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not to be a joyless hag but I've started seeing genderbent "yuri" shipping Markiplier and Ryan Gosling and I can't help but think of someone I recently I unfollowed for posting that they have an easier time caring about genderbent versions of boy characters than regular fictional women

batmanisagatewaydrug

and I'm also building some connections to that post I made about reading books by Black women (you know the one) and the people who would respond by saying something akin to "joke's on you, I only read fanfic 😜" as if that were some kind of clever loophole and not a demonstration of the exact thing I was talking about

batmanisagatewaydrug

like yes fandom is about fun or whatever but idk man at what point has your desire for no thoughts head empty uncritical consumption left you splashing around in something that's been blended down to an indistinguishable goo for the sake of avoiding anything remotely challenging. with the thing that's "challenging" here being. you know. giving a shit about women and Black people and like frankly anyone but your shippable white men (and honorary Markiplier).

batmanisagatewaydrug

don't make me tap the five year old teen vogue article, etc

All experiences of escapism are not created equally.

whencartoonsruletheworld

"lupita nyong'o can't be helen of troy because helen was greek and there weren't black people in ancient greece"

DO YOU THINK THESE MOTHERFUCKERS DIDNT HAVE BOATS. THIS ENTIRE MOVIE IS ABOUT ONE OF THOSE MOTHERFUCKERS AND HIS BOAT

whencartoonsruletheworld

do you think these people can read

phoenix

Best comment I just saw "Helen of Troy was perfectly cast, because all these men are fighting about her."

azspot

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

santhipoma

lillagrim

relelvance

In what world is tall muscular man not conventionally attractive

piedude

We've all been down here too long. I truly think there's a chunk of tumblr's population that can no longer survive sunlight.

reagan-slayer69

women will say “hear me out” and show u a photo of pyramid head and then tumblr users will go “this is a perfectly normal man and an ice cold take”

soundoftheirwings

Gotta tell you guys something wild in the Chinese fan sphere

So some fanartist drew a “sexy” (read: booby) version of a (cartoon) character who is traditionally very non-sexualised. Fans of the character got mad about it because it’s kind of groundbreaking how that character is written and portrayed and this art totally ignores the entire point of the character. They demanded the art be deleted. In response to that other people said, well what the fanartist did may be distateful but they have every right to draw what they’re into. The two sides fight for days and each starts a harassment campaign and even report their “opponents’” accounts.

So far so typical. But things eventually come to a head and they decide that this will be settled by votes - not through a poll. Through donations to a children’s education charity via each side’s portal. Whoever can get the highest amount of donation wins.

And that is how this charity received over 1 million in donations in three days lol. Oh btw the “freedom of expression” side won by a landslide (960k to 40k)

tlbodine

From now on this is how all petty fandom disputes should be settled.

flagellant

starts the second trojan war in portland by inscribing a golden starbucks cup with "for the least problematic kinkster"

anyilherron

The only problem with this post is that it suggests that the Portland kinksters are as gods. You need someone egotistical and with a lot more power for that role...

flagellant

"you need someone egotistical and with a lot more power for that role"

perhaps the times have changed but back in my day the only way you could have more social power in portland oregon than any given bdsm dungeon master was to be born into the ruling class

flagellant

#i mean. im curious. bc like.#personally i wouldnt take that cup. and most of my kink friends wouldnt either.#bc we recognise the nuance#but there are def people who do kink who think of themselves specifically as 'non-problematic kinksters'#aka the people im not friends with because they get weird and judgy about stuff#like bruhhh why are you freaking out over a 40 year old in baby clothes. calm down. its okay.

i'm simultaneously throwing a golden ball gag into the ring inscribed with "for the best understander of nuance and realpolitik in a complexly materialist world, as per hegelian dialectics". unrelated to the trojan war thing. just for shits and gigs

romanceyourdemons

guy currently hurtling toward a migraine at a rate that would impress most astrophysicists: i wonder wgat is happening in my beautiful telephone

the-big-mood

This might be the greatest thing I have ever seen in my life

burgerdotcom

reblogs were off

mattymouse16

The best magicians don't reveal their tricks.

oysters-aint-for-me

there’s a used bookstore in rural western massachusetts (the montague book mill) whose motto is “books you don’t need in a place you can’t find” and i just feel like that summarizes tumblr too

oysters-aint-for-me

posts you don’t need on a site you can’t search

dark-spirit-tamamoland

they're still terming random transfems as i type this i see which does make quite a statement doing this today specifically

puppetstuffing

watched three girls who reblogged its new blog mutual aidpost (made literally 15 minutes ago) already disappear from its notifs. transfems are not included in their pride :/