Hey everyone, itâs been a while.
as many of you know I'm going through some tough times dealing with benzodiazepine withdrawal and depression. It's not easy, but I'm working on it
iâve felt very demoralized by asking for help on here but iâve talked with some friends and some of you said it wasnât a problem and it was okay to ask for help
If you're willing and able any support would help cover my living expenses (like rent, food and bills) and my weekly therapy sessions. if someone knows about any jobs online please let me know, iâm willing to work whatever i know fluent english and spanish. i can write stories, translate stuff, i know how to work around photoshop and feel able to take care of costumers too
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reblogs and sharing my story helps a ton too, if thereâs anything you want to know please let me know and we have chat, being skeptical about strangers online itâs okayâŠ
thank you if you read this and thank you for the help everyone
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Hi how are you? I hope everything is going alright, I'm sorry if I'm being annoying i just wanted to ask you if you could help me rb my post please? My life has beeb very rough and sad lately recovering is not easy đ sorry for bothering you and thanks, a rb helps a ton
Alright! Iâm willing to help! Hope things end up improving for you!
What does string cheese have to do with tumblr? Would it surprise you to hear that over 93.8% of users use their tumblr accounts to talk about cheese? Don't fact check me, I made that up.
But seriously, I need to know what is your favorite type of string cheese. The winner of this poll will be turned into a piece of tumblr merch that will exist forever (or until the robot uprising) so vote wisely.
Lucky! I recently got a message from a bot in my inbox and I was disgustedâŠ
The amount of bots following me is starting to get increasingly annoying⊠like, bro, just leave me alone for the love of GOD!
The amount of bots following me is starting to get increasingly annoying⊠like, bro, just leave me alone for the love of GOD!
Like, I know we just discussed this, but I hadnât heard all the details and they are just so much:
Twitter chief executive Elon Musk rallied a team of roughly 80 engineers to reconfigure the platformâs algorithm so his tweets would be more widely viewed, tech news site Platformer has reported.
A disgruntled Musk called for an emergency effort after a tweet he sent during Sundayâs Super Bowl game failed to achieve as much engagement as a tweet from Joe Biden, interviews and internal documents reviewed by Platformer have revealed.
The effort was sparked when a tweet from the president, who has 37m followers, generated nearly 29m impressions while a similar tweet from Musk â who has 128m followers â generated little more than 9.1m impressions.
A Twitter employee and cousin of Elon Musk, James Musk, posted urgently in the company Slack at 2.30am the following Monday morning, asking all employees who can code to participate. âAny people who can make dashboards and write software please can you help solve this problem,â he wrote. âThis is high urgency.â
Bonus: âMusk seemed to publicly confirm the move, in his own way, posting a meme about forcing followers to read his tweetsâ [I just saw it, itâs extravagantly misogynistic and gross in a way I should have expected and yet did not].
From Reddit: âMusk kept showing up in my feed, so I also blocked him. That fucker unblocked himself and started showing up in my feed again. This happened twice.â
I saw a discussion onâalso Reddit, maybe? About how there needs to be a non-body-shaming phrase for âsmall dick energy,â and I feel like Elon Musk Energy would be a strong contender.
I slept in and just woke up, so here's what I've been able to figure out while sipping coffee:
Twitter has officially rebranded to X just a day or two after the move was announced.
The official branding is that a tweet is now called "an X", for which there are too many jokes to make.
The official account is still @twitter because someone else owns @X and they didn't reclaim the username first.
The logo is đ which is the Unicode character Unicode U+1D54F so the logo cannot be copyrighted and it is highly likely that it cannot be protected as a trademark.
Outside the visual logo, the trademark for the use of the name "X" in social media is held by Meta/Facebook, while the trademark for "X" in finance/commerce is owned by Microsoft.
The rebranding has been stopped in Japan as the term "X Japan" is trademarked by the band X JAPAN.
Elon had workers taking down the "Twitter" name from the side of the building. He did not have any permits to do this. The building owner called the cops who stopped the crew midway through so the sign just says "er".
He still plans to call his streaming and media hosting branch of the company as "Xvideo". Nobody tell him.
This man wants you to give him control over all of your financial information.
