They/Them

[lyridmeteorshower]

Tumblr Migration 2: Reddit Boogaloo

We all know about the Twitter immigrants, but there seems to be radio silence on what's happening now with Reddit users from certain subreddits doing a similar thing.

What's happening?

Reddit is restricting their API later this month and killing off third-party apps. An AMA (Ask Me Anything) with the CEO Steve Hoffman was held and it was clear that he would continue with the changes.

In protest, thousands of subreddits across the site are planning to go dark for 48 hours on June 12th. Some are planning to continue indefinitely until the changes are reversed.

Okay, so how does this affect Tumblr?

Some subreddits (mainly queer and left-leaning meme ones, don't worry too much about Reddit Atheists™ overrunning us) are encouraging their users to jump ship to our beloved - and beloathed - hellsite. There will be another influx of new users and many will be unfamiliar with how the site works.

What do us Tumblr users do?

Show them how to use the site; introduce them to the site's culture, tell them to reblog shit and curate their dashboard. Sorta like how we welcomed Twitter users back when they flocked here. Kungpowpenising optional.

I'm new from Reddit, what do I do here?

CHANGE YOUR PROFILE PICTURE AND BANNER TO SOMETHING OTHER THAN DEFAULT BECAUSE THIS SITE IS FILLED WITH BOTS AND YOU MIGHT BE MISTAKEN FOR ONE. This is the FIRST thing you should do after getting a blog.

Other folks can help you with stuff like curating your dashboard or creating sideblogs (or you can look shit up) but please, PLEASE just give yourself an icon and reblog some stuff so people don't mistake you for a bot

[saltyflump]

This is one of the first posts I've seen after trying to look at Tumblr again, so I've decided to head their advice and reblog this. I don't even know what a reblog is but I'll find out in time. It's a learning process

[lyridmeteorshower]

a reblog is what you just did! it's similar to a retweet on twitter and it's the main way things spread on tumblr

[golfigetsit]

Do yo like sahsoe the hedgehpg?

Yes!

[pocketss]

laurie 😔

[dajo42]

at my wedding yes i will have a maid of honour but why stop there. ill give all my maids titles. we will have a maid of hope. a maid of horror. a maid of horticulture. a maid of harm. a maid of healing. and of course. a maid of hogs

[irishironclad]

Maid of National Defence

[alcibiades-hacks-it]

Storytime!

When my best friend got married, I couldn't be the best man because he had years prior promised the role to his younger brother. Not a big deal, not like I was super broken up about it. But he decided I must have a title, and therefore I would be dubbed The Worst Man. We both had a good laugh and mostly forgot about it.

Then comes the wedding. In the course of 24 hours, beginning after the rehearsal dinner, I:

Shaved my beard at the bride's request, looked in a mirror, discovered what dysphoria feels like for the first time

Had a blowout at like 11pm on the way home from an errand after the rehearsal dinner

Opened the trunk to get the spare, found the bag of potatos I'd bought the day before had frozen overnight and then unfrozen, causing them to rot rapidly and release foul-smelling juice everywhere.

Tried to put on the spare tire and found the mounting plate had become misaligned and so the bolts couldn't go in all the way

Called my dad for advice, basically got mocked and insulted

Called a tow truck and finally got it fixed, drove home feeling like shit, finally fell asleep several hours after midnight

Woke up the next morning feeling like shit, bone tired

Drove to the hotel to get hair and makeup done, drove to the venue, realized I was wearing the wrong shoes

My partner couldn't bring them to me so I had to drive all the way back home

Driving back to the venue I fell asleep at the wheel, luckily I immediately drifted into a car next to me rather than flipping the car

Fuckin wide awake now

My car's all scraped up along the side by the wheel of her car, and the passenger door no longer opens

Her car is completely unscathed save for a tiny scratch, like so small it will buff right out. Not even through the clearcoat. But she insists on calling the state troopers. Wouldn't accept my phone number to deal with it after the wedding. Wouldn't accept insurance information. Had to be cops.

Cop takes half an hour to get there

Gives me an expensive careless driving citation (fair)

Finally make it to the wedding, with enough time to finish getting dressed and be ready for it to start

Make it through ceremony (very exciting, love these guys)

Go downstairs and pass out on a couch, completely miss the reception dinner

Am finally woken when the dinner ends and my friend notices I'm AWOL

But here's the rub. Aside from everything that happened to me? Literally the entire wedding went off without a hitch.

From this we concluded that the purpose of the Worst Man is to act as a lightning rod for all the bad luck, so that the actual wedding can go well for the bride and groom. I'm gonna make him be mine when I get married.

[lizluvscupcakes]

Everyone has to draw lots for it

[meow-moment]

creating a new OC. He's a doctor who treats weird kink furries. his bit is that every patient who comes into his office he has to figure out how to complete the checkup while working around some weird toon-logic contrivance. He's like the doctor house of kink because he's the only one in his field capable of getting results. He's massively overworked and he's been IP banned from the e621 forums.

[meow-moment]

His name is Doctor RJ Yiphman and he's one wrong move away from getting fired.

