#hypocritical

[cynicalmusings]

i know this would never take off, because trying to get a group of people on tumblr to do something is like herding cats, but could the x reader fandom agree on a collective tag to use for ambiguous drabble-style posts with multiple character names at the bottom? e.g. ‘#adapt drabbles’ or ‘#archetype drabbles’ or something along those lines, just so that people who don’t like reading them can block the tag (and that those who do can follow it!)

(for clarity, i’m referring to the post style which is roughly as follows:)

[a piece of text — usually a description or short passage of some sort, using the characters’ pronouns but without specifying a name] CHARACTER, character, character, character, CHARACTER, character, CHARACTER, character + your favs!

[thread-and-truth]

"Choice for me, but not for thee." - Feyre Archeron

[angeliclovebird]

i love how most girlbloggers are super into self care yet simultaneously love destroying themselves

[f3rnflower]

People are always saying that there should be more sex ed in schools, but they never actually say what needs to be taught. When I was going through sex ed, 90% of it was a mix of mentioning various STDs, and the rest of it was talking about enthusiastic consent. Don't get me wrong, both topics are important, but there are so so many other topics that need to be covered.

[macaron-tea-party]

From Wired: The DNC is paying influencers to push the party line through dark money and likely breaking laws to do it

One of the names listed in the article getting paid is Olivia Juliana who famously claimed loudly she was not a shill for the party and not getting paid for her opinion.

The group in question getting this dark money is called Chorus which looks like is made of multiple popular influencers.

Go read the article it explains a lot of the weird unity on pushing Gavin newson from liberals and other weirdness during the election campaign. Don’t let this story get buried

A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers

An initiative aimed at boosting Democrats online offers influencers up to $8,000 a month to push the party line. All they have to do is keep

[lovekenney]

“We need more complex female characters” but y’all start screaming when someone mentions them

[voxtheenby]

"Maybe Christmas doesn't come from a store." Well, the marketing departments definitely didn't get that memo.

Seeing the Grinch being used in so many adverts and branding this year whilst the entire point of the story is how we shouldn't be buying stuff from shops is so wild.

Anyway I did art to help my frustration.

((Im sure there is probably way way more companys that have strong grinch themes this year, but from personal experance i know mcdonalds is a massive "takeover" with grinch, Asda (and walmart in the US) both have diffrent adverts featuring grinchmas too, and Primark has a big grinch presence this year too. im sure theres way way more but these was the big 4 i could see.))

(And no I'm not selling this on teepublic/shirts like i do most my pieces for obvious reasons)

[bumblebeefics]

i was just recently attacked by someone under my tamed story. basically they said i was invalidating a canonically gay character for writing will byers with a female. i tried to explain very respectfully that in my story it's an alternate universe meaning he isn't gay. i also write the canonically gay will byers with males so no i'm not erasing him. i don't write noah (will's actor) with women though because he is openly gay. will byers is a fictional character! now this same person is literally a byler shipper, their whole account is about byler, and about how they read byler. don't get me wrong, i don't think there is anything wrong with being a byler shipper!! but when you ship will byers which is a canonically gay character with mike wheeler a canonically straight character and then try and jump down someone else's throat for "shipping" will with a female you come off as very hypocritical! i won't say who it was, but i hope they learned their lesson on how not to be hypocritical.