Edit to add further developments:
Yes, this is all real. Check the notes and people have pictures. I understand the skepticism because it feels like a joke, but to the best of my knowledge, everything in the above is accurate.
Microsoft also owns the trademark on X for chatting and gaming because, y'know, X-box.
The logo came from a random podcaster who tweeted it at Musk.
The act of sending a tweet is now known as "Xeet". They even added a guide for how to Xeet.
The branding change is inconsistent. Some icons have changed, some have not, and the words "tweet" and "Twitter" are still all over the place on the site.
TweetDeck is currently unaffected and I hope it's because they forgot that it exists again. The complete negligence toward that tool and just leaving it the hell alone is the only thing that makes the site usable (and some of us are stuck on there for work).
This is likely because Musk was forced out of PayPal due to a failed credit line project and because he wanted to rename the site to "X-Paypal" and eventually just to "X".
This became a big deal behind the scenes as Musk paid over $1 million for the domain X.com and wanted to rebrand the company that already had the brand awareness people were using it as a verb to "pay online" (as in "I'll paypal you the money")
X.com is not currently owned by Musk. It is held by a domain registrar (I believe GoDaddy but I'm not entirely sure). Meaning as long as he's hung onto this idea of making X Corp a thing, he couldn't be arsed to pay the $15/year domain renewal.
Bloomberg estimates the rebranding wiped between $4 to $20 billion from the valuation of Twitter due to the loss of brand awareness.
The company was already worth less than half of the $44 billion Musk paid for it in the first place, meaning this may end up a worse deal than when Yahoo bought Tumblr.
One estimation (though this is with a grain of salt) said that Twitter is three months from defaulting on its loans taken out to buy the site. Those loans were secured with Tesla stock. Meaning the bank will seize that stock and, since it won't be enough to pay the debt (since it's worth around 50-75% of what it was at the time of the loan), they can start seizing personal assets of Elon Musk including the Twitter company itself and his interest in SpaceX.
Sesame Street's official accounts mocked the rebranding.
Using this anon hate I got as a teaching example
So if you get anon hate like this, there is a few things you can do. (Also once again the person linked is totally innocent, anon is just using a link to them for some reason, do not bother them)
First of all, Tumblr made it so only people who have accounts and are logged in can send anons AT ALL. So if you want to you can click the three little dots in the upper right corner and report them
Anyways once you're there, select the type of harassment you're getting, after consulting a few people on discord I decided it was the second to last one.
Then of course you fill out the little form
Afterwards you can hit "Submit and Block"
Fun fact: when you block an anon you permanently (there is no way to reverse it) block their IP address and they can't send you any more anons, also as a bonus, if you've received a LOT of anon hate and then you block one of them, reload your inbox to see how many it got rid of, because it might have just been one loser spamming you. If you don't feel like reporting them then that's fine too, just block those suckers.
And finally, you can take solace in the fact that you could never be as big of a loser as the anons sending people hate.
It seems that the staff is actually going to go forward with their decision to remove reblog chains, where reblogs will basically work like regular comments on other websites.
This doesn't just make the site completely unusable, it removes the soul of the community that has managed to build up here over the years, and that I'm so happy to have recently joined.
It makes impossible the creation of great posts where many people build up a single thing, until it is a gem of expressed human creativity.
There will be no more world heritage posts, no more messing around with your mutuals, no posts worth remembering.
There will be no more Tumblr, and the Tikblr or TumbTube or whatever monstrosity is born from its corpse will soon die, as is probably the best. And then there will never be another place like this on the internet, no place anymore to run to, no more fun, no more community.
I recommend a simple course of action. When these changes get imposed upon us, stop using Tumblr. Get your mutuals' discords, your favourite artists' websites, and leave. If the Tumblr we have once known returns, we well too. If not, better let it die quickly than suffer a long and painful decline.
I beg you to reblog this, for the more people see it, the higher chanses are for this to work.
And add something, so we can show them what Tumblr is really for.
making this post bc look here
THEY SHOULD RELEASE STUFF TO THE US AND THE REST OF THE WORLD ITS SO UNDERRATED GRRRRRRR THEY ARE SO BAD AT MARKETING TO DIFF PLACES!!
