Knuxfan24's blog of miscellaneous crap

The blog of the (not-so) great Knuxfan24. This is one of the primary sources for random crap I post. Though most of the content on here is reblogs. Take a treck through this Archive Panic if you so wish, there's a lot of pages here & very sporadic tagging.

[knuxfan24]

How sweet Tumblr, you thought you could purge me. How cute. I may not be able to access my old blog anymore, but I can still see the following list & the theme editor, so copying that stuff over is simple, if a bit time consuming.

Hey maybe I might start using tags now!

[purgedfan24]

Go follow the new blog instead! It’s pretty much set up identically to how this one was.

[smashy-headcanons]

Based on some of the new Palutena's Guidances, I've come to the conclusion that what Palutena and Viridi know about the fighters doesn't come from godly omniscience, but websites like Wikipedia. Like Viridi says that Roy is 15, and while he clearly isn't 15 in Smash and has obviously been aged up, his page on the Fire Emblem wiki mentions that he's 15 in Binding Blade. That's probably where she's getting this information from.

I wouldn’t be certain that the characters are aged up, but I’m just imagining Pit being like “Okay, what are Incineroar’s weaknesses? How do I beat it?” and the goddesses being like “Just one minute.” *audible typing sounds* “Water, Rock, Fighting, and Ground.”

[geno2925]

pictures of “how mega man has changed over the years” have been funny ever since mm9 has been a thing, but imo the addition of mm11 makes them even better

[methados]

[sonisis]

Someone over reddit requested this

(hopefully)Transparent verison

[stareon]

THE BEES

OH GOD NOT THE BEES

[eartharchives]

Scientist's accidental discovery makes coral grow 40x faster

There might be hope for our oceans, thanks to one clumsy moment in a coral tank.

It typically takes coral 25 to 75 years to reach sexual maturity. With a new coral fragmentation method, it takes just 3.

[joey-wheeler-official]

Species dependant on the great barrier reef rn:

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

clap your hands if you’re BISEXUAL and A LITTLE BIT OF A DUMBASS

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

DUMBASSES who SUPPORT BISEXUALS can clap too

[askshadetrixieandfamily]

Humble Bundle. A site that just feels too good to be true.

I was linked to a sell page on that site of Vegas Pro video and audio editing software. The stuff was priced at $788 dollars and being sold for $25. This site, I just can’t trust it. That’s like a dream come true and in this world dreams don’t come true without a catch.

[sashibunbun]

The catch is that it goes to a charity.

[ranty9000]

That’s what I tried telling them, but she’s convinced it’s a scam

[sashibunbun]

Yeah. But how, Humble Bundle has been a known thing for ages.

[ranty9000]

Something about it being suspicious she’s only seen stuff talking about it recently? I dunno, I’d tag her but mobile is pretending they don’t exist again

[askshadetrixieandfamily]

Cause I’m on desktop.

[werewolf-cuddles]

Humble Bundle has been around for years. I can vouch for it’s legitimacy.

[askshadetrixieandfamily]

$788+ of editing software for $25, still feels sketchy.

[werewolf-cuddles]

I got the same bundle last year. It’s legit. Grab it while you can.

[purgedfan24]

Same!

[moonchild8914-deactivated202305]

The internet war on sex is here

No sex please, we’re online

It’s not just Tumblr, people. This shit is getting ridiculous.

[lunariagold-deactivated20230802]

Of course it’s not Tumblr! They came for Craigslist personals first because that’s the oldest trick in the book: Sneakily taking down the ‘perverts’ under the guise of vague, high morality goals and working slowly up from the bottom, picking off larger and larger targets. Few people cared about CL because of the stereotype of scary unwashed creeps trawling for sex online. That wasn’t so familiar or cute so it was fair game.  

Tumblr is biting at the ‘artists’ heels and suddenly there is a bit more noise, because artists aren’t supposed to be treated like shit, are they? However even now the hair-splitting over what’s porn and therefore garbage and not-art shows that attitudes are not so different. It’s still the same divisive, dangerous us v.s. them mentality that is so easily exploited.

This is why when people tell me I shouldn’t worry about this because ‘my art isn’t porn anyway’ it makes me angry. It means so much more than drawings or a silly blog. This is about people being slowly phased out of their freedoms, rights and agency. History has shown time and time again that whenever power wants to make a crushing move backwards, it comes for what it declares ‘obscene’ first. People are raised to be scared and ignorant of sex so it’s an easy gateway. When they come cracking down on sex is when we most need to pay very close attention. They are not protecting us.

[rainbowloliredux]

Also do you really want to leave it up to potentially homophobic, racist, sexist, ignorant, etc. to ultimately decide what is or isn’t art?

They declare something obscene but not illegal. Therefore, technically you can still produce it and you won’t be charged or arrested for producing… You just can’t put it on public display (which can range from being a store to being on sites like tumblr, etc.)

