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I'm begging you
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one of my uniform swap posts got assigned a ''Mature Community Label'' completely without my knowledge.
No e-mail or notif to let me know, and there's no longer a "review flagged posts" tab for me to quickly check and contest an arbitrary label.
and what that does, apparently, is not just hide that one post, (which if it were actually mature fair enough) it sticks this extremely misleading overlay over my whole blog. One that makes it seem as though a decent number of my posts are mature enough as to need a warning before you even look.
You know, instead of one (incorrectly labelled) mature post out of over 300.
and when you click to view blog, the individual post is STILL HIDDEN ANYWAY??
I dunno, it's just exhausting. As soon as I think I've sorted one tumbl """quirk""" another pops up to teach me not to get so cocky.
(Also. If I open up a ticket and try to reply to the e-mail support sends me:
Come on guys.)
#COME ON TUMBLR#I know it's not the same as being marked 'expIicit' but it ain't grand#Like I got no message at all to let me know that THEY added a community label to my post??#and I can't even e-mail them cos it automatically gets bounced#tumblr issues#Like also I'd VAGUELY understand if a number of my posts got a label added - irritating but consistent#But THIS is arbitrary#FROTHING AT THE MOUTH#mickules#mick text
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BOO!
oh sorry….come in…..hello…welcome to my halloween party ^_^ feel free to take a piece of candy and a goodie bag before you go okay? have a fun (and nostalgic) halloween season!!
#seems like many people related to this i hope some of yall click the og post now <3#originally this post said i dont need therapy i need to be 8 years old at halloween again#kora.txt#gritting my teeth white knuckle gripping the edge of the table. Yeah No Its Fine.#the things i will never experience again haunt me…#8 is arbitrary. anything before like. 15. would work.
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*for the purposes of this poll, "ears pierced" refers to a "standard" lobe piercing, in the middle of the lobe
i'm asking b/c everyone i grew up with who was AFAB got their ears pierced at birth, but i know it's not universal!
#sb and l rambles#polls#idk if these buckets make any sense -- they are basically totally arbitrary#the first bucket being 0 to 5 years is intended to be ''ages where it's generally the parent's choice''
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i think we as a society have to become comfortable again with the idea that even the best of us are sometimes just petty little bitches who don’t like certain things for completely arbitrary and/or personal reasons
#like you don't need a moral imperative to dislike something#in fact most likes/dislikes are completely subjective and arbitrary and don't really have a moral dimension!!#like it's ok to just be a hater!!!#text
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Could I request Medic having The Mom Grip on Scout’s shoulder after the speedy moron almost let a mercenary secret slip while they weee getting groceries?
Three Europeans and two Americans walk into a grocery store in New Mexico.
I hope this is the right meme.
More silliness below.
This comic is the antithesis of the "wtf is a kilometre" joke.
The faces they make when they can't quite identify the type of brown bread in the bread aisle.
You don't know how [insert nationality here] you are until you go overseas and things are different.
Spy obviously has no problems with pretending to know how much a gallon of milk is, he just peeks into his conversion chart notes, pretending it's his shopping list.
I want to think Heavy is completely fine with having to readjust to a new unit system, he just eyeballs most practical things anyways by holding them up and mumbling about how they approximately weigh like a chicken or his kettle bell etc. He's always been living in practical ignorant bliss.
Medic has a peer reviewed meltdown the first time he realises there's no uniformity in "a cup of ____" because every object has different densities. He's diligent about memorising the conversion rates for ounces, pounds, the most common things etc., and recovers ok. He goes through the same stages of grief rage when he finds out about distances and lengths.
Just remember four inches are 10.16 cm and pray no one asks you to specify anything bigger than inches.
Everyone does a mental victory lap when they manage to guess how much Celsius the weather is because they keep forgetting it's Celsius*5/9+32=Fahrenheit, Engineer reminds them patiently.
The true victories are the correct temperature guesses we've made along the way.
One time, a friend asked me if I actually knew how much a tablespoon of flour was in gramms to convince me that metric users also make use of volume based units without thinking about them. But little did she know a heaped spoonful of 405 flour is about 15g and a level tablespoon is 10g.
They claim Oolong just tastes better when it's boiled to 80°C exactly with a Bunsen burner.
You only asked for one scene but somehow I came up with a bunch of other things. This post was drawn across 2 months so the artstyle is all over the place. Thanks for your ask!