[meow-moment]

Doctor Yiphman treats more patients

[meow-moment]

Yiphman's back

[meow-moment]

[wolfertinger666]

poke girls (bikini edition)

[wolfertinger666]

I LOVE ARM FAT AND CELLULITE RAHHHH

[wizardarchetypes]

HELP i’m sitting at an outdoor cafe and this lady was at another table next to me and the barista called my name and I stood up to walk ten feet to grab my drink and the lady JUMPED up and LUNGED over to my table and took my seat????? i’m not even gonna say anything bc I’m so confused. they’re virtually the same tables with the same views and amount of sunlight etc.

[wizardarchetypes]

decided the funniest possible response was to just sit back down at the table with her. She’s not looking at me.

[wizardarchetypes]

she just got up to get her coffee and put her purse and jacket and hat down to save her seat. this is so funny what kind of world does she live in?? anyway we’re just sharing a table now.

[wizardarchetypes]

ppl keep suggesting she’s neurodivergent and ‘needed’ that table for whatever reason. I’m Autistic & ADHD so I can sympathize with that but she could have asked LMAO. I CANNOT stress enough that as soon as my butt was out of my seat she quite literally lunged for it like we were the finalists in a game of Musical Chairs & the prize was one million dollars

[wizardarchetypes]

THANK YOU!!! This always rubs me the wrong way!! When someone is rude and ppl immediately assume they’re Autistic, the implication is that u think Autistic people are all rude!

[aropride]

i’ve begun saying people “obviously aren’t in a romantic relationship, they have something deeper and more intimate going on” as this seems to confuse and upset alloromantics

(ID: a banner with text over the aro flag. the text says: i don't care about blorbotags go wild but this post is about hating the hierarchial system of relationships & if you're mad about it you're probably been poisoned by ace discourse brainworms. and are also proving my point. /end ID)

[a-polite-melody]

“But if a trans man wasn’t trans would he—”

SHUT THE FUCK UP

He is trans.

You don’t get to separate the trans and the man because it’s convenient for you. Trans men are men because they are trans. Trans men are trans because they are men. You can’t just separate trans men’s identities out like this to say they’re oppressed for being trans and not men because THOSE ARE THE SAME THING and separating them to categorize how trans + man interact in a mathematical version of identity politics flies directly in the face of intersectionality and I’m so tired of pretending it doesn’t.

[chhjklj-blog-deactivated2024102]

But they’re not synonyms. Trans men are men doesn’t mean men are trans men. Otherwise every man would be a trans man according to that logic. So they are in fact separate.

[a-polite-melody]

No, that doesn’t follow at all.

Trans, as an adjective, doesn’t work the same way as, say, tall, because trans is part of the gender in a way that other adjectives are not.

If it did work that way, you’d be correct.

Because that tall men are men doesn’t mean that all men are tall men.

But when it comes to transness… if a trans man wasn’t trans, would he be a man?

Maybe. But we can’t really speculate on that. If he’d been AMAB would he have been a cis man? Who knows. What we do know is that we live in a world where this man is trans, and that these two things are linked to one another because they’re both about his gender.

What my OP means is that to pull the transness away from a trans man and talk about him in the exact same way as a cis man is wrong, and would be just as silly as trying to talk about all trans people as though there are no differences in how our transness manifests based on which gender we are.

[knightsickness]

absolute funniest thing that capcom ever did was establish an intimidating and antagonistic rival at the top of his field in the first ace attorney and then in the sequel reveal that he’s actually the soft bitch of the family and his extremely powerful little sister is coming to beat the shit out of you

[aromanticduck]

[this-user-name-is-unique]

@kaiscove

[aaronsmithtumbler]

Older forms of English kept Latin’s gender-specific suffixes -tor and -trix;  tor is for men and trix is for women. So a male pilot is an aviator, a female pilot is an aviatrix. A male fighter is a gladiator, a female fighter is a gladiatrix.

This contrasts with the modern system, where tor is for both men and women, and trix are for kids.

[official-linguistics-post]

official linguistics post

[tropicalien]

How to make friends in your mid 20s asking for a… nevermind

[alcibiades-hacks-it]

[ironlily-art]

Jupon, the medieval jacket worn over plate armor

- TwiX:@Wass_Nonnam 's OC

[bulbasaur-propaganda]

Growing up with your starters

Artist:  esasi8794 / Twitter

[chabbit]

The captions are also really cute, although they mostly describe what’s in each photo:

Bulbasaur: Somehow, nomming on my clothes… has become a weird habit of theirs.

Venusaur: That hasn’t changed now that they’ve grown, but they’re very gentle.

Charmander: It’s my first attempt, but I made a plushie so that he wouldn’t get lonely.

Charizard: That plushie seems to be his favorite even now.

Squirtle: Squirtle’s a bit timid and hides behind me at the smallest things.

Blastoise: Looks like they’re scared of the first Pichu they’ve seen. You’re not really hiding!

[notsomerryerry]

@noelle217

[gale-gentlepenguin]

This is adorable

[arrghigiveup]

They just posted some more!

[source]

[kradeiz]

And some more!

[eeveelution-appreciation]

You forgot these!!!

[cubonepropoganda]

I’m disappointed that these were left out

[a-redharlequin]

SO MANY GOOD ONES AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[ilta222]

swamp diety marsha

evieluv's character for artfight

[feefal]

Torn between life and death

[animentality]