And like I genuinely am loath to negatively discuss womenâs bodies online and I think the way that famous womenâs bodies are up for discussion online and in the press is upsetting and dehumanising and I feel a lot of compassion for women who are struggling with eating disorders and body image issues in the public eye however the fucking mass weight loss happening to all famous women either through eating disorders or weight loss medication cannot just go uncommented on. Nearly every single famous woman got skeletal overnight and it is so incredibly worrying both for them and for what it signals to other women and girls about how they should look.
I remember growing up in the late 90s and into the 00s and how fucking normal it was to like, pick on women who weren't a size 00. Like, what even the fuck is a fucking size 00??
Sure, people were concerned for Angelina Jolie........but like......were they really? Or was this one more fucking thing to pick on.
Women's bodies are generally supposed to have fat. It's good for you whether you become pregnant now or never. It helps you get through illnesses.
I'm an adult, and I am BOMBARDED with three million GLP1 ads a day. No, I don't want your fucking phen-fen 2.0. No, I'm not 1000% pleased with my weight, but even as an adult, I'm not sure if my displeasure is organic or instilled culturally.
But can you fucking imagine what this is doing to little girls?? I was in third grade in the late 90s when I remember first being aware of my weight. My weight wasn't even bad until 2020, when my lifestyle abruptly changed, my diet didn't, and it took me too long to realize.........because I'd spent my whole life trying not to be obsessed with my weight.
Now these little girls have fucking Ariana Grande, who was already thin, looking like she......has been through something horrendous. They look....gaunt. They don't look any cooler or prettier or aspirational than Angelina Jolie, and all the other women with media induced BDD of the 90s and 00s.
Then there's women who are wasting away. At least before all this GLP horror show, you had to fight your hunger signals. I'm sure in time, it will come out that these GLPs are at least as bad as phen-fen. But you don't even need a prescription for this shit. And now you have the internet. All a little girl needs is access to her parent's bank account or credit card. No one is going to look at her over a counter and tell her she doesn't need this shit, leave. THERE IS NO FUCKING COUNTER!!! If her parents would notice, you know damn well, someone at her school has parents that wouldn't notice--either if there were strange charges on their bank or credit card, or if their GLP was going missing.
iâd like to add that the people who are pushing this shit on them oftentimes donât fully realize the impact they have, or they think theyâre the exception to the âdonât promote eating disordersâ rule.
itâs the mindset that exists in everybody, bear in mind. when you realize that maybe you shouldnât have put that piece of recycling in the garbage, or couldâve afforded this purchase from an ethical source, but tell yourself that âdoing it one time isnât gonna do anythingâ. you try not to think about it, just like them.
this is why itâs important to not underestimate your own influence. you might be surprised as to how much youâve influenced other peoples lives. this isnât to ask people to overthink, but to try and be more mindful with what you put out there, yaknow?
these ppl; theyâre casting directors, theyâre people who had a pitch for an advertisement, theyâre people who have popular music, or who have had opportunities to act, theyâre folks who edit videos, et cetera.
fatphobia isnât an abstract force. itâs actions, itâs what people say, itâs the decisions that people make, and itâs apart of what people create. it can be fought.
btw this isnt an argument in any way, itâs a call to action. itâs to make you think about what you say to others, and what you put in the public eye, and whether you actively call out fatphobia (+other issues) when you see them. you might think your actions feel too small, but wouldnât you rather do something small than nothing at all?
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So the spiders are a hard topic because they are mentioned So Very Few Times
The primary reference for Aurora's Spiders comes from Ghost In The Machine
this post here has a diagram Nastya's Actor made of Aurora
This post here can be seen to have aurora pretty clearly shooting a spiderweb.
this text should be of the most important note for this question:
Sun-sail
(biomechanical semi-sentient spiders maintain this web of metallic fibres 100s km square).
Can collapse, be angled etc"
But the jist is - the spiders maintain Aurora's space sail, which is her main form of propulsion through the stars. They are likely small biomechanical robots. They are semi-sentient by the note.
Additionally, the page for Aurora on the crew site reads "Cyberian Pallada-class Protected Cruiser (extensively modifed) / Arachnid âVoyagerâ Webship."
