I hate you shipping discourse I hate you unnecessarily aggressive DNI banners I hate you dehumanization of those you disagree with I hate you harassment over ships or favorite characters I hate you purposeful lack of nuance I hate you false equivalencies I hate you policing how people engage in fandom I hate you actively trying to make fandom spaces hostile I hate you refusal to filter your feed I hate you making it everyone else’s problem
Reblogged funnier-as-a-system
had to start talking to myself like i'm 5 because like yeah, I get it you wanna kill yourself because they're out of your favorite bagel and it feels like the end of the world and you wanna crawl back in bed, but wouldn't it be so fun if we washed the dishes finally. we can get bagels tomorrow
Reblogged birdybirdnerd
Thats actually really cool
It's really a Digital Lich- it's corpse is being resurrected over and over via arcane rituals.
:)
Reblogged heroofshield
The worst part, especially looking back on it after Disney Star Wars' pattern of sidelining diverse leads and the cancellation of The Acolyte, is that the show and Abbie were popular. Ichabbie was the top ship!! The fandom was diverse and passionate. Few cared about white Katrina, we were there for Abbie first and foremost. And it STILL HAPPENED. There was no widespread hysteria over casting a Sleepy Holly, NY police detective with a Black woman. If they had treated Abbie right, the fandom would have been happy! And yet, they still sidelined her.
ETA: Check out Kamilah Cole's fantasy novels here.
Here's the thing. What Kamilah Cole says in that tweet isn't quite right. It's not that they decided that what viewers wanted was more focus on white characters. It's that they decided they didn't want the viewers they had.
They KNEW FULL WELL that what their viewers wanted was focus on non-white characters. ALL THE DEMOGRAPHIC DATA indicated that was what their viewers were interested in.
They decided they didn't want the predominantly POC audience they had, and they were willing to alienate their existing audience in an effort to acquire the white audience they felt they "should" have, even if it mean tanking their ratings.
.
I watched Sleepy Hollow on Hulu.
I was mostly watching sci-fi/fantasy media on my Hulu account at the time Sleepy Hollow started streaming, and most of that media featured white leads and predominantly white casts.
But as soon as I finished marathoning the first season of Sleepy Hollow, Hulu started recommending me a bunch of shows it had never recommended to me before, that had absolutely nothing in common with my previous viewing preferences, and had almost nothing in common with Sleepy Hollow besides featuring black female leads.
Seriously.
Hulu's engagement algorithm was legit like, "If you like Sleepy Hollow you might also like Empire and The Fosters." If you don't know what those are, the former is soapy drama about a black family that owns a successful hip hop record label, and the latter is more of a family drama about an interracial lesbian couple raising foster children.
Which is to say,
Not only did the fans love Abbie, but she was the show's main draw. Numbers don't lie.
People who did not normally watch fantasy media were watching this show just to see Abbie, to the point that a streaming service's engagement algorithm assumed anyone who was watching this show must be watching it because they liked shows with black female leads, regardless of genre or subject matter, and started recommending us shows based on that assumption.
Spot on observation. They didn't care about the audience they had at all and made a play to attract more white viewers.
Reblogged laura-the-swarming
Reblogged penumbralwoods
whenever i'm trying to talk myself out of buying something i don't need i always hear my old russian professor's voice echoing in my head: "WHAT??? WILL YOU DIE THE RICHEST MAN IN THE GRAVEYARD?" and then i make an unwise financial decision
i'm so glad i happened to see these tags this is the best thing anyone has added to this post so far
Reblogged laura-the-swarming
And here we find a rare instance of a Humans Are Space Orcs post from Tiktok that isn't an AI voice reading a reddit post over a minecraft video.
I love this so much.
Reblogged heroofshield
Have you ever met up with an online friend that you met through a fandom?
Reblogged never-wake-up
And that’s all it ever was…
…A MIRAGE
Original artwork inspired by Alice Oseman’s “Loveless,” and the feeling of discovering you’re aspec
A diary entry you could say
Reblogged heroofshield
*baps you with my paws* *baps you with my paws* *baps you with my paws* *baps you with my paws* *baps you with my paws* *baps you with my paws* *baps you with my paws* *baps you with my paws* *baps you with my paws* *baps you with my paws* *baps you with my paws* *baps you with my paws* *baps you with my paws* *baps you with my paws*
Reblog to bap the person you reblogged from with your paws
Reblogged heroofshield
Btw much as I love to make fun of twitter and reddit's business decisions, I have 0% trust in tumblr's management to not go a similar route so this is your gentle reminder that you should regularly go to your blog settings to export your blog. That's a fancy way of saying you can download a backup of your blog so if everything goes down you'll still have a backup of your posts & convos.
It's gonna come as a surprise to most of you, but if you don't want to do that for whatever reason you're allowed to not reblog this post. I'm not holding a gun to your head here I'm just trying to spread the word for people who do want a backup of their stuff.
Also, made this guide for backup Tumblr blogs (ft. export blog method, and python 3 script method):
Reblogged
the problem with being a good person is that everyone falls madly in love with me
you're not a good person i saw you rip 5 scientists in half for trying to study you
🙄 oh grow up, everyone does that
String identified: t t g a g tat a a t ' t a g a ctt a tg t t 🙄 g , tat
Closest match: Ophiocomina nigra genome assembly, chromosome: 22 Common name: Black Brittlestar
Reblogged birdybirdnerd
my mom, discussing furries with me: but I don’t get all the cats and dogs, why wouldn’t you want to be a sexy animal? like a kangaroo
me: mama what the hell does that mean
my mom: so muscular