unpopular opinoin (maybe?): i support writers and artists using tumblr blaze to promote their work. it’s honestly a pretty good way of doing so and for some it could result in helping make their living, like if someone who has commissions promotes their art, it’s noticed, they gain followers and thus commission slots. i’ll grant that in practice i don’t know how likely or common this is. but conceptually it seems sound, it could happen, and i see no issue with people trying. and ok yeah maybe some of the people who promote their writing are not... very good frankly but like. who cares? they tried. there’s no reason to be so mean

Gentrification, U.S. imperialism, what else are yall gonna excuse as a "fault of the system, not people" so you don't have to think too hard about the role you play in it?

sorry sorry one more post but why did i see not one but multiple posts. saying they're leaving the stranger things fandom because of all the zionists. and will now focus on other fandoms such as the last of us. bestie. girlie. pal. have i got some bad news for you about neil druckmann.

thinking about how the rapture-and-bliss…… isn’t really hope. or maybe it is, but it’s hope corrupted, perverted. because it doesn’t give seb and dev hope, only fantasy. it’s escapism. that’s not what hope is, not the same hope that convinced hayward and paige to birth a god, not the same hope that makes carpenter work for a better world despite all her cynicism.

hope in its truest form is a driving, radicalizing force. what the man in the walls sells is the opposite. its victims literally live in a dream. it’s hope stripped of action. it’s forced optimism to the point of destructiveness. and it just drives home the point that no gods in this universe — the biggest metaphors for oppressive systems and capitalism and overconsumption — can take hold of anything good without corrupting it. because a god must feed.

In January 2021 there were less than 200 tumblr employees (source is the tumblr staff member on the guy fieri arg discord server who was confirmed to be tumblr staff. Also I think another staff member posted it on their blog around that time). Unless they’ve mass hired people (it sounded like the size of the team was getting smaller at the time so unlikely) the content moderation team is extremely small. It’s definitely a significant issue that there’s not enough people to run this website properly, but it’s a staffing issue, not a not caring about or agreeing with bigotry issue. That’s also why they rely on terrible ai software to review images and blanket bans of certain tags. There’s straight up not enough people to actually review reports, however if something high profile happens they can act quickly. (Sorry this is a long ask, I just feel this is important information in any discussion about how tumblr is run)

yeah that's fair, it's good to have all the information available. it doesn't change the fact that tumblr has pretty much always had problems with moderation though, like it's never been good at handling harassment and hate speech as far as i remember (and i've used this site since 2011/2012), and that's why i can't in good conscience view tumblr as the like. friendly quirky little family community it markets itself as. i respect that it's not easy to run a website, but it has genuine problems with dealing with those issues (as most social media do) and there's not really anything that can excuse that, and i respect why people are upset about it. having been on the receiving end of both targeted mass harassment and hate speech myself, and having received absolutely no help or support from tumblr when i tried to report it, i can't help but feel pretty fed up with how they manage things in that department. i work in retail, so i get that some issues are due to staffing shortages and the limitations of the company and how it's run, so i don't blame individual tumblr staff members for that any more than i'd blame any individual employee of a company for that company's failures unless they were clearly personally responsible, but at the same time i strongly believe in doing the best you can by your fellow human beings and working to prevent harm wherever possible, and how tumblr handles harassment and hate speech falls way short of that.

so glad to see the resurgence of food based class discourse, it's always something that everyone gets real normal and polite about right away

batmanisagatewaydrug: "If you're still enjoying Harry Potter you should be used as a bowling pin"

This from one of my favourite fandom blogs. I am so tired of losing all respect for people I like and look up to. I guess one of the upsides of this stupid discourse is the amount of so-called leftists showing exactly what their ethics and principles are worth.

Either you believe that hyperfixations, special interests and escapism in general are value neutral or accept that you're an ableist thought policing dickbag willing to make acceptable targets of vulnerable people for the crimes of the rich and powerful.

There are no exceptions. None. Unless you believe Global South people whose entire countries are being destroyed by brands like Nestle matter less than Global North trans people. If you're not going after people who drink Coca Cola you can shut the fuck up about Harry Potter fans who aren't even giving JKR any money.

If you've ever wanted to buy cheap, good quality spices, might I recommend Penzey's? They frequently have sales that let you buy a 50$ gift card for 35$, and then you can use those cards to shop later sales. The spices are great, they have full lists of what's in them which is great for anyone with allergies, and as for their politics... click the readmore if you'd like to see some snippets from the newsletters I get from them in my inbox, as well as a few shots of a DuckDuckGo search for "penzeys ceo". Warning for US politics, and lots of discussion of Republicans.

i currently have mild nerve damage in one of my fingers bc ive started mass-making stickers by hand, using a scalpel to cut out every single one

i really hope its worth it oughghhg

so mad at my sister for being obsessed with chickfila like she was on the phone with her boyfriend like "i wish you didnt have a severe and potentially fatal peanut allergy so that you could eat chickfila" are you insane. i wish i could do some kind of like evil cocomelon pavlov shit like playing hypno stuff while shes asleep to like associate chickfila with some kind of horrible trauma so that whenever she even thinks about it she gets horrible flashbacks or ptsd or something. i hope every chickfila gets bombed and they go bankrupt and that the people who own chickfila are brutally killed and cannibalized live on national television in High Definition

The problem isn’t that the animals have been bred into existence, purely to have their short life ended violently, just because I enjoy 5 minutes of sensory pleasure, the problem is vegans and **their** chocolate and vegetables and capitalism!!!1!

Now shut up, I am eating my chicken nuggies xxDDD

damn I just realized that out of the 1600 people I follow not one of them is a swiftie. I've never unfollowed anyone for liking her either. but i assume any swiftie that followed me blocked me after i got 50k on a post calling her annoying

ppl in the notes of that last reblog like "stop singling out shein, theyre all bad, get off your high horse, etc" like idk about yall but the majority of the clothes i buy for leisurewear i specifically buy from small brands BECAUSE they explicitly use ethical labor and ethical materials sourcing 🤨

at some point in the future:

*non vegan reading about a new vegan leather*: psh. bet it has plastic in it tho.

*scrolls down and finds out theres 0 plastic. the non vegan gets angry since now theres finally a vegan leather they dont get to complain about*: psh, bet it doesnt feel like real leather tho.

*scrolls down to find out the creators of this leather spent a lot of time to make it more "like real leather*: psh, bet they exploit their workers tho

just say you want to use animal leather and you were never going to consider an alternative in the first place, bud

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putty for fucking brains. now we can do power scaling but for how problematic things are