Of fucking course Terfamort also started attacking asexual people, and on international asexuality day no less. What a vile human being.
*celebrates Ace Day harder*
*covers myself with an ace flag so maybe I turn invisible*
Like I’m not going to lie, this scares me. I still remember 2016 Tumblr, okay? And I know how much influence this lady has.
Yeah, it’s… not great. I’m not even active on Twitter anymore, I just keep the app on my phone so I don’t have to deal with links opening the browser version, but seeing that first thing genuinely was giving me flashbacks to some of the shit that happened on this site a decade ago.
The sudden wave of terror was the strongest emotion I’ve felt in a while.
Honestly, the lady just really hates her readers. Hates all the people who bought her books. Hates them all so, so much. Not sure why, maybe she read too many Dramione fanfics, or saw too many people suggesting better endings than she could write.
Anyways, I’m not too worried about her bothering aces, myself. Unlike with the trans kids she targets, there’s probably not much she can do to us.
You weren’t in the ace community circa 2015-2016, were you?
Hm. I was not active in the ace community around then. But I have identified as ace since 2003 or so, when I first heard the term on go-gaia.
Like, there’s more than one reason why I dislike the BBC Sherlock series (and ugh that House episode, why is it that the Sherlock Holmeses of media acknowledge and disparage us at the same time), but I’m certainly not worried about Gatiss causing me injury the way that I’m worried about JKR stopping trans people from being treated as humans.
if you didn’t watch how viciously the ace community was driven underground on this site, I kind of don’t think you’ve got any room to be making this kind of what aboutism argument
yeah trans kids are in active danger. if JKR decides that she wants to target the ace kids next, they’ll be in active danger too. Don’t know why you’re trying to gotcha about it.
I *was* here for the “discourse” but let’s call it what it was.
A hate campaign. Intended to drive a wedge between groups in the LGBT+ community, which asexuality is explicitly and inherently a part of, no question, no arguments, no debates. It scared a lot of us, hurt a lot of us. Aces were threatened with and sexually assaulted. Over time, it seems a decent chunk of the community pulled their heads out of their asses once the primary bad actors realized they had a better, easier target (trans people). Don’t whatabout to the threats on trans people as if they won’t come for us, too. They ALREADY tried to, and *will* try again. I was literally threatened both offline and online for just visibly ID'ing as ace. Bigots will attack and do real injury to anyone and *everyone* they consider different. The trans hate just sells better on mainstream media. For now.
You see the way asshole bigots are trying to get the cis members of the LGBT+ community to turn on our trans siblings? That whole “LGB” movement? They tried that with the ace community, too, and now JK is preparing to lead the effort on it again, *because she’s a Neo-Nazi now.* She hates trans people so much that she aligned herself with Neo-Nazis that want to take away all of our rights, including those of all women, cis, trans, straight, gay, white, PoC, all of us.
Don’t let her win. The point of the LGBT+ community is to accept people that are different from the heteronormative, cisnormative, amatonormative, and allonormative expectations of how our society is structured. The best way to beat her and bigots like her? Don’t let her or anyone else drive us apart.
I think another issue so many ace people have issues with is that no one ever really reckoned with the widespread hate campaign. And it was widespread. I have at least one friend who was threatened with being shot if they showed up to pride as an ace person.
And yet, when it finally died down, no one like. Acknowledged what had happened. They just all turned on the next target (trans people, so it’s super fun to be both) and people just sort of forgot about the vitriol and hate they sent to so many people. People just went “wow that was a wild time” if they even remember it.
The ace community is not like it once was. It has never recovered. It used to be a lot sillier and more joyful, and a lot of the ace people I know now are a lot more jaded and angry. And we have a right to be.
The aphobia always been there seething under the surface because no one ever even recognized it. It was never fixed. It just quieted down for a while, and JKR is poking at a bubble of poison again.
Look, I’m ace. I’m also not cis. And this acknowledgement by this woman of ace people has my blood running cold.
Gosh yeah that’s also a great point. There was this massive hate campaign that they had the audacity to call “discourse” (“I’m just asking questions”) and then everyone else just… collectively memory holed it. No apologies, not even an acknowledgement that it happened other than the ace community pointing it out any time someone wonders what happened. I’m pretty sure half of my blocklist is aphobes (the other half is mostly transphobes and bots) because I developed such a kneejerk block reaction to anyone I saw being aphobic.
