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Where I post pictures to inspire my homebrewn space opera setting and sometimes talk about it.. If I reblog one of your original creations (species, characters, etc) it is in no way meant to appropriate them but because they inspire something for what I'm working on here. I am of course all ears if you'd rather I took it down. Species and cultures The setting My own art

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Reblogs in a chain now get their own notes

The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve. 

Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.

If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.

Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.

This is just the beginning. More changes are coming as we keep building this out – stay tuned!

[changes]

It’s very clear that you all have strong feelings about Tumblr and about this change. We hear you. The passion people have for how Tumblr works is one of the things that makes this place special.

As this rolls out over the next few days and you explore it, we’ll keep reading your replies and reblogs, so please keep sharing your questions, concerns, and ideas.

Your creativity has always been the heart of Tumblr, whether you’re the original poster or adding something brilliant in the reblogs, and nothing about this change is meant to limit that.

If you’d like to talk directly beyond the comments, leave a reply and we’ll follow up with as many of you as we can. We want to work with you to make Tumblr better.

[icannotgetoverbirds]

hey folks do we like this. reblog without commentary for reach

do we want this?

yes

no

Voting ended onMar 23

[downwithpeople]

I have one of the most advanced prosthetic arms in the world — and I hate it

Being a cyborg is cool right now, thanks in large part to gee-whiz media coverage. But actually using a bionic arm can really suck.

[theplantqueer]

...the media’s coverage of these new kinds of prosthetics is so focused on the initial joy or incredulity — on the idea that “lives are changed” — that they forget to ask if these hands are actually useful and what happens in the weeks and months after the unboxing.

The media narrative, says James Young — husband of Ashley and a cyborg himself — is designed to be reassuring to people: If you happen to, God forbid, lose your arm, “they” can replace it. “People want to make sure that the technology is out there that can remake you as you are right now,” he says.

For Alexis Hillard, the creator of the YouTube channel “Stump Kitchen,” the obsession with cyborgs is “continuing to drive that wedge between disenfranchised disabled people and those with money and power, creating a new ‘desirable disabled person.’”

[writingwithcolor]

A good read for our followers writing amputee characters in contemporary or speculative fiction settings.

As always, take this not as a message to "stop writing cyborgs/advanced prosthetics ever," but rather to read and center disabled perspectives, understand your motivations, and trace your logic.

- Writing With Color

[escuerzoresucitado]

[pazzesco]

Screw the cracker, Polly wants to ride...

Let's ROLL my  Psittacoidea Bitches!

Notice how Polly breaks and checks for traffic. That's why parrots live so long.

[identitty-dickruption]

my utopia has disability in it. my utopia includes free healthcare and no-questions welfare and state-funded carers. my utopia includes building requirements that centre disabled bodies — ramps and lifts and dimmer switches and braille signs. my utopia has disability in it. because without disability, it’s not much of a utopia at all

[identitty-dickruption]

we have to give ourselves permission to imagine disabled futures. we’ve been told, either implicitly or explicitly that we shouldn’t exist, so it becomes hard to imagine a perfect world populated with people like us. but loving ourselves and our communities is about being able to imagine a future that has us in it. there is a perfect world where people are happily disabled. and that’s what I’m fighting for — the chance that we can slowly take steps towards that world. imagine disabled futures

[glux2]

Thinking about this joke from Malcolm in the middle where Hal and Dewey are building a lego city, Hal asks Dewey why aren't there schools, Dewey replies something like "there is no need, everyone is born knowing everything they need" Hal muses about Dewey making their city a "utopia", then Dewey adds something like "And they eat everybody who is born dumb".

Eventually this subplot culminates in Dewey turning his city into a fascist police state.

That's essentially the writers spelling out what a utopia fantasy where things like disabilities don't exist implies: Eugenics and a Slippery slope to fascism.

