this disability pride month lets be kinder to folks with moral ocd . no more “if you really care about this minority , you’ll reblog this post” , “someone will die if you don’t reblog this” , etc etc , and all other kinds of guilt tripping reblog bait . at the VERY LEAST tag your reblog bait so we can filter it out and avoid unnecessary spirals . it’s 2026 , we need to move past using guilt to get engagement .
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You know, an interesting tumblr transformation that's happened gradually, and which I've seen no one talk about: ask-culture has essentially dropped off to nothing.
By which I mean, asks used to be WAY more of the tumblr economy. They used to be more common to send, and receive, and see. They were integral to the collaborative, forum-like behavior of old tumblr communities, not even to speak on the HUGE number of ask-blogs that used to exist to only be interacted with in ask-form.
I'm not saying this in a vying-for-attention way but instead in an observational way: I used to get way way more asks in like 2015, even with a fraction of my follower count. I wonder if it's due to the homogenization of social media sites? There's a lot more of this divide between "content creator" and "consumer" instead of just a bunch of peer blogs who would talk to each other. "Asks" aren't really a thing on twitter, are they? And as I understand it, the closest thing to an "ask" on instagram or tiktok would be a creator screenshotting some comment and responding to it in a new reel or video or whatever those content mediums are. Are asks just too tumblr-specific? Is that aspect of the site culture dying out as more and more people converge to using all their social media sites in the same way?
it's probably from assholes making asks a minefield of trolling/harassment for years with no real blocking ability, which turned people off from allowing asks on their blogs so as a whole the site moved away from it
but now that we do have better blocking, we should try to revive it.
It's probably not JUST from hate asks though, seeing how there are also fewer people who rant in the tags of reblogs than there used to be, likes outnumber reblogs by so much, and tag games have very nearly died out. I think it really does have a lot to do with how social media has changed, as OP has said, to re-enact the old pre-internet division between creator and audience.
I see this on other sites too, for example FB recently got a redesign that made comment sections much less visible and it doesn't indicate anymore if your friends already interacted with a post. It also doesn't put your friends' comments on your timeline anymore. It's a shift from interacting with people you know and also with some pages to being a passive consumer of posts by pages first, and if you're lucky you'll see some stuff your friends are up to...
For all that the 1800s etiquette guides are--obviously--derangedly sexist from a modern perspective? They're also mindblowing in how casually they will assert things that MODERN DAY CONSERVATIVES would scream and cry and shit their pants about.
"People back then always married young it's natural!!!" Every single 1800s guide I've ever met casually mentions that, of course, you really shouldn't get married before you're at least 20, and waiting until 25 is usually better.
Or, like. Okay here's a long segment:
Just firmly going "it is crazy sexist to blame The Wife for overspending when thirty seconds of asking questions will immediately establish that her husband was outright lying to her about how much money they had. Talk to your wife like a normal person."
Or--okay, here. A section on being honest and not writing love letters in secret, because that's usually a good sign that there's something untoward going on....
....except that he then immediately acknowledges that sometimes, the reason you're hiding this from your parents is that your parents suck. That there are parents who frankly have not earned the right to approve or disapprove of your partner.
(I realize the phrasing there sounds a lot less strong than my summary, but--trust me on this. When you're familiar with the narrative voice of these kinds of books, this passage is downright radical. The mere acknowledgement that if you treat your kids badly, it's your own damn fault when they don't talk to you? I've genuinely never seen that before in this genre.
Don't freak out over "properly trained", either. It's just a linguistic shift--at the time, "training" was used the way we would say "raising" a child today. )
It is an mRNA vaccine with successful mammalian (mice) trials.
The vaccine targets life-threatening inflammation and immune responses.
Mice with serious allergies, which received the vaccine tailored to those allergies, stopped having immune reactions when exposed to those allergens.
Aka: vaccinating against allergies.
If they can develop it for safe human use, it could save an enormous amount of lives, and IMPROVE the lives of people who live in constant fear of encountering their lethal allergens.
Because it’s able to be tailored, and specifically affects the immune system response, it may one day be able to adjust immune responses to chronic conditions like Celiac Disease, Asthma, Food Sensitivities, Food Allergies, and potentially many other autoimmune disorders.
Imagine a future where a child with a deadly shellfish allergy could get a shot and just… not be allergic anymore. Eat shrimp with no fear.
Be born with Celiac, get a shot, and casually eat gluten with no side effects.
We’re not quite there yet, but it’s performing well in mammalian trials, and we have high hopes!
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Always remember that the EU did a study in 2013 about the effects of piracy on media publishers and found that there is no correlation between piracy and sales! (And then they tried to hide that study bc that's not the result they wanted)
So piracy is at worst not even a problem, and at best it's free advertisement.
Source: (the link to the actual study is in the article)
In 2013, the European Commission ordered a €360,000 ($430,000) study on how piracy affects sales of music, books, movies and games in the EU
laerryn and loquatius being arguably one of the best romances to ever happen in critical role's entire run is proof that you don't need hundreds upon hundreds of hours of content to be good. it's the quality of the story, not the quanity, that truly makes something impactful.
Thinking about what music the Campaign 4 characters would listen to for my own amusement.
