[saintsredying]

Okay, one time in the tag so there’s no excuse of “not knowing”: Gideon and Harrow (and Nona) are not white. Stop whitewashing them. They are both Māori. If you’re in the fandom please rb

[sing-from-the-hair-deactivated2]

[mgposani]

Merch for a The Locked Tomb trilogy-inspired epic metal band, The Reverend Daughters. Part 3. Best-of album, maybe?

You can always grab tees on my shop

[antlerlad]

happy tdov my loves. don't let anyone else define your transness for you.

help trans women evacuate gaza

[skateboards-wheels]

[begin id: a comic that goes as follows: first page is a side profile close up of a person's face. They have long hair and glasses, as well as an average sized nose. Their bangs obstruct their eyes. The text reads "I'm nonbinary. I'm pretty open about it. Nobody really believes me, though." second page is a drawing of the person of before. Its a simple drawing of their body. They're a fat person. There is text pointing to their figure, all four of them together read "Tig ol bitties, long, lucious locks, child-bearing hips, pear-shaped figure." and the other text reads: "I have a "woman's" body. I'm not a skinny, androgynous waif, so people have decided that I'm a woman." third page is a drawing of the same person, at mid-waist level. it obstructs their eyes. They're wearing a black binder, have two tattoos on their shoulders, and are smiling. The text reads "I'm (underlined) not (end underlined) a woman. But my fatness, and also centuries of concerted effort to eliminate trans people, means I don't get to be nonbinary." fourth page is a lineup of silhouettes of different trans people. They're a taller skinnier person with a bob, a fat person with short hair, a person in a wheelchair with short hair, and a parent holding their child's hand. The text reads "I know there's more than one way to be trans. I'm getting tired of waiting for the rest of you to catch up." fifth page is a small map of the world, shown on a cut-in-half globe. there are flags stapled all around it. The text reads "trans people have existed in every culture, every body type, every class, every profession, and every society since human beings started creating societies. We don't all present the same." sixth page is a drawing of the transgender flag. The text reads "Your trans body is good, beautiful, incredible, valued, healthy, handsome, miraculous, valid, cherished, righteous, no matter how "well" you pass. Happy trans day of visibility. I love you." /end id]

[antlerlad]

It is TDOV 2025.

I wanted to make a sequel comic to this, but I couldn't find the energy. I am sure everyone knows how hard it has been to be alive and creative lately.

First: a thank you for the overwhelming response to this. I never expected a silly comic I made to touch so many people. I'm glad so many of you feel seen by it. I hope one day we're all able to transition the way we want.

Second: things are very bad right now for trans people. But you must survive. I know it's hard, and I know it's scary, but you must live. Go back into the closet if you have to, but you have to survive. Life is worth living and the world is a better place with you in it.

Happy TDOV. Don't let the fascists get you down. We were here before them and we will be here after them.

[gatheringbones]

[“Punishment for perpetrators can certainly, understandably bring satisfaction for both victims and their supporters. But as abolitionist scholar-activist Mariame Kaba has argued, personal anger and vendettas shouldn’t be the driving force behind policymaking. “It’s not wrong to feel what you feel—relief, or even happiness—when the system snaps up the powerful, but the only way to achieve real justice is to build it ourselves, outside of the system,” Kaba has said. “Abolitionism is not a politics mediated by emotional responses.”

State-rendered punishment for abusers also doesn’t improve the material conditions of victims’ lives; it doesn’t provide them with mental health services or other health care, or address the economic ramifications of surviving abuse by compensating them in any way. As the abolitionist writer Micah Herskind has written, “Our response to harm does not need to be either a cage or doing nothing at all, though these are generally the only options on offer from the state.” Further, “punishment, consequences, and accountability are distinct categories.” And while abolitionists oppose policies rooted in punishment—“the infliction of cruelty and suffering on people”—they “firmly believe in consequences (requirements for and demands made of those who have caused harm), which are determined in direct relationship to the harm in question,” Herskind wrote. These processes involve all who were impacted by the harm in question to collectively determine steps toward accountability and call on the perpetrator to “[take] responsibility for harm caused and [work] toward repair and changed behavior.”

