Okay Sulemios. We've beaten Hannigram. We've beaten Avatrice. And we even beat Ineffable Husbands. Lets take down one last Top 10 ship for glory!
Credit to @l-crimson-l for giving me this idea. I hope they don't mind 😅

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Okay Sulemios. We've beaten Hannigram. We've beaten Avatrice. And we even beat Ineffable Husbands. Lets take down one last Top 10 ship for glory!
Credit to @l-crimson-l for giving me this idea. I hope they don't mind 😅
i've seen a lot of zionists say things like "everyone talks about separating governments from their people but for some reason when it's israel that doesn't apply" but like i think what they're not understanding is that in order to even visit israel let alone live there or gain citizenship it has always required significant apathy to the suffering of palestinians. like we've seen over and over again the fact that it's not possible to live in israel and not be privy to horrible injustices done unto palestinians. if you are able to even think for a second that israel should exist you have such an intense indifference to human suffering that you are just as much part of the problem. idk why that's like impossible for them to wrap their heads around
It's been fascinating seeing the reaction to the poll. The Destiel fans seem to think their ship deserves to stay popular and relevant just because... it used to be popular and relevant, I guess? Reading these tags has such a flavor of entitlement, it's really something.
It's like they're not realizing that the standards for what qualifies as good representation, or even a good show, have shifted in the last 10 or so years. Not realizing that a lot of people who were here back then, like me, never cared for Supernatural, and don't agree it was important at all, and would not be interested in celebrating it. Not realizing that other fandoms have been happening around them, and that some, like in the case of Mobile Suit Gundam, have legacies that reach back to decades before Supernatural was even on the air.
Destiel is such a product of its time. It's a fanon ship that, as I recall, was strongly disliked by its show's staff, acknowledged only because the fans demanded it so much. The ending of Supernatural was widely mocked, and the show is now mostly remembered as that meme people learn the news through.
Sulemio meanwhile had the full, joyous support of its staff, and was canon since the first episode of Gundam Witch. The whole show's plot revolved around this pairing. The Gundam franchise hit record sales numbers during and after the show. Sulemio brought hundreds if not thousands of new people into the mecha audience, and got many of them interested in the hobby of building Gunpla. Suletta and Miorine being canonically married even stood out politically, because gay marriage is not legal in Japan.
Is this not progress? Is this not worth celebrating? Why cling to the old and busted when the new hotness is doing such great things?
"Be serious", they say. But I am serious. I've been serious the whole time.
Maybe it's not for me to understand.
This is incredible.
"this is the destiel website! this is the destiel website!"
good point!
finally....gundam has defeated the supernatural. i am free.
did you know you can watch all of gundam: the witch from mercury on youtube for free?
with subs OR with the english dub
you can find out why sulemio is so special :)
Tumblr Top Ships Bracket - FINALS
Castiel/Dean Winchester (Supernatural) vs Suletta Mercury/Mirorine Rembran (Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury)
Castiel/Dean
Suletta/Mirione
This poll is a celebration of fandom and fandom history; we're aware that there are certain issues with many of the listed pairings and sources, but they are a part of that history. Please do not take this as an endorsement, and refrain from harassment.
"who even are they" i'll tell you then :)
sulemio is the ship between suletta mercury and miorine rembran from mobile suit gundam: the witch from mercury. suletta is the protagonist and miorine is considered the heroine, but they're the two main characters and their relationship is central to the show.
at the start of the show, suletta transfers to the asticassia school of technology all the way from mercury. she runs into miorine, who she later finds out is the daughter of the president of this space empire that owns asticassia. so she's the school princess, but not only that, she's also the "bride". the school rules dictate that the highest ranking pilot/duelist, or the "holder", would be miorine's fiancé. think the rose bride if you know utena. because miorine is essentially a ticket to power, the holder position is highly sought-after. suletta gets caught up in all this and ends up beating the former holder (who's a violent douchebag who hurt miorine), effectively becoming the new holder and miorine's fiancé. that's just episode 1. they go through a lot which i don't want to spoil but they are explicitly and indisputably Married by the end of the story.
while sulemio is relatively unpopular here, they are by no means "unknown" or "not mainstream". first of all, they're from gundam and frankly it's offensive how there are people here who don't know what gundam is :)) mobile suit gundam is a 45 year-old franchise and very much a mainstream one as one of the highest-selling media franchises ever. it's literally up there with franchises like pokemon, dragon ball, one piece, etc. witch from mercury in particular was a highly anticipated gundam show for being the first ever mainline series to have a female protagonist in the franchise's long male-led history. a queer poc one on top of that! among the franchise's lead gundams, suletta's gundam aerial recorded the HIGHEST initial sales in the franchise's history.
g-witch was also very popular in japan, nearly every tweet from the official account would have 20k+ interactions fast, up to 100k+ likes, and it was the TOP trending anime and 3rd OVERALL on jp twitter in 2023. mind you, unlike in korea and china, twitter is the second most used social media app in japan. both suletta and miorine also often ranked high on jp magazine polls (there were other polls where they ranked first but this is the only pic of a magazine poll i have atm).
sulemio trended multiple times on twitter, it currently has over 10.7k works on pixiv, and it was the 3rd top ship in japan's biggest doujin convention in 2023. and obviously, they made it to tumblr's top 100 ships of 2023.
now you know g-witch/sulemio are pretty popular even if you've never heard of them from your m/m cave.
i'm rooting for sulemio all the way bc i genuinely love the ship and both characters. suletta is pure sunshine and miorine is girlbossfail and my favorite character ever atm. i like their dynamic and the struggle between their simple want to be together vs a lot of external and internal factors driving them apart. sulemio overcoming those and actually ending up together was one of the happiest i've ever been as a viewer. that and i think it's funny that they got this far.
