tried color jitter :( like brother you dont even know who you're talkin to...respectfully

[carlyraejepsans]

nothing more infuriating than strangling the little goblin in your brain that wants to be an asshole and making an effort to respond politely to smth that annoyed you and then immediately being accused of snarking.

[civilization-illstayrighthere]

I don't know just where I'm going But I'm gonna try for the kingdom, if I can 'Cause it makes me feel like I'm a man When I put a spike into my vein And I'll tell ya, things aren't quite the same When I'm rushing on my run And I feel just like Jesus son (x)

the original. “rama,” i hear you ask, “why is the original on its side?” Well, being that I’m on xbox, I’ve found that the only way i can get the uh, je ne sais quoi sort of dimensions I’d like, i have to rotate the camera by a full 90 degrees, which you can imagine looks very stupid as I then have to lay on the couch or tilt my head at an angle that my twenty nine year old neck doesnt really appreciate

[radiation]

when putting art out into the world, are you in any way opposed to the possibility of it becoming massively popular? privacy + the familiarity of a small community of patrons is something i'd worry about losing

There is something extremely nice about having my current small audience -- I feel like you guys respect my privacy and genuinely understand what I'm going for in my work in a way that's really fucking cool. However at the point I'm at now, I couldn't even begin to support myself off of making original art and games and music and such, so I don't get to work on it nearly as much as I'd like to. I would not be able to create to the full extent that I am capable of unless I reach a wider audience and that's a tradeoff I think I'd be okay with making. Moderate popularity is definitely the goal but I try to remind myself of potential negatives and put a lot of thought into how I'd act in that scenario. I already try to plan for this kinda stuff by, for instance, making my art pretty unapproachable for a younger audience. Kids are great but I hope to god my stuff bores the shit out of them. I also think over time I've been increasingly withdrawing socially from the internet and making it harder to get a read on my personality, which Id just kick into overdrive if things really blew up. This would kind of cut off the connection I have with my audience which is unfortunate but I think its ok, Im in good company with my friends and local community and prioritize that anyway

I think the biggest thing I'm anxious about if my shit gets popular is people WIDELY interpreting the stuff I make in shallow ways and giving characters TOO much of the fandom treatment, but I'm not nearly as prickly about that stuff as I used to be because Im a lot more confident in my own artistic perspective

[absolutely-not-my-main-blog]

I need people to understand, as someone who was big into both Supernatural and Sherlock at 16-17 and never once felt the urge to ship Destiel or Johnlock or any of the other myriad of ships therein, as someone who was generally neutral or actively distasteful toward shipping culture at the time and thought people were always getting up in arms about or reading too much into things that weren't actually there, and even with explicitly canon/obviously going to be canon ships only had a vague secondary interest in them relative to plot... I took one look at Always Sunny and it was the *first* time where I was like, oh, oh, this is real, Macdennis is real, and even if it *maybe* started out as a joke as many of these things tend to do, it's not a joke anymore, and I don't think it's queerbait either, and you can see that in their writing choices, in their interview answers, in the silly, twisting/twisted and ridiculous, yet simultaneously complex and sincere dynamic, love story for the ages, greatest will-they-won't-they, while it shouldn't be your sole focus in regards to the show, this is something genuine to the fans, and genuine to the creators that they want done right, even if people who can't see it act like you've lost your mind, even if you yourself start to think you've lost your own mind every other day in those sobering moments because shit, yeah, Always Sunny is the first time I saw, I get it now, and I even get the appeal of all the other ships in the show, too. Even though it's a sitcom, even though it's "the meme show," they're clearly not just having a laugh, they have stake in this, their work and their characters, and all the relationships they've built on through the years, though silly, are earnest and serious to them, and thus become serious to us.

[dreamiekarma]

ok so that last post stirred some feelings. like i don't think i could ever get into her/mits or any other subgroup of mc sheerly because of how the fanbase treats us. the way our side of the greater mc/yt fanbase was amputated and rejected is completely awful and undeserved and it pisses me off whenever i see someone shitting on us which, as of right now, is a very popular and accepted thing to do. i want harmony and for all of us to get along, i would embrace it, i am waiting for the day. a united fandom community is better, healthier, stronger, and astronomically, massively, mindblowingly more fun to be a part of. but as long as this sense of superiority, purity, and general fucked-up "betterness" that empowers the greater sphere to be complete dickheads persists we will not have that community.

