Marla--

The thing is, when museums and cultural institutions or researchers adopt memes in a "How do you do, fellow kids" way, that's adorable like my grandma when she's misusing emojis. However when some megacorp does it to sell me evil products or some influencer is trying to get me to buy nonsense skincare mud or cyberpunk looking face masks or weightloss pills, I think that's evil incarnate and their name goes into the Death Note (very mindful, very demure)

the thing about tumblr is that it is absolutely vital and optimal that you follow at least 2-3 gays obsessed with classic hollywood. you need to get at least a few posts per day about how actors named like Clyde Burton and Elizabeth Nape were LITERALLY FUCKING ON SCREEN despite the Hays Code in movies called The Boulderderry Bonanza or Ho, Giraldo! because it's good for you. it'll keep you cultured. it's like going to public music performances in the park except instead of music it's vociferous lamentations that the Technicolor process has gone extinct and male actors aren't all open-secretly bisexual anymore

and if you're not mutuals with at least one person who knows the names of all the Monkees and another person who watches televised wrestling on a regular basis then you'd better fix that NOW

when your stomach is really mad at you and you're not sure which one of your fourteen unhealthy lifestyle choices is causing it

somehow my app bugged and cut the last nine words off so I thought op was a cow or something

Seeing as we're on the cusp of an age of de-facto online tracking and censorship, now might be a good time to get into the habit of downloading the stuff you like and saving it somewhere you can find it without an internet connection. Whether that's youtube videos, porn, or fanfiction. I don't want to be alarmist, and like, you don't have to go full archival. The internet isn't going to be deleted tomorrow. But if there's one thing we should learn from all of these content takedowns, it's that the nature of digital platforms can be fickle. Don't take access for granted.

Look at his beauty

I've said this before but every basic feminism 101 women's empowerment event I've ever been to has been all about telling women and girls that it's okay to speak up for ourselves, it's okay to take up space, it's okay to be strong and fast and loud and hungry and sexy and smart and good at things without feeling shame, but apparently, with the way some people talk, the second a trans woman does any of these things it's evidence of "male socialization" and needs to be called out and "corrected." like, even if this were the case, which it isn't, I think it's patently insane to believe "it looks like these women don't have as much crushing shame from a lifetime of experiencing misogyny as most other women" (<- a claim that, from my experience, is simply not true about trans women) and then follow it up with "I must Fix This by teaching them to shut up and be ashamed" instead of, like, idk "good for them, I wish this type of liberation for all other women as well."

Similar for Black women (both trans and cis) who are told they are too aggressive or manly when they speak up or even just are presenting neutrally (not overly accommodating), but are interpreted as combative. For example in the workplace, having a neutral face with no smile being seen as “rude” and making everyone “uncomfortable,” and so they are told to force themselves to smile and become more chatty and submissive to make up for their Blackness which supposedly detracts from their womanhood, so they can finally be accepted as Real Women

It's 2025 in four months and I'm still trying to figure out if I died in 2016 or not

please stop this looks like a real tumblr ad