MICROWAVED COMPETITION

This blog is a mess of anything and everything I've ever hyperfixated on & you get to hear my thoughts about what media I’m consuming.

[notnowricky]

we don’t talk about ilya’s little face when he says “i’m not done with you” enough.

look at how cute he is!!! 😗

[changes]

An update for users in Brazil and the United Kingdom

To continue our commitment to user safety and to comply with local laws, we will start using age groups to determine access to certain experiences.

People in Brazil or in the UK, who are 18 or older, will soon need to verify their age to change content label settings and view mature-labeled content. Until then, the settings will be locked to hide.

As a reminder, verification is handled by our age-assurance partner, k-ID. Tumblr won't have access to the information you submit, just the final age-verification result. Documents are deleted after confirmation, and facial scan data never leaves your device. 

Questions? Contact Tumblr support or learn more about these changes here.

[therovingace]

If you do this, you WILL lose customers/users/ad revenue. I know if this goes through I'm immediately deleting the tumblr app off of all my devices.

k-ID is highly unreliable, and is putting more people at risk of data breaches than the alternative of minors encountering 'mature content' that you heavily police (over-liberally imo, but is policed and removed per Tumblr's terms of service). It is clearly obvious that a service involved in a data breach controversy with another popular social platform (Discord, October 2025)

ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says

The platform says hackers targeted a firm that helped to verify the ages of its users.

(From here on out I am mainly focusing on UK laws and guidelines, as that is what I am more familiar with.)

The UK's Online Safety Act 'applies to services even if the companies providing them are outside the UK should they have links to the UK. This includes.... (if) it is capable of being accessed by UK users and there is a material risk of significant harm to such users.' (see below).

Per Tumblr's User Guidelines, "Visual depictions of sexually explicit acts (or content with an overt focus on genitalia) are not allowed on Tumblr." ( https://www.tumblr.com/policy/en/user-guidelines ) According to its own guidelines, there ought not to be 'a material risk of significant harm to (UK) users' for Tumblr to deem their site applicable to the act.

(It should also be worth noting that a petition against the act on the grounds of freedom of information and speech by over half a million people; more fuel to the argument against the age verification.)

Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act

We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.

Overall, this change would drive many users off of your platform, while ruining the trust between you and even more. Do not implement it.

[thecraftgremlin]

Where’s that one post that’s like Reasons Why My Wife Cried This Week and when are we gonna get a fanfic of that but Ryland Grace.

[stargirl-and-potts]

Reasons my human has cried:

* New student, very small. Grace said it was pebble. Pebble is small Earth rock. Pebble likes name.

* He found out Eridians have no gender rules.

* Students brought him mineral sample. After he stopped crying he said he loves show-and-tell game. Human naming conventions oddly literal.

* I told him Earthsun grew bright.

* I took him up atop atmosphere bypass elevator to look at stars.

* He woke up from nap and found me still with him. I did not wait on his chest; he says I am heavy like “elephant” and he “couldn’t breathe.” I laid my arm over him instead, kept him close, feeling safe. He said “cuddle” was warm.

* Before class he heard younglings singing.

* He has plants in house from sprouts on ship. Plant grew “bud.”

* Engineers got seawater temperature right. He took off shoes and stood in water, sighing. He didn’t care about pants getting damp. Cried until shirt was also damp. Humans very endlessly wet.

* He missed “Doritos.”

* Adrian helped food scientists make taumoeba dried paste. Made it crunchy after heating. We fused it into triangle form. Told him it was Tauritos. That made him laugh-cry. Laugh-cry is rare and precious.

* He remembered Eridians have no gender rules.

* We made him celebration outfit. Used metals he calls pretty. He can see frequencies named “colorful” and “shiny.” These make humans happiest.

* I gave him hug when he wasn’t expecting it. Easier to hug close now with exosuit. Hug when Grace sitting down so he does not fall over.

* Told him to think long time, stay with me as long as he can.

[ahotknife]

where’s that article by james frankie thomas where he says like “prior to my transition there was only one kind of sex i wanted to have. and i thought i could never have it” because i am about to blow these people’s minds

[ahotknife]

i found it 😌 the article was published on Slate and here’s JF’s commentary on it

[ahotknife]

i have gotten some very odd anons about this post that i’m choosing to ignore. but i am going to double down on this. no i don’t care if girls watch gay porn or imagine themselves as a gay person or wonder what it would be like to have gay sex. so many people imprison themselves by thinking they could never be gay and/or trans. well i’m telling them they better watch out. being gay and/or trans is real. and it could happen to YOU. as a matter of fact i sincerely hope it does

[projectxa3]

from Anarchopuppy

#tbh i think the intense stigma against “straight” ppl “fetishizing” queerness keeps a lot of ppl in the closet

#theres no harm in exploring those feelings in private. indulge in the fantasy and see where it takes u

#dont be a creep to other ppl obv but that goes w/o saying #if id had the courage to confront the ache id feel when i thought abt lesbian sex and how id “never be able to have it” earlier

#it wouldve saved me a lot of time

[tracetroupe]

This is precisely how I realized I wanted to be a man, and not just nonbinary. When it occurred to me that I didn't just want to see boys fucking, I wanted to BE the boys fucking.

[ellewantsrevenge]

my favorite fantasy world is tortall

[self-made-purgatories]

I mean that's basically the plot of Shore Leave, right?

[rhodeys]

#meet the buckley-diazes

[mybeautifuldarktwistedshane]

We (rightfully) make fun of shane for putting on a suit before their first hookup but we should also be making fun of ilya for wearing a fashionable denim jacket. They were staying in the same hotel. he put that jacket on just to down the hall and up the elevator. he only wore it because he thought shane would think it looked cool (he did) and that shane would love a sexy little striptease (he did). Embarrassing!

[shanesemotionalsupportpockets]

when fandoms start to blur 😂

@somnwritessometimes i saw your tags and ran to get pics lolol

i think the top two are SW VI and the middle ones are SW VII?

[hudsrivalry]

i never realized how much i needed him in an eyeliner and now i will never be the same without it

[harbinger-of-silly]

All gays will go to hellsite

[king-of-oreo]

What if in hellsite but not gay

[punky-beaver-offical]

[king-of-oreo]

NO!

[avhira]

[hellsitegenetics]

String identified: A ga g t t at t t t ga T tag g a Ag agag Acctac ! T tag g a Ag agag Acctac

Closest match: Psylliodes chrysocephala genome assembly, chromosome: 4 Common name: Cabbage Stem Flea Beetle

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[graveexcitement]

[kebbopulos]

[spaghettihell]

[artschoolglasses]

Have I found my winner already? Naomi Osaka, oh my god. ❤️

[shanesleftskate]

I don’t think I’ve ever refreshed the dash this much

[yearningendlessly]

someone arrest him before he steps on the carpet and triggers a worldwide gender crisis

[shed-some-light]

there's about to be a level 5 hudson williams incident

[fictionalpals]

I know we can all agree that Theo’s introduction could have been done much better BUT! I can’t wait for Eddie to wrangle that little monster and everyone is like wtf how? Was Chris like this? And eddie’s like what, my angel son Chris? Of course not! These are my Buck skills!

[great-and-small]

Don’t mind me just thinking about the hole in the middle of the United States where Chipping sparrows refuse to fuck

[great-and-small]