I’m honestly somewhat jaded to ace hate at this point; a sad statement, but it’s true. I follow Yasmin Benoit on socials and her comments are always full of dipshits showing their ignorance (which has a lot of Venn diagram overlap with misogynoir but that’s a TED talk for another day). So I saw her quote tweet JKR, and at first I didn’t think anything of it - she’s good at tanking the trolls while still getting her message across.
Then I saw who she quote tweeted, and my stomach absolutely dropped to my shoes.
y'all know that whole left-brained/right-brained thing is fake right? and the “brain fully develops at age 25” thing? and the “we only use 10% of our brains” thing? yeah they’re all complete horseshit please yell at anyone who says them
okay people are doing nuance in the notes about the kernels of truth in neuroscience myths but I really really need you to understand that that is not important here. people don’t believe there are “right-brained” and “left-brained” people because they’ve misunderstood lateralisation of the central nervous system, they believe it because that binary framework was deliberately pushed by people who wanted to define who was logical enough to lead, and surprise surprise, white adult heterosexual men are left-brained. people don’t believe the brain “finishes developing at 25” because they’ve misunderstood life stage differences in neuroplasticity, they believe it because the idea that children, teens, and young adults have inferior brains is a convenient rationalisation for a society that marginalises them. people don’t believe you “only use 10% of your brain” because they misread an fMRI study, they believe it because it’s useful bullshit for everyone from hyperindividualist historical revisionists pushing the great genius concept of scientific progress to hucksters recruiting for cults that will teach you to unlock your latent telekinesis for just $5000 a month. that’s why it’s fucking important to know that many popular science ideas are false and to push back on them loudly and frequently, because they’re not just mildly incorrect, they are often active components of systems of violence.
god I could be so wealthy if I had no ethics. that’s so fucking frustrating. I’m living paycheck to paycheck because I’m not grifting vulnerable idiots on TikTok. I feel like I have the ability to very easily scam people. I could make a killing with AI. but god. I have morals and ethics and so I get to be poor as shit. I hate this fucking world
I could have made a killing as a psychic, but noooo I have to feel bad about lying to people ugh
I think abt this all the time because the thing is, evil rich people truly believe that they’re geniuses who have discovered a way to make money that the rest of us dummies haven’t…but the truth is that they are just willing to do evil shit that everyone else would prefer to not to because we have standards
When I attended my graduate school job fair, Raytheon (unprompted, hearing me say my degree at the next table) offered me $230,000/yr to come work for them. That was their opening offer after hearing nothing more than my degree, in a city with a very low cost of living. The only catch was that the job was working on vision systems for missiles. (i.e. those ‘targeted’ missiles which kill a ton of civilians as collateral or intentional damage)
I ended up taking an $85,000/yr job as an optical research scientist at Corning instead.
It is an odd feeling, having a price put on your soul. I’d be a millionaire with a house by my mid-30s if I’d accepted that. And the offer is still open, in fact I’d have an even more generous one waiting for me with the skills I have now.
In all seriousness, if you have the right skillset, you can actually sell your soul. This very week. You will live in comfort and moderate luxury for all your days. Two of my family members did that work decades ago, until they couldn’t stomach it any longer, and it set up the rest of their lives.
But I promise you, it’s not worth it. It’s been almost 50 years for one of them and it still haunts him. He says the worst part was the way they (him included) talked about human lives as things. Numbers on a spreadsheet, sterile corporate jargon in meetings. A lifetime later and you can still see it in his eyes when he talks about it.
You can’t take it back, treating humans like things.
firefox is just such a standard browser for anyone remotely interested in computers that remembering basically every normal person uses google chrome feels like a kick in the head
The deep despair I felt when I learned that a friend uses Opera
The deep despair I
felt when I learned that a
friend uses Opera
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
they could have said, like, “we made a new wolf morph, which shows how far genetic science has advanced”. they could have said, “we’re calling them direwolves out of a love for the extinct species.” maybe too much to ask for but would have loved it if they’d pointed out some kind of ecological niche they were theoretically intent on resolving - like, “wolves are having trouble adapting to human sprawl and we are hoping that our research into the past will help us save wolves in the present.”
but alas they did not do this. and see this sucks because i want to be hype about new bigass fantasy wolves. there is a 7th grade version of me that would be ecstatic about this. she would be obsessive.
unfortunately, due to capitalism, now i gotta have beef with puppies. can you imagine.
“depiction is not automatically glorification” can and should coexist with “some depiction is glorification and you need to be able to tell the difference”
Please add to that list “apparent glorification in the first 15% of the thing does not constitute real glorification if the remaining 85% is dedicated to suffering the consequences, deconstructing the damage and changing ways” because some people around here don’t understand how the three act structure works.