Anti-carceral scholars and advocates have put forth frameworks known as transformative justice and restorative justice to address and repair harm without further reproducing harm or relying on processes that retraumatize victims. Restorative justice brings together the victim, perpetrator, and the community without imposing the involvement of state actors or law enforcement. It centers the victim and their needs to heal and determines how the perpetrator can make amends as well as what needs to be done to ensure the community at large feels safe. Transformative justice is broader—it requires us to proactively work to change the social conditions and systemic inequities that cause harm to happen in the first place.

“Transformative justice asks how we can respond to harm without creating more harm and transform the conditions that led to harm. A transformative justice framework rejects the victim-perpetrator binary in recognition that we all experience and cause harm,” Herskind wrote. Restorative justice and transformative justice go hand in hand. They’re rooted in an understanding that the carceral state is fundamentally unequipped to address issues of interpersonal violence and harm; instead it reproduces the conditions that lead to violence—the funding of prisons and policing at the expense of community resources—and disproportionately, deliberately targets people of color and marginalized people. As I’ve explored at length in this book, state violence and interpersonal violence are inseparable from each other—as a result, the state can never be a reliable arbiter to address interpersonal harm and violence.”]

kylie cheung, from survivor injustice: state-sanctioned abuse, domestic violence, and the fight for bodily autonomy, 2023

[bellybuttonblue2]

[anthonycrowley]

the blog killing axolotl is one of my favorite things that has ever happened on this website because talking about it afterwards sounds like an inside joke or perhaps a prank. like always be on the lookout for the blog killing axolotl. he can kill your blog. it happened to me once trust me.

[anthonycrowley]

there’s this very specific image of an axolotl plushie with the phrase ‘i am at my limit’ that i’m not posting for obvious reasons (even though i’m inoculated because i tried to post it before) that if you try to post it tumblr will immediately delete your blog. like completely. your blog is just gone if you try to post the image. you can get it reinstated but you have to go to staff and be like ‘hi my blog was killed by a picture of an axolotl can you please give me it back.’ we found this out completely accidentally when brianna brucespringsteendotcom made the image and then posted it and then her blog was just gone, at which point we started to experiment. anyway, a while later we found that if someone submits the image and you don’t know what it is and you try to post it it will also nuke your blog. this obviously all sounds like an incredibly stupid internet hoax so when you try to warn people about the blog killing axolotl you just sound like you’re trolling but i promise you, from the bottom of my heart, that we are not.

[anthonycrowley]

people in the tags are like ‘i don’t know if this is true but it sounds wild’ i feel like the old man you meet in the first five minutes of a horror movie that tells the teenagers on spring break not to visit the creepy old house at the end of the road

[anthonycrowley]

FAQs:

1. Is this the image of the axolotl plushie with the fire behind it?

NO! that is a different, more well known axolotl image that does not delete your blog.

2. Can I see the image?

for obvious reasons i'm not reblogging it to this post. however, since so many people asked, i put it safely in a google doc for you. go nuts.

3. hey, i remember this! it was over a year ago. does this still delete your blog?

someone in my askbox has informed me, under certain circumstances, yes. and that image is live, so be careful with it.

4. have you figured out what causes it?

same person in my askbox said this

which was my first theory before i went down the source code rabbit hole, although there must be a certain threshold for editing it since in the past people have posted censored versions where it still deletes your blog.

5. can i use it as my icon/can i send it to someone in dms/can i upload it if it's not in a post/can i post an edited version of the picture?

back when this first happened if you did any of the above it deleted your blog, unless it was pretty heavily edited (someone in my discord put him behind bars - you know like he was caged - and i think when we uploaded that it didn't delete the person's blog? i could be wrong though). see the above ask for the most recent information. someone in the notes earlier (don't remember who, sorry) also said that you can upload the original via mobile and it kills your blog, but if you try to post it on desktop it blocks it from being uploaded, so that's also another route you could go if you want to experiment.

6. why have i never heard about this before?

spnblr is more complex and layered than you can possibly imagine it's not my fault you can't see it for the majesty it is.

7. this still sounds fake.

hey man, weird thing to lie about. but the picture and all the information you need to test it out is right here. post it to you blog. go on. prove me wrong. 🙂

8. didn't people try to remotely delete neil gaiman's blog by submitting that image to him?

we did do that yeah.