As fun as it is to make fun of being horny on main and that horny people like myself have no rights there is a bigger and larger picture to this than just whether or not you can look at porn. People who call others porn addicted freaks, cumbrains, make fun of others for their kinks/fetishes, etc. and act like people are only mad because they can’t get their “fix” are part of the problem. They fail to see the larger picture that this is a domino effect. It’s all fun and games watching horny people get removed until lawmakers decide that they’re gonna crack down on you next using the same logic and method that they got rid of porn.

And websites and corporations, unless they are truly dedicated to actually fighting it, will just go along with it to protect their own profits and save themselves from lawsuits without regard to you as a user. 

The absolute vagueness of the law makes it to where if sex trafficking (of the actual illegal kind I’m assuming, not the kind where girls are selling nudes on snapchat and shit) is found on a website, the website is held legally responsible even if it is against TOS and it was something that didn’t look like sex trafficking. People that engage in that kind of shit are not above throwing other people under the bus. It’s why Facebook updated it’s content policy to where you pretty much can’t mention sex or anything related to sex at all. If it is something that can even be considered remotely sexual, it’s getting the axe. 

What does this mean?

No more talk about bodily anatomy, you could be asking and soliciting for sex. 

LGBT+ topics? Forget about it. “It’s too obscene and sexual” 

Safe sex? Nope. You obviously are asking to have sex with someone. 

Drawing people of the same sex kissing? Obviously, this is some type of code for sexual solicitation. 

Sexual orientation headcanons? Nope obviously this “headcanon” term means “I want a sexual partner who fits this.” and this character represents what they look for in a sexual partner. 

Hell, you can’t even joke with your friends that you wanna netflix and chill tonight because it is considered sexual slang. 

This is what these laws are doing. 

Websites and corporations would rather scrub anything even so much as mentioning sex than to deal with a potential lawsuit from the state or anyone really because some scumbag human decided to use their services for actual sex trafficking and slavery. 

Of course… they don’t actually make it illegal to search for willing sex partners and fetishes, discuss LGBT topics and safe sex, etc. they just make it to where you can’t really do it anywhere because it could be code for sexual trafficking and pimps and people who force others into sexual slavery aren’t absolute idiots. They’ll come up with new code words, terms, etc. that potentially throw LGBT+ people, minorities, and innocent people under the bus because they probably didn’t give a damn about them to start. Hell, you may not even be able to do the 💦🍆 emojis anymore because they may think you’re asking for sexual favors and soliciting for sex. 

And yet somehow these new laws completely miss the mark of pimps and people who kidnap others and force them into sexual slavery and trafficking but hit just about everyone else and the only people happy about them are only the people who think those “porn-addicted freaks” and “gross ddlg” blogs are getting the axe and think that they should be gone from the site anyways. 

But no. 

You too are getting the axe along with anyone who creates anything that could be potentially obscene or “sexual solicitation” and you should have absolutely no trust or faith in websites, companies, and advertisers who just go along with it because they care more to protect their profits than to fight a bogus law and no amount of “But we actually support LGBT, sex workers, minorities, etc.” will fix it… they’ll just say it as good PR while making up an excuse to axe and scrub out anything related to them to abide by the law or appease advertisers. 

This is why sites like AO3 are important… They actually have lawyers and actually, give a fuck about protecting content and aren’t chasing the pennies of advertising companies or idiot lawmakers who have no idea the depth or degree that the internet actually functions.

Advertising companies and idiot lawmakers who have no idea (or don’t care tbh) that they’re only hurting fandom creators, they’ll only hurting LGBT+ people and minorities, etc. and they’ll say that “they care and want to promote nothing but love and support” for the community but then go around basically making it to where those people cannot have a platform by making it to where websites are legally held responsible for any content that is hosted (even if it is against the websites TOS to host that content) and then those websites scrub any mention of sex or sexuality or anything that could even vaguely reference it because they don’t want to be sued. 

They aren’t deplatforming people in a way that is illegal. They’re taking the legal loophole to deplatform people and whether they realize they’re doing it or not, hitting and deplatforming minorities, artists, etc. 

tl;dr: There is a larger picture here other than just horny people have no rights and it is that anyone who creates anything that even vaguely mentions or references sexuality or sex regardless of context could be getting scrubbed. 

[stunningpicture]

My 7 year old son was shot down by his 1st grade teacher

[radiantvamp-deactivated20181217]

The american public education system in a nutshell tho

[nodadclub]

My third grade teacher actually had a conversation with my mom that I was reading to well and told her to stop having me read at home

[rustboro-city]

My first grade teacher said that it was problematic that I was reading ahead of the rest of the kids in my grade and asked my parents to stop letting me read Harry Potter.

My fourth grade teacher thought it was wrong for my dad to be teaching me complex math because it fascinated me.

