"Midnight's just around the corner..."

whoever chose to put the tinnitus ringing over norah's madness in the trees needs to answer for their crimes

Norah calling out for her dad and the camera cutting to those empty seats because she’s alone. she’s alone and none of her friends are there to help her. she’s alone and she’s hurt and she’s crying out for her dad because she’s just a kid

I do think the concept of parasociality has been twisted into something used to shame anyone who feels any sort of connection or sympathy towards public figures, usually ytbers or micro celebrities, and whilst it Is helpful to remind the wider public of the wide separation and imbalance between them and whoever it is that they're watching, I think it's also misguided to expect audiences not to feel any sort of attachment to public figures. They're human beings, and especially micro celebs from yt or twitch are more likely to show a side of themselves that can feel less fabricated than 'proper' celebrities which in turn will trigger this sense of empathy in their audience. I think as long as you do understand that they're not your friend and that there Is a barrier between you and that you truly do not know who they are behind the scenes, like, you're not doing anything wrong by being attached to xyz streamer ykwim. Like that's such a natural thing to feel for a human being you're witnessing, esp on the regular.

there's so much to be said about modern censorship and discussions to be had about the direct impacts of the current waves of cultural puritanism hurting sex workers and adult sexuality at large + re-criminalizing queer people en masse (ESPECIALLY trans people, more specifically trans women) and im going to be so entirely honest with you i don't think your fanfiction has a single place in these discussions. i don't care about your smut not getting enough kudos or whatever the hell this is about real people and real legal problems. it's about the financial impacts it's about the cultural shift it's about prison sex slaves it's about bathroom bills it's about trans people being put on the sex offender registry. in the face of all these problems i cannot give a fuck about your stupid fanfiction maybe being punished slightly from online safety bills. i don't care. please shut up

insane to see the kosa bill get brought back up pretty much monthly as more american republican party members try to get it passed in an attempt to control the Internet via finances and monitor populations of those they wish to kill via ID verification and AI facial recognition with security cameras and instead of focusing on the fact this lets lawmakers get away with forcing all they consider "degenerates" to register themselves as such and begin tracking their every movement in an attempt to begin genocides every time i see these bills being brought up on tumblr it's always "oh my god!!!!!! Our fanfiction!!!!!! They might outlaw AO3!!!!!!!" like i don't care about your fanfiction i hope AO3 gets deleted and their servers nuked for all I care MY FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS ARE BEING KIDNAPPED AND DEPORTED ON THE STREETS!!!!!!! MY TRANS SIBLINGS ARE BEING MURDERED!!!!! KILL YOURSEEEEELLLLFFF

oh yes, let’s be angry at people for not caring about censorship in the “right way,” and tell them to kill themselves. do you see how shitty you’re being???? this isn’t righteous, this isn’t a “hot take,” you’re not “saying what no one else will.” you’re being shitty. poisonous ass mindset goddamn

tumblr users’ obsession with self-reporting (especially as a weird form of penance) needs to be studied

you don’t need to tell the world you still like Harry Potter because it’s your comfort movie or because your dad read it to you when you were little or something like that in response to a post about the harm continued monetary support of Harry Potter causes. you don’t need to tell tumblr all the myriad of reasons you don’t like rap under a post about how rap is often misrepresented as ultra-violent or overtly sexual and misogynistic because of racism. No one on tumblr has to know anything about you. no one has to know you still read your old Harry Potter books or that the only rap artist you like is Eminem. No one is going to say “oh of course you’re the One True Good Person with a Good Reason!” when you say that rap is difficult to listen to because of your auditory processing disorder or you’re only a part of the Marauders fandom. Just keep your shit to yourself and don’t embarrass yourself under other peoples’ posts.