Academic Sauce

Icon by: r00 - 18 y.o.

[sunny-runners]

My brain has two settings for headcanons in umamusume

Either

Thoughts about how important an uma's legs are to them and how that makes even something like how they chose to sit around someone have subtext and how the most terrifying thing for an uma is the first time their legs fail them

Or

Sirius and Rudolf's longest running argument is over exactly what happened and who was at fault for an incident that ended with kid!Rudolf getting hit in the face with a gong

[cleverreports]

We report: we cannot find any clouds today, but it is windy enough that we do not feel completely crushed by the weight of the sun. We watch the swallows play some sort of musical chairs game on the phone lines, to the sound of dry ferns swaying in the breeze.

[doubleca5t]

In the literal sense, this is not a picture of Seiun Sky scratching her ass. She's very clearly scratching her lower back. But spiritually, in an emotional sense, this is a picture of Seiun Sky scratching her ass.

[spinetacks]

do NOT touch his brother 💥

[starvariety]

a handprint made in concrete is just the image of a hand, it’s not the real thing. or, it’s the absence of a hand, more than anything, the negative space. the casing around where it should be. it’s an indent that was made from something real - that could not have existed without something real - but it’s not the real thing, it’s just trying to be. maybe it’s not even trying. you put your hand there with your mother and the concrete remembers, and the handprint doesn’t even know why it exists, it just does. if we can make copies and not-things from real things in the world, who’s the say the world couldn’t do that itself? does it even need to know why?

[enki2]

[specialagentartemis]

sometimes I go on Reddit (my first mistake) and come to the car-crash-like realization that a lot of people genuinely think "friend" is the word for "a kind of relationship that is fundamentally and definitionally not deep, close, or meaningful" and any kind of depth or closeness automatically means you are "more than friends" and then I just. get really sad for the state of everything. no wonder the Loneliness Epidemic exists damn

[b0nkcreat]

domestic beers imply the existence of wild beers

[carouselunique]

Two best friends on a beach date! They might kiss! (Spoiler: they kissed a lot...)

[draconym]

I like this dress because it looks like something Ms. Frizzle would wear to the BDSM club

[draconym]

My friends and I were brainstorming PBS themed scene names. I would be Ms. Sizzle and they would be Bill Tye the Shibari Guy and Master Rogers.

[storyweavingspider]

2026 TUMBLR WHITENESS CENSUS

There are SIX questions total in reblogs, the end will be marked by large green text. If you don’t see all six, check reblogs and grab the version with the ending note.

1/6 - Do you identify as some flavor of white?

White

Non-white

Only considered white outside of imperial core

Insecure Mixed Person externalizing my family racial issues here

Voting ended onJul 22

Answers amended from the 2025 census based on feedback. If you’re mixed, choose what feels right to you I’m not here to do phrenology or paper bag test you but don’t make it my problem either. When in doubt, ask yourself: would the whites kill you too in the race war?

This census is US-centric because so is tumblr, unfortunately. This poll is also starting with a heavy Black/racialized bias due to my personal followers. The main point of this census is to see how white-dominant the site is currently compared to prior years, as well

For the purpose of this census, Imperial Core will be defined as the following: United States, Canada, Australia, Aotearoa, basically all of Western Europe, Japan, and Israel. If you want to argue about any of these designations, too bad maybe they should stop colonizing.

Reblog from question 6/6 below!

[storyweavingspider]

2/6 So is you Black or nah?

Ye

Nah

Insecure Mixed Person externalizing my family racial issues here

Not considered Black in my country, but considered Black elsewhere

Voting ended onJul 22

[storyweavingspider]

3/6 How about trans?

Transfemme

Transmasc

Non-binary/Genderfluid/related but TMA*

Non-binary/Genderfluid/related but TME*

Non-binary but don’t consider yourself trans

Agender

Two-Spirit

Otherwise cultural gender (please share I wanna know!!)

Other not listed

Cisgender

Voting ended onJul 22

Note for clarification:

*For those who don’t know, TMA means transmisogyny affected (such as trans women, some non-binary people, etc.) whereas TME means transmisogyny exempt (Cis men, cis women, transmasculine individuals, etc). If you want to ask for clarification for which applies to you for the purposes of this poll, feel free to ask and I’ll try to reply, but if you try to argue or quibble about the terms themselves, I’ll block you.

