todays bird

JVL

roma★

Discoholic 🪩
we're not kids anymore.
2025 on Tumblr: Trends That Defined the Year

JBB: An Artblog!

No title available
🪼

Kaledo Art
Sade Olutola
RMH

Kiana Khansmith

Origami Around

if i look back, i am lost
YOU ARE THE REASON
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
Keni
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
Not today Justin
seen from Brazil

seen from Malaysia

seen from Türkiye

seen from India
seen from Chile

seen from United States

seen from United States
seen from United States

seen from Malaysia
seen from Malaysia
seen from Germany

seen from Chile

seen from United States

seen from Malaysia

seen from Poland

seen from Malaysia
seen from Canada
seen from China

seen from United States
seen from United States
@saltandstarlight
As a former fan of the series who is still in the fandom and engages very critically, I would actually like you to visit @/worldsnotsaid 's blog because they really do point out the heavy racism in sjm's books so that quip about 'not that SJM is racist' in the tags of your post is simply not true. Just be sure to not send them hate. (I was pretty oblivious about these issues in the books & went in thinking that there would be baseless arguments but they make some pretty good points.)
(Also your post appears when you search up 'sjm racist' on tumblr so maybe the previous anti anon was because of that)
I feel like sjm did create a very nice world in her books (if I heavily ignore the racism & homophobia) and it's fine to engage in the fandom (I do) but I also know that a lot of people in the fandom are racist & homophobic themselves but they will always be there in every fandom I fear. And furthermore, we should demand sjm to do & learn better.
Oh thank you, I will go check that out! And as a White person I will admit that calling things “racist” still sometimes feels wrong even when it is absolutely correct. That tag reflects that and I apologize. We should be demanding SJM to do better - I don’t know if she has acknowledged that racism baked into her world building but she definitely should. I don’t mind the anti-anon because as they said in a subsequent message - antis also provide a key piece of information in the fandom and we should be critical of the media we consume.
As someone who was deeply involved in the Supernatural fandom, I have sadly seen the racism & homophobia in fandoms. I learned about queerbaiting from Dean & Cas ya know? While people exist those prejudices will also exist. But it doesn’t mean we cannot demand removing overt AND covert racism and anti-LGBTQ+ in the media we consume!
As I said before, I don’t “stan” anything. At 32 years old I have come to see that no piece of media created by a person will be perfect, but we also should be holding creators accountable for the harmful media they create. I’m a White woman and so I will always have some level of internalized bias & prejudice to overcome and I sadly might not see the racism right away, but once it’s brought to my attention I will try to never unsee it or brush it off. 🤷🏻♀️
sjm stans are so close to getting the point that she is racist but you know what? you do you. the antis are tired of pointing out the racism constantly.
and ask yourself why the entire race of illyrians are depicted as barbarian misogynists by a white woman (as if 'barbarians' was not the description of our people by the colonizers) & why she cherry-picks different aesthetics from totally different cultures while describing them as 'exotic'.
I’m not an SJM stan? I fully realize that there’s racism thinly veiled as “diversity” in the ACOTAR universe. I don’t think I’ve ever described any of the characters as “exotic” nor do I use that in my own vernacular. I even wrote a post about it once I realized it about halfway through Mist & Fury. I shared non-white actors that I thought would be great for the Bat Boys.
So like I hear you. This totally needs to be discussed and not ignored. I’ll be that catalyst no problem.
I’m just not a blind follower of anything, so please don’t label me a “stan”. 🫶🏻
What is your favourite acotar friendship? 💜
Ohhhhh my. Well if we are talking about the actual first book, I think the only real friendship is Feyre & Lucien!
As for the series overall? I want more Feyre & Mor, but truth be told I did love the Valkyries 🤷🏻♀️ I feel like that’s one of the more well-rounded friendships that we see. So much happens throughout the series that we get little bits of the Inner Circle being friends, but nothing that stands out to me like the Valkyries.
It’s raining low effort
ao3
reblog to make your blog smell like cinnamon and warm brown sugar
I think now that queens dead they should have her stuffed and put on display in Cairo for the next 150 years.
BLAZE REJECTED MY POST WOW LOL
We'll make sure at least 100k people see it for free then.
Lee Pace deserves all the joy in the gd world 🥹🥹😍😍😍
People talk a lot about the pipeline between the 2000s-era ‘nu-atheist’ movement and alt-right fascism, and for good reason, but there needs to be more attention paid to the pipeline between hippy-dippy crystal-and-moonbeams credulous New Agers and far-right conspiracy-theorist loons, because honestly I’ve encountered a lot more of those people in the past little while.
Or, for that matter, the pipeline between mainstream fucking religions and fascism, because I would guess that that’s probably commonest of all.
You can say Christianity, it’s ok.
