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@emstargazer / emstargazer.tumblr.com

Em, struggling uni student, he/they. Music, vidya gaem, animanga, night sky aficionado and beyond! About Me
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people love to demonize anger and label you as a sort of failed trauma recovery story if you’re even slightly angry about the way you’re treated and I just think that’s so stupid. sometimes people are mad for 100% justifiable reasons and you should just let them be mad instead of having a superiority complex about it

inexplicability/unknowability in art is not often understood as an intentional artistic decision, let alone respected as one. I'd almost call it entitlement on the part of audience, but it's not even that, really. it's a complete inability to ask - was this ever meant to be understood in full? is there a reason why it wouldn't be? is it uncomfortable to think about? maybe it is supposed to be uncomfortable to think about.

there is a discomfort often present when you don't understand everything about a piece of art and i feel like many audiences are eager to smooth it over & fill in the gaps with their own understanding so they don't feel uncertain about it. but sitting with that discomfort is so important to interpreting art! even with works that DON'T have an intentional sense of preserving mystery, you just aren't going to understand a piece of art 100% even if you want to. figure out why you don't understand it. think on it. let that sense inform part of the art for you. it will give you a much more rounded approach to media criticism!

tumblr and discord changing their ui just enough to be noticeable within a week of each other, 1 million billion neurodivergent people found dead

i go on discord. the icons are tiny now. i go on tumblr. the icons are massive. i kill myself

matt just fired half the remaining tumblr support staff lmao

from my sources adjacent to tumblr--from which i can spread rumors and insider information freely because i dont give a fuck about ever working in the tech sector--im hearing this round of firings was focused on purging the senior staff, and not just support but the entire remaining tumblr workforce. i'm hearing there are about 25 people left.

Ah. Yep, time to start utilising the "export blog" button at the bottom of tumblr.com/blog/[your url]/settings every once in a while. It'll make a backup of every single post you've ever made, reblogged, queued, or drafted, and you can download it. It'll even include the media. Yes, the images and videos from every post you've ever reblogged.

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