Luvbug

[kandimouse]

to those of you who are moving here from tiktok, from someone whos used both tiktok and tumbr for years...

1. DO NOT censor your posts

dont censor sex, abuse, suicide, dont censor it. we dont have censors like tiktok does, you wont be banned for talking about these things and tagging them properly helps people avoid them (also, we dont have shadowbanning here)

2. we dont really have an algorithm

you follow who you follow, and you see posts from who you follow or what you search. the 'for you page' is basically useless here. this also brings me to my next two points

3. dont crosstag

we get it, on tiktok you have to crosstag for reach, but thats not really a thing here. just tag your posts properly (also posters often leave more info about the post in the tags!! and when you reblog stuff you can leave your own notes in the tags, kind of like the old "repost comments" on tiktok)

4. dont expect to go viral/be famous

"viral" isnt really a thing on here (at least not for the average blogger). your posts will probably get 2-10 likes and you wont get nearly as many followers than on tiktok. thats just how tumblr is

5. blocking is your best friend

tiktok is VERY discussion based, and while tumblr is much more discussion based than other social medias, its still not a good place for ragebait/discourse. dont interact, itll make your experience worse in the end, just block and move on

6. you cant go into someone elses house and start rearranging their furniture

this is tumblr, not tiktok. dont diss old tumblr users for how they use the site or try to change them, thats like going into someone elses house and trying to rearrange their furniture. we've been here longer and we're familiar with the site and its culture, either find your niche, adapt, or find a different app

[goingknowherewastaken]

Another important point

You need to actually reblog posts for this site to work as it should.

Liking posts only saves them in a spot that no one checks except for the user who liked them. Most people have their liked posts hidden.

Also, this site has a spam bot problem. One way we weed those out is to check the blog to see if it's actually being used to post legitimate content. If there is absolutely nothing on your blog you're getting blocked and some users may just straight up report you as spam as a precaution.

Not to mention that the posts you reblog will only be seen by you and whoever follows you. Tagging it "fyp" does absolutely nothing.

[wilwheaton]

He is such a cringey, pathetic, weird little idiot. The people who don't see through him are some of the stupidest dipshits in the history of the world.

[decemberwinter]

what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?

would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?

[wilwheaton]

Thomas Paine: “I do not believe in…any church,” he declared. In a call to arms against what he called church-state tyranny in early America, he insisted that “every national church or religion accuses the others of unbelief; for my own part, I disbelieve them all.”

George Washington: "The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion."

Thomas Jefferson: " The Christian God is a being of terrific character -- cruel, vindictive, capricious, and unjust . We discover in the Bible a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication . On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarreling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind."

James Madison: “It was the universal opinion of the [18th] century, that civil government could not stand without the prop of a religious establishment and that the Christian religion itself would perish if not supported by a legal provision for its clergy.” But as President, Madison found that, “the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of church from the state.”

John Adams: “the United States is not, in any sense, a Christian nation.”

[wilwheaton]

(via Republicans are groomers. : Fuckthealtright)

[just-shower-thoughts]

George Washington died in 1799 and the first dinosaur fossil was discovered in 1819. Therefore, George Washington never knew about dinosaurs.

[dreamilypurpleoutcast]

Is there not a single republican who knows how long trump's been president and that covid 19 occurred solely on trump's watch?

[republicanidiots]

This is the same party that blamed Obama for the Katrina disaster.  So...no. 

[liberalbutnotpartisan]

Yeah, how dare Joe Biden be... *checks notes* part of the previous administration, which not only left a detailed pandemic playbook for the Trump refund to follow, but also went through active drops during the transition.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[one-time-i-dreamt]

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Wait, it's real????? I thought it was one of those satirical articles!

[wheeloffortune-design]

I want to apologise to

- Britney for making fun of her when she had her breakdown

- Monica Lewinski for judging her when she was a 22year old temp sexually assaulted by the most powerful man in the world

- Ke$ha for ever thinking she was trashy when all she wanted to do was make party music

- Kristen Stewart for ever thinking she was dumb when she’s actually one of the coolest people ever

- Megan Fox for ever thinking she was just a slut when actually she was an actress being harassed by her employer. 

- Hating all the women who made a career out of having a hot body. Being is shape is hard, beauty is a weapon and auto promotion is hard work. 