[storyweavingspider]

4/6 Are you currently inside or outside the imperial core? (Defined in first post)

Imperial core

Semiperiphery

Periphery

Immigrated to imperial core from outside of it

Other/Complicated

Voting ended onJul 22

[storyweavingspider]

5/6 How many Black people would *actually* call YOU their friend? Online counts.

I’m non-Black, 0

I’m non-Black, 1-2

I’m non-Black, 1-2 but I have <8 friends

I’m non-Black, 3-6

I’m non-Black, 7+

I’m Black, 0

I’m Black, 1-2

I’m Black, 1-2 but I have <8 friends

I’m Black, 3-6

I’m Black, 7+

I have less than 3 friends total.

Voting ended onJul 22

[storyweavingspider]

6/6! How many TMA* (Transfemme, some non-binary, etc.) people would *actually* call YOU their friend?

I’m TME, 0

I’m TME, 1-2

I’m TME, 1-2 but I have <8 friends

I’m TME, 3-6

I’m TME, 7+

I’m TMA, 0

I’m TMA, 1-2

I’m TMA, 1-2 but I have <8 friends

I’m TMA, 3-6

I’m TMA, 7+

I have less than 3 friends total

Voting ended onJul 22

*For those who don’t know, TMA means transmisogyny affected (such as trans women, some non-binary people, etc.) whereas TME means transmisogyny exempt (Cis men, cis women, transmasculine individuals, etc). If you want to ask for clarification for which applies to you for the purposes of this poll, feel free to ask and I’ll try to reply, but if you try to argue or quibble about the terms themselves, I’ll block you.

THIS IS THE END! Please reblog for bigger sample pool 💖🙏🏽

[storyweavingspider]

RESULTS SUMMARY/COMPARISON!

Thank y'all for answering, and a special thank you to @aceynk for doing the math on the last two questions. Please keep in mind, this is not a captive poll so not everyone answers every question, meaning that as we progress the number of responders decreases. This is obviously not authoritative, its a fucking tumblr poll, but it has a big enough response pool to be decently representative when comparing consistency with last year.

This poll was done with a positive bias for Black, nonwhite, and transfeminine (TMA) responders due to my initial follower pool, meaning these groups are initially represented comparatively more than other groups regardless of their population density on the site. Take this into consideration when viewing the below information.

Question one, "are you some flavor of white?" garnered 22,110 responses, over twice the 2025 survey results but slightly less than the 2024 survey.

Tumblr is 78.5% white this year, a small 0.3% increase from last year. Nonwhite dropped from 16.1% to 13.5%, but this can be accounted for in part by the addition of the "only considered white outside of imperial core" option and a 0.6% increase in people choosing the "mixed" category, from 4.8% to 5.4%.

Question two, "so is you Black?" garnered 19,013 responses.

Tumblr is 3.9% Black this year, whereas last year it was 6% Black. The category for "willingly identifies primarily as Mixed rather than Black" was split out into "Mixed" and "Only considered Black outside my own country", splitting last year's 1.4% to 1% Mixed and 0.3% "Black abroad" (no good way to shorten it lol).

Question three, "are you trans?", garnered 18,755 responses.

The major change in this year's question was splitting the non-binary category into TMA and TME, as there are significant cultural differences that change how each group marks their primary identity. I will elaborate about this at the bottom of this post in FAQS* - Additionally, I'd like to note that this year 78 people responded as being Two-Spirit and 28 as having some kind of culturally-specific gender. I'm glad y'all are here :)

Last year, Non-binary/Genderfluid as a singular unit was 25% of responders. After splitting it to be better culturally representative, we can determine that TMA individuals made up at least 23.1% of responders. Transfemme alone increased from 21.6% to 27%, Transmasc alone decreased from 20.4% to 13.1%, "Non-binary but not trans" increased from 5.6% to 6.5%, Agender had a small increase from 5.6% to 5.8%, Two-Spirit decreased from 0.6% to 0.4%, "Cultural Gender" decreased from 0.3% to 0.1%, "Other" decreased from 3.5% to 2.8%, and "Cisgender" increased from 17.4% to 20.7%.

