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fuckthisbloganditscurses

Happiness Will Come To You.

12goblins

when tho

fuckthisbloganditscurses

When You Least Expect It. Probably Late March

wizardshark

reblog for happiness to come for you in late march!

zigxortega

zac--efren

I reblogged this last year and I hung out with blink-182 backstage on March 30. Reblogging again because it worked the first time.

scientiablr

honestly, last year one of the best days of my life happened in late March

dailytogachako

A little late, but happy women's day! In my country, unfortunately, cases of violence against women are increasing. I wanted to say that this month is for celebration but also for fighting for women's rights. Not only in Brasil (my country) but also in all countries where violence against women prevails. You are not alone, seek help from family or friends! Don't stop fighting for your rights! "Redpill" is gaining more traction, and people in my country are trying to criminalize redpill speech online/redpill content creators. Although these cases are sad, the fact that there are people trying to criminalize them brings hope that justice will be served.

I feel like I've said a lot of things, and this is just a mha blog. But I feel like I should have said something. Anyway!!! Stay safe 🩷

polystyrenequeen

i feel like when people complain about a lack of female + lesbian representation (for lack of a better word) in fanfiction, the reaction of “just go write it yourself then” pretty severely misinterprets the original argument. people who point out the gender disparity in fan content aren’t usually complaining about the lack of “food,” they’re making a point about the subconscious biases and systemic injustices that lead large amounts of people to be overall disinterested in the stories of women, despite many of them being women themselves. yeah no one can force you to write anything but m/m, and they shouldn’t, but have you seriously never stopped to question why you and the majority of most fandoms write it almost exclusively? why source material with an equal division of gender, or even a bias towards women, will still somehow end up with a fandom dominated by m/m pairings? you seriously think that’s 100% fine and normal and has nothing to do with internalised misogyny?

strawberry-crocodile

stealing from @computationalcalculator

bardic-tales

The Death of the Digital Ecosystem: Why Decoupling Notes Destroys Tumblr

@staff

For years, the total note count on a post served as a universal metric of a piece of content's impact. Whether a user liked the original post or a reblog fifteen branches deep, that engagement flowed back to the source. This ensured that the original artist, writer, or editor received the full credit for the viral success of their work.

Under this new system, engagement is trapped within the specific reblog a user happens to see on their dashboard. If a massive, high-traffic blog reblogs a piece of art from a small creator, every like and reblog that occurs through that larger account stays with them. The original creator is left with a stagnant note count on their own dashboard while their work generates thousands of interactions for someone else.

Erasure of Creator Visibility

Instead of seeing one post with 10,000 notes, a creator may now have to hunt through dozens of different reblog chains to find where the conversation is actually happening.

If the notes no longer flow back to the original post, the creator loses the ability to see who is enjoying their work, what the tags say, and how the community is responding.

On a platform where engagement often dictates visibility, splitting that engagement into tiny, unlinked fractions makes it significantly harder for original works to gain momentum compared to the high-reach blogs that reblog them.

Incentivizing the "Big Blog" Monopoly

This system rewards accounts that have already established a large following at the direct expense of the smaller accounts that actually produce the content. It transforms reblogging from a method of sharing into a method of acquisition.

When a reblog functions as its own independent post with its own note count, the incentive to click through to the original source disappears. The platform is transitioning from a collaborative ecosystem into a standard social media feed where the person who posts the content last—not the person who made it—reaps the rewards.

Impact on Collaborative Conversations

Tumblr’s unique culture is built on the reblog chain: a chronological, evolving conversation. By allowing users to like or reblog "any part" of the chain as an independent entity, the platform is breaking the narrative thread.

If engagement is siloed into specific branches, the incentive to add to a conversation is replaced by an incentive to simply own a piece of the engagement. This change doesn't encourage conversation. It encourages the commodification of individual posts within a chain, making it harder for the original voice to ever be heard over the noise of the rebloggers.

The Disincentive to Create

Perhaps the most damaging aspect of this update is the psychological toll on the creative community. When the platform actively diverts credit and engagement away from the source, it destroys the motivation to share original work at all.

For many, the reward for posting is seeing how far their work travels. If that travel is now invisible or attributed to others, the labor of creating becomes thankless.

This system makes creators want to share nothing. If the platform is built to harvest a creator's effort for the benefit of curator blogs, the logical response is to stop providing the raw material. I am one leaning into this category. Without us creators, the curator blogs have nothing to curate.

By making it harder to protect and track one's own work, the platform is effectively telling creators that their presence is secondary to the conversations happening around their work: conversations they may no longer even be able to find.

This whole discord identification thing is upsetting but not surprising. At the same time, I just moved a bunch of my friends from Zoom for hangouts to Discord because I no longer had my student account within the last few years. So, if I'm gonna move my friends and I again it's gotta be something we can stick with. Anyone have any recommendations for something with

- text chat w/ history (so no whatever zoom is)

- group calls

- Ability to screenshare w/ audio

I'm even willing to self-host/deploy something at this point if I need to.

#discord #zoom #looking for recommendations

psycheterminal

Treat anything on Discord as media that will be lost

Do not use Discord to host your files. Do not rely on Discord to preserve your text. DO NOT RELY ON DISCORD FOR ANY KIND OF PRESERVATION OR HOSTING!!

It CAN be lost, it WILL be lost! You must consider Discord as a part of the Core Internet, controlled by one company that hosts the servers.

I thought it was impressive at first that it replaced IRC, but now I am horrified. If the company behind Discord went under today, how many friends would you lose?

How many relationships? How much writing?

You may think this won't happen, but I remember when AIM went down and along with it, entire novels worth of interaction with my oldest friend.

IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU. IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN. NO COMPANY IS INFALLIBLE.

