things and stuff

Sometimes I forget to tag things so just, like, tell me if I trigger you or forget to tag it so I can go and tag it please thanks Also sometimes I reblog some fucked up posts and shit and it's basically up for you guys to correct, because I know its wrong but I have like, 0 skill in correcting people.

[airprime7]

So to be 100% clear:

tumblr just added an update that requires you to verify your age in order to view "mature content". I'm not sure how they do the verification (haven't yet checked), but given recent similar updates from things like Discord, it most likely involves sending them a photo of either your face or your ID.

In addition, over the past few months, and also years in the long-term, tumblr has been incorrectly marking things as mature content. These include:

Notifications about missing persons and requests for help

Posts about youth liberation

Posts about sex education

Posts about how the mature content is poorly implemented

Posts about being trans, more specifically about trans women and transmisogyny by both tumblr and users on tumblr

Non-sexual selfies by trans women/transfems

Trans womens'/transefems' ENTIRE BLOGS even if the blog contains no sexual content

Reblogs made by various blogs, mostly trans women, which add no additional content but somehow are marked as containing mature content, when the original post is not

Posts talking about racism and antiblackness both on and off tumblr

Posts by black people, especially black trans people, that are non-sexual

And likely many more I haven't seen

In essence, this update has mandated that a majority of users (within the UK and Brazil) must either a) submit their personal information to tumblr, a website whose moderation has been EXTREMELY biased against marginalised people and who I would not trust with my ID, or b) be excluded from absolutely all conversations tumblr decides are "mature content", whether they are actually sexual in nature or not. Furthermore, anyone not over 18 will also not be allowed to take part in these conversations, or even see them, or interact with many trans women or people of colour on this site, as tumblr decides.

This update is complete bullshit designed to censor and exclude marginalised people, poorly hidden under a guise of "protecting teenagers from sexual content", and they know it.

EDIT: This update apparently only affects users in the UK or Brazil, like me. This is still bullshit even if it's just some people.

[kinuko]

[vantriloquist]

The laugh I did at this could most accurately be described as a honk

[foone]

Important rules for the "age verification" era of the internet that we're living in:

1. Do not do age verification.

2. If you have to do age verification, cheat. Do not under any circumstances give them your real ID.

[very-gay-alkyrion]

Free Tool Says it Can Bypass Discord's Age Verification Check With a 3D Model

The tool presents users with a 3D model they can then manipulate to, the creator says, bypass Discord's age verification system.

Oh no I dropped my link, what a horrible thing! Sure hope this doesn't get reblogged until it reaches users from the UK and Brazil!

And remember to not make a second account just to test out what works best when verifying your identity

[starsong-livingthedream]

does anyone like my shirt

[daikaiju-arts]

(Based on this!)

[holy-leapin-splits-batman]

[ranaeley]

Obligatory truck I don’t trust reblog

[exaltprincess]

The funniest part of the Tomodachi Life direct was when they said "you can pick their dating preferences!" And selected all three options, then went totally silent for a few seconds and made her straight again. Genuinely made me laugh for like five minutes

[contradictory-yet-useful]

taking that out of the tags

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

there's an extremely niche plot in romance fiction wherein our invariably heterosexual leads fall in love after a night of passion leads to an unplanned pregnancy and they're now bound together by an impending child. I cast no judgment on anyone who enjoys this, but since I'm an evil gay and this is my personal nightmare scenario I want to see a zany romance novel premised on the opposite resolution: a couple falls in love while on a whirlwind roadtrip to obtain a legal abortion

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

"oh but along the way they realize they actually do want to raise the child together and ultimately keep the baby" no actually they successfully get the abortion and then they get chili dogs or something

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

neither of them want kids and it's not because they're immature or selfish or afraid of commitment or irresponsible or whatever, they just don't want to be parents and that's not a flaw they overcome. obviously they have other issues because there has to be some kind of arc to this story but deciding to keep a pregnancy that was unplanned and unwanted isn't the solution.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

some of you are very determined for this to not be a romance, to which I politely say shut the fuck up and get out of my sandbox. these idiots are going on an abortion roadtrip and they are falling in love on the way so help me god.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

I genuinely am floored by how hard of a time people are having with the very simple premise "two characters go on a roadtrip to get an abortion and fall in love with each other"

each other. each other each other each other. a person who is pregnant and the person who got them pregnant fall in love with each other on the way to terminate the pregnancy.