Emphasis here on Arachnid âVoyagerâ Webship
the spiders are related to her ship classification, specifically on reference to her solar sail.
I am fairly sure my good friend @orangezinnia has a write up somewhere on what a solar sail is and how it works!
you've actually got just about all the lore we know on aurora's sun-sail here! i think i personally headcanoned it was also used as a shield/protection against space debris, but no write up beyond that :P HOWEVER
there's this bit, from the facebook post announcing Nastya's.... nastya's...... (gets choked up and can't continue) oh just look at it
the "web" here is very likely just the "narrative web / story weave" nastya is escaping, but... it could also double as her literally exiting the aurora's sun-sail :(
In The Road to El Dorado there is only really one inexplicable thing within the plot. Miguel and Tulio plausibly bluff their way through or slip out of most situations. However, Iâd never figured out why the volcano actually stops erupting when Tulio commands it.Â
The conclusion I finally came up with is that the actual gods were watching their big entrance go down, and thought âoh, thisâll be hilariousâ
theres a lot of evidence throughout the movie to say that the armadillo (whose name is bibo) is a god.
they first find him in the jungle, where an armadillo has no business being
they find the entrance to the city, while being followed by him
he is present when the volcano starts to erupt (previous concept art also showed him in the background actually stopping the eruption)
miguel and tulio sucked ass at the ball game, so they used Bibo as a ball. He ricocheted himself all over the place and defied physics to get into the hoop every time
they come up with the flood plan to stop cortez when bibo pushed a glass over in front of them
Leaving aside any moralising about the Quest For Truth⢠and whether people "should" be annoyed at getting publicly corrected, the real reason you need to learn to rein in the impulse to issue an immediate correction any time you hear something that doesn't sound right to you is because pretty often you're simply going to be mistaken about which one of you is mistaken, and if you're the sort of person who feels the Urge to Correct, you know darn well that being corrected incorrectly makes you want to set that person on fire.
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When a character speaks to you deeply and you identify with them and see all of human complexity unfolding between you and them and then all anybody online can tell you is that theyâre Problematique. You people canât handle more nuance than can be held in a Dixie cup.
The adhd fairies are letting me do it now so letâs go!
tl;dr No one definitive answer, it depends on the denomination and it also depends on how people see transness. The three most common answers are
- âIt depends on the birthing parent, not the parentâs genderâ
- âAny child with at least one Jewish parent is Jewishâ
- âAny child with at least one Jewish parent is Jewish if they were raised Jewishâ
But thereâs more to it; if youâre interested itâs under the cut.
Okay so first the background.
Firstly, matrilineal descent is a feature of Rabbinic Judaism, the much larger supersect of Judaism. The smaller sect, the Karaite Jews, donât follow the Talmud and later works of Jewish law, having a more streamlined tradition of interpretation of Torah that aims to be as close to the Torah text as possible. Karaites use patrilineal descent. Iâm not sure how theyâd answer this question, so Iâll just focus of Rabbinic Judaism, but I felt it bore mentioning.
Also, this rest of this post will be about Judaism in the United States, because thatâs what I know enough about to answer.
So, traditionally in Rabbinic Judaism, Jewishness passes through the mother, for a few reasons. The two Iâve heard are because you donât definitively know who the father is and because women have often been the ones doing the bulk of childcare; so the idea is that young children are learning more about religion and culture from their moms than their dads. I think thatâs a lot less true now and thatâs likely a reason why this conversation opened up.
So letâs talk about the denominations and how they approach intermarriage a matrilineal vs. equilineal descent:
So, Orthodoxy, which sees itself as the continuation of the Jewish legal tradition, maintains matrilineal descent. Their perspective on intermarriage is that it does not constitute a legal marriage under Jewish law because Jewish law cannot bind gentiles (someone correct me if Iâve got this wrong), and also that sociologically itâs bad.
Conservative Judaism sees itself as similar to Orthodoxy except it opens avenues to overturn Jewish legal precedent, even ancient Jewish legal precedent, for times when thereâs a communal need or to correct inequalities. Itâs also less concerned with maintaining traditional âvibesâ or experience when tasked with new questions (eg on whether electricity is allowed on Shabbat). On the topics of intermarriage and descent, Conservative has the same stance as Orthodoxy, but thereâs been a lot of discussion within the movement about whether these stances should change. I will not be surprised if they shift in the next 10-20 years.