Since they are so stinky poopoo at presenting their thing, listen to me, the chaotic ND kid who has a crazy amount of knowledge on it bc it's my special interest+I kinda grew up with it!!
OK SO DORAEMON IS AN EXTREMELY SUPER RLLY RLLY RLLY GOOD ANIME/MANGA MADE BY FUJIKO F FUJIO (Hiroshi Fujimoto) AND FUJIKO A FUIJO (Motoo Abiko)! (the concept was made by Fujiko F Fuijo, A helped produce it) It's about a robot cat from the year 2112 named Doraemon and he's sent back to the 21st century (or 20th century depending on when the episode was made bc this series has been going on since 1969) by Nobita's great great grandson, Sewashi to help Nobita bc he's extremely unlucky and bullied!! (me personally, I extremely headcanon he has inattentive ADHD bc he displays every trait but thts a rant for another time) Doraemon has a pocket on his belly tht is called the 4D POCKET!!!!! It has tons of gadgets tht help them when they're in trouble or they're bored or whatever!! EEEE THIS SERIES IS SO DANG COOOOOL!!! Also, it has a 1979 and 2005 version!! The 2005 version got a dub made by Bang Zoom! and was aired on Disney XD from 2014-2016!
OK SO THE GENRE AND RATING (this plus The Doraemons) ARE:
Scifi/Adventure/Comedy PG-13
Ok next thing in the Doraemon series, is
The Doraemons is about Doraemon's backstory and his friends from Robot School! This is a spinoff manga/anime and it's about their adventures and how insanely powerful their friendship is! If you think this is gonna be some stupid baby show bc its abt the power of friendship, you're rlly wrong! It's more action-y and stuff! It consists of several short movies and it's a manga! (not all of it is eng subbed and same goes for Doraemon's main series, but ofc Doraemon's more complete)
Ok so they are:
Doraemon
Dorarhino
Wang Dora
El Matadora
Doranichov
Dora The Kid
Dora-med lll
(I color coded the text to tell u who they are ^w^)
NEXT THING IN THE DORAEMON FRANCHISE ISSSS
SO Dorabase is a baseball fan-made spinoff of Doraemon!! (I think it's canon) I've only gotten into it just recently so I dont know the most abt it but u can read about it on tv tropes!!
Ok now you're hopefully thinking, "DANG THIS IS SO COOOOL imma reblog it and post it everywhere!!! How do I watch/read it?"
If you are in Japan and India, I think Doraemon is on Netflix for u! I can only speak for an đđșđžđŠ AMERICANđŠ đșđžđ and english-speaking pov tho.
Worldwide, Stand By Me Doraemon 1 and 2 is on Netflix. BUT that is all Netflix USA has.
So here is how American and english speaking ppl can access it. (btw EVERYONE can access this, it's just the only way the US can)
OK SO this has Dorabase, Doraemon, Doraemon Long Stories, and The Doraemons manga!!! I'm not 100% sure if it's all complete but it is ALOT of manga!!!! Also this has other manga that Fujiko F Fujio made, such as Chinpui! I think they also have stuff tht Fujiko A Fujio made! (They tend to be quite dark and black comedy, except Ninja Hattori! My fav manga he made is The Laughing Salesman!)
This site has Doraemon episodes and movies! (including the Disney XD dub) Not all sadly but most!!! :DDD
I made a playlist that has all completed and good engsubs of The Doraemons!!!! There is another special called "The World of Ace's Christmas Special" but sadly it's only subbed in Chinese.
SO I TOLD U ALL IK ABT THE OVERVIEW AND WHATS ITS ABOUT RIGHT? But not sm as to why u should watch it, why I like it, and how I was introduced!
I think u should watch it because it's like SUPER COOL! It's about scifi and the future and all tht! It's also teaches morals and whatnot. And also, like One Piece the genre goes around in movies and some episodes while staying pretty into sci-fi, adventure, and comedy! It's very imaginative and creative and yeah! Basically, it has smth in it for everyone!
