tumblrs being transphobic, with the ceo himself starting an actual harassment campaign against a transfem & also banning transfems who post abt it.

Oh shit, I had not heard about that.

I would like to say I don’t understand why this shit keeps happening, but I actually do understand it way too well. It just makes me so sad and angry. Especially on a site where people find and make their communities.

So much of this is about ego, and the people with power wielding that power to protect themselves and failing to protect others with it. A mere hint of negative sentiment towards them is harassment that is dealt with immediately and harshly, but a dozen complaints about discrimination or threats or bullying take ages to process and frequently come to unsatisfactory moderation decisions.

Whatever the sentiments of the people running this hellsite, you are always welcome in my corner of the internet, wherever you find it. You are all wonderful, and we all deserve to feel that part of this space belongs to us and those to whom we can connect.

Transphobia has no place on tumblr, period. Or anywhere else in society for that matter. It is that which should be being rooted out.

truly i don't care who thinks it's stupid or boring or "doesn't count" or can't be as intense as what they think of as "real whump" or whatever else, whump with comfort and recovery and caretaker(s) is always going to be my style of whump and i'm gonna have a blast vibing with people who also enjoy that

i think. for spot being in love is the biggest and most unexpected thing in the world to him he didn't expect it he doesn't quite believe it's real he can't get over it. and for race it's another tuesday. and this means that race says I love you first because it's not hard for him and race says it more often because it's not hard for him and race says it more casually because it's not hard for him but spot says it and feels it from his head to his toes and there are not three words in the English language that mean more to him than "I love you" to say. or to hear.

they gave Mizu a nice voice and beautiful hands and I was somehow supposed to NOT fall in love????? trickery

finally finished all of one character's entire quests/optional dialogue/questions/etc.... 100,000 words... .... aughhh

so fucking upset. i looked up what's considered concerning weight loss and got a statistic. i looked up the same question but specified teens and i got a bunch of articles about how to lose weight. what the fuck

Sure, Cassidy is good when he’s drafted into blackwatch, but it’s all brute force and instinct; tension that will wear him away in the long run

And Reyes doesn’t care, doesn’t have the time to, really. Not when it still works and his own body allows him to disregard technique and finesse- they can learn later, now they have to do

So it’s Ana who steps in, her legs folded under her and rifle rested against her knees, her hands strong and nimble while she cleans it. Movements like water and waves. “Lower your shoulders or you’ll wreck them.”

The end of his barrel and his cigar send twin towers of smoke into the air and he has to look up at her, perched over the training range. “Cap’n?”

“And stop doing spins. It adds flair but lowers accuracy, and this is no joke or fair.” She is looking at him in a way few people will ever do again, makes him want to bristle at critique and yet making him unable to.

It carries him, through smoke and gunfire and heartbreak and decay. Her hands over his while Peacekeeper clicks apart, the nooks and crannies you have to reach, or dirt will build up.

“You make it look so easy,” he says and feels equal parts pride and shame at how raw the words sound.

Her face moves, lines that weren’t there a year ago, a month, a week. She hands back his gun. “You shouldn’t have to fight this hard.”

And then he is alone and she is only alive when he whips around in empty buildings thinking he saw something glint off a scope on a rooftop.

Mostly, he doesn’t think about it, but sometimes he does.

A shot that lands exactly where he wants it and suddenly she is breathing close to his ear. Proud and sad and ingrained into every muscle that makes it possible. He visits her grave only once and finds she isn’t there half as much as she is in his hands, the slope of his shoulders; his body made a graveyard by her kindness

Because uh i'm curious I have few questions

What are your Omori OTPs?

What are your headcanons for each character?

who's your favorite character?

