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"Gibby" or Mayne | NZ | 28 M | sometimes i draw | more active at gbssworks.bsky.social |

[gbssworks]

i'll be here on bluesky! i talk about chickens and kaiju there and post more there anyways

[postillfastill]

Tumblr @staff is determined to piss me off every single day this week, huh? I have work to do besides getting mad online, you know!

This week, they:

- Rolled out a hugely disruptive change that stole notes and recognition from creators, effectively kneecapping the entire point of the website, extremely suddenly and without running it by their volunteer beta testers first, and only rolled it back because people were canceling their premium memberships and turning off reblogs en masse

- Immediately followed up that debacle (which brought back attention to the time our CEO @photomatt stalked a woman off site after banning her fot making a joke about him and publicly revealed her private information) by suddenly banning a huge swath of trans women, the vast majority of whom had zero TOS breaking material on their blogs, for the official given reason of, and I QUOTE: "NO REASON AT ALL." (AFAIK most of these women have been reinstated as of writing this?)

- Matt immediately trying to distract us AGAIN, with some half-assed idea of making popular tumblr blogs into what, unpaid volunteer consultants? Anyway the first and so far only popular blog he decided to directly platform happened to be @prismatic-bell, who IS well known... by the small remaining non-white communities on tumblr for being a MASSIZE RACIST.

- Here are the !DOCUMENTED! instances of prismatic-bell's racism, ableism, and threats. (Xie have been reported several times, but tumblr would rather ban neet girls with fighting game blogs than open white supremacists.)

- Said all people suffering from addiction deserve to die.

- Tracked down a native american person's identity using their tribal enrollment and threatened to doxx them for disagreeing with xem.

- Spread already debunked anti-Arab and islamophobic myths and propaganda as well as racist comments about Arabs in general.

- Saw no problem with asking "ARE ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS EVEN HUMAN?" and doubled down when Aboriginal bloggers asked xem to stop.

- Is openly pro-genocide, pro-ethnostate, and pro-ethnic cleansing, on the side of white/european supremacy.

- Meanwhile tumblr is doing All That, the huge community of self-identified, open and proud NEO-NAZIS continue to go unbanned, and even have an actual Tumblr Community.

But hey, at least you can buy a stupid fucking crab emoji.

[gbssworks]

probably should have taught em checkers first, nine

[gbssworks]

if nine tried

[gbssworks]

baby no.11 - 15!!

[gbssworks]

thinking about how kaiju no.11 has no.9's old eyes. how no.12 is silent compared to no.10 but still smiles like its older twin. how kaiju no.13 looks the most like no.9 but its mouth is more expressive. how no.15 is probably the most like 9 with the shapeshifting, and ofc how she idolised no.9 like a father, but no.9's only reference of a father is isao being really tough to kikoru.

i know nine is calculating and cold, unable to empathise with humans (and why should it? humanity has dissected and bastardised the corpses of its kin for centuries), but the constant questioning of other human attributes and nine's admiration of humanity makes me feel some type of way.

especially when it asks kafka, or rather kaiju no.8, what is love? the parasite in kafka is driven by hate and a desire for vengeance. nine was driven by the meireki era daikaiju that was the source of this vengeance, but also a desire for understanding. it's why the two kaiju are drawn to each other..

with parts of nine now kept deep under the ariake base i think the defense force is going to use nine to ressurect its numbered children just enough to be used as weapons.

and i honestly think the meireki era daikaiju did the same to nine to make those children, using nine to bring long dead kaiju back to produce them. nine wanted to escape the daikaiju as well.

it might be selfish to use its children to find an escape, especially with how no.9 pushed no.15. but that's what no.9 thought love was.... i guess until kafka showed kikoru what a proud father figure looked like

i think if nine could, it would refuse to resurrect its children for a two reasons: to never weaponise them again, and to not bring the (hypothetical) parts of mereiki era daikaiju back.

[gbssworks]

ok so i locked in and completed this!

bsky

[gbssworks]

i went out and got something(s) at the bookstore

[gbssworks]

im watching the anime i had to give crunchyroll my credit card info, but oh my god i love how they animated kafka and reno at lunch, kikoru is so adorably annoyingly amazing, and hoshina's laughing so hard i bet that felt good

[gbssworks]

manga panel redraws of Takamichi 9

[gbssworks]

my freaky fine nines

bsky

[redgoldsparks]

PLEASE CALL YOUR REPS AND TELL THEM TO VOTE NO ON H.R. 7661, THE TRANSPHOBIC NATIONAL BOOK BAN BILL!

House Republicans have introduced a bill to effectively grant the federal government decision-making power over what books make it into the library. Misleadingly called the "Stop the Sexualization of Children Act," H.R. 7661 is a national-level book banning bill that would ban any book that, according to the bill's language, "(ii) involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism." This means any book about a trans person or the trans experience would be banned from every public school in the United States. You can read the full text here. The bill has been referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce. If you are represented by one of the members of this committee listed below, they need to hear from you. Rep. Kevin Kiley, California (CA-3) (Chair) - entering vulnerable election cycle Rep. Mary E. Miller, Illinois (Vice Chair) Rep. Glenn "GT" Thompson, Pennsylvania Rep. Burgess Owens, Utah Rep. Michael A. Rulli, Ohio Rep. James C. Moylan, Guam - entering vulnerable election cycle Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, Pennsylvania - entering vulnerable election cycle Rep. Mark Harris, North Carolina Rep. Mark B. Messmer, Indiana Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, Oregon, Ranking Member Rep. Jahana Hayes, Connecticut Rep. Summer L. Lee, Pennsylvania Rep. John W. Mannion, New York Rep. Frederica S. Wilson, Florida Rep. Alma S. Adams, North Carolina Rep. Adelita Grijalva, Arizona Call your reps. Tell them they must oppose this bill at every turn. It is egregiously unconstitutional, targets ideas based on ideological disapproval, and misleads parents and the public about the content of children's books. It does nothing to protect kids and will badly harm education. It will tie school material funding into knots and hurt anyone who is a library materials vendor, regardless of content. If you are a bookseller, librarian, or author, tell them your livelihood depends on the next generation of readers. If you are a supporter of free speech, please call your reps and tell them to vote no on HR 7661! Thank you to @authorsagainstbookbans for the graphics and text in the four blue slides.

[gbssworks]

i should watch the anime!

bsky

[gbssworks]

Daikaiju No. 9 reading "Metamorphosis" (by Oren Harman)

[gbssworks]

i'm the kinda freak that wants to see it rehabilitated and as a domestic house spouse for Kafka (the bride)

sorry naoya matsumoto

[gbssworks]

my excitement is going right into my media journal AND i made a cheeky daikaiju no.9 bookmark (with a sloppy tape job to keep the thermal print from getting on my books)

the book I'm reading btw! i just know Nine would love it too. might draw him reading it some day <3

[gbssworks]

GURL I FINISHED THE MANGA CAN I JUST SAAAYYY