[swirlingflight]

“For example: A writer sets out to write science fiction but isn’t familiar with the genre, hasn’t read what’s been written. This is a fairly common situation, because science fiction is known to sell well but, as a subliterary genre, is not supposed to be worth study—what’s to learn? It doesn’t occur to the novice that a genre is a genre because it has a field and focus of its own; its appropriate and particular tools, rules, and techniques for handling the material; its traditions; and its experienced, appreciative readers—that it is, in fact, a literature. Ignoring all this, our novice is just about to reinvent the wheel, the space ship, the space alien, and the mad scientist, with cries of innocent wonder. The cries will not be echoed by the readers. Readers familiar with that genre have met the space ship, the alien, and the mad scientist before. They know more about them than the writer does. In the same way, critics who set out to talk about a fantasy novel without having read any fantasy since they were eight, and in ignorance of the history and extensive theory of fantasy literature, will make fools of themselves because they don’t know how to read the book. They have no contextual information to tell them what its tradition is, where it’s coming from, what it’s trying to do, what it does. This was liberally proved when the first Harry Potter book came out and a lot of literary reviewers ran around shrieking about the incredible originality of the book. This originality was an artifact of the reviewers’ blank ignorance of its genres (children’s fantasy and the British boarding-school story), plus the fact that they hadn’t read a fantasy since they were eight. It was pitiful. It was like watching some TV gourmet chef eat a piece of buttered toast and squeal, ‘But this is delicious! Unheard of! Where has it been all my life?’”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, Genre: A Word Only a Frenchman Could Love (via queenofattolia)

[ecology-of-the-inhuman]

[ephemeralhorror]

why are cyberpunk tabletop things so obsessed with decency and personhood being tied to how many surgeries you haven’t had

[ephemeralhorror]

“if you have a prosthetic it takes out a part of your soul” like thanks shadowrun

[rlyehtaxidermist]

in early cyberpunk, the point was more along the lines of “if we integrate technology into our bodies we risk becoming dependent upon the people and institutions who control that technology, who would then use that to enrich themselves at our expense”

unfortunately that was too anti-corporate for American mainstream culture so as cyberpunk moved out of its niche it became “uhhh it eats your soul I guess”

[the960writers]

tags by @rubyvroom: 

#this is important context #if you weren’t around at the time it is easy to miss but #anti-corporate sentiment was pretty much the lynchpin of cyberpunk until there were movies and games making money off it #it was the 1980s you guys #the entire point was that corporations are evil and technology should be used to circumvent them and escape their control over our lives #and not be used to make ourselves into another product #now that the internet is entirely monetized and corporate it’s harder to remember that originally it was synonymous w freedom & independence

Yes, exactly. Cyberpunk is anti-corporations, not anti-body-modification.

[drneverland]

Cyberpunk then: corporations are the enemy!

Cyberpunk ™ now: what if disabled people with prosthetics were treated like monsters? (Also, they are cops)

[moodystimmy-deactivated20200602]

demiboy post-apocalyptic moodboard for anon

[chumpodile]

Funny test tube designs. Which one do you like?

[brutgroup]

#BRUTgroup moment. Photo: unknown https://www.instagram.com/p/B6jOFlVlCHC/?igshid=68dexqzroygg

[rabbiedavisart]

Help Pls

Hey hello. I'm struggling right now with food and transportation, and I've got -58 in the bank. I really have nothing rn. Any help appreciated.

Paypal: [email protected]

Cash/Venmo: ask

[forgotn1]

Hey. Where’s the anarchist geneticists who are trying to fuck with tree DNA to increase their size and ability to produce oxygen? 

[ecopunkwriter]

(To-do list: learn genetics)

[70sscifiart]

David Mattingly

[toastoat]

[toastoat]

i posted this on fb and got into a little discussion with somebody 💅💅💅☠️

[eggsforeyes]

share the discussion op

[toastoat]

[toastoat]

[unwisealistair]

“There won’t be a puddle you can sail in between here and Nova Scotia except the River Styx.”

That is way too metal of a line to of come from a joke argument on Facebook about the difference between privateers and pirates.

[brucesterling]

*Seems to be a Tokyo video game arcade parlor named after the Kowloon Walled City.  

“Anata No Warehouse (Kowloon City Arcade) about 13km from Tokyo International Airport. Might wanna add this joint to your itinerary, closing forever Nov 17th.”

[duvad]