#team fortress 2#tf2#tf2 medic#tf2 scout#tf2 spy#tf2 heavy#tf2 soldier#Medic's reaction to a stick of butter is 100% based on my own reaction after reading an American recipe for the first time#Like I didn't know butter in America came in this normed stick-form I genuinely thought it was some arbitrary unit like ??? A Stick??#As in I didn't know if the recipe required the butter to be in this specific shape; like sometimes you have to add butter in shaves or molt#no biggie lemme whittle away at my butter block until it's shaped like a stick? And then I learnt it was the portions that butter comes in#Cut me some slack; I'm used to recipes using eggs as the scale-up ingredient; not butter#I also learnt that medical labels is where metric units are mostly encountered simply because medicine is international#But that is the main reason why I think Medic would not realise he'd have to deal with imperial units until he goes grocery shopping#The man's just been ignoring the “oz” information right below everything he's ever used; out of sight out of mind#I want to think Engi is the most normal person about the entire metric-imperial-units thing he just does some mental arithmetic and done#King just learned système international d'unités during one of his 11 phds; it's not unrealistic
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#to be fair a cap is arbitrary#like what if its one of those flicky caps huh what then#anya is valid#my art#spy x family#loid forger#anya forger#sxf#my comic#spy x family art#spy x family comic#sxf art#sxf comic
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Emotional scene from Muppets Star Trek.
#star trek#muppets#data tng#picard#tng#kermit#fan art#next gen#okay so like…#this is obviously mostly intended as a joke but also#human is arbitrary#especially in star trek where every other planet seems to have its own sapient nonhuman species#human is fucking arbitrary#data holds humanhood as the ideal because he was built by humans#but also because the qualities that are most often used to define him as 'lesser' are qualities that humans especially seem to prize#nobody's tries to claim that vulcans aren't real people because they don't feel emotion#or that ferengi don't show enough empathy to qualify#we don't get any betazoids going around saying that true personhood is defined by how good you are at mindreading#in a world where the enterprise was crewed by muppets#and data genuinely was the closest thing to a human onboard#Measure Of A Man would have been about Picard trying to prove that you can't have someone dismantled#just because they can't sing or travel by map
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Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But, in fact, they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. History jeers at the attempts of physiologists to bind great original laws by the forms which flow from them. They make a rule; they say from observation what can and cannot be. In vain! Nature provides exceptions to every rule. She sends women to battle, and sets Hercules spinning; she enables women to bear immense burdens, cold, and frost; she enables the man, who feels maternal love, to nourish his infant like a mother. Of late she plays still gayer pranks. Not only she deprives organizations, but organs, of a necessary end. She enables people to read with the top of the head, and see with the pit of the stomach. Presently she will make a female Newton, and a male Syren. Man partakes of the feminine in the Apollo, woman of the Masculine as Minerva. Let us be wise and not impede the soul. Let her work as she will. Let us have one creative energy, one incessant revelation. Let it take what form it will, and let us not bind it by the past to man or woman, black or white. Jove sprang from Rhea, Pallas from Jove. So let it be.
— "The Great Lawsuit" by Margaret Fuller (1843)
#genuinely impressed that this ostensibly cishet woman in 1843!#is more aware of the arbitrariness of the binary & how the gender binary is inherently tied to patriarchy than some modern queer feminists#m.#quotes#the great lawsuit
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finally watched all of Hazbin, definitely cried a bit at Episode 7 and sent Morgana a tearful message
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#damn what if you were in a community of people who got shit on a lot by authorities for arbitrary but moralised reasons#and people in that community looked up to you and expected you to inspire and lead them#but you didn't feel ready or entitled to do that#cause a lot of the reason they look up to you is privilege and you just want to lend a hand not flex on people#and you're a queer woman and people look down on you for that#but you're all under threat and the need is dire#so you have to find your courage and stop being so self-critical and just try to do good for the people you love#that's crazy how they put me in the show#they shouldn't be allowed to put me in the show#charlie morningstar#Transgender Princess of Hell#Hazbin Hotel#Youtube
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Ok as someone with a longstanding special interest in scooby doo, I feel qualified to pitch an actual "real" reboot. They're poly, in a qpr, and instead of solving random mysteries, people come to them to help solve crimes that the police have brushed off. They're Benoit Blanc except they're four people and they have a dog. Scooby can still talk, somehow
#stupid flighty bullshit#scooby doo#the core defining trait of scooby doo has always been the gang's love for each other!!#whether its romantic or platonic that is a found family right there and creating arbitrary drama between them is just stupid!!#like if you want to make a realistic version of scooby doo you could do soooo much better than that mess of a show!!!
