mel

mel | 24 | she/her

[aloftmelevar]

call me mel! this is my main blog where i reblog random things or say whatever's on my mind. if you're coming from one of my sideblogs, you can send me asks about pretty much anything!

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here are my other blogs:

melis-hellis - general fandom blog. where i talk about my interests.

beautifully-lumpy - my caddicarus blog. pretty dormant these days due to lack of engagement + waning hyperfixation

mels-web-graphics - where i post the web graphics i create and also reblog cool web graphics.

[aloftmelevar]

always sunny is so fucking funny dude oh my god. it's 3am and i can't stop laughing at diaper time

[librarycards]

people on here who have been on 10-15+ years like myself...i don't know how they claim that there were never any Black bloggers on here, or that it was always such a white website. trudy gradientlair was on here. thisiswhiteprivilege was on here. there was a feminist citation project sara ahmed was involved in on here. there was someone on here whose username was wretchedoftheearth and that was how i learned who fanon was when i was 12, by googling those words. tumblr was the only place i knew i could go to get accurate & compassionate info about what happened to trayvon martin, when everyone around me irl was rabidly racist. the amount of reportage and scholarship that happened on here before the first big wave of bans was so huge and so much has been lost. where were you when it was happening??? why weren't you paying attention??

[dumbtrannybitch]

it's cause they never engaged with non white bloggers so they never noticed them disappearing. they got the tumblr they wanted, and those of us who aren't liberal/conservative fandom bloggers were robbed of our black and brown friends, and worst of all black and brown bloggers were robbed of a dpace that once was a legitimate vector for talking about black issues. at least some members of staff know what they are doing, it's like the war on drugs in this website the way they crush black people on this website.

[nyokoko]

I literally published an essay several years ago about how a lot of people stole the intellectual work that Black feminist bloggers on here published regularly to build this website and its reputation as we know it. White people love them some revisionist history.

The reason Tumblr became the bastion of intellectual discourse that it was known for--the reason the term "social justice warrior" even EXISTS as a derogatory descriptor--is because of the work of the Black bloggers who migrated to this site from 2009-2014 from LJ and Jezebel's forums. Myself included.

[gravityjunior]

Starting a collection

[r2x2]

The Amnesty International report that JK Rowling is trying to censor through legal threats.

It can also be found on Google Drive here and on Bluesky here.

[aloftmelevar]

saw this goofy ass promo image of mac from iasip and had to draw him as will (my adult swim gijinka)

[rslashrats]

christian rock bands are a backbone genre in the amv scene

[rslashrats]

christian rock band making a song: i dedicate this one to you jesus

unwell 12 year old girl who is a couple years away from having a gender crisis: this is so naruto and sasuke

[luka6x]

[aloftmelevar]

I DECIDE TO START WATCHING IASIP FOR THE FIRST TIME AND SUDDENLY I HAVE ONE MONTH TO WATCH ALL 17 SEASONS BEFORE THE NEW SEASON DROPS LMFAOOOOO

[aloftmelevar]

i wanted to watch the whole show in time for the season premiere but i'm gonna be real here. i dont think i'll make it in time LOL

[aloftmelevar]

i'm at work and i'm already coming up with iasip fanfic ideas is it genuinely over for me chat

[aloftmelevar]

I DECIDE TO START WATCHING IASIP FOR THE FIRST TIME AND SUDDENLY I HAVE ONE MONTH TO WATCH ALL 17 SEASONS BEFORE THE NEW SEASON DROPS LMFAOOOOO

[apas-95]

[sraithpics]

David Cleary!

[aiteanngaelach-deactivated20241]

i'm in Ireland and the search for that bastards name is still blocked and hidden... the legnths the british go to defend and protect their instruments of colonialism and violence is beyond belief. no justice for the victims and yet every measure taken to protect David James Cleary and his fellow murderers.

[undeadentropy]

Never a better time for the Streisand Effect than when it's a government covering up acts of brutality and evil.

[stele3]

if you complain about the Chinese government covering up Tianamen Square, then complain about this, too.

[orbitingrook]

[tinymintywolf]

watching this show for the first time (yes 20 years late i know) and i love everything wrong with these people

[birdlawexpert]

Dude

[aloftmelevar]

tried out wigglypaint

[aloftmelevar]

for the past 24 hours i've been having this sudden irresistible burning urge to start watching it's always sunny in philadelphia. last time i had this feeling was with smiling friends and before that it was with onward and well. if you know me you know what happened after i watched those two for the first time