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"Some mirrors are silvered with mercury. They're full of poison."

I don't really believe in separating the art from the artist, but I remember how much it hurt when I found out Rowling was an absolutely shit person and so I do worry about the Gaiman fans out there who are in pain because of the article that was dropped today. I hope this helps.

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Not exactly how I wanted to christen this account, but I'm going to look back on this day as a watershed moment. I ignored and excused so much of what made me uncomfortable in his work because I bought into the persona, completely and comprehensively. The fact that these poor women had to go to terfs, to have their story exploited for shock value, just to be heard, is such a compounding tragedy to the horror of the abuse.

Thank you to Shapiro for her empathetic and thorough reporting. I hope this article is shared in every corner of every industry he's crawled into. I hope everyone he respects turns away from him in horror and disgust. Since I severely doubt he'll ever see criminal charges, I hope his enduring legacy is that everything he's ever written will be viewed through the lens of a serial rapist and abuser.

And this is the end of my parasocial experiment. I dipped my toe in and absolutely no thank you. I'll take the art and the art alone, and if I find out the artist is a sack of sh*t in human form at least I won't feel personally gutted over it. I don't know if it's sick karma or a cruel irony, but Gaiman seems to have singlehandedly slaughtered the innocence of every person he once inspired. Put THAT on his tombstone.

If the paywall comes up, try to put the link into this: https://www.removepaywall.com

Posting in the spirit of not staying quiet about this.

I strongly suggest you read this—all of it, because it’s long. Lila Shapiro is the journalist who wrote the investigation into Joss Whedon btw and won an award for it, so maybe people can finally stop making this all about Tortoise Media.

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Bless you, I just made the switch from a shared account to a personal one and I was going insane trying to fix this.

#Tumblr guide

How to Get a Chronological Dash as a New Blog

I've been working on a Tumblr Roleplaying 101 guide, and in doing so wound up making a brand new Tumblr account for some screenshots. And this process made me realize how weirdly complicated Tumblr has made it for new accounts to get a chronological dash. So if you just want to see posts from people you follow, in the order that they made them, this what you have to do.

First, go to your settings, go under Dashboard, and scroll down to Preferences. Toggle off Best Stuff First. This switches your dash from an algorithm feed to a chronological one.

If you have an older blog, that's all you have to do. But if your blog was created more recently, you have an extra step.

The Tumblr dashboard has different tabs, which you can see across the top of your feed. Most older users have completed tuned these out, because we don't care about anything other than the basic feed. There is a Following tab, which shows posts from users you follow, and a For you tab, which shows recommend posts Tumblr thinks you'll like.

On blogs created before May 8, 2023, the Following tab is the default view. However, blogs created after this date have the For you tab as the default view. (This is an intentional change by Tumblr.)

This means if you are a newer blog and want to see posts from people you follow, you'll need to manually switch to the Following tab every time you open the dashboard.

If you do not like this change, consider contacting Tumblr staff. Submit a form under the Feedback category and explain that you'd like the option to make the Following tab the default for new blogs. And please, be polite! There is a person on the other side of the screen who likely had no say in this change, and even if they did, they don't deserve to be yelled at.