[normalhorse]

The things people are describing in the notes sound a lot like what you'd expect if an image was, entirely coincidentally, matching the 'visual hash' of a known exploitation image. there's various algorithms used for visual hashing and there's various lists of known bad material, so it's reasonably likely that it'll trigger similar automated actions on other platforms using a similar method.

visual hashing algorithms are specifically developed to find images that are similar/the same, so they don't have the same mathematical properties that hashes for passwords have - for instance "hash collision" is a desirable property here. this is why some but not all edits do the same thing, sufficient visual distance.

anyway, if that's what this, please be advised that the automated process smashing accounts is also probably sending reports to the feds and putting you on a list you probably would rather not be on. unlikely to have any impact on you but in the instance of federal trouble it will make things a lot more complicated.

[normalhorse]

there's several suggestions that this might be code in the image; this isn't impossible and every few years someone finds a way to make a common image processing library execute arbitrary code - my personal favourite is CVE-2017-8291 aka "ghostbutt" for various reasons.

however! disabling an account in such a way that staff can re-enable it is not a single simple operation, it would (again probably, I don't work at tumblr and don't know how their backend works but I do know how things work generally) be a reasonably complex thing with multiple steps.

a single image would also not perform the operation against whatever blog uploaded it, and the actual binary code would not survive translation to another image format. that bit is impossible.

[3liza]

there's a similar image that will get your discord account immediately banned. it's a still image of a teen boy eating popcorn, nothing weird about it, he's not nude or anything and the image is completely sfw. however, it was determined (I think someone found proof but it's possible I got bullshit info, this is the top theory anyway) that the image itself is a screenshot from a child exploitation video and it just automatically triggers account deletion due to automatic hash matching.

Tumblr has a ton of automatic account status switches that are flipped without staff oversight. another one is the "shadowban" bug which appears to trigger (we're not sure) if nanny code on the site identifies you (sometimes inaccurately) as a spam or nsfw blog. staff can fix it by flipping the switch back after you contact support, they have a specific category for reporting this bug on the support form now. it would be extremely funny if they added a chaos dunk axolotl support category too

I guess it's theoretically possible that nuclear axolotl could somehow match the hash of a child exploitation image but christ, what are the fuckin odds

edit: I want to echo what normal horse said about getting on fed lists. the majority of Tumblr dirtbag leftists have nothing to fear from fed lists but if you ever in your life get into any federal trouble (including being arrested at a political protest or doing any organizing or at this point even posting "free Palestine") your ping on the "guys who sent child exploitation images online" database could easily be used against you. a 60 year old judge is unlikely to understand "it was a picture of a soft toy that accidentally was identified as child porn your honor", your public defender probably won't either. prosecution is going to point at your name on the Bad Guys List and that's going to be that. so. cover your ass if you absolutely must be funny online, and if you don't know what I mean by "cover your ass" don't risk it at all.

[prostheticknowledge]

Dildo Generator

Online 3D experiment by Ikaros Kappler which is described as a “Extrusion/Revolution Generator” ….

Created with three.js, you can alter the bezier curves and angle of the form, and is designed with 3D printing in mind (models can be exported and saved, as well as calculated weight in silicone).

Try it out for yourself (if you wish) here

[johnnystompanado-deactivated201]

the time is now

[susaine-mcswiney-deactivated201]

hell yeah

[defibrinationsyndrome]

ah yes, the ol rolling pin dilda

[spiffymuffin]

[caterjunes]

it’s called the purple ramjet

[jolys]

which end do you start with? the answer is yours to decide

[grillmasterxbbq]

shove a vase up your ass

[lord-kitschener]

not even jesus could save yall motherfuckers’ souls

[fan-troll]

i call it the matterhorn

[poultrymancy]

cackling just continues to get louder as I scroll through

[darklightescape]

i think this is the first time an internet community has discovered something customizable and adamantly refused to make penises

[teapotsahoy]

of course this is the post where tumblr is like “Seems sfw to me!”

[furiousfran]

I call this one the Megahorny

Just cram an entire table lamp up there

[ifitaintbaroque]

Me every time this post crosses my dash:

[rosegardenmassacre-deactivated2]

My laugh at this post is auditory evidence of just how sick I still am.

[prettyyinpunk]

Plate. 