Reform Judaism views Jewish law as something we should study and learn from, but are bound by in the same way as Orthodoxy sees it. We should understand the laws, and interpret them as to what is meaningful in our lives. The official Reform position is that any child with one Jewish parent and one non-Jewish parent is Jewish if they are raised Jewish. Itâs left up to individual rabbis/temples how to define âraised Jewishâ and how to handle edge cases. Unofficially, there are rabbis/temples who recognize folks as Jewish if they have one Jewish parent even if they werenât raised Jewish. Reform explicitly allows intermarriage, and as of two years ago accepts students in interfaith relationships at their rabbinical school.
So how does this all apply to trans people?
Well, firstly, because most people are cis, most Jews are cis. Which means that right now, most rabbis are cis (although⌠my understanding is that currently, non-Orthodox rabbinical students skew disproportionately queer, so itâll be interesting to see how that plays out).
And so this means that a lot of these questions have been answered by cis people in different ways than how trans people might answer them.
Also, these questions are comparatively new, even though trans people have always existed. Jewish law traditionally exists as a strictly binary-gendered system. It acknowledges that intersex people exist, but only so it can slot them into that binary system. Interestingly, this doesnât apply to God; whose gender can be understood much more fluidly.
But, relevantly, all non-Orthodox denominations in the US are gender-egalitarian in most respects. Conservative Judaism did away with gendered differences in participation in services, ritual garments, and seating during services, ritual candle-lighting, and challah offerings. They state that gender in Jewish law now only applies to âanatomy-basedâ Jewish law. Which⌠already makes obvious that this framework wonât know what to do with trans people. But more on that in a bit. Relevant is the fact that the question of descent is still gendered in Conservative Judaism.
Back to OPâs question:
Because Reform takes a gender-egalitarian approach here, this isnât a question for them, as the child is Jewish.
Among Orthodox people who do not recognize transness as real, the answer would be that it goes by âthe woman,â ie, the person who they see as a woman based on that personâs assigned sex at birth. But we donât need to waste energy on this.
Among Orthodox and Conservative people do who recognize trans people, many say that it goes according to the birthing parent or egg donor, not because they see the birthing parent as a mother; rather, because they believe that when Jewish law says mother, it means birthing parent or egg donor. (There is also discourse about whether it means birthing parent or egg donor, in cases where that isnât the same person.) Essentially, this perspective assumes that Jewish law does not recognize transness, and that a trans-inclusive read means understanding gendered categories as actually sexed categories.
But trans Jewish scholar and rabbinical student Lexi Kohanski has said that such a framing is actually transphobic, because it reads the text through a lens that understands âwomanâ to mean âperson with a womb/egg,â and that by doing so we as the reader are actually bringing a transphobic read to the text. Iâm not sure what she has to say about this specific question, but itâs a relevant perspective.
A lot of trans questions are being asked nowadays of Jewish law, and the legacy denominations are frankly not equipped to answer them. For instance, a few years ago the Conservative movement published a Jewish legal response stating that trans women who convert to Judaism are required to be/get circumcised, because the requirement to circumcise is based on anatomy, not gender. But, trans folks have questioned this, as well as brought up the fact that it could be dysphoria-inducing.
Relatedly, many Jewish trans men have asked the question of if, after experiencing bottom growth on t, theyâre now obligated in the commandment of circumcision. This is a question not just of gender but of anatomy; if they now have a foreskin, shouldnât they do something about that? The solution many folks have come to is to pierce the foreskin such that a drop of blood comes out, based on the similar ritual for cisgender men who have been circumcised but not ritually so (eg, cis male converts).
These issues are discussed in a new trans-created scholarly work of answers to trans-related Jewish legal questions called the SVARA Trans Halacha Project, which I admit I havenât read yet, so it likely has better answers than what Iâve written here! However, it doesnât address OPâs question.
In the case of a Jewish trans woman having a biological child with a gentile, I wonder if some people would rule that the child is Jewish, based on the framework I mentioned above regarding reading the text trans-positively. I imagine some would.
