I keep seeing like 5 different ways that people are wanting to help tumblr, change tumblr or fight against tumblr and I have still yet to see anyone make any concrete ideas as to what it is people are supposed to do in order to keep the site from being monetized & become something it's not.
If the site does not pay off it's debt, it will eventually cease to exist. If you don't petition for change, it will continue to label queer bodies as mature and sexual, continue to remove BIPOC folk from it's premise and continue to allow white supremacists to infiltrate this site.
So what's the options? What are we supposed to do? How are we supposed to change a site without everyone sitting down and actually talking about what change means and how to get there?
I see so many people just tossing out ideas that in theory do work in one way or another, but might not fix all the problems so there HAS to be something that can fix things without disenfranchising half the communities on this site?
There's so many "don't do this, this hurts these people and now your a horrible person for suggesting this thing." When most the people on this site have no idea who most of each other are and why or how it would effect people.
Give actual insight as to what could be done to get Staff to pick up their fucking big boy pants and do their job. Going around and telling people that they are horrible people for trying to suggest a solution or the people who share those solutions in an attempt to help isn't going to help anyone.
This isn't aimed at one post or idea in particular either, I've seen NUMEROUS ideas floating around that in theory could work for one thing or another and all there is, is people shooting these ideas down without actually backing up with something that might work.
Half the people on this site are children who have no idea how websites work on a corporate level, the other half are adults who've been on this site since they were children and just want the site to stay online and not disappear. There's disabled people who need this site (I'm one of them) to keep having a social life, there's artists who need this site to contuse having any form of recognition, there's writers who've got their entire portfolio on here and people who's entire blogs are dedicated to helping queer and trans kids learn about themselves and communities dedicated to finding people like themselves so they don't feel so alone in this world.
So what is it? What are we supposed to do? Without money the site fades away, with strikes you completely disenfranchise entire groups of people, without fighting against the staffs changes, current policies and lack of care about the white supremacists and TERFS that run rampant then people are still going to get harassed, reported into the ground and completely removed from the site for no reasons at all.
So if you have any fucking ideas then please actually tell people because at this point, everyone's trying to not get people to do one thing or another and yet no one is backing up these ideas with actual action that will work.
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A Lil Snootles Ranty Rant Time
Hoo boy I need to rant for a minute so everyone relax and just go with this, okay? Don't gotta read or say anything, I just need this out
I am at a really weird point in time right now.
I dropped out of college in September, I started working full time a couple months later, and I will be working full time until at least August. Which is when I plan on going back to school.
But like, I'm still working on figuring out everything I need for my future career. I'm working towards being an aquarist (basically a zookeeper but for an aquarium), and there's a lot of moving parts there in terms of what I need in order to even be considered/eligible for a job position.
I need to sign up for swim lessons this year, and I need to get my scuba certification. Neither are a requirement until I am ready to apply to different positions, but they'll only help me with school and internship opportunities. Which that's like a whole 'nother can of worms I am not prepared to deal with for the time being.
There's a woman at work who used to work with sea lions and she gave me some really good information and said I can contact her whenever. Which is great! I need to ask her what exactly she did, if she was an animal keeper with the sea lions or something else, what schooling she had before then (which I'm assuming and it was implied on she had a marine biology degree of some sort)
Anyways, what I've been avoiding saying is that I am just really overwhelmed with all this, I guess? Like I know it's gonna be a long process, which is better, but I still feel rushed, almost?
I just feel a certain amount of pressure to have all this shit figured out and like soon. I know I need to have an answer on going back to school by the summer so I can register for classes and stuff, and it'd be nice to have swim lessons already in the works before then.
I'm in my early twenties and I work full time. Honestly, I'm in a position that I really want my life to get a move on. I want to meet people and do fun stuff, I want to start dating, I want to put effort into my appearance this year. I don't know, I feel like physically I'm in a great spot for a relationship, and mentally I'm the best I've been for like 3 years now.
But I have to keep reminding myself that I'm only 21, I have time a plenty to figure this whole life thing out. I have time to figure out my career and finish schooling for it. I have time to find a partner. I have time to get stable enough financially to move out of the house.
I'm still just impatient, I guess?
It doesn't help that I still have like no social life. Especially since dropping out. I had a somewhat social life before when I was still in school, but I wasn't mentally in a good place so I rarely pursued being social.
But now I am in a good place. I've gotten past the point of needing my "weekend" to be a recovery period. I can do a bunch of shit over these two days and not feel exhausted, and can still start a new work week feeling pretty good.
I'm overwhelmed by all this but at the same time I'm not because I'm ready to get shit done. I'm ready to take the next step forward in life.
But I can't right now. It'll take so much time for all of this, and right now, I keep getting anxious about the future. I don't know, I'm struggling to put some of this into words.
I feel so silly being this distraught about life because I'm only 21 but I am.
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