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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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@skadren
i finally made a masterpost for those of y’all on mobile 🌟🌟🌟
i mostly reblog things, so if you aren’t interested in that sort of content, all my original + personal stuff is tagged under #skadren rambles. my (very occasional) art is tagged under #my art
valenstrifesodos sideblog/askblog (if i haven’t gotten to your ask yet, i know and i am sorry)
my ask box is always open!! i love chatting with people
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Carl Frederik Sørensen (Danish, 1818–1879), "Danish Ships in Rough Seas" (details), 1877
”potentially mature content” what the hell, sure
Every work of art says things the creator hasn’t considered, but if you’ve really thought about what you’re trying to say then generally the additional dimensions you didn’t know it had are in alignment with your purpose, whereas if you think you’re making no cultural comment at all you are actually making a LOT of cultural comments, most of which will be unflattering to you
「 This story is just for that one reader. 」
This is me when you "prev tags" me, btw
being a kid and hearing adults say stuff like "woah 2011 was 4 years ago haha" didn't really convey the fucking horror of a youtube video crossing my recommended labelled "9 years ago" and it's from 2017. that's not true. 9 years ago is 2010 or something. don't lie.
can we send up a quick thank you to pdf uploaders, torrent seeders, copy sharers, scanlators, fansubbers, digitizers, paywall dodgers, and various other internet archivers for making niche art and information more accessible in a media landscape where all but the most profitable mainstream are often tossed aside and left to rot
i think in general it is very easy to conceptualize a company or organization as 'having opinions,' in no small part because they themselves actively promote that, but in reality the customer service and public outreach is done by tons of random people with their own random perspectives.
which results in cases like this, where tumblr as a website may be hostile to trans women, but the majority of the people you try to talk to about it are NOT, and the company isn't on paper, so it becomes much, much harder to address the problem. if you call someone and say 'hey tumblr's sexist,' and that person, as the current voice of tumblr, goes 'well hang on, i'm not sexist, so i think the company probably isn't either,' then no one will get anywhere.
it's the same problem with like, when i call social security about my disability benefits, the individual i speak to isn't an asshole. doesn't change the fact that the aggregate of all their policies and standards results in an extremely dehumanizing experience. what it DOES do is obfuscate who or what is to blame for the problem. when something is made up of so many moving parts, any single part can easily wash their hands of the problem until somehow no one at all is taking responsibility. systems suck.
like this isn't a bug, its a feature of large companies. they explicitly talk about it* in my business ethics classes (ugh) that i'm taking right now. the higher-ups dont want to be responsible for the behavior of the random front-line workers, and the front-line workers ''shouldn't'' be held responsible for the way the company presents itself. it results in zero accountability anywhere, a shambling mass of processes that are mostly working to their own end. many of which sprung up on their own with very little human input or forethought at all.
the point is that reform needs to keep all this in mind to be successful, it's a very difficult beast to combat, and mostly requires a lot of very slow and boring victories. a lot of 'this specific process fucking sucks, can we replace it with a better one,' one at a time, until the aggregate is less bad.
*they talk about the many ways you can't blame various people for things 'the company' does. they then turn around and say the company can't be blamed for individual employees. they do NOT state the obvious conclusion that no one can be blamed for anything. it's all very transparent.
thinking about this again bc of pride month, and yeah, it still really really sucks that "tumblr is a hostile environment to lgbt+ people in general, and trans women in specific" is true at the same time as "tumblr as a company purports to be super inclusive and looooves trans women."
like i dont know the solution here, other than continuing to demand transparency and accountability so we can SEE who, specifically, is behind every transphobic moderation decision, and why there aren't any working checks in place. is it a company wide culture, or just a few very very influential assholes? or is it actually a passive process driven by many smaller biases that seem minor on their own, but all add up to outright hostility, like the social security thing? we can't know for sure, even if we suspect, because they won't admit the problem actually exists. because SURELY The Company is its own entity that is consistent with the values stated in their press releases! you wouldn't call poor sweet Tumblr The Company mean names, would you?
The Company is really like, an ecosystem of decisions. Ecological thinking and ecological solutions apply.
oh i like that, that's a good framework
why does he do *that*
Kelly Link, 21st April 2026
“SCROLL BACK UP IT’S OIL ON CANVAS”
“SCROLL UP IT’S GLASS”
Every time I do that it turns out to be a jpeg. Maybe a png. Nothing to get excited about.
hey op is this you
no that's a jpeg
ceci n'est pas OP
low ponytail X 👀
drawing is all sbout becoming good at illustrating one character at 3/4 angle and nothing else no backgrounds no props no furniture no money no job no future
media literacy includes understanding why a media product was made, to whom it's being sold, and the assumed preferences of its marketing demographic. narrative is not produced or sold in a vacuum.
you get a comment on tumblr. it's a bot trying to scam you. you get a DM. it's a bot trying to scam you. you get a message on instagram. its a bot trying to scam you. you're an author and you get an email telling you how much they loved your book and want to showcase it at their bookclub. it's a bot trying to scam you (and it uses bad AI to pretend it knows your story). you get a comment on ao3 saying how much they love your fic - and they made you fanart!! it's a bot trying to scam you. you get a hate comment on ao3 which insults your writing or calls you a monster for writing something "problematic". it's a bot. but at least that one isn't trying to scam you.
there's just something really cruel and insidious about this wave of scams going after creatives. You get an email and think someone genuinely loved what you made but - no. It's another scam. It's someone trying to trick you into sending them money. On AO3, it might literally just be a bot someone made specifically to be a hateful little shit.
putting the stuff you've made out there for everyone to see is hard and scary and we're all just bumping around looking for a bit of appreciation and love and connection and these bastards are using that to try to rob us. I hate it.
Im going go get into the sea and stay there