But the question you ask is what about the case when there is no mother? How would that framework answer that? I think realistically that the practical answer is that very few people use that framework and so the answer would come from another framwork: either that the child is Jewish regardless, that the child is Jewish regardless of parental gender as long as theyâre raised Jewish, or that it goes by who carried the child (or possibly who donated the egg).
In the trans-positive framework, though? Iâm not sure! If anything, I think this presents a challenge to that framework! Since we canât just say that the child is null, neither Jewish or non-Jewish. I guess we could say that the child isnât Jewish because thereâs no Jewish mother, but that seems a little silly to me, because it would mean that two Jewish non-women who produce a biological child together cannot produce a Jewish child, which wouldnât be a desired or logical outcome in any framework.
Another place you could look for precedent here is a case of two cis men (either both Jewish, or one Jewish and one gentile) adopting a child or using surrogacy. Itâs a slightly different type of case but it has some similarities I think.
Ultimately, I think the best option is to convert the child either way, just so that all of oneâs bases are covered.
As an aside, itâs just generally rare that transness and gendered Jewish law even interact, because those things basically belong to different communal alignments. There just arenât a lot of trans folks in spaces that gender Jewish law, and those Iâve known have had a mixed bag of experiences. And those are binary trans people. The one time Iâve seen non-binary identity ritually recognized in an Orthodox space is a very religiously-progressive Orthodox synagogue (with a woman rabbi) that created a prayer section specifically for nonbinary people (in addition to the existing menâs and womenâs sections), but that isnât common. The reason this particular question breaks these norms (ie, that transness is the realm only of gender-egalitarian congregations) is because the Conservative movement is mostly gender-egalitarian, but this is one of the areas in which it isnât. So, in some sense, I guess this is really a question about Conservative Judaism.
Another caveat is Iâm no longer really at the forefront of these conversions because of how my communal involvement has shifted so some of this information may be outdated.
Anyway, conversations about transness and Jewish law are emerging and evolving as we speak and I think itâs amazing to be alive while this is being codified!
Also, I noticed that some folks in the notes are saying that itâs rare for this question to be asked because most communities who recognize trans people would consider any child of one Jewish parent to Jewish. This ignores the entire Conservative movement, as well as trad egal communities, as well as various folks not aligned with any movement but who fall into similar hashkafot. I recognize itâs not likely for an interfaith couple to join one of those communities, but it does happen, and in any case there are a lot of Jews who recognize trans folks and hold by matrilineal descent.
Iâm a nonbinary Jew who married a nonbinary gentile! I go to a conservative shul and our baby was considered Jewish from birth because I was the one who gave birth to him.
I mean' theyre going to have to have SOME answer so they can tell you whether tell you whether or not your kid needs conversion to count for b'nai mitzvah and subsequently minyan in their synagogue/you need to find a new shul.
Them not knowing immediately is less "a problem" and more "a form of enrichment".
How much discourse do you think there is in the kpop demon hunters universe over Huntrix's breakup? I assume half the fans are analyzing every second of footage from the last three years looking for signs of tension and arguing about the whose fault it was and half the fans are posting that it's actually kind of fucked up to ruin the Idol Awards with a fake onstage breakup just to build up to dropping a new song, even if it is kind of a banger
@sagewiththyme You know that's a fascinating point because I figure the two options are a) no one really remembers what happened at the end because of magic bullshit or b) they play it off as a really elaborate but fully planned performance.
And the second one - can you fucking imagine.
Imagine one of the most popular bands in the world have this ongoing lore bit that they're actually demon hunters and they're always referencing it in their songs. And then one day a new boy band pops up and gets wildly popular with an over-the-top-cutesy hit. They're so soft and sweet and respectful. They're called Saja (Lion) Boys and they're all like "join the pride!" How cute!
And then they announce a new concert and you get there and it's fucking this. They're all dressed as demons/grim reapers. Surprise, "Saja" meant Jeoseung Saja all along! They're singing about how they're here for your soul and they relish in your pain, just a stunning 180 from their previous personas.
And then while you're trying to process the emotional whiplash the fucking demon hunter band bursts in and beats the shit out of them with the most insane pyrotechnic show you've ever seen in your life. They "kill" the boy band demons and then you never see them again. The whole band was a fucking psyop for Huntrix to play up the "demon hunters" bit.
