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Things in Starkid musicals that never fail to make me laugh [x]: A Very Potter Musical
HE JUST FUCKIN MOVES ROUND THE CURTAIN OH THATâS LIKE THE BEST META JOKE IâVE EVER SEEN
The musical that gave us, among other things, Draco Malfoy wanting a rocketship, âRumbleroarâ and of course Cornelius Fudge looking Voldemort in the eye and saying âI STILL DONâT BELIEVE YOUâRE BACKâ
In other words, the best Harry Potter adaptation EVER
I really love how much her family supports her, despite her awkwardness and weird tendencies. The writers did great in making sure the family didnât treat her like Meg from Family Guy
I agree
I felt now was a good time for the memes-of-the-year recap:
OH MY GOD
I sincerely cant remember the last time that staff rolled out a feature that improved this website in any way
When they moved the reblog button to the bottom of posts
Where was it before?
at the top we had to scroll all the way back up in order to reblog
What the fuck
people were so used to it that there were extensions to put it back
ellen truly is a lesbian icon
Why Tumblrâs NFSW-ban is a cautionary tale for why we need Net Neutrality
Well, here are the salient points, and youâll have to forgive the America-centric lens despite the wildly international community thatâs on Tumblr. The ~reason~ that Tumblr went into panic mode re: nudity and adult content was because Apple pulled the Tumblr app from the store due to child pornography on the website. Or at least, thatâs what theyâre telling you - the single largest paragraph in the Staff update re: this change was on child pornography, how abhorrent it is, what all theyâre doing to combat it, etc. But thatâs honestly bullshit. Thatâs not why theyâre /really/ doing it, though itâs certainly a flashpoint. 1. Theyâre rolling it out /now/ because Apple removed their app from the store. Which is on brand for apple. They have a history of removing âadult contentâ from their products. Here are some posts on Apple and itâs so-called âWalled Garden.â https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/24/apple-explicit-app-catego_n_475231.html https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/78k8yb/reddit-ios-apps-disappear-nsfw-content https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3mjxg/apple-tumblr-porn-nsfw-adult-content-banned Which is fine, if Apple wants to purge adult products from their content (ie things they own and moderate, such as a social media network), thatâs their prerogative. But what Apple is ALSO doing is policing what kind of content developers and companies are allowed to have on their own websites that might be accessed by users of Apple technology, which is in exact opposition to principles of net neutrality. Apple preventing users from seeing certain content on their iphones or imac computers, or the safari browser, and preventing them from accessing certain apps/websites that donât meet their approval, is part of a technology monopoly that controls how certain aspects of the internet are going to develop. IE, Tumblr purging its nudity content to get back on the Apple apps store, because they want to make money. There was a lawsuit over this in 2014, which resurfaced in 2017. Hereâs the court case on Apple Inc vs. Pepper, if you wanna read more on it: http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/apple-v-pepper/ But the big issue here is, when Apple begins to create a monopoly, net neutrality laws are part of what helps combat this. And if there are no net neutrality laws in place, itâs an awful lot harder to deal with corporations like Apple throttling ~sensitive content.~ A heading under which Apple has notoriously included stuff like LGBTQ+ content (see: https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/08/31/apple-censors-pride-watch-face-in-russia/), which is obvious unethical on a number of levels. 2. They had been planning on doing this for a while. You may have seen the vox interview article re: this, but Iâll post it below: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/12/4/18126112/tumblr-porn-ban-verizon-ad-goals-sex-work-fandom The NSFW ban had been underworks for 6 months already. Six months! They were planning on doing this with or without the CP issues that got them kicked off the Apple app store. And hereâs the thing. Tumblr was bought by Yahoo in 2013, with the intent of making $ through advertising, a goal which was not met. Marissa Mayer was at the helm of this project, and reportedly she was mocked and belittled for a lot of the ideas she had re: Tumblr, and insiders have reported that in general Yahoo really failed to do anything with Tumblr because they didnât understand how it worked and really didnât care to learn. Here, we have a case of a MAJOR communications company purchasing an internet social media platform, and basically stagnating it. Every report that weâve had about Tumblr post Yahoo purchase is that theyâve been hemorrhaging staff - esp senior staff - because they wonât do anything with them, or theyâve actively pushed them out of leadership roles to push their company agendas onto the already existing culture of Tumblr. Basically, theyâve been strangling Tumblr as a website. We joke about @staff being terrible with coding, but from 2014-2018, pretty much all of the dysfunction weâre seeing is in tandem with the Yahoo takeover. Hereâs an article that describes some of these problems, though itâs by no means comprehensive: https://digiday.com/marketing/tumblr-is-neglected-by-marketers/ Even with all that, Yahoo did somehow manage to mostly leave Tumblr alone, and relatively functional. Yahoo actually wrote Tumblr down for something like half the value that it was worth, counting it as a loss. The real issue is that Verizon acquired Yahoo in June of 2017, about a year and a half ago. Like Yahoo, Verizon laid off tons of people involved with the