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Can we talk about how Fox has been paying a ton of popular youtubers and instagrammers to talk about The Greatest Showman and do dance and song covers of it

Those candles were placed beside wherever I slept that night. In the morning, I would move them and set them wherever I’d have to hang out. At one point I carried one around in my purse - one of those big honking 3-wick candles. I never lit them, but I’d open them and smell them a lot.

I credit that purchase with a lot of my drive that got me to where I am today. I had been working tirelessly, 15+ hour days with barely any reward, constantly on the phone or trying to deal with organizations and associations to “get help at”. It’d gone on for almost a year by the end of it, and I was so burnt out, to the point that I would shake 24/7. But I could get a bit of relief from my 3-wick “upper middle class lifestyle” candles. They represented my future goals, my home I wanted to decorate, and how I would one day not be in this mess anymore.

When we moved into the apartment, and our financial status improved, I burned those candles every single day. When they were empty, I cleaned them out, stuck labels on them, and they became the starting point of my really cute organization system I had ALWAYS planned to have.

Logging off for a single day isn’t of interest to tumblr. I’m not saying y’all shouldn’t protest in any way you can or want, but logging off the site for just one day isn’t going to bother tumblr because tumblr doesn’t CARE about your symbolic protest. Tumblr has proven time and again that it doesn’t CARE about its userbase. We’re still using the site and we won’t stop using the site any time soon because there’s no alternative. But that’s what we’d have to do to hopefully force tumblr to change anything. And they still won’t do it because their policy change isn’t about family values or what the userbase allegedly wants. It’s about money.

So, unless you stop using the site and app permanently, or for a long period of time, this isn’t going to matter to tumblr. And when you do, you need to do it in big numbers.

The Wichita Daily Eagle, Kansas, December 30, 1899

The Saint Paul Globe, Minnesota, March 2, 1905

The Tribune, Seymour, Indiana, July 13, 1909

The Atlanta Constitution, Georgia, May 13, 1912

The Evening Journal, Wilmington, Delaware, June 11, 1913

Woodson County Advocate, Yates Center, Kansas, August 6, 1915

The Guntersville Democrat, Alabama, June 22, 1921

Daily News, New York, New York, February 13, 1925

The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Kentucky, May 22, 1950

St. Mary and Franklin Banner-Tribune, Franklin, Louisiana, August 27, 1971

Like, the premise of the movie is that  babies are churned out of a baby factory in the sky and a select few are immediately shunted into corporate espionage jobs in some bizarre caste system and “the company” (the one making babies) is in danger of losing its customer base because a rival company is selling GMO puppies that are cuter than babies.

Don’t get me started on how many kids movies boil down to some version “babies are mass produced in a capitalist factory system” “weather is mass produced in a capitalist factory system” “human emotions are mass produced in a capitalist factory system” “animals are secretly intelligent and work in a capitalist factory system.”

I remember reading a comic a while back saying that Ghostbusters is the most quintessentially American movie because it posits that if people discovered that ghosts were real, the first thing they’d do is create a marketable business that immediately abuses as many osha violations as possible.

And while yes, Ghostbusters is certainly a capitalist fable, it pales next to the late-stage-capitalism inherent in 70% of the 3D animated kids movies that have come out since the year 2000.

Anyway,