[damazcuz]

I've only had this account for about 5 years now. But I've been on tumblr for 13 years, since I was 16 and just starting to learn who I was, what transgender meant, what the world looked like at the time for a group I was swiftly realizing included me.

And for 13 years I have consistently used this site and stayed on, occasionally blog hopping when things felt stale or if things got bad. And things got bad sometimes. You'd get people calling you nasty things in your ask or replies or reblogs or tagging your username to sic their followers on you. And tumblr has always treated targeted harassment as a "Sorry you feel that way. That's not against tos though! Was this answer helpful?" issue whenever it's reported. They've never cared against abuse on their website, IN THE EXCEPTION of cases in which radfems and nazis have maliciously mass reported users for MAYBE hitting their breaking points and MAYBE snapping and saying something stupid that could be used as an excuse. Could be something today or four years ago in your archive but at some point, you had a bad day and posted something that could make tumblr say finally, we can get rid of a pest! or you were just transgender and said as much. A little too loudly in front of the wrong mod.

And this sounds so silly to say. But when you live in a website for 13 years and it's where you have your primary interactions with so many people and where you've met so many of your friends! It starts to feel like your community. Like an apartment building we all live in and visit each other's apartments and talk and decorate and laugh and play. And it's a bit of a dump and we all laugh about the crumbling peeling wallpaper and the slumlord that runs the place. We know the landlord isn't our friend, they just want us to pay rent until we're no good for it anymore. Produce the posts that make this site anything more than a hate forum, make the memes and the art and the posts that end up everywhere from your little sister's pinterest to your mom's Facebook to your uncle's meme subreddit. Keep up the garden and don't pile trash on the curb or you're out. This is "the queerest place on the net" only because queer people live here and hung on with our fingernails to stay here because if you have to leave, what's your fallback? You like your neighbors. They can't all come with you. They won't. Even the kind of crumbly parts feel like home after a while.

Like I want to clarify that Tumblr's reputation as a funny place to chill and scroll and meet people and see new things is not from the transphobes working on staff. Their job is to turn a profit or at least keep it LOOKING profitable, so the site can sell to the next moron to buy it out. The fun and joy of Tumblr is us. WE made this place. When you tear down our decorations and rip out our furnishings and toss us out on the street and look at what's left to show the next prospective tenant, it's a fucking dump. There is nothing left but the shittiest people in our neighborhood who are allowed to stay and make hate posts about us. There's the framework for "someone could make pretty posts here! It's a fixer upper!" But it's shit. It sucks.

I've been spiraling since yesterday over a couple of things I'm not taking well. One is work. "They can't fire us all!" I always joke. And people laugh. Last night my boss and I spent an hour and a half in this miserable fucking meeting, talking about the pressure pushing down on our load bearing team. We fantasized over all 8 of us being able to say "that's enough. I'm better than this. We are all walking out today and we will not come back. Don't text." And we can't. None of us can lose the stability of a full time job that pays kind of okay even though it's killing you. None of us can face that uncerainty. I left with chest pain. It was my first day back after major surgery. I went home and sat in one spot for over six hours almost unmoving, crying and just in disbelief of how unfair it is. We can't leave. But something has to give before my team dissolves and one of us puts a gun in their mouth. And then we all still have to make our shift. Who else will do all that? Who's going to cover, huh? Clock in.

And I spent the rest of my day, which ran to 4 am before I was able to sleep, wishing I could quit and hating what's happening on tumblr just as much. On a fucking blogging platform. Because this has been my fun sandbox for over a decade and it's always kind of sucked, it's full of cat shit and people throw sand at you and you're getting sunburned but it's fun here. You find your people to play with. And then it's like you remember oh yeah, other people here want me dead. The owner of this place wants me to die. He wants everyone that makes this place cool and fun to die. And he'll turn around and say "yeeeah well you shouldn't have joked about being mean to me." And it's like why am I here! Why am I making posts for YOU?

I can't leave employment. I'm only a couple of weeks, maybe a couple months away from homelessness at any given time, with how tight finances are. "Shoestring budget" would be generous. We're making it through sheer force of will. But I can't quit my job, and neither can anyone else.