SUNFLOWER!!!! i love sunflower. and heromari. and kimbrey. i loaf them all

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sunny - he is autistic, he is selectively mute, he grew out a mullet, he’s 4’11.5 (but tells everyone he’s 5 feet because being under 5 feet is to embarrassing for him) and uhhhh he knows a lot of useless facts. he’s also a menace on twitter

basil - he is also autistic (me projecting my autism onto everyone), he’s tall, and muscular, he once cried to gee by girls generation, his hair is unnaturally soft, he’s a platonic kisser, and he is vegetarian except for bacon when someone else makes it. he’s german/french.

aubrey - she has piercings that she did herself, gets together with basil to dye her hair, really likes marshmallows, likes kpop (secretly), also likes a lot of punk/rock music, and she’s korean/slavic.

kel - he has adhd, he is actually really smart but a lot of people don’t think he is because of his reputation, weirdly insightful and notices a lot of small details that others don’t. really likes chocolate chip muffins. also his hair is curly. he is brazilian/mexican

hero - he is a TWINK. i don’t care what anyone says he is not muscular at all. he is a noodle guy. he has to have the dishes done before he cooks anything. he likes the dad clothes section of target. he likes water with only one ice cube, his hair is also curlier. exclusively wears low rise converse. same ethnicity as kel :D

mari - she is transgender. no it wouldn’t make sense because of when the game takes place but i believe in trans mari. she has ocd, and she is very soft spoken. dresses like a grandma for comfort. she has a HUGE sweet tooth!!!! she also has a round face and always smiles with her teeth

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my favorite character is basil!!!! he is so silly, and his character is really relatable to me. also apparently i have a thing for blondes. who would’ve guessed

Hi Wawa, I have a question. What is the difference you noticed between what the American-dominant demography of tumblr vs what douyin users tend to fixate on?

Nothing specific coming to mind atm in regard to like, general trends. Maybe one thing is like, Tumblr likes to ask unimportant questions? "Why is THIS THING happening", "Why is THAT there?".

Anal-retentive stuff like that.

Tumblr likes to fixate on missing shoes, for example. It's always "where did her shoe goes", "why's he missing a shoe", "omg the missing shoe". Honestly, nobody on douyin noticed the shoe, or if they did, they didn't care to comment on it. Like who cares where the shoe is? This video is not about how someone's foot got busted up because they were only wearing one shoe. Like this is a silly goofy video, officer, why are you asking so many questions. Etc.

Douyin users like to play "yes and" in the comment section is another point of contrast, I guess. That is, if there's something that can be extrapolated and spectated on, it will be. Scenarios WILL be played out. POVs and thought processes of any character in a video (be it subject, passerby, inanimate object, or external reference) WILL be imagined and assumed.

I'm just spitballing here but I sort of feel like tumblr users don't do that because in general the evolution of the culture on this site makes it impolite to presume things about strangers or assert their POV, even jokingly. Or maybe this comes from IRL sensibilities, idk, seems like it could just be a general American thing (I say, speaking as one).

Hi 💛 I wanted to ask you something, it's been bothering me lately: I've always known that I'm attracted to people regardless of gender. At 15 I called it bisexual. At 17 I started using the label pansexual. Came out as a trans man at 23. I'm now 26 and I'm not sure if bi or pan work for me anymore. I know that I'm still attracted to people regardless of gender, but my experiences as a man in society have made the label gay resonate a lot more with me. Is that okay? What does this mean? Confused

It means whatever you want it to mean. People all across the queer community have used "gay" as shorthand for decades now (maybe including queer people you love). If you just don't vibe with bi/pan on their own, then you don't have to have them on their own. There's nothing wrong with being bi or pan, but there's also nothing wrong with feeling like that doesn't quite encapsulate your relationship with your queerness.

Basically:

hate teacher.

so angry.

he told me my 6 months worth of work has to be scrapped and entirely redone in 2 weeks. thats literally impossible. i am the tiniest inconvenience away from having an entire meeting with him to read him a 5 page essay on how he has been of no help this entire semester and last and how he has done nothing but inconvenience me all year.

hes seen the work many times before but only brought up the issue now. 2 weeks before a progress report. He told me the thing hes been having me work on for an entire month cant be part of my progress report because its not specific enough.