My elementary school music teacher hated the way my piano teacher taught me, and how I was more advanced than many of her students, and so told me, in front of my peers and my mother, that I was not good enough to participate in the state solo festival. She would not give me the form. We had to procure it from the district instead. She also hated how I excelled at reading and playing music for the recorder, and so she refused to give me my “belts” (colored beads to signify our level) and humiliated me in front of the class repeatedly.

My eighth grade algebra teacher used to fail me on take home tests because I didn’t solve problems exactly the way she showed us in class; I used methods that we had learned for other types of problems that also applied to these. She took points off my tests because I didn’t bring a calculator even though I got 100% without it, because I was able to do it by hand. I had to call my father, who is an engineer, down to the school to shout her down and give me back my A in the class.

My 10th grade Spanish teacher yelled at me in front of the class numerous times because she didn’t like the way I took notes; she thought that since I didn’t write every word off the slide, I wasn’t getting it all down. I had to explain to her that people who have taken advanced courses, like AP or IB classes, know that in a fast-paced learning environment you need to take quick shorthand notes that contain the necessary information rather than wasting time writing every word. She almost gave me detention.

My 11th grade English teacher gave me a poor mark on my first short essay because she believed that I was looking up unnecessarily complex words in a thesaurus to try and get better marks. The phrases in question: “laced with expletives” and “bombarded”. She wouldn’t hear any defense from me.

My 11th grade history teacher failed me on an essay about the 1950s because I misread the prompt. Except the prompt wasn’t words; it was a political cartoon. One of the figures was clearly president Eisenhower, but the other I couldn’t place. My teacher would not tell us who it was. I labelled him as the governor of Little Rock Arkansas during the integration period, and wrote an essay about that subject. My teacher said that no, it was Joseph McCarthy, and that there was a small picture of the man in our textbook and therefore I should have recognized him instantly. Half the class, apparently, did not.

The American school system is not here to educate us or to encourage us to learn; it’s here to keep us in line and silent. It’s here to keep us from deviating and being our own people and forming our own ideas. Don’t let it win.

[lexlivingoutloud-deactivated201]

“The American school system is not here to educate us or to encourage us to learn; it’s here to keep us in line and silent. It’s here to keep us from deviating and being our own people and forming our own ideas. Don’t let it win.“ 

[snowyanna]

Fun story time. I loved to read. So much so, I was reading chapter books in kindergarden. I broke the record for reading points in elementary school. They actually had to start making up prizes for me. No one in the history of the school had ever read so many books in a year. Basically, my class liked me because I won those suckers pizza parties in my spare time.

In second grade, I had a teacher named Ms. Mobley who believed all children should be average. She flat out told my father that all children should make C’s, and should never strive for more than that.

Not only was she insane, she also would routinely spell things wrong for us to copy for our spelling tests. Later, when we spelled those words wrong on the test, she would mark us off. Yes, our own teacher was sabotaging us.

I should have been tested for gifted classes, but I was not. Why? Ms. Mobley didn’t believe in “gifted” children.

This teacher had tenure and could not be fired.

Never forget.

“The American school system is not here to educate us or to encourage us to learn; it’s here to keep us in line and silent. It’s here to keep us from deviating and being our own people and forming our own ideas. Don’t let it win.“ 

[association-of-free-people]

Got into a school choice / voucher debate with a couple who were both public school teachers.  By the end their argument had collapsed and they gave up trying to defend the failing educational system.  

When I’d made the observation that the system is holding families who justifiably demand better hostage, they pivoted to “what about the children left behind?”.  

This summed up their political mentality for me.  It wasn’t about the kids who could escape a cycle of poverty by combining their values and work ethic with opportunity, it was about restraining them for ill defined reasons on behalf of the “common good”.  

They were expressing a perverse sense of equality which is in reality an excuse and euphemism for oppression. 

[rainbowloliredux]

A lot of this started with the No Child Left Behind act. 

What it was intended to do?

Help make sure that impoverished, disabled, etc. students keep up with their peers and making sure that each school had well-educated teachers to produce well-educated students. 

What ended up happening?

Punishing schools for having underperforming students and put funding and the ability to have classrooms purely based on how much money they’d receive from doing state standardized tests. This is why you ended up with underpaid and overworked teachers who deal with classrooms of up to 40 students because the school couldn’t afford to have more teachers. 

The result of this?

A less valuable education because their attention is divided between too many students. 

Also, having to do state standardized tests meant that the education had become sterile. This is why you got taught things like how to do logarithmic algebra equations but never learned how to do anything that matters more in a functional adult society like paying taxes or how to vote. 

The time to teach “useless” things like that simply wasn’t there because of the fact that teachers (and schools) had to teach state standardized tests with no type of variant for more specialized learning and if they didn’t meet the standard, they lost funding.

