Happy Halloween Motherfuckera

Fuckit, I’ve decided its Halloween everyday on this blog

[fangorn-forest]

vampire vs. skeleton. what's the vampire gonna do? suck blood the skeleton doesn't have?? on the other hand werewolf vs. skeleton would not be so good. all those bones.

[keepcalmandcarriefischer]

Its like Halloween rock paper scissors

[sunbakery]

[catchymemes]

[whatthewhat]

Go and find/buy as many USBs as you can. Hide them, in the toilet, taped under a desk, inside lampshades, in vents, in vases, in your damn underwear. Hide as many as you can. Then swallow the real one.

[hamletthedane]

Americans: If anybody is telling you not to vote or to not vote Democrat on tumblr in the next few weeks, just assume they’re bots trying to throw the election.

register to vote

[hamletthedane]

I remember I made a Go Vote! post during the last election, and it had about a thousand comments from well-established blogs telling me my post was “stupid centrist bullshit” or “the typical Democrat response - you can’t fight fascism just by voting.” When the list of Russian bots was revealed, I discovered 90%+ of those comments were from election interference bots. They looked and spoke like real users and made compelling points, but they were trying to ensure the far-right would take the election.

The chances are fairly high that tumblr will again be infiltrated by people trying to throw the election. I’m sure this time it will look like a lot of “I went and voted but we still got Biden” or “Biden secretly changed the student debt relief plan! He’s no better than the GOP!” (incidentally: this is not true, or at least it’s a VERY poor framing of what happened).

Even if the person saying that kind of stuff isn’t a bot, they may be consuming and spreading interference propaganda.

Stay vigilant, check sources, don’t believe the framing of issues by random tumblr blogs, and again: register to vote

[jhscdood]

anyone who tries to tell you that voting is pointless is TRYING TO SUPPRESS YOUR VOTE

[noctumsolis]

There was literally a huge Russian psyop on this site doing that before. We all got emails from tumblr telling us about it later. This is a thing that actually happened not long ago.

You are not immune to psyops

[liberalsarecool]

Capitalism is broken and incapable of fixing itself. The only solution is labor solidarity.

[incel-moved-deactivated20210803]

[company]

half of this website should learn this

[thejohncarver]

Shut the fuck up

[company]

[brawltogethernow]

It's fine to want nothing to do with Harry Potter now that JKR is being regularly and publicly terrible (I'm listing that way myself even though I don't want to because the association is just overpoweringly distasteful), but seeing the shift in how people discuss HP on this website to be like, "It seems obvious to me that this franchise was always poorly constructed, derivative drek littered with red flags anybody would notice with a cursory glance - there's absolutely nothing genuinely appealing about it." ...That's just very funny, sorry. Like yes that is unfortunately not how the relationship between a person's moral character and their skills works, but mostly I was alive and had a developed consciousness between 2000 and 2008, so I cannot take this seriously. It wasn't the biggest literature phenomenon of recent times because it had a uniquely strong marketing strategy, guys.

[harocat]

The books are well written with engaging characters, great worldbuilding, and a story that captured people like no other. There is literally no overestimating the phenom the books were. And no the movies did not make it. They were MASSIVE even before the films. Before the films even came out, the NYT made a separate children's bestseller list because a ton of people complained that 'kid's books' were taking up too many sports on the NYT bestsellers lists. It's honestly ridiculous to argue that HP's popularity was made by the movies. Come on.

And the thing about red flags, is that most things that are legitimately problematic in the books are fantasy staples. JKR didn't invent the anti-semitic portrayal of goblins. It's an old as hell trope that's in countless fantasy stories. The house elves were based on Brownie folklore, even down to the tradition of their freedom coming from a piece of clothing being given to them. People were not talking a lot about the casual transphobia in doing things like describing Rita Skeeter's hands as 'mannish' because casual transphobia was so ubiquitous that it was the norm, and that transphobia was often actively violent. I just don't think it crossed many people's minds that 'wow JKR described Rita Skeeter's hands as mannish once in the year 2000, so I think she's probably a T*RF.' And this doesn't make it okay, and it doesn't mean these aspects of the books aren't problematic! But it does mean that like, no it wasn't 'so obvious' even to MANY progressive minded people. And I also don't think it makes her a terrible person. What makes her a terrible person is what she's doing NOW.

The idea that they've 'always been awful' and we 'should have known' is really and actually just... kind of cowardly? Instead of acknowledging that unfortunately yes, bad people can make good things, people are taking the easy way out and going 'well obviously a bad person makes bad art. it's ALWAYS been bad, and my brain is so huge I know this', because god forbid we have a more nuanced view and don't see the world in the most simplistic terms possible. It sucks when bad people make good art, but you're not special for not ever liking Harry Potter.

[largishcat]

also like…. as a trans person who adored harry potter—because god what little baby queer DOESN’T daydream about escaping their terrible mundane home life for a world where they can have friends and adventures—these takes are really frustrating. like why are you calling ME stupid because SHE betrayed a whole swathe of her fanbase. like you’re really using the heartbreak and hurt of thousands of trans hp fans as an opportunity for internet clout? you must really care about trans people

[halloweenmagick]

[rednines]

[marril96]

Fandoms lately.

[dsudis]

This is

LITERALLY

What the “dead dove do not eat” tag/warning means

For the record.

It’s not about the darkness of the content!

It’s about “did you read the tags? I am not joking about the content, that is what you’re getting, don’t cry to me about it if you thought it would somehow be something else.”

[fxa]

[ryebreadgf]

[wytchcore]

Transcript:

I’m about to expose the men. Whenever you ask a man’s height, he’ll add an inch. So if he’s 6 foot, he’ll say he’s 6’1 and if he’s 6’2, he’ll say he’s 6’3.

Not me though. I subtract 4. I say I’m 5’9. Especially when there’s other men in the room. And then I just watch them panic. Not only have you exposed his lie, but now he thinks he’s 5’3.

What I do is not a crime, but it should be.

[aegissi]

I have to admit. I am not living la vida loca

[toastpotent-deactivated20250619]

alright here's today's controversial post. a good amount of you on here will be like "english was my favorite subject 😍😍😍" and then reblog posts like "here is why sex scenes CAN'T have symbolism" and "stop consuming media with toxic characters" like okay so what were you doing in your english classes then. cause it apparently wasn't learning or analyzing. i'm pretty sure it was doodling pictures of eyes.

[caesarsaladinn]

I sometimes see people tag their reblogs of strongly worded posts with “I don’t understand this but I’ll reblog it because it seems important,” and guys, that is exactly the worst thing to do

[caesarsaladinn]

Just because somebody sounds righteously outraged does not mean their opinions are good, and if you signal boost everybody who sounds that way, you become incredibly easy to manipulate.

[logarto]

entranced recently not by “i can fix him” or “i can make him worse” but the “something deeply wrong with him and i want to be around as like a spectator when the car crash inevitably happens” dynamic

[impiousphyrne-deactivated202402]

[demonladytakkuri]

Hope people who know nothing about death note understand the human boy is the deeply unhinged one in this duo.

[profetens-apenbaring]

I know nothing about death note except for they all need help. I see

[fingerlickinbutch-deactivated20]

The basic premise of Death Note is “nobody here is a good person, so just watch them play weird (and sometimes vaguely homoerotic) mind games with each other”

[1966magazine]

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