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y'all think Red XIII will get a chocobo too? I mean for crossing rivers and such? ??
CALLED IT
I knew having Redditors cross-train on Tumblr would produce weird fucking magic.
It gets better. This Redditor went the full Goncharov.
Glorbcharov: Dishonor Among AI Thieves
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KOKOBOT - The Airbnb-Owned Tech Startup - Data Mining Tumblr Users' Mental Health Crises for "Content"
I got this message from a bot, and honestly? If I was a bit younger and not such a jaded bitch with a career in tech, I might have given it an honest try. I spent plenty of time in a tough situation without access to any mental health resources as a teen, and would have been sucked right in.
Chatting right from your phone, and being connected with people who can help you? Sounds nice. Especially if you believe the testimonials they spam you with (tw suicide / self harm mention in below images)
But I was getting a weird feeling, so I went to read the legalese.
I couldn't even get through the fine-print it asked me to read and agree to, without it spamming the hell out of me. Almost like they expect people to just hit Yes? But I'm glad I stopped to read, because:
What you say on there won't be confidential. (And for context, I tried it out and the things people were looking for help with? I didn't even feel comfortable sharing here as examples, it was all so deeply personal and painful)
Also, what you say on there? Is now...
Koko's intellectual property - giving them the right to use it in any way they see fit, including
Publicly performing or displaying your "content" (also known as your mental health crisis) in any media format and in any media channel without limitation
Do this indefinitely after you end your account with them
Sell / share this "content" with other businesses
Any harm you come to using Koko? That's on you.
And Koko won't take responsibility for anything someone says to you on there (which is bleak when people are using it to spread Christianity to people in crisis)
I was curious about their business model. They're a venture-capitol based tech startup, owned by Airbnb, the famous mental health professionals with a focus on ethical business practices./s They're also begging for donations despite having already been given 2.5 million dollars in research funding. (If you want a deep dive on why people throw crazy money at tech startups, see my other post here)
They also use the data they gather from users to conduct research and publish papers. I didn't find them too interesting - other than as a good case study of "People tend to find what they are financially incentivized to find". Predictably, Koko found that Kokobot was beneficial to its users.
So yeah, being a dumbass with too much curiosity, I decided to use the Airbnb-owned Data-Mining Mental Health Chatline anyway. And if you thought it was dangerous sounding from the disclaimers? Somehow it got worse.
(trigger warning / discussions of child abuse / sexual abuse / suicide / violence below the cut - please don't read if you're not in a good place to hear about negligence around pretty horrific topics.)
Koko used GPT-3 to counsel 4,000 people but shut the test down because "it felt kind of sterile." Users rated the AI responses highly. Cue t
An experiment in using chatbots to dispense mental-health counseling raised questions about ethics. Rob Morris, cofounder and CEO of Koko...
Kokobot is incredibly predatory and exploitative. I wrote a post about how it exploits minors' empathy and gamifies "giving mental health advice", resulting in an unregulated mess that can only do harm to teens' mental health in the long run.
There are young people on tumblr that actively seek support from KokoBot right now, if you check the tag for recent posts. Those people did not get paid to promote it, so do not harrass them. If you can, direct them towards resources about Kokobot (like this post) that are more transparent about what this company is up to.
This... is DEEPLY DISTURBING.
SIGNAL. BOOST.
"Why don't people recognize Link in TOTK" bc everyone imagines the legendary swordsman to be built like Ganondorf and Link doesn't bother correcting anyone bc being hailed as a hero is like on the bottom of his priorities, which are topped by things like "Bake one of every pie"
Rando farmer: They say that once the noble hero of legend passed by this very village! Isn't that wonderful to imagine, genderfluid stranger?
Link, 5'6" with 2" heels and wearing a backless dress suspiciously stained with blood: no yeah that's wild
"Wouldn't they recognize him bc he's with Zelda" Everyone interacting with Zelda was like "Wow, the princess!! The princess who saved Hyrule is here, talking to us! Plus some guy with three sets of pronouns who's building a bomb but more importantly The Princess!! Wow!!"
Zelda keeps coming across spare genders she doesn't need and Link follows behind scooping them all up off the ground like a starving trash possum
Someone uses an unfamiliar pronoun around Zelda, and she hears the item pickup sound come from Link
Every time this comes across my dash it’s gotten better.
THIS
Link loaned Zelda a set of he/him at one point and he called himself Sheik for about half a game.