After dicking around on Little Red Book (apologies because I keep forgetting the phonetic spelling but obv its name isn’t English) i can say that as far as im seeing all of the Americans are being really respectful and eager to learn and all of the Chinese are super welcoming and happy to have us over there and genuinely this might be the start of the end of anti-Chinese racism at least in a portion of the internet community because everyone is having a really sweet time together just talking to each other. Idk it just makes me happy
Things that are happening on xhs (xiaohongshu) (Little Red Book) as of today:
- the cat tax is real and THIS specific image keeps getting posted in the comments of American posts
- everyone keeps making Chinese spy jokes on both sides of the language barrier and everyone thinks it’s hilarious
- something like half my explore page is beginner mandarin classes
- there’s a culture amongst the Americans forming of “do NOT fuck this one up guys, we are in their house and we will be POLITE” which I really love
- in the same vein, im seeing posts go around of people encouraging each other to google translate their posts to mandarin so the app natives don’t have to translate it themselves, again as a sort of “you guys were here first and we don’t want to make things more inconvenient”
- a lot of people very unironically being like “wow I didn’t know we all had so much in common and you guys are super based” (from both sides) is going on
-the amount of English homework getting passed over to us to do is insane
- Americans are bad at English homework and keep accidentally giving the wrong answers
- this:
pretty well encompasses the vibe of the American TikTok refugee side of xhs right now
-at this point it’s mildly unusable for me because I don’t have convenient access to google translate on my phone and Americans are so good about translating to mandarin that they aren’t even putting the English version in their posts anymore. which is epic ngl
the left column’s header is “reclamation:”. below is a picture of a person who holds a poster overhead. poster says: “that’s mr faggot to you.” text below explains: “presents the slur as an identity worth defending, explicitly opposed to how most people use it.”
the right column’s header is “not reclamation”. below is a picture of a person who smiles and says, “of course i look normal, i don’t have to act faggy just because i’m gay.” text below explains: “uses the slur as something negative, worth condemning and distancing from, identical to how the general public uses it.”
the second picture is a screenshot of the tags.
#that’s part of why i can’t see the use of the r slur being framed as reclamation #not once have i seen it be used in a positive way. people just use the word reclamation to mean “being able to use a slur”
a really great organization that i don’t see any posts about here is HEAL palestine. it was founded by steve sosebee, who was a founding president of the PCRF before leaving in late 2023 to refocus his efforts on heal palestine to better meet the needs of palestinians impacted by the genocide. the organization provides palestinians in gaza with food, clean water, shelters, “makeshift classrooms,” and even medical evacuation for some children when it’s possible–their services are pretty wide.
you can donate here if you would like to send a tax-deductible donation to an organization. also, i don’t think any evacuations are possible right now, but if you’re in the united states and you’d like to welcome medically evacuated children in the future, i highly recommend signing up for their newsletter or following them on social media so you can stay updated in case any children evacuated by HEAL come to your area for treatment. welcoming these kids at the airport is a really moving way to provide them with moral support, entirely for free.
if it’s okay to add-
Rami Kashou, a Palestinian designer (originally made famous on Project Runway) has an ongoing deal on his website right now, where 100% of the proceeds on certain items will go to HEAL Palestine!
If you have the available funds to make a larger donation, then I think this could be a great option as you would also be supporting Palestinian artists
Smut fic on AO3 always seems to have a way lower kudos to hits ratio than non-smut fic; because a larger percentage of people reading feel ashamed to attach their screen name to a kudos on an adult fic.
Which is a shame, really.
If you’re posting smut, never let yourself be disappointed in the number of kudos.
hate when ppl on this site see other ppl making lighthearted jokes about media and go “wow you guys are so cringe and lame, you know the media isnt ACTUALLY like that, right?”
like yeah. we know. we know breaking bad isn’t about transgender jessie pinkman. that’s the whole joke, buddy. we know.
we need a cuteness aggression equivalent term for when you see art of your favorite character you like so much that you sincerely cannot think of anything to put in the tags that isnt “im going to start biting off my own fingers”
if you’re aware of the Vulture article on Neil Gaiman, there’s not much i can add; if you aren’t and you go looking, my only advice is that if you hit a point where you’re wondering if you should bail, do so, because the details of his behavior only get more vile as it goes along.
however, one thing i WILL say is to be on the lookout for smear campaigns against the sources and/or the journalist, Lila Shapiro, in the coming weeks and months. i cannot stress enough how brave this article is. if there’s one thing more hazardous to your reputation than blowing up a rich and influential serial predator in the entertainment industry, it’s making the church of scientology look bad, and she’s managed to do both in one stroke. remember Lila Shapiro’s name, and be extremely skeptical if it suddenly turns up later this year as the target of some slimy allegation.
if you’re aware of the Vulture article on Neil Gaiman, there’s not much i can add; if you aren’t and you go looking, my only advice is that if you hit a point where you’re wondering if you should bail, do so, because the details of his behavior only get more vile as it goes along.
however, one thing i WILL say is to be on the lookout for smear campaigns against the sources and/or the journalist, Lila Shapiro, in the coming weeks and months. i cannot stress enough how brave this article is. if there’s one thing more hazardous to your reputation than blowing up a rich and influential serial predator in the entertainment industry, it’s making the church of scientology look bad, and she’s managed to do both in one stroke. remember Lila Shapiro’s name, and be extremely skeptical if it suddenly turns up later this year as the target of some slimy allegation.
tumblr users how are we feeling about bullying musk off this platform before we even knew it was him
im so sorry that this is how you had to find out that elon musk was thecybersmith
This isnt funny and this meme of bullying Thecybersmith needs to stop. I dont care if the darker timeline is a joke account, it’s not funny when you are perpetuating the bullying of actual individual people.
