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let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
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Game of Thrones Daily
Love Begins
Janaina Medeiros
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Sweet Seals For You, Always
PR's Tumblrdome
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izzy's playlists!
almost home
I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
oozey mess
Product Placement
NASA
#extradirty
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@sicksadgames
Hello tumblr dot com I make horror ttrpgs where sometimes the horror is funny and sometimes the horror is sad, which you can find on itch.
Not sure what I'm gonna use this account for yet but I hope tumblr will be better than the hellbird site?
I think it was bad actually for Morpheus to try to wake up Neo. He should’ve let Neo figure it out on his own, really none of Morpheus’s business. It’s kind of problematic to make jokes about waking up from the Matrix, it pressures Matrix-aware men to wake up when maybe they don’t want to.
Oda Iselin Sønderland (Norwegian/Irish, 1996) - Linse (Lens) (2025)
Here’s SWEETROCK, the 24 hour comic I drew this year!
PS: if you liked this, there’s a whole book of these comics available now!
Here’s SWEETROCK, the 24 hour comic I drew this year!
PS: if you liked this, there’s a whole book of these comics available now!
Simone de Rochefort shared the email she sent to Jim Bankoff, the CEO of Vox Media who sold Polygon, on bluesky. The text of the email is transcribed below:
"Hi Jim,
I'm writing to let you know how incredibly disappointed I am about the decision to sell Polygon to Valnet. Even though I'm one of the fortunate few to still be employed, I'm still furious and heartbroken.
I was in Europe when the sale went public. A few days later, a reader recognized me at a cafe in Paris. He couldn't believe what had happened, and asked me how it was possible, in the United States, that a workforce like ours could just be disposed of. He also added, completely unprompted, that American workers should "choose violence." I just thought I'd mention that! It was cool to be recognized halfway around the world for my work. The readers have always appreciated it, even if you don't. But I'm going to tell you about it anyway.
At Polygon, we wrote stories and made videos that were unique in entertainment media - they were weird and well-researched and funny. We also got awards for our reporting (including myself and my now-laid-off colleague Clayton Ashley - we were nominated for an ASME and we won a New York Videogame Critics Circle award).
We attracted brand sponsorships, some of which my team was in the middle of working on when my colleagues were laid off. My understanding is that Vox will be doing make-good sponsorships for the businesses that had contracted with Polygon. I wonder if they will seek out Vox Media again, once that process is finished.
My colleagues who were laid off spent years building connections and trust with sources in our industry. On the video team, subjects gave us hours of their time and resources for interviews. People trusted us to tell their stories. You can't do good journalism without that trust, and that's been at minimum bruised by this sale and the dismantling of the team.
Our readers and viewers are wonderful. I applied to work at Polygon because I read a comment chain on the site that I expected to be full of sexism and vitriol. Instead I found thoughtful people having a civil and intelligent discussion. What a rarity on the internet!
Did you know that Polygon's YouTube comments have always been overwhelmingly positive? My games journalist colleagues at other sites marveled at the fact that at Polygon, I never got hate mail. Was never harassed. That I could scroll freely through the comments of any video that I or my colleagues made and see people appreciating our work. That is so, so rare.
I worked at Vox Media for 9 years. The week before the sale, as I was preparing to go on vacation, I stayed up till 5 AM so that I could finish my next video. No one asked me to do that! That was frankly stupid, considering how little you and the company valued our work. This doesn't make me look very good or very smart, but I'm including it anyway.
The truth is I like working and the feeling of productivity, and I liked what I was making. I felt like that made it worth it.
It didn't! I suppose what I am saying is that Polygon's employees did everything possible to make the site a success. We built a profitable, respected publication.
You, and Vox Media's leadership, didn't know what to do with it. You failed to make a good thing work for you. That's quite sad, and quite an indictment on Vox Media as a whole.
I used to have a lot of faith in the company's longevity. I don't anymore, because of your poor decision-making, and your failure to listen to the people who were telling you what Polygon needed.
I had always said that Vox Media is an amazing employer. That out of all the media companies, it was the best. I encouraged people who are bright and hard-working and talented to apply for work there. I felt so lucky to have my job. I don't think you know yet how many bridges you've burned with people like me who would've jumped at the chance to work for you, and let themselves be exploited along the way.
A couple years ago, a former employee told me that digital media would never love me back, and that I should leave Vox. They said I wouldn't understand how much the company takes from its employees until I tried working somewhere else.
Well, now I work for Valnet! Thank you for the push out the door!
Meanwhile, if you couldn't make a profitable website like Polygon work, then what hope is there for my colleagues at other Vox outlets?
How many unprofitable ventures will be propped up with profits from the Polygon sale, and for how long? Before you and the folks with a head for business (or so I'm told!) have to hit the ledgers again and find something to sell, or someone to let go. Or will the company just enjoy a tax write-off for 2025 and then … what?
Polygon was special, and it was valuable, and it was profitable, and you sold it, at a time when the economy was at a low point - and when Polygon, against all odds, was still making money.
This does not make sense to me. Please feel free to respond and convince me.
Sincerely, Simone de Rochefort"
Today in niche genres of joke that I can never get enough of and will probably still be secretly thinking about four years later
there’s a small subreddit for this called wepoopyshitty after this post here
Cant fucking believe y'all would forget the most important one.
My siblings and I used to do this a lot on car trips. It was the only way to deal with having to listen to oldies radio from Stroudsburg to St. Louis in one day. My sister’s best one that I can still remember was:
Sucret’s Asian plant, Sucret’s Asian plant
They give you fertilizer and they take away your leaves
And mine (I had the whole song rewritten but I won’t subject you to all of it) was:
Levi’s
are drying
Levi’s are drying in the dryer
with a flannel shirt and a pair of socks
that belong to yoouuuuuuu…
My brother rewrote all of My Girl into “My Squirrel,” but I don’t remember the lyrics anymore.
every time I see an old trans personal I am filled with this incredible warmth and I hope that they got everything they wanted
[ID: fan comic of Snoopy and Woodstock talking. Snoopy’s speech bubble reads, “What if it doesn’t get better?” Woodstock’s speech bubble reads, “What if it does?” / end ID.]
happy Thursday the 20th
I’d have to wait months or even years for another chance to reblog this, so why the fuck not?
next days you can reblog this on a Thursday the 20th
August 2015
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You know, just in case you wanted to set your queue for the next 6 years
TODAY
Heritage post
Is anyone else mildly unsettled by the implication that this is going to be the last Thursday the 20th
Don’t worry, here’s the next 5 Years of Thursday the 20ths!
May 2021
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and THREE thurday the 20ths in 2025 with:
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its 3am and this is the most beautifully haunting thing ive ever seen
m1=78.8 m2=42.5 m3=34.2 (solar masses) v1x=-4.614 v1y=6.633 v2x=3.943 v2y=1.164 v3x=3.801 v3y=-5.647 (km/s) x1=-3.0 y1=26.0 x2=10.0 y2=-4.0 x3=16.0 y3=15.0 (AU from center) Music: Nocturne in C-Sharp Minor (Posthumous) – Chopin
This choreography is a rail nailbiter, y'all.
Me returning to my hometown to destroy my two oldest friends otherwise happy marriage.
it seems to me like every online transfem friend group also has one singular cis guy who’s hanging onto their gender by a fucking thread while all the girls wave scissors in their direction.
Hebden Bridge, Calderdale, West Yorkshire (England)
in fair verona, we lay our scene
Not to be a lesbian but holy fucking shit
Important update: still a lesbian.
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