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30s, they/them This user is neither a witch nor a vampire :(

[rainbow-femme]

I love how Pluribus handles the hive mind with them not being evil or malicious and instead makes them terrifying while being genuinely benevolent, especially by making the parallel to conversion therapy camps

They love you as a concept but need you to fundamentally change who you are, they believe so strongly that their way of existing is the correct and happiest way that they will violate your autonomy to force it on you for your own good, they will create an environment where existing as yourself is miserable and then point out how miserable you are and if you want to be happy you just have to become like them, they can be so loving and caring and get to know you so well and open up about themselves and seem to connect with you only to act the exact same way with other people they’re trying to convert and reinforcing this idea that you aren’t special and don’t matter as a person, they will shower you with love and affection when you follow their rules and then cut you off completely when you don’t and use the fact that they control the source of all human connection and love as a tool of control

[rainbow-femme]

The hivemind and their “biological imperative”

[happilyasleep]

Okay but that photo of them going golfing together just somehow solidifies my stance on the whole fEmMe/ bUTcH Helen/ Carol discourse because at the end of the day they are neither, they are just BORING. Lovable, boring women in their 50s with too much money who go GOLFING. Granny panties and all.

[werewolf-in-a-blockbuster]

there's something so, idk, frustrating to me about how the fandom seems to treat Helena. Like, it's such a woobified watered down version of her.

And that's not to say she's not a sympathetic character, she is! I wouldn't want to downplay her abuse, but i wish people would probably acknowledge the power she has over most of the characters.

like the zufu scene for example, i was really surprised after watching the show how many people reduce it to just a cutsey flirting scene, like "aww she's so cute and awkward here!"

But i rarely see people talk about houw horrific it is in a lot of ways. This is a woman directly involved in the kidnapping, torturing, and eventual planned killing of Gemma. It adds such an intense layer to when she pretends to accidentally say Gemma's name wrong. ESPECIALLY with the racial element of it all

Not to mention the imbalance from knowing what happened at woe's hollow. That's another thing, it drives me up the wall when people say that it wasn't actually sexual assault. It was sex under false pretenses, and there's typically a word for that. (Ik consent where innie/outie stuff is involved is already murky, but this really crossed a line).

Hell, i really wish people would bring it up in relation to the very heavy implication Jame sexually abuses her and how it affected her.

She's SUCH an interesting character to me, and it just drives me nuts how people seem to only care about the most flattened boring shipping fodder version of her. PLEASE let her be flawed i swear

[kendrysaneela]

I’m alway wondering how much Helena knows. Because it seems like they keep her pretty in the dark and they just force her to do what they tell her. So I’m always curious. How much does she know? I’m sure she knows they have his wife. Does she know the details of what they’re doing? She knows Cold Harbor exists but does she know what it is? To me it seems like they give Helena just enough power to keep her feeling in control but no actual real decision making power so they can continue to shove her into places she doesn’t want to go. I think that’s why she’s so complex and complicated. She’s both victim and perpetrator. And then yeah on the subject of Jame. How does existing essentially as an innie under the thumb of Jame and enduring 30 years of his abuse that I assume is every type of abuse. (Physical,sexual,emotional,psychological) with seemingly zero bodily autonomy but also with one of the most powerful names in the world affect her psyche?

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

all goofing aside I genuinely don't understand the urge to reimagine Taylor Allison Swift as a secretly queer icon when the pop music scene(TM) is like. literally overflowing with women who actually like women. Gaga and Kesha and Miley and Halsey are right there. Rina Sawayama and Hayley Kiyoko and Rebecca Black and Kehlani and Victoria Monét and Miya Folick if you're willing to get slightly less top 100. Janelle and Demi for them nonbinary takes on liking girls. like what are we doing here. like I'm not even saying you can't enjoy Taylor but why would you hang all your little gay hopes on her.

[thepuppeteer-andthetrashmob]

Isn’t Lady Gaga bisexual?

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

yes that is indeed why she's on the list of famous women who like women

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

why have multiple people reblogged this with some horse-assed "um actually most of these people are bi or pan" did I fucking stutter I said they like girls. what is your point. I'm going to kill you.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

#op probably has this post muted but the icon is too real.

the icon is because of this post

[wildflower182]

POV: you make a good post and then encounter tumblr reading comprehension

[ericrmalice-deactivated20240323]

btw to just clarify for anyone who sees this reblog of this post

op is basically saying something along the lines of "yea ik taylor swift is bi but like. why is she y'all's only lgbtq+ pop icon when there are all these other lgbtq+ people in the pop scene???"

i might have worded this badly but hopefully i got the main point across

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

hi op here I certainly did not fucking say Taylor Swift is bi

[1-800-horrorfilms]

[cealvan]

Op is saying that liking Taylor for being QUEER or Lgbtqia+ is not a bad thing, but to also know she is not the only one.

He did not call anyone in the original post lesbian bi or pan.

He did call two people NB

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

you have to be fucking with me there's no way

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

#Op you gonna have to make a graph

on it:

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

#I think it’s so funny I got that damn Taylor swift ad underneath this#anyways this is reminding me of that makeup post from way back when#where someone was saying no makeup is a valid way to wear your face and everyone kept insisting that you only need like….4 products

yeah that was also my post

[halfabouros]

Please actually read the post because Taylor Swift isn't gay or queer you're just protecting because you want a reason to treat a real person like she's not humanly here.

If you want women or non-binary people to talk about their love of women there's actual bi/pan/lesbian artists who talk about their love of women and sing songs about it. You literally don't have an excuse to not listen to their songs at least once, especially if you're after W/W rep that Taylor Swift literally can't give you because she's Straight.