I would never recover. The cheesiest fantasy power metal band has NOTHING on that level of commitment. I'd be stanning Huntrix for the rest of my life.
[ID: A comment by @âsagewiththyme that says, "Didnât they also say that the Saja boys were fighting onstage and thatâs why they swapped time slots with the girls? Double breakup and makeup type thing". End ID]
"Yeah, the Saja Boys were a fake band. We paid them to steal the limelight for a little bit while Rumi's voice was out of commission. We thought it would be a cool setup for a triumphant return, you know? The cute little Lion Boys end up being secret demons trying to steal your souls, and Huntrix steps in and slays them in a triumphant return? ...Yeah. We planned it all, the songs, the heel-turn, the special effects, the whole shebang.
Except, uhhhh. We didn't expect them to get so popular so fast? They For Sure weren't supposed to make it to the final round of the Idol Awards. Like, for Legal Reasons. We were almost visibly panicking on stage when they announced that! I mean, do you know how it would look once it eventually came out that Saja Boys were working for us? "Oh, you planted a fake band so you could win the competition!" No joke. I mean, that is a pret-ty clear conflict of interest there. You know?
The Idol Awards are all about the fan's choices, and we just accidentally rigged the game.
The Saja Boys had to win the Idol Awards, now, but there was no chance. They only had two songs, Soda Pop and Your Idol. We couldn't have them push up the debut--I mean, we thought about it, Your Idol's a banger song and it totally would've given us a run for our money--but we'd have to follow it up with This Is What It Sounds Like, first off, and second, 'killing' the Saja Boys onstage would be like. The Media equivalent of announcing we won, like the Fans didn't have a choice in the matter. At the Idol Awards? Ha. Yeah. That's a no-go.
And I mean. Soda Pop is catchy but not that catchy guys, c'mon. We were totally gonna cream them with Golden.
So we were all scrambling. Rumi and Mira and I were trying to write and choreograph a brand new song, Takedown, something good but not Good Enough To Win, to maybe prolong the Rivalry, you know? To make our comeback all the more sweet. But it was all such short notice, and the song wasn't working, and Huntrix never gives a shoddy performance, on principle. We couldn't do it. But it was looking like the only way we were gonna legitimately lose was if something... happened during the competition.
And then it becomes even more complicated once itâs been awhile, and it becomes clear that no oneâs heard anything from any of the ârealâ boys since the awards.
Like, obviously the Saja Boys werenât a ârealâ band, so it makes sense theyâre not coming out with new music, and since theyâre âdeadâ, of course all their official band accounts have gone quiet, but like⌠someone would have had to be portraying the band members, right? Even if you wave that off as them being some of the same actors who portray the âdemonsâ at their concerts, someone would definitely have to be lending their voices for the songs. Who were they? They couldnât have been well-established in the industry, otherwise theyâd have been recognized too quickly and the ruse would have been up, and something like this would have been a huge break for new performers.
So whyâd they just disappear?
Where are the actors?
Iâd imagine this would never gain too much traction within the fandom, but it still lingers long after the dust has settled and the scandal clears up. Go deep enough into the comments on any HUNTR/X-related posts, and youâll find someone commenting #WhereAreTheBoys.
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The reason most indie novels are written like the author is terrified of doing something wrong is because the overwhelming majority of indie novelists get their start by networking in the violent panopticon of the social media indie publishing community, which favours the people who are able to win at the social policing game.
I had heard of the whole messed up situation with this story, but I hadn't ever read the synopsis of the story before, and WOW
This story sounds like it could have been a brilliant exploration of gender and warfare and violence but instead it was attacked by people who didn't know how to confront a story that made them uncomfortable, and the author faced horrible consequences.
It's so important to be able to deal with stories that give you uncomfortable feelings in other ways than just attacking it. Being shown new perspectives sometimes has feelings of discomfort because it's an unfamiliar way of seeing the world.
Isabel Fall alluded to Nazi concepts in an edgy ambiguous Nazisploitation aesthetic that, if you read it in good faith, you could tell was ultimately in subversion of those concepts. However, the general sentiment of edgy South Parkian ambiguity caused the hypersensitive leftist critics to read her as a Nazi as a baseline assumption. It's the same phenomenon as The Boys viewers reading the (very Jewish) show as Nazi because of the presence of a likable Nazi character. Any attempt to put the brakes on it has everyone scrutinizing you as a Nazi, so the most extreme voices intimidate the rest into staying quiet.