I LIKE IT because of what I said right there! It ties alot into what I think is cool and what I wanna be when I grow up! I wanna be an astronaut and traveling space is one of the things I wanna do! Doraemon talks abt alot of stuff about future technology, time travel, space travel, etc. It's also been actually influencing that IRL!! For example, in 2021,a new dinosaur species in China was named Eubrontes Nobitai!! They named the species after Nobita (also called Noby).
I was introduced when I went over to my cousin's house in 2014 (I was 7 then) and they had recorded Doraemon on their DVR bc it had premiered on Disney XD and they thought I'd like it! (I did, alot) After it stopped airing, the show was just in the back of my head until COVID hit and I was like "hey that robot cat did exist" during virtual school and I was hooked!
So yeah, that's all abt Doraemon! It's extremely popular in Japan, India, and Italy but it deserves sm more popularity and recognition and love than it gets. Sm ppl have put in hard work (especially the authors) and yeah! ALSO please do check out the other things Fujiko F and Fujiko A made!!
been watching OFF (2008) letâs plays recently
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u forget the word for a group of monkeys for one second and suddenly its personal
Get yourself a devious monkey for your computer screen to interact with!! đđ(#ghost macaque) (last update 19.05.2023 - the launch!)
â !!SPOILERS for Lego Monkie Kid first 4 seasons!!â
Made in one week for Ghost Jam 2023, hosted by @ukagakadreamteam, Macaque doesn't include a lot of features or dialogue... but he's still very pettable!
Ask him how he's doing every time you boot him up!
PET HIS HEAD
Befriend him and unlock more dialogue
Includes a look with six ears! (right click on him -> change shell -> six eared macaque âš)
Have him do small stuff like change your computer background or empty your recycle bin
đINSTALL HIM!đ
The link above should bring you to the website with step-by-step instructions on how you can install this guy on your PC!
â !!BE AWARE, THIS IS LOADED WITH MY HEADCANONS!! SOME THINGS MIGHT SEEM OOC!!â
âšI have a question/encountered a bug/encountered a spelling mistake!âš
Message me away! If you think something is wonky, a weird expression or bad grammar, please @ me, send me an ask or dm me đ This also goes for the suggestions you may have or the things you like about Macaque here and want to share with me, my ask box and suggestions are open!! It's been done in a week so no wonder I missed a lot of stuff, so I appreciate all of the feedback you may have đ
âšThanks and inspirationsâš
Huge thanks to @rainbowmoonmaiden86 for testing some stuff for me đ
And huge thanks to @/zarla-s for a fantastic tutorial with a great template for Ghost creation, \if you're interested in learning more you should definitely check it out!
And thanks to @ukagakadreamteam for making the event, and being huge help with the ghost making and being patient with my dumb butt đđ The community is so welcoming it warms my heart, and I'm happy to be a participant in a project like this!
âšThank you for reading!!âš
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You see a post like this? Where OP might hurt/kill themselves? You hit that button that I circled
Hit that.
Click Suicide or Self-harm Concern
Yes.
Fill in the rest of it, and hit submit. The "content you reported" will fill itself in
Tumblr will follow up and help them.
This could SAVE SOMEONE'S LIFE.
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alright iâm making a masterpost because iâm so tired. these never get notes. please give this one notes. iâm going to run through every single parroted argument. iâm going to run through every thought anyone engaged in this discourse has ever had. please give me notes. not because i want clout, iâm just so tired. so many of my posts get notes. i would trade them all for this post to get notes.
How old are Team Rocket?
25. Theyâre 25.Â
But I thought they were teenagers? Lots of people have told me theyâre 15/16.
so iâve heard! iâm pleased to tell you exactly where that comes from.
1. this post, for some reason:
i have been on tumblr for 10 years now, and i never saw anyone debating their ages before this post started circulating. as you can tell by the low res memebase screencap, it was screenshotted and reposted all across social media until it became legend.
the ages you see in this bulbapedia screencap were edited. bulbapedia has either omitted their ages entirely, or put them at 25 for reasons weâll discuss at the end of this post.Â
because iâm a petty bitch, i googled the tumblr username of the person who added that bulbapedia screencap, found what their current URL was, and searched team rocketâs names on their blog. hereâs what i discovered.
