Please R&R!!!!!!!

oh my fucking god

don’t touch my fucking goalie

This is my favourite thing

Dear Jeff D’Onofrio,

I would like to discuss your recent announcement, and just how tone deaf, ignorant, and harmful it is. Livejournal did this exact same thing to us once, and it’s deeply upsetting that instead of learning from their mistakes, the harmful things they did and perpetuated, you are instead repeating them whole cloth.

First you say this:

Tumblr has always been a place for wide open, creative self-expression at the heart of community and culture… we’re proud to have inspired a generation of artists, writers, creators, curators, and crusaders to redefine our culture and to help empower individuality.

The you go on to say this:

We’ve realized that in order to continue to fulfill our promise and place in culture, especially as it evolves, we must change. Today, we’re taking another step by no longer allowing adult content, including explicit sexual content and nudity (with some exceptions).  

And then this:

We recognize Tumblr is also a place to speak freely about topics like art, sex positivity, your relationships, your sexuality, and your personal journey. We want to make sure that we continue to foster this type of diversity of expression in the community, so our new policy strives to strike a balance

And finally this:

It is our continued, humble aspiration that Tumblr be a safe place for creative expression, self-discovery, and a deep sense of community.

You cannot have a safe place for creative expression, self-discovery, and a deep sense of community  when you just told the majority of that community they’re not welcome.

Which is what you did. A lot of are, shockingly, adults. We do grown-up things. This website was a rare one in which we could combine all our myriad interests in ADULT ways. A lot of us are professionals who posted our works here, be it writing, illustration or other. You are telling us, basically, that we’re little better than sex traffickers and our content has to go right out the door with theirs.

That’s not fostering ‘a safe place for expression, self-discovery, and a deep sense of community’.

That’s purity culture. It’s your website and obviously you can do what you want, but don’t claim to give a shit about people when you’re literally telling us that we’re not welcome because of our interests.

It is not the internet’s job to serve as secondary parents. If underage people are looking at things they shouldn’t, it is their parents problem and responsibility. Not yours. Not mine.

And it’s exhausting, hurtful, and distressing that time and time again this sort of things happens. Fanfiction.net. Livejournal. I could compose a list that would reach to the moon. We do not deserve to be treated this way just because we write about or draw graphic sex. The sex is not the problem. It’s never been the problem.

The problem is that it’s largely women and queer people enjoying those things.

So thank you for being one more person and company who thinks that women and queer people are no better than sex traffickers and pedophiles. Thank you for stabbing us in the back like so many others. Thank you for reminding us that the world thinks we’re garbage, and we’re not allowed to simply enjoy things the way  cis men and straight people are. That we’re only allowed to enjoy them behind the heavy gates of 'adult’ sites.

Cis men are not constantly told to go to adult sites to enjoy the things they find sexy and attractive. Straight people are not told to stop posting pictures and videos and movies and books and more about people fucking. Cis men and straight people are never lumped in with pedophiles and sex traffickers in yet another 'what about the children’ attack of puritanical thinking. They are never told to just go to adult sites because there are plenty of those. They are never asked to leave simply for existing and likes all the same things that everybody else likes.

This change is not going to fix the problems you’re reassuring everyone you care about. It’s just going to hurt the people who thought they were safe, and have learned yet again that we’re not.

It’s witchcraft????????? Like I would be burned at the stake if I lived in ye olde days knowing that information?????

It’s best to have someone do this for you while you stand up and relax your muscles as best you can, but if you’re alone, a tennis ball and a flat surface will probably work. Alternatively you can lie on the edge of a bed at the pressure point. (But no really do try to find someone to do it for you)

Find the area in your spine between either the first, second, third, or fourth vertebrae. It should be sore and uncomfortable to press down on, so look for the one that’s most painful, and press down with as much pressure as you can on that area for 30 seconds.

Realize that 80% of your pain has magically disappeared and keep the info secret if you live in a small puritan town, lest you be tried for witchcraft.

This is good for tension migranes and normal migraines, but actually pretty useless for sinus migraines. It’ll help for a hot second, but quickly come back. (These are usually the migraines behind your eyes, in your ears, and behind your forehead. Sometimes it can feel like jaw pain or TMJ) for sinus migraines, behind the ear in a divot. Press down firmly and pull towards your collarbone. That’ll drain your sinuses. Also, pressing around the eye socket on the cheekbones help. There is also a little triangle up away from the eye in the eyebrow bone. Press and hold pretty hard and that’ll relieve that behind the forehead pain. Also, ear pulling is great to help move sinuses around.

Don’t forget the temples too! Press firmly and hold. Open and close your jaw while holding your temples. It’ll feel weird, but it’ll help with jaw pain. It’ll work a similar way if you hold the jaw joint under your cheekbone.

After succumbing to a fever of some sort in 1705, Irish woman Margorie McCall was hastily buried to prevent the spread of whatever had done her in. Margorie was buried with a valuable ring, which her husband had been unable to remove due to swelling. This made her an even better target for body snatchers, who could cash in on both the corpse and the ring.

The evening after Margorie was buried, before the soil had even settled, the grave-robbers showed up and started digging. Unable to pry the ring off the finger, they decided to cut the finger off. As soon as blood was drawn, Margorie awoke from her coma, sat straight up and screamed.

The fate of the grave-robbers remains unknown. One story says the men dropped dead on the spot, while another claims they fled and never returned to their chosen profession.

Margorie climbed out of the hole and made her way back to her home.

Her husband John, a doctor, was at home with the children when he heard a knock at the door. He told the children, “If your mother were still alive, I’d swear that was her knock.”

When he opened the door to find his wife standing there, dressed in her burial clothes, blood dripping from her finger but very much alive, he dropped dead to the floor. He was buried in the plot Margorie had vacated.

You can tell if that’s the case by checking the same web page on a different browser if you have a different number of stored cookies for that site. I checked something on Chegg and it was $14.95 on Chrome, $19.95 on Firefox, and $16.95 on Safari.

The fix? Clear your cookies for that website.