- All the Mary-Sues, who exist because young girls everywhere want to be part of a story they love so much

- All the female characters I ever snobbed because they got in the way of my ship.

- Hating the color pink during my teenage years, when it’s actually a lovely color and what I resented was society’s pressure to perform femininity. 

[zenkaiankoku]

This is what sexism does. The media runs a smear campaign against women. And when we were younger we knew no better and trusted them. Now we know better.

[bbuggs]

mermaids with starfish covering their boobs is a great concept until you like.. remember what starfish are i mean ma’am theres an animal on your titties 

[bbuggs]

[bbuggs]

[unyanizedcatboys]

This post is a religious experience

[palenoface]

this post gave me whiplash three times

[emotionalempowerer-blog]

[cartoonpolitics]

(cartoon by Barry Deutsch)

[thewitchdoctor]

[uranian97]

1) they expensive bruh 2) none of us kno the dif btwn a fucking diamond and some fancy ass glass ur capitalist rock hierarchy has no control over us

[a-chicago-sunflower]

3) mostly mined with slave labor

[everkings]

4) we get excited when our date buys us an appetizer, we don’t even comprehend people buying us rocks that would force us into debt for ten years

[wildhaunt]

5) They aren’t actually that rare and the price is artificially inflated. 

[ariaste]

Pro tip from a former Jared’s salesperson: You want a sparkly white rock that will look like a diamond to the untrained eye and will literally cost the price of a nice dinner for two? Created white sapphire. They’re lab grown and cost *pennies* to make, so you can get a 1 or 2 carat white sapphire for like… $30-80 probably. You can get one as huge as you like, perfectly clear, perfectly flawless. And no one will ever be able to tell the difference except a professional appraiser. Also, sapphires are the second-hardest gemstone (right after diamonds) so they are very durable! Very unlikely that they’ll chip or crack. Get that bitch set in sterling silver and you are GOOD TO GO. Whole thing should cost you less than $200 unless you get a fancy band with a lot of extra stones. Of course, created sapphires come in every color of the rainbow, so if you want something more exciting than plain white, you TOTALLY CAN. 

Created sapphires and silver: The poor Millennial’s engagement ring. 

[everythingcanadian-archive]

THANK YOU EX-JARED’S BASED GOD. 

[dxisybuchanan]

engagement rings: HACKED

[styna]

Get a ring from an antique store. They’re usually less than $100, you know they hold up over time, no one else will have one like it, and it comes with the bonus of being haunted by the spirit of some old woman named Edith probably.

[phruxx]

thanks edith

[justcatposts]

[cartoonpolitics]

(cartoon by David Horsey)

[feminismandmedia]

Did you guys watch the full video from that NA guy and those MAGA hat-wearing kids? From what I’ve read and seen a lot of people were in the wrong in that situation, not just the teenagers. Apparently there were a bunch of adults who’d been shouting homophobic insults at them for the past hour so they’d been trying to sing over the sound of the insults when the Native American man walked up? Also because the video spread around the teenagers and their parents got sent a bunch of death threats.

Hello anon. You appear to have fallen for the tireless efforts of a PR team hired by rich white parents to create a positive spin in the media for these boys.

I have seen longer videos. In those videos, I have seen those boys shouting at young women walking past about “how it’s not rape if you like it” and other such awful nonsense. Bear in mind these boys were only in the area in the first place attending an anti-choice march in order to restrict reproductive rights. 

The men shouting at them belong to a group called the Black Israelites. They’re well known for that exact kind of bs. But since when did one group of people shouting at you (debatable, most of their vitriol was aimed at women walking past) become an excuse to mock and intimidate another group? Only when those people aren’t white. 

The longer video clearly shows these boys get worked up. Shouting and whooping and getting enraged. Maybe they were trying to drown out the insults, I don’t know. But the video also shows them begin to advance on those black men. 

Nathan Phillips walked up, singing, because “that song was medicine, meant to calm them” - he wasn’t a threat. He went up to help calm everyone’s anger. 

And how does the longer video show them responding? By swarming around him, up in his face, shouting and yelling, chanting build the wall, and doing tomahawk chops. There’s no context in which those very racialised intimidation tactics are okay, least of all a context in which he has calmly walked vaguely near you, singing. 

That video was exactly what it looked like. It was a group of teenage white boys being racist towards a Native American elder. You can trust your own eyes on this one. 

- Mod Sap