Please.
Just stop it.
so i shouldn’t compare elon musk and human pet guy because it would be insulting to the human pet guy???
This website costs 0 dollars to be on but costs in other ways.
im surprised no one is talking about how elon musk paid people to make high level hardcore characters for him so he could claim it was all his work on livestream only to be immediately exposed as he couldn’t even play the game right
its called irony poisoning bc it makes u sick in the head
yeah man sorry for caring about this thing i like too much. it wouldve been much cooler if i pretended not to give a shit about anything at all actually. this makes me better than everyone who expresses feelings which are inherently a sign of weakness as you already know
its called irony poisoning bc it makes u sick in the head
yeah man sorry for caring about this thing i like too much. it wouldve been much cooler if i pretended not to give a shit about anything at all actually. this makes me better than everyone who expresses feelings which are inherently a sign of weakness as you already know
I find it so funny, in light of TikTok’s imminent American demise, that even now they aren’t considering moving to tumblr. The last two social media refugee crises (Twitter -> X and whatever happened with Reddit) prompted a wave of wide-eyed new baffled tumblr users to flood this app and yet last I heard all of the tiktokers are flooding en-masse a Chinese social media app. That is entirely in Mandarin. Instead of moving to tumblr.
Like. People are learning mandarin to join this social media site. I’m not joking. There are tutorials going around to show people who don’t speak Mandarin how to sign up for this app. They’re all talking about how they’d rather learn a new language than join instagram reels and it is not a thought in ANYONE’S mind that tumblr is also potentially an option
To be clear im not mad about this. I’d rather see a generation of people learn a new language and engage in cross cultural connections than have a wave of tiktokers flood this app but I still think this whole thing is very funny
no because that is quite literally what is happening on Red Book right now like. All of the Chinese users went “hey why are there suddenly a gazillion Americans on here?” to which the Americans went “they’re banning TikTok and we’re moving out of spite” and the Chinese were like “oh cool send us pictures of your cats and help us with English homework and we’ll send you pictures of our cats and help you learn Mandarin” and as far as I can tell everyone is having a genuinely very nice time together.
What I’ve seen looks very promising! It’s a lot of Americans telling each other to behave and not fuck this up for everyone, plus cat pictures (I think cat pictures in exchange for asylum is becoming a meme over there)
yeah so I’ve seen this picture like twenty times now it’s definitely a meme
Ive seen people be like in modern fantasy like “oh the pritagonists can just look up spells on their phone how do you solve that”
Imma be honest most people who go on recipe websites and book every recipe they see don’t even use them lmao why would with be different
Given how terrible most recipe websites are i can only imagine how bad spell websites would be
Having to navigate someone’s entire life story of how they became a witch in order to get to the part where they actually talk about the gods-damned banishing ritual
the number of ‘easy 3 step spell to fly’ that at best do nothing, and have a good chance of doing something very bad to you is non zero
Three words “BuzzFeed Spell Hacks”
five minute witchcrafts
the scry guys
Actual good spellcasting instructions but in the comments there are folks given it low ratings because they completely substituted the components needed and their spell did something completely different
Oh this is actually an incredible urban fantasy worldbuilding thought. Love it.
Rebecca Sugar cooked with “Character whose entire existence is devoted to the service of another character who’s now dead and now they have no idea what to do with themselves except live.” I love that shit. I forged myself into a tool for you and now you’re gone. I’m sniffing this like a bloodhound
“I swore I’d die for you but now you’re dead and I have no conception of what it’s like to live outside of my devotion to you but now I’ve no choice but to learn” is already so delicious. But giving that character “Fumbled a BBW and now has to raise her kid” is so much better. There’s umami in this
Hey hey hey listen to me [snaps my fingers in front of your face] you’re not going to be mean to kids joining Tumblr because TikTok got banned right? You’re not going to make fun of them because they’re ‘cringe’, especially on the supposed ‘cringe is dead’ app, right? You’re not going to go out of your way to just be hostile to children because you don’t like them, right?
“Oh but they deserve it, they’re annoying” cunts were saying that shit about you when you were ‘uwuing’ and ‘smol beaning’ on here in 2015. Kids will always be annoying and your generation, nor will you, ever be an exception to that rule. This app isn’t like an exclusive club, be fucking nice for once.
If China can be nice and engage in a fun cultural exchange with everyone spitefully joining Red Book, Tumblr can be nice to everyone coming here, alright?
Hey hey hey listen to me [snaps my fingers in front of your face] you’re not going to be mean to kids joining Tumblr because TikTok got banned right? You’re not going to make fun of them because they’re ‘cringe’, especially on the supposed ‘cringe is dead’ app, right? You’re not going to go out of your way to just be hostile to children because you don’t like them, right?
“Oh but they deserve it, they’re annoying” cunts were saying that shit about you when you were ‘uwuing’ and ‘smol beaning’ on here in 2015. Kids will always be annoying and your generation, nor will you, ever be an exception to that rule. This app isn’t like an exclusive club, be fucking nice for once.
If China can be nice and engage in a fun cultural exchange with everyone spitefully joining Red Book, Tumblr can be nice to everyone coming here, alright?
gender-affirming surgery is a months-long dark comedy. what the fuck do you mean you’re charging me double for everything. what do you mean they itemize the bill by left and right ball. what the fuck.