OP claims it wasnât them who edited the agesâthat they just found it like this. NOT sure i buy that, because I looked into it, and right around the time this post was made (January 8th, 2014) there was a random, unprecedented edit that erroneously put their ages at 15.
this resulted in mods locking the page, because this person was relentless. they would go on team rocketâs pages every day and try to edit the ages back down. again, i canât prove this is the same person, but these edits happened within 24 hours of them adding to that post. this is, in my professional opinion, the biggest shift i ever saw in people talking about team rocketâs ages. but there are other things people bring upâŠ
2. âJessie said she was a teenager!â
she does this sometimes. here are the times she does this.
- In episode 218 of the original series, Plant It Now⊠Diglett Later, the following exchange happens:
This would make Jessie 12. This is a joke. A running gag in the show is younger characters calling Jessie variations on âold lady/old bat/old hag,â and James gets this treatment to a lesser extent. Jessie, however, is incredibly vain and obsessed with youth/beauty, so she often lies to great extent about her age. When Jessie says something like âOh, Iâm 13 years old ;3câ it is meant to carry the same feeling as âArenât I the most gorgeous creature walking this very Earth?â To Jessie, calling her old = calling her ugly. Calling herself young = calling herself beautiful. This trope is common with her particular anime archetypeâit is more of a Japanese thing, so while I understand it being lost on american audiences, it is NOT proof of her age.Â
Right after this, Meowth calls her out on it, asking her where she learned that math, and Jessie angrily threatens him. Itâs a joke.
- In episode 56 of the original series, The Ultimate Test, Jessie is in disguise at a Pokemon League qualification exam. When Ash starts giving her the âshe looks vaguely familiarâ side-eye, she panics and starts muttering information about herself aloud. I will be using the original Japanese line for this one:
This is quoted constantly as proof that Jessie is a teenagerâbut she is blatantly stating false information about herself here because sheâs in disguise and Ash is onto her. This is a false identity sheâs crafted, marked even further by âI work as an idol.â Thatâs an actual profession sheâs talking about, one she doesnât work. Since Japanese Idols werenât widely unknown to westerners at the time of this dub, her dub line is simply âAge: 17. Profession: Diva.â which makes it a little harder to read that sheâs lying about who she is, but she is. The information sheâs stating here is that of an alias. It is not her actual age or profession.
3. You literally just posted a screencap of James saying he should get a driverâs license.Â
Okay, smart guy, thatâs also jokes. The joke isnât that heâs too young to driveâthe joke is that he was a runaway at five years old and had his childhood & all his milestones taken from him because he defected from his abusive family in kindergarten. Also, heâs in the mafia and he just drives his damn balloon everywhere. The joke is that heâs a criminal driving without a license. The joke is breaking the law because heâs James. Its the same as when Jessie will casually say things like âOh, thatâs a good book! Iâve been meaning to shoplift one!â (EP157)
Also, itâs a dub-only line.
âOkay, I guess I see where youâre coming from. But why are you so sure theyâre 25?â
Glad you asked!
You might notice the Bulbapedia article up there says âas of M02.âł M02 is the fandom shorthand for the second pokemon movie: Pokemon the Movie: 2000. Itâs referring to one scene in particular, one that had its dialogue massively changed in the dub. Here, Jessie and James are addressing Ash & co.:
The subber condensed the point of what James/Kojirou actually says hereâhis sentence when translated literally is more like:
Jessie: Youâre ten years too early.
James: And us, your elders, are five years too late.
this is⊠a very Japanese expression, but because Ash & co. are 10 years old, Jessieâs basically saying âYou really donât need to be thinking this deeply about romance until youâre 20.â and James is saying âAnd weâre past our prime at the tender age of 25âŠâ
Some other times this expression has been used, regrettably, is when older men are perving on the female kids in this showâtheyâll say things like âIâll look forward to you in ten years.â Gross, I know, but the point is itâs a thing people say. 20 is considered the age youâre supposed to settle down and marry. 25, especially for women, is considered the age when youâre âoff the marketââyou missed your window and now no one wants you.