When the detail that the writer was a trans woman (and a specific one people knew) had filtered into common knowledge, the consensus of the vocal detractors was that she had done Nazi actions equivalent to being a Nazi that hurt every trans woman, and it was their responsibility to terrorize her. When she ended up suicidal and swore off writing, that was viewed as a great victory against an enemy of trans women. (Not dissimilar from people harassing Jewish actress Aya Cash for portraying a Nazi on The Boys.)
Also, people like to single out N.K. Jemisin for participating, but she was pretty much doing what people expect of an ally: following the leading voices of the relevant minority, repeating their messages, and using her social capital to boost theirs. The problem was the trans women leading the mob. I find the presence of trans woman author Alexandra Erin more objectionable because she was run off Tumblr for being into vore and bondage and because she liked a post from a black submissive woman showing off a collar, which was framed as her wanting to enslave black people, so you would think she'd be sympathetic to a trans woman author stigmatized for being into edgy humor. Instead, she likened the story to firing randomly in the air and hoping only bad people would be hurt, when it should be clear innocents would likely be hurt, making the whole endeavor harmful. (Like being open about liking controversial fetishes on Tumblr?)
Edgy humor sets off mainstream leftists like Daleks sighting an enemy.
And there is some reason to say NK Jemisin was doing what people expect from an ally, but if this was the result, maybe itâs time we actually think about that a little.
Like, how many times can we see a marginalized creator get torn to bloody shreds by other marginalized people and well intended âAlliesâ who never actually looked at the evidence themselves and just went off what âthe affected groupâ was saying? The queer experience is subjective as hell, and I canât imagine any other marginalized experience is different. Maybe we should stop mob harassing people for making something without looking at the thing ourselves.
And itâs fine if you donât want to look at a thing, but at this point I think we need to bring back the old rule that if you havenât seen/read something, you ought to just not talk about it at all and admit you donât know anything about the subject.
Because here's the other thing? The people who did this to Ms. Fall? Entirely other progs/lefties/libs. Not a single conservative was involved. It was all lefties attacking our own.
You will never see this happen to a more 'conservative' or even 'apolitical' (read: written by a white man from a white man's perspective) indie novel, because those perspectives aren't hounded like a transfem's are. They aren't expected to be perfect the way a transfem's are. By engaging in harassment campaigns like this, you are purely and totally making it harder for marginalized people to publish, because at the end of the day, they are the ones who lose their social support networks to harassment campaigns by the terminally online, while the mediocre white dude can just fucking ignore anything the twitter mob says.
I think it's important to point out that, if I am reading the interview she gave not long after it all went down correctly, not only did she get harassed until she gave up writing, she fucking went back in the closet.
Because there was little biographical information available about its author, the debate hinged on one question: Who was Isabel Fall? And that question ate her alive. When she emerged from the hospital a few weeks later, the world had moved on, but she was still scarred by what had happened. She decided on something drastic: She would no longer be Isabel Fall.
As a trans woman early in transition, Fall had the option of retreating to the relative safety of her legal, masculine identity. Thatâs what she did, staying out of the limelight and growing ever more frustrated by what had happened to her. She bristles when I ask her in an email if sheâs stopped transitioning, but itâs the only phrase I can think of to describe how the situation appears.
Isabel Fall was on a path to becoming herself, and then she wasnât â and all because she published a short story. And then her life fell apart.
...
After she checked out of the hospital, Isabel Fall ceased to be Isabel Fall. âI had a few other stories in the works on similar themes, and I withdrew them; that is the most concrete thing I can say that I stopped doing,â Fall says. âMore abstractly, more emotionally, I have stopped trying to believe I am a woman or to work towards womanness. If other people want to put markings on my gender-sphere and decide what I am, fine, let them. Itâs not worth fighting.â
That makes me so fucking angry every time I think about it that I want to spit or cry.
I have not been the subject of the level of intense, sudden, overwhelming attention that she has; I have been the target of a lower-volume, sustained campaign, and there is a reason that I call it "the acid fire hose." That shit will strip the fucking flesh from your bones.
So yeah. Of course indie authors flinch.