programming and management of the website. Then in early 2018 they implemented to âSafe Searchâ filtering of ~sensitive content~ which was something users could opt out of it they chose. Which, most of us did. It seemed silly at the time, but in hindsight it was very obviously a test run of this current plan to implement the NSFW ban. For the purpose of Verizon and Tumblr under Verizon, âsensitive contentâ was defined as âanything that might not be suitable for some members of the Tumblr communityâ such as ânudity, //////including/////// in an artistic, educational, or photojournalistic context. INCLUDING. For all that Tumblr @staffâs âA better, more positive Tumblrâ said that the ban wouldnât include, say, expression of political nudity or artistic nudity, itâs quite clear from the TOS that this is something theyâre slanting against, and I really donât think itâs purely from the ~bad algorithms~ that posts with topics dealing with sexuality, nudity, LGBTQ+, trans issues, disability issues, body positivity, and etc are being targeted. Itâs not a coincidence that the NSFW ban included the language of âfemale presenting nipplesâ - as if womenâs bodies are inherently sexual in nature. And itâs sure as hell not a coincidence that Verizon was one of the telecommunications and media corporations that was actively lobbying against net neutrality along with Comcast. Verizon wants to control what kind of content you see, and wants to charge you for the kinds of content you can see. Verizon is a company that has admitted to actively throttling the content of its competitors. And the fundamental issue here is that, with a large corporation that doesnât care about its userbase, itâs trying to streamline a website like Tumblr into being something that it wants, instead of trying to work with the website culture thatâs already in place. Where Yahoo was at a standstill, Verizon is actively dismantling parts of what make Tumblr so successful and tight-knit as a social media and blogging platform - particularly with content that might otherwise be deemed as âinappropriateâ / âsensitive contentâ in other places like Facebook - talking about trans issues, talking about sexuality, etc. And the fact that this is actively harming sex workers and targeting quote unquote the female form suggests that they want to throttle freedom of expression. So when we talk about fandom leaving FF.N, and LiveJournal, and the kinds of fandom history that younger folks have maybe even only vaguely heard of (the infamous âWhatâs a lemon?â question comes immediately to mind) weâre talking about how a major mainstream corporation is looking at how to turn its userbase (which is just numbers to them!) into a profitable scheme, and itâs always going to be an upward ladder that harms the communities down below. Those of us that are looking at the situation and going âWhy donât they do x, y, z? And make it actually functional?â are underestimating in a big way the fact that they want to spend as little money on this project as possible while still trying and double their userbase and profits. The fact that they mentioned BLM as a marketable niche suggests the fundamentally misunderstand why these movements exist in the first place, and the fact that BLM was mentioned in tandem with Game of Thrones fans and Manchester United Fans means that all theyâre seeing is demographics and theoretically untapped markets. Making the website more palatable to quote unquote the mainstream is an attempt to bring in more advertisers, which is why they were more than happy to put together the NSFW ban. The NSFW ban is also probably a response of SESTA, which caused a lot of website platforms to double down on their TOS without actually doing anything meaningful to help combat sex trafficking and child pornography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Enabling_Sex_Traffickers_Act With that said - theyâre also probably not unhappy to have a left-leaning, pro-net neutrality website like Tumblr die, which is honestly what itâs heading toward. Tumblr spent over a decade building the communities that it has, and a lot of people use it as an alternative to âmainstream mediaâ and as a way to get a lot of information on politics and current events, as well as on obscure topics. Itâs been a way to connect social justice activists, queer people who often didnât have anywhere else to connect with other queer people in a way that wasnât inherently sexualized (looking at grindr, fetlife, etc), academics, and more. The amount of information dissemination on Tumblr is truly incredible, and, if youâll excuse the tin hat for a moment, itâs the antithesis of how the media currently functions â with about just 15 billionaires controlling most of Americaâs media corporations. https://www.forbes.com/sites/katevinton/2016/06/01/these-15-billionaires-own-americas-news-media-companies/#41268a10660a A similar thing actually happened with Polyvore, which was owned by Oath, which was [hold your breath, wait for it] owned by Verizon. https://www.racked.com/2018/4/6/17207450/polyvore-ssense-shutdown-mood-boards-collage I donât trust Verizon to do right by the userbase. Theyâll do whatever they can to make it profitable and fit their company vision. And if you want a reminder of how utterly evil Verizon is, just refresh yourself on the fact that they were manipulating firefighter cell plans to make $ on them while they were actively in the process of combatting California wildfires. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/verizon-throttled-fire-departments-unlimited-data-during-calif-wildfire/ And to cap it off, itâs 100% not a coincidence that some of the posts that were initially getting throttled on Tumblr were Tumblr/Staff critical posts. Not even on bit. Companies, particularly large companies with huge financial resources, actively scrub their internet presences so that only positive things come up.
