olli | she/it | aroace genderqueer

there are many things tumblr as a whole has to learn but one of them is “someone can reblog a post without them endorsing every action the op has ever taken, we are not beholden to do background checks on the producers of every shitpost on the internet”

a mutual made this point and a prominent youtuber tried to dox her

Brennan trying to make something sound really disconcerting and abnormal: there’s the call of a non-native bird species.

please stop harassing black people off this website. it's like stormfront for toddlers on here. it sucks, stop it

idk how "black people should feel welcome on this website" became something you have to say out loud. if black people aren't comfortable or safe on here then that is our failure. be anti-racist or die.

it's not enough to be passively non-racist. whether you're chasing people off here yourself or choosing to ignore "discourse" (meaning the rights of black people to basic respect), the end result is a big whites-only sign outside your little clubhouse. when the tide is pulling toward bigotry, refusing to swim against it just means you'll be carried along too. passivity is acceptance. get mad, get loud, don't value the comfort of the oppressor over the dignity of the oppressed.

i appreciate the amount of people reblogging this despite me not really tagging this at all. im glad many of people feel the same anger i do.

I need People to understand wild animals are just a little unpredictable and if they act aggressively or against how you've been told they inherently act that it is not a statement on that species character or morality. Actually, let's add to that, an animal is not moral nor immoral in its actions, a wasp is not evil for stinging and it wasn't stinging out of malice

I've said it before and I'll say it again. We need a "This is absolutely NOT mature content" feedback button on posts. You can report a post as missing a community label. We should also be able to report posts as having a community label when they dont fucking need one.

If you could instantly be granted fluency in 5 languages—not taking away your existing language proficiency in any way, solely a gain—what 5 would you choose?