are you gonna do magic about it?

So, this thing is absolutely not trying to be a brainless fun teehee girliepop movie. It is indeed a deeply stupid film, but not on purpose. You can tell there's a genuine effort there to be artsy and meaningful! They're trying to use color symbolism and to make commentary about arousal and sex and abuse and offer some perspectives on gender and classism! This thing wants to be deep so badly that it's actively got a shovel in one arm and a fire hose in the other.

And that's what I've sort of found with most of this white woman made media with underlying racism and/or major insensitivity, which is that it's not that it's all supposed to be I guess "brain smoothing" good times.

It's that for a lot of it the lowkey racism isn't incidental, but rather a vital component of the fantasy they're trying to sell. They don't want you to point it out because that is a load bearing bit of bigotry that actually appeals to them.

White supremacy often gets sold to white women on the idea that they are desirable. Yes, ladies, you might be a second class citizen, but you're a beloved second class citizen who will be cherished and protected by your strong husband, who will keep you from being stolen away by savages who want to rape you. And isn't the idea of being so desired that there are savages who would risk dying to steal you away kind of exciting too? It's akin to the poor white men getting sold on the idea that they at least get to be part of the same group as the rich white men, that they are allowed to be above other men, even if they're still getting fucked over by classism.

White women on the whole are usually well aware that the second class citizen thing is at least kind of bullshit-y, but, it's harder to pry some of them away from the appeal of being the object of irrational desire. Heck, in some ways embracing the appealing aspects help with embracing the idea that it's also a bogus deal, since a component of it is that white women are beautiful victims and martyrs whose suffering is an aspect of their appeal. Which on the one hand is like, yeah sure y'know that makes sense, a lot of people want to be desired and to be told that their suffering is real. The trouble is that this comes as a package deal with the white supremacy baggage, it's not just being desired, it's being the desirable white, it's the dangerous exotic savages, the victim of the covetous gaze of said savages and also of masculine aggression in general, it's the only truly finding your match with a white guy, it's being innately and universally more desirable, and etc etc. It's a whole specific romantic fantasy that you can't really leave intact and pry away from the racism.

You get the whole walk cycle and the little sprint at the end.

Sometimes her sprints last for like 4 or 5 seconds and she can shoot herself off the couch or into a wall if she gets a grip with her back claws. If she does it next to a wall, her head smacking into it sounds like someone is trying to break into the house. She doesn't wake up.

the notes:

it’s just a personal preference, it’s not that deep, go outside, touch grass, get married, work a hard job, have kids, stop thinking

so you’re saying I have to fuck people with [trait]? you’re going to show up at my apartment and force me to fuck strangers? your analysis of beauty standards is literally rape. OP wants to fuck me specifically, a random hostile stranger in their notes. they’re turned on because their body disgusts me! (no I have never seen them but I vividly imagine their body as disgusting because why else would they make a post like this)

did you know that another society/culture/time period had a different set of beauty standards? I bet OP didn’t even realize this

actually beauty standards are evolutionary instinct and you’re anti-science. you want us to ignore biology?

I actually WANT to fuck people with [currently devalued trait]

we should remind people that [currently devalued trait] was valued in a different society with another brutal hierarchy based on bodily ideals as proof that [currently devalued trait] is good actually. this definitely does not replicate the exact politics OP is challenging

once I met someone with a stigmatized bodily trait and they were a bad person. I’m sharing this anecdote absent any context so others can draw their own conclusions. if you go to my blog every single post is me sharing totally real stories of people with this trait doing mean things. I’m not saying certain bodily traits create inferior morals, I’m just compulsively curating an entire blog to imply it over and over and over

they'll play fine on blog view (example) the gifs will load and play for me there

but in dashboard view of the same gifset here it will load the gifs but then not play them unless i click then it plays when clicked on in lightbox view but still only in the lightbox view (the gif is still not playing in the background outside the lightbox) and it's still the case once i exit the lightbox view

[ID in alt text]

got an email back from tumblr support staff quite quickly with the solution that worked for me:

"We recently made a change that will prevent GIFs from autoplaying if you have chosen to enable reduced motion/reduced animation settings on your device.

Here's where you can check those settings, depending on your device/operating system:

In Windows 10: Settings > Ease of Access > Display > Show animations in Windows.

In Windows 11: Settings > Accessibility > Visual Effects > Animation Effects.

In macOS: System Settings > Accessibility > Display > Reduce motion.

In iOS: Settings > Accessibility > Motion.

Paramedics probably should know if someone is pregnant. Famously, this is a temporary condition that is not carried on a driver's license, and the vast majority of women are not pregnant at any specific given moment, so simply knowing someone is a woman gives you no information whatsoever about her pregnancy status. The behavior "treat all women as if they might be pregnant" is actively deleterious to the health of non-pregnant women. It'd be better to have no gender marker, but have a pregnant person wear one of those wristbands, like people with any condition they absolutely need paramedics to know about.

Or worse. "Sir, you can't be this person, it says you're a woman." "I am a woman." "Nice try, but I can tell by your shaved head and your heavy upper musculature that you're a man." "I have literally given birth. I am a butch woman who bodybuilds. Fuck you."

The marker is actively antithetical to its purpose of making sure that the person presenting the ID is the correct person, if the person is perceived to be a gender they are not, or the marker hasn't been updated (or has been forced back to the AGAB by the Kansas government). Most GC men and women do not really look like each other. Even a woman named Chris with a feminine hairstyle probably looks different than a man named Chris with a masculine hairstyle who's trying to pretend to be her. So for GC people the gender marker's not needed; most GC people do not look like a member of the opposite sex, and therefore, their faces won't match a picture of the opposite sex. You don't need a marker for that. and GNC, the marker is more likely to create confusion than it is to clarify.