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“I’m gonna roll on how tasty my ass is”
I rolled a 15
Monsters be like:
Just for shits and giggles, somebody ought to create a unit of temperature that begins with the letter U.
F*Uint=C*K
DM: Time to get out the Monster Manual, or as some people like to call it: the Waifu Catalogue.
Me: WHAT.
Sometimes I smash or pass the whole book
What the fuck guys
I like to smash or pass monsters in DnD and Pathfinder books.
BugBears are legit.
can we not
@celestial-guardian-ragnarok @chika-ann
Smash or pass
Heh… that depends… what’s on the list
dogs
there are dogs on that list
you wanna fuck a dog
wait
this is tumblr
don’t answer that
dogs? pass.
Liches tho……. ;)))
That’s actually not a terrible entry to thirst after. I mean, you could technically count it as necrophilia, but its consensual necrophilia, so you do you.
What the fuck
Of all the reblogs and additions to this post, this is the one you’re shocked by?
Consensual necrophilia is not a phrase I thought I’d hear. Then again this is tumblr, so maybe that’s on me
Hot take: the term consensual necrophilia also applies to vampires, since they’re undead creatures. Wanna fuck Strahd? You’re in the same boat with the lich fuckers.
However, what I think the real treasure we’re all sleeping on is liches….in love. Just immortal wizard gals being pals.
I am absolutely here for the immortal undead lesbians
IS IT STILL NECROPHILIA IF YOU’RE DEAD TOO??
I don’t think so?
Ok next topic is a dragon and a human beastiality for the dragon?
both are sentient, so its just interspecies sex.
…I am now reminded of that argument I got into about whether or not a half-dragon would have a cloaca.
This post is an entire dungeon of bad decisions at this point
I think you mean legendary decisions
Legendary for being bad
This is not what i expected when i started this blog
To be fair, i wasnt expecting a whole lot when i started this blog in 2014
But it definitely didnt include 10k notes of thirsty monsterfuckers
11 approaching 12 thousand
Fuck you’re right
ok but can we just talk about abberations cuz like they’re intelligent and adults but their minds are inscrutable to humans. so like does that mean you can consent to sex with them? cuz you’re on wayyyy different levels of intelligence? but also they’re an adult with the capacity to give and understand consent? but could a normal sentient’s mind comprehend consenting to sex with them? help me out here i’m confused.
If both parties are sentient, its just interspecies sex, stop trying to overcomplicate things. Just because one species is better at calculus does not complicate the less intelligent species’ capacity for consent.
true but in most fiction an abberation’s mind functions in a completely different way from a non-abberation. essentially what i meant to point out was the potential issue of blue and orange morality
Are you seriously trying to start a philosophical debate on this post?
Like, I admire the chutzpah, dude, but it doesn’t matter if one species has a totally alien concept of everything. If both parties know what they want, communicate what they want, and agree with each other on it, its fully informed consent on each side and therefore just regular interspecies sex. Sentience is sentience, even if the way it manifests is wildly different.
honestly? i was drunk out of my mind both times i saw this post. also you make a very good point and are correct that flavors of sentience aside, as long as both parties are sentient and consent it’s fine. i apologize for drunk me’s ramblings.
… you get philosophically argumentative when you’re drunk? Thats a mood, my friend
what even is this post
Not sure. I lost it somewhere and I’m not sure where. Did it change from one subject to another or is it just me not understanding?
D&D logic & arguments
this post is a disaster and a tragedy and the essence of both D&D and Tumblr, what do y’all want from me
…wooooow
This post is truly a journey and yet if we look back to the innocent times of that original post we must all find ourselves reflecting: what did OP expect was going to happen?
Honestly? I didn’t really have any expectations. I figured, “hey, my DM said something stupid and funny, perfect, I’ll put it on the blog with the rest of the stupid and funny things people say in my D&D games,” and figured that would be that.
That being said, this is the Dungeon of Bad Decisions. As in, there are no good choices made here.
Also my IRL dump stat was probably Wisdom. I definitely have at least a -2 to Perception and Insight, I can tell you that. Forethought is not ny specialty.
