the gates of hell

Hey! This blog is pretty much inactive. See the pinned post. Aries · 21 · it/xey/they/he/she · topic may vary Adult content occasionally reblogged.

[ariestis]

Forced to log into Tumblr to view our own blog. Hi. I know we said "small hiatus" and then proceeded to completely disappear - turns out not using Tumblr improved our mental health! By a lot!

Sorry to everyone that just kind of expected (if anyone at all) that we would be back soon. It also turns out the move, while the actual physical process went smoothly, sent us into a legal limbo that proceeded to last AN ENTIRE YEAR. More than, even!

That being said, do not by any means take this as a sign that we're gonna be back (though again, idk how many people actually missed us or if they just kinda forgot - it's whatever at this point.) because of the aforementioned point that our mental health improved getting out of here. Social media in general, really.

The internet is getting worse. You can pretty much only find us on Discord at this point, or by sending a letter attached to a carrier pigeon and hoping it doesn't get lost on the way. Though even Discord is kind of going down the shitter and we keep forgetting Bluesky exists. So! I dunno! If you've got us friended on Discord, by all means, reach out. Otherwise, sorry about the disappearance and that we never mentioned anything - we didn't want to log back in because we didn't want to get sucked back in, if that makes sense.

Also hi, we are now 21. Should update that. Or something.

[ariestis]

Hi guys, I'm gonna take a small hiatus from Tumblr until after I get my IRL things sorted out.

Can't remember if we've said this here before or not, so here it is again: I'm moving countries at the end of this year (hopefully). I've been in a stressful spot between my mother starting her shit up again and the move. I'm most likely going to stay off Tumblr for my own sanity, given the world is starting to fall apart around us which means half the blogs I follow are reblogging things about current events.

I cannot, reasonably or emotionally, unfollow every blog on my dash that posts this. One, that'd make me feel bad and two, lots of them post other content that I enjoy seeing right now. Which is why I'm taking this hiatus, since that way once I'm in a better spot both physically and emotionally, I can come back like everything's good.

You may have noticed my activity dropped again, that's most likely due to Tumblr's UI change too. Accidentally refreshed my tab and now I have the shitty Twitter-esque sidebar menu.. so, fuck that noise.

I kind of fear for the safety and sanctity of the internet as it stands today. Part of me worries that it'll change so drastically in the next few months to the point where this hiatus becomes indefinite, but we'll see.

Thank you for your patience and understanding, and I'll see y'all on the other side.

[saintsatellite-deactivated20240]

I can't be autistic bc I'm actually great at understanding social cues!

[Cut to my POV, a Terminator-style overlay analyzing word choice and body language while over everyone's head a bar labeled Are They Mad At Me shows varying levels]

[saintsatellite-deactivated20240]

[painkillerscoffeeandcathair]

I've been rolling something around in my head.

If everyone receives Minimum Basic Income, what happens to all the relationships where one of the individuals no longer has to depend on the other(s) to survive?

Just let that marinate for a moment.

Not just the economic landscape but the social landscape could be transformed.

[a-queer-little-wombat]

Not for nothing, but this is literally part of the entire point of Universal Basic Income.

When abused people can just literally walk away, knowing they can still have enough money to live, the world will be a lot less sheltering of abusers and that is a massive fucking benefit.

It gets better than that, if we go with my ideal UBI scenario, in which we peg UBI to "enough to live in any major metropolitan city in the country" and do NOT adjust it for cost of living.

Suddenly, the poverty and scrabbling for survival of rural areas? Gone. That UBI will go a whole long fucking way out there. Suddenly, people who had to move to the cities to get jobs that paid enough? Can afford to move back. Heck, they can afford to get decent fucking broadband out there and continue working, just, not in the city. Suddenly, people who live in rural areas but want to move to the cities with like-minded people? That's affordable, too. Suddenly, people who want to have a bigger house, but are stuck in a tiny apartment in a city? They can afford to move out to where there are bigger houses.

Universal Basic Income would realign our whole damn society, and I think it would long-term be for the better.