IF THIS WAS GOING TO BE A PROBLEM HE WOULD HAVE ALREADY KNOWN AND HE SHOULD HAVE TOLD ME BEFORE I WAS 6 MONTHS IN.

he blatantly holds favoritism as every other student (they all happen to be cis men) get all the help in the world yet i get no help at all and when he tells me i have to scrap all my work he doesnt even point me in the right direction just says redo it you have 2 weeks.

this is a group project but every other group is doing one project with all people working together yet mine is doing one project each person meaning i cant even get assistance. two of the people in my group HAVE NOT SPOKEN A WORD TO ME SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR.

he is also needlessly rude. instead of just politely saying there might be an issue he feels the need to make me feel like an idiot for not realizing it sooner. I am half convinced this man finds joy in publicly humiliating and shaming me in any way possible. You are a grown ass man what the actual fuck. You are in your god damn 50s.

ok babes vibe check:

when (if) i actually get round to posting this bellhands au on here, how would you prefer the information?? as a series of long posts, comprehensively covering one area of the concept (ie, the whole of Hornigold era at once), or shorter posts, that just focus on one specific area of the big picture (ie, the mutiny against Horigold only) (some posts could divide into smaller segments than even that, just a paragraph about who Sams Izzy is, maybe)

i know i tend to ramble a Lot, so i was wondering if smaller posts might help with that and make them more digestible for yall who might read them, but also, is it weird to split up linked information into several posts when it could be one?

i truly believe tiktok is haunted by the devil. occasionally ill go on there for a specific video and be like haha i forgot some of these people are funny!!! and then within literally 5 minutes of scrolling im like maybe i need plastic surgery

I’m the type that can and will cry if think too hard <3

the dustox thing

Okay I'm gonna stop being sassy for a minute and actually talk about this because i dont want people to actually get angry at me. Anyone who is capable of raising a wurmple into a beautifly is capable of raising and managing a dustox. I am not saying this out of malice or contempt, this is basically fact. Let me explain. First things first, wurmple evolve extremely quickly. You barely have to do any training before they build their cocoon, and it's usually only a week or two before they emerge. Despite what some people seem to think, bug pokemon like this don't just lose their survival instincts when you feed them for a little bit. In fact, that's EXACTLY what we do for endangered pokemon. You take in some newborns, protect and raise them, and then set them free. That's like... the entire thing that zoos do. Did you guys's elementary schools not do that thing where you raise some caterpie? Secondly, dustox care is shockingly easily, especially relative to Beautifly. Dustox eat a diet entirely consisting of tree leaves. Unless you live in an area filled entirely with trees that are toxic to bug pokemon, you're not gonna have a hard time raising one. Beautifly actually require a TON of care, because they eat pollen and nectar - which requires a substantial flower population to maintain - and they can get injured if you look at them the wrong way. (Seriously, look at some beauty contest fails online. It's kind of pathetic.) And finally, the poison dust thing. The petalburg woods are filled with hundreds if not thousands of dustox. The petalburg woods are also an extremely common place for children to explore and encounter wild pokemon. Do you know what would make those things completely incompatible? If dustox could poison kids to death just by flying by them. Dustox poison is there to deter predators. Unless youre eating a handful of the stuff (which yes, some teens do and it sends them to the hospital) you aren't going to be hurt by it. So no, a kid who catches a wurmple trying to get a beautifly isn't at risk of death just because the cocoon was purple rather than white. In conclusion, stop catching wurms because you want the flying thing with a bunch of colors. Know what you're doing when you catch a pokemon to raise, and if it matters that much to do just catch a silcoon or fully evolved beautifly.

trick to fun dialogue is just to make it a little hard to understand. maybe thats a cheap trick but i dont care