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my therapist: don’t worry, generic white man murderbot isn’t real, it can’t hurt you
murderbot show:
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everything reminds me of her (boop button)
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always grateful when somebody clarifies that they’re talking about historical european martial arts when they mention HEMA because it always takes me longer than i care to admit they’re not talking about this
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i’m seeing a lot of fear today about Tumblr Shutting Down (Real) (Actually True) today and let peepaw seg tell you a story
i’ve been on this webbed site for fifteen years, believe it or not, since way back in the days of Tumblarity. now i was but a wee lad at the time, so i don’t remember the fine details, but rest assured, it doesn’t matter much for the story i’m about to tell you.
you see, i remember when tumblr was owned by tumblr. folk called its ceo (david karp) “daddy”, and were enthusiastic about his communications, even if on our own blogs, we’d bitch and moan about tumblr making changes to things we were used to. i remember the hubbub when tumblr removed tumblarity, and how this was surely going to be the end of tumblr.
all those fifteen (though it might be sixteen) years ago.
layouts changed, and we’d bitch and moan, and tumblr’d get sold, and we’d know for sure that This Was The End Of Tumblr, For Real This Time. this happened again and again and again, because this webbed site, you see, it makes no money, and companies, greedy things as they are, like money.
the porn ban, under the reign of YaHoo that was, was seen as another death knell. tumblr was going to die, for real, for sure, and i’m not proud to say that i was one of the ones who fell for it. peepaw seg needed to sow hir wild oats on other platforms.
now, i say this happened under yahoo, but it’s important to remember that this ban came in the wake of both the apple app store banning the tumblr app on account of real life csem being hosted on tumblr, and the new usamerican law SESTA-FOSTA being implemented, which made it so that companies such as tumblr would have to moderate the explicit content on them to make sure none of it breached sesta-fosta. tumblr, being a small fish in the grand scheme of thing, didn’t warrant that amount of financial effort on yahoo’s part, as the site was still not making any money, and it’s easier and cheaper to blanket ban than it is to moderate. all this to say, it’s important to vote, because if you don’t, your internet freedom will be curtailed.
and now we’re here, some sixteen years on, and i’ll say automattic has been not all good, but definitely not all bad for the site. they changed stuff we liked to our discontent (layouts), and added stuff we hated (live), but they also gave us stuff we like (polls) and an amount of open communication about tumblr’s inner workings not seen since the days of david “daddy” karp. and now they’re putting just a skeleton crew on the tumblr project.
and that’s going to be The End Of Tumblr For Sure For Real Actually This Time. Really. Promise. Abandon Ship.
and we come to the crux of this story.
which is that this has happened before, and it will happen again, because tumblr is surprisingly immune to making any money.
what we’re likely to see in the coming time is no new features (that’s reserved for projects that make money), and an increase in ads, until one day, and this might be in a few months, and maybe in a few years, there’ll be an announcement that tumblr’s been sold to one direction to a new company.
and we’ll start the whole rigmarole again. and this company might be good for tumblr’s userbase, or it might go against everything the tumblr community holds dear. no way of knowing which way it’ll go.
until one day, some parent company will have had enough, and will pull the plug.
but for now… well, i’m gonna sit here on my porch (blog), and we’ll see what happens. i'm not worried, tumblr’s survived worse things.
#tumblr#but also legit#i've seen some 'oh if you give tumblr money you're a bad leftist' takes before#and like bestie how do you think this website is gonna keep running?#investors aren't going to be interested in a cow that's run out of milk#which leaves ads and data selling and yes user driven income#as far as parent companies go automattic's been decent enough to the userbase#it could be so much worse#automattic#seg.misc
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the murderbot diaries characters as crimes they’d commit 🥰😳
ART: tax evasion
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reading fugitive telemetry (i hadn’t yet) and
(I hate being identified like that. I had gone to a lot of effort to not be immediately identified as a SecUnit, and now it all felt like a waste.) (I grew longer hair and everything.)
mb trans moment
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so as somebody who loved house md as a teen and browsed the edges of the LJ house md fandom i’m definitely not like. mad or anything about the resurgence in popularity, and i am sure that the fandom has been out there since last i looked in that direction, but what i am wondering is why the resurgence. why is it all over tumblr right now?
is it the absence of sherlock/watson dynamic current shows? i think it might well be.
#house md#seg.misc#i was a weird snobby sarcastic teen so you understand i imprinted upon gregory house like a duckling#maybe it’s that all of us who watched as teens are now old enough for nostalgia#but i doubt it
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now, i think one of the issues with astarion is that while “i want that twink obliterated” fits the vibe, that man is no twink. he’s just a mean old queen, and that’s ok.
now with halsin, on the other hand, i can say for sure. that’s a bear.
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so i finally figured out what the kef is that seivarden planned to sell that transport for in ancillary justice
i think i’d do the same
#imperial radch#ancillary justice#seivarden vendaai#i’d apologise for most of my post being dumb jokes but i’m not sorry#seg.misc
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“he’s a Belmont, he’s got a destiny”
yeah and you know what else he’s got? trauma. that’s how you know he’s a real belmont.
#and an inability to keep his fucking mouth shut#real belmont qualities#seg.misc#richter belmont#castlevania nocturne
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helping @lunellum cope with the mb casting news by pretending this is for an in-universe sensationalised murderbot serial
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man there’s so much discourse i’m seeing about “oh voting is useless” even though i block tags related to us politics because the lack of action i can take about it makes me anxious
and ngl but if y’all saddle the rest of the world with that orange fascist again because you decided that actually it’s more leftist to not vote and prevent that particular disaster from happening i’m going to come to your place of residence and shred all your beloved items with my teeth
because this may come as a shock but unfortunately your country’s electoral outcome affects the rest of the world, and our politics are dragged further right in response. so fucking suck it up, your actions have consequences, and not voting is not inaction, it’s an action with negative consequences for the rest of us.
#seg.misc#in a perfect world maybe not voting would be an effective protest of the system#but you may have noticed we don’t live in a perfect world#especially if you don’t do any direct action you suck it up and do your best to prevent fascists from gaini g power
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hey psst did y’all know @lunellum is now officially a published author (in a comics anthology) and i am so so so proud of them! they did a really great job and ❤️❤️❤️
so anyway look up Gods Untold by paganini for my wife’s amazing work
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lol lmao one of the big fantasy events here used generative ai for one of their ig posts and are getting torn apart by followers in the comments
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so i saw this show tonight…
ft al olender who has a lovely voice
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anyway, this is why i usually stick big honking disclaimers that THIS IS A JOKE DO NOT TAKE IT SERIOUSLY I MAKE JOKES SOMETIMES on stuff. because there are still weirdos out there who think attack is the best course of action.
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