[mikkeneko]

there's something about all the "okay, but what about this unexpected twist!" replies that is pinging weirdly on my brain and I think it's like...

the point of the 'twist' in storytelling is that you're maintaining interest or raising the states by subverting a baseline state. taking something expected and doing the unexpected with it.

but the scenario as OP describes it, where two people enter in a romance but don't want and take steps not to have kids, is... not a baseline. this doesn't happen in media. in all standard instances it's either they aren't in love OR they are in love and decide to have the kid. the notion of people wanting to be romantically involved but not wanting kids, the notion of seeing abortion as desirable/necessary healthcare, that already IS the subversion.

the original premise doesn't need to be spiced up with an Unexpected Twist because it is the unexpected twist. and it's not going to be boring or played our or cliched until there's a dozen stories like it and the idea of un-dramatically going to get a healthcare procedure done with someone who loves you is normalized.

[thingsidothingsidont]

i hate to go ummmm, actually - but, ummmm, actually, the movie you're looking for is Obvious Child with Jenny Slate.

SPOILERS AHEAD

She's a comedian, he is a good boy, they have a one night stand, she gets pregnant but she doesn't want the baby. They start spending time together and are really into each other. She realizes that he is a great guy and that they want to be with each other. She gets her abortion on Valentine's Day, and even though he is not happy at first, they both realize it's for the best and he accompanies her on the day. By the end, they are together (maybe for now, maybe forever).

It's a great comedy and the two leads have great chemistry.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

where's the road trip

[ginbenci]

In a just world with good health care, the road trip isn’t necessary

Like “going on a road trip to a pharmacy” shouldn’t be a thing. If they have time to fall in love on the way to the abortion provider, medical treatment is too far away

(Though i concede roadtrip tropes are fun)

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

okay, in a just world that's true. in the world and country where I actually live, many people do not have easy access to abortion services. in the US there are in fact many people who would have to drive pretty far to get an abortion. hence the plot I'm pitching here.

[turquoisedata]

How's about, the woman's abusive ex works at the nearby abortion clinic and that clinic runs all the providers in that state. So they have to go out of state (road trip!) so as not to get the ex stalking her again. It writes itself really.

Also, can I just check OP - in your story is the man who is going on the road trip who is falling in love any minute the guy who got the woman pregnant? Because in my head it's a different guy, but given the lack of reading comprehension on your posts I wanted to make sure I didn't misunderstand you.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

oh my god we're doing this again

also fuck it. neither of them is a woman. nonbinary hottie knocked up a trans dude. #oops.

[blignick]

[marigoldisverynormal]

it's kind of fucked up how all you need to do to be nice to a girl is say 'i love you you're pretty i want you to be happy and safe and i'm not going to abandon or harass you even if we grow apart'

[marigoldisverynormal]

like im beginning to think the world is really bad to trans girls!! revolutionary new transfeminist thought i know

[asthedeathoflight]

The best way to become immune to freebirthing anti-medical intervention in childbirth propaganda is to follow a sheep farmer on instagram. I mean this. People will try and tell pregnant women not to go to the hospital because their bodies were built for childbirth and it is difficult to know they are lying. Unless. You have witnessed the epic highs and lows of being a shepherd during lambing season. Ewes are undeniably more built for childbirth than we are. Their hips are less weird and their babies less bulbous. They are living the ideal freebirth scenario. And yet the humans watching over them during lambing season exist in a constant state of anticipating needing to give medical intervention because even a sheep is not designed to give birth so well that human interference is not often necessary. And EVEN WITH humans watching and helping ewes and lambs STILL die. Like, pretty frequently. Sheep have spent a million years giving birth just out in a field completely on their own and they still die constantly under near-perfect conditions.