[athelind]

[sheherlockholmes]

HAATEEEE hate actually. that overweight is considered a more pc nice term than fat. like i need the word fat to become destigmatized right now because im tired of people talking circles around trying to say chubby or big or plus size as catchalls because fat is a fine word. its fine. i know its been deemed derogatory by our culture but thats because being fat is deemed bad anyways but i think its a better word than calling people overweight like over what weight hm? what weight are you saying they are over. normal?? fuck you

[pacificseaotter]

I do not exhibit symptoms of Symptoms Disorder, I say, actively exhibiting symptoms of Symptoms Disorder

[gumy-shark]

hey, is this a symptom of Symptoms Disorder, or is it normal? I ask, to the discord server exclusively inhabited by people who also have Symptoms Disorder

[kiwimuichiro]

I've just done a quiz about Symptoms Disorder, but I dont think I have it. I say as it says I show symptoms of Symptoms Disorder.

[pacificseaotter]

[pastadoughie]

[relaxxattack]

for a while there i was sympathetic to tumblr because of how much they’re in debt; i was kind of like “well of course they’re absolutely desperate for new users, they literally need the money or else tumblr goes down forever”. and then suddenly today it hit me that there’s actually no fucking reason for that debt to be causing these ui changes? the userbase has been INCREDIBLY clear about what they want from tumblr over the years, not to mention clear about the fact that even twitter people don’t need this place to look like twitter. it actually would be very… EASY? for them to just make changes in a direction people would actually be HAPPY with?

for fuck’s sake there were people trying to organize a “crab day” for tumblr despite tumblr doing nothing but telling us to go fuck ourselves for months on end. there were people spending hundreds of dollars on check marks just for the glee of MAKING FUN of twitter. can you IMAGINE how much money this userbase would donate to tumblr if they actually made ui updates geared toward what people have been asking for?

if tumblr actually crowdsourced ideas or even just LISTENED to their userbase it may have been possible for them to make way more money than they’re begging for now, they just insist on trying to drive their actual demographic and loyal userbase out for literally no reason

[fantasticsublimepeanut]

They are doing surveys that are really hard to find because their survey blog has reblogs disabled for some reason.

Log survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2V3MQTP

Short survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HS5LP3W

Blog: https://www.tumblr.com/benevolenthellsite

[pavlovadiplomacy]

[zzoupz]

painkiller is such a metal fucking word. pain. killer. so badass.

[evilwizard]

sword called “painkiller” because. yeah. if you think about it

[lazer-t]

Art Fight attack on @wanderingwastelands

[what-even-is-thiss]

When you work in a creative field there’s a mental trap you can fall into where you think that if you can’t be the best and most famous in the whole world that there’s no point but really there’s a million ways you can do your thing either as a job or as a hobby that are just as important if not more so than the most famous people in the field

[what-even-is-thiss]

Like. There’s no shame in being a wedding singer. You know what I mean? You don’t have to go to broadway to chase your dreams. You can get hired by local Shakespeare troupe. You can have a little webcomic with a small but loyal fan base.

And I’m not advocating for “settling” or whatever. I’m saying that there’s ways to do what you love for a living or as your main hobby that are smaller and may in fact be what you actually want. Because you may want to just be a local band. You know what I mean? Sometimes that’s the end goal. And even if it isn’t it can still be a way to do what you love.

[teal-chimera]

i hope every single workplace in america strikes and i mean it

[teal-chimera]

we're currently in such a terrible recession right now, all workers can barely afford to pay rent regardless of job. i hope we hunt down the rich for sport at this point

[ganondoodle]

help

[valmillion]

really funny that every website is in an arms race to make itself as bad as possible and immediately someone makes a firefox extension to fix it

[hollowboobtheory]

you ever take a uquiz and realize halfway through that you don’t respect the author and their opinion is useless to you

[hollowboobtheory]

everyone shut up except this person

[only-tiktoks]

[thesummoningdark]

#ultimate ally mom: forgot child was trans and gave wrong sex talk (tags from @findafight)