Y'know yeah i will absolutely add this especially since people keep saying fight club is an example of glorification. Genuinely thanks for having one of the few good additions to this post
Had a dream last night that i was a knight and this bigger scarier knight had me on the ground and right before he swung his sword at my neck he said smth like “i mourn the loss of life for the tree who will become your coffin” which shouldnt have turned me on like it did but alas
docdufresne
Hatte letzte nacht einen traum dass ich ein ritter war und dieser größere furchteinflößendere ritter hatte mich am boden und direkt bevor er sein schwert auf meinen hals geschwungen hat hat er etwas gesagt wie “ich trauere um den verlust des lebens für den baum der dein sarg werden wird” was mich nicht so hätte anmachen sollen wie es das tat aber leider
Ieri notte ho sognato che ero un cavaliere e quest'altro cavaliere più grosso e pauroso mi aveva messo a terra e appena prima di colpirmi al collo con la spada diceva qualcosa tipo “sono in lutto per la scomparsa dell'albero che diventerà la tua bara” il che non mi avrebbe dovuto eccitare come ha fatto ma ahimè
Fait un rêve la nuit dernière que j'étais un chevalier et y'avait un chevalier plus grand et plus effrayant m'avait mis à terre et juste avant de frapper de son épée mon cou il a dit qqch genre “je porte le deuil de l'arbre qui deviendra ton cercueil” ce qui aurait pas dû m'exciter comme ça m'a excité mais hélas
My coworker said he was having a bad day and I said ‘it can’t be that bad you haven’t started howling like a sad dog yet’ and he let out the saddest most pathetic little howl I’ve ever heard and I was like 'damn ok do you need to have a break?’
Banned from manager training for making my coworker bark.
LGBT people, I need you to know that any “pedophile execution bill” passed in the US is meant to put you, personally, to death. When the right says “groomer,” they’re talking about you. When they say “predator,” they’re talking about you. When they say “pedophile,” they’re talking about you. Any actual child sex abusers who are convicted and executed would be, to them, a happy accident, a cherry on top of a law that’s meant to exterminate anyone who deviates from the cisgender, heterosexual norm.
“but they can’t possibly think we’re all really child molesters”
if you haven’t already figured out that facts don’t matter to these people I don’t know what to tell you
me, having deeply fallen out of the practice of writing poetry: I can’t write any more, I am now a Talentless Hack
the voice of my 11th grade journalism/12th grade creative writing teacher who rly did know everything: if you stop writing for a while the words will build up and stagnate. to clear the water, you will have to open the dam completely, and accept the fact that what initially comes out will not be palatable
This. This is so true. Starting again is more important than what you actually write. You are rusty. You’ll build up momentum again. All you need to do is start.
it’s imteremsting how you can post mostly art on the internet without telling much about yourself but people will create a picture of your personality in their heads just from seeing your art. and most of these assumptions are wrong. and they will never change unless you uncover something about yourself. thousands of versions of you live in people’s heads. you became thousands of different people you will never be in real life
not joking though. lets be serious for a second. hey team? lets get serious for a second. *turns my chair backward and sits on it like an english teacher about to “get real” with his class*. every single time i brush my teeth my gums bleed
everyone in the comments misunderstands . this is good..this is a good thing. the more blood the better its working
there was a well-meaning international student (learning english) in my workspace who came up to me and asked “how is your handsome white boy?” and it took me a few seconds to realize she was not in fact asking about my twink spouse but my white dog
tbh no april fools gag tumblr ever pulls will ever be as good as the lizard election of 2016 staff put more effort into that than the rest of this website combined and it shows
for those of you who werent here in 2016 on april fools that year the entire fucking website was transformed and there was an election for a position that wasnt even ever specified and the candidates were four lizards (or three lizards and a salamander as a scandal would later prove) and it was called decision2016
each lizard had their own 3d models and tumblr blog and campaign and there was also a tumblr blog dedicated to reporting on the election and they made like whole ass news broadcasts with a guy in front of a green screen
you could vote for your favorite candidate and there was a built-in function that let you make and post a campaign poster
in case anyone was wondering the winner of the election was mop. relatable and reliable. #Mop Could
lest we forget
This was absolutely the biggest April Fools effort I ever witnessed while on staff. I already posted about this in an ask but here’s more of the shit that went down behind the scenes.
- Like all April Fools, this was done entirely through volunteer work on Staff. No one was forced to work on April Fools, it’s always employee-initiated and driven, even if it needs approval from leadership.
