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Having made the difficult but compassionate decision to remove their ailing grandfather from life support Friday, members of the Jarrett family were reportedly unaware that in doing so, they were sending the 86-year-old directly to hell. “It was so hard to let him go, but it was the right thing to do—he’s suffered enough,” said the hellbound man’s daughter, Jennifer Austin, oblivious to the knowledge that only seconds after they disconnected his respirator in an attempt to spare him further discomfort, the family patriarch was cast into the blackest pits of the netherworld, where he would suffer unspeakable tortures and burn in perpetual agony for all of time.

“I just felt something for someone else that I had never felt before- y’know?”

“….no,”

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I want to test something on Tumblr in an hour or two

My suspicion was correct!

I refreshed this post, and at the time of writing this, the total number of likes shown is 64. HOWEVER, my Tumblr notification on my phone says the post has 114 likes at the exact same time.

Has anyone else noticed this anomaly before? Or has it ever been discussed?

I often see a number of notifications, but when I actually open Tumblr, the numbers don't match. The like count on the post is frequently much lower than what my notifications suggest.

update:

Update 2:

When I’m posting this update 2, the total likes on Tumblr are 108, while the notification count is already 168.

OK, I have no idea why Tumblr notifications are like this, and apparently it’s not just me experiencing it. At least I’m not losing my mind, I really thought I was just bad at counting notifications.

Most characters in mythologies are personifications of concepts, or embody some natural phenomenon - like the story of Hades and Persephone is there to explain why the seasons change, Persephone being spring, Demeter - summer, and the absence of them both resulting in death (Hade's domain) and winter, and so we can't have Persephone stay in underworld all year round or have Demeter steal her back to earth permanently, otherwise they myth would lose its core function.

Interpreting the myth without the lense of the natural phenomena that it explains would make it lose an integral part of itself, and therefore make the plot and characters seem strange or unnatural. Why does Demeter hate Hades so much, seeing how so many mothers are okay with Zeus doing atrocious things to their offspring just because he's Zeus? Does Persephone actually want to stay or not? What's with the bizarre arrangement?

Most modern interpretations strip myths of their natural contexts, making them character-driven instead of phenomena-driven, which just makes them land differently - they can still be fine stories, just not myths, not is the traditional sense.

And now we get to this beauty. This is absolutely a myth, the most classical kind. The relationship between characters, who are personifications of objects, phenomena or concepts (in this case, online platforms) used as an intuitively understood metaphor for an event (the demise of Twitter and the Tumblr userbase being unwilling to accept Twitter's userbase).

T4T does not, nor has it ever meant, exclusively transfem for transfem.

It's *just* trans 4 trans