thank Satan I left twitter and came back to tumblr @tempest-in-diy-earrings - Tumblr Blog

there are many things tumblr as a whole has to learn but one of them is “someone can reblog a post without them endorsing every action the op has ever taken, we are not beholden to do background checks on the producers of every shitpost on the internet”

kryptoncat

kurganfilledwithbearbones

a mutual made this point and a prominent youtuber tried to dox her

tempest-in-diy-earrings

Just so y'all know: I do not research anyone I repost from. Not a one of them. My reblogs are not an endorsement of the OP's character, ever. I reblog on the merit of the post, alone, not who posted it. Did you really expect more from someone who tags maybe one in five hundred posts?

asneakyfox

what "death of the author" means:

a lot of people think the only point of engagement with art is just to decode exactly what the author was trying to say, and their intent is the "real meaning," and once you've figured out the real meaning you're done you've solved it. that's dumb and boring. don't do that.

things death of the author does not mean:

every interpretation is equally valid

you are forbidden to treat what we can know or reasonably guess about the author's intentions as something that matters to your interpretation at all

the only valid way to interpret fiction is to treat it like it's a documentary of events that really happened and never think about it in terms of "why would the creator, a human person, choose to present it this way"

authors shouldn't get to have opinions about what they intended to say through their work, they should shut up and let me tell them what it means because i know better

actually i, the person reading or watching or viewing this art, am the infallible source of real meaning, and everybody who disagrees with me is wrong including but not limited to the author

the audience is the infallible source of real meaning, not the author, and that's why they committed a war crime by not treating my own headcanons as authoritative

eraserheadadult

the situation with harry potter is kind of unprecedented in some ways imo because it is maybe the largest media franchise in history to be created & owned by a single person who still has direct creative control over it. who is also a billionaire with significant cultural/political influence. like the usual "no ethical consumption under capitalism" type excuses shatter on impact when the bigoted author in question is logging onto twitter every day saying explicitly that when you buy the tim hortons ravenclaw donut she is using your donut money to fund the genocide of trans people. like with big franchises usually there's at least a little more diffusion of responsibility than this

tempest-in-diy-earrings

I see posts, all the time, hating on fiction for doing constant negotiation and consent check-ins around sex scenes, and I just don't get it.

Like, I just read a scene, where this couple was finger-banging in a crowded elevator, full of people that did not consent to be a part of their kink scene, including multiple minors. I'm on the opposite end of the spectrum from these posters.

Please give me negotiations, safewords, boundaries, controlled environments with consenting participants. That is 1,000% more sexy to me.

tempest-in-diy-earrings

It has been suggested that the reason, my entire friend group chat is fully in agreement with me on this one, is that everyone in there is some level of autistic and really prefers things spelled out for them as clearly as possible.

Movement nudge!

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the-twitchy-life

I LOVE THIS GUY.

All those "spend just 35 minutes doing a bunch of really hard exercises and you'll feel great forever!" videos are really discouraging. I usually end up doing like, 2 minutes of some of his while waiting for my shower to heat up, and ykw?

That's 2 minutes more than I would have done otherwise.

nonbinary-octopus

oh hey I have a thing like that last one that I like to do sometimes, but I do it lying down in bed. it's a very satisfying pop/shift in my hips/lower back, but doesn't always work. maybe I will try his version and see if it is more effective for me

spaceshipsandpurpledrank

rrat-king

god this joke socked me right in the gut only to be followed up with the most heartbreaking shit in the world in jammer telling evan:

this show is trying to kill me i swear

setulose

I'm going to say this preemptively because it keeps happening, when someone makes a post about racism, especially in a fanbase like MCR that already has a horrible habit of othering nonwhite fans, there's almost never a need for you to reblog and add anything to the effect of "I'm white but I care about this" "this doesn't apply to me but it's important" "I'm so pale I glow but THIS!!"

setulose

I think the impulse to do this stems from an understandable place of not wanting to seem like you're talking about issues you don't understand, and I agree that clarifying that you don't personally experience racism is often salient information if you're writing your own words on the subject, but when you're amplifying the words of someone else with a reblog and feel the need to clarify that you care about this Even Though It Doesn't Apply To You, it comes off as virtue signaling (like you need everyone to know how good of a person you are) or patronizing (like the fact that you've bestowed your white attention on the subject makes it more important). There are ways we can and should tactically use white privilege to bring increased awareness to topics/issues, but for something like a social media post, a silent reblog/share is often going to achieve that goal just fine

embroiderycrafts

one of my recent favourites 🪡🌈⭐️ by shopenchantedplanet on reddit.

freshlytoastedmarshy

My favorite thing about fandoms is that there is always an mlp fan somewhere that can and will turn everyone into a pony, doesnt matter what genre the thing is or if its not super popular, it will be pony-fied

echo-loves-flowerboy

bentothuglife

my cat just came up and meowed very loudly and insistently and even nipped at my leg and when i was like "FINE" and got up to follow her she led me to the next room where a patch of sun was coming in. she wanted me to sit in the sun with her.