Okay but this does raise the question of hyper-inteligent races with incredibly long lifespans. For instance, if a horny bard was trying to screw a god, from the bard’s perspective they’re both mature adults. However, by the standards of the god who has lived for millions of years and has a mind the size of a galaxy, the bard may be just a child. So, assuming the god consents, what would the implications of that be?
Now if you excuse me I need to go bleach my brain and stop thinking about this.
Ok but was it really necessary to make us suffer with you
Did the potential for eldritch pedophilia really need to be put out on the internet
Yes, yes it did.
I’d argue to follow the harkness rule, as long as both the god & the mortal are considered adults for their species, its not pedophilic.
In the same vein, if an elf was 300 years old and a gos was like 5000 but the age of majority for that pantheon is 6000 then it is pedophilic.
But what if, even though the mortal is technically a mature adult, the god doesn’t see them as such? Sure, at that point it wouldn’t technically be wrong, but still…
Made the mistake of sitting for half an hour reading the notes after reading this post. Now I send out the knowledge of this post and its depravity to any of you who haven’t seen it already.
I’ve always subscribed to the friendship style of “I Saw Something Horrible on the Internet, Suffer With Me”
Always beautiful to see this come back, but at the same time. How does a dragon bone a turtle to get a Dragon Turtle? Or for that matter, how does one get a Kraken? I want someone to explain why we haven’t seen the offspring of a dragon boning a centaur!!! Serious, centaurs need Overpowered Loves as well!!
You’re assuming that dragon turtles and krakens are hybrids and not their own independent species, when I’m pretty sure they are.
I’ve been given another meme!
Damn this post just kept going
🎵its the pain that never ends~🎵
So another game, we got into a discussion about humans mating with birdfolk - specifically Ravenfolk - and about bird mating practices.
Its just bump cloacas, deposit sperm packet, and wait for the eggs for most birds, iirc. Waterfowl are an entirely separate nightmare. I mean, I’m sure you’ve heard this before, but in case you haven’t: ducks have corkscrew penises, and the females have labyrinthine vaginas.
Also bedbugs bypass the genitals entirely and stab their dicks into the other’s abdomen and ejaculate in there, but that’s just a fun fact I learned in college and have never been able to forget. Suffer with me!
There’s a species of flatworms that stab each other with their dicks until someone’s dead or pregnant.
And octopus can rip their dicks off and present it to the female for later use.
Didn’t know that about the flatworms, but the octopus bit is pretty cute, tbh.
The octopus is fucking WEIRD man. Like, I don’t even know where their buttholes are!
After octopus mate, the male octopus like starves himself to death and the female holes up in a cave to lay her eggs and starve herself to death!
Dont they have cloacas or something similar?
Also, thats depressing
I don’t know!
All I know is the female has a hole in her mantle that’s like right near her eye where the male’s penis gets stuck into to fertilize the eggs.
Octopus are messed up man.
So many questions were brought up and answered in my mind during the reading of this post that I never thought would be there in the first place. I have both been educated and horrified in the same breath.
Welcome to the last year of my life.
(Did y'all know this post is over a year old? Because it is.)
If I come across any more cursed animal knowledge, I will be sure to fling it your way, my friend!
Thanks! That’s always something I genuinely appreciate learning.
You’re welcome! And thank you for providing me with equally cursed animal knowledge!
Me crying in a corner after getting off this ride: Why god why!
Awww, you think this ends!
That’s cute.
Me, who likes this ride and want more cursed animal facts/philosophical debates about fantasy genitals being happy to see this post every time
I’m all for cursed animal facts, its the constant rehashing of the sentience/consent thing that I’m sick of.
Two words, y'all: Harkness Test.
Thank you Tumblr for gifting me with this god forsaken knowledge.
For @thelunararmy OMG he looks so damn cute!!!
Put it on, you know you want to… owo. ft Red Mix ( @askdj-redmix-rp ).
Heeeeeey~
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Well, you miss every shot you don’t take. In this case, she still missed with this one.
This dumbass chose a size too small.
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Finley: “how do I look?”