Lost funding = lost programs and lost teachers. 

[nuttyrabbit]

This post hits way too close to home. It’s one of the reasons I got into so many fights with teachers in middle school: I was different, I was fucking leaping ahead of the class constantly, mostly in history and English. And they HATED it.

The school system hates excellence. It is only in college where I have found people who see that I do this and encourage it, and fucking PUSH me.

That’s what a lot of these kids need: a challenge, someone to tell them “you’re good, but let’s make you better, let’s feed that eagerness to learn” because almost all kids want to learn, they crave it. But the system pushes them down. I see it. I work in a place where their natural curiosity is allowed to exist and they’re allowed to LEARN

[demilypyro]

Well guys… we’re fine… so long as nobody was horny on main

[thecacklingcreep]

Question

[demilypyro]

No

[anem0nesiac-deactivated20231104]

[rainbowloliredux]

Also, whenever people bring up the fact that there are kids on tumblr as a justification or reason for the purge I can’t help but roll my eyes a bit

Yes, you have to be a minimum of 13 to sign up for this site… that does not mean that it is for kids or child-friendly/safe. 

Neopets is child-friendly because all of the content and moderation is specifically geared towards being safe for kids. 

ChickenSmoothie is child-friendly for the same reasons, all of the content and rules are specifically geared and made towards being safe for kids. 

FooPets is a child-friendly website for the same reasons once again. 

All of the content, rules, etc. are specifically regulated to be safe for children. Just about any site that is marketed towards children is/should be child safe/friendly. 

But a site like Tumblr? Facebook? Twitter? YouTube?

They’re social media sites that children happen to be able to use. But they aren’t specifically geared towards keeping content minor/child-friendly. Yeah, you can be a minor and still use the site but there is also content geared towards adult and the content is not specifically monitored for keeping kids safe.

And this ain’t even about the porn either. 

Some artwork is not safe for kids because it has a lot of gore or pertains to violence. 

Some in-depth posts about safe sex and sexual exploration are not child-friendly. 

Some people make content that is exclusively for an adult audience. 

Facebook is not a site that specifically moderates and curates content specifically with children in mind. Neither is any other social media website unless they specifically target and market themselves towards kids. Which is the purpose of a safe search option (and actual age verification) on any site that allows minors to sign up along with hosting NSFW/AO content just like how Google has a safe search.

tl;dr: Just because minors can sign up to use a site does not mean the site is specifically child-friendly or geared towards children. 

[lovesicksick]

Censored on tumblr

What all ask boxes look like for me (submission boxes look exactly the same):

Left: what happens when I try to open dms (New Message does nothing); I can’t even read them. Right: when I try to go to someone’s dms from their blog.

Neither new things I post nor old things I post show up in the tags they’re in, even if they were before.

I can type things into replies, but it won’t actually post them.

Since it doesn’t seem this one has been encountered by many people yet, maybe reblog this so people know about it. I’m probably getting deleted though

[half-gamer]

Tumblr is shadowbanning people and they aren’t even trying to be subtle about it.

Please spread the word.

[lovesicksick]

I’m glad this is spreading but simultaneously it makes it sound like the shadowban is much less severe than it is because I didn’t realize, and this shadowban is so severe I can’t even add on / tell anyone that.

All my likes, reblogs, and replies are hidden from the notes of EVERY post.

When I like or rb things it doesn’t show notes in someone’s activity / dash, except long-time followers (not sure about the exact cutoff/conditions).

If I reblogged and added something to this from a non-follower they wouldn’t even know. Check and see: my rb’s don’t even show up in the notes. So people couldn’t even find out I added something on by checking the notes either:

Not to mention: I’m hidden from all searches, can’t be @’d, past @’s of me are hidden from my notes, I don’t get notified when people reply to a post I replied to, my @’s don’t give notes, and every search on my blog is blanked. I can’t even ask/submit to myself even with anons, and lots more.

Oh, yeah, and: MY BLOG ISN’T EVEN MARKED NSFW. Every flagged post I’ve found was restored. But every flagged post you contest brings attention to you that risks you just getting shadowbanned randomly.

[lovesicksick]

THIS is the version that should get spread around…

[zenzgtandg]

Lag in real life

I really did laugh out loud haha

Reddit

[squeakitties]

i had a dream i went to nintendo and they revealed to me that all this time the real pokemon designer was this Russian guy named Vladimir Pokemondesigner and i asked him why he named jigglypuff that and he said “is puff. is jiggly. are you a jokester?” and crushed my head like an empty soda can

[doctorbluesmanreturns]

[raccoonshinobi]

[mellowjacket]

“ #I had to complete the set#reblog#fave#forgot the source of the gif tho#but glad i saved it “ https://youtu.be/L6N1cI2xtWs Got you covered fam

[rare-drop-deactivated20250823]