Honestly, there are plenty of books by indie authors, especially trans authors, that I've wanted to say, "I liked this mostly, but I really didn't care for [aspect]," but I was so concerned that I would cause problems that I fully just... didn't talk about the book at all bc I couldn't honestly just be like YUP I LIKED IT ALL.
@goingrampant out of curiosity can I ask what you mean about Nazi concepts? itâs been a while since I read the story, and I canât recall that I picked up anything Nazi-ish about it (but short-term memory also sucks so I might have just forgotten)
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There's this whole story unfolding on TikTok right now about this account that got popular â a woman in the US who calls up churches & pretends to have a starving newborn that hasn't eaten since last evening & asks them if they could help her out with a can of formula. Unsurprisingly, none of the ridiculous megachurches actually ever say yes, and the churches & other religious institutions that did say yes are getting lots of support from people.
But I just saw a video of a TT user explaining that they decided to do their own little social experiment â by walking up to drug dealers on the street, telling them there's a young woman with a baby who needs help with formula, and literally all of them immediately reached into their pockets. In this story, the OP did have a real neighbor with a baby who ended up getting some much needed baby supplies. Thanks to the charity of local drug dealers.
A lot of Americans are learning that their rich white Christian churches are less willing to help their communities than black churches, mosques, buddhist temples & apparently also crack dealers.
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Deleted accounts can now be recovered up to 30 days later
Weâre making a big change to how account deletion works on Tumblr, and weâre really excited about it, because this is something that some of you have been requesting for⌠well⌠a literal decade.
Before today, when you deleted your Tumblr account, it was immediate and permanent. Occasionally, this resulted in Very Sad Times. Even though weâve tried to make it super difficult to accidentally delete your account, this is something that still happens a lot. Like, a lot. Thereâs also plenty of folks who delete their account on purpose, but then regret it shortly afterward. Worst of all, if your account was hacked, and then deleted by the hacker, there was no way to get it back.Â
All of these problems are *poof* no more. As of today, when you delete your account, we will keep your data for 30 days. Your account will remain recoverable during that time, and you can contact us within that 30 day window if youâd like us to restore your account.
Eventually, we hope to make this process a bit easier, and allow you to restore your account with a single click of a button. For right now, though, youâll need to contact us via tumblr.com/support and choose the category âAccount Accessâ > âI have deleted my account or blog by accidentâ.Â
FAQs
How do I delete my account? Does that process look different now?
You can follow the steps here to delete your account on the web or through the mobile app, which works pretty much the same way as before. Youâll notice weâve updated the confirmation screen to reflect the new process, though.
Does a deleted account still appear on Tumblr during this 30 day window?
Nope. As soon as you submit the request to delete your account, all of your blogs will no longer be accessible (theyâll 404), no one will be able to message you, your posts will no longer appear in search results, and you wonât be able to log in anymore. This happens right away, not 30 days later. Deleted accounts still behave exactly as they always have.
What about my email address and username? Will those become available again immediately after account deletion, like they did before?
Notably, no, they will not. In order to make it possible for the account to be restored during the 30 day window, the username and email address must remain associated with the account during that time. So they wonât be available to register again until 30 days after youâve deleted your account.
If youâre deleting your account, and you already know that youâd like to use the same username or email address on a new account immediately afterward, we recommend that you change your username and email address before deleting the account. That way, they will become available right away, instead of being on hold for 30 days.Â
What if Iâve accidentally deleted one of my sideblogs, but not my entire account?
If you delete a sideblog, it will be deleted right away, and cannot be restored. We can only restore an entire account (which will restore all of its blogs along with it).Â
Is this feature retroactive? Can you restore the account I deleted two years ago?
As much as we would like this to be possible, the answer is no. We still havenât perfected the art of time travel, so all accounts deleted before today are still deleted for good. This new change will only apply to accounts which are deleted after this announcement is posted.
Where can I learn more about the account deletion process?
You can check out our support documentation and Privacy Policy. Both have been updated to reflect these changes.
In case youâre looking for a blog thatâs gone missing on Tumblr and didnât see this recent update.
A missing blog without â-deactivatedâ isnât necessarily a sign of a suspension, it might just mean that someone deleted their own account and may still bring it back within 30 days.