That ties back into Jessieâs thing about youth and beauty and how other characters call her an old lady. What theyâre calling her originally is usually some variation on âoba-san.â This term is so widely used in anime that thereâs a TVTropes page on it. An english equivalent would be rolling your eyes and sarcastically uttering âwhatever, grandmaâ or, if you really want me to one-shot kill you, âok boomer.â
Another derogatory term you hear in Japan for this age is âChristmas Cake.â Simply put: Delicious to a point, but no one wants it after the 25th.
Yeah.
âThat line is still super vague. Their ages could still be ambiguous.â
I regret to inform you that I am very autistic and I have prepared timelines and flowcharts for you.
Allow me to introduce you to The Birth of Mewtwo, an audio drama that released alongside the first movie and was never given an english localization. TBOM (the book of mormon) was about Mewtwoâs Origins that werenât expanded upon in the movie. But, in order to get to the bottom of Mewtwo, the story had to get to the bottom of how Team Rocket got their hands on Mewâs DNAâand that all started with a Class-A Rocket Agent known simply as âMiyamoto.â
if you didnât know, sheâs Jessieâs mom.
TBOM is fully translated and available to listen to in multiple parts on youtube. It opens with Giovanni placing it in the timeline:
Twenty years prior to Pokemon: The First Movie, when this radio drama is said to take place. It then goes into a flashback, where we get to see Jessieâs mom in her pursuit of Mew.
Jessieâs already been born by the time of this flashback, meaning, with 100% certainty, that Jessie is at least 20 years old.
As time passes, Miyamoto stays on her quest to find Mew. Lost in the Andes mountains, she never stops sending reports back to Rocket HQ. Every few years, they trickle back in, detailing her progress. She keeps a picture of Jessie with her, often meandering aloud about what she anticipates Jessie is doingâthe milestones Jessie is hitting, the life Jessie might have that her mom was never able to see. The last report she gives says âThe daughter I left behindâs an old hag by nowâŠâ the word she uses here is, again, âobaââ25 years old and unmarried. Again, this is Jessieâs mom. She might be stranded in the mountains with little concept of time, but itâs clear Jessie is the one thing she never truly loses sight of.
âOkay. That sure is a lot of convincing evidence about Jessie. But Team Rocket has another human person in it youâre ignoring.â
Yeah nah I was prepared for that. I actually couldâve just whipped this out at the beginning but I am feeling incredibly spicy so I wanted to lay the law down and not deal with easy arguments about my special interest tonight. Here ya go!
- In episode 87 of the Sun & Moon anime, Filling the Light With Darkness!, Necrozma places an aura across the Alola Region. This blight makes Alolans lethargic, depressed, and unmotivated. This aura also ONLY affects the adults in Alolaâleaving the burden on the kids & pokemon to figure out whatâs going on. Ash & everyone in his classâincluding some who can be argued as teenagersâare entirely unaffected.Â
Of the afflicted?
âAlright, one last questionâŠwhy should I care?â
Because ever since that tumblr post started circulating, itâs been Stressful as all hell to be a Rocketblogger. I know that we all had a lot of fun watching the pokemon anime when we were kids, and we probably all have a lot of shared and fond memories of it. But, weirdly enough, because of that shared joy⊠Pokeani is the only fandom where people who donât even watch the show anymore will try to explain to members of the fandom what our own lore is. And a lot of the time, they wonât listen to us when we correct them on their misinformation.
The reason this matters is because Rocketbloggers still to this day get called pedophiles & perverts for drawing/writing smutty art of our funny bad people. And when we try to shut them down pulling all this evidence out, people who have seen a handful of episodes of the show but understandably donât have the time to watch 1100 episodes will pull the doth protest too much card. Itâs annoying but more than anything, itâs exhausting.
So this is a masterpost I made with my autistic superpowers. I hope that, in the future, this one gets spread around more than the one claiming them to be kids. And I hope that maybe, if youâre a rocketblogger, when someone comes in your inbox trying to explain your favourite anime to you⊠you can quietly link them to this post and no longer have to rehash all the arguments weâve been rehashing for years.
Thank you for reading. Reblog to save a tired Rocketbloggerâs life.
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A few of these are probably referring to the date posting bug thing, but AAAAAAAAAAAH!
Get asked. Idiot
Get answered. Idiot
I may not be a mutual but Iâm so tempted to join!
so at this point we all agreed i'm CEO of defending omori (character) right