I just really wanted to draw my twink in a cute thing lol
Finley looks fine af. Your twink is beautiful. ♥
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MOD: [ What a fun wagon here! gonna leave these here, dressed in lawn chair ray uwu ,yes, I know how to spell lingerie lol ]
Terrible idea for a prank: replace the royal guard armor with this. Celestia would ether be furious or giggling during court due to the entirety of the "nobles" talking about lingerie
About time something changed around here.
DM: Time to get out the Monster Manual, or as some people like to call it: the Waifu Catalogue.
Me: WHAT.
Sometimes I smash or pass the whole book
What the fuck guys
I like to smash or pass monsters in DnD and Pathfinder books.
BugBears are legit.
can we not
If you ain’t rollin’ to go down on Tiamat, you aren’t aiming high enough.
Isn’t Tiamat a dragon?
Wouldn’t dragons have, like, cloacas or something?
Would an egg-laying species even find oral sex pleasurable since there was no evolutionary pressure for them to enjoy sex recreationally or even have sexual intercourse as we define it?
These are the things that haunt me at night.
We weren’t asking whether Tiamat would enjoy it.
We were just thinking about making some more dragonborn.
Your bard rolls high enough, Tiamat only has to be curious, not interested.
that’s not how you make dragonborn
Are you sure?
Because you can’t know that for sure.
Read the players handbook!! It is not!!!
I have my own meme!
This is definitely going to be an update for the boys at church.
okay, so I’m not christian, but I’m pretty sure you’re not supposed to discuss the finer details of monster-fucking in a holy place. unless you’re in some kind of monster-fucking cult? but i’m pretty sure thats not what christianity is about.
Excerpts from Races of the Dragon (3rd edition supplement sourcebook)
“ The dragonborn children of Bahamut are a unique race in that they are not born; they are reborn. Each one enters the world as a half ling, an elf, a human, or a member of some other humanoid race with all that race’s propensities and traits. Bahamut beckons to his would-be followers, and those few who might choose to serve him. Most of those who hear the Platinum Dragon’s call discover it early, before they reach adolescence. A few heed it after reaching adulthood and beginning their careers. Not all who are called answer.” …” The Rite of Rebirth transforms a character into a dedicated draconic servant of Bahamut known as a dragonborn. Becoming a dragonborn isn’t undertaken lightly. It is a long process full of self-refl ection and commitment. Those supplicants raised in the ways of their original race must carefully consider what they’re giving up. While a human might be content to give up her natural versatility, it’s rare for someone heavily invested in her racial identity to forfeit that race’s abilities. When the rite begins, the supplicant lays aside all her equipment and possessions for the duration of the ceremony. Dressed in a loose, linen shift, she spends a full day and night fasting and meditating upon her choice. Her mind fi lls with all the things she is giving up, reminding her she must forgo much of herself to become a dragonborn. When dawn comes, the prospective dragonborn crawls inside an egg-shaped structure that she has built (see Cost) in order to sleep for the last time in her original form. This symbolic act represents her acceptance of the transformation. When the next dawn arrives, she is transformed into a dragonborn. After awakening inside the sealed egg, she breaks out of it as a glorious, draconic child of Bahamut. “ That is how you make dragonborn. They might be viable as a race after that point but there was no monsterfucking involved in their initial creation.
Okay, so normally I’d be all over this because your conclusion lines up with mine, but I gotta nitpick your source. Specifically: Third Edition? Really?
Who fuckin plays 3rd ed anymore
3rd ed or 3.5? Because if its the former, you are invalid
This is why Pathfinder needs to die in the dumpster fire that it is. Because it kept stupid 3.x bullshit alive when 4e was like “naah, that was stupid, let’s try something different.”
And the gaming world was like “but we love our stupid 3.x bullshit, how dare you take it?”
Keep talking shit about pathfinder and ill remove your rib bones and carve them into flutes
All editions of dnd I’ve played: just 5.0. All the games of pathfinder I’ve played: 0. Years of playing dnd:5. I rest my fricking case.
It’d be really awkward for you if Dungeons & Dragons had been out for forty six years or something and there are many of us who’ve not bothered to take the step of updating
@gearchangemod
Editions of DnD I’ve Played: 1e. 3.5. Pathfinder 1e. Pathfinder 2e. 4e. 5e.