It's actually so simple in fact to find a song about kissing girls as a girl because there's a fucking song titled "I KISSED A GIRL" By LADY GAGA!!!!!

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

I Kissed A Girl is by Katy Perry

[wickedpissahnerd]

“I Kissed a Girl” was by Jill Sobule, who sadly died a few days ago (May 1, 2025). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Sobule

Jill Sobule - Wikipedia

Jill Sobule - Wikipedia

The Katy Perry version is a cover.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

I can't believe I'm still doing this on this post but it's not a cover, they're completely different songs with the same names.

this is the Sobule song

and this is the Perry song

[genderhexed]

[humanpersonface]

Me every time I see more bullshit added to poor OPs post:

[viejito-at-heart]

everyone tells me that ADHD isn't an excuse for being lazy and that there are people with ADHD who have overcome their symptoms and are successful but every day I drag around an invisible dopplegänger of myself who is horrible and listless and always complains. and he is so heavy. I'm ambitious and I'm passionate but he isn't and the problem is that to get anywhere in life I have to grab him by the leg and pull him along the whole way, kicking and screaming, and sometimes it gets exhausting. sometimes he pulls me down with him. and it gets a bit difficult to explain to people why I'm lying down on the floor in pain when they can't see him.

[retrogamingblog2]

[im-j-o-h-n-locked]

pluribus (2025)

[galileosballs]

The nice thing about solar power is that once you've built a solar farm the sun does not then need to be shipped to you through a series of international shipping lanes that can be cut off by other people's governments in response to the actions of other other people's governments. The sun is not subject to the stupid decisions of people you did not vote for in response to the stupid decisions of other people you did not vote for. The sun does not need to go through the Strait of Hormuz.

Even if you don't care about any of the other arguments in favour of solar power, this is a really good argument in favour of solar power.

[corgi-watches-the-moon]

This is so fair and valid as an argument and it breaks my heart that the people most opposed to renewable clean energy are frankly too narrow-minded or just flat-out stupid to understand this as a reasonable point.

[fuzzyghost]

[eggshellsareneat]

Alright, I think I like tumblr now.

A pun post crossed my dash, and I reblogged it with an equally bad pun in return. A couple of my followers find it funny, it's a good day for everyone.

That was on July 7th.

Virality on Reddit was entirely algorithmic. You could garner a couple crossposts, but the success of a post was entirely dependent on whether or not it hit r/all--the main page of Reddit. If your post does that, it's immediately exposed to 10x the number of people and immediately gets upvoted.

On my pun post, I get a couple reblogs. And those reblogs get a couple reblogs--nobody really adds any content to the post, it just gets a couple reblogs here and there.

There's a specific chain of reblogs that I'd like to focus on. The most popular post on this chain has about 25 reblogs on it. Half the posts have three reblogs or fewer. Five posts in this chain have just one reblog total.

But the reblog chain keeps going. And going. It breaches containment many times over. And finally, after a chain THIRTY SIX posts long, at 9:30 AM, July 22nd this morning, it hits a popular account.

99% percent of the people who have seen the post--virtually unchanged from how it left my dash--have seen it because it was curated by 36 different people. That's insane to me.

None of those 36 people know that they're part of this chain. They saw a post, reblogged it, and moved on. If any one of these people had not reblogged, the post would have a fraction of the impact it has.

And yet, after two weeks, the post has effectively hit the main page of tumblr. It was picked up, only because people liked it enough to show it to their followers. There were no algorithms necessary.

You really, truly, cannot get this on any other website.

[brightlotusmoon]

[cdrlogic]

Reblog the reblogging post.

Like to ignore its wisdom.

[thereisselfpreservation]

I'm seeing warnings about scammers trying to commission artists but the "reference sheet" for their character they want commissioned isn't an image but a .vbs file ("visual basic script"), and will run a script when you open it, probably to yoink your account(s), but I haven't seen this from anyone who's actually clicked it yet. Just be careful and never open a file like that, 'cause people suck.

[thereisselfpreservation]

For reference (heh)

At a glance, file name checks out. But!! Do not open a .vbs file!!!

[ampervadasz]

[drtanner]

Love that you can see the exact moment that Enlightenment™ occurs for this little dude. Good job, you did it.

[r4cs0]

Right there

[haughtyraban]

laxmi pluribus i want to see u have an emotionally vulnerable breakdown laxmi pluribus come back to me laxmi pluribus yell at me on the phone to remind me im alive there’s no more international phone call data rates laxmi pluribus im waiting for ur call laxmi pluribus

[tapacamino]

Samba calling Los Pal Amos "divas." He knows the score.

[moveslikekeithrichards]

there is no greater joy on this earth than Making Lists, Categorizing, & Sorting

[diseases-for-center-control]

Is this RFK Jr.'s super secret blog?

No, but we work very, very closely with him. One might say that we know his mind better than just about anyone. One might also say that we are flat and ribbonlike and each have 800 to 900 proglottids capable of producing oncospheres that, when ingested, can hatch and burrow into human brain tissue

[diseases-for-center-control]

We can neither confirm nor deny the amount of autonomy retained by the Secretary of Health and Human Services

[carolsturka]

sorry but i think it's hot that carol almost killed zosia multiple times, then proceeded to use her body for sex & affection when it was convenient. and it's even hotter how terrified she is of asking deeper questions about the former zosia, while simultaneously fetishizing the bits of her past the hive allows her to have. like doesn't everybody else think this is sexy? what show are we watching