seems like you can't decide

Don't be fooled by bullshit like Turbotax. If you make less than $89,000 a year (I'd say confidently that's 99% of Tumblr), you are entitled to use the IRS free file tool for your taxes. This page from the IRS lists all the software providers they have partnered with to provide this service. I have only used one on the list, but it was as good as or maybe better than Turbotax, and I repeat, free for the federal tax return. You MIGHT still have to pay a fee to file a state tax return, but it should be nominal. If you don't want to do it online, you can also go to the IRS to print out the forms directly and turn them in.

Venmo : hope-soda

$hopesoda

I just came to say that my country Iran is going through a revolution right now and I want everyone to know that Iranians will not give up until these bloodthirsty mullahs are gone for good

This time protests are even more intense than the WomanLifeFreedom uprisings

People are protesting in the streets despite brutal government crackdowns, they’re tearing down the flags of the Islamic repooplic regime and chanting slogans against the regime non stop

The IR regime has taken to attacking literal hospitals full of injured people!!!

They’re arresting kids below 18!!

Remember:

IRANIANS DO NOT WANT THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC REGIME!!!

WE DON’T WANT REFORMS WE WANT A REGIME CHANGE

As always mainstream media and all the self-proclaimed “human rights activists” are dead silent because supporting Iranians fighting against Islamist dictators doesn’t benefit them but fuck those posers because we don’t need such clowns we got our unity

If you want to help Iranians please be our voice and keep talking about Iran

Watch out for regime propaganda and listen to actual Iranian voices especially from inside Iran

پاینده باد ایران

I log back into this app and see the conversations around the white woman, Renee Good, who was just recently killed. And I can’t help but notice the stark difference in circulation of news and boosting of stories between both of them across this app…

On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs by Renée Nicole Macklin

Renée Nicole Macklin was a poet, writer, wife, and mother of three. She was killed on January 7, 2026, in Minneapolis after being shot by an ICE agent.

Born and raised in Colorado, Renée described herself on social media simply as a poet and writer and wife and mom. She studied creative writing at Old Dominion University and, in 2020, received the Academy of American Poets University & College Poetry Prize recognition that helped her work reach readers beyond her immediate community.

It's not piracy in the the usual sense. Key members of the development team put it out for free when they were forced out of their own company after the game saw such extreme success.

The company offering it for free now is a direct slap in the face to the people who actually made it.

(update 2, added instructions & it's also on my Kofi!)

(Eriksons Psychosocial Stages)

This post is interesting because Eriksons system was originally meant to apply to real life relationships, and this proposes that this can also be applicable to fictional characters

Identity vs Role Confusion relates to teenagers having to discover their place in the world. failing to do so results in confusion about said place and an unstable identity. Connecting to kinning for obvious reasons, especially because at that age it’s typical for people to latch on to figures in their life to figure out their own role. Considering that kinning is most common amongst queer, neurodivergent, and gender diverse youth, it is definitely possible that a lack of positive role models/ and or affirmation concerning their identity could lead to basing their identity off of fictional characters instead, especially since fictional characters provide a sense of stability that real people do not. Headcanoning these characters, also, allows children to create an ideal role model that can’t disappoint them, as opposed to potentially unsupportive family/friends.

Transitioning then to Intimacy vs Isolation, which is typically seen as needing to find a close relationship (usually assumed to be romantic, though not necessarily) or suffer from isolation and again, a lack of stability. Assuming that the group we are looking at partook in kinning or something similar in the stage before, it’s especially interesting to consider that with a lack of real role models, young adults grow up to be uncertain and untrusting of real relationships. Of course, this is not always the case in selfshipping (shipping oneself with a fictional character), but it is common that these relationships are used for affirmation and a sense of stability that is often not found in interpersonal relationships. (I will use interpersonal relationships as a term to refer specifically to real life relationships) The fact that OP proposes that, for lack of a more scientific word, “imaginary” relationships are just as viable to one’s self discovery and psychosocial development, is one that is very novel.

A lot of time, people that tend to fit into these categories are deemed to be in some way socially inept or “weird”/“cringe.” It is a common take to respond to selfshipping by treating it as a mentally ill behavior, and saying that said individuals should “touch grass.” Instead, like OP says, I believe that these relationships are significantly valuable to development. Many selfshippers are completely satisfied in their relationships, including aromantic and asexual people who are not interested in interpersonal relationships. I believe this can also be extended to objectum people (those who are attracted romantically and/or sexually to inimate objects.) Again, this is something that is typically seen as impossible to be fulfilling.