Years I’ve Been Playing: 18 sporadically, 8 consistently.
Conclusion: don’t talk shit about editions you’ve never played.
I rest my case.
@scots-dragon @thedungeonofbaddecisions
DM: Time to get out the Monster Manual, or as some people like to call it: the Waifu Catalogue.
Me: WHAT.
Sometimes I smash or pass the whole book
What the fuck guys
I like to smash or pass monsters in DnD and Pathfinder books.
BugBears are legit.
can we not
If you ain’t rollin’ to go down on Tiamat, you aren’t aiming high enough.
Isn’t Tiamat a dragon?
Wouldn’t dragons have, like, cloacas or something?
Would an egg-laying species even find oral sex pleasurable since there was no evolutionary pressure for them to enjoy sex recreationally or even have sexual intercourse as we define it?
These are the things that haunt me at night.
We weren’t asking whether Tiamat would enjoy it.
We were just thinking about making some more dragonborn.
Your bard rolls high enough, Tiamat only has to be curious, not interested.
that’s not how you make dragonborn
Are you sure?
Because you can’t know that for sure.
Read the players handbook!! It is not!!!
I have my own meme!
This is definitely going to be an update for the boys at church.
okay, so I’m not christian, but I’m pretty sure you’re not supposed to discuss the finer details of monster-fucking in a holy place. unless you’re in some kind of monster-fucking cult? but i’m pretty sure thats not what christianity is about.
Excerpts from Races of the Dragon (3rd edition supplement sourcebook)
“ The dragonborn children of Bahamut are a unique race in that they are not born; they are reborn. Each one enters the world as a half ling, an elf, a human, or a member of some other humanoid race with all that race’s propensities and traits. Bahamut beckons to his would-be followers, and those few who might choose to serve him. Most of those who hear the Platinum Dragon’s call discover it early, before they reach adolescence. A few heed it after reaching adulthood and beginning their careers. Not all who are called answer.” …” The Rite of Rebirth transforms a character into a dedicated draconic servant of Bahamut known as a dragonborn. Becoming a dragonborn isn’t undertaken lightly. It is a long process full of self-refl ection and commitment. Those supplicants raised in the ways of their original race must carefully consider what they’re giving up. While a human might be content to give up her natural versatility, it’s rare for someone heavily invested in her racial identity to forfeit that race’s abilities. When the rite begins, the supplicant lays aside all her equipment and possessions for the duration of the ceremony. Dressed in a loose, linen shift, she spends a full day and night fasting and meditating upon her choice. Her mind fi lls with all the things she is giving up, reminding her she must forgo much of herself to become a dragonborn. When dawn comes, the prospective dragonborn crawls inside an egg-shaped structure that she has built (see Cost) in order to sleep for the last time in her original form. This symbolic act represents her acceptance of the transformation. When the next dawn arrives, she is transformed into a dragonborn. After awakening inside the sealed egg, she breaks out of it as a glorious, draconic child of Bahamut. “ That is how you make dragonborn. They might be viable as a race after that point but there was no monsterfucking involved in their initial creation.
Okay, so normally I’d be all over this because your conclusion lines up with mine, but I gotta nitpick your source. Specifically: Third Edition? Really?
Who fuckin plays 3rd ed anymore
3rd ed or 3.5? Because if its the former, you are invalid
This is why Pathfinder needs to die in the dumpster fire that it is. Because it kept stupid 3.x bullshit alive when 4e was like “naah, that was stupid, let’s try something different.”
And the gaming world was like “but we love our stupid 3.x bullshit, how dare you take it?”
Keep talking shit about pathfinder and ill remove your rib bones and carve them into flutes
All editions of dnd I've played: just 5.0. All the games of pathfinder I've played: 0. Years of playing dnd:5. I rest my fricking case.
DM: Time to get out the Monster Manual, or as some people like to call it: the Waifu Catalogue.
Me: WHAT.
Sometimes I smash or pass the whole book
What the fuck guys
I like to smash or pass monsters in DnD and Pathfinder books.
