When People Are Like “he’s Not Even Attractive You Could Find A Guy That Looks Like Him At Any Gas

I bought this organ off Etsy I like to jab it with my screwdriver.

yes we all know about medieval jesters waging psychological warfare in times of combat, but wait there’s more!

at the beginning of battles they would ride in on horseback, juggling swords or lances, and taunt & bait  the opposition. soldiers would get so angry they would break rank & weaken formations just to try to kill the fool

It seems like there's more positivity on Tumblr than other platforms (*cough*Twitter*cough*). Like, you can say "I love you, bestie." without anyone calling you corny or childish.

Y'know what? Reblog this to let your besties know you love them.

the bachelors

But really I am at a point where I’m fed up. “Oh no, one who still complains.” Most people who don’t make creations write this.

Tumblr has changed. Everything has changed on this site. It has become like Instagram. No one reblogs anymore, no one takes the time to thank or comment on a creation. Everything is normal, everything is due for some. It doesn’t matter if we didn’t have the obligation to do so, it’s important. Without the creators this site will disappear and becomes empty. And whatever the creators: (Gifmaker / Fanart / Fanfiction…).

If you don’t create immediately it is too late for you because your post will be drowned in the ocean of others (always the same). If you want to do it later because you have a life, your post will no longer be interesting because people move on so quickly on contents. If your post is not in a tag (always bug from tumblr), nobody will see it. Either you are lucky or no. And for me these trends in the application destroyed everything. We did not have that and people shared as much as they liked a creation.

Already that no one reblog now, you (not reblogging) are killing the creators. Because you have to share to keep alive things. And support your fandom. Don’t say that your fandom is dead if you do nothing to keep it and make it live. Putting a “like” is useless because the work will not be seen with others. And the content will remain in the shade and your <favorite page> is closed to others. If you can put a like that means that you liked the post, so REBLOG it, please.

Also, Tumblr does not help the creators, they drown them just as much with their ridiculous algorithm. And popular tags that some abuse to have thousands of notes (90% likes). Also, indirectly I understand the creators who try to use these tags in trends to show their true creations.

And as it had to be worse, staff put a community label option on the sexual theme which will only attack the real creators instead of porn blogs that you can find in each tags of this site. It is always necessary to put obstacles to the creators who bring everything to this site. And the worst part is those who have nothing other to do than to make unnecessary report to get a creation invisible even more.

And it doesn’t matter if you have a lot of subscribers, it doesn’t change anything. Strictly nothing. The only thing that works is to reblog but again this is no longer the case on this site. So I understand that the newcomers abandoned so quickly. Because we don’t all have popular blogs that will share us every time. And I understand so much the creators who decided to stop. I understand more and more that they are discouraged. Like me. And maybe I will end up this path.

old drawfee fancomic

from a joke nathan made on stream

"The transition from [the barter system to currency] is hard to understand; how can human cravings be fetishized into pieces of metal? The answer is elegant because it reveals not only the origin of money, but its character even today. Money was and still is literally sacred: 'It has long been known that the first markets were sacred markets, the first banks were temples, the first to issue money were priests or priest-kings.' The first coins were minted and distributed by temples because they were medallions inscribed with the image of their god and embodying his protective power. Containing such manna, they were naturally in demand, not because you could buy things with them but vice-versa: since they were popular, you could exchange them for other things.

The consequence of this was that 'now the cosmic powers could be the property of everyman, without even the need to visit temples: you could now traffic in immortality in the marketplace.' This eventually led to the emergence of a new kind of person, 'who based the value of his life — and so of his immortality — on a new cosmology centered on coins.' A new meaning system arose, which our present economic system makes increasingly the meaning-system. 'Money becomes the distilled value of all existence ... a single immortality symbol, a ready way of relating the increase of oneself to all the important objects and events of one's world.'

If we replace 'immortality' with 'becoming real,' the point becomes Buddhist: beyond its usefulness as a medium of exchange, money has become modern humanity's most popular way of accumulating Being, of coping with our gnawing intuition that [the ego does] not really exist. Suspecting that the sense of self is a groundless construction, we went to temples and churches to ground ourselves in God; now we ground ourselves financially.

The problem is that the true meaning of this meaning-system is unconscious, which means, as usual, that we end up paying a heavy price for it. The value we place on money karmically rebounds back against us: the more we value it, the more we use it to evaluate ourselves."

- David Loy, from "Buddhism and Money: The Repression of Emptiness Today." Buddhist Ethics and Modern Society: An International Symposium, edited by Charles Wei-hsun Fu and Sandra A. Wawrytko, 1991.