KIDHEDERA

Ryan. Pretty old but still not grown up. Blogging and reblogging about whatever takes my fancy.

[kidhedera]

I just deleted my sideblog (haven't updated it in 5 years anyway) and this one will be going soon too.

Being on tumblr isn't good for me anymore, and unfortunately the latest update is just a final push to do what I really should have done instead of ending my tumblr 'break' and coming back.

I don't know where I'm going to be going, social media kinda sucks these days. I don't really have accounts anywhere anymore.

I do have a pillowfort (currently empty) but if you want an invite to pillowfort hit me up, I have 10 invites available, and may end up actually setting up this blog.

kidhedera

[tumblr]

Reblogs in a chain now get their own notes

The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve. 

Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.

If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.

Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.

This is just the beginning. More changes are coming as we keep building this out – stay tuned!

[changes]

It’s very clear that you all have strong feelings about Tumblr and about this change. We hear you. The passion people have for how Tumblr works is one of the things that makes this place special.

As this rolls out over the next few days and you explore it, we’ll keep reading your replies and reblogs, so please keep sharing your questions, concerns, and ideas.

Your creativity has always been the heart of Tumblr, whether you’re the original poster or adding something brilliant in the reblogs, and nothing about this change is meant to limit that.

If you’d like to talk directly beyond the comments, leave a reply and we’ll follow up with as many of you as we can. We want to work with you to make Tumblr better.

[pukicho]

Hey staff. This one really needs to be reversed. Tumblr isn't built for a quote-retweet equivalent like this.

Ultimately, it just feels a lot worse to use, conversations are more segmented, you can't keep track of things by referring to the original post anymore, artists lose traction faster on their original posts this way, the community feels smaller as a result, and jokes don't land the same.

This wouldn't affect me, I could easily out-reply most users and take attention away from the original poster - this is a bad thing, and is another reason why it shouldn't exist.

If you value the community, you should have tested and sought feedback PRIOR to pushing it out as a public release. This makes tumblr less novel, less comfortable and more like twitter (in a bad way)

[tumblr]

Reblogs in a chain now get their own notes

The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve. 

Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.

If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.

Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.

This is just the beginning. More changes are coming as we keep building this out – stay tuned!

[changes]

It’s very clear that you all have strong feelings about Tumblr and about this change. We hear you. The passion people have for how Tumblr works is one of the things that makes this place special.

As this rolls out over the next few days and you explore it, we’ll keep reading your replies and reblogs, so please keep sharing your questions, concerns, and ideas.

Your creativity has always been the heart of Tumblr, whether you’re the original poster or adding something brilliant in the reblogs, and nothing about this change is meant to limit that.

If you’d like to talk directly beyond the comments, leave a reply and we’ll follow up with as many of you as we can. We want to work with you to make Tumblr better.

[cryptotheism]

Seeing the update in full function, and speaking as someone that relies on this website to promote my work and pay my bills, here are my thoughts:

This update makes me extremely anxious. It is now more difficult than ever to track who is interacting with my posts. I've dealt with stalking and harassment on this website for years, and the idea that the people stalking me can reblog my posts without my knowing makes me want to significantly reduce my presence here.

Additionally, it undercuts one of the core aspects of why I use this website. As an amateur edutainment writer, I love that people can ask me questions, and I can respond with essay-length reblogs. Under the new system, if a post leaves my orbit, I have no way of tracking it. Are people confused? Angry? Maliciously misinterpreting? Having fun? I can't know.

I have a prediction: The ability to interact with posts undetected will embolden this websites most malicious and toxic users. If this change is not reverted, the user base will become steadily worse until the platform becomes unuseable.

[maidthings]

me when I break core functionality in order to pander to the single most annoying type of user on this site

[maidthings]

it really is hard to think of a type of person who's opinions I care less about than "user who wants 'credit' for their reblog additions"

[kidhedera]

So we're watching The Fall

and in season 2 Gillian Anderson's character is all like 'Oh hey Colin Morgan, you totally look like Jamie Dornan, so you should interview this person who has a crush on Jamie Dornan and see how she responds'

and later Colin Morgan is like 'Yo, so what did you mean by I look like Jamie Dornan?'

And Gillian Anderson is like 'You are men of a similar age and practically have the same face, what else could I possibly have meant?'

And Colin Morgan, presumably in possession of some manner of reflective technology and thus an awareness of what his own face looks like is like '.... ummmm....'

[genderkoolaid]

regarding your post with the bell hooks quotes, what would be an alternative to the part where is says Rejecting this model for a feminist masculinity means that we must define maleness as a state of being rather than as performance. Male being, maleness, masculinity must stand for the essential core goodness of the self, of the human body that has a penis Because this seems to be her solution, but I don't think it's a very good alternative to the problem either

So bell hooks' work is overall quite cisperi, which is a shortcoming, but I find a lot of value in her work for trans people regardless, because she fundamentally seems to want to combat oppositional sexism (even if she doesn't use that language) has a much broader view of gender and patriarchy than many other cisfeminists do.

I say all that to say that I think her point here is still important, albeit not phrased to account for trans & intersex people.

