Fear

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?

but now that we do have better blocking, we should try to revive it.

hurry!!

This happens between couples, in parent-child relationships, in friendships and other dynamics but I have to specifically highlight it within the context of domestic violence committed by a male partner against a female partner. The reaction is particularly rancid because there is a societal expectation that women should ‘take care of’ men and be responsible for them. A woman can spend 15 years trying to help a violent man get better when he has no desire to do so and when she finally leaves for the safety of herself and her children and he ends his life, she is blamed for it. As though he wasn’t the perpetrator, as though he wouldn’t have killed her and the kids if he had continued access. I wish I could say this is uncommon but a not insignificant number of men commit suicide after their wife files for divorce/after their divorce is finalized and reactionary misogynists continuously point to this as a reason divorce is bad or women are evil instead of acknowledging that that guy was holding his family hostage and ended his life when his hostages escaped.

insane shit happening over on uquiz right now

I haven't drawn them in a hot minute

Chuuya on ice