Except I don’t actually just mean Christianity. Maybe in America and Europe, sure; but in India, the pathway is from Hinduism; in Turkey, Erdogan legitimises his regime through Islam, just as Netanyahu uses Judaism in Israel, and in Burma, they use Buddhism. No one has a monopoly on this.
I know it’s not, like, surprising, but tumblr’s way of identifying how Christianity has especially negative social consequences because of how hegemonic and entrenched it is where they live, but somehow failing to draw the conclusion that maybe other religions might have that privilege and position in other cultures and be used for the same purposes is just.
Exhausting.
Honestly though it’s probably because we grew up entrenched in the ideology that no other religion was as “powerful” as Christianity.
I’m reading this exact thread and thinking “yeah well I wasn’t taught that a leader could wield Hinduism like that, because it was inferior to Christianity” 😖
Just a thought! I appreciate this thread and how it expresses that any religion or regime of power can manipulate beliefs into weapons.
if you were a witch from pseudo-medieval times, which animal would be your familiar?
i got salamander.
Raven!
Roses? Bread?
In Hosab Azriel carried Bryce to a house and we had this scene.
He gave no warning as he hauled her over a shoulder and tromped down a set of stairs before entering somewhere … nice-smelling. Roses? Bread? They ate bread in Hel? Had flowers? A dark, cold world, the Asteri had said in their notes on the planet.
We know it is town house. Here is the post that explains it. > Town House
And from Acosf we know that it was supposed to be empty.
“But why live in this dump, when the town house was sitting empty?” (Acosf)
But from bryce’s pov we can see that it looks like somebody is living there.
So let’s talk about why “Roses? Bread?” is about Elain.
We are first going to talk about the town house-elain connection to it.
When feyre first arrived at town house she always mentioned the garden.
“Nuala and Cerridwen opened a door, leading to a fire-warmed, sunlit room. It faced a walled, winter-kissed garden in the back of the town house, the large windows peering over the sleeping stone fountain in its center, drained for the season.”
“Nuala headed for the small attached bathing room—white marble, a claw-foot tub, more sunny windows that overlooked the garden wall and the thick line of cypress trees that stood watch behind it.”
“I took in the clothes, then the room, then the winter garden and the slumbering fountain beyond, and Rhysand’s earlier words clicked into place.”
“A city—a lovely one, if the sounds from my window, the garden beyond it, were any indication—lay all around me.”
And that chapter is the first time Elain’s name mentioned in acomaf—the same chapter Feyre arrived at the Town House. It is about how Elain wanted to go to cities on the continent because they were “full of art, and learning and trade”
“There were no cities left in our mortal territory. Though some had sprung up on the main continent, full of art and learning and trade. Elain had once wanted to go with me. I didn’t suppose I’d ever get that chance now.”
Everything is a joke
there goes my weekend plans
Where’s that tweet or whatever that was like
School drug programs: Don’t get high by sniffing markers
Students: Wait you can get high by sniffing markers?
Omg my partner mentioned this and I was like WAIT THE KIDS DONT KNOW ABOUT WHIPITS?!
This was a huge thing in the 00s. Thanks Steve-O
Tiktok SEEMS like it fills the same ecological niche as Tumblr circa 2014, but everything that happens on tiktok is the result of some multitrillion dollar conglomerate setting a Rube Goldberg machine I'm motion that makes people act insane , and this leads to an increase in profits for someone somehow. Tumblr was just good old fashioned mass hysteria.
“When someone on here stole human bones for a magic ritual it was because there was genuinely something wrong with them. If someone on tiktok did it it would be because they were trying to sell you shovels”
@clarascuro you can’t leave this in the replies
I honestly feel like every other form of social media (I fear even lumping tumblr in with the others tbh) just doesn’t do it for me like tumblr because of the expectations. There are like zero tumblr expectations because it’s you’re own slice of the world where you like what you like, engage with it, create for the sake of creating, and if you get something that goes viral it’s a happy accident.
The expectation for every other form of social media IS to go “viral”, to create content that can be cross-platformed, can be used in multiple streams, can be monetized, etc.
And it’s exhausting.
I spend looooong hours on tumblr in the 2010s on my laptop or desktop (there was no app). I made a LOT of amazing friends (some still follow this blog, and some from my personal blog are literally my best friends now) but it was through pure connection over common interests. It never exhausted me to create or engage on tumblr. And while I enjoy TikTok, it feels exhausting to even have notifications there. The trends get boring or annoying - look I was here for Mishapocolypse so - and it’s just very different. IG/FB are clearly way too messy to even compare.
All this to just say that tumblr really stands on its own and I hope it stays that way.
not to channel george orwell on main but nows the time to start keeping hammers next to every electrical device u own lol
last thing the device sees before I hammer it to death