The point here ultimately is that the patriarchy values people who are men based on performance, and so feminism must emphasize that people who are men are simply valuable as they are, because they are. I do think there is a value in taking the most traditional conservative conception of what it means to be "male" and start there with that point. It can't be avoided that culturally, the line between sex and gender is blurred, and the line between "stereotypes about men-the-gender" and "stereotypes about males-the-sex" is blurred and the two heavily interweave. A lot of misandristic-patriarchal ideas about manhood and maleness are fundamentally wrapped up in the body and the penis, and hooks' is zeroing in on that as the starting place for this idea of loving men as they are rather than what they perform. From the starting point of the body, including its most sexed and gendered and in many ways taboo organ, everything to with "being a man" has inherent human worth that is not different to the inherent worth of every person regardless of gender.

I think its rather easy to apply this framework outside of the cisperi model of manhood and maleness, because ultimately hooks' point is not that manhood must be defined by a penis (or that a penis is an inherent mark of maleness). Rather, she's working within the framework of peri-cissexism to make a point that naturally leads us out of it.

Every person who is a man has inherent worth. Every body that has a penis has inherent worth. There is no need for either person to perform any degree of "real" maleness or manhood to a certain extent to be deemed a person of value and worth. The point hooks' wants you to take away is the value of compassion and self-and-other-love, and so the peri-cissexism of the book is something worthy of critiquing to me but not something that fundamentally weakens her core points.

[weirdstrangeandawful]

I'm so fed up with the 'just in case' justification for accommodations.

'This washroom has grab bars just in case a disabled person needs it' 'This door is automatic just in case a disabled person has to get in' 'This building has a ramp just in case a disabled person wants to live here'

Think of it like doors at a house party: If you shut your bedroom door, people won't go in. They're not banging into the door and getting stuck, they're seeing the door and choosing not to go in.

We don't meander around at random and just find ourselves places. We choose to go places we can access and we're real people. We bring real business to restaurants, real attendance to events. And we need real access to services.

[rat-detector-24-official]

Today I share with you bronze rats from the Meiji period.

[clytemnestraaa]

there’s this thing that happens on this website that’s like the opposite of pissing on the poor and is far better but also still somewhat annoying when you post something where the point is implied and then someone else adds the point you were making in a reblog as though they are like, adding something new and insightful to the post. eg you can post something about a female scientist from the 1800s having her intellect undervalued in her time and someone else is going to add like “that’s so crazy… i think they were treating her this way due to misogyny” and like well yes. i mean… yeah. you got it

[muse-meter]

I consider them the reading comprehension translators. Good guiderails for the people that need them. Much like the gutter walls at the bowling alley.

[soupdweller]

whoaaa more au art no wayyy

[mastomysowner]

A RARE FABERGÉ JEWELLED CITRINE MODEL OF A MOUSE, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1900

[pngblog]

Transparent!

[egberts]

just in case you didn't click through, this is an appox. $80,000 mouse

[unita-n]

Watercolours (mixed), Potentate watercolor pad А5 size, markers (Sketchmarker, Graph'it, Stylefile, Copic) pencils Faber-castell, liners (Sketchmarker, Touch), white gouache

[houseofcatwic]

Shawn Braley Illustration

[through-a-historic-lens]

Susan Kare, the Artist who designed many of the fonts, icons, and images for Apple, NeXT, Microsoft, and IBM, 1980′s

[retroactivebakeries]

#oh is it time to repost this susan kare photo again

[willowposs]

Important addition y’all

[cyle]

there is an overwhelming amount of cool in the background details of these photos if you look at what she’s got at her desk, which i really really hope and believe was her actual everyday desk

[radstudies]

Gustave Baumann (American, 1881-1971) - Grandma Battin’s Garden, 1926

[renthony]

This might be swinging a bat at a hornet's nest, but Firefly is topical again, and I just gotta get it off my chest:

I've been saying for years that Firefly was fun to watch when I was a teenager, but the show is ultimately overrated, super racist & whorephobic, and the continued obsession over bringing it back has gotten kind of tedious when all my favorite queer shows keep getting canned by studios who don't give a single shit and my favorite showrunners can't get anything new off the ground because studios are obsessed with nostalgia bait.

[renthony]

Killjoys and The Expanse are both significantly better than Firefly imho. And Killjoys treats its sex worker characters way better.

[kidhedera]

just thinking about the Nurse Jackie TV show, which I watched around the same time was watching The Pitt which was a FASCINATING exercise

(Nurse Jackie takes place in a hospital, but its a TV show hospital which works because really it doesn't matter what the workplace is as long as Jackie is the star of the show, and she'll make herself the star of the show by force if necessary, but the Pitt takes place in a hospital and could not take place anywhere else because its very much about medical professionals and medical institutions and is telling a very different kind of story).

Anyway, one of the things I liked about season 1 is that the show is told through Jackie's eyes a lot, and whenever she's in frame the people around her act like caricatures in a sitcom hospital drama or something. But when those same characters are interacting with each other when Jackie isn't around, or are alone, they demonstrate a lot more complexity and nuance of characterisation, and are fleshed out into full characters with a whole set of motivations and feelings that otherwise don't exist.

My interpretation was this was a way for the creators to demonstrate that one of the reasons that Jackie leans into manipulation and abuse to achieve her ends isn't really about the drugs, its about her self centred belief she's the only real person in the room.

A lot of the conflict in the show comes from her refusing to acknowledge or accept that other people exist outside of her own patterns for them, and her explosive reactions to people defying her control, even when its not intentional defiance so much as she misread them.

But in season 2 all the characters lose their nuance and it becomes a 'nurse jackie is the voice of reason surrounded by lunatics' show, which is not terribly interesting and moves a lot of characters from 'nuanced examinations of stereotype through the lens of a manipulative white woman who sees them as a stereotype' to just being stereotypes.

And its not fun anymore.