BugBears are legit.
can we not
@celestial-guardian-ragnarok @chika-ann
Smash or pass
Heh… that depends… what’s on the list
dogs
there are dogs on that list
you wanna fuck a dog
wait
this is tumblr
don’t answer that
dogs? pass.
Liches tho……. ;)))
That’s actually not a terrible entry to thirst after. I mean, you could technically count it as necrophilia, but its consensual necrophilia, so you do you.
What the fuck
Of all the reblogs and additions to this post, this is the one you’re shocked by?
Consensual necrophilia is not a phrase I thought I’d hear. Then again this is tumblr, so maybe that’s on me
Hot take: the term consensual necrophilia also applies to vampires, since they’re undead creatures. Wanna fuck Strahd? You’re in the same boat with the lich fuckers.
However, what I think the real treasure we’re all sleeping on is liches….in love. Just immortal wizard gals being pals.
I am absolutely here for the immortal undead lesbians
IS IT STILL NECROPHILIA IF YOU’RE DEAD TOO??
I don’t think so?
Ok next topic is a dragon and a human beastiality for the dragon?
both are sentient, so its just interspecies sex.
…I am now reminded of that argument I got into about whether or not a half-dragon would have a cloaca.
This post is an entire dungeon of bad decisions at this point
I think you mean legendary decisions
Legendary for being bad
This is not what i expected when i started this blog
To be fair, i wasnt expecting a whole lot when i started this blog in 2014
But it definitely didnt include 10k notes of thirsty monsterfuckers
11 approaching 12 thousand
Fuck you’re right
“Fuck your right.”…
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I had a contraction there for a reason, don’t try to put implications where there are none
Dats da joke.
DM: Time to get out the Monster Manual, or as some people like to call it: the Waifu Catalogue.
Me: WHAT.
Sometimes I smash or pass the whole book
What the fuck guys
I like to smash or pass monsters in DnD and Pathfinder books.
BugBears are legit.
can we not
@celestial-guardian-ragnarok @chika-ann
Smash or pass
Heh… that depends… what’s on the list
dogs
there are dogs on that list
you wanna fuck a dog
wait
this is tumblr
don’t answer that
dogs? pass.
Liches tho……. ;)))
That’s actually not a terrible entry to thirst after. I mean, you could technically count it as necrophilia, but its consensual necrophilia, so you do you.
What the fuck
Of all the reblogs and additions to this post, this is the one you’re shocked by?
Consensual necrophilia is not a phrase I thought I’d hear. Then again this is tumblr, so maybe that’s on me
Hot take: the term consensual necrophilia also applies to vampires, since they’re undead creatures. Wanna fuck Strahd? You’re in the same boat with the lich fuckers.
However, what I think the real treasure we’re all sleeping on is liches….in love. Just immortal wizard gals being pals.
I am absolutely here for the immortal undead lesbians
IS IT STILL NECROPHILIA IF YOU’RE DEAD TOO??
I don’t think so?
Ok next topic is a dragon and a human beastiality for the dragon?
both are sentient, so its just interspecies sex.
…I am now reminded of that argument I got into about whether or not a half-dragon would have a cloaca.
This post is an entire dungeon of bad decisions at this point
I think you mean legendary decisions
Legendary for being bad
This is not what i expected when i started this blog
To be fair, i wasnt expecting a whole lot when i started this blog in 2014
But it definitely didnt include 10k notes of thirsty monsterfuckers
11 approaching 12 thousand
Fuck you’re right
"Fuck your right."...
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
! IMPORTANT !
…no joke
i think the fic is somehow taking people’s accounts.
no fucking joke.
someone i was just talking to dmed me the link. they were nice. their account had posts.
now its empty, it has no posts, their header is blank.
DO NOT FUCKING CLICK ON THE FIC LINK. ITS SOMETHING THAT GRABS YOUR PASSWORD. I DONT KNOW WHAT IT IS.
I REPEAT. DONT FUCKING. CLICK. ON THE FIC.
RB THIS. RB THIS. RB THIS. RB THIS. RB THIS. RB THIS.
CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD IF YOU’VE EVER CLICKED ON THE LINK. CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD IF YOU’VE EVER CLICKED ON THE LINK. CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD IF YOU’VE EVER CLICKED ON THE LINK. CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD IF YOU’VE EVER CLICKED ON THE LINK.
