ROUND ONE, SIDE ONE: Vincent Freeman (Gattaca) Vs Tad Strange (Gravity Falls)

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

Literal definition of spyware:

Also From Microsoft’s own FAQ: "Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers. 🤡

For every note this gets I'll personally kill a transphobe with my bare hands

tumblr blackout proposal

tumblr mobile has steadily become near unusable these past few updates. not just from a user experience perspective (which is important enough in itself) but also from an accessibility perspective.

examples include the new way the image viewer works (if you can call it "working"), the tumblr live button replacing the profile button, and that newly created blogs will be forced to have their main dashboard tab be the 'for you' page.

the demands of the protest would be along the lines of:

reverse the recent image viewer update

scrap the new users 'for you' page default setting

let us turn off tumblr live indefinitely

increase efforts against spam / porn bots

make reporting abuse and hate speech as easy as reporting as reporting spam

let us go nuts show nuts again... for real this time

remove flashing ads, including not accepting blaze campaigns for posts with flashing in them

commit to improving usability and accessibility, and listening to users!

(suggestions welcome!)

to protest against these usability issues, and inspired by the recent reddit blackout, i propose a 48 hour blackout (where you don't use tumblr at all). preferably of both mobile and web (since web has problems too) but mobile is the focus here.

[edit: a 'blackout' is when you don't log in, or interact with the site at all, for [x] amount of time.]

I suggest from the 30th of June.

this marks the end of pride month (for the "queerest place on the internet") and the start of disability month (since accessibility is a massive issue here).

tumblr office is in San Francisco, USA, so the times and dates will be calculated using their time zone (PDT).

you can find out the times and dates for your timezone here.

i can't afford to blaze this post so please spread it around as much as possible! protests only work if significant numbers show up!

edit: tumblr rejected the blaze campaigns for this post because they know it would hurt them. let's make this an indefinite blackout - it's the best way to get results.

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I can't explain it but Ides of March feels like a Tumblr festival. Every year we amp it up, meming in anticipation of the main event, where we celebrate the brutal murder of a dictator at the hands his friends and colleagues by posting nonsense for a full 24 hours. I wonder if @staff will turn it into merch.

one of my worst writing sins is abusing my power to create compound words. i cannot write the sentence "The sun shone as bright as honey that afternoon." no. that's boring. "The sun was honey-bright that afternoon" however? yes. that sentence is dope as fuck. i do not care if "honey-bright" is a word in the english dictionary. i do not care if the sentence is grammatically correct. i will not change. i will not correct my erred ways. the laws of the english language are mine.

@harrison-the-dilf-friend here you go dinner interrupted it but: they won't be telling the story of tonight steuben's pantless flaming shots parties. i took this and ran with it. might make it into a crackfic later.

more ‘Rose Walker is a PhD student under professor Robert Gadling, and yes they sometimes talk about his very good ‘friend’ and her uncle, what about it’ and more ‘Matthew sometimes meets up with this very nice immortal who bakes very good bread, yes he sometimes mentions his boss and yes the immortal sometimes mentions his very good ‘friend’, what about it’ and more ‘Matthew and Rose sometimes meet up to gossip about Dream, yes sometimes she mentions her nice literature professor and yes he sometimes mentions this random nice immortal, what about it’ and more ‘Rose Walker has a new friend named Johanna Constantine, and yes sometimes she mentions her weird uncle and Johanna sometimes mentions this weird guy who gives her stupid jobs, but she also sometimes talks about her literature professor and Johanna tells her about this new case she took about this guy who might have a painting up in his attic, but is probably nothing, hey does she maybe wanna tag along?’

so thats how on what’s supposed to be a nice Saturday morning Rose is standing with her new friend in the living room of her literature professor, with said literature professor in his boxers, while her gossip raven buddy flies in through the open window asking for more fresh bread *insert spiderman pointing meme*

(right until Dream comes out of Hobs bedroom stark naked asking what’s taking him so long)

I need to vent a little bit. It’s been stressful with work and irl lately. Also, I’ve been feeling icky about my art. Impostor syndrome again.

Do u guys especially fellow artists feel like the longer you work on a project or comic, the more you feel like you’re overstaying your welcome? Like, the longer I work on and share my au comics, the more I feel ‘ah, People are sick of this series, maybe I should stop. It’s lame now, ppl dont wanna see my AU comics anymore’ kinda feeling. I know it’s just my tired brain talking. I am still having fun working on both my AU’s but man I’ve been feeling anxious and worried ppl are bored of my work.

Idk, maybe it’s just art project fatigue? I wish my brain would take it easy on me and stop planting self-doubt in my heart 🙂‍↕️😔🥲 anyways, dont worry I wont stop just yet. I’m just tired and a little stressed… and also sad about my art lately.

reflections on the mechs rabbit hole