Back up your files! Download anything you've saved to Discord NOW, before the API changes go into effect! And DO NOT RELY ON THEM FOR HOLDING IMPORTANT FILES!

bright-eyed-sunshine

Here is a program that lets you download any and all of your discord DMs, your servers, everything. You can set the format (raw text, html (dark and light), and others. You can even download the uploaded files not just the text, though that may be just for the command-line version not the GUI window version.

Exports Discord chat logs to a file. Contribute to Tyrrrz/DiscordChatExporter development by creating an account on GitHub.

Please back up your conversations, your stories. I have a backup of everything I care about that runs once a week, with full attachment backups every several months. I write stories on discord, and would be devastated if someone happened to them. You have to have your own local copies of every file you care about.

Darkseid, a Kelly Clarkson original where she's begging you to believe it's perfectly normal to have a god tyrant on a leash.

After all, Everybody's got a Darkseid

#kelly clarkson #darkseid #dcu #My brain at stupid o'clock likes to mess with song lyrics

analog-delight

If Kurt Cobain had found estrogen and never made music again, that would've been a win in my book. She'd be alive and happy and that's all that matters.

analog-delight

If any closeted trans woman finds estrogen and never produces a single thing ever again, that's a win in my book. She's alive and happy.

volatilevi

Choosing to live - Adora's powerful S5 arc

Adora has one of the most impressive arcs I’ve seen for a main character in Season 5 of She-Ra. The common character arc for a protagonist is building them up for a heroic sacrifice. In the case of Adora, her arc is all about walking her down from making that decision.

Catra’s trauma and abuse is a common discussion point; but seldom talked about is the abuse Adora goes through. Every authority figure in Adora’s life since she was taken from birth, has been raising and molding her to be the perfect soldier. It starts with the actions of Shadow Weaver. When Adora makes a mistake, she is not the one that is punished, it is Catra. Of course, this has a lot of ramifications on Catra and her trauma, but it also affects Adora. It teaches Adora to put the blame on herself, lowering her own self esteem, and making her life feel less valuable.

The tragedy of course is that this doesn’t end when she leaves the Horde. Light Hope is acting not out of love for Adora, but an attempt to make her the perfect tool for the Heart of Etheria. Both of these authority figures, who are immensely important for a young woman with no parents, are not motivated by their love for Adora - but rather how they can use her. This affects how Adora perceives herself: she only places value in herself to others in what she can provide for them.

This is where Adora starts her season 5 arc, but it only begins to change once Catra is brought back. Catra is a very important figure for Adora, because she represents love not utility. We understand the reason why Shadow Weaver and Light Hope try to split the two up as being: Catra makes Adora weaker. Which, from their perspective, is true. But in reality, Catra makes Adora stronger and that’s why they don’t want her around. When they go to acquire the failsafe in episode 11, nobody questions Shadow Weaver telling Adora to take it. But Catra does, and that’s when she reveals that no regular person has a chance at withstanding it, but Adora, or rather She-Ra does. Listen carefully though to her word choice:

"Only She-Ra can hope to survive it. "

It’s not even a guarantee that she will. And that’s why Catra gets so mad and runs off when Adora takes it, saying:

“It doesn’t always have to be you!”

And that is the most important line for Adora's character in season 5. Catra is the only one trying to make Adora, and I’ll say it how it is, Catra is the only one trying to make Adora not kill herself. You can justify Adora’s actions by saying she thinks she will survive, but that justification is erased once her and Catra make it to the heart. When Adora tells Catra that she is not going to make it. To me, this comes off as Adora accepting a truth she had been hiding from, rather than a consequence of her not being able to transform. Consider that maybe the reason Adora couldn’t transform is because she wanted or thought she wanted to die. That’s what Mara is trying to save Adora from in their conversation, her need to self-sacrifice.

What saves Adora is Catra finally giving her purpose outside of what she has been raised to think. Adora, since her childhood, had been conditioned to believe her purpose is to serve the ‘cause’ even if that means dying in the process. When Catra confesses her love, it makes Adora realize she has desires outside of this, and it saves her from almost certain death.

On a second viewing, Adora attempting to make Catra go away in the finale becomes a lot more dark. Because if Catra had listened, Adora would have died. It’s an important lesson: sometimes loving someone does not mean blindly trusting and listening to them, but saving them from making terrible decisions. Adora was raised to be a soldier, nearly died trying to be the hero, and lived because she was more than that.

eightbowlsofspaghetti

thanks @angelliicc for the inspo

closet-keys

when I was a kid & assigned to read the book the outsiders, I assumed that it must be written by a man because there are virtually no female characters. so I was surprised, at that time, to learn it was written by a teenage girl. I remember asking my mom about it, and she was like "well, sometimes boys are the only thing on a girl's mind."

I find it telling that the reverse is not true. straight boys are not generally writing stories where all the characters are women, and if one did, it would not be explained in that same way where obviously when boys like girls they want to write about them.

in fact, pretty much everyone I know who was ever considered to fit that description (a boy really interested in relationships between women) was not a straight boy at all. mostly these were trans lesbians & bisexuals.

it seems like only dykes are ever really interested in stories that revolve around exclusively women. but everybody is interested in stories that revolve around exclusively men.

#ive been thinking of the sheer amount of media i consume with a male lead even in fanfic #when i really want something more lesbian focused or even poly with primarily queer women #and it seems so hard to find what i want sometimes but so easy to find media centering men #and this is such a good analysis on why omg #and thats on patriarchy

villainpencils

So in love

villainpencils

It’s cold outside

spopfandomevents

SPOP Flex Icebreaker Zine is a free She Ra, Winter themed zine made by members of SPOP Flex discord server, celebrating the soft and cozy moments, Christmas and related December events, with characters from She Ra.

Featuring:

a downloadable 94 page PDF zine

11 artists

12 writers