I'm Gabby. 28 years old. terfs DNI Hope you like lesbians. And fiction. Mostly fictional lesbians. Also Supergirl meta/au's, West Wing, Leverage, recipes, and my attempt at calligraphy, rings, and fountain pens
To me, honestly, the biggest thing Tumblr has going for itself is the fact that no one uses it.
Originally I was thinking, in terms of “why do I use Tumblr and not other sites?” that the thing going for it is that it’s a Post Anonymous Bullshit site. And this is true, and important, but also Tumblr isn’t the only Post Anonymous Bullshit site.
I think the key power that Tumblr holds over me is that it’s the Post Anonymous Bullshit site that no one uses.
And the reason that’s so clutch is because of how much safety it adds. No matter what kind of office or acquaintance small-talk spirals into the direction of social media, which, perhaps in an unthinking moment, causes you to mention you use Tumblr. Even if your conversation partner acts interested in this detail, they won’t follow you. Twitter? Tiktok? Fuck man, the person could whip out their phone on the spot and look you up. Tumblr? No way in hell. They’d have to download an app. Make an account. Check it regularly? Just to see you posting “happy fuck him flat friday”? No.
And on the absolute off chance this person does have a Tumblr, and does follow you, well they probably have all the same problems you do that’s led them to be active on this site in 2023 so you should be pretty safe in a very girl what are YOU doing at the devil’s sacrament kind of way.
This day exactly six years ago I was getting ready to publish a new fan fiction that I was planning to just name ‘the sugar baby kara au’ because I hated coming up with titles and I am a fool, but my girlfriend of two months convinced me that that was a terrible idea. She was right, obviously, and now six years later we’re engaged to be married. Had to lock that wisdom down fast after that.
Also, six years later, I’m here publishing the final chapter of this damn story. Thank you all for taking this adventure with me for over half a decade. I’ve been a lot of different people in that time, and I am thankful I got to be so many of them with you all.
bad blood by bastille was literally insane. a song about Pompeii AND a song about Laura palmer AND a song about icarus. things we lost in the fire???? wtf was this guy on. possessed by a modern day library of alexandria. daniel in the den.. bro experienced one single past life regression then asked david lynch to interpret it
Barbie. Directed by Greta Gerwig, performances by Margot Robbie and Rhea Perlman, Warner Bros. et al.
Buonarroti, Michelangelo. The Creation of Adam. c. 1508-1512, Sistine Chapel, in the Vatican, Rome.
Robbie, Margot. “‘Barbie’ Easter Eggs: Greta Gerwig and Margot Robbie Dish on Their Favorite Hidden Details.” Interview by Angelique Jackson. Variety, 22 July, 2023.
thanks @bmoharrisbankofficial but unfortunately i can’t focus on the very important message here because i’m too busy being confused by the fact that apparently if you send an ask with only one letter tumblr will bold that letter in the “asked you” notification text?? why the fuck would that be the case
this edit is fantastic but i also need people to know the original text says “what’s to keep me from becoming a god” which is pretty high up there in terms of funniest things for a child to say upon realizing he has free will
Re: your spider sense post, I just realized that all Peter's erratic and seemingly paranoid behavior can be explained out of costume by "Well, the guy watched his uncle/surrogate father die after he was shot by some schmuck who robbed a convenience store. Of course he's fucked up."
GOD, YEAH…. No wonder he’s suspicious of inconspicuous strangers, periodically startles at literally nothing, and seems to yo-yo between fleeing crowded areas or barging into them to get irrationally aggressive with randos or overprotective of his social circle with, again, nothing on evidence to prompt this.
Honestly a lot of his high school classmates who were preoccupied with collaboratively shunning this behavior for sport and edification at the time probably had this horrified fridge realization a few years later and felt terrible about not getting it back then, even though it’s not, explicitly, accurate.
It’s for the best though because Pete had as much chill as a broken chest freezer in July at that point and would Not Have Appreciated realizing that anybody who was not a sweet old lady who lived on his block viewed him this way. (They did and he was a better sport about it than I would be if I was a hotly discussed sexagenarian lunch date gossip topic.)
If he found out this was the standard explanation for him offered to new people at his work he’d have either a snit or a maudlin crisis, or a snit followed by a maudlin crisis, which is unfortunate because it probably is because it explains everything about him.
if you’re a new tumblr user from tiktok or IG or something and only like posts and dont reblog them yeah people will think you’re a bot and block you but you will also make this website actively worse. they want “algorithmic” users like you, served recommended posts through likes, not people who just follow each other and respond to the direct chronological feed. there is a reason this website is still better than the rest, even with all its problems, do not ruin this
ok i need to make this clearer: if you do not reblog posts and only like them you are contributing to this site actively getting worse and becoming like all the apps you hate. keep likes to things you just wanna keep off your blog. reblog everything else. ESPECIALLY fanart, which always needs a reblog.
and FYI: what i’m saying here is backed up by tumblr themselves. they admit this publicly.
if you want a good RECENT (as of the end of February 2022) overview of what is going on behind the scenes at tumblr, it is basically what i’ve been saying for years: the core staff is tiny, constantly not being listened to when they advocate for us, the community, and working there is a nightmare:
Reblogging to encourage people instead of only liking is really not that fucking hard if you dont want people to be discouraged cuz their stuff get zero interactions and 99% useless likes and be driven off the Platform.
Thank yall for this! I thought reblogging wasnt good because that it just puts stuff out there that is already out there, but now i am going to reblog bc I learned and stuff ig. IDK what i was going to say
ig thanks bc now im not scared to reblog out of fear of hate
pirates of the caribbean really introduced an eldritch octopus man who kills indiscriminately and torments the dead as their poster villain and then you watch the movies and it’s like, “oh no, actually the worst villain in this series is a small white british man who functions as the herald of capitalism” and that was very very brave of them
Found this in the comments of Shaun’s latest video on Andrew Tate, in which he talks pretty extensively about how important it is for men to find ways to be confident in their genders without trying to adhere to, or enforce, anyone else’s ideas of manhood on anyone.
Anyway. I rarely see folks talk about the positive impact transmascs have on manhood as a whole, and I think it’s important to acknowledge and celebrate that.
