#shitty situation

[blackjackkent]

Hard to know how worried to be (or even whether to be worried) about Tumblr in the wake of Automattic's mass firings today, but I guess this is a good time to mention that I have a BlueSky even though I haven't done anything with it yet.

If you have a bsky pls follow me! And maybe I will figure out how to be active there. Lowkey idk how to be the same person I am on Tumblr anywhere else but I guess I should start trying in the spirit of diversification.

(Do people still use pillowfort? Or where else do cool Tumblr people share BG3 screenshots and fanfic and such?)

[catherinekal]

Well this is fucking frustrating.

So 2 days ago one of my coworkers told me and the other coworker that day that she had to go write a statement. She's a 19 year old college student.

Apparently some older guy who works in dairy has been creeping on her. First started with offering to buy her a drink at work (which she accepted and thought nothing of it, but I consider that a red flag to do at work with someone you don't really know)

Then it led to him seeking her out. Telling her how fine she looked. If she wanted to hang out after work ect. Nothing physical or threatening directly but clearly not welcome. She's 19 and this guy's 43. Even after telling him she has a BF he still did this.

So she goes to write that statement 2 days ago and I figured that's that. Our store director is a woman and will probably take this seriously.

He's here today. My coworker isn't but I just passed the dairy section and there he is stocking shelves. Why? He's a new hire too. Maybe been here a month and this is retail. They could replace him in a week or less.

Idk if they're only scheduling him on days she isn't here or what but come on. Dudes creeping on a woman half his age. Get him out of here.

[yorblair]

People will absolutely hate the gutts of teenage or young adult (often female) characters for the “unforgivable” sin of being “annoying” , having mental breakdowns by screaming or crying or doing dumb shit. Fans will want to torch these characters like a it’s the 15th century witch hunt.

While those same fans will defend to death literal mass murders, corrupt politicians, mobsters, kingpins, shady business owner exploitators, incompetent or greedy leaders, crimes against humanity characters…and call them their little muchkin because the character is calm, composed and sometimes quirky. And because the character felt bad about what they did for 5 minutes. 🤡 Talk about utter double standards

Like oh no the emotional teenage girl screaming and crying nonsense at her friends /family should be considered worse than adult characters selling drugs to minors and ruining their lives or characters being incompetent or self serving leaders and their actions indirectly leading to the suffering of hundreds.

Be fucking fr right now.

[heystephen]

also just saw a new video of Tree helping/making sure a girl was okay and given water/attention by event staff like it’s insane that her team had to be so involved in this while the event staff did nothing

even tree had to come out and help?

[mysicksecrets]

i hope i don’t sound like a bitch/narcissistic saying this but like 95% of ppl that have been interested in me i have not been interested in them and having to like outwardly show that ur not interested/not be too nice bc it will be confused as interest makes me feel like the shittiest person alive

[helenapsent]

tumblr, what have you done?

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Tumblr, am I some kind of joke to you, huh?

[worldsaint1]

Toxic parents

If your parents make or ever made you feel like death was better option than putting up with the way they treat you, you have toxic parents. If your parents scream/yell at you constantly, belittle you, control you, name call, constantly point out your mistakes, etc, you have toxic parents. If your parents have ever threatened you (threatened to take away basic necessities, threatened harm, intimated you, gotten in your face yelling and screaming, you have toxic parents. If your parents control you with any means nesscary (threatening, harm, neglect, etc) you have toxic parents. If you parents have never cared about what you think, feel, need, want, etc and only cared about themselves, you have toxic parents. If your parents have made you question your self worth due to blaming every thing on you, saying you are the problem, that no one will ever love you, that you deserve what’s happening to you, etc, you have toxic parents. If your parents have ever made you question other relationships in your life (bringing up others during a fight that has nothing, telling you stuff others have said about you, comparing you to your sibling, etc) then you have toxic parents. If your parents refuse to see the hurt they inflict on you on the daily by their actions- you have toxic parents. If your parents have never taken responsibility for their actions/mistakes or apolgized- you have toxic parents. No one should make you question your self worth, put you down, make you feel unloveable, like your thoughts/needs/wants don’t matter and be abusive towards you in any way regardless of who they are.

[illebagal]

Advice some people need, apparently:

1. Please flush the toilet

2. Please do not flush paper towels in the toilet

3. If there are bees in the toilet, do not use the toilet