This is actually recent (June 2019). The link itself looks like it goes to ao3, but it’s a scam that’s been pulled many times before. It will likely redirect you somewhere else where your data will be harvested. If you do this, don’t panic, but change your tumblr password, and I would recommend you change your email password as well, as well as anything connected to it.
For those of you who are curious about the fic, apparently it’s a Eurovision fanfic with some extremely disturbing content. I have not read it myself and do not plan to.
//oh hey, someone that actually explains what the link is. Thank you for that.
"You are no longer licensed to use the software," Adobe told them.
In other news, it is now not only morally acceptable but the morally correct thing to do to pirate the fuck out of Adobe’s software line.
Planned Obsolescence gives way to Enforced Obsolescence
[Laughs as I boot up Clip Studio Paint, which I bought one (1) time]
Here’s a list of other programs. Keep posting till it’s widely known.
https://twitter.com/Everblue_Comic/status/1124453210297520128
Good to know these thanks man.
While this is a serious issue, Tumblr has done a wonderful job of failing reading comprehension 101 yet again, and as usual, is whipping everyone up into a frenzied panic over something that’s easily fixable.
Adobe isn’t suing anybody. THEY are the ones being sued.
The problem here is that Adobe, in its corporate “wisdom”, deliberately mishandled its licensing deal with Dolby. Dolby is now rightfully pissed about not being paid their due. Now, Dolby, not Adobe, is threatening to sue people who use the older versions of Adobe’s CC-branded products in an attempt to get their money back, and Adobe is attempting to warn its users that they might unknowingly be infringing on a third-party license.
From our end, there are three options: stop using Adobe CC-branded software, use Adobe’s older software from before the CC-brand was used, or upgrade to the current version of your program. In other words, if you’re automatically updating stuff or running ancient versions of their software, you’re probably fine.
All things considered, this is just another reason to stop using Adobe’s software, and it’s still really bad PR for Adobe. BUT it’s not “forced obsolesce” or “punishing the customer”. It’s just the usual corporate shenanigans.
And Tumblr desides to assume the worst instead of doimg some reading, can't say I am surprised really
The Phantom Menace is the best movie ever because the entire premise is essentially “Amazon has obtained its own private army and now two future samurai have to stop it from forcing Natalie Portman’s planet to use its services by cutting through Jeff Bezos’s army of robots and attempting to convince Congress to do something about it SPOILER WARNING Congress doesn’t do anything so Natalie Portman has to take matters into her own hands also the day is saved by a redneck kid the samurai picked up when the car broke down”.
The question is actually how the movie managed to suck despite that being the plot
The question is why you listened to people who told you it sucked instead of watching it and enjoying it like a normal person. There’s something new and fun happening in every scene. Secret meetings with shadowy figures, sneak attacks, fierce warriors, elegant queens, stampeding animals, mystical cities, monster attacks, harrowing escapes, whispered conversations, backroom deals, howling storms, thrilling races, ferocious fights, breathtaking skylines, political intrigue, worldbuilding, tests, infiltrations, sieges, rescues, spinning, explosions, all culminating in a fast-paced duel set to one of the most memorable cinematic scores of all time…then ending with a solemn funeral and a joyous parade.
It’s just as important to know how to enjoy a movie as it is to criticize it.
Counterpoint: Jar Jar Binks
You mean the founding father of motion-capture animation characters, the hapless castaway who was given a chance by war heroes because the Jedi value all life, the immature fool who matured upon the sun-scorched sands of a distant planet and the fire-blasted fields beside his home, the sole witness to the Battle of Naboo who survived to watch the Empire fall? That Jar Jar Binks? Frank Oz’s favorite character? Played so passionately by Ahmed Best, the man who nearly committed suicide because of the backlash and malice he suffered following the movie, but refused to do so and endures now to this day producing his own videos and delivering motivational speeches? Is this the Jar Jar Binks you speak of, or did you just jump on the first hate train that stopped by the station and say “well this seems like a fun ride”?