Question four, "are you currently inside or outside the Imperial Core?", garnered 18,244 responses.

Tumblr is at minimum 6.7% people from the Periphery/Semi-Periphery, with 3.6% living in a Periphery country and 3.1% living in a Semi-Periphery country. 1.5% of responders said their current situation is complicated and they couldn't claim a specific place. 91.9% Imperial Core residents, with 1.5% of that being immigrants from Periphery or Semi-Periphery countries. This question is new this year, so I have nothing prior to compare it to. The format of questions five and six will be slightly different due to functionally having two question sets in each. Numbers in [these] next to current numbers are last year's numbers. I will not compare last year and this year because I changed the way I asked it this year to account for people having few friends, as 1-2 out of 8 and 1-2 out of a couple dozen are wildly different percentages of total friend group.

Question five, "How many Black friends do you have?", garnered 17,595 responses.

Non-Black responses (pop. 15495):

24.98% (3871 responses) said they have 0 Black friends.

36.08% (5591 responses) said they have 1-2 Black friends.

17.12% (2653 responses) said they have 1-2 Black friends, but less than 8 friends total.

18.4% (2851 responses) said they have 3-6 Black friends.

3.41% (529 responses) said they have 7+ Black friends.

Which means that 78.2% (12115) of non-Black responses voted as having less-than-or-equal-to 2 Black friends.

Black responses (pop. 703):

8.25% (58 responses) said they have 0 Black friends.

18.78% (132 responses) said they have 1-2 Black friends.

24.18% (170 responses) said they have 1-2 Black friends, but less than 8 friends total.

24.18% (170 responses) said they have 3-6 Black friends.

24.61% (173 responses) said they have 7+ Black friends.

Which means that 51.21% (360) of Black responses voted as having less-than-or-equal-to 2 Black friends.

Question six, "How many TMA* (Transfemme, some non-binary, etc.) friends do you have?", garnered 16,693 responses.

TME Responses (pop. 9860)

13.17% (1299 responses) said they have 0 TMA friends.

25.63% (2527 responses) said they have 1-2 TMA friends.

17.57% (1732 responses) said they have 1-2 TMA friends, but less than 8 friends total.

29.79% (2937 responses) said they have 3-6 TMA friends.

13.84% (1365 responses) said they have 7+ TMA friends.

Which means that 56.37% (5558) of TME responses voted as having less-than-or-equal-to 2 TMA friends.

TMA Responses (pop. 5461)

5.6% (306 responses) said they have 0 TMA friends.

9.14% (499 responses) said they have 1-2 TMA friends.

11.77% (643 responses) said they have 1-2 TMA friends, but less than 8 friends total.

28.77% (1571 responses) said they have 3-6 TMA friends.

44.72% (2442 responses) said they have 7+ TMA friends.

Which means that 26.51% (1448) of TMA responses voted as having less-than-or-equal-to 2 TMA friends.

Last year, 11.9%/11.4% of responders reported they had less than 3 friends total. This year, only 7.9%/8.2% did. I'm proud of y'all for going out and making friends.

FAQS (below cut)

*Why the TMA/TME non-binary disparity?

Explicit cultural differences in how those affected by transmisogyny are treated and have to live their lives in order to survive leading many TMA people who would otherwise predominantly identify as non-binary to predominantly identify as transfeminine, often as a form of class solidarity.

To use myself as an example, I would describe my gender as primarily a TMA genderfluid non-binary, I use Fae/They pronouns, and I *generally* only allow other Black people to use she/her for me. However, to both the world at large and the systems that oppress us, I am functionally a trans woman even though I do not identify as a woman. I am discriminated against as a trans woman, I commune as a trans woman, I find solidarity with other trans women, and I'll die as a trans woman, even if my ACTUAL gender is more complex than that.

Beyond that, TME individuals (trans or cis) WILL use our non-binary-ness to erase our transfemininity, to further other us either in derision or in a misplaced attempt to make us "one of the GOOD ones", so many TMA non-binary people solely present as trans women to all but other trans women, or close circles, because being misgendered into being a woman - whether we are or not - is better to us than being misgendered into a man, or worse, a "man in a dress".

