You know, an interesting tumblr transformation that’s happened gradually, and which I’ve seen no one talk about: ask-culture has essentially dropped off to nothing.
By which I mean, asks used to be WAY more of the tumblr economy. They used to be more common to send, and receive, and see. They were integral to the collaborative, forum-like behavior of old tumblr communities, not even to speak on the HUGE number of ask-blogs that used to exist to only be interacted with in ask-form.
I’m not saying this in a vying-for-attention way but instead in an observational way: I used to get way way more asks in like 2015, even with a fraction of my follower count. I wonder if it’s due to the homogenization of social media sites? There’s a lot more of this divide between “content creator” and “consumer” instead of just a bunch of peer blogs who would talk to each other. “Asks” aren’t really a thing on twitter, are they? And as I understand it, the closest thing to an “ask” on instagram or tiktok would be a creator screenshotting some comment and responding to it in a new reel or video or whatever those content mediums are. Are asks just too tumblr-specific? Is that aspect of the site culture dying out as more and more people converge to using all their social media sites in the same way?
it’s probably from assholes making asks a minefield of trolling/harassment for years with no real blocking ability, which turned people off from allowing asks on their blogs so as a whole the site moved away from it
but now that we do have better blocking, we should try to revive it.
Reblog if your ask box is open.
Always
Super open
Yeah my asks are open
Ask away friendos!
i beg of you. GIVE ME ASKS
Fuck yeah bitches, I’ll take that shit when ever the fuck it’s fun to see people’s shit :)
sending and receiving asks is so much fun!
Genuinely love it when I check Tumblr and have an ask
a tiny old woman came into the deli and ordered a “wonderful turkey sandwich” and when asked what she wanted on the sandwich other than turkey she said “all of your most wonderful toppings”
“Already, AI is starting to look like a colonialist enterprise. AI tools are helping the world’s largest tech companies grow their power and wealth, are spurring nationalistic competition between empires racing to capture new markets, and threaten to supercharge government surveillance and systems of apartheid. It looks more than a bit like the competition among colonialist state and corporate powers in the seventeenth century, which together carved up the globe and its peoples. By considering America’s past experience with frontiers, we can understand what AI may hold for our future, and how to avoid the worst potential outcomes.”
on my hands and knees begging ppl to recognize platonic content. sometimes 2 guys r just friends . i dont mean this in the ‘stop making everything romantic way’ i mean this in the 'stop calling 2 friends who bicker siblings and stop treating any remotely caring remotely older character like a parental figure’ ohhhh my god . they are not siblings they r buddies . u are all underestimating the power of having a buddy
Unless of course, it’s Ineffable, in which case it can’t be blasphemous, because it’s all part of the plan.
But like Aziraphale and Crowley argued in season 1, given that the ineffable plan is, by nature, ineffable, it excludes the possibility of knowingly defying it, and that of being caught defying it.
The naming of female characters in Bond movies makes a lot more sense if you headcanon them as trans women who picked their own slutty names.
Like, can I believe “Pussy Galore” is a cis woman who was named that as a baby? No. But a trans woman who got vaginaplasty and is very proud it of? Of course!
… so, uh, true fact, when I created the countdown widget for my wife’s vaginoplasty back in 2022, it was titled “ The Long-Awaited Arrival of the Fabulous Miss Pussy Galore.”
Nothing in this world is funnier to me than when people post pics of like gorgeous ocean vistas and then name a random Illinois suburb. This shit made me laugh so hard I almost threw up. It doesn’t even have to be Naperville you could name any other town and I’d weep
I’m waiting for jury duty and they’ve got a slideshow going where they’re displaying all these quotes from founding fathers about trial by jury and I’m starting to suspect they’re doing ones from slave owners specifically.
ALT
Like, cool quote and all, but I’m not sure I want to listen to the thoughts on liberty from a guy who owned over a hundred slaves.
significantly less important than the hypocrisy of the founding fathers. but is that a projector screen that also has overhead lighting DIRECTLY in front of it?
Look, here in Alameda County we belive in two things:
We should have a museum where every year, you can participate in the stabbing of Caesar, with 3d reconstruction or something. Like a reenactment but also as a threat to politicians. I think that’d be fun
but what if we just picked a random republican from the house of representatives once a year and then pretended to stab them and it was law that they had to comply
Today on “Indigo posts fanart for the niche indie game visual novel nobody following him knows about”, we’ve got a mothman! Not THE Mothman, that would be his dad. I firmly believe he has ADHD just like me because come on. Look at him. He goes on long rambles that can bore and confuse some, he’s very bubbly, loud, and energetic, he tends to forget about responsibilities or procrastinate on them until the last moment… need I go on? He’s just like me fr fr.
Recently saw an insta vid where a musician was singing lyrics that described their intrusive thoughts as a person with OCD, and in the comments every so often there would be people writing like “bro what is this 🤨🤨” and “keep this between you and your therapist dont post it on the internet” and it just further fueled my belief that OCD symptoms and intrusive thoughts need to be talked about more because a majority of the struggle with the disorder is the shame surrounding its symptoms. OCD is not able to be easily romanticized or ‘quirky'fied like other disorders or neurodivergencies have been*, and as a result its symptoms are more quickly met with disgust or repulsion.
Other people in the comments were thanking OP because it captured the struggle of real intrusive thoughts instead of impulsive ones. Impulsive thoughts are more of the 'I’m gonna dye my hair randomly on a thursday night’ thoughts vs the intrusive 'what if I drove my car into that family and suddenly killed us both’ thoughts, the latter of which make OCD as a disorder truly debilitating. And the people that immediately assign bad morals to intrusive thoughts? They only further condemn people with OCD to never wanting to talk about the symptoms they’ve already been struggling with shame about.
I feel it needs to be made more blatantly explained to the public that OCD intrusive thoughts aren’t desire based. They’re fear and disgust based. You fear hurting anyone so badly your mind can’t stop thinking about what if you hurt someone. You fear molesting anyone so you never want to even touch anyone. Your mind fixates on the 'what ifs’ and distorts them into the idea that, because you think this way, you must want to act this way–when the reality is the exact opposite.
If a person with OCD ever confides to you one of their intrusive thoughts and you feel a knee-jerk reaction of disgust towards them, it needs to be reiterated that:
1. the person does not want to be thinking about this, their brain is legit hardwired to make those thoughts pop up
2. the person themselves also feels this disgust, often intensely, and they very likely resent themselves for ever thinking it
and
3. they have no desire to enact the intrusive thought, because its intrusive nature hinges on the person’s fears and dislikes.
*And to clarify what I mean by romanticization and 'quirk’-ifying, I do not mean to imply that romanticizing any disorder or condition is inherently a good thing. It’s only to state that conditions like anxiety and ADHD have been made such common/'trendy’ topics recently that they’re less taboo to speak about–leading to more people talking about their struggles with it, and helping others realize they might have it too and aren’t alone. Because certain OCD traits aren’t as marketable (obviously) a lot of those with it are left rather isolated.
ALT