Humans have spent the past 500,000 years frantically trying to make up for having extremely fragile infants and bodies that make childbirth extremely difficult by leveraging the whole of our intelligence and technology and collaboration towards trying to make pregnancy survivable for both parties. You are not honoring your ancestors by giving birth at home with no medical intervention. The midwife you are idolizing would have wept tears of joy hearing about the vitamin K shot and tears of rage to know women and babies are still dying of the things she spent her life fighting even after we invented the cure.

[evilsanlang]

it's okay if you as a lesbian want to fuck the straight blonde popstar but you can't be pretending she's a lesbian too girl at least make it a lesbian corruption kink or some shit

[evilsanlang]

"taylor swift is a lesbian" check your house for mold

"I can fuck the heterosexuality out of sabrina carpenter" questionable taste, but much more respectable

[twentybrokenipodclassics]

[smoqueen-deactivated20251108]

im actually cleft in twain right now can i call you back

[queer-as-city-folk]

Technological literacy only exists in a very slim age demographic of people born from roughly 1980 to roughly 2007

[queer-as-city-folk]

Like I know someone who was born in '09, they can't even use the windows file manager to mod the Sims 4, after I made the folders for it!! All you need to do is move the files from downloads to the mod folder

[queer-as-city-folk]

This isn’t me saying young people are stupid, it's me saying, we have a massive fucking problem if young people can't even do simple tasks with computers considering how digital our world is

[prismatic-bell]

There has been a deliberate stifling of that education and it needs to stop.

[prismatic-bell]

I was here in April.

I need you all to know that a few weeks ago I was at an anime convention and the girl coming up behind me was in a panic because her entire panel was online, and she apparently hadn't read the panelist agreement to know the convention doesn't provide WiFi.

So I said "it's fine, I can hook you into my hotspot and we can download your panel to a local folder" and she looked at me like I'd just started speaking in Martian.

So I said: "I have internet through my phone. We can put your panel onto your computer so you won't need internet. Go ahead and pull up your WiFi options."

She didn't know what that was.

I need to emphasize you have to be at least sixteen to panel at this convention, and most panelists are eighteen. Including this girl. WHO WAS IN COLLEGE.

I showed her how to connect to my hotspot. Then, seeing a Google Drive icon on one of her tabs, I said "okay, we're in business! Go ahead and open your Google Drive."

...y'all.

This girl.

Who had a high school diploma.

And got accepted to college.

Looked at me.

And said.

"What's that?"

I had to explain that Google Drive was the name of the website (I didn't dare say "program" because we were running short on setup time) that she made slideshows on.

I showed her how to download her panel and check that it was working on her computer locally.

And then, as I went to unplug my phone from her computer, she panicked because she thought "downloaded locally" was like using a .webp file.

Y'all, if you are a teen or young adult, I am BEGGING you to learn this stuff. Don't assume you'll never need it because a lot of stuff gets done on phones (notice she didn't even know how a mobile hotspot worked?). Don't let Big Capitalism convince you that these are useless skills. They're not and not knowing them is literally just handing all your data to people who'd sell their own mothers for half a corn chip. And if you're thinking "so? Let them have my stupid Hamlet essay, whatever"....

YOUR TAXES.

YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER.

YOUR PICTURES.

Learn these skills. I guarantee your local library has a class. Mine has a series of classes that literally starts with "how to use a computer mouse."

If you want to take power from capitalism, take control of your data.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[phantomrose96]

That thing where milkmaids were often immunized against small pox because they'd already contracted the weaker cow pox earlier in their lives. That's Tumblr, to me, against whatever the hell social media landscape is happening in 2026.