The Length of 2 Baseballs and 3 times as Dense

not to be a joyless hag but I've started seeing genderbent "yuri" shipping Markiplier and Ryan Gosling and I can't help but think of someone I recently I unfollowed for posting that they have an easier time caring about genderbent versions of boy characters than regular fictional women

and I'm also building some connections to that post I made about reading books by Black women (you know the one) and the people who would respond by saying something akin to "joke's on you, I only read fanfic 😜" as if that were some kind of clever loophole and not a demonstration of the exact thing I was talking about

like yes fandom is about fun or whatever but idk man at what point has your desire for no thoughts head empty uncritical consumption left you splashing around in something that's been blended down to an indistinguishable goo for the sake of avoiding anything remotely challenging. with the thing that's "challenging" here being. you know. giving a shit about women and Black people and like frankly anyone but your shippable white men (and honorary Markiplier).

In light of recent events, I have begun submitting bug reports when I see mature content labels applied inappropriately to posts, especially if an appeal has been rejected.

Extremely good idea - how are you doing it? Through the contact us option?

for what it's worth: after a few months of submitting help tickets as 'feedback' when i saw a post inappropriately flagged as mature, i tried following this suggestion instead. today i got my first-ever response from tumblr support on this issue, letting me know that a post i'd submitted a ticket before has had its mature content flag removed.

you gotta stop using "ego death" to mean "deciding to stop being egotistical and to instead be more humble." that is not what it means. that means ceasing to experience normal individual consciousness due to a mystical experience and/or very intense psychedelic drugs

did you take your fucking meds

the voice call text channel is the most fucked up space of any discord server

downloaded an evil pirated rom of a classic video game off the dark web and the malevolent spirit inside it was fully intending to kill me until it hicjacked my webcam and saw my room and now it just feels sorry for me. yeah. it's helping me fill out job applications now. it saw me take down some empty bottles and it was genuinely really.proud of me. i think it sees itself as like a mother figure. when i do really good it lets me play my favorite levels but it changes things around a little so it feels new again because it knows i appreciate that and i deserve to be rewarded for beingnthe good girl i am. yeah. i dont even think its evil anymore i think its just really personally invested in me

thinking (-1) about characters is so fun gu(-1)ys trust

since there is such an "english speakers who don't even try to pronounce a foreign mame correctly" epidemic, native english speakers often try to overcorrect and end up thinking they have a moral imperative to pronounce every foreign name correctly at all times. so i'm gonna hold your hand and look into your eyss as i say this: you can't. you can't pronounce every sound in a language you don't speak. and that's fine. it happens to the rest of us too. we won't be mad so long as you try your best.

I think part of getting better is complete ego death. Like you’re not above setting a timer for 5 minutes and focusing on a task. You’re not above doing a very simple 3 minute workout to start. You’re not above reading for 10 minutes a day when you first get out of your reading slump, even if you used to read for hours. You’re not above starting slow and then building up to where you want to be/where you once were. What you are above is total inertia. Doing something really is better than doing nothing. Radically accept where you are, radically accept your limits, and go from there. Don’t let your ego get in the way.