[broadwaytheanimatedseries]

I’d usually post this to my NSFW blog but this is making me laugh so unreasonably hard that I can’t fucking breathe and therefore deserves to be on my main blog

[in3ffable-husbands-deactivated2]

Compiling some of the best ones from the replies-

[ragingbookdragon-deactivated201]

How you gonna do us like that bruh???

[mysukisilentdeath]

ITS BACK

[ivory-reverie]

M U S H R O O M

[bill-nye-official-blog]

en garde

[fangcore]

i guess this is the long post all the gays are collectively reblogging today huh

[l0s3r-g0r3-d3s7r0y4]

Idk how to work it on mobile which makes me sad

[chimera-off-the-string]

This this fucking terrible thing just killed me

I was just scrolling and my friend asked why I was dying and i just had shown them this.

They are scared of me i think

[icarus-suraki]

The one time the internet is expected to make dicks, the internet immediately makes everything except dicks.

[visit-ba-sing-se]

hate how most of my problems are abstract or systematic i wanna fight more of them with a sword

[nostalgicfuturity]

“I hope you live without the need to dominate, and without the need to be dominated. I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people. And when you fail, and are defeated, and in pain, and in the dark, then I hope you will remember that darkness is your country, where you live, where no wars are fought and no wars are won, but where the future is. Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing — instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.”

—

Ursula K. Le Guin, “A Left-Handed Commencement Address” (Mills College, 1983)

this passage planted itself in my consciousness when i was 24, and 10 years later, it informs so much of my approach to living, thinking, creating.

[astray-as-a-cat]

Did you eat? (I love you) I bought the bread you like (I love you) I noticed you were upset so I brought you tea (I love you) I made this for you (I love you) I know you have a lot of work and can't talk now so I will leave this thing you like around (I love you) I did your chores (I love you) I will sit by in case you need anything (I love you. I love you. I love you)

[thereadingchallengechallenge]

A young girl discovers an infinite variety of worlds in this standalone tale in the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Wayward Children series from Seanan McGuire, Lost in the Moment and Found. Welcome to the Shop Where the Lost Things Go. If you ever lost a sock, you’ll find it here. If you ever wondered about favorite toy from childhood… it’s probably sitting on a shelf in the back. And the headphones that you swore that this time you’d keep safe? You guessed it…. Antoinette has lost her father. Metaphorically. He’s not in the shop, and she’ll never see him again. But when Antsy finds herself lost (literally, this time), she finds that however many doors open for her, leaving the Shop for good might not be as simple as it sounds. And stepping through those doors exacts a price. Lost in the Moment and Found tells us that childhood and innocence, once lost, can never be found. 

oh my gosh this sounds and looks so good! the 8th Wayward Children book, releasing January 10th, 2023!

[brew-ha]

Cora in her happy place ~ from Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children series. I love her pretty hair and her dainty wrists how thermodynamically sound she is as a mermaid.

[Image ID: digital illustration of a fat, white, femme mermaid with green to blue gradient hair and tail]

[jacobaaronschroeder-deactivated]

A Faggot’s Defense Hand cut mirror on baseball bat with holder 32" x 2.5" 2016

[anyab]

Image Description: 2 photos, the first from further out and the second close up. they show a baseball bat mounted on a wall, with the striking surface covered in many tiny mirrored squares to resemble a mirror ball. End Description

[sour-charity]

[elftwink]

been reading a lot of conversations about space since the james webb images were released particularly wrt to light speed and the fact that we are technically "looking into the past" because the light that actually reaches us is millions or billions of years old, and so we only see these places as they were when the light left, not as they are right now. cool & fine & very interesting

but i just saw someone (shoutout sylverthewordsmyth in the tiktok comment section) reframe this as "the future can see us" and despite this being a natural and logical extrapolation from us seeing the past, it has shaken me to my core. if there's anybody to look at us from far away, millions and billions of years in the future, they would look at us and see... us. they would look and see the same planet we live on right now, with the same continents and oceans. and it will be already long gone but to them it will be as alive as it is to us right now, the same way we see still see stars that have already gone out. i have to lay down

[gothhabiba]

“person whose gender identity used to be ‘girl who volunteers when the teacher asks for a “strong boy” to lift something heavy and spends recess challenging boys to arm wrestling matches and achieving victory’ but this identity is now rendered moot by physical disability” support group

[o-kurwa]

[actionpackedjackson]

Booty shorts that say this