So while I, on my own poll that I know is safe, mark myself as TMA non-binary, others that don't know me and don't know my intent with this will more often mark "Transfemme" because I am not someone they know, and even if answers are anonymous, it still means they can't be made back into a man or have their transfemininity stripped from them if they solely claim transfemme publicly.

But what about transmasculine non-binary people?

That's not my lived experience so I can't say authoritatively, but I've met a lot of transmasculine nonbinary folks, in particular over the last year (Tumblr, other social media, and IRL), who have seen a surge in anti-feminism and Men's Rights Activism in transmasculine spaces and behaviors that have made them feel deeply uncomfortable/unsafe to be associated with or in community with them. As a result, they've stopped identifying as non-binary trans men or even as trans men at all explicitly to revoke community/solidarity with those they see as betraying the rest of the community by going further right/fascist in a response to the *gestures at everything* happening right now.

If it was just a handful I'd be willing to say its just a small amount of y'all but like.. it's not. I started seeing it happen around 2022 and I've been seeing/hearing more of y'all do it the more vocal that TMRA/Transandrobro types get. I also think that this is represented in part in question three's transmasc results compared to last year - I have a LOT of transmasculine followers and moots so for it to drop as much as it did is Notable, but I think that it can be, in part, accounted for in more of y'all out-and-out identifying as predominantly non-binary vs. trans man/transmasculine year by year as things get worse.

But again, I'm not transmasculine, I'm not in y'all's support groups or discord servers talking about this stuff in-group. This is just my best guesstimate.

Why are you so mean to Mixed people? :c

So I'm Mixed too, specifically Black-white mixed. Every year I do this census and other white-mixed people specifically (beyond legitimate questions) are by far the whiniest and most annoying group I have to deal with for this week-long tribulation. Every year y'all force your racial insecurity and family trauma and fear of abandonment/rejection on me and any other racialized people that say something in response to you, and show exactly why mixed folks, especially white-mixed folk, have the reputation we do. Bestie all you have to do is not make other racialized people your free therapists about your racial issues/make them have to comfort you about your own insecurity, act like you belong with other racialized people because you fucking do, and you'll usually be fine. The issue is almost wholly on you - some monoracial people will always be freaks about us but let me tell you its usually not gonna be the racialized ones wanting to euthanize or lynch us for being "tainted" or some shit.

I'm mean because you show up trying to make us fix your problems and reassure you without our consent every damn year and then get up ya own ass over us not simply giving you our time and energy when we ain't even know you. Don't be on some cracker shit and you ain't gon get treated like a cracker, simple as.

[liberalsarecool]

It’s called tactical frivolity and it is a real anti-fascist strategy.

[dangerous-crow-boy]

Haven’t posted about plastic in a minute. Rest assured, I am still hard at work eating all plastic on earth

[dangerous-crow-boy]

They could never hurt me in any way that matters. I will not be kept from my calling

[brbgensokyo]

[deadeyedfae]

Fer Justice

[kitsunemakina]

my sense of humor:

[lagonegirl]

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/05/what_state_prisoners_get_to_wo.html

OMG 

[pinehutch]

Things that I knew about: that the mass incarceration of people in the USA , particularly black men, has direct ties to/is an extension of slavery. Things I did not know: this specific shit about Louisiana HOLY FUCK this is evil.

[i-hate-you3000]

OH MY GOSH????

'Modern-Day Slavery': Many Southern States Have Prison Inmates Working in Governor's Mansions and Capitol Buildings - Human Trafficking Sear

When activist Sam Sinyangwe was awaiting a meeting with the governor’s office at the Louisiana state capitol building in Baton Rouge, he not

At Least Seven States Have Prison Inmates Working in Governors' Mansions and Capitol Buildings

The 13th Amendment provides a loophole that allows for the legality of unpaid prison labor, which is sometimes called "modern-day slavery."

[joy-haver]

Grew up next to Angola. It’s much worse than you think

[sisterreisaid]

I wonder how many people are imprisoned for weed

[kaccvcate]

I’m from Mississippi and it’s like this in my home town. Enslaved prisoners clean roadways, pick cotton, everything they’ve done since before slavery was supposedly ended. What they teach in schools is nothing but propaganda.