maybe people would be more willing to spend money on this website and tumblr wouldn’t be in such financial trouble if @staff actually listened to what their userbase wanted instead of continuously rolling out unnecessary updates that only serve to clutter the dash with no way to change it back. if we wanted a website that looked like twitter, we would be on twitter. i get the push to try and make tumblr “easier” for new users, but how well is this site going to function when it’s doing its hardest to alienate and drive away their long-term userbase?
Look we have records of Medieval Knights crying out in their sleep, having emotional outbursts or flinching at the sound of clashing metal. We have records of people all through history who were treated badly by people who should have loved them, and having problems knowing who to trust. We have years worth of artists putting their human pain at broken hearts and broken promises into music that makes us cry.
Yes people have been traumatized by awful things for all of history and just like them You didn’t deserve to be hurt either.
“suffering doesn’t make you better, it just makes you suffer” - maus
“it’s weird for queer minors to be friends with queer adults” oh my god. ohhh my god.
intergenerational community support, especially in a community that is split so much age wise as the queer community, is immensely fucking important. get to know older queers and younger queers. this is how communities frazzle out and die to infighting.
the hypothetical queer adult that people are mad over in the post this is refrencing is 35 years old. only 35.
Anyone else ever notice how like, fatohobes and transphobes and like, every other weird puritanical rightwing-adjacent asshole talks about bodies like they’re gonna get trade-in value for the damn thing in the afterlife?
Like, as if the body is a “starter home” that they’re gonna flip when they die or some shit?
Your body should show no signs of having lived. No scars, no tattoos, no stretch marks, no wrinkles, no piercings. If you MUST alter it then you can ONLY make changes that increase curb appeal and adhere to current market trends.
Just like your home should be white walls and shiplap and open modernist floorplans with no sign of personality because omg, what if that lowers the resale value!?
Sorry but the body isn’t an investment. St. Peter is not going to give you a coupon or some shit if you die and your body is Like New still.
I feel like neil gaiman’s regular presence on this hellsite is like… an unintentional secret that we all have. I never question it, and yet it’s just like… on your right you will see the queer podcast fandom. on the left you will see author of coraline and good omens and the sandman. yeah he’s here. yeah sometimes he’ll appear in your notes or respond to a shitpost when you least expect it. it’s fine.
BTW for anyone too lazy to do the math a wage of $125 a day works out to about $15/hour for an 8-hour workday so….. someone in 1923 definitely had a vision of the future
So I am treating myself to a day at Dashcon. Thing is I can only go one day and both Friday/Saturday have really cool things planned. Which day should I go? Please help me out.
Saturday has a ball pit and meet-ups soooooooo. ;D