But I can leave this place that I've hated and loved for so, so long. The other massive drain on my life that wants to see me shrivel and die. I can get up and go. We could all just go. Mass exodus. And I know it won't happen. Give it a week, ten days. People move along. Yeah, that sucked. Well, here we all still are. Still posting. Still tumbling. Still complaining about the landlord. But most people won't leave. How can you walk on your friends and community, knowing they won't all follow? But how do you continue to stay here watching this happen? I'm already listening to people tell me "so? that doesn't affect me. it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. and of course this happened, duhhhh." It's like, feel stupid for getting comfortable here. You should feel stupid for settling in and making it a home and thinking it would be fun here. If you are transgender you are not safe and you are not wanted. Not in the queerest place on the web, either.

It's not about the funny hammer car explosion """threat.""" It was never about the hammer car explosion. That was a dogwhistle through a megaphone to transphobes. Tumblr's darlings. Don't worry. I'll take care of this one that thinks she can speak up against me. And against you. And now there's a defined "REASON" for the ban. Why, Matt hardly knew he was banning a trans woman. All he knew was fear! He had no choice! And you can ignore the ACLU and the claims of systemic transphobia, that's something else. We fixed that!

I want this place to die because it is already rotting. We are scraping at the bones at this point. Walls are crumbling and there's a hole in the floor to the room below and the windows have long been knocked out and the boiler hasn't worked in years. They aren't going to fix it. It has never been the intention to fix it. They want you to leave or die. Whichever. Don't matter. Just get lost. I will find another tenant. I will find another person who will give me more ad revenue. You are replaceable in that sense. Someone else will join tumblr tomorrow. And tumblr will make a buck off them instead.

But they cannot replace the ways in which you and I have made this site livable and bearable and fun. And I want us to leave so that the husk of this place can collapse and blow away in the wind. I want tumblr to take a major hit and I want the loss of ad revenue to HURT THEM. I want a mad scramble to figure out how to fix it all. They can't. They won't. The fix has always been there and it's always been refused. Terfs will never be turned away from tumblr. Neither will nazis. "Sorry you feel that way, but that's not against our tos. Was this answer helpful?"

You know how they say, "it there are ten people at a table and one is a nazi and no one stands up, you have ten nazis"? This feels like that to me. If 20,000 of us wait a week, shrug, and resume joking and playing and say, well, yeah, it's sad that another dozen trans fems were banned last night. But I like it here...

It feels like that. Why are my trans sisters' archives of 5, 10+ years of life and joy being wiped clean? I can't even tell you how many posts I've seen from an op whose url I recognize from last week, but whose username is grey and icon default, because she posted something less than a day ago to say "yo this sucks. Fuck this place and fuck this guy." They've never ever found the terfs and nazis to ban them because they DON'T CARE. Those are the ones they prefer. That they cater to. Post about the ceo being a dumbfuck and in 12 hours, risk losing your community and the ability to look back at your life online. Clean slate. As if you never lived there. Oh, but tumblr isn't a transphobic place. We fired the one and only naughty transphobe on staff who was taking bribes to send out bans. Pay to win moderation. That person's gone. So it's okay and you don't need to worry. It's okay, I promise. It's the queerest place on the web. Get comfortable.

I love my job and I love this place. One of them is going to push me to the edge. But I can choose to leave one. You can choose to leave with me. They can't fire us all.

[applejongho]

just saw another one of those "gif makers ere essential to society" esque posts and it has 18k notes 💀🤘 (8k rbs, 10k likes)

[asurrogateblog]

the pink floyd fan experience is putting on an album for like the third time that week and still being like "oh yah fuck I forgot these freaks really did make what is widely considered to be some of the best music ever created in all of history"

[01tsubomi]

whoooooooa whoa whoa whoa i just found the files from this animatic i started 2+ years ago to this (tswift) song that was gonna be all about kano's unresolved feelings abt ayano's death!! i haven't thought about it in so long!! but oooooouch!!!!! kano!!!!!!!

the first few frames are mostly just aes kageproy layout ideas i had for those lyrics but the bottom sketch ties into the main theme of the song and why it made me think of kano -

and especially with him moving from the tateyama household era of life into the mekadan era of life without telling anyone about everything he knew about ayano and all the secrets she made him keep and all the grief there - and kinda desperately keeping that inside because why WOULD he have so much grief there, in his family's eyes he went through the exact same experience as they did, ayano was their perfect sister who suddenly went away...

thinking about the mca scene with him talking alone to her grave and breaking down in front of seto bc he's been carrying this with him forever and just the sadness in that character arc. i feel like i think abt that specific kgpr plotline a lot these days but it never really crossed my mind until the more recent days of the fandom when people started talking about it more. it's so sad. that kid