#thatâs it #thatâs the show
me: wow things are actually going really well for once!
the crippling anxiety, waiting in the corner:
#unclear if steve is turned on by bondage or honesty  (via @resistancepilots)
Bold of you to assume itâs only one of those and not both
I donât know how to casually play video games. Itâs either Iâm not interested or I play for 16 hrs straight and forget to eat.
I would just like to thank the tumblr staff for not developing a memories app like other social media platforms because I really donât need to remember what specific parts of fandoms I was into on this day in 2010
Can you imagine the people involved in mishapocalypse having to see that shit once a year for eternity no thank you
#Viktor was obviously deeply in love with her #just remember the fact that he took her to prom #even knowing that he couldâve choose any other girl #remember how he forgot about everyone and danced with her all night #remember how he looked at her while saying âwrite to me, pleaseâ #remember how, a few years later #on Fleurâs wedding #he danced with her one more time #probably being conscient that her heart already belonged to Ron #this is why I love Viktor Krum so much #he just enjoyed being with Hermione #and didnât care about the future #mostly, because she wasnât going to be a part of his.
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#never understood krum hate #heâs like what everyone wanted draco to be #surrounded by dark magic and bad influences #treated like royalty #even without his famed seeker status he was pureblood elite #and yet he never treated anyone as lesser #he liked muggle born hermione for her mind AND physical beauty #thought harry was a great quidditch player #and never once compared harry to his own skills because heâs humble #was genuinely flattered that ron wanted his autograph #liked cedric and made a poin to tell harry so #also told harry he would be an ally in the fight against voldemort #the only time he did dark magic was under the imperius curse #to which he canât be held responsible #three years later he talked to an in-disguise harry at bill and fleurâs wedding #just a regular person he didnât know was harry #and investe himself in that conversation #he made such an effort to interact at hogwarts and i feel like most the fandom dislikes him for no reason #because he was the type of character who wanted to rise above the expectations others held of him #he knew durmstrangâs bad rep and actively wished to do better #i donât know y'all i just think we should all appreciate viktor krum more (kneelb4todd)
read this guys, read.
Just appreciate him. If for no other reason then because he appreciated Hermione.
Victor Krum was ready to fight Xenophilus Lovegood of all people in the goddamn street because he was wearing the wizard Nazi symbol from ww2. Like no holds barred throw down.
Protect my foreign son and his goodness. Let Victor punch Nazis 2k17
Lbr the reason people hate Krum is because Harry didnât like him and people donât know how to not take everything an unreliable narrator says for granted
honestly no line of prose jk rowling will ever write will ever top the wonder of the line, âBITCH, I AINâT CHO CHANGâ
Millennials and Gen Z: Trump shows signs of being a genocidal dictator, we shouldnât vote for him
Baby boomers: OOOOO Is your Safe Space being violated by his comments snowflake??? How AWFUL IT must be to have a REAL man for president instead of OoOoBamA
Trump, after being voted into office: *leaves the UN human rights council, puts hundreds of young children into prison camps and tent cities, takes away valuable items like rosaries similar to the removal of rings during the Holocaust, puts babies and toddlers into foster homes/orphanages, literally treats ACTUAL CHILDREN like prisoners for wanting a better life elsewhere*
Baby boomers: ohâŠ.oh noâŠ.
Millennials and Gen Z: *stare into the camera like theyâre on the office*
bold of you to assume the boomers have reached the âoh noâ point
bold of you to assume they ever will.
