taking this out of the reblogs of my last post @deez-no-relation because I think it’s important and its own thought.
There isn’t any place similar to Tumblr on the internet. Here and now is the last shreds of an internet that was, an internet that could exist without monetization. An internet that lasted through so many ~pivots to video~, an internet that is text and gif and photo first. An internet that is driven by serendipity and the impetus of the user to do the searching, the digging, the work that is just handed to you by algorithms on other sites for the purpose of better advertising to you.
The best part about Tumblr is the reason why it can’t monetize and I have been hitting up against this wall for literal years. There’s magic here because it’s one of the places that hasn’t been overrun by ads. Every social site’s business model relies on those midrolls, prerolls, in between story slides, because the money is what keeps them running.
Someone joked about making Tumblr a UNESCO World Heritage site and honestly? That’s where my brain goes, too. Tumblr is a library. Tumblr is a museum. Tumblr is a third place. Tumblr is where people can go to be inspired and go feral over shit they love and indulge in passion and process their shit. How do you monetize that safely?
@taylorswift honestly this is your moment to bankroll Tumblr and save the internet (just kidding….) (unless…..)
As much as I fucking hate it, sign up for Tumblr Premium. Because the simple fact of the matter is that if we want to keep Tumblr, we have to help pay for Tumblr. Last thing any of us want is yet another fucking subscription siphoning away our money, but that is how the world currently works. So if you can, fork over the $7 a month… I do.
I’m willing to pay to be here because I love this stupid website. I’ve been here for about 14 years and I don’t think I’m fit to survive anywhere else now. I’ve acclimated.
That first Polish-language encyclopedia was right about dragons. “It is hard to defeat a dragon, but you have to try.” That is in fact a definition of “dragon” that cuts to the heart of the matter and covers all the essentials.
A dragon is something that A) is very hard to defeat and B) must be fought. That’s it. That’s all you really have to know when approaching the subject.
when we get into conversations of “liking this fictional thing means you support it IRL/want to do it to real people”, i immediately get a red flag off the person making that argument.
because, like… i write a LOT of stuff i have no interest in doing IRL. scary stuff, kinky stuff, a lot of super mundane stuff, too. my physical sex life doesn’t resemble the smut i write at all, even a little because my boundary between real life and fiction is solid. and it’s not like a “oooh i’m so good at resisting temptation” thing, i mean like, i write a lot of oral sex scenes and have zero interest in sucking a dick IRL. i write a lot of dark subject matter and unhealthy relationships, and i’m living in a happy, pretty boring marriage that i wouldn’t change for anything.
but someone who goes hard on “you like (noncon/incest fic/idk fucking teacher/student storyllines), you must want to (assault someone/fuck your sibling/bone down with your teacher or student)” stuff, it makes me think that person has a shaky boundary and they’re not very safe to be around. i become deeply worried about their impulse control and their ability to contextualize.
i’ve said it before, but i’d honestly rather spend my time with people who write triggery darkfic but have basic respect for others vs. people with a “good and virtuous” media and fanfic diet who can’t shut the fuck up about all those kinks no one is forcing them to read.
If you do this with my fics, or anyone’s fics, please know I HATE you. I hate you more than every troll comment, every “your writing sucks kys” comment, every “update soon” comment. I hate you. Other authors hate you. If you want my fic, you either WAIT for it or you pay me for it. And if you won’t do one of those things, you don’t deserve my fic or anyone else’s.
my solution to copyright is that everything unconditionally becomes public domain with the creator’s death. anything held by a group will lose their rights with the death of its leader; whether it be a CEO for corporations or a president for state media. this will solve no problems but will lead to extremely funny assassinations
sounds badass. sign me up
You can’t “mutilate” a story by writing more stories about it, what does that even mean.
It’s actually very normal to not be able to make money for your family any more after you die. Bricklayers, for example, die without leaving IP for their families to passively make money on. This is the default way to die. The idea that your dependents should be able to keep passively making income on something you created many years after you die is the weird one here.
The canonical example of a profession where your family continues to make passive income from your work after your death is… landlord.
I actually have much less of a problem with landlords than your average Tumblr user, but I continue to think the Rapid Onset Copyright Maximalism people have terribly confused politics.
i live in a riding that is projected to be neck and neck between the cons and libs, no chance for ndp. i generally don’t like the thought of strategic voting but i’m starting to feel like i need to this time around. anyone else in a similar position?
i guess the best i’m hoping for is another agreement between a lib minority govt + ndp like we had to get things like universal dental care etc passed
I’m a fan of strategy voting when it’s actually strategic.
Voting strategically to achieve an outcome of ABC (anyone but conservative) sends a loud and effective message that Canadians are not pleased with the current policies and leadership of the conservative party. It forces the overton window back toward the left and forces them to analyze their internal party bullshit and hopefully make a change.
With our first-past-the-post system, if they can eke by and get in, their leadership and policies appear to have a mandate (even if they don’t really).
While I’ve voted NDP in every election I’ve been eligible to vote in to-date, this one I’ll be voting strategically for the liberals. I’m in a blue riding but there’s now more than a snowball’s chance the liberals can take the seat and I’m going to do my best to help make that happen.
katniss is sooo funny she’s out there thinking omg peeta would be absolutely gobsmacked to hear me and gale talk shit about the capitol when he literally told her 5 days ago he didn’t want to be another piece in their game. miss girl…
my hot take is that peeta is and has always been more rebellious than gale sorry but I must speak my truth
Peeta is absolutely as rebellious as, if not more than Gale. It’s just he’s more strategic whereas Gale is tactical.
Gale’s rebellion is more “obvious” because of the actions he takes: he speaks his mind about the evils of the Capitol; he’s eager to go into combat and fight the Peacekeepers; he’s active in designing weapons.
Peeta’s form of rebellion is more subtle. It’s holding the Gamemakers accountable for the deaths they cause. It’s his insistence on holding onto his core essence despite the Capitol’s attempts to dehumanize people from the districts. It’s holding up a mirror to the Capitol citizens and forcing them to see the brutality of the Games—that they could choose to send two teenagers desperately in love to their death, that they could rob them of a future together with their child.
And ultimately, it’s choosing to live his life in the face of everything he and Katniss have endured. Choosing to forge ahead and build a life with her, have babies with her.
I like to think that down the road, Katniss realizes that Peeta was rebellious all along but just in a different way.
[Video Description: a lynx casually walks down a snow covered bank, onto a log and reaches a frozen river. The lynx takes two steps; the ice cracks loudly. Instantly the lynx stands still. It then looks around and then leaps. The lynx makes a landing on the other side of the river, a faint crack can be heard. It continues on its way unfazed. /End VD.]
That’s a guy who’s fallen through the ice before, lmao.
Something I need to be reminded of often. Yes, I’m very lazy and also have executive problems up the wazoo (the difference? laziness is fun), but the cultural expectation of being productive every waking moment isn’t healthy either. And the business of feeding ourselves is especially fraught these days.
This is the same topic and screenshot that gave some of my chudliest chud haters such a meltdown after I posted it myself once, they raged at me for days and one by one dropped off of Tumblr forever. This subject kills idiots.
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