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love that goodsir is consistently better at killing than at curing anyone. like i understand there really wasn't much he could do abt the scurvy or the lead poisoning or anything but. truly he does have a godawful track record. lives saved on this expedition: -12
#number is arbitrary bc i dont want to count mutineers. but it does include jacko#the terror#love & light to mr goodsir tbc. love this for him
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anyway does anyone ever think abt how lonely the chosen are.
how ketheric does everything for his family but he is the only one really left. everything in his home and everyone he loves are either dead or twisted by the shadow curse that kills everything there anyway. isobel, the daughter he had being doing Everything for, ran from him when she found out what he had become to save her
how gortash was always too smart for his own good that he was cast out and sold like damaged goods by his own parents . he was sold to the hells where nobody is your friend . he is the chosen of bane, representing the sphere of tyranny and subjugation, in which nobody is your friend. he has the entire city under his thumb either through fear or his charm and the brittle, tense partnership with ketheric and orin and yet he has no true allies (except the durge arguably but. theyre either gone or dont remember him) . how he Seeks Out the equal partnership with tav/amnesiac durge which to me seems So antithetical to banes sphere- i cant imagine theyre too fond of sharing- in a way that fascinates me so much
how orin is a bhaalspawn that has never been good enough. never pure enough. she has always been second best, the childish girl to durges mastery. how she does everything for sarevok and for bhaal she has nothing but her family and that temple. no matter how much she devotes herself to them she is only ever looked upon by her only loved ones with hatred and contempt. orin whos own mother attacked her on sarevoks orders. orin who is unwanted wherever she goes no matter how hard she tries to be the very best
the dark urge, too. durge who is a tool, a vessel and instrument for their fathers will. when sarevok says 'you belong to bhaal. he manifests within you' . how theyre shackled to bhaal and kept from everything else. the first people they ever killed were their family. even in the temple, with their True family, durge is alienated from orin and sarevok by virtue of being made and not born, not connected to their shared bloodline. durge who is constantly pushed onto a pedestal by those in the temple through their divinity and purity and has never had a true peer to stand beside before gortash. durge who is so so cut off from other people and intimacy and who is forced to kill everyone they get close to or love by their father and the urge. durge who is an object for bhaals use, unafforded the mortal luxury of real connection
deeply deeply interested by how they are all such powerful and influential characters and yet all have such a strong theme of isolation. :(
#the chosen being my favourite characters in this game is my cross to bear unfortunately. Who the fuck are the tadpole gang#bg3#baldur's gate 3#ketheric thorm#enver gortash#lord enver gortash#orin the red#the dark urge#the durge#durge#the chosen#sunny speaks#sunny thinks#<- Kind of. my tagging system is beautiful and arbitrary like that#bg3 spoilers
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win for bisexuals everywhere
#i love this drawing meme#more poly relationships NOW#gay people#my art#digital art#art#digital circus#jagapom#jax x ragatha x pomni#tadc ragatha#tadc jax#tadc fanart#tadc pomni#i love how their colors make the bisexual flag. kinda arbitrary since ragatha is also quite lilac and pomni has a lot of red#but jax is purple and gangle is red so having rags be pink and pomni be blue makes sense#draw your ot3#tadc shipping
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Reading tweets from the menswear guy on Twitter is fun when he’s pointing out everything wrong with some jerk’s wardrobe, but it’s also a bit disheartening when he does an aside about how well-made suits are constructed with layers to create a particular silhouette that is not dependent upon the wearer’s body, and then also tailoring is getting rarer these days. He continually exhorts people to think about shape and silhouette and fabric, which is good advice for anyone putting on clothes, not just men and not just suit-wearers.
Once upon a time people created a fashionable silhouette with their clothing, and their corporeal forms remained mysterious to most. No doubt everyone harbored the same insecurities we do today (except for any related to social media) but by golly, their blood wasn’t full of microplastics and their clothing wasn’t just straight-up plastic. They actually had fabric to work with, instead of going to a department store and finding out that corners are being cut again and they have to layer seven shirts to keep warm.
Anyway, fashion isn’t real. The clothing people sell these days is poor quality polyester junk. I should make more internet pirate shirts and add them to my wardrobe. My silhouette will be Poofy. My vibe will be Romance Novel Heroine (In A Man’s Shirt For Some Reason, Also Where Is The Other Heroine). I will eventually be able to reliably sew straight lines and one day move on to different lines. Perhaps one day I’ll knit my own socks. Maybe I’ll get sheep and farm-to-table the wool (I am not going to do this)
#i like to daydream about being a simple sheep farmer but in real life that sounds hard#anyway sorry for the disorganized post sometimes i just say things#i do not actually want a romance novel life i want to avoid arbitrary plot-necessary obstacles
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are ppl ever gonna realize that tagging me in posts purely for the sake of visibility/boosting isn’t gonna work most of the time? i’m a person not a clout machine
#not a car id#like i know a lot of those are someone being like ‘if i hit x notes i’ll do this good thing for myself’#which i have mixed feelings about in general#but like a lot of the time by the time i see it they’ve already hit whatever arbitrary number they were looking for#and also i just feel really weird having the responsibility of a stranger on the internet’s well being dumped on me
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