Tyranny, as discussed in Whitney's Fireside Chat, is a heavy metal/hyperpop girl.
Kattigan is a classic 90's grunge kind of guy - Nirvana, Pearl Jam, STP, you get the idea - but he also secretly loves sparkly pop women. Will never admit to his Katy Perry phase.
Thimble probably listens to faerie music, which I can only assume involves a lot of tin whistle, but she also inherited Thjazi's taste, which is straight late 70s-early 80s punk. This woman has opinions on Green Day.
Teor is...you know Eye of the Tiger? THAT subgenre of dad rock. He has been to an Imagine Dragons concert at some point in his life.
Julien is going through a Linkin Park/Three Days Grace phase right now.
Thaisha is some enigmatic combination of 70s-80s easy listening, 80s-90s hip-hop, and like. Whale sounds. Salt N Pepa meets Carpenters meets National Geographic.
Vaelus used to listen to happy Christian pop-country and now listens to sad Christian pop-rock.
Occtis listens to classical music. He was blasting Bach's fugues while he assembled Pincushion, much to the annoyance of his roommates. Did he have roommates? We may never know.
Murray, I mean, do you need me to tell you? If she's a woman who made good country music Murray has an encyclopedic knowledge of her discography. Redneck Woman blares from the aether whenever she enters a room.
Azune sits at the intersection of all the Falconer's Rebellion vets, since that's what he was exposed to as a teenager.
Hal listens to basically anything, but when he gets drunk he becomes incredibly snobbish.
Bolaire claims to have the most eccentric and indie taste you could have but it's actually just showtunes. His assistants have been driven mad by Skimbleshanks The Railway Cat.
Wick does not listen to music, lest his mind drift from the importance of the Creed. He does listen to recordings of religious lectures and the audiobook version of the Photonic Verses.
People who know more music than me tell me how wrong I am.
Nor is she a seductress in any kind of negative or manipulative sense - she has a mutual relationship with a powerful man who then breaks up with her, and afterwards she keeps protection against him in the form of evidence that the relationship existed. She HAS blackmail material, she even waves it at him threateningly because he treated her like shit, but she never even uses it.
Irene Adler is not a thief, femme fatale, or blackmailer. She's just a cool lady that wants to be left alone.
@delphi-star You do recall correctly!! She does not give a shit about that man! She's happily married! She tipped him for being a witness at her wedding!
If your Sherlock Holmes adaptation has a character whose identifying qualities are that she is a seductive criminal in love with Holmes, you have created a character that is basically the literal opposite of Irene Adler and you should name her something else.
She's also -- and I cannot stress this enough -- from New Jersey. IMO this is the single most important detail missing from all the adaptations -- IRENE ADLER IS FROM NEW JERSEY.
Please just once in my life I would like to see this adapted faithfully it would be the funniest fucking thing ever.
hello allo member of fandom. before you is an aspec character. your challenge is to not put them into a ship which defies, erases, or ignores their aspec identity.
having failed that challenge, your next challenge is to not defend said ship with the phrases ‘aros can still date’, ‘aces can still have sex’, related phrases, or derivatives thereof.
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if Mumford & Sons existed in Aramán I think 17-year-old Azune would have listened to Little Lion Man on repeat every night in his tent and cried. And I think Teor would eventually go up to him and say "you are not little lion man" and it would just make Azune cry harder because now he thinks he accidentally offended Teor. And Teor would panic and say "no no I meant you are not metaphorical little lion man, I didn't think you thought you were an actual lion man." Which, of course, would just make Azune even more upset because he feels guilty that he thought Teor would not understand the metaphor. And eventually he'd just be lying on the ground ugly sobbing while Teor is patting his back and saying "I wish to kill Mumford and all of his Sons"
not that anyone asked for further analysis but I think Kattigan would introduce Azune to Bruce Springsteen but instantly regret it because Azune would just listen to Nebraska on loop. he tells Teor "If I have to listen to Atlantic City one more time we'll find out whether everything that dies someday comes back." And Teor says "is still better than listening to the eh eh oh Bastille song every day, no?"
Thjazi keeps trying to get him into Green Day but Azune will only listen to Wake Me Up When September Ends and Boulevard of Broken Dreams
sorry to everyone out there who thinks they have the funniest tshirt but i think i can confidently say i just saw the actual funniest tshirt just now. i passed by a beautiful black woman with long multicolor braids blowing majestically in the beach breeze & she was wearing an oversized tshirt that said in gigantic letters "WHITE BOY OF THE YEAR"
We're at the "JK Rowling is personally funding litigation to try and destroy AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL" stage of rabid UK terf brain.
Screenshot via Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net on bluesky
Tldr Amnesty International, global human rights organisation, published a report called 'A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK'. In it is detailed, amongst others, a whole bunch of transphobic groups and organisations, including Beira's Place, JK Rowling's trans exclusionary sexual violence support service. JK Rowling threw a shit fit and got Amnesty to take the report down by threatening libel. This was obviously not enough, because you can't appease a fascist, so now she's going to bankroll a bunch of lawsuits anyway through the JK Rowling Women's Fund.*
You can read an archived version of the report here, please save it and share it.
*Not so friendly reminder there is no way to engage in the wizard books without enabling this shit.
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