IT'S JUST A CYCLE

The way I feel isn't the way I'm willing to stay

[eelsteel]

But I would miss you.

I think now might be a good time for me to try and leave this burning building again. Last time, I tried jumping onto cohost and that went bankrupt soon after (unrelated i hope).

But also I dont want to just drop off with no other way to interact with the lovely people and plants and dogs and frogs I've grown quite fond of.

And there are some incredible artists I want to stay in the loop for too... This site is making me ponder it like I'm wielding a cursed ring, "Surely ignoring the signs and enduring the bad will end terribly. But that end can't be too close. Maybe just a few more posts..." But it has to end somewhere and it's best to prepare for it now.

So where the hell can I find all y'all if not here? That isn't rhetorical. Where do you roam o' blessed creatures! Reblogging tumblr posts with everyone is fun, but I can post! I can talk! Life can be different! I am in love with the world and the people I share it with! So why shouldn't I try to interact more directly?

Lately I feel like I want a different relationship with the internet, and to try and "make" more things myself. I can draw (slowly). I can crack jokes. I have interests and insights about the world. And these are things that are commonly shared. Something beautiful is just waiting around another corner. An ecosystem! I want an ecosystem, and one that I am a part of. Is this feeling too alien to manifest?

This is to be my MANIFESTO.

I would love to jump ship to whatever less corporate thingy I can sink my teeth into, or drop it completly with nothing in its place, which is what I usually do.

But I would miss you. Yeah, You. And I mean that. If you're reading this, and it isn't the first time you've seen this blog, then know that you are someone I want to keep in touch with. I guarantee.

And who tf am I then? Who is this stranger to loudly confess these feelings that are otherwise kept hidden? I am some man young of age and big of heart. I have stumbled upon a point in my life where I am tired of whatever you want to call that inexplicable ability of those with authority, to trample on anything too good and different. And I am sick with the joyful ones left being torn away from each other! Too crooked and rotten are the binds that hold us, and how solitary the freedom! I AM IN TEARS. ACTUAL TEARS WRITING THIS. NOW I AM LAUGHING ABOUT THAT.

I cannot stand it! But the alternative is... texting? Personal websites? I don't know how I feel about these options and others of their kind, because I lack experience with them myself. Are you content with texting? Have you channeled your person into a webpage or two, and found community with it?

This is the part of my idea that I cannot sustain myself. This part needs you and your input. What do you like? What corners have you explored? To find answers to these, I must put into action what I preach and message y'all. So be ready for that.

And I could be fully off base here too. Perhaps this is not the time to flee and congregate with glee. Everything said here could be met with complete indifference, and it all may be a massive banner of failure left on my blog with finality. You may see just that here. I will have left before the flame consumes me, failing to stay with those I knew.

I could do that.

But I would miss you.

[missstrogen]

Tumblr staff just terminated 3 of my friends

@analog-delight, @sapphireh3art, and @puppiesthoughtsgobrrrr, in the span of a few minutes.

They aren't even hiding it this time, they claimed no reason for the termination. "For any reason, or none at all."

Staff is transmisogynistic and is targetting trans women and their allies on purpose. They are all but admitting to this here.

[missstrogen]

By my count we're at 6 accounts (overwhelmingly transfems) terminated in the last ten minutes, most if not all with the same "For any reason, or none at all", bullshit justification.

Tumblr staff is currently running a banwave of trans women, terminating them without justification.

[missstrogen]

I've been told of more than ten more girls banned, in the same timeframe. @yay-bunnies was banned too.

I've been told that all followers of a now terminated blogs were banned, so it's safe to assume that someone on staff just went down the list of a tgirl's blog and banned all of them.

@staff is transmisogynistic and currently mass banning trans women. Make sure they never hear the end of it. Raise hell like yall did a few days ago. Staff is mass banning transfems without reason.

[missstrogen]

All evidence points to staff having mass banned all followers of @kidnappbait, and all of them recieving the same "any reason, or none at all" message.

Staff is now just running down hit lists of transfems.

[eelsteel]

They rolled back the reblog thing? Is there a bigger story to it like did tumblr say anything or is it just silence? I have bad internet rn I cant scroll until I find the deets about it like normal :[

[aphyonidae-art]

[thegenderal]

as a denizen of this busted ass website for half my life now i do know how staff works and i’m going to lay out what they think will happen as someone who has witnessed this exact thing play out

People get very mad for a few days and then roll over and accept the change to the enclosure. This is what they are betting on. They have had meetings about this.

Getting around it: set an alarm. Get mad not just now, but in a few days, a week, two weeks. They are expecting people to sigh and get over this very odd edit to the site in a few days. Keep flooding them for more than just tonight. Be mad for the week, for the month. Leave a message every day.

[thegenderal]

like . I cant even blame them for being like “we’ll monitor for the week”. Remember when they changed the blue back in like 2015? This website acted like staff had gone into their house and shot their dog. We’re here because we’re allergic to change and therefore it’s hard to parse if people hate the change because it’s bad or because we go into thermonuclear meltdown over what color blue the background of the website is. Just continue to bug them beyond today and beyond this week.

[aphyonidae-art]

[aphyonidae-art]

Her name is Light Rain

[aphyonidae-art]

[aphyonidae-art]

[muntzerism-diggerism]

There's something very charming about when beetles open up their wing covers in this big dramatic display just to fly less than ten centimetres.

[eelsteel]

They're so sillay

[vgbugs]

Kragg - Rivals of Aether

A rhino beetle-like creature who serves as one of the Wall Runners, guardians of the Rock Wall. His power over earth allows him to repair the wall if it is damaged.

He lacks an elytra and his shell looks more like that of an isopod, and he can roll up into a ball like one.

Big cartoon beetle man. He doesn't actually look that buggy to be honest, like he could be a troll or something wearing beetle-themed armour.

[soundtestmenu]

to upload a file, dragon drop it into the window

[cruvlaaphtian-crocus]

forgot acid makes milk curdle and accidentally made potion of nausea

[adastrabbit]

"hogwash" still one of the best words ever. this shit is so unbelievable its pig water

[hungwy]

today someone asked me what my favorite even-toed ungulate is… god, who could decide?

[hungwy]

this was ignorant of me to post. of course its the muskox

[hungwy]

and here comes my favorite boy…

[weaselle]

okay. some of you must surely be getting tired of seeing me say this but i literally cannot help myself- THAT IS AN ICE AGE GOAT. THAT CAN GET TO BE 800lbs BIG.

we called them musk-ox because we thought they must be some kind of cow thing, but they are actually a goat thing; this is to a normal wild goat what a woolly mammoth is to a normal elephant, only these things survived.

and i absolutely cannot help myself because of the tizzy my brain goes into over the twin facts of

1: ice-age megafauna that is still alive! and

2: EIGHT HUNDRED POUND GOAT

you can see the goatishness a little more in their babies

i just, i am crazy over the fact that these guys are still alive on our planet

[hickeywiththegoodhair]

from the muskox wikipedia article:

Its Inuktitut name “umingmak” translates to “the bearded one” (…) Its Woods Cree names “mâthi-môs” and “mâthi-mostos” translate to “ugly moose” and “ugly bison”, respectively.

[alteredpanel]

focus energy