- The prank almost didn’t go through because leadership felt that the lizards weren’t relatable enough, so the compromise was to give them hats.
- The video updates on the Decision 2016 blog were greenscreen Fiverr actors that were all recorded months? Weeks? in advance? I wasn’t on creative so I don’t know all the deets about how those were made.
- As mentioned in my post, the victory speech by Mop was one of our designers screaming as loud as she could in a closet near the end of the day. The full audio was never posted but staff kept passing around the scream on slack and laughing about it for months afterwards
- There was a “war room” dedicated to advancing the election narrative as votes came in, posting updates in real time and also pushing changes to code as necessary (for bug fixes and what not)
- The votes were real and the “election” was decided by real users, even if the graphics and whatnot were exaggerated for comical effect. Mop won because Mop won. Democracy at work
- Someone brought in their own lizard to celebrate the proceedings. It was a bearded dragon
- This was the culmination of what was probably the most cohesive and imaginative (and largest) creative team Tumblr ever had. Unfortunately almost all of them are now long gone, and Tumblr Creative is now just a skeleton crew compared to their peak
- Wretched Tooth Doesn’t Like To Talk About Himself
- People drew porn of the lizards and posted it on Tumblr. Staff saw it and were sending it to each other on the company Slack. We thought it was great. I mean, terrifying, but great
- This picture of David Karp is my favorite photo of David Karp I have on my phone
a whole chapter of my tumblr memoir will be “lizard election 2016”
it was the first project i ever led myself, and i thought i’d be fired for sure by the end of it. completely worth it. would do it all again.
my only regret, echoed by @zacksultan and a few of the other creatives, was that we didn’t get BuzzFeed and other press in the war room with us at the time. it was magical.
i have a new theory called alive internet theory where i propose that the internet is full of real people and you can befriend some of them even and maybe actually kiss them and more
Daily reminder: Transphobia actively contributes to sexism. If you don’t fit the beauty standard and are seen as masculine in any way shape or form, you are seen as transgender and as a “problem”
I think it’s incredibly important here to not overlook the fact that she is a Black woman. Transphobia, racism, and sexism overlap significantly because of the incredibly eurocentric beauty standards women are judged on.
because I’m about to be on the job market, I’m like very aware of how good it would feel to believe in this MAGA stuff, at least until the promised revival of manufacturing just doesn’t happen
like idk if the MAGA people really get that
If you keep out imports, domestic manufacturing doesn’t have to raise production. They can just raise prices. I think some have noticed this and don’t like it, but idk what they’ll do about it.
You’re probably not going to incentivize a firm to invest in manufacturing by putting tariffs on their suppliers.
The kind of people who get an extra x% efficiency out of chemical vapor deposition in Asia tend to try and make a billion dollar app here, and who can blame them? Even Elon Musk went and became a dotcom millionaire first.
But it doesn’t take any explicit agreement for domestic companies to raise prices when the overseas competing product has gone up like 30% or more. It’s not illegal to do it, just to talk about it
you can ban prosecute an oligopoly for making an explicit cartel agreement, but you can’t legally compel them to “vigorously compete”
yeah a typical cartel of say a dozen organisations requires regular meetings in the stereotypical smoke-filled rooms to figure out exactly how best to stiff consumers – how many members does OPEC have, oh huh exactly twelve, neat – but if market concentration whittles that cartel down to two or three “competitors”, well it’s easy enough for them to keep an eye on each other and “compete” in ways that don’t involve cutting prices without any need to explicitly coordinate at all!
“can we normalize-” NO!!!!!! we do not need to expand whats considered normal!!! we need to teach people to stop reacting judgmentally when encountering something new and weird!!!! things dont need to be normal to be respected!!!!!!!!!!
the thing about using modern labels to describe and delimit historical identities and relationships is that it implies that modern labels describe all of the types of identities and relationships that are possible for people to have. but actually there were more possibilities in the past and there are more possibilities in the present and the future than those that can be neatly defined and put into our current limited boxes. allowing ambiguity in isn’t about denying possibility or solidarity or history, it’s about embracing it
Hey. An artist named hourglass-meadows is threatening the Rain World fandom that they're going to be doing AI art from now on on a confession blog unmasked and deleted replies that exposed themself. Saying this because they've been REALLY harassy and trashy just because their art "doesn't get enough attention" while being passive aggressive and hostile to other artists. I don't think they've posted any AI art to claim as their own yet but the threat is very real based off of some reblogs they've recently deleted.
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