@patrocles
I rarely add onto posts, but if there’s an opportunity to further defend the prequel trilogy, I WILL DO THAT. If you were a kid who grew up with the prequels as your first intro to the star wars franchise, then you’ll also know that the only reason why they were hated SO MUCH was because Older Fans just… didn’t like it. They dictated all the criticisms and effectively made sure that they were the most hated films and that if anyone were to like them, well you just aren’t a good enough star wars fan.
No one’s denying Lucas’ clunky, and sometimes cringey dialogue writing. But I’m absolutely going to argue that TPT added more to the star wars universe than any of the other 6 films had. I’m talking the absolute grandeur of world building, costuming, score, an entirely new fighting style. The CGI is a product of it’s time, BUT we’re talking about a fully relevant narrative about how a democracy collapsed - which, I might add was completely enthralling, smart, and interesting.
All of the actors not only understood their characters, but their arcs, and essentially had an uphill battle of bringing back a 20 year franchise for a fresh audience - this meant pleasing the old fans as well as the new. And if we know anything about the star wars fandom, that was literally an impossible job. None of the star wars films are perfect - I’m definitely including the Original trilogy. But it’s absolutely unfair to treat them like trash when they were actually amazing. Literally just a bunch of neckbeards made you feel bad for having fun and you bought it.
(I’m going on a limb by saying Revenge of the Sith was probably better than any of them.)
Lucas created an incredible origin story for one of the most iconic villains ever. And whether people are willing to accept it or not, it was a goddamn good one. The fact of it is this - this fandom, particularly the old fans, are some of the most elitist and frankly TERRIBLE fans ever. It’s driven several actors to both career ruin, but mental breakdowns simply because they just didn’t like the performances. And the ripple effects have lasted so long because those incredibly loud voices have dictated the General Opinion. This is all despite what the Prequels have done for this franchise’s universe. I urge everyone to go back and try them again!
thank you for this, because I always feel like I have to apologize for liking the prequels
Slams Reblog!
mutuals your silence on corduroy the bear is deafening no i’m not kidding
@navigationalninja @blooberrybuffet
@flannelfeline
who’s still on tumblr?
reblog if you plan on remaining active.
just wanna see if the number’s still huge! ☆
Never give up, never surrender.
Praying for fixes/ hoping for change/ expecting nothing to happen.
For everyone’s information:
The plan for the 17th, when the adult content ban comes in, is to protest.
To do that, we are making as much noise either side of the 17th as possible, and using the site as normal.
On the 17th, dead silence.
People are saying log off but what they really mean is don’t open the site or the app.
But, on the 17th make as much noise as possible on every other platform. Tweet about it and post on facebook and instagram and everywhere else.
What this does is causes a massive dip in ad revenue for one single day. That does not make staff think ‘oh everyone’s gone let’s shut down.’ What it actually makes them think is ‘oh shit people aren’t happy and if people don’t keep using our site we’re out of money and out of jobs.’
A boycott reminds a company that the users (consumers) have the power to make their site (business) worthless with one single coordinated decision.
If you want to join in, here’s what to do:
Do:
Close all open instances of the app and site on all your devices before the 17th
Make posts before and after the 17th on tumblr and other platforms, talking about why this ban is bad
Make posts on other sites during the 17th. Flood the official tumblr staff twitter and facebook with your anger and your opinion
Come back on the 18th and check in
Don’t:
Delete the app from your phone (this doesn’t affect their revenue and since it’s off the store at the moment it’ll be hard to get back)
Delete your account. I mean you can if you want to, but if you keep your account and don’t use it you’re saying to staff that there’s still time to save it. If you delete it’s hard work to come back.
Open the app or website (including specific blogs)
Make any posts (turn down/off your queue and make sure nothing is scheduled)
Go quiet elsewhere. Make it clear that this is just about tumblr, not a mass move away from all social media.
Remember: the execs don’t care about anything but money. Shutting down the site means there’s $0 further income from it. That’s their last possible course of action. If we make it clear we’re not happy, they’ll have to do something or we can do more and more until it becomes too expensive.
Protests take commitment. They’re a defiant action against a business that is doing something wrong. They will try to scare you into not participating, because they’re scared. We hold all the power here, sometimes the execs just need to be reminded of that.
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